Perhaps the operations that we were most gratified with, on our present visit to Chatsworth, were those carrying on in the village of Edensor. The cottages are being rebuilt, added to, or repaired and ornamented, and their gardens will be enlarged and tastefully laid out and planted. All the houses will be supplied with water from an elevated source, the village being on the side of a hill; and there will be a public play-ground and open shed, and a public drying-ground. Behind the houses are the fields for grazing the cows, of which each cottager has one or more. The school is almost the only building so far finished as to enable us to judge of its effect, which, we think, will be excellent. We entered several of the cottages, and found them most comfortable and commodious within; all of them had back kitchens, pantries, and dairies for the produce of the cow, with the sleeping-rooms up stairs. We have no doubt, that, when this village is completed according to Mr. Paxton's ideas, His Grace the Duke will be so much pleased with it, as to cause a revision to be made of all the cottages on his extensive estates; and a better mode of doing good, both positively to the occupants, and, by example, to the cottagers of other proprietors, and to cottagers generally, we do not think could be devised. All that Derbyshire wants, to render it the most beautiful and interesting county in England, is, plantations on the high grounds to improve the climate and beautify the face of the country, and more artistical cottages, farmhouses, and gardens.
