We regret to see that the House of LOrds on
Monday accepted Lord Newton's instruction to the Committee to strike out the clause in the London County Council's Subways and Tramways Bill authorising a section of tramway along the Embankment intended to provide for traffic between the North and South of London. Personally and on esthetic grounds we should prefer to see the Embankment without tramways on any portion of it, but the public convenience produced by rapid and easy communication across London is too important to be subject to any such considerations. The provision of improved means of communication is essential to the welfare of London. We trust, therefore, that when the clause is restored in the Commons, as we have no doubt it will be, the Lords will have the good sense to allow it to stand.
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