The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

STREETS.

(From the Patrician.)
Piccadilly was named after a hall called Piccadilla
Hall, a place of sale for the ruffs called piccadilloes,
worn by the gallants of the reign of James I. Where
the opening of Hamilton-place is now, was a one-storied
building occupied by a barber, still well remembered
by several on whom the noted functionary operated
in his day. Clarges street stands on the site of the
mansion of Sir Thomas Clarges, brother-in-law to our
first Duke of Albemarle ; and on the spot where
Apsley House shows its present imposing appearance,
the traveller found a comfortable homely hosteirie,
called the Hercules' Pillars, the same at which our old
friends Squire Western and the fair Sophia were
domiciled on their arrival in London. Between the
three houses next to Apsley House and llamilton-place,
intervened a row of small houses, one, a public-house
called the Triumphant Chariot. Holborn was Old
Bourne, or the Old River. Cheapside derives its name
from the Saxon chepo, a market. Smithfield is a cor-
ruption of Smoethfield. Mincing-lane was called Min-
cheon-lane, from tenements pertaining to the mincheons
or nuns of St. Helen's. Fetter-lane has been erroneously
supposed to have had some connexion with prisons or
criminals ; such was not its derivation. Formerly thy.
spelling was Fewtor-lane, derived from the circumstance
of the fewtors or idle beggars making it a place of resort.
In 1700, Bond-street extended no further than the
west-end of Clifford-street. New Bond-street was then
an open field, called Conduit-mead, from ono of the
conduits which supplied.that part of the town with water,
and which gave name to the present Conduit-street.
In 1720, Oxford-road (now Oxford-street), from Princes-
street eastward, as far as High-street, St. Giles's, was, on
the north side, almost unbuilt. " I remember," says Mr.
Pennant, " there was a deep hollow road and full of
sloughs; there was here and there a ragged house, the
lurking place for cut-throats; insomuch that I was never
taken that way by night, in my hackney coach, to a
worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings at his house in
George-street, but I went in dread the whole way." The
south side was built as far as Swallow, now Regent-
street. Soho-square dates from the reign of Charles the
Second, and was called, originally, in honour of the
Duke of Monmouth, who lived in the centre house
" Monmouth-square,' a name which tradition asserts
that the admirers of the popular and ill-fated Prince,
changed at his death, to Soho, the word of the day at
the field of Sedgemoor. In the time of " the merrie
monarch," the Haymarket was a lane, bounded by hedges,
and all beyond to the north, east and west, was entirely
country. On the site of Windmill-street stood a corn-
mill. May Fair, in former times the resort of the most
disorderly part of the community, became notorious
for a fair which was held there each year for
seven days consecutively, and not finally put
down before the reign of George 11. Park-lane was
called Tyburn-lane, until its fashionable inhabitants
changed the name. At the beginning of last century
'arylebone (St. Mary on the Bourne) was a small vil-
lage, nearly a mile from any part of the metropolis.
Covent, properly Convent-garden, formerly belonged to
the abbot and monks of Westminster. The Piazza was
designed by Inigo Jones. The Adelphi owes its erec-
tion to the Messrs. Adam, four brothers, and its name
to their fraternal co-operation. Strype's " Memorials"
mention that at the time of the insurrection of
Sir Thomas Wyat, in 1554, part of his army
marched to Hay Hill, then an open country, to attack
the metropolis, but were there met and repulsed by the
royal army. In the days of Charles 11. the locality sub-
sequently denominated Seven Dials was erected, in the
expectation that it would become the abode of the
gay and wealthy 1 Close at hand were Soho-square
and Covent-garden, then aristocratical resorts, and on
the other side, the mansion of the Bedford and other
noble families, sufficient good companionship, one would
suppose, to sustain the Seven-dials' respectability ; but
the influence of St. Giles's was omnipotent. Seven-
dials soon rivalled its neighbour the Rookery in misery
and wretchedness. At the survey of Aggas in 1560,
Chancery-lane presented only a few scattered houses at
the ends which connect it with Holborn and Fleet-
street ; but in the reign of Elizabeth, the benchers of
Lincoln's Inn, wishing for more privacy for their
gardens, erected a wall to separate them from the street,
and upon the building of this wall the most illustrious
of bricklayers, Ben Jonson, worked with his own hands.
Lad -lane was originally Lady's-lane; and Grace-
church-street, Grass-street, in allusion to herb market
held there.

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1 THE TORT.—We understand that the prosecution'
of Captain Johnstone, the late master of the Tory, will in
future be conducted by the Solicitor of the Treasury. Mr.
Hayward, clerk to Mr. Mauls (Solicitor to the Treasury)
' had an interview with Mr. Symons, the chief clerk of the
Thames Police-court, in reference to the subject on Saturday
aftenioon, preliminary to arranging the whole of the volu-
minous evidence taken during the investigate n.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are entertain-
ing a distinguished party at Badminton. The circle includes
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess de Grey,
the Earl of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Lord
Alvanley, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Lister, Captain Somerset,
Mr. Stunt, the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, &c.
The first lawn meet of the Badminton hounds for the present
season
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season took place on Saturday, on which occasion a brill'
field aseenabild.