Oc. 23.) 
THE GARDENER®Y CHRONICLE. 
the C 
ntine 
helsea Waterworks Compan 
proper level the lake or basin ya pm Ga ardens, 
Serpe River da the ornai 
Buctio pgham Palace gardens and The 
alks in LN gin Gardens have been 
mental waters 
St. James’s Park. 
e driver thrown out, so much. injured as to be 
| pre to be carried tos neighbouring public-house, —— 
he still remains. second accident occurred soon 
he se 
terwards, near, the wall of Holla nd-park, where aie 
ib either 
filled for upwards of twenty a 0 Several gentlemen 
hi d him, but se was generally 
| rred by the 
Coorg upon either . Archdeacon = Th or ‘Professor te 
well; it has, bowev 
ele ction fallen well: 
alks, and also a ve 
new 
has been eBay 2a the sides of one ‘of 
ry few detached 
gravel and grass w oranibus and cart came into violent collisions but n 
greatly improved ; old, dea ad, and | decaying trees | were seriously injured. 
have been removed, an fo com- Fires—A serious fire has occ d 
pleting and Sans the avenues ; 3, and along the northern Dragon, in Vine-street, Westm: oe was oto 
and south-e: n boundaries of the gardens a greater | discovered st and the inmates were are though not 
variety of trees a) shrubs have been planted than had | without some difficulty. The flames were not uae 
heretofo: cated i in these gardens. In the Green Park wntil considerable damage ha ad been done.—On Saturday 
the site of the old pond, which wa unsightly object, % .. Pierce ce, seiesibisint 
has been filled up, as well as other hollow ehees uy in- | ger, Jermyn-street, Piccadilly, tt > bowever, soon 
equalities, to bring the whol surface into a be rm, | got t under, , although the ey a done is is alan er 
an improve the tu dj 
communicating with n s from Picca ail ly ; 
ofess It te ales 
ir. F. Theckeray, of pte coupe, will 
sages thet te Dr. Hewitt as Downing Professor of 
Medicine. 
elienham:—A. few car since: the following ¢ curio 
phone ater aoe was brought before the magistrates at 
this tow erson “e pr nam 
r 
h 
r each of which he charged 5s.: but it Py he out 
in nthe river ton On Sry and Ean it ‘ews | 
rg 
that, instead of extracting poe like a — 
am the 
clumps—i 
msidered advisable that but little of the te Ww of water su ch as danni as perf 
green sward of this much frequented park should be ab- peor 10 years. The damage eae ng t ha coas vies as ne very like a a ‘fibre, which ~ = peo was iaeete a fake ena 
stracted from the use and yment of the public. In | extensive, and some thousands of acres of land are $s in fact nothing but a piece of bristle. A 
of the great resort to’ the Regent Park | lying under water. Bishop’s on an island between | gent who brought the charge against him had, it 
the eastern portion ned for general admis- | Sheerness and Gillingham, containing 100 acres, sas seems, actually paid }Ss., at the rate of 5s. fe 
sion, and of proceedings in Parliament during the late having a large house ager erected on it, was - ps ever’ ery bristle ; and a sda dy who » had aa similar 0; i 
session for further opening that park, arrangements are | vered, and the hous: aced i imminen t dan r, * brist} I 
now in progress for this purpose, to as great an extent gether with the i dascbiie ly ini 
upon very full consideration is deemed to be compatible | the street upwards of co aa dee, — the inhabitants court The anaes for the o plant called the attention 
with the protection and enjoyment of the roperty of | were ci One: eyed about i in carts. Jo is to own the wat er oft in the Aaah Act, which 
individuals who have largely embarked lin erecting flow ed i Id the defendant, and which a applied 
er pon that part of Crown estate. The Co Il per di 
missioners add, that the means of public recreation and |.with water several feet d the gas-works situated near actising an tle craft, means, r device, alm~ 
exercise will be further exte nded in this quarter, by the | the embankment of Sep ney also completely em- | aR or ot! aber nay leceive and impose upon’ nh - 
a ~~ of that portion of P hill d 1 on | bedded in the flood, and the con quence _ that the | Majesty’s subjects. . After examination, which 
the plan, for the purchase of which, they have, | towns remained in total darkness. It is that -a | eli ced some amusing particulars of credtility on one’ side 
whe ‘the sanction of the Treasury, agreed with the farmer living in the Hundred of Hoo 1 ds of i imposture on the other, the magistrates cominitted 
Provost and Fellow: Eton College, and the trustees | 500 sheep, and that the extent of damage done in the prisoner, together with plice, to ‘fourteen 
o Lord So Southampton respectively ; and they are now| marshes of Cliffe, Higham, pr the Hundred of, ‘Hoo, ins ne ment. 
considering the best means o yt a dir commu- | cannot be known, as the lan ter.—T <n grt in this city, according to the 
nication between that property and the Regent’s Park. | water. of oe : ensus, has been gradually poy 
cine tome udes s by stating that the importance o; tain are losses, | owing to the eT tan way aoe It. appears abited house, 4,800; 
obtaining some si — aeke) “building, 291 5° females, within the 
apes e eastern parts of the metropolis has been ariford. n consequence of the great flood of w eh 667; ma les, 12,708 : total, 23,375. The popu- 
long felt and And nowledged, and they are about to avail poured o own — the rivers Darent and Cray, together with tion in eels wa: wed 16,052; im 1811, 16,140; in 1821, 
themselves of the opportunity now offered them of forming | the traordinary high tid eof Monday, the who! ‘ole > of the 13 oe in 1831, 
a Royal j park in that quarter, by purchasing for that haa: ive tract of mar: erby. —On Thay, the oon hall of a city = 
pose a tract of land lying bet the Hackney and White-| Greenhithe was ne and presente by f fire. Ita ars that it bro a 
apel Roads, co ing in the whole about 290 acre: early part of eek the appearance of a large lake, the in 
Metropolitan I iprevemenis.—In referring to this sub-| water extending in ses for upwards of a mile in [saci <a on heer anos ‘so rapidly that fits 
hi Ss 
Pape ana 
e Corsten t to 
Southam mpton-street ; 2, 
pag ay eg 
ss 
are as flows ras Pat the 
» Ho lbor: near t the so uth end 
of So 
acre, 
r, Wal 
ich will shortly be 
ng- 
eg gee Bow-street, t, to Gate street, fone: 
iy gaa and it is 
Capt. 
te of improve- 
an extend ed scale, pe'y caalaied to render ser- 
ago, the house of Mr. Mil- 
7) Moser ay revel 
> for 
se 
to ma’ ma ce i an 
r bore no soe but the writer 
igi which he | could not ex- 
a iciou: 
er of watches 
sgtundt une hav ving, 
of qui iting. the 
some case 
leng th, The farm-houses situate in the marsh were in 
with water, and the roads, o} 
the flame 
nt ertained lest 
2) t 
manor- ways, being completely inundated, rendered the was made vey the goc ods and pate wi to opces of 
passage to the h For- sounihy bat “fort unately the fire was subdued ‘before ex- 
tunately there was but little stock in the nonhee or the | tending s f meron four and five wind changed 
denbrnction, it is: thonght, would have been serious. the aa and a snow-storm came on, during which ft] 
eerne. “hel don ~ Cig of rot fell j in, and the whole hall by day- er was reduced 
James, Moxrel, the Seaman: who was drow nm the 0 ashes, nothing re maining but the bare walls. _ All the 
Tedway fi 
Walton the particulars s of which we gave in our last. 
eng| 
pier of Her Dia ajes| sty’ 8 ship Wells ington.” _ The @ pri- 
After a lengthened investigation the jury returned the 
following vi eds e fin t the nr ony oe | 
axwell, was accidentally dro but 
e 
wned ; iT opi 
that it ooturred through the its trestoneat of William Ward, Grecions evening. The amount of the loss is 
account books, vhich were depostad in an iron = were 
reserved. revising 
es It appears that the 
e€-room, in which there had been a 
fire originated i in the 
‘fire on the 
estimated 
at 12,0007. 
ous accident has. Agsaaey te Re 
migctiol ag peed and disobedience of aoe 
WBrobincial News. 
—Some excitement has 
a on 
been occasioned | 
wsbury.—A seri 
Stans ta Brigg’s pit, Brest near this place, 
a fire-damp e rs = bic — lives 
_ —_— that re all 
i eae ine were 
er persons 
€ cause of the 
explosion. 
exp! i a. the 
jave 
one of the lamps used by the men, tl 
ro 
inflammable. The j jury returned a ver- 
n apprehen this 
Teme in ee of information, pro 
appears to have been mere or less s detrimental to shes 
ping interest, di 
ceeded to 
house in Adderley-s tured two men ~_— a| 
rfei 
extent of 
> 
} which had for is ne a 
years’ resisted the most 
eathe the bay, secre to a considera 
, five 
hack ‘four nen, mall oopeait in the same 0 
‘amend as 
courses as 
s 
Mr. Millington, } t 
©ason to believe that the party had formerly 
so 
y of admirably-executed base sbi 
circulating. not only in this town 
untry, and co —— efforts hed 
large quantit: 
the date of 1820, 7 
but throughout the 
ee was sictered f from the wind and tide: byt the + pro~ 
ction of th PP 
York Hotel have t been washed down; and the sea 
washes in 10 st 15 feet nearer the Marine-parade and 
Wat erlog-erescen than it fe did. 
of peat ro 
tte 
Tes 4 
Stunehead ; 
time the hak aicacs SU 
-hole bedv. it se 
y soar 8 
seizure, the capture was complete, the moulds, | 
bea 
mer to secumulate in great juantities, scarcely 
a ra is said, never befor 
this 
the first 
shel Hs sy & C5 being all secured. Th 
within the last few m 
=? 
onths, cae 
were lost. 
tthe 
height 
les bags 5 ‘ld iti drow 
Wednesda 
the river, = 
h had been to | 
ti Egg es arg nati 
k 
na by the oldest inhabitant. The base of — 
e the 
k, on which is + built Arche tiff-fort the residence: 
peste ts and. secreted themselves in a retired spot, 
a great extent, dee a are several saa clefts in 
mg 3000 dl 
various parts of it, it is feared that a baer me it will 
The houses rock e been’ 
on Palace, yer" 
Be ar ee 
pont Brea g in immine 
wakioge| 
the 
entrance of the soviet a 
The Rev. oo tap sages gra 
eke aa ~ 
the office of Master of T, 
a seit G 
‘rinity College, which he = Uleeer oF of poeraing penieene R one 
weeks rete into thes sea on 
* th . 7 
nial = 
be seen. ata 
