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occupation of poring over their ABC, whilst the darne's only object is to 

 keep the children quiet, and her only means the frequent infliction of 

 punishment. To such schools the children resort with reluctance; they 

 become peevish and fretful : whilst to the infant schools the children go with 

 alacrity and delight, and are never more happy than when they are under 

 the eye of their instructor, whom they look at with love and affection. 



The promoter of this establishment at Potton [Montague Burgoyne, 

 Esq. we believe] confesses that he feels more than a common interest in 

 the success of it, because he is well assured of its general utility. He does 

 Hot consider it as an experiment, because he has seen the good effects of 

 the system in other places, not only on the children, but on their parents. 



A nobleman of the highest rank, in the county of Bedford, as much 

 respected as he is known, has given it as his opinion, that infant schools, 

 and schools of industry, are the mainsprings of moral good ; and is so per- 

 suaded of their great utility, that he has authorised the promoter of them 

 to say, that he will cheerfully subscribe 100/., if a fund can be raised to 

 make them general in the county of Bedford. 



A Metropolitan Cemetery was sometime ago proposed in the form of a 

 pyramid (Vol. V. p. 214.), and another architectural extravaganza, some- 

 thing in the way of the Campo Santo, at Pisa, has lately appeared ; the 

 latter very handsome as an architectural design, but very impracticable, 

 and, even if it were otherwise, very unfit, in our opinion, for the purpose in 

 view. Piling up musty coffins in vaults is quite unsuitable to the present 

 age, and practised only by antiquated kings and nobles, fast dying off 

 in every part of the world. Our opinion has always been in favour of 

 an extensive garden or arboretum; the interments of renters of seven, 

 fourteen, or twenty-one years, made systematically, as at Munich, and 

 those of purchasers in spots planted and ornamented according to the 

 taste of the proprietors. The General Cemetery Company, lately esta- 

 blished, proposes to proceed on the latter principle, and, we are happy 

 to observe, has every prospect of being capable, after a few more shares 

 are taken, of completely effecting its object. Several peers and members 

 of parliament of the highest character are on the provisional committee ; 

 which may be considered as a guarantee to the public that this is none of 

 those bubble companies which arose in such numbers five or six years ago, 

 and almost every one of which ended in disappointment or ruin. The 

 object of this Company is more a public good, and a grand ornament to the 

 metropolis, than private emolument ; though the Liverpool public cemetery 

 (p. 353.), we understand, pays 8 per cent. At a late public meeting on the 

 subject, where a great many persons delivered their sentiments, the great- 

 est unanimity prevailed as to the necessity of such a cemetery, so that the 

 time seems now arrived for carrying it into execution. The public will 

 eventually be much indebted to Mr. G. F. Carden, the treasurer, who first 

 proposed this plan for a public cemetery so long ago as 1826; and to 

 Mr. Spottiswoode, for having seconded his efforts in bringing it before the 

 House of Commons. — Cond. 



The Royal Gardens and Gardeners. — Some of our correspondents have 

 directed our attention to the demise of the crown, and have asked us to 

 urge a change in the system of the management of the Royal Gardens. 

 The family of Aiton, we are told, monopolises the whole of these situations, 

 in consequence of which, it is said, not one of the whole is planted or kept 

 in order as it ought to be. We dislike exceedingly the idea of directing 

 attention to any one individual or family ; because he, or they, may not, for 

 any thing we know, be to blame for the present state of the different royal 

 gardens. We must confess, however, that we have lately felt ashamed 

 whilst showing some foreigners Kensington Gardens and St. James's Park, 

 at the want of shrubs and flowers in the former, and at the thorns and 

 privets with which the groups are planted in the latter. We have repeatedly 

 found fault with the design and planting of the flower-garden at Windsor 



