Though climate exercises less influence upon the life and health of animals than on plants, it is very desirable to the animal - man - neither to be roasted nor frozen; at Newport, by general consent, it is admitted there is a more agreeable temperature, both summer and winter, than in any latitude of ours so far north. If the people of this country are ever able to afford it, and they will be, most assuredly, they will have two cities, one for winter and one for summer; one where trade and manufactures can flourish, and another on the sea-coast, or in the mountains. It is fast coming to this; our desirable watering-places are now crowded; those who can manage to do so, have their own dwellings, and Newport can boast of some of the best in the country. Bancroft, the historian, George Calvert, of Baltimore, David Sears, Robert Mason, Sidney Brooks, and Mr. Ritchie, of Boston. William Beach Lawrence, Samuel Nicholson, Ac., of New York, Samuel Powel and John A. Brown, of Philadelphia, Ralph Izard and Henry Haywood, of South Carolina, George Jones, of Georgia, and various other gentlemen, have chosen this place for its climate and its society.

From this section and the South, there are fewer housekeepers than from the eastward, and we verily believe it is because the access from New York is over a sometimes rough sea; but mainly from the arrival of the boats at the Newport wharf at night. In case of a storm or a fog, it is vastly disagreeable. A minor nuisance, but still a nuisance that should be. abated, is the horrible din of stentorian lungs hired to cry the names of the hotels, than which nothing can be more preposterous, as every one has made up his mind as to accommodations before arrival. It is a great drawback to Newport that it is so hard to arrive and depart. Had the scheme of the Long Island Railroad, to take passengers to the place, been carried out, the number of residents, in both summer and winter, would have been vastly increased.

Once fairly settled on the island, however, you begin to feel the genial influences of the place; it is climate (and society united) that has given back to the jaded citizen some of the feelings of health; that this is the case, the return of the same immigrants year after year testifies; many of these are beyond and above the mere requirements of fashion; they have experienced the benefit, and desire their families likewise to enjoy it. Hence many have built fine houses; others, mere boxes for a few weeks' occupancy. Among the most finished, we might say the most, is the Residence of De Lancey Kane, Esq., Beachclyffe, within sight of the bathing-ground, isolated, and yet near the busy haunts of fashion. It is Mr. Kane's own creation, assisted by Mr. R. B. Leuchars, and he has shown, in its details, an educated taste as rare as it is correct. A fine mansion, in the style of the best class of Belgian chateaus, is situated in the midst of about twenty acres, and is so bnilt as to command the sea as well as inland views. The whole town and its visitors bathe at such a distance as to give animation to the scene from one end of the house, but they are so far off as to look like birds disporting in the waves.

The lawn, however, is Mr. Kane's greatest triumph; here difficulties had to be encountered which wonld have discouraged most. The told inhabitants were satisfied that they must live without trees; the coast is without them; the winds were too powerful, and the thing was pronounced impossible. Not discouraged by the croakers, our host has solved the problem, and this was his mode of operation.

Trees, such as the Abele or White Poplar, were planted on the boundaries, and, within their magic circle, belts, and single trees and shrubs, soon flourished. It is true, that the gales are strong enough to cut the leaves of the Horse-Chestnuts annually into ribbons, but skelter has at length done its work, and Mr. Kane now possesses an arboretum of rare trees and shrubbery such as would do credit to any soil or situation; but he has given great attention to his planting, opened and loosened the ground, brought the proper manures, staked, trimmed, and tended, till the place presents beauties and effects which more favored and less windy localities rarely possess. We found here, in great perfection, the following trees; the list, though imperfect, we give with confidence, as that adapted to Newport planting: -

All the Maples except the Sugar and the common English. The best are the White and the Norway.

The English and the Turkey Oaks.

The English Elm, and several others.

The English Hornbeam.

The whole of the family of Willows.

Of the Pines, the Excelsa, Sylvestris Austriaca, and Cembra, may be said to do extremely well Spruces - the Norway succeeds tolerably well; the Himalayan perfectly; and Menzies will no doubt grow.

The Cunninghamia sinensis flourishes well, and is perfectly hardy. The Atlas Cedar, the Japan Yew, and the rare Round-leaved Yew, do well, and are hardy, as likewise do the Chinese, Swedish, and English Junipers. Arbor-Yitses, such as the Siberian and Yellow, and many others of this group, are entirely successful.

As a test of this climate, we are assured by Mr. Albert Smith that the Amaryllis longifolia has stood out in his garden the last ten years, and the Pride of India, that charm of Southern cities, and which dies down annually in Philadelphia, stood out during the cold winter of 1855-56, and bloomed in the autumn. It does not make a tree, but succeeds a& a shrub, Phyllyrias stood out also uninjured, All the Spireas, new and old, do remarkably well, as also the Deutzias. The Belgian Azaleas must be protected from the wind. Six sorts of English Heaths withstood the cold effects of the cold winter, and flowered nearly all last summer. The Deodar Cedar is more successful here than anywhere north of Baltimore, as are the varieties of Chinese Magnolias; and no doubt the Salisburia and Tulip Poplar would grow well.