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SnlrrIELD.-TuH NORFOLK PARK.-The Shef
field ''imes a few days ago, gives a view of the en
trance into the new park there, which it thus de
scribes:-" It is not a mere fancy to suppose that
there are nota few of our readers, inhabitants of the
town of Sheffield, who will exclaim on seeing the
above design, ' A public Park for Sheffield : where
is it P' This may be considered marvellous; but it
must be recollected that the design of forming a
park for the free use and recreation of the people of
this town was entertained seven or eight years
ago, before the opinioti became fashionable that the
dwellers in back streets, and the masses in our great
towns, might perchance, if the opportunity were
afforded them, prefer healthful recreation to the old
round of vicious gratifications to which, for lack of
better things, they had hitherto been confined. We
believe we are not far wrong in attributing the ori
gin of Norfolk Park to the sagacity and considera
tion of Michael Ellison, Esq., the agentof the Duke
of Norfolk, who saw in it at least one means of ele
vating the character of the people, and giving them
a purer and more refined taste; and the late Duke of
Norfokt, in the inmo onlargmd and generous spiuit.
munificently appropriated a beautiful site, com
prising about fifty acres, close to the town, as a
public park and place of exercise, to which the
young may resort for recreation and healthy sport,
and the old for fresh air and an agreeable walk.
And so, for the last seven years, while the public
spirit of Manchester has been praised far and wide
for providing parks for the great metropolis of the
cotton manufacture-and the Government itself, in
following the recommendation of the Sanitory Com
missioners, has been equally lauded for its wisdom
and liberality-the work of laying out and embel
lishing Norfolk Park has been going on at the cost
of many thousand pounds, without, we fairly be
lieve, tie people, for whose use it is intended, taking
any interest in it. We think they are likely soon to
make amends for this apathy. A visit to the park
at the present time cannot fail to call forth a warm
and hearty acknowledgment of the munificence
which has provided the people at large with so de
lightful a place of resort. Our design represents
the Lodge and Entrance from the Bellevue-road.
The Lodge is an admirable design, by Weightman
and Hadfield, in the true spirit of old English do
mestic architecture. The carriage-way is thirty
feet wide; and on each side there is a foot-way ten
feet wide, and an avenue of limes. The road is a
gentle ascent as far as Harbourthorn, the southern
extremity of the park. At one spot it overlooks a
pleasant dell, and the Derbyshire Moors form a part
of the landscape. The passenger has hitherto pro
ceeded with his back towards the town, but let him
frequently pause and view its spires and other,well
known edifices flanked on the west by the high land
towards Crookes. The roadway to Harbourthorn
is completed, and it has been done with good mate
rialsby persons who know how to use them. The
eastern side of the park brings another scene into
view. -The road Is a descent, and is sheltered
by the ridge of high land on the right. On this side
will be tile principal entrance to the park by a gate-:
way from Norfolk-road, south of Shrewsbury hos
pital; and from this gateway there will be an
avenue full half a mile.in length, in.a straight line.
The total length of the carriage-way round the park
is, we should think, from a mile and a half to two
miles. Altogether we were greatly pleased with our,
visit to Norfolk Park, and recommend our readers
to see what has been done for the advantage and gra
tification of themselves and their children. Every
year will now develope the beauty of the place. In
addition to the avenues, forest trees have beentaste
fully planted in appropriate situations; and we
should be doing an act of injustice if we did not
here mention that the ground has been laid out
under tile direction and superintendence of Mr. Ar
chibald Wilson, forester to the Duke of Norfolk.
When the ground is prepared for cricket and other
healthy games, as in time it.will be, and we who
now see the commencement of this good work, shall
sit under the shade of the lime trees and witness
another generation enjoying the blessings of a time
in which the mass of the public are fitted for a higher
degree of happiness than old modes of training and
imperfect social arrangement had enabled them to
attain, let none of us refuse our grateful tribute to
tlhe memory of the noble founder of the park."
How TO sAKx TIHE stOST OF A ?VeDDINO AN
NOUNOBs?aNT.-We commend thie following to those
courtly scribes who -so pleasingly announce the
marriages of the " most noble." " right honorable,"
o, beautiful and accomplished," and so forth. It will
show them how a plain republican can outdo their
long-drawn-out three-half-pence-a-lining. The an
nouncement appears in the Baltimore Covenant, an
Odd Fellows' journal --" Married, in Worcester,
Massachusetts, Taliaferro P. Shaffner, Esq., Attor
ney and Counsellor-at-law, of Loulsville, Kentucky.
past Grand 1i. Priest and Grand Patriarch of that
State, a Grand Representative to the Grand Lxlge
of tile United States from the Grand Encampment Qf
Kentucky, Junior Editor of the Cotenant, of Balti
more; Ex-Editor of the Freemason, of Louisville;
Corresponding and Recording Secretary and Li
brarian of the Kentucky Historical Society ; Re
cording Secretary of the Board of Missions of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South; Captain of tie
First Company 132nd Regiment, 29th Brigade of
Kentucky Militia, &e., to Miss Nancy R. Pratt, of
the former place. Papers throughout the Union,
including Texas, Oregon, and California,. pleas
copy."
THE CHAarTaT ESTATs.-W- e are Informed that
active operations have been commenced on the es
tate at Redmarley, purchased a short time since
by Mr. Feargus O'Connor. A number of cot
tages are being built, containing four rooms
upon one floor, with. four acres of land attached
to each. These will, of course, be occupied by
those persons professing Chartist pgrncples who Iave
subscribed towards the expenses of the purchase.: It
was announced that Mr. O'Conner contemplates
purchasing the Verzons Estate, near Ledbury, now
advertised for sale, and formerly the property of Mr.
Hollings, a hop merchant, who was well known in
this city.- WIorcester Herald..
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