23 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 14

T111J• ANTI-WHISTLING RULF..

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] connexion with the recently issued Order forbidding whistling for cabs, the following extract from the laws of former times may be thought of interest. It occurs in a book called Curiosities of the Law Reporters, by Franklin F. Heard, 1871, p. 46 : " In the ' Statutes of the Streets,' printed in 1598, it is ordered that ' no man . . . shall whistle after the houre of nyne of the clock in the night' or ' keep any rule whereby any such suddaine outcry be made in the still of the nighty as making an affray, or beating his wife or servant.' "—I am, Sir, he.,