London Liberals have a now grievance against the House of Lords. They have thrown oura County Council Bill which had passed the Commons, the main object of which was to otapower the Council to bring the tramways over Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges, und along the Embankment. The County Council have been fighting this question for years, but they have hitherto boon strongly opposed by the City Corporation, which would never consent to the introduction of tramways into any part of the city. At last, however, the Corporation have awoke to the necessity of joining up the tramways of North and South, and by a substantial majority they supported the scheme. Than the Council thought they were safe; the more so as the Royal Commission on the Means of Locomotion and Transport in London has just presented its report, snd among a multitude of well-copsiderai. recommendations "has urged that the northern and southern tramway systems should ho joined up at once by way of Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges, without wailing for the oxganis tion of the rest of their elaborate scheme. The Lords who supported the rejection urged that the County Council scheme would not join up the two systems, and this is true for the tim; puta subway for tram. ways is being constructed under Kingsway, the great new thoroughfare from Holbora to the Strand: and it' was intended later on to extend this subway to the Embankment, bring' so joining it on to the line over the two sit to the surface there and bridges. The Liberals are denouncing the selfishness of men who never ride in tramways, thus preventing a reform greatly needed by less wealthy Londoners; but no doubt the only result of the rejection will be to delay the carrying out of the scheme for a year or so. while it is being elaborated and improved, 28th July.
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