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8
Bills
before Parliament.

Whitechapel
Hay Market.
With regard to the Whitechapel Hay Market, the Vestry are
pleased to be able to record that the regulations made by the
Trustees, which were referred to in the Vestry's last Report,
have been efficiently carried out; and the Committee of your
Board and the delegates from adjoining Boards, at a meeting
held in the Vestry Hall, were unanimously of opinion that
matters should be allowed to rest as they are, for the present,
at all events.
Trafalgar
square.
The action against the Vestry, in relation to Trafalgar Square,
came on for trial before the Vice-Chancellor, Sir R. Malins, in
November last.
Mr. Glass, Q.C., Mr. J Chester, and Mr. Reid, appeared for
the plaintiffs, and Mr. J. Pearson, Q.C,, Mr. F. W. E. Everitt,
and Mr, G. Pitt-Lewis, for the Vestry,
Mr. W. Nicholson was the only witness called on the plaintiffs'
part, but there were 18 witnesses on the part of the Vestry.
The Vice-Chancellor having expressed an opinion that it was
clear that the space outside the small circular enclosure, which
formerly stood in the square, had been open and dedicated to the
public. Of the Vestry's witnesses only Messrs. Pollard, Moody,
F. J. Wood and Leatherdale were called, as the evidence of the
others was to prove that fact.