Liberal defenders of Lord Pirrie will no doubt be able
to point out with pride that he has not closed the right of way through the park, though its users have been warned that their dogs must always be on the lead. The great game preserve is apparently like a kind of huge cage enclosed by a black iron palisade six feet high. The land which the deer now enjoy is declared by all who know the country to be as good as any in Surrey, and much of it was in cultivation till recently, one-third being arable and the rest pasture. In quoting the Times article we take no responsibility for the facts, which are not within our knowledge, though we have little doubt that they are accurately given. It is stated, moreover, that in the depopulation of this part of Surrey by a Liberal landowner the pheasant has played as great a part as the deer. The account in the Times deals, however, only with the deer.
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