Two other subjects of importance, not noticed in the Quo
en's Speech, will be discussed. Mr. Hardy has proposed the repeal of the Costermongers' Clause in the Metropolitan Streets' Act, in a Bill which will leave the street traders at liberty to supply the poor, and his Bill will probably pass, though, if we understand Mr. Ayrton, he thinks liberty to trade without paying rates hard upon his constituents. Costermongers, one perceives, will not vote as lodgers in the Tower Hamlets, but Mr. Ayrton forgets that costermongers' customers will. The second Bill, which in form is a Private Bill, enables the Postmaster-General to buy up the Telegraph Companies, and exercise all their powers, with, we trust, the addition of right of way over all highways, railways, river banks, canal banks, and other paths where posts will be no injury to the proprietors.
