22 JUNE 1889, Page 3

The London County Council voted on Tuesday, by 42 to

29 —a little more than half the Councillors being present—that " it is expedient that the Council shall have powers to regulate the use of Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park for the purposes of public meeting." That is considered a very " dangerous " vote, and so it would be if it meant anything ; but it does not. If the House of Commons has either sense or nerve, it will treat these frequent abstract resolutions in the County Council .exactly as it would treat similar resolutions passed by any other /decent but very small public meeting. The Councillors are "representatives" in a sense, but they were not elected to be schoolmasters to Parliament.