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have them taken ont of the pots and placed in the garden. 851
They are all of the autumn perpetual kinds. Iintend to Zr. 47.
have a bed of them on the rising ground just at the end of
the house, not coming forward too far to interfere with the
View of the Downs. I shall also have a bed in the front of
the house, We shall shine in roses. The hollies and ever-STeens
 are still looking rather sorry and downcast. But,
Probably, with dry warm weather we shall soon see an
'mprovement, The temperature is mild, and the wheats are
looking vigorous. The nightingale and cuckoo are already
heard in the hanger, and the foliage of the woods is ags1ming
& lively hue. I long for the time when we can be here with
the children in the autumn. You will enjoy it beyond
Weasure,”
“May 21, (To Mr. W. R. Greg.)—What the Whig Govern-Ment
 intend to do I know not.® But of this I am quite sure,
bhat if they do not intend to bring forward a measure calenlated
 to excite some enthusiasm in the country, they had
better leave us as we are, to fight the battle upon the Free
Trade question. In my opinion, no measure will rouse the
widdle class, or have the slightest chance of meeting any
'e8ponse from the county constituency, unless the ballot
form 4 part of it ; and I fear that Lord John will flinch from
that, The present system is worn out. There must be a
U6w departure taken, with a better crew on board fhe
Government vessel, and an avowed and definite destination
view, Until this fresh start be taken, we shall be in a
transition state, and even when we get a reformed Parlia-Ment
 and an enlarged constituency, it may teke a long time
bo enable the people to make up their minds what they
shell do with their power. I am not sanguine (since the

® Thig refers to the Ministerial proposals, which were in varions ghapes
before the public from thie time until the Crimean War, for parliamentary
reform