The Sun. — 1836-12-03 (London, England)

KENSINGTON GARDENS.—The Commissioners of Woods and Forests are making alterations in Kensingtongardens to a very great extent. The whole of the trees on the south side, extending from the gate at the top of Rotten row to the western extremity of the gardens, are cut down, and are now lying prostrate across the walk which last summer was shaded with their foliage. This indiscriminate cutting away may eventually be productive of improvement, but it will be many years before what a certain translator of Virgil poetically called the " umbrageous shadow of a shade" can be expected to replace the sylvan twilight under which the inhabitants of the metropolis were delighted in hot weather to shelter themselves. The ensc recidendum system has been carried to an extent almost beyond the bounds of good taste or correct judgment ; and as no pars sincera remains beyond a dirty gravel-walk and a mud-coloured wall, and as the growth of trees is a process of time, the present generation must be content to wander henceforth exposed to the heat and sunshine of the season. In many parts of the gardens the trees are so thickly planted that a judicious thinning would be an improvement, but whether or not what has already been done be an improvement may very justly be doubted. A great portion of the trees (elms) which have been felled are so rotten that in a few years they would have fallen of themselves, but there arc many of them which appear both sound and healthy ; nevertheless, they are like the geese which got among the cranes, the victims of an unrelenting and undistinguishing sentence. The late gale of wind has coalesced with the commands of those persons upon whose ipsi dixerunt this slaughter has depended, and added upwards of 150 to the killed and wounded of the illustrious elders of the forest. The gardens at this moment resemble very closely an American forest falling beneath the axes of a tribe of settlers, and the uncompromising zeal of the uncouth labourers in this unlimited destruction is visited by no compunctious feelings of early recollections or present enjoyment. The truly spring-like weather which for the last few days has succeeded the preceding cold, has caused the liliacs in many of the gardens near Paris to throw out their buds; and, should the mildness continue, we may expect to see the fruit trees do the same. Shortly after seven o'clock on Thursday night a fire occurred at New Cross, on the Deptford-road, which has completely destroyed the house and stock of Mr. William Newry, boot Tshhoeemaacki jeorin;inaglsioiotulsteo furniture Mrs. of Mrs. Elizabeth Tott, a lodger, carrying on business as a stavmaker and milliner.ad n Ann Hammond, the post-office, is damaged in the roof. About seven o'clock on Thursday evening., a young woman attempted to drown herself by 'throwing herself off one of the coal-barges moored off the Savoy. She was seen by the coal porters in time to get her out alive, and she was removed as speedily as possible to the Savoy Palace public-house, where measures were immediately adopted to store her, and in the course of half an hour, by the persevering efforts of Mr. Kenny, the surgeon, of 337, Stand, she was resuscitated and placed out of immediate danger. She stated that she had been married only two years, and that the continued brutal and almost murderous attack of her husband induced her to commit the act.