7 DECEMBER 1867, Page 2

The necessary Bill was introduced by Lord Derby the same

evening with a very few remarks, but one curiously perfect repartee. Lord Romilly pleaded for free trade, the price to be painted up on each cab every six months, and said Liverpool was trying it. "Yes," retorted Lord Derby, "and the cabmen are on strike against it there." It is to be remarked that the cab- masters never ask for free trade, which would deprive them of their great privilege, their power of enforcing payment of fares without a civil suit ; and of their great resource, female ignorance.