The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-09 00:00:00

Bradshaw's Handbook to London.

A sixpenny Bradshaw's handbook through " Lon-
don and its Environs," appearing rather late in the
season, it is true, comes to hand, however, late
though it is, most acceptably. It is an octavo
pocket volume of less than a hundred pages ar-
ranged alphabetically. It is crammed full of infor-
mation ; and the information in every instance is
given in so compact a form that it can be seized at
a glance. By way of illustration as to the mere
manner of this hand-book, we find, on turning to
the letter P, for Piccadilly, that mention
is made there thus briefly of " 94, Lord Pal-
merston's" ; "1, Stratton•-streeet, Miss Burdett
Coutts" ; "46, The Albany, where Byron, Canning,
Macaulay, and Bulwer Lytton have resided." A
stranger, having provided himself with this
sixpenny Alphabetical Hand-book through
London and its Environs, will find himself
supplied at pleasure with all the useful and
interesting information he can possibly require.
His pocket companion will prove to be the best
cicerone he could have chosen through the metro-
polis and its neighbourhood.

Fun—calls " Consoling News—A Rise in the
Three per Cents." It defines " Kidnapping—A Sleeping
Baby." It instances as " The Greatest Anomaly—Pleas in
Law." It gives as an infallible receipt, "How to get into
a Scrape—Shave with a Blunt Razor."
THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT STREATHAM.

—The adjourned inquest on the body of the en-
gine-driver, John Salmon, was resumed yesterday morn-
ing at St. Thomas's Hospital, before Mr. lir, Carter,
coroner for Surrey. The coroner referred to the evidence
taken on the previous occasion, which:-went to show that
the train was moving much faster than usual. He also
explained that Colonel Yolland had been sent down spe-
cially by the Government, and if necessity arose out of the
former inquiry, orders would no doubt be giv, n. Even-
tually the jury returned an open verdict, as suggested by
the coroner, viz., " That the deceased died from certain
burns and scalds received on the 29th of May— but there
was no positive evidence as to how those injuries were
caused."

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—Oa Saturday last a fire
broke out in the village of Otterton (Devonshire), not far
from the seat of Lady Rolle, and before it could be sub-
dued 15 farmhouses and labourers' cottages were consumed.
A quantity of farm produce and household furniture was
destroyed, but no lives were lost.
THE LATE FIRE AT LIVERPOOL.—The cotton
saved from the late fire in Water-street was sold yesterday
by public auction, the quantity being very large, It wrs
made up in 61 lots, which, at an average, sold at from
£220 to £250 each. A very considerable quantity was sold
in unbroken bales, and one of these the Egyptian classifi-
cation sold at from £32 to £39 per bale; the Brazilian at
from £lO to £l2los. Of the lots, 47 were presumed to have
realised an aggregate of about £lO,OOO, and the whole of the
cotton is believed to have sold at about Is. per lb.
LONDON A CENTURY AGO.—I have before me a
map of old London drawn about the middle of the
seventeenth century. It gives an excellent bird's. eye sur-
vey of the metropolis, which, comparatively speaking,
forms a prolonged cluster of houses without any great depth,
isolated warehouses lining the banks of the Thames a
little below London-bridge, but scarcely extending beyond
the Tower : trees, fields, and marsh stretch out towards
the confines of Bow and Epping Forest. Windmills
and farmhouses stud the country behind the Exchange
and the Guildhall, whilst noblemen's and merchants'
mansions peer above the trees which cover the slopes
of Islington, Highgate, and Hampstead. The churches of
St. Sepulchre's, St. Andrew's in Holborn, and St. Dun-
' stan's, stand, as it were, on the verge of the City, whilst
the Convent Garden, the New Exchange, Salisbury House,
York House, Suffolk Reuse, and Whitehall may be said
to have been entirely out in green fields. Bayard's Castle,
a veritable fortress, with its own stairs leading down to
the water-side, dips its stone feet in the very mud of
ire.
dark The Temple the Thames. The spot now known as Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, is covcred by a cluster of semi-detached,
pent-roofed, wooden-framed buildings, such as we now
see in remote villages
mass
nHampsh
of red mple was
g
one
lying' . huge, compact
fromsombre the river, with a large lawn-like plea-
sure ground intervening. Essex House, Arundel House,
cootevailSomerset House, the Savoy, Salisbury House, Durham
House, York House,
Suffolk House, are veritable palaces,
. . .
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the north shore to Charing Cross. n the opposite side of
spanned by a single bridge, and
the gardens of which extend, with slight interruption. along
the river, which was then sp
that bridge crowded with tall, stately structures,
Win-
chester House, with its spacious fruit-gardens
the a nlayd lawns--
a
fit paradise for a prelate ; and a little to left, Sli ak -
apeare's Theatre, the " Globe,"—a classic and ever-memor-
able spot ; behind which rose another circular building
where " beare-bayting" took place. A few humble
tene-
ments scattered along the bank of the stream further on
form the last vestige of buildings southward, and then all
becomes country again,—Once a Week.
The coming
will be celebrated on the
21st inst.
at Donington Hall, Derbyshire,
of age of the Marquis of Hastings
inst., with great rejoicing. The festivities are expected
to last for a week. His lordship is at present staying at
Brighton.