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St. Paul's.

PLACES.

St. Stephen's, Walbrook.

Statues-in Streets, Squares, &c.

Queen Elizabeth, Fleet Street.
Charles I, Charing Cross.
Charles I., Soho Square.
James II., Whitehall Gardens.
William II.,St. James' Square.
Queen Anne, St. Paul's
Churchyard.

George I., Grosvenor Square.
William, Duke of Cumberland,
Cavendish Square.

George III., Cockspur Street.
George IV., Trafalgar Square.
Wm. Pitt, Hanover Square.
Fox, Bloomsbury Square.
William IV., King William
Street, City.

Queen Victoria, Royal Ex-
change.

Duke of Wellington-Picca

dilly. Hyde Park.

Royal Exchange.

Sir R. Peel, Cheapside.

Dr. Jenner, Trafalgar Square. Gen. Sir Chas. Napier, Trafalgar Square.

Sydenham Palace.

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MODE OF OBTAINING ADMISSION.

Admission to body of Cathedral free; to Whispering Gallery, 6d.; to the Ball, 1s. 6d.; to Model Room, Great Bell, Library, &c., 18.; to the Clock, 2d.; to the Vaults, 1s. In all, 4s. 2d. Admission during Divine Service

Saturday 5s. Other days 1s Shut on Sunda▼,
Hours of opening, Monday 9 a.m., Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 10 a.m.,
Saturday 12 noon. Closed at 6 p.m. Fares by
Railway, from London Bridge Station, on one
shilling days, including admission, 1st class, 2.
Bd.; 2d class. 2s.; 3d class, 1s. 6d.
Order of a Bencher.

Open to the public. Admission, ld.

Boxes, 48.; Pit, 2s. Opens 6-30 p.m Opens 6.30 p.m.

Boxes, 5s.; Pit, 3s. 6d. Opens 6.30 p.m.

Boxes, 4s.; Pit, 2s. Opecs p.m.
Boxes, 5s.; Pit, 3s. 6d. Üpens 6.30 p.m.

Boxes, 2s.; Pit, 1s.

Marylebone, Church Street, Boxes, 3s.; Pit, 1s.

Edgeware Road.

New Great National Standard,

Shoreditch, opposite to
Eastern Counties Rail.

Boxes, 1s. 6d.; Pit, 6d.; Private Boxes, 218.

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ENGLAND.

I. LONDON.-ROCHESTER-CANTERBURY. [MARGATE.-RAMSGATE.

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Canterbury is pleasantly situated on the Stour. It is the metropolitan see of all England. The chief object of attraction is the magnificent cathedral, with a fine choir, an altar-piece, designed by Sir James Burrough, a remarkable painted window, and the shrine of Thomas à Becket. It was begun in 1174, and not finished till the reign of Henry V. Under the Cathedral is a church for French Protestants, a colony of whom settled here after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and established the silk manufacture, which still continues, though in a declining state. Besides the Cathedral, Canterbury contains fourteen parish churches-one of which, St. Martin's, is built of Roman bricks, and is supposed by antiquarians to have been erected so early as the second century of the Christian era. In the Church of the Holy Cross, St. Dunstan's, is buriel the head of Sir Thomas More. In the eastern suburbs, a short distance from the Cathedral, are the remains of St. Augustine's Monastery, formerly a magnificent building, which, with its precincts, occupied 16 acres of ground; the ancient gateway, still remaining, is a fine specimen of architecture. This building for a long period lay almost entirely in ruins, and part of it was used as a common tavern and brewhouse. However, in 1844 it was purchased by

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