234 Foreign Notices: — North America. 



ago in Paris, and similar societies are now forming in other countries. This 

 disposition of mankind to associate together for common objects, will lead, at 

 no distant period (viz., at the time when representative governments shall have 

 become general), to European, American, and Cosmopolitan Societies, com- 

 posed of members of all the governments of Europe, America, or the world, 

 meeting together to devise plans for the good of all mankind. Among these 

 will be, universal education, a universal system of weights, measures, and 

 moneys, one common language, one common law, and universal freedom of 

 commerce. As to the question of peace or war, there will be very little 

 danger of the latter, when it is not the interest of any particular class of men 

 to make it. — Cond. 



To poison Moles. — Collect earthworms, kill them, and mix them with the 

 powder of nux vomica. After the mixture has remained in a heap twenty- 

 four hours, strew a few of the worms in the holes and paths of the moles. 

 (Bulletin Universel.^) 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 



NORTH AMERICA. 



The Magnificence and Splendour of the Forests of North America are peculiar 

 to that division of the world. " In Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and even in 

 South America, the primeval trees, how much soever their magnitude may 

 arrest admiration, do not grow in the promiscuous style that prevails in the 

 great general character of the North American woods. Many varieties of the 

 pine, intermingled with birch, maple, beech, oak, and numerous other tribes, 

 branch luxuriantly over the banks of lakes and rivers, extend in stately gran- 

 deur along the plains, and stretch proudly up to the very summits of the moun- 

 tains. It is impossible to exaggerate the autumnal beauty of these forests ; 

 nothing under heaven can be compared to its effulgent grandeur. Two or 

 three frosty nights, in the decline of autumn, transform the boundless verdure 

 of a whole empire into every possible tint of brilliant scarlet, rich violet, every 

 shade of blue and brown, vivid crimson, and glittering yellow. The stern in- 

 exorable fir tribes alone maintain their eternal sombre green. All others, in 

 mountains or in valleys, burst into the most glorious vegetable beauty, and 

 exhibit the most splendid and most enchanting panorama on earth." (M'Gre- 

 gor's British America, 1831.) 



To render the woods of Europe in some degree like those of America, we 

 have only to plant American trees. All of those which produce the brilliant 

 colours spoken of by Mr. M'Gregor, are as hardy as the native trees of Britain. 

 They are chiefly oaks, acers, birches, liquidambars, pines, &c, of different sorts, 

 all of which may be purchased, in plants of three and four years' growth, in 

 our principal nurseries ,• or, in the state of seeds, from those seedsmen, such 

 as Mr. Charlwood, who import American seeds on a large scale. 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



KENSINGTON Gardens. — The woods in these gardens, which we have before 

 described as thin with excessive thickness, have undergone a second weeding 

 in the course of last winter ; and they will bear several more thinnings in 

 succeeding years, till the trees have sufficient room to admit of their putting 

 out lateral branches, and thus preventing the masses from being seen through. 

 It is also said to be the intention of government to take down the boundary 

 wall of the south side of the garden, and substitute an open iron railing. If 

 this be done on the south side, where there are no houses along the park 

 road, it is to be hoped that it will also be done on the Bayswater side. There, 

 besides the great improvement which it would be to the entrance to London by 

 Oxford Street, it would abate a great public nuisance : the numerous angles 



