Fulham Road to what is
called, generally, "Sir John Scott Lillie's Road," and sometimes
"Brompton Lane Road," which, in fact, is a continuation, to North End,
Fulham, of the line of the Old Brompton Road,--the point, as the reader
may recollect, that we turned off from at the Bell and Horns, in order to
follow the main Fulham Road to Little Chelsea. The public way on the
east of the burial-ground is called Honey Lane, and on the west the
boundary is the pathway by the side of the Kensington Canal. The
architect of the chapel and catacombs is Mr. Benjamin Baud. The cemetery
is open for public inspection, free of charge, from seven in the morning
till sunset, except on Sundays, when it is closed till half-past one
o'clock. The first interment took place on the 18th of June, 1840, from
which time, to the 22nd of November, there were thirty-four burials, the
average number being then four per week. It is scarcely necessary to
add, that a considerable average increase has taken place; but the first
step in statistics is always curious.

One of the most interesting instances of longevity which the annals of
the West of London and Westminster Cemetery Company present occurs on a
stone in the north-east corner of the burial-ground, where the age
recorded of Louis Pouchee is 108; but this does not agree with the burial
entry made by the Rev. Stephen Reid Cattley--"Louis Pouchee, of St.
Martin's in the Fields, viz., 40 Castle Street, Leicester Square, buried
Feb. 21, 1843, aged 107."

This musical patriarch, however, according to a statement in the 'Medical
Times,' {128} was admitted as a patient to St. George's Hospital November
24, 1842. January 4, went out, and died, about three months afterwards,
of diarrhoea and dysentery.

Another instance of longevity, though not so extraordinary, is one which
cannot be contemplated without feeling how much influence the
consciousness of honest industry in the human mind has upon the health
and happiness of the body. A gravestone near a public path on the
south-east side of the burial-ground marks the last resting place of
Francis Nicholson, landscape-painter, who died the 6th March, 1844, aged
91 years.

Mr. Nicholson originally practised as a portrait-painter, but the
simplicity and uprightness of his heart did not permit him to tolerate or
pander to the vanities of man (and woman) kind. To flatter was with him
an utter impossibility; and, as he could not invariably consider