The Metropolitan Board has unanimously passed a resolution that its
duty is either to initiate a scheme for supplying gas to London, or to secure legislative protection to consumers, who are now at the mercy of private companies armed with public privi- leges. The Gas Companies and the Board are worthy antagonists, and the prospect before the gas consumers is, therefore, a plea- sant one. They may have good gas in the end, but for the next ten years they will have to pay the expenses of a grand Parliamentary fight. We remember the Telegraph arbitra- tion too well to believe in cheap gas, unless, indeed, Mr. Grant sees his way to buy up all gas shares, and make a present of them to Colonel Hogg. A bright inventor with a millionaire behind him might do it, but invention in this matter of light has been at a stand-still for half a century.
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