London, Dec. 22.— Every foreigner has at some time longed to behold three English monuments, which his imagination, excited by description, led him to believe were un paralleled among the wonders of the world. He may have gratified his curosity by going to London, and had his wish gratified, if not his expectations. The three monu ments aie the tunnel under the Thames, Westminster Abbey, and the Tower of London. The first is n, dismal fraud, a damp, musty corridor to be dismissed at once from memory, ignominiDusly de throned from its exalted place in childish fancies ; the second, if beautiful, is neither unique nor of unsurpassed excellence, being rivalled by many cathedrals on the Continent, and even in England ; the third alone exceeds what has been pictured, and comes upon the visitor with a quaint com pleteness far beyond the simplicity of its name. The Tower has often enough been described ; its style and size, its situation, history, and present use are truthfully re corded in every guide-book, and more hyperbolically by Hepwo>th Dixon ; but few of those who visit it have considered it under the new aspect of a modern dwelling house— a modern home with comfortable rooms whence nineteenth century girls sally fonh for balls and dinner parties at the \Vesfc fc-nd, aud dispense on low Japanese tables nineteenth century tea at 5 o'clock. Over a hundred years ago one Gen. Lof tvs was Lieutenant of the tower of London, and dwelt in the grand old fortress with his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the first Marquess Townshend. To-day the Lieu tenant is a feeble old Major-General, who-»e failing health requires the balmy air of the -outh coast, and who governs by deputy ; but the old name is still represented within the precinct?, for one Capt. Loftus is Cus todian of the Kegalia— a post not highly compensated, but directly in the gift of the Qiiooh, who confers it on any one she de lights to help or whoae merit she wishes to icknowlcJge. Lady Catherine Loftus, who married her cousin, the Captain, is sister to one of her Majesty's Ambassadors abroad, now Governor of Sydney, an 1, being do -ervedly a favourite, the place^in the Tower was presented to her husband, with the ittendant advantage of residing within it> walls. 