or arm of the sea of the same name, washes its base. The walls of the old city still preserve their perfect unity, and now serve as a circular walk amid the houses, which are nearly as numerous, though not quite so close, without it as within it.

Like many of the ancient walled cities in England, Londonderry is quartered by two main streets crossing each other in its centre, and each at its extremity piercing the city wall by a gate. The large open space left by the intersection of the streets, called the Diamond or Market Place, has been partly filled up by the Exchange or Corporation Hall, a large pile of building, but more massy than elegant. It contains the Common Council Room, a large Assembly Room, News Rooms, &c.

That arm of the cross which traverses the town from Bishop's-gate to Ship-quay Gate, constitutes two splendid streets, one on each side the Diamond, though the lower, Ship-quay Street, is so steep as hardly to be passable by carriages. In its upper portion, called Bishop's Street, it contains a handsome Court House, a very elegant structure in the Grecian style, but rather cramped by its position in the line of the street. Nearer Bishop's Gate are the Bishop's Palace and the Deanery, neither very noticeable, unless it be for the fine garden belonging to the former. In the same quarter is the Cathedral, built on the most elevated point of the hill of Derry. It is a neat plain Gothic structure exter

nally, but has little of the character of a cathedral within, being without transepts, and having what dignity it could otherwise boast of destroyed by its homely but convenient pews and galleries. The most interesting object in the whole building is the monument to the great Diocesan of Derry, Dr. Knox, that noble pattern of a Bishop and of a Christian man.

In the steep street, below the Diamond, there are some public buildings of lesser note, two Banks, Gwyn's Charity, &c. In other parts of the city, both within and without the walls, there are numerous other public buildings, some of them in excellent taste, as the Gaol, the Lunatic Asylum, the Poor-house, the Custom-house, the Public Library and News-room, &c.

Next to the Cathedral, the most conspicuous public structure is the monument to George Walker, the famous clerical Governor and defender of the city during the celebrated siege by the army of King James. It consists of a fine column of Portland stone, 82 feet in height, including its base, surmounted by a statue of the same material, nine feet high. Walker is represented in the rather incongruous character of Divine and Soldier, which he bore in life, being dressed in canonicals, and armed at once with the Bible and the sword. This monument was erected so late as 1828 by public subscription. Its summit is accessible by a spiral staircase within, and is well worth as

cending for the splendid view it commands of the city and its vicinity.

The population of Londonderry in 1841 was 15,196, and in 1851, 19,399, a much greater increase than we have met with in any of the towns hitherto visited, except Dublin and Cork. It is even greater than the increase of those cities in proportion to the number of inhabitants. If we were to include the inmates of the Workhouse, Gaol, Lunatic Asylum, and Infirmary (1080), we should raise the total population of Londonderry to 20,479; but this, as already remarked more than once, would not be a true population estimate.

As far as I could learn, there are only three Episcopalian Churches in Derry, including the Cathedral which serves as the parish church. There are, at least, double this number of churches and chapels belonging to other classes of Protestants. There is only one Roman Catholic chapel; but this, owing to its size and the numerous services always performed in it on Sundays, suffices for all the Catholic population, large as it is.

Londonderry is, perhaps, still more conspicuous for the number of its schools than even for its places of worship. Besides six National Schools within and without the walls, Foyle College (a classical school), Gwyn's and Erasmus Smith's Charity Schools, it can boast of schools specially connected with every religious sect, more especially with the Presbyterian body, which probably exceeds, in point

of number, all the other denominations of Protestants taken together. The very large number of schools established in and around Londonderry, is strikingly and agreeably exhibited by a document now before me, being a statement of the accounts of the Irish Society in the year 1851. From this it appears that this Society contributes annually to the maintenance of not fewer than sixty-five schools in Londonderry and its liberties.

Among these

are no less than thirteen National Schools, and hardly a less number of Presbyterian Schools. Under this last head I find, First CongregationMale, Female, and Sunday Schools: Second Congregation-Sunday Schools: Third Congregation— Boys' and Girls' and Sunday Schools: Fourth Congregation-Sunday Schools: Reformed Presbyterian Schools; besides numerous other schools which probably belong either to Presbyterians or to some other Protestant Dissenters. Circumstances prevented me from paying my usual visits of inspection to the schools of Londonderry. I can therefore give no statistics of the number of children in attendance, or of their religion, from personal inquiry. I have since, however, ascertained that on the day of my visit to Londonderry the number of children belonging to the National School connected with the chief Presbyterian Church, was as follows:-Boys, 66; girls, 2; and they were thus distributed, according to their religion-45 Presbyterians, 21 Church of England, 2 Roman Catholics.

There is also about to be established a new College, destined chiefly for the education of Presbyterians, from a bequest of 20,000l. made for this purpose by the late Mrs. Magee; and for which the Irish Society has recently granted a fine site without the walls, amounting to twenty acres.

The same circumstance that interfered with my visits to the schools prevented my personal inspection of the workhouse. But I have since been favoured with an official statement from the master, of its statistical relations, not only at the period of my visit to Londonderry, but also for the two preceding years at the same date, and also at a still more recent period. The following is the statement : Number and Condition of the Inmates in the

I am the more pleased in being able to give these returns for a period of some extent, as they

Dysentery, diarrhoea, variola, and measles, are treated in different wards in the Fever Hospital.

The number of cases of ophthalmia for the year ending the 31st December, 1852, was 26.