The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-03 00:00:00

ALLEGED ENCROACHMENT Off PUBLIC
EIGHTS AT mromaArs.

Yesterday afternoon, at a meeting of the St. Pan-
cras RepresentativeVestri, the subject of au attempt about
to be made to close au soriesit public foot•path, ading from
the end of Swain's
-law, at all foot of Highlegate.hill, to
Highgate.ehurch, wee brought under consideration, end
memorials were presented on the subject.
Mr. Churchwarden CARTES occupied the chair, and a re•
port was read from the Highways, Sewen, and Public Worka
Oommittee, stating that the committee had taken into eon-
sidemtion • letter which had been received from Miss Bar.
dett Coat* calling upon the reetr7 to doom up a lane called
Love-lane, or Drainages-lane, ilighgute ; that the com-
mittee, having also viewed the locality, recommended that
the foot-pith should not be closed or abandoned, Wes a
right of way for the public, but that it should he properly
re paired and drained, for which they had directed the sur-
veyor to prepare estimates.
Two memorials were preessited, one from the immobile*
ad curate of St. Michael's, Highgate, and soother from the
incumbent and some forty or fifty of the inhabitants of fit
Ana's, fitooktiold, stating that the lane known as " Bro.
asagee-lane," or Love-lane, leading from the north end of
Kentialt-town by Swain's-lane to Highgate, was of an me or
benefit to the inhabitants, but for some years past had been
the resort of improper characters, and from the immoralities
practised there a great nuisance ; that there ware Dermal
schools in the neighbourhood, including the endowed public
school of Sir Roger Cholineadeley f and as allow* the
lane to remain open only tended to immorality and was of
no public benefit, the memorialists submitted that instead
of say parish money being spout thereon, it should be at
ma closet

Mr. &L AS TAYLOR said be lad • memorial to present,
which was aged by the whole of the clergy of Kentish-
tows sad the worthase distriele, by twenty members of that
based, andiby wards of three hundred ratepayers al H
rpte and Kewbth-town, praying the vestry not to lieges to
the sitempt to close this right of way against the public.
The semeerialiets Mated that, understanding an attempt
wee being; grade to stop up the foot-path (known as
66 walk"( leading across the fields from Swain's-
heal* they urged the vestry not to sanction, under
the plea litim having occurred there (but which
was dented by the polioel, so unjust an encroachment on the
rights of the public, closing, as it would, one of the few
retired and rural walks still left in the neighbourhood of
the metropohs, and debarring the inhabitants of ours owded
streets and thoroughfares from seeking within so acesesible
a distance of their own dwallinga that fresh air and healthy
exercise which would thus be lost to them for ever. He
moved that this memorial be rcoeived and entered upon
the minutes.

Mr. C. Oulu seconded the motion, which was carried.
Mr. DOOOLAN said there could be no doubt this was
public right cif way. He could remember it himself GO
years alp. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Heinen said the subject was an important one, and
he moved that all the memorials be taken into ootunderation
when the estimates were brought up.
This was sepaded and amid unanimously.

Among the English families of rank palming the
winter at Nice are—the Earl sad Countess Delawarr, Lesd
and Lady Hatherton, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Lothian and Lady Gertrude Talbot, the Marchioness (Dow.
ager) of Lothian and Lady Alice Herr, Sir Hobert and Lady
Emily Peal sad Lady Jana Hay, ke.

" His Grace " of Tuain is out with a now year's
gift, in the shape of an epistle to Lord Palmerston, hi
which, in "his usual able and trenchant style," as re of
his flatterers has it, he calls the premier and, through the
premier, the British nation, to account for a vast accumu-
lation of public sins. Government, be rys, are terrified
out of their seven senses by the monster national petition,
and kis has somehow found out that Lord Palmerton and
Lord John are the reverie of cordial colleagues since the
latter brought that Herculean difficulty upon the shoulders
of a ministry that required no artificial troubles to emble-
m their position.