The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-29 00:00:00

DENMARK.

In the last sitting of the Chamber, the President
of the Council communicated to the Deputies the
change in the Ministry. The President of the
Chamber afterwards stated he had received an official
notification of the intention of the Government to lay
before the Assembly, at the latest by the end of the
week, a statement of the political position of the
country. M. Hansen had given notice of an inter-
pellation on the subject; but on an appeal from the
President, and in consideration that an official state-
ment would so shortly be made, be withdrew it. M.
Hauien asked if the report would be read in a public
sitting ; the President of the Council said the Cabinet
would come to a decision on the point before the
report was made.

THE OMNIBUS DRIVERS.
On .Monday evening a meeting was held at the
School-room, Liverpool-road, Islington, preliminary
to calling an aggregate meeting at Exeter Hall, to
consider the best mode of improving the condition of
the omnibus drivers and conductors of London, and
affording them some relaxation and opportunity of
attending public worship. It appeared, from a state-
ment that was made, that there are at present 3,000
omnibuses plying on the streets, the cost of which
had been 300,0001. Each of them had ten horses
attached, the value of which in the gross was also
300,0001. The harnesses were worth 60,0001. ; and
sundries being taken at 2 0001, the total of capital
invested amounted to 962:000/. The number of
drivers and conductors employed was 6,000; of horse-
keepers, 3,000; and " odd 131P0," that is persons oc-
crsionally employed, wes 2,000; making a total of
11,000 persons daily employed in the omnibus traffic
of London. The number of persons conveyed by
each omnibus per day was calculated to be 300, or
2,000 per week, which would give, as the total
number of persons conveyed in all the omnibuses
running, no less a number than six millions
a week, and about three hundred millions
a year. It was urged that something might to be
done for the men who were in fact the active servants
of these numerous passengers, who for 16 hours a day
drove between 60 end 70 miles, so as to enable them
to obtain some of the comforts of social and family
life. A very strong description cf the hardships aris-
ing from continuous labour and perpetual absence
from their homes was given by Mr. Scully, a working
man. He also stated numerous cases of confirmed
constitutional illness in this class of men, produced by
the hardships they went through. He urged the
utter impossibility of these men being able to make
any provision for themselves in sickness, or for their
famiies after their deaths. He placed before the
meeting the claims of an institution which had been
establishei, called the "Metropolitan Omnibus Servants
Society," and expressed a hope that a school for tha
children cf omnibus conductors and drivers would be
established.

The state menta of Mr. Scully were corroborated
by a timekeeper of one of the City omnibuses.
After several otlvr cddresses, it was arranged that
another meeting :bould take place nest week at Mr.
11-osiiitot,'s school-room, in order to make arrange-
ments for a gener.l rri-t-tio4 on the subj,fet.