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London, England, 1863-07-09 00:00:00

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LATEST BETTING.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
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The Proposed Regulation of the City Traffic.

Yesterday a committee of the House of Commons, con-
sisting of Mr. Baillie, chairman, Mr. liekewich, Mr. Dut-
ton, Mr. Nicol, and Mr. Buller, met to consider and take
evidence on this important subject.
Sir W. Alexander, Q.C., Mr. Russell Gurney, the Re-
corder, and Mr. Chambers, the Common Sergeant, appeared
for the bill ; Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., and Mr. Round, for
the merchants and traders of the City, against it; and Mr.
Bradbee for the London General Omnibus Ccmpany...

Sir W. ALEXANDER, in opening the case, said the bill was
for the better regulation of the traffic in the streets of the
City, and for the prevention of obstructions therein by the
regulation of omnibuses, cabs, carriages, and carts, and the
loading and unloading of the same, so as to enable the daily
increasing traffic to be conducted in a safer manner, and
with leas delay. It was a matter of immediate urgency to
relieve, regulate, and facilitate the enormous traffic radiating
from the railways and converging from all the outlying dis-
tricts. The great object of the measure was to empower the
Corporation to divide and regulate the mass of traffic flow-
ing from London-bridge to the end of Cheapside by divert-
ing a principal portion of the omnibus and other traffic down
Cannon-street, which was at present unused, and which, to
the great inconvenience of trade and the public, now hugged
and blocked up the Poultry and Cheapside. The regulation
in this way of the traffic by the policeat London-bridge had
worked most beneficially, and it was proposed to extend the
system to all the other main thoroughfares within the City
jurisdiction. Powers would also be taken to regulate the
height and width that vans, drays, and other vehicles with
goods should be laden with, with the breadth between the
outsides of the wheels; also for determining the particular
streets and the time of day and night at which conveyances
with goods should pass, or be prohibited from passing, the
mode in which cabs or hackney carriages shall be distin-
guished when empty and when plying for hire, and the time
of day when coals shall be delivered into cellars ; the regula-
tions liable to be enforced by penalties to be approved by the
Secretary of State. It was proposed that all the omnibus
traffic destined for Fleet-street and the Strand should go via
Cannon-street, and that for Holborn, Oxford-street, and
Regent-street via Cheapside. At present, owing to the
absence of the proposed methodical system, a large body of
police, draughted from their ordinary duties, had to be em-
ployed at an enormous expense. It was found that while
in one hour 221 omnibuses passed through Cheapside, only
two went through Cannon-street, the total vehicles through
Cheapside being 1,158, to only 600 through Cannon•-street ;
and in consequence of the " crawling system" and the
block up, an omnibus often occupied half an hour betweend
the Mansion House and Sir Robert Peel's statue at the end
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