Mr. Dillwyn urged his objections on Monday, in considering the
report of Supply, to a proceeding which touches a matter not intrinsically very important, but still one of principle, and one which deserves more attention than it receives. He objected to the vote of £155 for feeding pheasants in Richmond Park, not so much on the ground that it is no matter of public interest to preserve game for the Ranger and his friends to shoot, as on the ground that these arrangements for preserving game really very much diminish the pleasure taken by the public in the parka,— shutting them out from the ground occupied by the covers, and in- volving other fettering arrangements for keeping the covers undis- turbed. There is another and even more serious objection to these covers. They are frequently made so as to shut out the most beauti- ful views. In Windsor Great Park, for instance, many of the new plantations shut out exquisite views. Mr. Dillwyn and Sir C. Dilke deserve the thanks of the public for raising a point which so strongly concerns the enjoyments and interests of the public.
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