The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-20 00:00:00

OMNIBUS TRAMWAYS,

Tile London General Omnibus Company, acting
upon a suggestion thrown out in this journal in
August, 1850, are about to expend 50,0001. of their
surplus capital in laying down tramways for omni-
buses in certain of the leading thoroughfares in the
metropolis where the width of the road is sufficient
to admit of the experiment without risk of inter-
ference with the ordinary traffic. The plan, as
many of our readers will be aware, has bean tried
and adopted with very great success and consider-
able public benefit in Paris, Lyons, New York, and
Boston ; and the practicability of it has therefore
been demonstrated beyond question. A tramway
of this description has been for nearly three years
in use between Paris, Boulogne, and St. Cloud, and
is now extended to Sevres and Versailles, and also
in Lyons, New York, and Boston ; and large omni-
buses, carrying from 60 to 80 passengers each, are
thereon propelled by 2 horses at a speed varying
from 8 to 10 miles an hour, with great facility.
The part of the metropolis on which the experiment
is about to be tried commences with the road
from Nottingbill- gate, via the Grand Junction-
road, New-road, City-road, and Moorgate-street to
the Bank, with branches to the Great Vestern and
London and North-Western Railways, and to
Fleet-street, via Bagnigge-wells-road. The length
of this line with sidings will be about 8 miles and
a-half, and the road, with the exception of the in-
clines at Pentonville, is broad and eminently qua-
lified for the trial. In the event of its success the
company next csntemplate the extension of the
plan to the road from Edmonton to the city, by
way of Kingsland and other parts of the metropolis.
The tramways when laid will be perfectly flush with
the general surface of the roadway, and will not
in any way interfere with the passage along and
across it of any ordinary road waggon or carriage ;
and as the new omnibuses in passing along will be
confined to the tramway, which will consist of a
double line in the centre of the roadway, the
sides of the road, and indeed the entire width,
except during the instant of passage, will
be free to the general traffic, which will thus be
carried on without interruption. The great
economy which will be effected by the adoption of
the new tramway system will enable the company
to carry the public at reduced fares, and at a greater
rate of, speed. The omnibuses will be large and
commodious, with flanged wheels and axles radia-
ting to the curves, and if found desirable, might be
constructed with first and second class apartments.
The nett annual profit to he derived from the tram-
' way traffic has been estimated at 11,0731.—that is,
on the route on which it is proposed to make the
experiment, which will he equ .1 to 22 per cent.
on the capital of 50,0001. The project is to be
carried out by a company, with limited liability,
entirely distinct from the London General Omni-
bus Company—the latter subscribing in shares to
the new company to the extent of 50,0001. in aid
of the undertaking. The facility for starting and
stopping the tramway omnibus with improved break
will be quite as great as the ordinary road omnibus,
so that theie will be no loss of time on this account.
It is this power in horses of starting or stopping
almost instantaneously which makes the tramway
for short distances and frequent stoppages equal,
if not superior to the railway with steam power.
If the system of fixed stations or stepping-places
along the route were adopted in lieu of stopping at
the wish of eve.y passenger, much time might be
saved ; but in New York, we believe, the tramway
omnibuses stop wherever they are required to take
up and set down passengers, and no inconvenience
found to arise from this system of working them.
The probable cost of laying down the tramways as
double lines, including the expense of taking up
and relaying the pavement is estimated at some-
thing less than 3,0001. per mile.

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When the first Sir ROBERT PEEL presented, in
1819, the celebrated petition from the merchants,
bankers, traders, and others of the City of Lon-
don and its vicinity against the bill introduced
by his eldest son, he expressed a hope that " be-
fore a measure so destructive of the commercial
interests of the country was passed (and when he
said that, he said that Honourable Members
would conclude every other interest to be com-
bined with those, and to go along with them)
the House would pause awhile to collect that in-
formation which they so peculiarly wanted."
The venerable Baronet clearly p?rceived t! e
terrible dangers likely to arise from the reclCes,
adoption of that most impolitic and iniquitous
measure. He had acquired a noble fortune under
the same system by which the gigantic one of Lord
OPERSTONE had been amassed. But although Li,
individual interests would be greatly promoted by
the Act, the effect of which was virtually to double
his wealth, 65 was too patriotic and honest to in-
jure his struggling countrymen for his own private
advantage. He was contented with what he had
achieved, and did not wish to prevent others from
cbtainivg similar prosperity.
The petitioners, between four and five hundred
of the most respectable merchants and bankers of
the Metropolis, declared that the measure would
‘` tend to a forced, precipitate,"aed highly injuri-
ous contraction of the circulating medium of the
country," and they expressed a very decided opi-
nion, that " the consequences of such contraction
would be to add to the burden of the public debt,
greatly to increase thepressure of the taxes, to lower
the value of all landed and commercial property ;
seriously to affect both public and private credit ;
4o .embarrass and reduce all the operations of
agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and to