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The Cabmasters have decided to break the law. They want

more stands,—which is reasonable ; and say that the Railway Companies shall furnish them,—which is absurd. In order to enforce their demand they have organized a strike from to-day, which will worry the public to death, but which will have no effect on the Railway Companies, and which is, moreover, a direct contravention of the law, as the Act threatens every cabmaster who shall withdraw his cab for more than two days from the streets, without just cause, with a penalty of 20s. a day for each cab. The true course to pursue would be to give the cabs more stands, —which might easily be found, if aristocratic prejudices were less regarded,—and then put the law in force in its full strength till Parliament can take the matter in band.

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