The G-meral Omnibus Company has, we see, declared a divilendsmral
to 7i per cent. Considering the monopoly they enjoy, this is poor work, but the returns will never be much better till the vehicles are improved. Except a four-wheel cab, nothing is so discreditable to British inventiveness as the ordinary omni- bus. Has not the company 1,0001. to spare for a design of a car- riage which shall give passengers some room, make the roof accessible to a decent woman or a man who is not an acrobat, enable the passenger to stop without tapping the conductor, and the conductor to take his fare without stopping the omnibus, and above all, admit of a uniform threepenny fare for all distances ? If passengers by these advertising vans had any voice in the matter, the company would never declare a dividend. A uniform tare would of itself save them 10,0001. a year, for they could then sell tickets all over London, and forbid their conductors to receive cash.
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