The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

familiar in the naval glories of the country, and Handel,
the immortal composer, are among the more prominent
of the names, " Faithful" and " Gay." We will not
venture to depict the consternation of some steady ma-
tron who, waking some morning, may find her old
familiar John-street converted into a Gay-street. What,
too, will the conservative or orthodox resident in John-
street say to living in future in a street bearing the name
of Miall or Channing ?
The aristocracy are unusually numerous in the sug-
gested names for the family of King-streets. They in-
clude Lennox, Hotham, Erskine, Wortley, Wortley.
Woodville, Mandeville, Malmesbury, and Paulet. The
House of Commons is represented by one name only,
that of Ewart. King-street, Pall-mall, is to bear the
name of the Premier, Palmerston ; King-street, Smith-
field, will bear the name of Ridley, one of the martyrs ;
King-street, Aldgate, the name of the present Jewish
Rabbi, Dr. Adler ; King-street, Covent-garden, is to be
improved to Shakspere-street ; King-street, Tower-hill,
to Dibdin-street ; King street, Commercial-road, is to be
transferred to the famous Booker, of protectionist
notoriety ; the name of Flaxman is to supplant King-
street, Northampton-square. Jacquard and Fulton are
among the suggested names, as are these of Beckett,
Sedgwick, Weiston, Bentham, and Hassal, of unadul-
terated food notoriety.

The Queen streets have not so good or so varied a
selection of names as the "King-streets." Queen-street,
Great Russell-street, is to become " Betterton-street,"
and Queen-street, Sven Dials, " Pepys street." Queer-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Brougham-street ; Queen-
street, Mile-end, claims Alderman Challis. The literary
names include those of Lockhart, Howitt, Dugald
(Stewart), Congreve, and Thackeray ; there are two
members of the House of Commons, Mr. Mackinnon
and Sir Edward Filmer, one Saxon King (Egbert), one
admiral (Plumridge)—there is no Napier—one founder
of a sect (Wesley), for Queen-street, Chelsea—and four
lords, Danby, Loftus, Ebrington, and Egerton.
The suggested names for the Church-streets contain
but one name of any ornament of the church—it is that
of Wickliffe. Will a member of the Church of Rome
consent to date his letters from such a street ? Church-
street left the question of the rival creeds au open one,
and Mormonites, or high church, might equally be proud
of the street they lived in while it was called Church-
street. The literary men are in the majority among
the suggested names ; they are Waller, Wordsworth,
Farquhar, Somerville, Dampier, Arbuthnot, Macaulay,
and Chalmers ; Sterndale (Bennet), as a musician ;
Alderman Carden, Huskisson, the financier ; Knox, the
divine ; Tullocb, one of the commissioners to the Crimea ;
(Roger) Aschani, the chemist; (Colonel) Sabine, the
man of science ; LorG Strangf‘ r l and Sir Cullen Eardley
are among the new names. The remainder of the list
is made up of some modest gentlemen, to whose merits
we shall presently more particularly allude.
The "New streets" are to be converted into Smollett,
Sterne, and Whateley streets ; and some others are to
be named after Srneaton, Nasmyth, and Dollond—each
eminent men in their spheres—Sudgen, the Lord
Chancellor ; Machu), the artist ; Coke, the learned
Chief Justice ; Arne, the musician ; Anson. the naval
commander; Hansard, well known by his Debat.s ;
" Sotheby," the successful auctioneer ; Staunton, the
chess player ; Cathcart, one of the heroes of the Crimea;
and there is one Shakscere-street, which is the second
time the name of the dramatist has been suggested to
be used.

The "William-streets" have a somewhat mtscellaneous,
but at the same time highly respectable, list of candidates
to take their placs. There are Piunket, and Grattan,
and Curran, names honourable alike to the country and
the age ; there is Ftillarlon, the learned and sagacious ;
Cresswell, one of the most accomplished of °English
judges ; Biair, whose literary merits and great learning
are universally recognised; Buller, the amiable and
lamented President of the Poor Law Board ; Byng,
either an admiral or a prominent writer of the sewers
commission ; Barrel (Sir Charles), the father of .the
House of Commons ; Bruce, the hero of Scotland, or the
undaunted African traveller; Monckton (Milnes), the
poet of the palm leaves and the bottle-holder of the
Premier; Lords Dynevor and Melford; and Baird, Cor-
bould, Hantner, and some other hautes well known to
the public.
The "High-streets" retain their names in a somewhat
subjective form. The high-streets in the different parts
of London beinc, merely named after the district in which
they are situated, High-street in the Borough being for
Vie future proposed to be called "Borough High-street."
There will still be thirty High-strettt, but they will be
distinguished by the name of the district being prefixed
to each of them.

The substituted names for the "Union-streets" are
marked by the names of men of science ; they include
Airy, Arnett, Brewster, Davy, Wollaston, Wheatstone,
and, we may add, that of Chesney. Akenside, Alison,
and Hobbes are the literary celebrities, and Wilberforce
and Mrs. Chisholm are among the selected benefactors
of their species, while Westmacott and Eastlake are the
artists who have the honour to be selected. The next
batch of streets are the "North-streets." Literature is
in the ascendant among the suggested names, and the
list includes Defoe, Atterbury, Barbauld, Blackstone,
Chatterton, Coleridge, Pope, and Selden. Babbage is
the only man specially devoted to science, and Balfa
to music. A fitting tribute of respect is paid to the
memory of the gallant Ballot, who perished in the
Arctic voyage. Boleyn (Anne) is brought from the
page of history, Cbsntrey, the sculptor, is duly
honoured, Clarkson, the great friend of the slave, and by
his side is placed the name of Darg,an, the open-hearted,
liberal, and successful contractor, who taught the world
the virtues of self-reliance, even in Ireland. Charlemont
and Clauricarde are selected from the House of Lords,
and an amiable and distinguished representative of the
daily press, Mr. Delaine, is chosen to give his name to
North•atrcet, Brompton.

,
. Next come the " Duke-streets." Two of them, one in
f.
Aldgate and the other in Houndaditcb, give place to the
names of Rothschild and Salomons. Others disappear
before the names of Hobbes and Stowell, both eminent
' in their way, though somewhat opposed to each other in
theological oninions. Then come Chaucer, Shenstone,
Wycherley, Balfour, and Boileau ; followed by Faraday
and Herschel, by Beechy, the arctic navigator, and with
some other names they effectually clear off all the
"Dukes" save one from the streets of London.
"Janes-streets" are the next to be immolated, and
their places are supplied by Grote, Hallam, Malone, '
Sheridan, Roscoe, Or,way, among the literati of the past
and present time; by Lance the fruit painter, Logan the
Scottish poet or the Canadian geologist, as the case' may
be, Paxton of Crystal Palace notoriety, Raneford, a po-
pular singer of the present day, Macready the tragedian,
Morley the chairman of the effete Administrative Re-
form Association, and Pitcairn the navigator.
The " York-Streets" are 25 in number ; they are to be
exchanged for Catternaole, Chalon, and. Hogarth among
the artists, Donne, Horne' and Bickerton among literary
men and divines, Forbes, Latham, end Jenner, men of
science, Lake, Cardwell, Siddons, Romilly, Burgoyne,
and others whose names are generally known, The 21
condemned " Park places' 'will give way to Aldermen
Farncomb and- Eagleton, to Dryden, Fielding, and
U urtown, Gainsborough (artist), the Countess of
Blessington, and that Lindley (Murray), whose
!serves, if he were now alive, would .be often so
sadly shocked in the debates of the Board of Works.
The selection of his name is a graceful attempt
on the part of the board to appease his angry manes. In
the case of the 20 " Ed ward-streets," Waterton, Darwin,
and Davenant are to take the places of three of them,
and the remainder is to be supplied by Abernethy,
Abinger, Admiral Gambier, Humboldt, Kneller, Lely,
Luttrell, Poto, Rennie, Scarlett, Srcoresby, and some
others. " York-places" are the last proposed to be now
dealt with, and in the selected names the merits of Jer-
rold, Hepburn, Ligonier, Liston, Acland, Abraham,
and a few others, some unknown to fame, have not been I
overlooked.

There yet remains that very modest class of persons,
to whom we have already adverted, whose names it is
proposed to substitute for those of more frequent occur-
rence. The individuals in question who seek to thrust
themselves into this Walhalla of the metropolitan streets,
are the members of the Board of Works themselves.
Estimating their merits and their claims to such great
honour at their own standard, we extract the list of such
members of the Board as are desirous to lend the sanc-
tion of their names to this wholesale re christening of
our streets.

NAME OF STREET. LOCALITY. SUGGESTED NAME.
George-street Rotherhithe Miskin-street
tt Pall-mall Carpmael-street
ft Marylebone Crellin-street
Charles-street Bermondsey Morland-street
Queen-street Kennington lrvine-street
Church-street ......Islington Pascall-street
Bethnal Green Bevan-street
tt
'II Hackney Offor-street
Chelsea Chalmers-street
St. Giles's Seeley-street
It
William-street Manchester-square .Dalton-street
Union-street Shad well Dennig-street
Clarendon-square Woolrych- street
f t
James-street Adelphi Marrable-street
Lambeth Doulton-street
York-place Camberwell Boyson-place