These revolvers can be obtained through any respectable gunmaker in London, and in the principal towns in the United Kingdom.

Fac-Simile of a Target-copied from an official return from the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, showing the last 50 out of 1,000 successive shots, fired off-hand, from one of Adams's Revolving Pistols, on the 5th of September, 1854, by James Kerr, foreman of the Gun Factory.

The firing took place in the presence of Colonel Chalmers, R.A., and other scientific officers; the distance being 30 yards, and the time of firing four hours.

The same pistol was used throughout; nor was there a single miss-fire. It was never cleaned or oiled, nor suffered the slightest derangement; and the target was struck 1,000 times in succession, to the great admiration of the authorities present.

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50 shots at 30 yards-950 rounds fired previously in the presence of Colonel Chalmers and other officers, making 1,000 successive shots in four hours, with the same pistol, without cleaning, or a miss-fire or derangement.

The enormous sum of £352,583 has been expended at Enfield (small arms) Factory between January, 1854, and the present time-viz. £91,618 for buildings, £68,653 for machinery, £48,692 for stores, £7,048 for salaries, and £135,132 for wages. 26,739 musket rifles (pattern 1853) made by machinery and complete were delivered into store up to the 31st of March last, and parts of arms and materials equal to some 10,000 finished rifles are "in various stages of progress.' After passing the NEW CROSS STATION and dépôt, the first glimpses of charming village scenery show themselves on the right, together with Camberwell, Peckham, Forest Hill, Dulwich, Sydenham, and its magnificent Crystal Palace, and Norwood. On the left is Eltham and its renowned palace, reduced to a beautiful fragment, the church and almshouses of the Licensed Victuallers, on Penge Common, the spire of Beckenham Church, backed by the picturesque woods of Gwydir House and the Addiscombe Downs.

At the distance of eight miles from our starting point, we pass

GREENWICH JUNCTION.

ANERLEY, a beautiful spot about half-a-mile south of the charming village of Norwood, long celebrated for its woods and its gipsies, but now dotted, at close intervals, with villas and mansions in every style of rampant architecture, chiefly the residences of London's wealthy citizens, who appreciate, in a more comfortable sense than travelling pedlars, the sylvan beauties of the spot. NORWOOD (the station of which we next pass), from its elevation, enjoys a fine view of the whole of London, from west to east; indeed, no finer panorama of the metropolis can be found than that to be seen from the summit of Westow Hill, which is stated to be from 1,000 to 1,200 feet above the level of the sea. The population of Norwood, in 1851, was returned at 7,978. On Westow Hill is the Central London District School for the pauper

children of the city of St. Saviour's, East and West London, and St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. On the spot where formerly stood the Park Hotel is a Roman Catholic institution, the Norwood Catholic Orphanage. The South Metropolitan Cemetery, situated at Lower Norwood, displays much taste and beauty. Beulah, or Beaulieu Spa, was, some years ago, a place of fashionable resort, but it is now shorn of its ancient fame. The spring, discovered in 1827, consists chiefly of sulphate and hydrochlorate of magnesia. Proceeding on the line, the excursionist commands a good prospect of the slopes of Upper Norwood, crowned by the rising spire of All Saints' Church, which, from its elevation, forms a conspicuous object for many miles around.

In the midst of a country rich in the beauties of cultivated nature, stands the ancient town of CROYDON, the station of which, at the north end, we now approach, after entering the eleventh mile from the London terminus, and passing the intermediate stations of New Cross, Forest Hill, Sydenham, Anerley, and Norwood.

Croydon, although a place of great antiquity, is seldom mentioned in history. It is situated on the Roman road of Ermine-street. The town is about a mile in length. The part now called High-street was formerly only a bridle-road through fields. The old, or lower town, called Old

of Brixton, Kingston, Reigate, Tandridge, and Wallington. The market-day is Saturday, when a large trade in corn is carried on. The cattle-market is on Thursday. The population, in 1851, was 20,343 including Norwood. The town contains about 10,000. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and considered one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture in the county, is supposed to have been commenced by Archbishop Courtney, who became primate in 1381, and died in 1396, but it does not appear to have been completed until the days of Archbishop Chicheley. It is situated at the bottom of the town, near the source of the Wandle, and is built of stone and flint, in the Pointed style. It consists of a nave, three aisles, and two chancels. At the west-end is a handsome square tower, rising to the height of four stories, and supported by strong buttresses, and adorned at the summit by battlements and crocketted pinnacles issuing from octagonal turrets. It contains a good ring of eight bells, cast in 1738, with chimes, which play a psalm tune every sixth hour. The first bell is thus inscribed:

"My voice I will raise,

And sound to my subscribers' praise

At proper times. Thomas Lister made me, 1738."

The interior is well worth a visit. An old marble font, at the west end of the south aisle, is said to be of the time of Archbishop Chicheley: it is octagonal, with quatrefoil panels on its sides, ornamented with roses and grotesque heads. In the middle chancel are some ancient wooden stalls. There is an unusually rich collection of monumental brasses and inscriptions in this church, and even on the exterior, and in the churchyard are many interesting memorials of the dead. In the middle chancel, on a sarcophagus within an arched recess, lies the painted effigy of Archbishop Grindall, in his scarlet robes. This vene rable prelate died in 1583, aged eighty-three years. In the southeast corner of St. Nicholas's chantry is a splendid monument to the memory of Archbishop Sheldon, who died in 1677, representing the recumbent effigies of this dignitary in his archiepiscopal robes and mitre. The figure is of statuary marble, beautifully sculptured. On the north side of the altar, within separate recessed arches, are the sculptured effigies of a man and woman kneeling before desks. This monument dates from the sixteenth century, and commemorates a worthy citizen

and grocer of "London famous Cittie," Maister Henry Mill. In St. Nicholas's chantry are also the tombs of the Archbishops Wake, Potter, and Herring, who succeeded each other, and died, respectively, in the years 1736, 1747, and 1757. On the east wall of St. Mary's chancel is a beautiful monument of white marble, to the memory of Mrs. Bowling, and representing an angel bearing up a female. The sculpture is by Flaxman. On the north wall of the same chancel is a large white tomb for the Heron family, and of the sixteenth century. It is ascended by three steps, and bears the figures of a man in armour, in alto-relievo, attended by his five sons, and a woman, attended by eight daughters. Here, also, is Archbishop Whitgift's monument, a sarcophagus, supported by Corinthian columns of black marble. It represents the recumbent effigies of the prelate in sable robes, with his hands raised in the act of prayer. He died in 1604. It appears by the parish registers (which are complete from the year 1538), that Alexander Barkley, or Barclay, author of "The Ship of Fools," was buried in Croydon churchyard in 1552. On the restoration of the church, in 1844, some ancient paintings were discovered, some of large size, and one of them representing St. Christopher.

Besides this church, are chapels-of-ease, All Saint's Church, on Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood; a Catholic Church at Broad Green, and chapels and meeting houses for several denominations of dissenters. The Church of St. Peter at Southend will accommodate one thousand persons. Whitgift's Hospital, the noblest benefaction that Croydon has ever enjoyed, must not be forgotten. It was founded by Archbishop Whitgift, in the reign of Elizabeth, for the maintenance of a warden, schoolmaster, and twenty-eight men and women, or as many more under forty as the revenues would admit. The building is an unpretending brick edifice, of the Elizabethan style of architecture, and of a quadrangular form. Over the entrance are the armorial bearings of the See of Canterbury, surmounting this inscription, "qui dat pauperi, non indigebit." The chapel of the hospital, a small apartment forming the south-east angle of the building, was consecrated in 1599, by the name of "The Chapel of the Holy Trinity." In this chapel are some interesting remains; amongst them is a portrait of Archbishop Whitgift, painted on a board, with an inscription in Latin above, which may be thus rendered:—