Everybody gets compensation nowadays, and we want to know why
the group of journals in Wellington Street, which includes the Spectator, the Examiner, the Athenseum, and we know not how many more, should not have some too. Their proprietors, editors, managers, and contributors are all to be driven mad in the public interest, and are at least as well entitled to pensions as " re- trenched " Commissioners of Customs. Here is the Board of Works, in its profound contempt for any interest except that of the public, voting a million sterling for the enfranchisement of all London bridges, Waterloo Bridge included,—a measure which will benefit all London, and by quintupling the traffic in Wel- lington Street make our lives a burden. We ought to
have damages, but we will, on behalf of our brethren, make the Board a fair offer. If they will aspbalte Wellington Street, we will admit the truth, which is that their proposal will directly and immensely benefit all interests in London except those of a dozen or two of journalists, who will be driven to plate- glass, double windows, or cotton wool in their ears.
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