The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

THE CABS OF PARIS.

Some difference of opinion seems to exist amongst
the police magistrates as to the construction of the new act
regarding the cabman's obligation to give a ticket with his
number printed upon it to each hirer of his ;tab. It has
been decided in some cases that it is sot compulsory upon
the cabman to give the ticket nolo= required to do so; on
the other hand, those magistrate* who have decided that
the cabman is bound to give the ticket whether be is asked
ter it or not, have had some doubt as to whether it is to be
delivered at the time of hiring, or at what other time.
There can be little doubt that the idea of the ticket
system was drawn from the plan adopted in
Paris, and it is therefore reasonable to suppose
that the intention of the framer of the New Cab Act
was to assimilate the English to the French method. In
Paris, when you hire a cab, the driver presents you with s
ticket as you enter his vehicle, and upon this ticket is
printed the tariff of the carriages sad the number of the
cab. Many of the drivers are now in the habit of giving a
little book, about two inches and a half long by two inches
wide, containing some ten or a dozen pages of advertise-
ments, the cover only being devoted to the number and tariff.
The notice relative to this new plan of advertising is as
follows:—" The order of the Prefecture of Police concern-
ing the public carriages directs that every coachman shall
offer to each hirer of his carriage a ticket indicating the
number of his carriage. M. Dupont is authorised
to substitute for this ticket a little book contain.
ing seek! and industrial notices to the public. In
order to suit all persons who may desire to avail
themselves of this medium of 'drudging, the 1,200 car-
rips to which the system is adapted are divided into four
eerie., of 300 carriages each, so th.t advertisers have the op-
tion of subscribing to all the four anise, or to take one or
more as they may desire. Advertisers may subscribe for
half or quarter of a page. As every carriage delivers about
twelve numbers per day, the total of the number of books
distributed by the 1, MOcarriages amounts to 14,000 a day,
or 432,000 per month, and 6,181,000 per annum." It
may not be uninteresting to add the exact tariff now in
force for public carriages in Paris. It appears that cabs
holding four persons, either with one or two horses, are
entitled to If. 6 sons (one shilling) for the journey, to
whatever length that journey may extend ; and If. 16 sons
for the hear ; inereased at n' ht to If. 16 sous for the Jour-
ney, or 21. 10 sone the hour. Large carriages with two hone*
receive If. 10 sous the journey, or 2f. the hoar. There is •
higher charge for superior carriages answering to our flys.
This tariff extends to all places within the fortificatiess
round Paris—a slight addition is made for the journey be-
yond this limit. The rule as to baggage is that all driven
are to receive ea the carriages, without any addition to the
pries flud, sulk Wasp and packages of travellses, as
from their welild, sine, and nature can be placed thereon.
It will thee be mess thst the tariff in Paris is much lower
than that alliasd is laatioa, since • driver of • cab, equal
in every Nepal to a Leaden cab, may have to go from one
end of Paris to the other for the sum of one shilling. At
ever] stand there is an officer appointed to eaperiatend the
carriages, which are at ell times clean and in good condition.
The drivers are engaged at a regular salary by the Owner'
of cabs, and if a long journey is taken it is usual to give
the driver two sous, or one penny, for himself, and this is
quite sufficient to satisfy him and to secure his civility.

FATAL. AOCIDIRT.—OR ifititralty 11114 I Melancholy
accident occurred at Uplyme, near Lyme legis, in Dorset.
shire by which one man lost Si life and another was very
seriously injured. A man nomad Fowler, one of the tenants
of Reginald Talbot, /in., of Rhode-hill House, had been
working a limekiln for some few weeks past upon the farm,
and the men in his employ had undermined the adjoining
earth by digging too far in one direction. They had been
warned in the morning of Saturday that that particular
pert looked dangerous, but the men persisted recklessly to
work on, sad while they were at their work the earth,
which is of a loose and chalky character, fell in upon them
and buried two of them. Assistance was precured, and one
of them, named Henry Miller, was dug out before life was
satinet, and some hopes are entertained of biz ultimate ra.
paver,; the other poor fellow wee dug out soon afterwards,
bat not until all chance of restoration was gone. Az inquest
was to be held yesterday.
AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—An affray of a very
serious character occurred on the estate of Jonathan Hard-
castle, Esq., at Blidworth Dale, in this county, between
the keepers and tenter. of that gentleman and a party of
poachers, who were netting rabbits on the estate, by whom
Samuel Whitehead, a son of the keeper, was very severely
beaten, and he new lies in a very dangeroas state. In ad-
dition to his skull being fractured, his face presents a mass
of braises and cuts, infiiiited with stones and bludgeons.
It is supposed that there were upwards of a score of the
rnehstre, and only ten keepers and tenter.. Seven persons
have since been apprehended and conveyed to the police-
station at Mansfield, on the charge of being concerned in
the affray, sir of them Mansfield men, whose names are
Inns, Reynolds, Place, two Gilberts, and Powell, and •
man named George Hamilton, from Oztan, who it appears
is a recently-discharged gamekeeper of H. Sherbrooke,
IN.—Notts Jourvial.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—Lent Monday an accident
occurred at Messrs. Crossley', dyers, Watenide, to an old
man named John Shaw. lie was engaged at • machine
for drying cloth, and, observing some of it to be ruffled, he
loaned over the rollers to straighten it, when, unfortunately,
his left arm was caught by some wheels, drawn in, and
almost torn off. To add to his sea
alerings, his arm and all
down the left side wee dreadfully scalded by the steam.
The poor fellow was conveyed to the infirmary, where he
lies at present almost without hope of recovery.—Halifag
Guardian.

VALUE OF A DAY'S FISHING AT WICIL-OE
Tuesday last the value of the green fish delivered in the
Wick district would amount to 12,0001.—when barrels, salt,
and labour in curing are added, the aggregate amount
would be fully 20,001:I1.—Nor1A British

THAMES HAVIIN RAILWAY.—It is understood that
the agreement for selling this railway for 49,6001. 6 per
matt* the Tilbury and Southend Railway, is complatad.