Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-21

Of lovely children No attended by their nurses make
kind Of infant Arcadia Of these solemn old groves OF the
monarch of Dutch Even the dlngy od pck psace
Of Kensngton which overlooks one sloe o. ,ne
cannot chase awsy the bright dmps from the rosy faces Of
the charming children here, and the symbols Oh ma
ura arts ocracy beauty and intelligence set upon young
faces eyes far more agreeable study IMAM those
of accident birth and fortune, which are 80 gaudy oazoned
forth in Hyde Park.
NV London friend who evidently enjoys our establishment
the vastness Of London Parks, and apparent display
and real enjoyment they minister to- calculates tnat mol less
than 900 persons have been out on loot ON noreoack
or in carriages this afternoon, and adds that upon review
days. or other occasions of particular bancy he has known
hundred thousand persons to be in Hyde Park and Ken
sington Gardens at once.
shall not allow you to escape without glance al
Regents Park another link in the rural scenery oil this part
Of London. Here three hundred and hirysI &C es
Of lawn ornamental plantations drives, and carrsge
roads, Regents Park has younger look than any Of the
others in the Wesend Of London having only been planted
about twenty-five thirty years but It is beautiful sur
face, containing great variety of different scenes within it.
SELF Here are, for instance the Royal Botanic Garden,
with its rich collection of plants and its beautiful f,wer
shows which have already described to you; and the Zoo
logical Garden some twenty in extent where you may
almost every living animal nearly possible in the
in its native country Over the lawns
walk the giraffe and camel leopard led by Arabs in oriental
costume among the ieay you elephants wad-
ding along with loads Of laughing, hafghtened children
on their backs down in deep pool Of water you peer upon
gaIele she feeds in her little private paddock, and you
feed the black that are floating along with immune
rabe other aquatic Birds upon the surface OF CLASSY lakes
OF fresh water And the geological just as full OF peo-
pie as Hyde Park though Of totally different appearance
many students natural history fashionable oungers.
Chiefly women, more curious strangers, and, most OF a
boys and girls feeding their juvenile aPPe'ites for the marvel
lous, by seeing the less astonished animals fed.
And whose those pretty country residences that you
zee in the very midst of another part Of Regents Pak-beau-
nul Italian villas and ornamental cottages EMPOWERED in
trees of their own and only divided from the open park by
light railing and belts Of shrubbey These the villas OF
certain favored nobes who have at large cost realized as
you see, The perfection of residence in townvz coun-
try house in the midst of great park which is itself in the
midst of Great CITY, In these favored sites the owners have
the luxury Of quiet and rural surroundings usually confined
to the country with the whole Of the great world Of May
Falr and politics within ten or twenty minutes walk
And now, having been through more than thousand
acres OF park scenery and witnessed the enjoyment Of tens
thousands of persons Of all classes to whom these parks
ale open from sunrise TO nine o'clock night will nau-
rally ask if these Injuries are wholly confined TO the West
End Of London. BY no means In almost all parts Of Lon
don are places of eight ten acres filled
with trees shrubs grass and fountains, Ike what we call
in cities at home. Besides these, large new
space called the Victoria Park of two hundred and ninety
acres has been laid lately the east part Of London
Pessy for the recreation and Of the classes
who are confined to that part of the town.
You see what noble breahingpaces London has within
its own boundaries for the daily health and recreation of its
sures Of its inhabitants There three other magnificent
public places within half hour of London which also
enjoyed daily by thousands and Of thousands mean
Hampton Court, Richmond Park, and the National Gardens
at Kew.
Hampton Court the favoe resort of the middle classes
on hodays. and pleasanter sight than that spot such
occasions, when is thonged by immense numbers of c
zens, their wives and children, with all the riches of that
grand old palace, its picture galleries, halls, and splendid
apartments its two PARKS and its immense pleasure grounds
thrown to them ia easily f0und Indeed. a
may be dull enough 10 for neither palaces parks for
neither nature art but he scarcely be human or have
spark Of sympathy in the fortunes of his race, If he
wander without interest through these magnificent halls, still
perfect order built with the most kngy podsay BY the
most ambitious and powerful of subjects Woosey halls that
were aerward excessively the home Of Henry VIII, Eliza
beth, James, Charles and Cromwell halls where Shakespeare
Played and Sidney WROTE but which, with all their treasures
OF arr are now the peoples palace and normal school of
joyment
am neither going weary you with catalogues of pic
lures nor dissertations upon palace arch But mus.
give you mpresson-hat OF the magnificent
roundngs OF Hampton Court Conjure up piece Of
try OF diversified rich meadow surface five six miles
IN circuit; imagine around the palace. some forty or fifty
acres OF gardens, mostly in the ancient TASTE with peached
alleys Queen Mays bower among them) sopng banks Of
soft tur huge orange trees in bxe and wilderness OF
labyrinth where you may lose yourself in the most intricate
perplexiy Of shrubs imagine mile and quarter
long, of the most gigantic hose-chesnuts you behed
With long vistas Of velvet turf and garden
all sides only great and groups oaks and ems
Of centuries growth and all the freedom Of uxuant nature,
with broad carpet Of stretching all sides with dis
an portions Of the park quite wild looking dotted with great
hawthorn trees Of centuries growth with the tangled
and fragrant fern which the belongings Of forests
and then fill up the in the neghbohood Of the palace
and gardens have before said HOLIDAY, with thou
sands OF happy faces while in the secluded parts of the park
the tmid deer fits before you the birds seahly build their
nests and the insects hum fills the silent air, and you have
faint idea Of the value of such for the pupua
ton Of great city pass their hoydaysn to pcncing
Will not let the ink dry in my pen without word about
richmond Great Park also free the public and also with
IN the reach OF the Londone who seeks for air and exercise
Richmond Great Park formerly royal hunting ground,
but like all the parks have mentioned has been given up
to the people, at least the free enjoyment Of it. 1t is the
largest OF all the parks have described being eight miles
round and containing $50 It is piece Of magn
cent forest tactopen forest with grass tufts Of hazel honi
and ferns, the surface gently unduang and dotted with
grand old oaks extremely like what you still larger
scale IN Kentucky Its solitude and secuson within sight
OF London are almost startling The land is high and from
one side OF your eye wandes the valley of Richmond
with the Thames here only sivey looking stream winding
through na world renowned ve and one whose sylvan
beauty it s impossible to praise highly Just in this part
OF the park, and commanding this superb ve with the
es Of Windsor Castle in the distance on one side and the
dome Of st. Paus on the other and all the antique sylvan
secluson Of the old wood around IT, stands modest little
cotagthe favorte residence Of Lord John Russell
the of which has been given him by his Sovereign
unambous looking home and better calculated
the faculties Of worked Premier after day
toll in Downing street. it would be impossible conceive
drove through Richmond Great Park in the carriage
the Belgian Minister and his accomplished wife, who
my ccerone stopped the coschmsn for moment thi
place. in order that she might point out to old oak a
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