On Thursday, Mr. Albert Grant signed the deed transferring the
garden in LeicesterSquare to the Metropolitan Board of Works. The Garden has been completely renovated, and ornamented in a slightly florid style with fountain and marble busts which will be black in a year, and gravel paths which will be muddy in a week, and is thrown open to the enjoyment of the public. The improvement to a neglected quarter is great, and the inhabitants of the square fully recognise the munificence of Mr. Grant, who has spent 228,000 on the only public improvement in London, the fame of which will necessarily be carried throughout Europe
Mr. Grant is usually held in the world to be a " knowing " financier, but if his knowingness takes the form of conferring benefits on the public, so much the better for the public, and for him.
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