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TPhait tfe&f m % y create so much noise antf bustle as to injure * tliS retail trade' &f many of , those who dwell ia some abominably parrawi' leading thoroughfares , is equally so ; * for thoroughfares
are expressly meant as conduits , and a street that is not at aH good for business , is m'that respect a very bad street , and ought ^ o be left by the parties most concerned : but that the omnibuses and cabs are a very great accommodation to the majority t > f those dwelling- in London and its suburbs , is a fact too self-evident to
be argued * It seems that Mr . Deputy Brook has thought it patriotic as well as civic , to run brawling to ' Sir Peel' with a petition , meandering to the following effect : —That omnibuses and cabs were ' an intolerable nuisance ; ' that they would ' ultimately ruin the retail trade in the city ; ' that their number was quite unnecessary , and the issue of them ought to be limited by a jurisdiction ' intrusted to certain commissioners to license only as rriany
caiSriages as may from time to time be found necessary for the public accommodation ; ' that they should be driven by respectable individuals , the proprietors being also f persons of character atid respectability / &c . ; Now that they are , to those who keep shops in thorou ghfares , nuisance c intolerable and not to be enduredis likef
a , very , ' y enoughs But the bad building of the metro |) 6 litati lead ! rig streets is being reformed continually ; and where it seems ptfb * bable that this reform will be protracted for a very long period , or until some fire or whirlwind step in to aid the'baiise , ( he aggrieved occupants should e ' en move to a better situation . 'As to tjieir ruining the retail trade in the city , it is a farce which
nobody of thirty years of age who has once been to Londfrn ouglit to listen to without ridicule . What ! have we not see ^ n long before an omnibus or cab was introduced to the public , —ay , seen and enjoyed , with the eyes of a schoolboy just come home at Christmas , the rare fun of a stoppage , a lock of carts , carriages , gigs , hackney-coaches , &c . which at ' high mass' held fast for an hour ; never less than a quarter ? How seldom does this occur
now ! It happened continually some ten or fifteen years a . go ; but the retail trade of London was not ruined . It takes veHr much more to ruin so vast a machine . The petition speaks of loss of lives . How many have been lost by an accident " from an omnibus or cab ? Perhaps the misfortune may have occurred twice or eVen thrice ; for since the world was made , and since factories as well
as coaches have had wheels , frightful accidents , we know , have happened ; \}\ xt compare the number of these with the deaths and mutilations that have occurred from private carriages of £ 11 kijty js f and what a mere aristocratic and exclusive tirade of ba | ile rda ^ h does this furious outcry become ! Aga * in ( , ' the number is tQ pe ^ lim&ed at { he < Jiscretton of * tertaxii feoixifAis ^ ionersi' Y £ d , a joV imoW ttlose who live in thoroughfare ^ ; ' aAJ t 6 'as niitiy
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The Omnibus and CabKfuisnnee to certain People . 269
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/65/
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