The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY MMING, MARCH 22, 1851.

•0 ' O.UIDE.NLXVirATIONS pole IRE . TILE CASE OE a TIIE INTENDED NUN,'
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S . 0 WiLK, MISS AUGUSTA TALBOT.
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was held at the Court-house, on 31 isk.M.,. kit ,
p. of hearing from 31gore C, Settle. and eiseateret - • :impI;LANT DEPAICIMINT. dint mall a Marines was lying buried in the meaty pages
of the law reports. The truth of thia will appear by a
kg the trip asp nee of the Miillenel • ave'orimillyt ea it le asir rtaut at .this mason, when vegeta- reference to the apparently dry records of "31elne and
~, that sufficient room be afibriled to every ' Craig's Chancery Reports,' where will be found the antes
es planation of the arraniremeeb ma, 'Ciaelttee cowslip:oe ,trwn is in
of the working classes to Landon, and their eeeammonatinn plant, an that be made to circulate freely among them. eedeut history of the COW of Nlies Augusta Talbot, which—
A collection of plants too large for the extent of glees is the with the never-dying spirit of a Chancery suit, though
whilst in town. Messrs. Clapham awl Grant, trip agents
of the Great Northern Railway common evil of nearly all gardens; and, in consequence of ' consigned the grave of the Masters' °like by Lord Cot-
offered eiplanatione. Mr. Cia' were also prewnt, and
phem was called upon this, they are crammed together during %inter, to preserve ' tenham ten years since—will rise again into new tile the.
to pre+ble over the meeting. Mr. Cooke addressed the
; from the freed. Injurious as this is to their health during day before Lord Truro in the Court of Chancery, on the
meeting at considerable leach, in explanation of the the gall months, the evil is ten times greater when they , double petition of Or, Doyle and the lion. Mr. Berkeley.
arrangements be end biz colleagues had made and ' cammence their spring growth, and for this reason they : The Hon. George henry Talbot, half-brother of the pre-
were making. Ile stated that us yet nothing definite murt be placed at proper distances asunder without fur-' sent Earl of Shrewsbury, married, on the 6th of April, Reel,
bad been nettled as to railway fan s, hut a Inettiag of
they delay-, even if the operation should involve a reduction' Miss Augusta Jones St;Paul, daughter of Sir Horace St.
representative. from all the railways would he held ins in the collection; for it is far more satisfactury to all' Paul, Burt., and died on the llth of June, 1839, leaving
[nail,n on Wednesday, the 19th instant, for the purpose i parties coneernt el to have a few well-grown specimens, I two children, John Talbot and Augusta Talbot, the former
of caning to .0111 e definite arrangement on this point. i thgn several times the number of lanky etiolated plants,' born on the 18th of January, 1830, the latter on the sth of
Although he could not say what might be determined. : not cue of which will stand the scrutiny of individual June, 1831.
spun, hi. own opinion was that the fares previously named, : examination. As the spring is so far advanced, much Mr. Talhot was a catholic, and hi: lady a protestant.
via., 1:n. 4d. from Leeds to London and back, would nut , may be done by removing many half-hardy or frame No stipulation, however, was made in the marriage settle.
be mitered. The former arrangements as to fins having : plants, to faeourable situations in the open air, where , moot or in any. other manner, as far as it appeared, as to
been made with the Royal Commissiouer., by those red they can be slightly protected, in ease of very severe the faith in wluch the children of the marriage should be
ways only who had a terminus in Landau, eime dissatisfac- weather, by mats, canvas, or other contrivances. This educated.
' time hod been expressed by other railway. who had not will make room for some of the hardier Kreenheas, plants The parties were separated, by deed, on the 2nd of Feb'.
been consulted, and some of whom thought the fares too in the frames, where they will be much unproved by their ruary, 1833, and it was therein stipulated, amongst other
low, and hence the nuvtiug on Wednesday. lie knew Per' I close proximity to the glees. The forcing houses idso, as things, that Miss Augusta Talbot should, until she attained
featly well that the feeling in Yorkshire was that the fare. they gradually come into work, will afford nom fur plants her tenth year, remain under the sole care and manage.
were too high, but still hisopinion, but not his wish, was that which require a stove temperature. If a sufficient quart- recut of her mother ; and that the mother should have the
no alteration would be made. Ile next stated that he hail, tity of young stove plants has out yet been propagateal, no liberty of seeing her son, John Talboe at all reasonable
since the meeting held here in January, been ince eantly time should be lost, as cuttings will rout with greater times, while he should remain with his fattier. Mr.
engaged in making urrangements for transit to, and acne facility now than a month or two hence. George Remy Talbot klied, as we observed, on the 11th of '
mistation in, London. The club system having turned nut FORCING DEPARTMENT. June. 1839, basing by hit will, dated the 111th of June,
a dead failure, which he regretted, he had adopted a simple
As vines are so often troubled with thrips, and as they 1;338, appointed he Rey. Thomas Doyte, a Ronan catholic
7,1r11 ion'ofi','„istt,',w`inosni.:idn'i mergedi inTnttointsrisncii"c:hacrr. arranges - do such regions injury if allowed to increase, which they ealnerßffis
.to,i,ettl.i.e,esoulteo.rant_euneU4rtehingug ear:lient.
teiiifm
trhseewtlreenoi
meat. The plan was to register all who paid • deposit or twalnendokor anthabif'e ninsegeextinnattlenune."etticurniniaaletuires shit wojuttlidtl,,,er. hi:,,,,,...„.0n,a, propert,„. 't
le and a fee: of 31, and to give them a ticket entitling Itirenu.nt tltileli. beat mods
%destroying them • but elfs children, under the will of their grandfather Charles
them to be conveyed to London and hack by the special nisi the • following hem; Earl of Shrewsbury., were entitled to two sums of 3J,0001.,
train., the money rot paid as de pea to be accounted fir in should be attended to :—A quiet evening should contingently on their attaining the age of 21 years--or on
the fare ;and this card might lie transferred tu any other nar
. -. be selected for the operation, when the leaves of the the marriage of the young lady, subject to an annuity of
than the
within Hear). Thee as to accommodation in
Linn are quint dry. The houee, if convenient, ahould be 3001. per alumni to their mother, and with a right of allow-
London, he had the last fortnight secured aream-
coP vend with canven, or something similar, to prevent the anee for their ruaintenence and education during their rui- ,
modation fir 2;01 thin!-class passenger*, 1,386 severed-Class . The whole of this amount would accrue to the
sev • a the smoke thrianch the lile • during the whale of nnrities•
passengers, and foe 336, at the Westsend, at a rather '
(the reext day it ahead be kept cloy, the Ambit ,lionid survivor of the children, and in ease of their deaths pre-
higher charge. The charge. at Mr. Ilarrieni*s eatablish-
-1 k t on, -to prevent the necesteit •'of given air, gatul it. John to obtaining a vested interest, would fall to the share
meat would be 2... tor bed and lir. akhist ; and the 2;500 t'len. istePi, ~.„ in ieteis. to n.twin th)e fun, of its', toes.. of , the present Earl of Shrewebury, as residuary
he had secured were on that principle:, whilst the others
within the borer& •This eau cheeks the revival of some legatee of his father the testatur. Mr. G. 11. Talbot, the
would be at the rate of 2s. Itil. rind upwards. Ile wished to tether, had, of course, a life interest in the sum of 60,0(W., ,
of the insects which. were merely sickened by the previews
say nothing in disparagement of Mr. Harrison's acemnino- en:Mulles smoking • but to make sure of destroying all, the and Dr. Duvle came before the Court of Chewer). in 1839,
dation, but he thought smaller houses would be o
house should be fuffiigated again on the 'second evening. to request that the arrears might be paid over to lam.
comfortable than the larger establishments. Some gentle- It appears, that ou the I.3th of August, 1839, and
On the necond morning the plants should be syringed, and
men had taken a number of houses of the first-elass,
receive air as usual ; but if the day prove very. hot, a alight on the 23rd of August, 1839. two petitions came before the
for Instance, at ilnun,low-Nuure, Brampton,
11"1‘,• shading will be necessary. If pure tobacco Ito used, it will Lord Chancellor—one from the Rev. Mr. Doyle, praying
the charge would be ten ahillings a day foe " ant' kill all the insect- in existence at the time; but it will be that the young gentleman, John Talbot, should be allowed
board, 140 of which were already secured by Americen neecoar to repeat the proems three thffie, with an in-
to reside with his uncle, the Earl of Shrewsbury, end be
y
gentlemen. At Bayswater then: were about 300, ate (+urge terval of eight or ten days between each fumigation, to de- educated under his inspection, visiting the continent of
ere.. per day ; another chew at dim day ; and, to obviate
stroy these which proceed from the ellgS laid by the old Europe with him, eee.. under the direction of the Rev. Mr.
any difficulty of parties beide inrent part. of Loudon
insects before their destruction. In fumigating ho w Doyle ; the other from the infante, by their neareet friend,
during a day, they would have tickets givin them by some
in general, a board should be fixed over the tip of the Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart., praying that Lord Shrewsbury
of the pomrietors, enabling them to dine in any part of
smoking pot, about six inches abose the rim, to cliff the and the Rev. Mr. Doyle might Sc restrained from taking
linnigat they might happen to be in. Then there was an-
smoke, that it may not injure the loeves by coming directly the children, or either eft them, out of the jurisdiction of the
other class who would charge from 35. to as. Mr had and
in contact with them !sabre it has been sufficiently coded court; that John Talbot might be allowed to reside with
breakfast ;and he had a remits. of 200 at a charge of 31. fir
by diffusion through the atmeophere. This phi, h,, con,. his mother, or that, if it were expedient, he should return
bedew' lineakeot. Ile had Likened one gentleman attol.llllo
Ott ely destroyeel the thrips and we are happy to rennin to echoed, and he might be allowed to visa her, and that
lotion few forty in a fifteen-room new house in Bel-
merit to others, as so many areromplaining of the ravages he should spend his holidays with her; tend that Augusta
grave-mud, which was a mile from the Exhibition. Talbot might remain under her mother's care, and that the
mot these miniature locusts. - Though inelivielually minute
nen lie had also made SOITIC arrangements fur economising
i they soon commit fearful havoc, not onlv u son Ynes bei cese ahould be relerred to the Mader, to drew a plan for the
the money of visitors hut as Chess arrangements were not 1.1 •
the
fairuniotngs ...lie . 'te
attackedstostan !frecti rm. pan v.t 14: -..n
t he•••• t ••• d h* ..1 Iti niaintentinee of the infants, and the superintenden c'f
yet complete, he could only say generally that parties holding; ' v‘ - their educidMn, " regard being had to the just claims of
; the tickets for the trip trains would have the Invikg' "r e, m iltel°yrdllliqu'is alter., ir,,L. those 'realm' and
.„„ the iktitionere to visit their mather, and reside with her
seeing the Fights, of London at half-price. (I ear, hear.) I i,:notc,- lin - s„,l"..'e them. St,ras. rni,",„*— a C, -ig,, at all convenient times, and to the necessity of cultivating
lie also gave information as to the proposed tern-; . v
.. eaprach!hr-a.:iraiudve.;:sill —require, yr---iii-n't..-sts,r: those natural feelings of affection which exiated betvreen
penenee movement. On Monday, the 4th of August, a de- I the petitioner and their mother, and also to their present
iitll:a.r) Prune should be kept under than tilled with man
ananstration is to take place in Lamer-hall, to welcome tea-'
1 for the roots to run in; or rough said well assist to main- condition in life, and future prumeets." The Vice.Cluen-
followiug day they would , fain a humidity &lout the bottom of the put and will often
Mealier. from the reentry ; on thecellur heArel the ease, and pronounced an order on the 28th
meet in some central place and go in a body to the lithe- the lints from rev ii • although ihe soil in the of August, 18W ; but the Lord Chancellor re-heard it on
bition ; on Wedneglay they would have • public breakfast ; P
upper portiopn of die pot beconse''s. dry. the 7th of September, in the Caine year, end alter ordered
in the afternoon of that day a gnat public demonstration in that John Talbot should hue allowed to reside and travel
FLOWER ta tItliEN BIIItCBDTRITS
Hyde-park or Mille other place; in the evening, A juvenile ' • AND • '' • with the Earl of Shrewsbury, and that his mother should
Herbaceous plant., which are now appearing above
sheeting ; and 1111 Feld:ay u steam trip to Gravesend and : be allowed " reasonable access " to her son, at his lordship's
Roeherville. ground, will requite a little attention to guard them against residence.
Mr. GRANT, after alluding to his frequent visits to I the ravages of mail.. A timely dressing of soot and lime, Lord Shrewsbury at once took John Talbot abroad, and
',wish., and to lii, knowledge of the facilities which winadimprinkled over the 'gowns of the plants, will not only pre- it becoming known to the Rev. Mr. Doyle, 011 the 901 of
he afforded to sisiton, stated that he, as the agent of the vent their depredation. on the surface, but, being washed
in by the rain, will preserve the bases oh the young gmwtha September, 114:0—two daya alter the lead Chancellor's
Great Northern Comp: had been engaged in shrillerorder was declared—that Mrs. G. 11. Tallsot had inter-
from their attacks also. Box edging. are notorious as a
inquiries to theta .- made by Mr. Cook ; but his opinion was married on the 13th of August, 1839, with the Hon. Mr.
harbour for these planate; and where beds containing Berea", he
that the competition would be fur lodgers and nut fur : presented another petition on the 13th of
: choke plants are thus surrounded, it will he useful to lay a lodgings. January, 11410, praying that Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley might
Mr. COOK also explained that the Royal Commissioners line of the above mixture along the inside, in order to in-
, sedate the plants. It will also he useful to boe and rake be ordered to deliver up the person of the infant Augusta
and the Engutive Cunonittee had determined that the Es- CO 111111Netr, us her guardian. The prayer of this petition
'edentate should be 011411 the four fast days in the week at , the beds, both for neatness sake and to disturb the under- was supported by allegations and affidavits, iniluiling
Is., but that the working classes were not to be taloned to ground retreats of our slimy friends, so as to expose them
to the weather, and ta the bills; of their natural t nemies. one affidavit of a medical man, tending to show that Mr.
visit the Exhibition for one charge during the four days. A I Doyle could not properly visit the infant, Augusta Talbot,
Biennials (as wallflower., aweetwilliams. emil scabireas,
atrong feeling had lagn expressed in favour of an alteration I whilst the remained with Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley, and that :
should be brought from the nursery leak, and arranged
iu this plan, and he hoped some change would be made. the state of the infant's health was not such as to form any '
in their summer quarters ; heals of pink is, pieta s, and
A long convereation took place, in which the several trip ; objertiou to her being removed from her mother. In imps,
very wrong , carnations should also be madthey il e ; ore nvau-
agentx ad working men present took a port., very sitiou to this, uffidavits of two physicians who had attended
feeling was expressed that the railway fares from Legg.' able 'for supplying flowers for glasses, hnwinet'e 10. the infant Putted that her health was such as to render a
to London ought to be reduced at least tults.; met that the I All dressed turf should now be well swept, rolled, and, if
necessary, mown ; it is a great drawback in the present ap- made, which.
mother's attention essential ; end other tatidayiut were I
working clue*, ought to be admitted to the Exhibitionraeeesaury, amongst other things, stated that a Roman
pearance of the pleasure-ground, and a mob in the
during the four first days of the week, as often as they'catholic governess had been provided fur her. This act of ,
: after-keeping, to allow grass to grow too long fore it ia
plmwed to go. for 0110`ektrge. aggression OM so it appears to have been considered by '
first cut in *ming. Where there is a large extent of open
Several swatters urged the propriety of forming clubs to Mrs. Berkeley) on the part of the Rev. Mr. Doyle, was
of
lawn to be kept in first-rate order, the home mowiaggna-
iro to London by way of [lull, and from the latter place ininet in a similar spirit, by a petition nn the part
. chine is an invaluable assistant, as by it the grass cm hue
ateammacketa, if the railway companies would nut lowerthat lady, in the name of her children, praying,
: cut once in ten day fortnigless
. or a fortnight at much le root than it
their farce.not only that the entire care of the daughter, " regard
can be dune over a month by the scythe. Inn firm, well-
Eventually risaillitions expressive of the-se' views werebeing hail to her delicate state of health," should be given
unanimously Adopted, and the chairman requested to coin- druitud ground, the 42-inch machine will be found most to the mother, but also that " the son might be allowed
mungate ties same to the proper authorities. I economical; but fur softer ground the medium-sized unrestrained intercourse with, and be allowed to visit his
A vote of thanks to the mayor for the use of the Court- ' machine is preferable, as the latter may be worked with mother at her own residence, at reasonable and proper
husise, and to the chairman and trip-agents ler their infer- a lighter hone, and consequently less Ila Matte is done to time.," at Mrs. Berkeley alleged that she had not been
matiou and *melees terminated the procertliags. the turf in damp weather. It is necessary to mention, allowed proper access to her son whilst he continued its
that rest more than a fortnight should 4-lapse between the Eastland, after the order of the 17th of September bad been
I different cuttings, or the work will be more difficult to
pronounce.i ; tic. petition moreover, prayed, that, as the
do, and unsightly when done. In order to have the full infant, John Talbot, was heir to the earldom of Shrews-
advantage of these machines, the turf should be levelled. bury should his uncle die witlinet male issue, as weaned
This is what we have done, and the results are so stir- probable, lie then having no male children, and that, as in
factory, that we feel pleasure and confidence in men- that rex: he, John Talbot, would be entitled, under the act ,
tenth% it iu the calendar. of parliament Gth George 11., to certain great advantages'
es posaeaeor of the Shrewsbury (states, should he declare
himself a protestant within six months after arriving
at his eighteenth year—a scheme should he drawn up by the
master for his future education,—•• as it would be fur the
pecuniary interest of the infant petitioner, John Talbot.,
that he should become a protestant at the age mentioned
in the act of parliement, and should afterwards continue •
protestant; but that the 11ev. Mr. Doyle and the Earl of
IShn•wsbury, under whose exclusive power and errand the
petitioner was now placed, were bound by the ehligations
of rung:knee, ILA member,' of the Hameln catholic persua
aloe, and were fully detenuined, to educate the petitioner
in the religious tenets of the church of Rome."
The Lord Chancellor, in delivering judgment, having first
laid down that mothers of children have nu rights as ouch
to an interference with the testamentary guardians, and
eared that he should leave the child in the custody of her
mother, went on to say :
" I find not only the nee eight or nine years, but a '
very strong preponderance of medical testimony that the
child (Augusta falbot) iv of very weak constitutien, :Ind
though nut afflicted with any dangerous disease, yet that ;
there is u remelt:gable tendency to dangerous disease.
Then I have also an act of the father, which, though not
binding, is entitled to the greatest attention, st. twing evi- '
dear, of his desire that the said infant should remain with
her mother until she should have attaiued a certain age,
an'l of his cuufidence that that would not he ulinsett; and
that period has not arrived. 1 rely upon that as evidence of
the emaidence he felt that the child might up to that
age remain in the custody of the mother, and that she
would pay that attention to the education and health of
the child which he eh:aired. As to that, the testamentary
guardian (Mr. Doyle) thinks that there should be an
alteration; but I have a right to look at the opinion. of
that gentleman himself, for I know that, when he tint
took upon himself to interfere, he did not think it necou
tsry to take the child out of the mother's cure. lf, .
therefore, he was of that opinion in September, I must
assume that he saw nothing in the religious education
or care of the child which was a reason for interfering.
It is perfectly clear that since that time the event has
taken place—it had, indeed, taken place before—but was
not known to tree, and I believe not known to him—that the
mother had contracted marriage; but there is nothing to
show that anything is likely to result from that circumstance
to prevent the child being as properly attended to as before."
As regarded the infant John Talbot, the Lord Chancellor.
said—•• No complaint is made as to the manner in which the
boy has been brought up and educated. ls it not according
' to the usual practice of the world that the expectant heir
should be brought up with the person from wham he ex-
peels so much ; that, us far as possible, he should be, treated
as the son of that person, and shouted look up to that par-
son as his father'? 'When I say this, I bear in mind that
there is not a suspicion as to the mode in which the child
is treated; and it was stated to me in the autumn that
it was the intention of Lord Shrewsbury to take with Ilan
a tutor for the boy. So far from Mr. -Doyle having done
anything inconsistent with his duty, it is the course which,
of all others, I 'Mould have expected him to adopt."
As regards the faith in which the infant, John Talbot,
was to be brought up, his lordship said, " I have a Itornan
catholic parent appointing a Rumen catholic guardian, and
lam asked to interfere as to the religion of the child. I
should also observe that the father, iu making his appoint-
ment, knew of the provisiuus of the ant of parliament which
bas beta referred to."
f,e, far Mylne and Craig's Chancery Reports. It remains
for us to say that the death of the young Mr. John Talbot
two years since and demise of Mrs. Berkeley in 1841, imme-
diately subsequent to the proceedings above quoted, have'
left Miss Augusta Talbot the role heiress of the two sums of
30,0001. referred to, and that the interference of Mr.
Berkeley by petition is intended to prevent the young
lady entering a convent, in which she has now nearly gone
through her noviciate, by suggesting that she has been in-
duced to do so by the exerciae of undue influence.

TILE CRYSTAL PALACE : A HLN'T FOR
HOSPITAL AUTHORITIES.

(Wow the Lanert.)
The spectator who stain& beneath the vast transept
of the Crystal l'algo v—who secs enormous trees spanned by
its translucent roof or whose eye wanders alma„ the nine
miles of its maaso-like avenues•--canned hut feel under the
influence of a lower idea. To cover in a whole landscape
with glass—to enclose a space, in which all the nations of •
the earth will congregate, protected from the weather by'
an almost imp•reeptildo films—strikes one at once as a new
and gigantic theouzlit. Yet this great structure is but the
development ol• a common greenhouse• ; we hove but to
multiply the conservatory at Kew by so many times, and
the result, as we find, astonishes the world. It is by the
sadden exaggeration, however, of well-known farts, that we
sometimes become aware of their power and importance.
The sanitarian sees at a glance the countless developments
to which the great Palace• of Glass will give rise ; whilst he
might have looked fur ever up at a skylight without a like
result.
The• living age has been called an age of iron—the coming
age will b• au age of glass; counties. windows will open,
and countless dark shadows Hee fur ever from amongst us
the moment tile Chancellor of the Exchequer abolishes the
window tax. Even in anticipation of this relief, Messrs.
Fox and Henderson have orders for the construc-
tion of private houses in the country, in which alas. is to
form the main building material. We shall ere long have
street. fenced in against the inclement sky by this beautil•ul
material; and to state is fact which bears mur• immediately
rpm the matter of which we wish to speak, it is in contem-
plation to „dart• o%o' the immense quadrangle forrmin•g the
interior of the Itritosh museum, and to make it a receptacle
for the precious fragments uf ancient art, and the mutilated
ideals of the human form.
Those who are familiar with our London hospitals know
that they have their quadrangles, in which mutilated and
shattered human life itself is rife enough. It is the gardens
and exereise,grounds commode(' with our great establish-
ments dedicated to the• cure of disease to which we wish to
call attention —it is in behalf of the poor human creature,
slowly struggling towards convalescence, that we wish to he
herd—oln. ets noire worthy of all the aids of art, broken
and degenerated as they are, than the most previous statue
that l'hidias ever wrought.
Thew hospital gardens! How even the healthy heart
sinks at the *Ott ol• them. It would seem as though the
animal disrw• surrounding them entered their vegetable
life in a concentrated form. Soot chokes the graoo. The
trees in the heat of summer spread their black and leafless
arms: and the very birds are frightened at than. Hospital
gardens, in short, are melancholy examples of what nature
tan he brought to by the hard treatment of man. Yet it
is into such pleasure grounds as these that the patient is
turned out by careless nurses for fresh air as Klett as he
can shut& from bed to bed. Ilere, open to the raw winds,
or the damp atmosphere, he sutlers all the com-
biaed of moral and physical depression. Such a
state of thine• most strike every one as vicious in the ex-
treme. The passage• from the sick-bed to the reugh work-
day-world should h• conducted with more art, if we de-
sire *WWm to attend our restorative efilerts. This truth
has been long rovognised by medical men, and a
convalescent hospital has been proposed to which suit-
able patients might be drafted; but to oar minds •
much of the necessity for set, h an estahli-ohment would
be avoided if each hospital were to take advantage of
the new-found resources of art, displayed on so magnifi-
cent a scale at the Crystal Palace. Why should not a
portion at least of the miserable hospital gardens b• en-
closed with glass ? With this crystal shield we might Meer
the patient at all times front the rude assaults of the
weather, and we might even regulate the temperature in a
certain degree without excluding the fresh air. Such en-
chwed spaces might form winter gardens and conservatories
for the sick. as we already have them for the hale and
strong: and if we are correctly informed, the governors
of the Hospital for Consumption have already entertained
the idea.

FLORIST,' FLOWERS.

Take care that as the stem', of aurieulas rise, that they
receive no check, whatever air they may get during the
day; it is, comparatively speaking, under the amateur's
control. It often happens, however, at this time of the
• year, alter midnight, and when least expected, a sharp
frost may take place, and should there be any flowers
partly expanded, the effect will he prejudicial, inasmuch as
' the opening Hower will become set," or stationary; for •
this reason, the careful florist will cover his frames down
well with mats, &c., in order to preserve an equable tem-
perature, or water them with soft or rain water, when they
require it; should a strong plant with au offset throw two
trusses of blooms, remove the weakest. If there is one
thing more than another that requires the florist's care, it
is the tulip; a sudden frost is equally prejudicial to them
WI to the aurienla ; hoops, nets, and mats are essential re-
, quisites ; but even these must he judiciously applied.
• Hail storms may be expected, and those who are unpre-
' pared will, when too late, bitterly regret the want of care
they have evinced in preparing the necessary protection.
Dahlias, ate., as last week.

Some one has beautifully said, trees are the natural
companions of man :" the quality they power of giving out
oxygen in the daytime is one which makes them partiett-
laily fit agents in restoring animal life and vigour. A few
lowers. cultis ated without much expense, intersp•rsevt with
green and luxuriant shrubs, would have a beautiful effect
—en effect rendered doubly grateful to the patient tired of
the monotony of the sick-ward and disgusted with the
odours which mined always be avoided there. The ex-
peeve of such enclosures, now that glom is cheap, could not
be very great.
It seems to us that, in so economical point of view, these
proposed enclosed gardens are worthy of the consideration
of the governor and managers of the great metropolitan
hospitals. That they would tend very materially to aid the
medical man in his efforts to restore the patient to his pris-
tine health there can be little doubt and it seems to us
equally likely that they would enable the convalescent
patient to avoid many of theme contagious diseases, to the
ialhissee of which they are unfortunately so often exposed
In ill-ventilated end en:lorded wards, and which so often
retard the period of their Anal recovery