The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-16 00:00:00

THE FRPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1850.

tated that disk completi •,st will require 668,0001., I
Mine; I
▪ sa, les devote to it 600,0001. out of the million I have
ite llt I'4 ad. The met already advanced kw them
'MAW.; thenfort, independently of the funds
ti for laad improvements is Ireland, the ram ad-
-eaeced under ans heed will he 1,400,0004 Now, I said
w: mid MICISPOS as additional reason for presents/
MO
air surplus ow of Me yen'. review, and it s—that st
enable use to make them Monate without
uull ;toe any inererr is the public debt. (Hear, hear ) I
tier se apnea, to tame fiCIIPMP bilk, bet 1 le pi
m• 7 tier
1 feel toothiest that I shell oe ebb' to make ail
the— est edema's without awaits; any Menne in the funded
iota
al dig egustgy, (Hear, hose.) I should slso wish to
mea'a to the Loom that although my se doing may de-
▪ n.— me of the wens eit paying off say portion of the
iga led debt it peewit, it will be layiag up the moms for
ern tater Chace .110 r of the Exchequer to make eonsiiier-
gs:, rwta.tiou. Wens. I hold, that this system of makiog
wren from the public (inds, although justifiable under
ea., whimsey eireautetances, is not eye that Meta become
a prmumt ratio, !ed therefore 1 tout that my sueasnor,
h,.enr Re ggiy s , end pat estop to it as soon as partible,
wwhen :be result .1111 be that the repetitious will
is a.see► quirg: e:.er quamer, ...:leaces will accumulate,
sad it 1,111 PSOIMS °tinnily tan duty to apply • large sum
est of this re, inmate to the reducuon of the funded debt.
I fativ.i, am loilneg through the public accounts, that there
has cared site the nano with Scotland a charge on the
nue. • ,n the shape of an aansity of 10,0001, called the
riateeleat fund. and it is provided by the set which 'sta-
b:Med tint fund, the it might be redeemed at any period
p, payst-nt of 250,0901. Now a, according to the meal
vv.: et far the extine•i s of debt, *het ram would not ex-
Lrcabb more than 7,5001. annually, I flush I shall be
aprlytag a Porton of the revenue of the year in the
nueen..a of tau 10,0001. myear. (Heir, bear.) I shall
0,,,c0 • von f.:r this 2.50,0001. It will appear as a vote,
1.. it is really and truly an application of money for the si-
n: eon of a prion of the public debt. There will remain
gererd thin a iamb's of 600,0001 , and I do hops that the
• will seaport me in ay intention of retaining that
• lvonise Ido not thick it would be safe to go on in say
411111&.PS Wilk • surplus of lea man that amosat.
An BON. MEMBER asked across the horn who in
• rectimd the 10,0001. a year mentioned by the right
hca. tentlomea.
The CHANCELLOR if the EXCHEQUER—A cow.
=
otot did not sunk the name) computed of the principal
is Smiles& I do nut know whether in what I
5...4 I have menaced hon. members connected with the
i..•oltural intetest that her llejnq's ministers are not in-
. 'sole to 111511 551111115011, or to %/menial, they have upon the
• rimiest. We feel ourselves bound to resist the claims
• . hive pat toward for measures which we do not think
.cent with the welfare of the astioa at large ; but, In
. . AS relief can be afforded c unison:ly with that coast-
wean and union to give them all the aid
; end, believing that se outlay of capital on
• it. best expedient Oast an be adopted, I have 'ladle
forward lo give the moans of obta,ning that capital easily
• ..:,e.y. (Hear, Mar.) The supply of cheap food (or oar
u..cg an:lains is the tint coosiagration. Bat this country
~I,s It for muy years, sad, to enable it to contu us to
•, . tenoned skid, energy, and isduary of the tanner
• wilted by an easy mode or obtaining We capital
• ~,ary for his operations. When I call to mind
claims that have been made upon me from all
. hire for a random Ott:attest to an extent quite inc.:ln-
:. .e wan the aniototanee of the national establishments,
. :I halt f read, not with apprehension, but err-
, s't.. c-neil table anxiety, to what may be the conduct
• • tier at C amazons on this the first occasion when
it. 7 •-",,e i'e:ide on the disposal of a sur,•lus. That our-
. SS I could wish, nor at large es it might
I.e. .7 had :.e ctremistemen of the country been other
t-ty it:,l3-
1 de hope that on this occasion we shall
Ito, a nun dg"trisMation to maintain, with even that
sS arch „, sou" untouched and unabiken, the nation,'
faith and tbe en of this kingdom. (Cheers.) The first
vote win • e;. Exchequer Hills.
lit. HUME row to aldress the house, bat the rush of
suza.b.rs ...tt-e toe boas* a: Ma terminatian of the Chan-
ce,' it of the Eultequer's address obliged the hon. member
t,.,• • t.,r use minatet. O. order being restored, he
MSS Mat the very gratifyiag manner in which the annoueor-
on' • t eve sash an rerun of relief had been received
• . :n tu those who had hitherto been parties
:1 it. c.ontsy with increased charges. He believed
r•hef goer proposed was a proper relief, but it
ee.ce those who had all along been benefited
're toe,: ca. He had, however, expected that tee
.t to Ezeh, yen would not have dealt merely
1. /511.106, but would have endeavoured to
shy ..ch large ettablishmtnts were kept up,
math lager reduction had not been effected.
:taw it this was the only re'i:t the country
• H ... beer.) The redeems of the duty ea
i %It st0...:,41111011 of the stamp any he consiatired
• ;0.. ,tia: IlitSSlAtel, but he hot great doubts se to
lett • • - .ta.: PPP; to the preprietore of land,
,y ;std. or Scotland. He thought it a bad
u;„: cLuts the limn ought aot to sanct ion unless
r .: Tat right hon. gentleman had shown
ra.sw:•.y. sad 'edited it would be very difficult to
a' ..r.j aas could be borrowed at 21 per cent.,
1:07 at the present nionieat. He objected to the
: e I ~as were to are. Meted. Pert lamest oaght
rturtre w.th the money market except on the Ma
st .ca 0 Toe right boa. baronet Or E. Peel) had
a • e.y, hat he ail so in order to gin a sort
4 ur etas was tupposed to he an ajar y to a
a car s . Do: toe the present advance so suffiaest
. •: •••'imed, and he hoped It would not saint
•te ir:•• Tel of parliament. He objected to the right
Z• 55.43•15 is ITU, 7.:0,10M as a margin, in order to
u milte as advance. The abolition of the
...is •r & WASH 01 made greater 'importance in •
• : pne :if view to the people of this country, and he
:t n-pored to Leo even a little deficiency
:.: ,ffus that object. The question which
: • • t. its', :,-.4 PP, whet wog the amount of revenue
▪ war ton txpeadannt, and sosld they reduce the
• si Ai IS PP nee( to Me several suffering Magnets of
a I—. He ..sieved they weld redact that expendi•
• • ••"/. Be would show how this might be
It i;•,e .r i fret a relent of the expenditure in-
t: .•.• :a anoint ef the effective and comae.-
, -1.4 evil itc.which be had moved for last session,
cei nano. is IS4I was In round numbers
two cf the tithing debt was 28,663,6171.,
• .1. The expendstan f.r 1848, exclusive of
.net of their civil and military establish.
1'4., which, deducted from the revenue,
glow IN salmon of all their civil
te.abiiihmenis, exclusive of the debt,
• .toy 20,211,0h4t, or 10,154,1911. feu
1 ‘i• . He always imaintaiaed that their NM-
-0 Lel '•‘• a aterseeed unnaturally. They had risen
is tcruyegnee of the cash payments and the
c use ea tie cf mosey, when salaries
541 ..15570 had been raised to an Mardi-
. eine At the very time that the expenditure
,ee. • oat-ad., they. were expending 50,000,0001.
• a }ear o. bunowid m iney. What he
re mi Loreto do, woe to redoes their
establish-
:hi state is "Mitch they wore before
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L.: thieni hadtakea pima, whim Itt•Y
in-
,rti a iv,:f y. AO,OOOL Re maintained that thetiald
•.'.. • ally ems dilically, and without affect the
. ,••••: t t w.y way, beams the expenditure,which
.7 • ' ialS4B, was bat 20,273,0281. in 1835.
L •ittec ts• sr i 1 there were any reasons existing now
..1 •xist ia 1935, to cause this bacnu• of
• ',eq. He aid sot want the house to p back
t. t`• of 1792, but he was warranted ia
to 1.5 the proposition of his hoe. friend
! •• IA a return to the standard of 1835.
ea a atsputios Wen the hone fur • nduction in
.r ah• judges; but he taw no reason why the
••••:. •k : 4.41:4 mot be reduced. Instead of 6,0001. a
t• .rtt that 3,0001. would be ensues. He was
arsi ease any notion, but he did not thick the
to be satufied with the present budget.
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FIVCAVEN elaplained of the omission of the hop
,-• i‘tai Miriam selected for relief, in which he was
r'''" • tI MT. L. Hodges.
WILLOUGHLY complained of the complication
of the pubic accounts, dec:ariog that
lt Liz .c which they were presented to the legististare
*•' t .•noel@ pomp."
31r `. AV AN wade some inquiry u to the intentions of
434,121'r.! re‘Deetittr savings banks.
RUSSELL nide: th:t a bill regulating those es-
- iv. 1:4 in•r Anted shortly after Euter.
E LACY hl'.l\,wished the threepenny receipt-
'''. • alyslished, is interfering with the business of

• *,u GIf.iNEY dwelt upon the perennial
•• r: aof 1.1,i—a cry which he traced to the
of protection to British in-
. • r phe.keti p.rmatence until that protection

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1.
ws,Le approving of the financitl preposi•
• ,rwr.m.ent cn the whole, suggekted some addi•
• _ ••••:-Alr others cf the advertisement and soap
I.4thly expedient to abolish.
A 4A ri.quoted' variety of statistical retiras
.m?11•1t,• pret of wheat at many continental port,
114a' a '4:•;..1 at prices w.th which OCT own farmers

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'2l,6*.auir• Ls from Lard R. Ciaosvierroa and Mr.

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1," :•i:l:)llfriNii complained that the Choicellor of
hao t Isirinti.t• his ideas, and hal proposed as
"0:ot the Ohne which he (Mr. Drummond) had
Alt see re•eetabliahing credit by paying off
#.4 trin.ferring to the " champagne drinker " the
th• beer drinker had heretofore been forced to
- p.rtat:t tke distrrees of the agriculturist, the hon.
'Larrs.l epos hie pitiable condition in being forced
The farmer, he lamented, could not
•.tii kis wheat as the midst did, nor bone-dust
lhe taker did, nor oak bark with his jesuits
kol tile did, nor wool with his cotton, not
74 LK malt, as wee done by the druggist, Dm
..4Pt. end Um enwer. Thus wee the cultivator of
vtri et • disadvantage, and jastly entitled to legion
1;11 mlgnelted some porpoise to which the
werwa to Monte ta ':
Ireland might be op-
'' Imre useful/y, end with better chances of repay-
weeeuvewent and drainage attend.
ANN ELS easteoded that agricultural distress
..Litsessily referred to the present low price. of
••• tst the prollaidle of future advancement in them
tether delusive. lie could not accept the
r, re 4
• tit government in the abolition of the brick
• "::t the newts.* on stamps, as • fair recompense for
•entritnial woo/. The 0 stamp duties on /win
4411 s lan ben inland.

Yr. KUNTZ soreheaded that the boasted similes In
the treasury was net substantial, and hand at I. ahw
swathe it would mishit into air. Our rant erten of tax-
ation was Mashies dews mkt* us. Me redered and
would support, a gamine tax Os ._ Ran di;iinu•
la pekes in reality enhanced the bn=tles Ism
Mr. G. BANDAIIB dwelt aNa dielsemeal eons*.
queues that mug renew le ths Amish ham Ilesmi
of Us. a quarter, sad domed tbs. be masEsented to enlarge
that pries, if net s levee gee, ler a pouted whose hondostion
it was impossible to Somme. He resemoonied the enact
moot Of a moderate Axed duty on pain.
Mr. WILSON having =WO SOWN siatiethol explanatioas,
Mr. BANK Ed claimed credit for the pregestionist mew
ben because they would not refuse to vote the supplies,'
althelgh suffering ander such sumo and law- outdo dhtress.'
MACORBOOIL calculated that no great amount of
foreign imporiation of wheat could be expected at a less
price than 404 or 465. per quarter. The lower rates we had
lately experieneed were completely exceptional. The hon.
member concluded by some obserratione upon the ember-
raasesent caused by the damp duty on 'marine insurances.
Col. DUNNE said that Ireland had bat six imilliocs end
loaner Py the meat of the ea:. mat:. WY Offil,o4 in
reimbursement a small share is a trilling dialiantioet opal
the price of stamps.
Mr. CARNW said that the offered advances for agrical.
tarsi improvesstnts wets altogether augatory, as the existing
'audition of farming affairs did not encourage outlay upon
the lead.

Kr. BLANBY wished to see the 'abutters' condition
improved by the application of a proper stimulus to
isdabtry.
*

Corals HARRIS baring made a few observations,
Mr. L. HEY WORTH recommended the conversion of all
the indirect taxes into an ineme and property tax.
Mr. MACKENZIE remonstrated against the hard treat-
ment shown to Bcetland in limiting her quantum of the new
advance for sericulture purposes seeing that she had made
the first discovery of the advantages to be reaped from the
measure.

Mr. 00131.BUILE spoke an epitaph of eulogy upon the
late Mr. Brookbank, whom untimely death had occurred
but a few hours premusly, after a highly useful course of
°facial service in the treasury department.
Colonel SIBTIIORP commented upon the remissices pro-
mised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech which
afforded comidersble amusement to the bone

Mr. REALM dialed that the 'sophism if the brisk and
estallutios of the stamp dada, would einstltuts say special
Mien to the agriculturists.
Mr. HENLEY reiterated that denial, and believed that
the proposition wu designed to threw dust in their (the pro-
test:smuts') eyes. He appured to have much the same per-
eisadon tow:Sting the proposed advances for agricultural
improvements.
The vote wu then agreed to.
The house then resumed, and went into committee of
supply on the

effeetnally you must first begin by reducing expendi-
ture, is daily making new converts.
All these signs, however, are loot upon the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and his col-
leagues. And accordingly we find the right honour.
able centleman in his financial statement parading
his little surpluses, actual and anticipated, and re-
commending his little economies, with an air of im-
portance that irresistibly reminds one of the picture
of Major Ponto in the Book of Snobs, with one roast
snipe on an assiette of colossal dimensions, asking his
wife whether she chrome to take any game P
The surplus of income over expenditure in the
current year was stated by Sir CHARLES WOOD to be
about two and a quarter millions ; the anticipated
surplus of the year, which will commence on the 6th
of April, about one and a half million. From this
latter surplus alone Sir CHARLES warned the house
had they to expect any relief—any mitigation of
&maim durioL. the c4' mg year.
The manner in which be proposed to avail himself
of this sum, with a view to reduce the country's
burdens is briefly as follows :—He divides it into two
rums of 750,0001. each. Taxes are to be remitted to
the extent of 730,0001, : the rates of certain stamp
duties are to be reduced to an extent that diminishes
the receipts from that source by 300,0001.; the duty
on bricks Is to be abolished, which will be a sacrifice
of 460,0001. The remaining 750,0001. is, to use Sir
CHARLES'S own words, "to be retained in hand,
either for repayment of the debt, or to meet any eon-
tingeney that may occur in the course of the year."
We hive a few remarks to offer upon this diatribe- ,1
tion of the anticipated lit million of surplus for 1830-1
—this skinning the bear before it is killed. And
first of the reduction of the debt.

We are by no means insensible of the import-
anew of measures being adopted fer bringing
within more reasonable limits • mortgage on the
national resources and energies of which the capital
approaches nearly to 800 millions, and of which the
annual charge (about 28 millions) is considerably
more than the half of last year's income. But we
must plead guilty to considerable scepticism as to the
possibility of paying off this enormous sum by yearly
instalments of two millions, the receipt of which
is problematical. The Tames, indeed, hints at
the wonderful (fires of compound interest; but
it really requires unbounded command of counte-
nance gravely to propound such a scheme to a public
which has not yet forgotten the ignominious bursting
of the soap-babble of the Pirr-JeNefesote or sinking
fund. The project for eliminating the national
debt by annual sayings of two millions is a
palpable plagiarism from Bubadir a plan of extermi-
nating an at my by the daily slaughter of fifty soldiers
by himself and his associates.
Ludicrous though such financial dream be, it
becomes still more absurd in the modified form
under which it is propounded by the CHANCELLOR
OF TILE EXCHEQUER. lie eddrtseee himself to the
task with a sum of 740,000/. in hand for one year,
uncertain whether he is to have any reserve the
next. And he couples with this proposal to reduce
the funded debt by 730,0001. an announcement that
he is to make advances fur drainage to the agricultu-
rists of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the amount
of three millions ; to raise which sum he indicates no
other means than the issue of Exchequer Bills to that
amount. To the uninitiated in the mysteries of Sir
CHARLES'S peculiar system of finance, it appears
rather a queer mode of beginning to pay off the debt
by reducing the funded debt three-quarters of a mil-
lion, and at the same time increasing the unfunded
debt by three millions. But Sir CHARLES has settled
in his own mind—by what process of ratiocination he
did not condescend to explain—that this three
millions added to the unfunded debt will become
in the hands of " future Chancellors of the
Exchequer," a means of largely reducing the funded
debt, which they can pay off to that amount as the
repayments come in. This is again skinning the bear
before it is killed.

With regard to the proposed remission of taxes,
the repeal of the duties on bricks to the amount of
300,00 W. is unexceptionable. The remission of
450,00 W. in the stamp duties is, from the manner in
which it is to be effected, of a more questionable cha-
racter. Sir CHARLES pre faced his announcement of
these reductions by stating that the principle of the
present government has been to refuco the burdens
on the labouring classes, and to promote a system by
which the national income shall be to a greater ex-
tent raised upon property. Rather Meonsiieently
with these premises, he proposes to remove 300,0001.
of taxation from bricks, in which the labouring classes
have undoubtedly an interest, though only in
common with the proprietary class ; and 450,0004 of
taxation from those stamps, which press exclusively
on the landed irterest—on one section only of the
proprietary class. The stamps of which the rates
are to be reduced are those on the transfer of proper-
ties not exceeding 1,0001. in value, and on leases.
This is neither more nor less then a small sop in the
pan to stay the hungry stomachs of the landlords, who
are moreover to be accommodated wi.h a loan of three
millions out of the public funds at the imminent risk
—the all but certainty, of increasing the debt.

INTELLIGENCE hilS at length arrived of the block-
ade of the l'irceus having ceased, and of the disap-
vearance of all coercive measures except the retention
of some fifty smell vessels, as security for the
payment of such debts as the French government may
award to be justly due.
The entire claims are not more than 6,0001., of
which probably 1,0004 will be struck off of Dow
PACIFICO'B &Manch Such a sum as this France
herself, in her unbounded love to King OTHO, will
probably furnish, through the hands of some benevo-
lent EYNARD; and Lords STANLEY and ABERDEEN,
with their ally, NE.SF.LRODE, Will have a convenient
grievance to dilate upon.

THE "merry spring time" is at hand, and before
we "go a Maying" in the fresh air of the bright
mornings, we would gladly see something done
towards effecting an improvement in that favourite
place of resort—the Park of Greenwich. A week or
so ago we gave the history of some of the encroach.
moots which have been made there under Woods and
Forests' sanction. We narrated how it had been
managed to enclose a large slice of the moat beauti- [
fully wooded range as a garden to a private resi-
dence. We gave the history of the abominable tank
which has been sunk upon one of the most pleasant
lawns, and which stands in all the glory of red brick
and iron railings, a monument of the bad taste and of
the broken faith of a department. We wish the
Ranger's garden and the tank were the only enclo.
sures in this park ; but there are several others quite
as bad, one or two of which we will endeavour, with-
out further preface, to describe.
Few of the visitors of Greenwich Park are pro-
bably aware that they are indebted for the shade of its
luxuriant obesnut trees to no less a person than the
eel basted EVELYN. Under his direction it was that
the Park was thus planted in the reign of CHARLES
11. To facilitate his labours, and to afford him ready
means of supplying accidental losses among the trees,
EVYLTN caus:d a narrow strip of ground under the
south-east wall to be railed off as a plantation or
nursery for shrubs. This plantation went by the
name of the Wilderness. Its use has long since ceased.
The forest trees, which SYLVA planted, have attained
the maturity of • full century and a half. Bat, still
[ the nursery remains, and every year something is
[ charged to the public in the Park account for keeping
in repair the close paling by which it is surrounded.
To enter the Wilderness would be to commit a tres-
pass, and thereby to incur the penalties of Forest, or
rather of Woods and Forests, law. But although this
Wilderness is thee forbidden ground to the unprivi-
leged, its secrets have not proved so impenetrable as
its recesses. Should you chance to direct your foot-
steps towards the part of tile Park is which the
' Wilderness is placed, you will scarcely fail.to observe
the rabbits scampering away from before you or
timidly glancing at you from among the fern. It will
be quite possible also that you may be presently
startled by the report of a double-barrel
from the recesses of the Wilderness, and in that case,
if you watch long enough, you will speedily see no
less a person than the keeper himself issue forth,
with evident tok[ms of hawing made what Tom Hoop
called " a micretesful canvass of the burrow." SYLVA'S
Wilderness has, in fact, become of recent years the
keeper's warren.
It is not long ago that a very considerable piece of
the lawn in front of the Wilderness was railed off
without any ostensible object. None of those who
were employed in the operation could tell the why
or wherefore of thin encroachment. At length it was
reported that the object was to secure a retreat for
the deer on Easter Monday and Tore*, when their

modesty was accustomed to be shocked by the peso.
ties of Mang in the rim, of which, whilst permitted
to be loose, they were too frequently unwilling .wit-
nesses. Very unsightly are the leavy posts and
palings which have boon put up to fans this enclosure.
And report now says that the real intention is to
make them less so by covering them with the ordinary
park paling. By this means a double result will be
obtained : a great eyesore will be removed, sad the
warren will be enlarged by half-a.doxen acres. The
keeper thinks that the advantage must be obvious.
When the visitor to Greenwich is in the great cross
walk, he will scarcely fail to hit upon a track which
is obviously used repeatedly by a broad-wheeled cart.
Following it for a few hundred yards, he will arrive '
at another enclosure. It is situated in, perhaps, the '
most charming nook in all the Park: &dell, sloping
romantically down to one of the pleasantest and I
softest lawnikyrotooted by the rising ground from the
cold gusto or the eat: wind, but opening out to-
wards the shores of the Thames, of which a delight-
ful prospect is presented over the towers and cloisters
of the hospital.
Above the high park paling of this enclosure blue
smoke may be seen occasionally to curl, and, in-
deed, by taking a point of vantage in the neigh-
bourhood, the upper part of a dwelling-house
may be detected. If the visitor would got
inside the enclosure, he could see a very agree-
able specimen of a forester'. resides°.
• farm-house ; item, a timer-garden and bees in
it; item, a kitchen-garden and cabbages in it; item,
a farm-yard with a fierce dog in it, not forgetting a
pointer; item, something like an orchard; item,in the
garden the largest oak in England hollowed out right
curiously, which you may pay sixpence for seeing if
you like, but which of coarse you are not bound to
see at aIL The whole of this demesne, which would
have been described by the late Mr. &isms as a sin-
gularly compact, romantically situated and eligible
property, is enclorel from vulgar observation, very
much after the fashion of the Chinese junk at Black-
well, and if opened next Eager Monday, would
afford the Cockneys nearly as curious an exhibition.
The old plans of Greenwich Park lay down the
dwelling which is erected upon this site, but do not
at all exhibit the enclosure. The gradual growth of
this property, its expansion and trespass upon the
public privilege, affords a remarkable illustration of
the effects of bad example. The Ranger appropriates
a garden from the Palk : the Keeper claims the same
privilege. The Ranger encroaches ; the Keeper thinks
himself entitled to do the same. The Ranger gets a
park paling erected at the public expense : why
should not the Keeper have his privacy preserved
at the same cost P
There is an annual vintage in Greenwich Park :
a season when the authorities are unusually fussy
and the police unusually alert. This is at the time
when the chesnut-tars drop their fruit, which is en-
d. /stood to be carefully gathered, thrashed, and gar-
nered for the use of the deer during the months of
winter. Among the youth of Greenwich it has been
for a long time a popular custom to get all the chess-
nuts they can for the personal purpose of cracking
them. But the spoliation is strenuously resisted by
the Ranger and other Park authorities. At the sea-
son of the Greenwich vintage "all persons whomso-
ever" are accordingly warned not to approach the
chesnut groves. The police are set to watch the
gates, and occisional skirmishes take place between
the Keeper's auxiliaries and bodies of sharpshooters
front the town, occasionally ending in the capture of a
spoil-laden depredator and his consignment
to gaol at some cost to his offended country. It may
occur to some one that it might, upon the whole, be
cheaper to the nation, and more conducive to peace
and morals, to permit the ehesnuts to be eaten by the
boys, and to buy those which are required by the
deer. Certainly there would not be much lost by '
this arrangement. The Greenwich chesnuts seem to
be expensive articles. In 1843 a charge was made to
the crown for "collecting chesnuts" in Greenwich
Park. The item so charged was no lees than 671. 3s.
In the Park accounts for 1847 there was a like charge :
the amount had increased to 781. le. 6d. Not being
learned in chesnuts we leave it to others to cal-
culate how many bushels full of that indigestible fruit
may be purchased for 781. is. 61. in Covent Garden
market ; but we should think that the 110 deer pri-
vileged to range the Park might be tolerably well
crammed with cbesnuts for the money.
Whilst the fruit of Greenwich is so well preserved,
many of the walks are, we regret to say, in a deplor-
able condition. The renowned " One Tree-hill,"
sacred to holiday keepers, exhibits neither tree nor
blade of grass, but a collection of flints and pebbles
which render it quite a geological curiosity. The
centre walk up to the Observatory is in a terribly
rag, ,led condition ; indeed, throughout the Park the
turf bears evidence of complete neglect. Were
gush neglect as is found here discoverable in Hyde-park,
Kensington-gardens, or any of the resorts of West-
end fashion, the papers would be overwhelmed with
letters of complaint, and we should have a corps of
" P.'s " and " Q.'s " writing letters of indignation.
The enclosures in Greenwich-park ought to be de-
molished. The Ranger's garden ought to be restored
to the public; such part of the Wilderness as is not
required should be laid open ; the Keeper's farmstead
ought to be surrendered up, a suitable lodge being
provided for him at one of the park entrances. The
tank, we fear, is now fixed upon the Park, and cannot,
be removed ; bat by a very little outlay it might be
rendered ornamental; indeed no people but ourselves
would have thought of forming a vast basin of water
in a park and absolutely making it an eye-sore. In
addition to these improvements, the turf, the trees,
and the public seats, all require to be looked to, and a
treaty of amity might, we think, be advantageously
concluded between the Park authorities and the
CifeeDigliCh populace regarding that great cams Belli
the vintage of the chesnuts.