20 MARCH 1886, Page 2

The Government has come to a compromise with Mr. Labouchere

about the outlay on the London Parks. The vote against the grant was on Thursday rescinded as far as the Royal Parks are concerned, and they regained their allowance; but the new Parks, like the Battersea Park and Victoria Park, are to be provided for by a Bill, and will, no doubt, be governed, like Hampstead Heath, by the Metropolitan Board. Mr. Labouchere is most considerate, but he will, we fear, offend some of his Radical friends. One of them writes to us that London is detestably greedy, and ought not only to keep up the Parks, but to be compelled to rent them from the Crown, at their value considered as London building-land. We begin to be thankful for the increase in Metropolitan Members.