17 FEBRUARY 1872, Page 3

Mr. Vernon Harcourt also objected to the exclusion of hired

vehicles from Hyde Park as an aristocratic arrangement, a com- plaint very frequently heard, and worth, perhaps, a word of answer. It is not an aristocratic arrangement, but a democratic -one, and hurts nobody but a section of the middle-class. The masses do not drive out for airings in cabs, any more than in carriages. Their pleasure is in the sight of a perfectly unique pageant, and would be entirely spoiled by the intrusion of long lines of vehicles they see all day and every day in the streets.