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as New Zealand Chambers,
is one of Mr. Norman
Shaw's few city works, and
deserves all the praise that
has been lavished upon it.

We soon reach Aldgate,
and perhaps there is no
part of the city on which
time has laid so heavy a
hand. The Priory has ab¬
solutely disappeared, though
down to a late period vaults

and other remains were dis¬

tempting in vain to redeem a poor design,
may be seen; but the short street called
after Whittington, which leads into the
Market, contains at least one fair front.
The offices of the “P. & O.,” the pioneer of
all the eastward-sailing mail lines, are in
Leadenhall Street, but cannot be admired
by any one with an eye for correct archi¬
posing
The large house on the

tecture. They are,. however, im

and convenient.
south side of Leadenhall Street, known