maining 20 feet
consisting of stones only 4.5 inches deep, but laid diagonally, and
filled up with the same composition; 60 feet of the Bastenne and
Gaujac bitumen, partly laid in straight courses, and partly
diagonally: 135 feet of parish stone paving, divided into three
sections, in the following order--1st, 70 feet of dressed Aberdeen
granite, with concrete bottom, and the joints grouted with lime and
sand; 2nd, 40 feet of the same, laid diagonally; and 3rd, 25 feet of
dressed Aberdeen granite, without concrete bottom, the joints filled
in with fine gravel; this is followed by 50 feet of the Scotch
asphaltum, which is entirely the produce of this country, laid down
in straight courses: 60 feet of Mr. Stead's pavement, of wooden
blocks, of a sexagonal form, 12 inches deep, divided into three
compartments, one prepared with Kyan's patent, part dipped in, and
joints run with asphalte, and part without any preparation whatever:
the last specimen, at Tottenham Court Road, is 60 feet of the Val de
Travers bitumen, a portion of which consists of square blocks, laid
in straight courses, and the remainder consisting of a layer of clean
Guernsey chippings cemented together by boiling asphalte, run among
them nearly to the surface, and a face made with asphalte, merely
showing the chippings, here and there, in patches. The whole work
presents a most even and beautiful road, and, yesterday, during the
day, attracted the notice of many hundreds of persons. The portion,
however, it is but justice to add, to which attention was more
particularly directed, was that of the wooden blocks, the noiseless
tendency of which, made the vehicles passing along, appear to be
rolling over a thick carpet or rug. The time allowed by the Vestry
of St. Marylebone for the test of these experiments, is until the
last Saturday of June next, when the official report of the surveyors
will be laid before that body, and upon which the fate of Oxford
Street depends."

People began to feel that it was high time that the Queen should
marry--but, as yet, no signs of such a thing, and no speculations, as far
as I can see, were hazarded as to who her future consort should be. At
length, one newspaper, the _Sun_, seems to have been inspired, by
authority, and is thus quoted in the _Times_ of 24 Jan.:--"'MARRIAGE OF
HER MAJESTY.--The country