The Metropolitan District Railway Company have discovered that quarrelling with
the House of Commons does not pay. They- have a Bill in Parliament, and on Tuesday Mr. Marriott moved. an instruction to the Committee to which the Bill is referred to insert a clause compelling the Company to pull down the
shafts, which poison the Embankment. The Com- mittee are to settle any reasonable terms. The motion was hardly opposed, except by the Railway interest, and was carried by 200 to 110. It is understood that the Company will give- way ; and it is as well they should, as Parliament might, if resisted, give them sharper treatment. It is quite evident, from several recent votes that the constituencies will not endure the claim of corporations to maltreat the public for their own advantage any longer, and that the Railway interest in particular must dismount. We do not despair of seeing a railway chairman hanged, or of recording a Bill compelling the railways to run workmen's trains at a halfpenny a mile.
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