The cabmen who waited upon the Home Secretary on Monday
to protest against the proposed extension of the four-miles radius, ventilated their grievances with great energy and picturesqueness of language. Mr. Gordon, a cab- driver of twenty years' standing, declared that the regular in- habitants outside the radius did not mind ls. a mile, and that it was only " jerry-builders who could not let their houses, and the vestrymen, who only took a cab when they could not get a train or an omnibus," who wanted a change. " They [the vestrymen) sometimes have a cab, and they never want to pay the fare, or when they do, they always want to bate you up hill and down dale." The hills in the suburbs are so bad, that " you want a steam-roller in front of your horse to pull you up." The people inside only say, " Oh ! you must get clown, you really must," but they do not care anything about your life, nor yet about your horse, though some are more humane than others, and do care about a horse." " If," he ended, " people cannot afford to pay ls. a mile, they should not live out there." Mr. Clegg, a hansom-driver—we wonder if this is the very Clegg who drove Mr. Bultitude P—com- plained, not without reason, of the " rummy " names people gave their houses. in thesnburbs.
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