Will it be believed, by future generations, that twelve years have elapsed since the great city of Philadelphia purchased ground for a park, and that, up to this day, the. site is a desert? We possess about fifty acres in Lemon Hill, above the Water-Works, a site of great beauty, once the abode of wealth and taste, but now a lager-beer and ice-house waste! A pamphlet, on our table, appeals ably and forcibly to the Coun-cilmen to improve it novo. Shall another twelve years elapse before these politicians obey the wishes of their constituents? We fear it, and we fear that thrice twelve years will go by with a like result. The tax payer who contributes $100 a year to the public funds, need pay in addition but six cents per annum, to keep Lemon Hill as a beautiful public park, and yet we have waited twelve years for a beginning to be made, and, meantime, it grows yearly more hopeless by the destruction of its former beauty and its trees! Alas! how penny-wise and pound-foolish is most of our legislation. '

Hunting Park Course, a level spot of forty-five acres, presented by a few patriotic gentle-men to the city of Philadelphia, seems to be under better auspices, and is, we understand, soon to be improved.