The Epping Forest Commissioners concluded on Tuesday a. short sitting,
held for the purpose of hearing the several persona who had made proposals for a scheme for the future management of the Forest. The City have lodged a very comprehensive scheme, in which they propose to preserve the whole of the Forest to the public except those .illegal enclosures which have been built upon or converted into gardens, which they suggest should be " arrented " at the full value of the land, without, reference to the buildings upon it This scheme was hotly attacked by the Lords of the Manors, on the ground that their interest in the soil of the Forest should be Paid for by the grantees whose en- closures were to be thrown out, on the ground that they Kid paid a full price for their land, and spent large sums on its improve- ment ; and by the grantees whose enclosures were to be arrented, on the ground that they were asked to pay a second time for their land. The answer, ably conveyed by Mr. Manisty, the Corpora- tion counsel, was, to the first, that it was not proposed to take anything from them, but, on the contrary, to compensate them, if
thercould prove any damage arising from the operation of the scheme ; and to the second and third, that they were in posses- sion of illegal enclosures, and must seek their remedy at the hands of those whohad induced them to buy. The Commissioners, a most patient and painstaking tribunal, adjourned, to decide on the principles of the scheme they are themselves to frame.
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