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of keeping up the gardens, &c. &c. Such surplus as may arise, after paying 

 the expenses, will be paid to the shareholders, as interest on their capital, 

 to the amount of 5 per cent; all beyond this sum to be sunk as a perma^ 

 nent fund for the future improvement and maintenance of the garden. 

 It is proposed that the society should have a complete collection of plants, 

 to be added to by exchanging with other societies, by purchase, and by 

 one collector or more to be sent into foreign countries ; and that surplus 

 plants be distributed to the proprietors and donors, as the committee may 

 direct. 



A bird's-eye view of the garden, on the supposition that the hot-houses, 

 &c., have been erected, is now exhibiting at Somerset House 5 and an en- 

 graving from it has been published by Priestley and Weale, the eminent 

 architectural booksellers, in Holborn. This design, we understand, is by 

 an ingenious young architect and beautiful draughtsman, Mr, W. B, Clarke, 

 9. Chapel Street, Bedford Row, who, the printed prospectus informs us, 

 will give every information, by letter, to those who are desirous of becom- 

 ing proprietors or subscribers. 



We sincerely hope that this most laudable project will be realised, and 

 we see no reason whatever to doubt that it will, and that it will pay the 

 proprietors handsomel}'. Nay, v/e will go farther, and say that there is 

 room, in the neighbourhood of such a metropolis as London, for half a dozen 

 of such gardens, all of which would pay. The public taste only wants 

 direction in this way. There is also a great v.'ant of good rural coffee- 

 houses. Let any one who has spent any time at Berlin, Vienna, or indeed 

 any large town on the Continent, reflect on the difference between them 

 and London in this respect. Comparing the size and the population of 

 London with those of any of the Continental towns, it will be found that 

 in general we have not a tenth part of the rural coffee-houses or tea-gar- 

 dens which they have. We know to a certainty that these gardens pay 

 well ; we have a scheme for one of a description altogether new in this 

 country, but we have no leisure to attend to it. The essence of it consists 

 in covering two or three acres with a glass roof, and laying out the interior 

 as a tea-garden. We have a spot in view, and know a contractor who 

 would put up the roof, and complete it, at 5*'. per square foot. — Co7id. 



The Garden of the Horticultural Society is looking remarkably well ; and, 

 considering the small number of hands (compared with what there was 

 seven years ago) allowed for keeping it up, it is in astonishingly good 

 order. It is found that since visiters have been allowed to walk round the 

 garden unattended, and the flowers and fruits as it were committed to 

 their honour, as is done in all the gardens, public and private, in France 

 and Germany, not an article has been touched. We are certain that the 

 same result would take place in every case, even in that of what are com- 

 monly called the lowest rabble, were similar confidence manifested. The 

 moment you place confidence in a man who has been hitherto treated as a 

 machine, and guided by the principle of fear, you call into action a new 

 principle, that of honour. The " rabble" would not show this all at once, 

 because habits long persisted in cannot all at once be shaken off; but that 

 they would do so, sooner or later, those who know human nature best will 

 least doubt. To show a man that you have confidence in his integrity, is 

 to call forth at once all that is good or noble in his nature ; and to show 

 him that you suspect him of evil, is to rouse all the worst passions in his 

 breast. No man is either all goodness or all wickedness ; and it depends 

 almost entirely upon the treatment he receives, which principle shall predo- 

 minate in his actions. Even in the most depraved characters there is gene- 

 rally some spark of goodness still remaining, which may be fanned into a 

 flame by judicious management. Some years ago, one of the worst sub* 

 jects of Van Diemen's Land, a runaway convict, who had taken up his 

 abode in the bush, and afterwards committed about a dozen murders whili? 



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