<span style="color:grey">Methorn,

    <span style="color:grey">Stealing to set tory

    <span style="color:grey">I saken for illiam o the isp,

    I AM someiquity-er, and am  fond of exploring London in quest of times.

    to be found in ty, s lost in a ar, but deriving poetical and romantic interest from truck ance of t summer ramble into ty; for ty is only to be explored to advantage in summer-time, ime against t of population setting t Street. trung my nerves and made me sensitive to every jar and jostle and discordant sound. t faint, and I ting out of ling busy to struggle, ion I tore my o a by-lane, and, after passing to a quaint and quiet court  in tre over perpetually fresain s sparkling jet of er. A student ed on a stone bencly reading, partly meditating on ts of trim nursery-maids  charges.

    I erility of t. By degrees t and coolness of t.

    I pursued my  cal of massive and ricecture.

    terior y and lighted from above.

    Around al tombs of ancient date on ly crossed upon t; otility even in tomb, o the holy Land.

    I , in ts templars, strangely   situated in tre of sordid traf?c; and I do not knoo turn aside from t do-fullness.

    In a subsequent tour of observation I encountered anot;foregone ; locked up in t of ty. I ime tonous streets, destitute of anyto strike te tion, iquity. It opened into a spacious quadrangle forming tyard of a stately Gotal of ingly open.

    It ly a public edi?ce, and, as I iquity-ing, I ventured in, teps.

    Meeting no one eito oppose or rebuke my intrusion, I continued on until I found myself in a great y arcecture. At one end of ttles on eac tform, or dais, t of state, above  of a man in antique garb h a long robe, a ruff, and a venerable gray beard.

    tablis ic quiet and seclusion, and  a mysterious c I  met hreshold.

    Encouraged by ted myself in a recess of a large boed a broad ?ood of yellos from panes of colored glass,  in t summer air. able, I indulged in a sort of reverie about  ly been of monastic origin; pere establiss built of yore for tion of learning,  monk, in tude of ter, added page to page and volume to volume, emulating in tions of ude of ted.

    As I ed in t t manner t uttering a he lower end.

    I ruck iquated air comported yle of t venerable and mysterious pile. It s of ted years, about , in t of romance, to explore ured to myself a realm of sing in tre of substantial realities.

    My ramble led me terior courts and corridors and dilapidated cloisters, for tions and dependencies, built at various times and in various styles. In one open space a number of boys, o tablis,  ts, but everyles, sometimes sauntering alone, sometimes conversing in groups; to be to mind imes, augablis of t?

    to a crange and uncouts--implements of savage range idols and stuffed alligators; bottled serpents and monsters decorated telpiece; er of an old-fasead grinned a .

    I approaco regard more narroic cting laboratory for a necromancer, led at beenance staring at me from a dusky corner. It  of a small, s eyes, and gray, ing eyebro ?rst doubted  a mummy curiously preserved, but it moved, and I sa it   pe garb, and ter objects by  I ernity.

    Seeing me pausing before ted me to enter. I obeyed  not metamorpo some strange monster or conjure me into one of ttles on elpiece? o be anyt a conjurer, and y soon dispelled all tery iquated pile and its no less antiquated inants.

    It appeared t I o tre of an ancient asylum for superannuated tradesmen and decayed ed a sced number of boys. It uries since on an old monastic establis, and retained someual air and cer. tles o magi, turned out to be turning from morning, service in the chapel.

    Jotle collector of curiosities ed tling-place of ies picked up in the course of his life.

    According to ,  of a traveller,  to ted not ed tter country, quot;as t ; ly a traveller of the simple kind.

    ocratical too in ions, keeping aloof, as I found, from tes , and a broken-doleman y t en tion of tle o consider it an indubitable sign of gentle blood as y spirit to be able to squander such enormous sums.

    P.S.--turesque remnant of old times into er reuse. It  convent, by Sir tton, being one of ties set on foot by individual muni?cence, and kept up ness and sanctity of ancient times amidst tions of London. y broken-doer days, are provided in te expenses. togetory of t.

    Attaco tablis is a scy-four boys.

    Sto, speaking of tions of t;t to intermeddle oucal, but to attend only to take t is provided for t muttering, murmuring, or grudging. None to  sucal-men to ; quot;And in trut; adds Sto; are so taken from to care for but to serve God, and to live in brot;

    For t of sucerested by tcaken doion, and tle more about teries of London, I subjoin a modicum of local ory put into my leman, in a small bro, ed sly after my visit to ter tle dubious at ?rst  one of tales often passed off upon inquiring travellers like myself, and y into suced reproac satisfactory assurances of ty, and indeed old t ually engaged in a full and particular account of teresting region in e.