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chandeliers with coloured burners, exotic birds in magnificent 

 cages, &c., surpasses any thing of the kind we have ever seen, 

 and forms a suitable approach to the splendidly furnished 

 gallery into which it opens. 



During the life of the late Earl of Shrewsbury, and for 

 some time after the present earl came into possession, the 

 grovnids were shown to all persons who put down their names 

 at the inn at Farley, and there were certain public days 

 when the gardens were open to every body. In consequence 

 of injuries committed, the public are now entirely excluded, 

 with the exception of such as come with their own carriage 

 and livery servant. We submit to the present earl, that this 

 is being by far too aristocratic. It is impossible to be five 

 minutes in his company without feeling that he is a rational 

 kind-hearted man; and we are sure it was not a movement 

 of his heart which dictated the resolutions alluded to, and 

 which we do not believe can be matched in the kingdom. 

 We recommend for his imitation the practice at Chatsworth, 

 which, at an average of the season, would only require an extra- 

 labourer or two, who might be invalids unfit for any thing 

 else, to walk round with each party, and would prevent all 

 possibility of injury. 



Chatsiwrth has always appeared to us an unsatisfactory 

 place. The house is not situated on a platform of adequate 

 size ; and there is great awkwardness in the approach pro- 

 ceeding abruptly up hill. A square pile of building, too, in 

 such a situation, is less suitable than a lengthened one ; and 

 the waterworks, though good in themselves, are scattered 

 about the grounds in such a way, that, while they interfere 

 everywhere with the natural beauties of the place, they no 

 where combine in forming one grand artificial effect. They 

 want concentration. The improvements now going on will 

 probably remedy most of these evils. The house is being 

 extended in length ; there is an opportunity of concentrating 

 the waterworks in the only situation fit for them, on the west 

 front; and the approach may be made by a bridge across the 

 river, directly on this front, to arrive at the house on a level. 

 All, or almost all, the artificial waterworks we would form on 

 this west front; and, instead of the cascade of twenty-four 

 steps on the east front, we would lower the earth, and carry 

 from the house a level surface diminishing in width back to the 

 base of the rock lately laid bare by Mr. Paxton, and so pro- 

 duce a waterfall from a precipice of upwards of a hundred 

 feet in height. The water of this cascade, which might be 

 compared to that of Mamora, near Terni, in Italy, should 

 fall into a basin at its base, which would supply the lower 



