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would have been made, instead of more than half the grounds being 

 already laid out. " Forestry " knows no shade in politics ; but in 

 view of the additions being made to the city membership, electors, 

 specially in the northern districts, should make it a test question, 

 that the comptroller specially charged with Scottish finances, well 

 known as Sir Delay JNIinimum-Expense, be at ouce dismissed from 

 Downing Street. 



One of your contemporaries notes how New Brunswick wood 

 merchants are receiving orders from Britain and Paris for woods for 

 which there was previously no demand, in consequence of their 

 recent colonial display at the International Forestry Exhibition in 

 charge of Mr. Jack. The success of the George Street Exhibition, 

 open for too short a time, in consequence of the materials being 

 required at Antwerp, demonstrates how this and other colonial 

 Governments may promote their interests. 



I DO not expatiate on the sylvicultural .aspects of that vexed 

 municipal question of the opening for carriages of the Middle 

 Meadow Walk. The venerable trunks of my boyhood have, as Mr. 

 Macleod has shown, rotten cores. And the monuments of Town 

 Council delay are now replaced by young saplings. Dixi. 



BIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF WELL-OWNEBS. 



A FEW weeks since, a meeting of the inhabitants of Tooting was 

 held in reference to the action of the Southwark and Vauxhall 

 Water Company, who are sinking a deep well at Streatham, which 

 has had the effect of. abstracting the water from upwards of one 

 hundred private springs and wells in the parish of Tooting, from 

 which the inhabitants have been to a great extent supplied for many 

 years past. A committee was then appointed to ascertain whether 

 legal proceedings could be taken against the Company. The Solicitor- 

 General was applied to, and he has now given it as his opinion that 

 the inhabitants of Tooting have no legal remedy against the Company. 

 " At common law," the learned gentleman writes, " there is no right 

 as to percolating water, and any person may pump on his own land, 

 and collect and carry away the percolating water, even though by so 

 doing he should dry his neighliours' wells." The ratepayers of 

 Tooting have decided for the present to take no further steps in the 

 matter. 



