13 APRIL 1833, Page 13

It was stated at a public meeting of rate-payers in

Marylebone, on Thursday, that the traffic of the omnibuses alone in Oxford Street occasioned an additional expense of 8001. per annum in paving. It seems somewhat hard that the inhabitants of a district should pay so much for having a rattle kept up before their houses. They might entertain an ambulatory orchestra for less money; which certainly would be more agreeable than the noise of these moving mountains—to be compared to nothing else than an elephant in fits, or perhaps Noah's Ark driving upon breakers.