We consider these contrivances for raising the character of stone-breaking as a fine example of what may be done for man, even in the humblest, most unintellectual, and most monotonous of occupations. An article in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, vol. ii. p. 353., published in December last, shows how the labour of keeping roads in repair may be rendered greatly more interesting to the operator, by letting the work at so much per mile, furnishing the operator with certain appropriate articles of clothing, and forming a scale of merit, by which the portions of road under each man is to be tried, and gratuities awarded to them accordingly once or twice a year. How different must be the feelings of men so employed from the feelings of those who have no more interest in the road they are repairing than the horse has in the cart which he drags over it! Some other gardens in the neighbourhood of Brighton, and some at Shoreham, Lancing, Worthing, Tarring, &c., we must defer noticing till next Number.
