222 Domestic Notices : — England. 



general arrangement, and the money is to be raised by shares, after the 

 manner of the Metropolitan Cemetery. (^Pli/mcmth and Dcvonj)ort Weekly 

 Journal, Feb. 10.) This is another point in which we are imitating the 

 French and Germans. May general cemeteries, abbatoires, parochial insti- 

 tutions, and public gardens soon spring up all over the country ! — Cond. 



Public Garden at Lynn. — The improvements connected with the public 

 walks at Lynn are now completed, as far as practicable this season, and 

 reflect equal credit on the projectors and promoters of the work. The 

 Red Mount piece has been judiciously i)lanted, leaving undulating lawns 

 and broad gravelled -"valks ; the rivulet which bordered it has been con- 

 siderably widened throughout, much more at some points than at others, 

 forming a picturesque piece of water ; the eastern bank has been raised 

 and prepared for planting next season, when, we understand, further addi- 

 tions and improvements are in contemplation. Even now there is, perhaps, 

 scarcely a town in the kingdom that can boast of public walks of equal 

 extent and beauty. The improvements going on in Lynn are not however 

 confined to mere ornament, for others of the greatest utility are in progress; 

 and among the most necessary of these, a handsome new market-house is 

 immediately to be built, and the site is now clearing of the okl buildings ; 

 this it is contemplated to make sufficiently large to form a covered build- 

 ing to receive all the butchers, poulterers, gardeners, &c., usually attending 

 the market. The water-works are to be innnediately conunenced, a work 

 of the greatest utility of any that have of late years been undertaken. 

 (^Cambridge Chronicle, June 26. 1829.) We should be happy. to hail this 

 as the commencement of similar improvements in all our country towns, 

 there being scarcely one of them that is not greatly in want of alteration 

 in this respect. When any town or large village in England is compared 

 with the towns and villages of corresponding size or importance on the 

 Continent, we appear to be sadly behind. Nothing can be more clear to 

 us than the reason ; we feel it operating on ourselves ; and every man who 

 has not an independent fortune, or a place under government or in the 

 church, must feel it ; we mean, the necessity of continued application to 

 business from morning to night, in order to be able to pay our proportion 

 of the enormous amount of taxes of every kind with which this country 

 is loaded. This continual care and incessant labour harden the heart, 

 smother all the finer feelings, incapacitate for light and elegant enjoy- 

 ment, and so limit and degrade the powers af the mind, that the indiviikial 

 in the end becomes a mere machine, good only for the particular kind of 

 labour to which he has been accustomed. If tiie industrious inhabitants 

 of the towns of England were relieved from two-thirds of tiie taxes, they 

 would have some leisure for cultivating their taste, and for rural enjoy- 

 ment; and we should soon see our towns with public gardens equal to 

 those of Frankfort, Nuremberg, and Munich, mentioned or described in 

 former Numbers. As the knowledge or desire of any thing is a grand 

 step towards its attainment, we hope this example of Lynn will raise up 

 desires in other towns, and that these desires will in time become so 

 effectual as to lead to their gratification. — Cond, 



Changing the Site of the Liivrpool Botanic Garden. — At a late Meeting, 

 a report of the Committee was read, reconnnending the removal of the 

 garden to some more open and airy situation, on account of the increase 

 of buildings in the neighbourhood of the present garden ; and stating that 

 the Common Council had very liberally allowed the proprietors to dispose 

 of the present ground on leases of 75 years. After some discussion, the 

 removal of the garden was agreed on, and the Conmiittee were author- 

 ised to treat for a suitable piece of ground, in whatever part of the neigh- 

 bourhood they might think most desirable. On the motion of the Rev. 

 Dr. Raffles, it was recommended to the Committee to consider whethei- 



