The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

On Wednesday the Duke and Duchess de Nemours
visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace.
Thursday was the bizth-day of the Princess Alice. The
Duchess of Kent paid a visit of congratulation to the
Queen at an early hour at Buckingham Palace. The
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, went in the forenoon to Gloucester House, and
paid a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester. At five o'clock
in the afternoon her Majesty received a small juvenile
party. comprising the younger members of the families of
the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and
Duchess of Argyll, Lord and Lady Blantyre, Mons. and
Madame Van de Weyer, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. and
Mrs. Phipps. The Queen, accompanied by the Royal
children, received her youthful visitors in the Saloon, in
which the juveniles danced, and afterwards proceeded to
the Library, where refreshments were served. The juve-
nile party left the Palace soon after seven o'clock.
The marriage of the Earl of Strathmore with the Hon.
Miss Barington is fiat d to take place on the 30th instant.
The Duke of Devonshire is expected to visit Lismore
again this year, about August. Sundry improvements are
already in progress at the castle.
The Queen of the Belgians,
of Orleans, with the Comte de Paris and the Duke de
Chartres, attended by a numerous suite, arrived at Dover
on Thursday, from Ostend. accompanied by the Duchess

.cagriettiturat anb R?orttitiltural

COLUMN

There is a subject which deserves some attention front
thinking men, and which is now beginning to occupy the
minds of the public. We allude to the formation of pub-
lic cemeteries. In life men love the beautiful verdure of
the earth, its noble trees, and its fascinating flowers; and
nature seems to point to her retired spots as the fitting
places of repose for the dead. Why, then, do we cast our
dead in the streets, and barely cover them with sufficient
soil to prevent the living beings, whose thoughtless foot-
steps hurry over their graves, from seeing the horrible'sight
of mortality decaying ? for is it any more or less than we
say, when we daily almost see human remains interred in
intramural cemeteries, the numerous monumental stones
of which form a pavement, and whose open gates are
crowded thoroughfares to the public marts of commerce.
-We lay out extensive parks and pleasure-grounds

and heart-

then, should we not avoid that ilemoralisir
freezing familiarity with the dead which results froth the
present system of intramural interment. It is true that
cemeteries of a different kind are beginning to be more
common, and the manner in which they are laid out be-

speaks a movement of the public in the right direction ;
but still nothing really good has been done except in one
or two instances in the neighbourhood of the metropolis ;
and even there, there is nothing like grandeur, either in
the design or execution of the great public cemeteries.
Ere long something must be done in Liverpool; and we
hope, when the time arrives, no half measures will be
adopted, and that a design truly worthy will be found for
--..nose. The fault of most, is too confined a space,
that style of landscape gardenine' which

has unfortunately becoine so coix;

who
id out

_.capness, when every jobbing garden
mounts a sign-board inscribed with " gardinga
in the best style," gets employment as landscape gar-
dener, and spoils the land entrusted to his ignorance.
A cemetery .1•-

ould not be too park-like, but well broken
glades, not patches of lawn and plan-
'xtensive, and well belted round with
sufficiently thick to prevent the surrounding
forming obtrusive objects to the

it must be e

scenery or • buildin

there- must be,- to prevent t 1
mossy banks, and bosky dells, a

tombs themselvc

own fashion, should be more a part of the scene than the
nd the planting ought to be made
What an admirable
ght be made in such a place : a
lit form the last abode of

rove of yew n

stroyed; the graceful deodar, with its feather-like foliage
nodding like the plumes of the warrior's casque, might
mark the grave of the deceased hero; the Funebral cypress
of China would serve to denote the resting-place of de-
parted worth ; the slender larch, tapering so gracefully to
the sky, like an index of the road to bliss, might indicate
the grave of the ministers of religion, who teach the way
to Heaven. These and similar ones, which are equally
expressive, would add grandeur and interest to tl

and make a cemetery worthy the study of the r
tic landscape gardener.

VISITS TO GARDENS

Nurseries, Green-lane, Tuebrook.—This fine
' taken by Mr. George Davies, (one of
t name,) who has long been
eessful

pool public as an unusuall
specimens. We hope to s

gement,

become important and

The firs

epwas a novel but very judicious

sen in the fruit and forest -tree department, from
s and misplacement of labels. Mr. Davies has con-

taro tree destroyed, anc
immense loss of stock

will repay him by saving

tensive and well built; admirably adapted
lthy stock and fine specimens. The largest
thery, which, besides an extensive assort-
contains also many rare and choice hard-
Amongst the heaths we noticed hand-
of Erica perspicua nana, E. rubra-calvx,

ment of

)(led pl

E. Ala.soi
Vestita alp

aristata major,
.E
it specimen plants.

;Sprengelii, and E.
We also noticed a

formosa, and fine specimens of
a, Hovea excelsa, Corrwa Ventricosa, and
tabilis. The house is very commodious, and

of gay plant