A crowded public meeting of the inhabitants of Putney, held
on Monday, January 30 (Colonel North, M.P., in the chair), has passed unanimous resolutions against Earl Spencer's Wimbledon Park Bill. It is rumoured that the Office of Woods and Forests, in a strongly reasoned paper, have expressed disapproval of it. Lord Spencer will not, however, give up the inclosure. His printed reply to the Wimbledon Committee is now in circulation, in which he says that he " has made two important modifications in the Bill, one with regard to the management, and the other with regard to my reserved rights." But he is " of opinion that the inclosnre will be of advantage," and " on that and other points " of his " scheme " would "prefer leaving the decision in the hands of Parliament." His legal advisers would have better served the true interests of their client by persuading him to drop the " scheme " altogether. The roads, it seems, "are not in the deposited plans laid down according to my intentions."
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