The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-02 00:00:00

IN THE METROPOLIS.

By virtue of the authority conferred upon the Com-
missioners of the Metropolitan Police by an Act of last
session, they have proceeded to make various alt rations
with respect to the old stands for hackney carriages, and
to appoint others in different localities where the neigh-
bourhood appeared to require such accommodation.
.The Commissioners, in transmitting to us an account of
this proceeding, say that standings for hackney car-
riages have been appointed, which provide room for
1,815 carriages. The chief objects kept in view have
been to place them in the immediate neighbourhood
where they are wanted, without causing obstruction by
their being in the great leading thoroughfares. For this
purpose several standings have been removed from Ox-
ford-street into streets adjoining—as Berners•street,
John-street, Woodstock-street, Old Cavendish-street,
Marylebone-lane, Le.; from the S•rand into Welling-
ton-strut, Agar-street, Duncannon-street, &e. It is nut
possible to avoid some annoyance to residents in the
streets where standings are placed, but the public at
large are deeply interested in having the principal
thoroughfares for the enormous traffic of the town kept
elear of obstructions, and a clear passage left for all. To
Such considerations private interests must yield. Re-'
gulations are made to prevent the drivers and others
standing together on the footways, smoking, drinking,
or by any improper behaviour causing obstruction or
annoyance there.
It will depend on the police who notice the parties,
and the decisions of the ma,gi,trates on cases brought be-
fore them, how far the inhabitants of each neighbour-
hood are relived from the annoyances, to some extent
unavoidable, of a cab stand.
The various stands, as tLcy will be under this new re•
gulation, are as f011,,w

WHITEHALL I)ivisrov.--Traralgar•square, one on
the east side and anfittier on Int) we side; Whitt-hall.

WESTMINSTER DlVlSlON.—Buckingliam-gate; Cad°.
gan-place ; Carey-street, Westminster; Commrcial-
road, Pimlico; Franklin's-row, Chelsea College; Ful-
ham-road ; Grosvenor-street ; Knightsbridgq-green;
Knightsbridge-road; Milbank ; Milton-row; Vauxhall-
brie-road; Palac ; Shaf.4 hurc-teriace, Vaux-
dg,,-ro:01; ,;i
ST. JAMF.S. ,tre,,t, Golden scrue,,;
Condwt-A,reer.R g 145,0r:et ; 1).-vies-str. et, .13,ilieley-
sqn4re ; I lean-stre,t, S ho; I -0 mirk, f, ;
.cestei--,quate; Piccadilly; three in Pic-
cadilly; two in St. James'-street; Woodstock-street,
Oxford-street - • - . .

MLRYLEBONE DIVISION.—Adam-street West, Upper
Berkeley-street ; Boston-street, Park-road ; Great
Mtrylenone-street ; Great Quebec street, New-road ;
Hurt) w-road; London-street, Paddington; Maitia-bill;
Marylobone-lane, Oxford-street; Old Cavendish-street;
Oxford-street; Paddington-street; Praed-street, Edge-
ware-road; three in the Uxbridge-road ; Winchester-
place, New-road.
HOLBORN DIVISION.—Berner'L-street, Oxford street;
Bloomsbury -street, New Oxford-street ; Bury-place,
Bloomsbury; Castle-treat East, Berner's-street; Comp-
ton-street, Brunswick-square; Duke's-road, New-road ;
Foley-street, Portland-place; Goode-street, Tottenham-
court-road; Guilford-street, Foundling Hospital; John-
street; Oxford-street; King's-road, Gray's-inn; two in
the Portland-road ; Southampton-row, Bloomsbury ;
three in Tottenham-court-road.

COVENT-GARDEN DIVISION.—Agar-street, Strand ;
Bedford-street, Strand; Broad-street, St. Giles; Bur-
leigh-street, Strand; Duncannon-street, Strand; two in
Holborn; two in the Strand; Upper Wellington-street;
Wellington-street, Strand.
FINSBURY DlVlSlON.—Clerkenwell•grcen; Cobham-
row, Clerkenwell;,Goswell•road; Goswell-street; Gray's-
inn-road, King's-cross; Old-street, St. Luke's; St. John-
street-road; two in Shoreditch.

WHITECHAPEL DlVlSlON.—Dock•street, Whitechapel;
High-street, Whitechapel ; Little Thames•street, St.
Katherine ; Tower-hill (east side); Tower- hill (west
side).
STEPNEY DIVISION.—Epping-place, Mile end-gate;
High-street, Shadwell; St. Ge3rge's-street, St. George's-
in-the-East; White Horse-street, Ratcliff.
LAMBETH Divistort.—Blackfriart-road; Kennington-
cross; Kenniagton-green; Lambeth-road; Mount-street;
New Bridge-street, Vauxhall; Palace Now-road; St.
George's-road; Waterloo-road.
SOUTHWARK Drastort.—Blackfriars-road; Borough-
road Ea.t; Borough-road West; Dover-road ; High-
street, Southwark ; Old Kent-road; Wellington-street,
South work.

ISLINGTON DIVISION.—BeIinda-terrace, Canonbury-
square, Islington; City-road, Clapham-square, Hackney;
Clark's-place. High-street, Islington; two in the Hollo-
way-road; Islington-green ; Kingsland-road; London-
lane, Hackney ; Penton-street, Pentonville ; Pitfield-
street (near the church). Houton; Richmond-road;
Islington; Rotherfield•street, Islington; Great William-
street, Maiden-lane, Islington.
CAMBERWELL DlVlSlON.—Camberwell-lane ; High-
street, Camberwell; Kennington Church; Manor-place,
Walworth-road; Stockwell-place, Brixton.
GREENWICH DlVlSlON.—Blackheath-village; six in
Greenwich; High-street, Woolwich.
HAMPSTEAD DIVISION.—CharIes-street East, Hemp-
stead-road; College-street, Camden-town ; Cumber-
land-market (centre road); Edgware-road; Hampstead-
road ; High •street, Cimden•town; North-street, Port-
man-market; Ordnance-road, St. John's-wood; Park-
road, St. John's-wood; Seymour-street, Euston-square ;
Wellington-road, Sr. John's-wood ; Wilstead-street,
Somers-town.

KENSINGTON DlVlSlON.—Broadway, Hammersmith ;
four in the Great .Western-road Kensington; Great
Westorn•road, Hammersmith ; Uxbridge•road, Not•
ting•hill.
WANDSWORTH DIVISION. Great George-street,
Richmond; Kew•-road, Richmond ; two in the King's-
road, Chelsea; New-road, water side, Chelsea; Rich-
mond-green, Richmond-hill.