592 Foreign Notices: -—Holland and the Netherlands. 



fully avail themselves of it, and we find in every hamlet some person who 

 teaches the younger children the rudiments ; and several of these, when 

 they get older, work and save the wages of summer to pay for putting 

 themselves to schools in winter. — J. C. April 24*. 



The Right of Property itself is subservient to the general welfare ; and 

 that welfare is clearly not promoted by a distribution of property which 

 confers princely wealth on a few, and condemns the industrious multitude, 

 by whom that wealth is fabricated, to the alternative of hopeless toil or 

 abject pauperism. {Quarterly Revieiv, May, 1830, p. 277.) 



Corn Laws and Tithes. — Corn laws are quackery ; and tithes are partly 

 a burden on the industry of the country, and partly a deduction from the 

 landlords. It is well that those who delight in seeing the church of Eng- 

 land lifting up her mitred front should know who pay the seven millions 

 required for that purpose. {Morning Chronicle, March 20.) Q. Do not the 

 landlords pay the tithes ? A. No more than a man pays what was left to his 

 brothers and sisters by their common father. A man cannot be said to 

 pay what he never had. If tithes were abolished, they might fall to the 

 landlord ; and if a man's brothers and sisters were out of the way, he might 

 be heir to the whole of his father's estate. But this does not make a man 

 pay what is held by others by a right coeval with his own. (Catechism on 

 the Corn Laius.} 



The TLrinus alpinus on old Walls, fyc. — Sir, In speaking of the Kensing- 

 ton nursery (p. 382.) you say, " We notice it at present for the sake of 

 calling attention to the i?rinus alpinus, which has taken possession of the 

 tops of the hot-houses and brick walls, and is now beautifully in bloom in 

 sheets of purplish red, and affords a fine hint for ornamenting walls and ruins 

 in the country." When I first visited Messrs. Malcolm's nursery, now about 

 sixteen or seventeen years ago, the .Erinus, as above described, was in full 

 beauty ; and I was so struck with its luxuriance, and the peculiarity of the 

 situation, that I immediately took the hint, and established the plant on the 

 brick walls of my own green-house, where it has grown and thrived ever 

 since, with greater vigour and beauty than I have ever observed it else- 

 where, with the single exception of the Kensington nursery. It has the 

 advantage too, when once established in such situations, of maintaining and 

 propagating itself freely without the slightest care or attention ; whereas, 

 when kept in pots, on rock-work, or in the borders, the plants are very apt 

 to die, or, at least, to dwindle, after flowering, and require to be constantly 

 renewed. I would therefore strongly recommend all admirers of this little 

 alpine beauty to adopt the same method of cultivation, by sprinkling the 

 seed into the crevices of walls, &c. Almost any old wall, especially if it 

 be damp and moss-grown, will answer the purpose. Yours, &c. — W. T. 

 Bree. Allesley Rectory, June 21. 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 



HOLLAND AND THE NETHERLANDS. 



Haarlem, June 13. 1829. — Sir, In my tour back to my dear native town, 

 I passed from London through Haarlem, a favourite place of mine, where 1 

 once stopped eight months, and where I now found the tulips which 1 

 planted last autumn dropping their flowers. 



The principal thing I looked for here was the difference between the 

 Dutch and English modes of forcing; and really they are as dissimilar in oper- 



