From a Parliamentary return, it appears that the annual cost
of keeping tip St. James's, the Green, and Hyde Parks, is 9,461/ ; Ken- sington Gardens, 1,5521. ; Regent's Park, 3,956/. ; Richmond Park, 4,039/. ; Hampton Court and Bushy Parks, 1,395/. ; Greenwich Park, 4901. ; Hampton Court Gardens, 5971.; Windsor Parks, 10,3141.; Kew Gardens, 593/. Out of these sums, are paid to the Ranger of St. James's, the Green, and Hyde Parks, 1,401/. ; Richmond Park, 1,4541.; Greenwich Park, 350/.; Windsor Parks, no less than 5,5051.
Whilst the present system remains, no Colonial Governor can do justice : whatever may be his private integrity of purpose, he must inevitably fall into the bands of the permanent official clique. That has already occurred to Sir John Franklin in Van Diemen's Land, who is said to have gone out with the fullest determination to act arid think for himself. But the letters and papers from that colony, which we have now before us, unanimously declare that he is as bad or worse than Colonel Arthur. One paper contains a caricature, in which Sir John is represented as a dancing-bear, led with a ring in his nose by the Colonial Secretary, and capering to a tune played by the rest of the Colonial officials.— True Sun.
Lord Glenelg has sent a reply to the memorial presented to him by the Anti-Slavery delegates recently assembled in London, who prayed for the influence of the Government in favour of' the entire emancipa- tion of the prtedial apprentices in the West Indies, on the 1st of August 1838, the day fixed fur the emancipation of the non-prmdial appren- tices. His lordship intimates that the Government cannot undertake to bring the proposal under the consideration of Parliament ; con- ceiving that such a step would rather prejudice than advance the ob- ject of securing to the Negro complete liberty on the 1st August 1840. —Leeds Mercury.
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