THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 91.] JUNE, MDCCCLXXI. [Price 6d. 



Answers to Co-respondents, 



Enclosure of Epping Forest. — My readers will recollect 

 the struggle in which 1 embarked three years ago to prevent 

 the enclosure of Epping Forest, a struggle in which my 

 brother members of the Haggerstone Entomological Society 

 took a most noble and patriotic part, assisting with funds and 

 counsel, and with all the interest they could bring to bear on 

 this great and national question. Feeble, indeed, are the 

 efforts of that class to which we, of the Haggerstone, belong: 

 we neither possess the funds nor the influence that can rescue 

 public property from the grasp of the wealthy ; but, in this 

 instance, some of that very class have taken a part in the 

 proceedings ; and a remnant of that lovely forest is for a 

 while rescued from the hand of the spoiler. The entire 

 question is one of money ; and we must not yet consider our 

 property safe. It may remain with us for a time ; but zeal 

 for the good cause may, ere long, cool, while the rapacity of 

 the aggressor knows no rest. Our great enemy is the very 

 law that should be our greatest friend, and that fearful 

 engine must be fed by money, and we, alas ! have no means 

 of satisfying its voracious appetite. Still, let us be thankful 

 for the apparent victory we have gained, and enjoy the 

 results of that victory, of right over might, before it is 

 turned into a defeat. The following extract is from the 

 * Daily News' of the 29th of April :—" The House of Com- 

 mons has once more resolved that Epping Forest shall be 

 rescued from the incursions of the surrounding landlords, 

 and preserved for the recreation and enjoyment of the people. 

 A popular Parliament has in this renewed vote justified its 

 popular origin and proved its popular sympathy. The only 

 matter of regret in last night's vote is, that the Government 

 did not profit by the experience of last year, and consent to 

 Mr. Cowper-Temple's motion. It was quite evident from the 



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