The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-20 00:00:00

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of foot passengers has been very generally felt. The
subways, though of course a little more costly, would
be the most durable, and in many respects the best,
and therefore they should certainly be adopted at
the large and dangerous meetings of highways, such
as the crossing from the Bank to the Mansion-

house. The bridges may serve the purpose very
well at less important crossings, and we are heartily
glad that the Corporation have provided so sensible
and efficient a remedy for what is really a great and
increasing danger, to which every inhabitant of
London is more or less exposed. The
City will have the credit of being the first to
inaugurate the reform, but we hope it will
not be long before the West-end authorities
follow their example. The new bill was gene-
rally approved of at the meeting of the Common
Council yesterday, and it was determined, as an
earnest of the sincerity of the Corporation in
their improving intentions, to increase the police
force by 50 men, in order to carry out the regu-
lations in the traffic. It was said that the Police
Commissioner was of opinion that nothing short
of a general widening of the City streets would
mend matters, but such a change would be worse
than the disease. It would, in fact, be simply
impossible to carry it out, entailing, as it would,
such immense commercial inconvenience and loss,
in addition to the actual expense. All new streets
and highways may, indeed, be constructed on a
larger and more business-like scale, but the idea
of pulling down and widening Cheapside or the
Poultry, for instance, is one not very likely to
find favour among City men. Just now such
a project seems especially unnecessary, when
the Thames Embankment, the new streets, and
the underground railways, are all preparing to re-
lieve the pressure on the City thoroughfares. The
methods recommended by the Corporation for
ameliorating the present evils are so simple and
sensible that it is only wonderful they have not
been tried before. If the provisions of this new
bill are fully carried out we may reasonably hope
to see a considerable alteration in the chaos and
confusion of our great arteries of commercial life,
as well as a diminution in the number of those
casualties which now occur with startling and
amentable frequency.

THE LATE KING OF THE BELGIANS

BRUSSELS, Dec. 19.

The Independence Beige says :—" Queen Victoria
has sent Miss Andrews, one of her maids of honour,
to Brussels, to obtain from the Queen of the Belgians
in person a detailed account of the last moments of
Leopold I. Miss Andrews left for London on
Tuesday night, after having had an audience with
the Queen."
A rumour is current in the city that the Ministry
has given in its resignation, and that the King has
declined to accept it.

TEL BRAZILS.

ing of the Indian telegraph lines report arrears of
work since 1862, and recommend the employment
of an increased staff. _ _ .

Mr. Lewis, the Advocate General, died suddenly
in the High Court of Bombay, on the 14th inst.
It is the intention of the Indian Government to
publish monthly returns of trade, navigation, and
finance, commencing from the month of May next.
A native coasting boat has been run down by the
steamer Bombay Castle, outside the harbour.
Fifteen natives were drowned.

The public health is good, and the crops present
a promising appearance. Money is in demand.
Imports steady. Cotton advancing.