ture with the greatest indifference. There is one excellent head, which speaks earnestly to a boy. Another figure, probably the Master or Steward, pulls a youth's hair, with marks of anger. Several lords in waiting are correct and good figures.

"At the upper end of the room, and on the same west wall, is a large whole-length of Charles II. descending from his throne, a curtain from which is turned round a pillar. The King holds his robe with his right hand, and points with the left to a globe and mathematical instruments.

"Some years past an addition was made to the Hall by taking part of the ward over the south cloister into it. In this are several portraits. Queen Anne, sitting, habited in a crown of gold, with a blue mantle, laced with gold, and lined with ermine; her black hair is curled, and without ornament; the arms are too small; but the neck and drapery are good; she holds the orb in her left hand, rested on the knee, the right crosses the waist.

"Josiah Bacon, merchant, died 1703. Wholelength, in a crimson silk gown, resting his right hand on a table, with a letter on it. A good picture, the drapery particularly so.

"William Garway, esq. died 1701; an indifferent whole-length. Sir F. Child, Knight and Alderman, President, died 1713. Sir F. Child, Knight and Alderman, President, died 1740. Neither worth describing."

A fine painting representing a shark in close pursuit of Sir Brook Watson, was bequeathed by him to the Hospital, and has recently been placed at the end of the Hall. The seamen appear in the act of rescuing him from the bite of the voracious monster, by which he unfortunately lost his leg.

upper

At the bottom or north end of the Hall is a fine-toned organ, which is used during the public suppers and on other special occasions. On the west side is a pulpit, in which one of the scholars intended for the University reads the prayers; and on each side of the Hall is a small choir, capable of holding six boys, who are under the tuition of the Music-master, one of whom sets the psalm by singing the first line, after which he is accompanied by the others. When the Music-master is in attendance, the boys under his care are stationed in the organ-loft.

In a room between the upper end of the Hall and the Mathematical-school are correct models of the various sized vessels now composing the wooden walls of old England, with the name of the donors. These have been given with the view of illustrating the system of mathematics, and are doubtless of great assistance to the Mathematical

masters.

The subjoined view represents that part of the building which is over the cloister leading to the Infirmary from the Hall stairs. It is, I believe,

the only part that retains its original appearance, and forms the north side of the New-playground.

At the bottom of the Hall stairs is the Buttery, the care of which is entrusted to three boys, skilful in accounts, appointed by the Steward, to whom they render an account of every thing received and delivered. The senior buttery-boy takes charge of the bread; the second of the butter and cheese; and the third of the beer. The usual reward for the correct performance of their several duties is the privilege of going to see their friends on Saturdays after school-hours. There are other boys (of whom notice will be taken hereafter) who obtain the same reward for propriety of conduct in peculiar stations, either from the Steward or Masters, and they may be known by a small brass ticket suspended from one of the button-holes of the coat, without which no boy is permitted to leave the Hospital, except on general leave-days.

The entrance to the Hall from the west Cloister leads also to the Infirmary or Sick-ward, to which the boys are sent upon the first appearance of indisposition, that they may be under the immediate inspection and superintendance of the resident Apothecary, and a Nurse appointed for the purpose. This building, including the Apothecary's house, forms three sides of a square, which serves as a place of recreation for those approaching convalescence, and beyond which no boy is allowed to