23 AUGUST 1834, Page 17

" It is said that his Majesty's Government intend bringing

in a hill, early in the ensuing session, to place the steam-vessels on the Thames under wholesome police regulations; to prevent them from being over-crowded, to limit their speed between Greenwich and London, and to appoint qualified persons as in- spectors, in order to prevent any steam-vessel from proceeding to sea with de- fective machinery."— Standard.

The sooner this is done the better. Accidents and knavery are of perpetual recurrence on board the Metropolitan steam-boats. It would be extremely easy to enforce two or three simple regula- tions, which would prevent the bursting of rotten boilers, and such scenes as were witnessed on Sunday last, when hundreds who had bought tickets could find no room on board the Gravesend steamers.