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New Alms-houses at Edgeware. (Vol. V. p. 558.) —We were not aware, 

 when we mentioned these buildings, rather in a heedless way, that they 

 were erected at the expense of Miss Day, a young lady just come of age. 

 Mr. Day and his family deserve the highest applause for the taste and spirit 

 which they have displayed in architecture. Mr. Day's mansion and offices in 

 the New Road, near Mary-la-bonne church, is exteriorly one of the hand- 

 somest in that part of London : the new front, erecting, in a beautifully 

 coloured stone, to the manufactory of Day and Martin in Holborn, will 

 rank with that of Hoares' banking-house in Fleet Street. Mr. Day's 

 country-house at Edgeware is also architectural ; and a lodge recently 

 erected there, of which we wish the architect (whose name we do not 

 know) would enable us to give a figure, is very handsome, and, what is 

 better, obviously commodious within. Lastly, Miss Day's alms-houses, 

 which, it is said, are to cost 10,000/., may be compared, in style and neat- 

 ness, with those of Saint Catherine in the Regent's Park. Mr. Day, whom 

 we know to be a cultivated and highly intellectual man, has for some time 

 past laboured under the dreadful misfortune of the loss of his sight. We 

 cannot help often wishing, in passing his different edifices, that he could see 

 them and admire them as we do. Only one suffering can be greater than 

 the loss of sight, the loss of reason ; but the loss of sight, like all losses 

 short of the loss of reason, may be borne by a calm and a philosophic 

 mind, previously stored with various and useful truths. Such a mind is Mr. 

 Day's. It must be a consolation to him to reflect that he has added 

 objects of surpassing beauty, to a metropolis already abounding in architec- 

 tural productions. — Cond. 



TJie Spectator. — In recommending certain newspapers (Vol. V. p. 604.) 

 we inadvertently omitted this very superior weekly publication, which, 

 taking it altogether, is perhaps the very best weekly political and literary 

 journal now published. Twelve gardeners joining together might read it 

 for a year at the rate of 3s. 3d. each. — Cond. 



The Country Times. — A weekly paper of this title has just commenced, 

 the object of which is chiefly to supply professional and agreeable miscel- 

 laneous reading to the English farmer. We do not know what may be the 

 politics of this paper ; but we hope it will steer a different course from the 

 Farmer's Jownal,which, with the intention of doing the farmers a service, has, 

 we firmly believe, had a contrary effect, by concealing from them what they 

 will ultimately find to be true, viz. that there is no safety for either farmer 

 or proprietor but in a free trade. We recommend to the editor of the 

 political department of the Country Times the following passage in a recent 

 leading article of the Times : — " The interest of the tenant is the same 

 with the interest of the community ; it is to have land open, and prices low. 

 The landlord passes a gross cheat upon his tenantry when he persuades 

 them that they are benefited by his enormous rents. The ' agricultural 

 interest' is properly the interest of those who till the ground ; and they 

 who cry out in favour of a corn monopoly speak only on behalf of those 

 who wring from the tenant the highest possible tax on his skill and in- 

 dustry, and capital employed in agriculture; namely, on behalf of the 

 gentlemen owning and living out of their land." (Times, Jan. 4. 1830.) 



Speaking on the same subject, with reference to America, the Morning 

 Chronicle observes : — " Let both nations retrace then - steps ; let England 

 encourage the application of American capital to land, by offering a ready 

 market for agricultural produce of all kinds ; and America cease to en- 

 courage, by restrictions, the application of capital to manufactures. In this 

 way both would thrive. Our landlords would gain by the most unlimited 

 importation, for we could only import by exporting the produce of our 

 own industry in return ; and what a market would besides be opened by 

 the purchases of an increasing manufacturing population for all the products 



