142 EPPING FOREST. 
John Stuart Mill thereupon moved a resolution that 
‘the Society, considering the Bill introduced by the 
Government as in direct opposition to the principles for 
the assertion of which the Society was constituted, do 
resist it to the utmost.” An amendment on this was 
moved by Mr. Andrew Johnston, then member for the 
county of Essex, ‘‘ that the principle of the Bill may be 
held to be the assertion that some settlement is desir- 
able, and that therefore it is not desirable to oppose the 
Second Reading.” On a division the amendment was 
rejected by a single vote only. Mr. Fawcett accordingly 
gave notice to move the rejection of the Bill on the 
Second Reading. This determination of the Society to | 
refuse the proposed compromise, and to oppose the Bill, 
led to its withdrawal by the Government. It was also 
found to be against the Standing Orders of Parliament 
to introduce such a Bill without notices. 
In the following session another effort was made 
to force the Government to take steps for the pre- 
servation of the Forest. Mr. Cowper Temple moved 
that it was expedient that measures should be adopted, 
in accordance with the address to the Crown of the 
previous year, for keeping open those parts of Epping 
Forest which had not been inclosed with the assent of the 
Crown, or by legal authority. The motion was opposed 
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lowe, who 
urged that the Government had fairly performed their 
promises of the previous year by the proposals in Mr. 
Ayrton’s Bill. He contended that this measure was 
one of conciliation, the result of negotiation with the 
