On Saturday the Prince of Wales Inid the foundation' stone of the new school buildings of Christ's Hospital at Horsham. Soon, therefore, the blue-conted, yellow-stockinged, hatless boys will cease tube seen in the streets of London and the fine old buildings in Newgate Street will in. all probability be mzed tothe ground." When st session an effort was made to save them and a question was asked in the House of Commons, the reply of the First. Commissioner of Works was that the buildings were modern. 'This, however, was a very sweeping assertion, It is true that Christ's Hospital has not the hoary antiquity of the Charterhouse, whose old school-house is now occupied by the Merchant Taylors' School, but. parts of the old Christ's Hospital are, nevertheless, genuine and most interesting relies of Old London, and in the whole building there has been little or no alteration since the days of Coleridge and Lamb and Leigh Hunt. It is to be hoped, therefore, that effort will be made to swe part at lerist of the picturesque old Iandmark.
29th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.