The dispute about the Parks' Bill was settled on Thursday
by a -statement from Mr. Ayrton that the public meetings in the Parks would be authorized under the Act, and the trouble is at an end ; tat the whole affair has been most unsatisfactory. It was quite open to Mr. Odger and his friends to denounce the Bill, and make speeches and call meetings against it ; but they went a great deal -farther than this, and declared that if the law were passed it should not be obeyed. If the mob of London is to be allowed to dictate what laws shall and shall not be obeyed, government of any kind will very soon be impossible, and it is most unfortunate therefore that Mr. Ayrton's compromise should seem to involve -submission to such threats. We dare say the impression is false, bat it is created, and will, when the resisting-point is reached, -one day result in bloodshed. We have no particular objection to meetings in the Park, but prefer, with, we imagine, the bulk of Englishmen, to be governed by Parliament, and not by meetings -of any other kind.
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