We are glad to hear that Lord Lymington has given
notice that he will call the attention of the House of Commons early next Session to the power of sale exercised by the Crown over foreshores, manors, and moorlands, and to move a resolution, which resolution will, of course, be one conceived in the general sense of our own remarks on the Southport foreshore case, and on the Esher Common case. The officialism of the subordinate mem- bers even of a Liberal Government is, as we remarked last week, becoming so dangerous to the rights of the people in these -various open spaces which are growing of more importance every day to the health and pleasures of the people, that good unofficial Liberals are bound to apply the goad to .the popular -sympathies of their official colleagues. Departmental Liberalism is far more difficult to produce than political Liberalism. And departmental Conservatism has a sadly con- tagions influence over certain minds,—such minds, for instance, as that of the able Member for Liskeard.
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