There are cases, it would seem, in which even Mr.
Ayrton,— whose raison (Titre ends if he cannot guard the public purse,— -can be induced, to sanction a job. He is actually bringing in a Bill for presenting a strip of Hyde Park, 500 yards long and 75 feet deep, to the proprietors of the Hall of Arts and Sciences, -erected in honour of the late Prince Consort. The present Ken- sington Road and a bit of grass are to be given to the hall for 2-2,000, and the road itself run further into the Park. There is no conceivable public reason for enriching the owners of the Hall -of Arts and Sciences, which is pretty certain to become at last a huge concert-room, and no plea for letting them have the ground -even for the full price. Not an inch of Hyde Park ought to be -sold at any price or for any purpose whatsoever. There must be -an end of this perpetual jobbing for the benefit of South Ken- sington, and we recommend Mr. Fawcett, if the Bill goes on, to -snore for a return of the names and status of all persons who pay tithe, land-tax, or property-tax within South Kensington.
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