The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1840

coat. Prisoner said he was going to a dinner, and he
must have a dress-coat by the next evening. It was
carried home the next d4y about one; and ti-Trisoner
ordered some other things, to the amount together
of 191.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY asked what the prisoner
said about payment':—Mr. Perry replied, nothing was
said about it. Being a stranger, ready money was ex-
pected, as credit was not asked for. He described him-
self as a Dutch merchant, who went into the city at
eleven o'clock in the forenoon. and from the respect-
ability of the house, the clothes were left without vi
ing fur instant payment. He had not, however, sue-
cxeded in getting the cash since.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY asked if he had learnt
what had beet,me of his clothes
Mr. Perry said Inspector Lloyd had found nearly the
whole at the prisoner's lodging in Waterloo-road.
Tec prisoner observed that when he gave the order
he told Mr Prrry he could not pay him till the latter
end of the month.

Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY remarked that the end of
the month was pa:,s.,d. Was he pr,:par-d to pay now ?
The pri,,oner said the la of exchange from the }souse
of De Vries, of Amsterdam, in which he was a partner,
might be lying at the Post Office. When the bill
came he would pay very one.
Mr. Alderman Humi'maY was afraid the bill would
have to ht! sent after imn to Van Dlemen's Land.
Mr. Perry denied that any agreement was made to
give credit, though his brother left the clothes without
asking for payment.
Inspector Lloyd produced the :srtieles.
Mr. ‘Vontner submitted Ora credit bad been dis-
tinctly given in this cite.

Mr. -Aide:man HUNIPHERY thought so too, and
asked if there any were other complainants.
A gentleman, who did not give his address, said his
was a dcht only. The pri,oner took n lodging in his
house in October, and even` away without pavi:.g a six-
pence, and leaving two large paving stones to cover his
&hrs. He had obtained goods from several tradesm-n
in the neighbourhood.

Tile prit,ooer hud no recollection of the accuser or of
the circum,tance.

The geoCeman, reminded him of having threatened to
pitch him over Londov-bridge, and aske•(l if he recol-
lected anything ot M r. Siiarpe. the tailor, in the borough.
PriEoner siid he did not, but if he owed him •:.„3._
thing he might send in hi 3 bill.

Another person alleged that the prisoner 15210. 'been
victimising the people at Birmingham. otbObt four
months ago.
The prisoner said it could not k? him, for he had
come straight from Am=terdrim to 'London.
George Wifiiams, shoptmin. lo Mr. Pratt, drese!nea.
ease-tnaker, Band-street, said the prisoner called on the
25th ult., and looked at ease of ti-Ynt,llll ond forks: he wished one fitted ..;ip with stlvet, !Mil a dressing-e,
worth 241., to be trought to tbi.a )pons,..; in St.larnes'!-
square. Witness carried 'Aron, and fotr.t: i the prisoner
trying on some boots ; he selected fair, and despatched
the man with another °Mu.; t then turned to witnest,: and said he wanted the c sk&c., for a gentleman svh-orn
he eY.peeted to urrive late that ni,ght, ;Ind witness
m;'-iht call next morning (Sriniky), 13r on Monday, to
see it they would suit ; seeing wittims hesitated to leave
then,, the prisoner sbnwei hits the handsome cases Miss
Richardson had entrusted on view. ified
him till he got dawn stairs, where he four.d thepac shoe-
maker standing in a fit of doubt whether he ought not
to insist on having the money or the boots liefore he
quitted ; witness suggested that he could learn some-
:fling about him ut Miss Richardson's, a d they left
the house. Mr. Pratt said, as the goods were left
On approbation, the matter might rest till next mor-„ing.
0: going to St. James's-square at the I,our
he found the prisoner gone out ; wvnesg watowd
;bout. till late at night, 'wilful rima prisoner
carne borne ; isitness knocked five minutes after-
wards, and was told the priqmer was retired to
rest ; witness insisted on seeing him, and the prisoner
grumbled at laceng disturbed ; wuness required the cases
to Ihr returne.f, or paid for ; prisoner said they were
approved ol; and should be pant for on Tuesdiy, and
witness could get no (Awl. answer. On Monday the
prisoner was taken into custo(4.
In this case also it .. VP' 15 considered that the posses..
sion on spprob Ilion was changed by consent to a pass: s.
sou on short credit.

Tll,l prisonerer entered into soint statenr...nts, to sow
thaAricr.reAdlide
credit
%rrn va3 given in Miss itichardson's case.
an Huhu..mix said he was already cetri-
mitted on tnat
opened nrn•w. and the gnestion could not be

Mr. In7...vector 1403 d produced a sort of flash note,
er Shr.re scrip, which the.prisoner had beef in the habit •
ezliJsiting, to impress tho'shopkeeper with an ides of
his wealth. It was a criarto leaf of bang-noto paper.
with n handsqme reppciplatc impression, carrying the
appearance of a bank-not• of extraordinary sizp. The
words " Five Acres" on large pe, on a black ground,
appear in the left hand corner, in the stead of " Five
Pounds," as in a bank note. It ran thus
Texas Lind and Emigration Company.
4‘ Capital of 50.000 acres, in 10/. shares, of Five
Acres each Scrip.
" aite of the Original Scrip A. No. --
THE HOLDER of this &rip is cntit'ed to FIVE
ACRES in this Company. Tl.c right of the Trustees
to dispose of this land is stated on the rtterse.
" Loadon, -- —, 183—

“FIVE ACR

" Entert

Trustces."

3
On the reverse the abstract of the title describes a
sale of lanri by the trustees of Lorenzo de 7,a,-ala,
Joseph Vechlein, and D avid G. Burnet, to Anthony
Day, and refer. to decd sinned on the I6th of Oc ober,
1830. It concludes—" The holder of this scrip is re-
quested to apply on arrival to Stewart Newell, Esq.. of
Galveston, in TexT, who is instructed by the trustees
to put the holders in possession of the land hereby
allotted." No signa,ures or dates had been ,fidod up.
The prisoner had several of them.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
Richard St,vens, a carter, in the service of his son, a
cowkeeper at Deptotd, was fined 204. for cruelly whip-
ping ont of h:s horses, which bad fallen down in Fleet-
street from starvation and fatigue, and which the pri-
soner permitted others to ill-use as well as himself, some
offering it a handful of hay, and snatching it away when
the poor animal attempted to bite. The animal was re.
moved and killed.

Mary :piney and lkfary Smith were remandoi for a
week, on suspicion of having stolen a pair of breast-pins,
value 251, from Mr. Mirtin, of Great Puitcnev-street.
on Tues,tily night last, in Farringtion street, or Ludgate-
-11:11. The property has not been traced.

POLICE C0.11.11117Eb.., GUILDHALL.
Toe informers, Who h.tve fled for ret'ogo and en-
couragement to the C:ty, avr ty from the Aletropoli:an
Magirrates, have not been disappototed. Stowdl, the
informer, and his wittmsses, appeared on S ttirday be-
fore the Police Committee, ng,tinst Mr. Johnson, of
Bishopsgate-street, and another highly-respectable com-
mercial man. The charges against the g.!ntlenten were
that their servants had placed cAbks partly on the foot-
pat ement.

ing persons, that was no fault of his.
He should fine the defendent three shillings and costs.
unjustly on deserving
The dc!eudant on paying the money said, the law was
particularly oppres.qvc on licenced victuallers. The
very night on which the present transaction occurred he
was compelled to turn two of his children out of bed to
make room for two soldiers that were billeted upon him.
Mr. JARDINE—If I were talking to you elsewhere
I might, perhaps. agree with you in opinion ; but sit-
ting here as I do, I am bound to administer the kW as
ad it.

Tne defendant thanked the Magistrate for his kind-
ness, and lett the office.

LAAIBETH,STREEI.
Mr. William Watson, landlord of the Queens Arm's
Public-house, High-street, Wapping, charged Anna
Stanton. the keeper of a house 01 ill.fame in Gulstone-
street, Whitechapel. Eilzabeth Hutcbenson, the servant
01 the house, and Sarah Goddard, a girl of bad charac-
ter, with robbing him of 160/. Time prosecutor, who is
a nephew of the I:ate Micro-lan &holey, had received
the abOx,c..laincd sum as part of a legacy le:t him by his
uncle.' About two in the morning he met the prit;oner
Goddard, and went to the house of the oth.2r prisoners.
Ho hail nt the tine a 100/. and two 30/. notes in each
of which ha hail put a penny-pig ce in his front mit-
pocket,and telt it to he all sale on going into the house.
Oil his leaving the place he missed the money, and
charged the prroners with stealing it, and gave them
i„,„ custody. Ihe Magistrate remanded the prisoners
to Thursday.

POLITICS IN AMERICA.

Dr. Charming, in his " Lectures on the education of
the Lower Classes," makes the following remarks on the
state of political feeling
" I have said," observes the Doctor, u that the people
are not to be elevated by escaping labour, or by pressing
into a different rank. Once morel. Ido not mean by
the elevation of the people, that tho should het:Jibe
self-important politicians ; that, as individuals or a class,
they should seize on political power ; that, by uniting
their votes, they should triumph over the more prospe-
rous ; or that they should succeed in bending the ad-
ministration of government to their paftittilaft
An individual la not elevated by figuring in public affairs,
or even by getting into office. He needs preview ele-
vation, to save him from disgrace in his public relations.
To govern one's self, not others, is true glerea. To
serve through not to rub, is Cittemiati Rill
;less. Office ;s net dignity. The lowest men, be-
ceese most faithless to principle, most servile to
are to be found in office. lam sorry to say it, but the
truth should be spoken, that, at the preheat tortiett
action in this ernietry tihN little to Mt up
toy who 111,3 eotie‘Htita in it It stands It) op-
position to high morality. Politics; indeed, re-
garded as the study and pertu:t of the Iritel eddlirioti
good of a ethethtpitYi AS '$ ion to great tie-
c liangeattlo ItTietapies to publie affairs, is a noble
sphere of thought 411(1 action ; tint polities, in its
coma-ion sense, or considered as tee invention of tette.
porary shifts, as the ploihg ttf atilitit tititife; iilli
tactics t' power and the spoils of of-
find for elevating one set of men above ar;-.
other, is a fm!try anti debasing concern. The labour
ieg class arc sofnetimes stritiei!ettet t oett; pethr t 3
a clam and this it is thougia will fiise them. 1.4,t.
ibis Is such Au) eon+lttnig
bf society should IA febtetteilteli in the tieVeriiiiielit,
amt Ali a ~Wll.'ettled by it ; nor can any tiling be ex-
re;:ted but nil/race to the individual and the country,
from c 4. ;ovens of any elassiin toe slept at it ill -
ricipobe of nelititeil lAiike.f. I *mild Means
the attention of the iktlpie to
ties'.lllo. 611ght tiPii
- •
us toe country, the principles of our nilti-
iutions, the tendencies of public measures. But the
unhappiness is, they do not study ; and, until they do,
they cannot rise by politieal netien. A great amount
of time, Onich, it Wed hsed; Wotild forth sits enlithtelibd
population., is Miiir *Aired i 1 tltid i.dOttrsts:
tionte, which iefitnie the unscrupulously,
tiisioet tile truth, wnich denounce moral independer.ce
as treachery to one's party, which agitate the country
fot no higher end than a triumph over opootletlis t 16!
thus multitudes ate degeeded toto tiled-WdieihipperS or
men haters, into the aiipeS di the illthititinB; or the
slaves of a factioh, tteop!,,
refinetion tot passion. There is no other way. By
th, s- remarks, I do not mean to charge on the labour-
ing class all the passiontteness of :Ina country. Ali
classes partake of the madness, and all are deb tsed by
it. The fiery spirite are tint confined to she por-
tion of the creme it un...y. The tbett; faking's
resound through the hall of Congress, and are then
circulated through the country as eloquence, are
not taken from among those who toil. Party pre-
judices break out as ficrc•_dy on the e3tchange,
anti even in the saloon, it in the ti,nrkshop. tie dis.
ease has spread everywhere, "Yet it does not dis-
hearten rue ; for I see th it it admits of mitigation, if
not of cure. I trust that these :eeturet dud other
sources of intellectual enjoyment now opening to the
Wilk, will abate the fever of political excitement, by
giving better occupation to the mind. Mitch, too, may
be hoped from the growing sell•respect of the people,
which will make them shrtiik indiptiantly icon vie di*.
grace of b-ing used hi binded ins and unrefli.Ttlne
tools. Much also is to be hoped from the discovery,
which must sooner or later be made, that the import-
ance of government is enormeusly over-rated, that it
does not deserve all this stir, tit.t there are vastly more
effectual means of human happhiese, Polit c=al
tions are to he less and less deified, and to shrink irite
a narrow space ; and just in proportion as a wiser eve
mate of gevernment prevails, the present phrre,zy of po-
litical excitement will be discovered nod put to sham e,"

MORE CLERICL INTOI.F.R4NCE.
PERSECUTION OF A SEXTON.

_....._
In another part of our piper will be found a brief
sktfteh of the protetelings at a vestry meeting of the pa-
rish of Cltines on Friday last, the main feature in
which was art attempt made by the Rev. G. orge
Minister of S:. Gteirge's Chapel, to oust the sexton of
that Chapel fioin his situation because—good readar
wou'd you believe it ?-e-becouse he was about to marry
a Roman Catholic female!!! chariteole Mr. Cole,
as wit be seen by the Rev. Gentiernaa's letter given
in another place—for out of his own mouth will we con-
demn previously discharged. the sexton Iron.
'his additional office as leader of the choir by reason of
this proposed onion•ot the orthodox-with the heterodox.
MEETING AT CLAINES VESTRY.—A vestry meet;ng
was held in this church on Friday, the 21th instant.
,or the purpose of examining the Churenwardens'
county. electing Churchwi.rdens for the current year,
and for other business. The Rev. G. H. Wilding, the
officiating minister, took the chair. After the prelimi-
nary business had been disposed of; the Rev. Georg,-
Cole introduced his accusations against the unfortunate
sexton in a long-winded oration. He harangued at
great length on the enormities of Catholicity, which
in her Coronation oath the Queen was bound
to denounce as idolatrous and damnable, and
dilated or rather prosed upon the abhorrent sin
of an individual enjoying the blessings of thc
pure Protestant reformed religion, hankering to marry
a Roman Catholic. This abhorrent :in and dire aborni.
nation it appeared Henry Ward had it in contemplation
to commit. In the course of his address, the Rev. Ex-
pounder of Divinity stated that the Catholics in thi.•
country were a small, but a very compact and united
body, and he was sorry to say they knew their religion
better, and had practised it more than did the Protes-
tants. The sexton was then heard in his derence ; he
finely commented upon the noble exemplification of the
golden rule, " Do unto others as you would they should
do unto you," afforded by the parson's conduct, and
touched him up so severely on one or two other points
rotative to money twitters, that we will venture to say
he will not enter the lists with the knight of the spade
aed mattock again. S,me time elapsed before the
reverend gentleman could procure a seconder for his
motion, which went to the expulsion of the cffendine
officer ; at length it found one in the person of Captain
Timings. The Rev. W. H-Iden, in a speech wherein
he manifested sundry symptoms of being thoroughly in- .
tected with that horrid disorder which Mr. Hew son (lean_
initiates Ultra Charity, vindicated the sexton, amid
re-
4uked his persecui or, and concluded by moving a counter
resolution, to the eff.'ct that Henry Ward be retained in his
office of sexton, which was carried by a majority of 22 to
to 4. It was at fiat agitated whether the amendment
should not he so modelled as to include a vote of eel,-
sure on the Rev. Persecutor, but out of compassion
and from a feeling which, front the titter lack of it he has
manifested, he can but very imperfectly appreciate,
it
was eventually decided to omit it, however well deserved
might have been such a rebuke. The following letter,
written by the Rev. George Cole to Ward, and read at
the meeting amidst a good deal of suppressed laughter.
will explain more fully the weighty reasons urged by the
Rev. Gentleman for his immediate dismissal :
" Britannia-square, Feb. 17, 1840.
" HENRY WARD,—AS you md riot seem to under-
steed me ch•arly when we last conversed on the subitet
of your intended rriarri,go. and I wish you to be under
no mistake. I sit down to Write a few iines on the sub-
ject. 1 consider it the duty ()revery Protestant to abjure
all alliances with Popery, :and more esp, cially those of
at
watrinionial kind. Tin- sense of Seripture on this sub•
;cut is plain. Gen. vi. 2. a.it. vii. 3. 2 Cor. vi. 14.
A private individual has only his own point to consider,
en. one aho holds any public office in connexion with a
Protestant Church must also consider the effect which
his example will have ; and tio example's sake it is the
duty of the minister of that Church to dismiss him from
his office, if he have the power,. and if not, to use his in-
fluence to that effect wish those who have.
" Tire only part of your titan's which depends entirely
on myself is the sincipg, and I therefore consider it my
bounden duty to dispense with your services for the
tvure. I have accordingly made arrangement for the
starling to be conducted by Mr. Thomas and the Sun-
day S.:bools on Sunday next. I consider the leading
the praises of God to be one of the most important.
parts of the service, and that no person should engage.
in it chose character will not bear the strictest invelsti--
gation. Independently of the /act of your intending to..
matey a Roman Catholic, you have shown so much.
duplicity in your manner of doing it, that I feel coin-
pi./led to act upon the resolution of the Psalmist. Ps..
7. On the other hand, while I most strongly ob-
ject to the principle on which you have acted, 1 would
it...ve you conscientiously discharge your duty.towards
the female whose nffeetions you have engaged. On this
account it was that. I advised you (and still advise you)
to give up your situation altogether. Unless you do l;
so, pin will constantly be exposed to the temptation of
either furcing her to a hasty change of religion (which
is Worse than no change at all), or of forsaking her
altogether.

BEAUTIEg (il' IACITTIfiI4

BOROUGHS.

I shill procure myself a seat in the new Parliament,
tin:ess, lindititit, oriii enq law 4 sum, ;13, in the
state of my ramilY, it. woUld tje: itttptride:ot for the
to devote to such an object, which I find is very likely
to be the case. Tierney, who manages this business for
the friends of the late Administration, assures me thit
he can hear ot no Pais elf; After a
Parliament which has lived little more than tour rarit;ii'l;
one would naturally suppose, that those seats which
arc regniarly ,old by the proprietors of dim would
1.12 WI they int; ho,wever,in fact, sold now
at a logip.r price than vi'ai ever gi4ii fir them be-
tore. Tierney tells me that he has offered 10,616/.
or the two seats of Westbury, the property of the late
Lard Abirtidon, and which Are to be made the most
hl tly firt t,t&ditofsr has met I,Frar a refund.
6,00 r/. and 5,5004 t.ave been given for iedig ttith no
stipulation as to tune, or agjust the event of a speedy
disiolntion by the King's death, or by any change of
rriirrinirdration, Ti.e troth is, that the new Ministers
have bought up all the seats that ttier_i 'Co rb:posed
of, and at any prices. Amongst others, ir C.
the great dealer in horou,ll,s, has sold all be had to
MirriAtororr, With wbar mem!). all tots is done I know
1.
our, out it ti suppos,i, aint )4,!;ig, grcatly,
at heart to preserve this new, the
kvoarite ohjects of his choice, has advanced a vioy
large smti mat of his privy purse, This buying of seats
i Oet..t.ltle t and yet rt tr almost the only in which
r lie .. .
in my sit it at ion, rt ho eSlol, err tti be afttto,l3, meta
man, can get into Parbrommt. To route in by a ptivoY.tr
rlecttrin, a the present :state of the repreS,l:.,ll.-in,
fit'oq ii”l3,-,4;i4e 4 to lie planed there by some grat
Lord, nil to voto Ontll direct, is to tv in a state
of complete deperoterice ; and no? bin g hardly remains
lift!. to Ort, a sq.tt to the sac.itiee ,;f a part of one's tor-
tune. It is :rite that Man, tit. n who ouy ~eats do it as
it matter of pecuniary spe'ttniation, as a profit way ot
ettipkittifx Edith i the) earry un mpoloreal tract
they buy tLir seats sod sell their votes. Fir in pelf,
can truly say that, by giving rnone for a sHat, i shall
mike garrifiCe of My private property, merely that I
, 1,0 eir,gm;4l the I I (A. 1 kuoa wh tt dab-
ger there is of nh,tr's disguis:ng froth aige;?”,l the real
motives of their aritions ; but it really does .appeals ZO
Inc that it. is from tint inOtive alone that 1 act."—Mc-
.ttofts of Sir 3. Romilly,
A SOCIALIST

A Correspondent, who signs himself " A Stranger,"
o.s,,!tft.vat of a Socialist funeral,
which took place at. the LefedS /n Sunday
last :—" Having heard much about Socialkti amd
ttittlt tephfess that my curiosity writ con-
sul erabiy Ititaeral gas go:ng to
take place, ot which their lee:urer, tf,ti eat; &' r•hatever
they may call him, was expected to officiate. I st on& ffet,
term nod on being present, to see and hear what they
could pnltahly Lyre to say on subject for which they are
repdrteil 16 htele sMall iistlegree eif reverence. The day
was highly favourable. On ofrithttf of the plate of the
Cemetery, I was surprised to runt a largi c*Otictittree
,if people, not less, to all appearance, than frdrli
1,800 to 2,000; So, thinks I, curiosity has done its
work oh thdre Otti, The HO into the ehapel was
gear ; but, bring deterniinqd, i Weed fify tort ?Pt with
difficulty. The place was fitted imme and 411
weamv silcut. and attcative. alt only after a man
,tapped up final 0410* .tkith s iron and resolved
tread. lie might be about vosrs old of
;fluidic stature, and thick set. His count enatittl Oda
grave at.d sedate, yet mixati with a sotnetLing which
{night lead one to suppose that satire at trines would
struggle for the mastery. fluting cast a firm and cote.
filential glance over toe crowded audtentiio;he commeneel
in rather a low and slow, but clear, dignifi,!,l, and stmtena
tious tone of voice, to describe ti.e virtues of the de-
ceased, and "the peaceful doctrines of Socialism." as
tie termed them. Ills tango tge Was
had almost said rational), but deeniediy toughing.
I saw many present with tears in their e'er!. When
fie cam,: to speak of the destitute condition of toe
iicree,v,,d wile and children, he certainly had reason
atol the best feelings of our nature on his side. He
aientioned the attempts of Christian friends to shake
die opinions of the dying man, with great modera-
'ion ; and seemed to regard their failure as a matter
at course, anti his fit moess as a thing too common
0 descry,• the name .tit a trimiVi. Oa the inatt._r
tf death, he took the ground of the Athenian sa4es,
old sought his consolation and assurance from the
phdocophy of &crates. Ile introduc,.d. with strik-
•ug effect, appropriate set,teiices l otn Suripiurv, and
iwrit upon the speedy realization of communi!y.
concluded his discourse by calling upon his
iwart.rs to rive the life of the righteous, so that their
:act end might he like hi .% Other remarks .tver, made
at th• grave tide which I did tint bear, and sue woof,
was Gob:A-led by aingiog a Soeial hymn. From what 1
hoard of Socialist*. and Sminlistn, I cormady
cun-
fess I was not prepared for any thl,g like this. I it'd
not thank so lade ceremony could y tent such gr.-.it
eclat. if the matt whom I heard be a fol
of their lecturers, they have tar different Met, at work
Ohm 1 expected. From what I saw soul beard, I
have come to this conclusion—that mere is either Wadi
to fear or much to hope from them--to lea:r if they are
wrong, and to hope if they are right.—Lccds Times. I

11011TICULTURAI, NOTICE FOR
MAY.

The extraordinary weather of the mont has
rendered that month a splendid h
exceptioh n oft
o the rule
.vhich has led Us to expect alternations of sunny gleams
and genial showers. Not one day—hot even an hour—
of steady rain does our meteorological diary offer to
view. The first 12 days present AU average maximum
temperature of .551 degrees, that of the nights bein2
only 34 degrees ; six of them were actually frosty. In
the night of the 13th, the mercury fell to 29 degrees.
Subsequently we have p•lceived no frost, and the tem-
perature has progressively advanced to about 40 degrees,
awhile the greatest average heat by day may he quoted
at 69 degrees.
During the last eighteen days the sun has blazed with
nearly unclouded splendour, and vegetation has advanced
w;th corresponding activity. So profuse had been the
supply of water up to the middle of February, that the
soil retained moisture at a very little depth be:ow 60
surface, but rain is now wanted in good earnest ; yet we
perceive no symptom of its approach.
Toe repeated frosty riffles, klowed by a most powerful
sun, produced laineatahic effects in the gart:en and ,hrub-
hery. Toe cabbage tribe lost its v, rehire, and numbers of
talents were scorched and perished. Broccolies were not in
general killed, but the it heads have formed with great ra-
pidity, and that delicious vegetable will soon pass away.
flte tenter evergre ens, which remained so beautiful till
the third week of February, have Inst their fine green
hoots. Laurels are yellow and deformed. The tilos.
cams of the laurustinus have been in too many instaimes,
lecomposed, and its tender shoots are killed. E. en
-he hardy furze of the common, which was only re
c.verin...; from the devastation of 1838, has been
severely checked, and has again lost all i s verdure. It
has been almost impossible to remove heriatceous paints ;
and as numbers of the finest flowers of the gar,:en—
the pinks in particultr—are killed, we tear, it rain do
(lot come speedily. the parterres and borders will be
tmt indifferently furntsited during the summer,
Or fruits, the ptosp-ct appears to hi very promising ;
the berry benring shrubs are full of bloom—the apple
~lassom is fine, and very healthy ; and the wall-trees
seem to have set their fruit in abundance ; there is
.also au exeetient promise of grars, but. %ye revulii Cr. the
frost of May, and suspend our congratuiationi. Iu
',lie meantime, there is pent) of business on band, and
this must now be attended to.

0.,e meteorological tact must be alluded to. Mat:-
eheater is, perhaps, one of the wctte4 pl.icus in the
ngdom . A letter-is this day come to hand from the
zooiogical gardens, ,raid contoins the toliowniz
announcement :—'s We are sadly off for the wit
of
rain ; we are burnt up ; 1 stle or no !nit) biure the 9th
of Fehruarx Sucti ain4 never known in tue metoor)
..1 man at Alauchei.ter." The fact might to be ehro-
ii4:led. Tovse prriodical seiemus of rain and drought
.ire serious ii.fikitions —April 30.