7 DECEMBER 1867, Page 1

London has had a short Cab strike. The cabmasters were

irritated by an order, embodied in that unlucky Metropolitan Streets' Act, directing them to provide their cabs with lamps, and on Wednesday all cabs drove home at four o'clock. Even the cabmen belonging to the railways were afraid to ply, or said they were, and passengers, trusting their luggage to porteri, got home bow they could. A few cabmen stood out for their right to drive, but.they were per- suaded or bullied into compliance with the general resolve, the mode of coercion being, apparently, to take their "plates," and thus render them liable to punishment for driving without a number. In a few instances we regret to perceive cabs were violently overturned. A Mr. Ayliffe, for example, reports to the Times that ,he was thus treated at Chariog Cross, but deprives himself of all public sympathy by suggesting that the Horse Guards should deal with the cabmen. A Briton in a rage is certainly not a -kindly animal, and had the cabmen been vegrees, the advice would probably have been acted on.