The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-22 00:00:00

HYDE PARK.

The improvements at this place have been commenced.
A portion of the wall, fronting Knightsbride Foot Guards
Barracks and St. George's Hospital, is pulled down, and is
'to be replaced with iron raisin;,. There is to be a new
park-gate instead of that now close to the Duke of Wel-
lington's house, and facing the great brazen figure of
Achilles; and, as heretofore stated, that portion of the.
park now occupied as road is to be enclosed, to increase the
private grounds of Apsley House, the present residence of
I the Duke of Wellington. The walls at the upper end of
St. James's Park, by that nnisance the toll-gate and
Grosvenor-place, as well as Hyde Park-wall beyond
Knightsbridge Barracks, on to Kensington, are, it is stated,
to conic down, and to have substituted iron railing. No
preparations, however, are making to remove the toll-gate,
for which the Act of Parliament has provided ; but Levi,
the renter of the tolls, has not the whole line of roads as
heretofore. Theßrentford Trust, leading fro.n Hammer-
, smith inclusive to Sinallberry-green, is in other hands,
Levi having been nut-bidden at the recent letting by se-
veral gentlemen and tradesmen residing along the road ;
and Levi must bid high for the next Kensington tolls, or
he will have to bid a long farewell to the opportunity of I
t. aching gocd manners at the gates of that trust. Hyde
Park-gate, however, is soon to be removed to the sewer by
the Cannon brewery, and in furtherance of the extensive
improvements contemplated at this point, forming one of
the finest entr:nces into the British metropolis, St. George's
E Hospital is to be pulled down, and rebuilt gore in the
• country.

REPRESENTATION OP tie COI/M.—ln reference to a
parzgrsph on this subject which appeared in our • last, we
are now enabled to stars from authority, that it is not the
in tent losettf. Mr. Black 'matte to retire frotft. the represenla.
tiou of the county of Lancaster at the ensuitig general elec-
tion.—Liverpool Paper.
Cuttatxts OF TOE Ocsasr.—On Tuesday lost a bottle
was picked up by Thomas Whiteside, while fishing on the
Horse Bank, near Lytham, containing two pieces of paper,
with the following words written with a pencil:—" Sept.
21th, Int. Spoke the ship George iu lat. /5, 18, N. atul
long; by chronometer .55, 20, W. all wtil. Captain Tal.
hot. ' " Whoever finds the inclosed is requested to re-1
port it."—Lirerpool Pape*.
The timblestatle Hall Estate, in Warwickshire, was yes-
terday sold by Mr. George Robins for so,uont. independent
•of the timber. .The purchaser is Mr. Edward Bolton
King.
The several estates sold at the Auction Mart yesterday ,
'by Mr. George Robins, attOmnted to upwards of 136,0001:
, MARRIAGE IN Leecax v.—lt is death in Lapland to
' marry a maid without the cement of her parents and
friends. When a young man has formed an attachment to
I a female, the fashion is to appoint their friends to meet to
behold the two yonng rutin run a race together. The
maid it ellowed in starting the advantage of a third part of
the race, so that it is impossible, except willing cf herself,
that ale should be overtaken. If the maid over-ruu Her
suitor, the matter is ended ; be must never hare her, it
being penal for the man to renew the motion of marriage.
But if the virgin has an affection for him, though at the
.first she runs hard to try the truth of his love, she will
(without Atalanta's golden •balls to retard her speed) pre-1
Itend some casualty, anc! make a voluntary halt before she.
comet to the malle or end of the race. Thus none are'
propelled to marry against their own wills; and this is the
cause, that in this poor country, the married people arc
richer in their own contentment than in other lands, where
so many forced matches make feigned love, and cause seal
nabsioness,—per, Anecdote* of Kmart.