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are to pay, must first be settled if the unfortunate
persons are not to be ruined by the cost of legal
proceedings to ascertain what they must pay.
Lastly, let the poor toilers at the East End be
remembered in the settlement of this question. If
mercy is to be one of the elements in its determination
let their claim for mercy be heard. The West End
has its large and well kept parks, and if the building
of even one house in Hyde Park is loudly objected to
as depriving the public of an open space, how
much more is the unlawful detention from the East
End of 740 acres of their park open to just and
reasonable objection.