To The Editor Of The Time...
bir,_-Vermit mc, through the rnediun of your paper, to draw the attention of thc public, and especially olthc police, to nuisance wilich every one who frequents the streets oi London usthare seen and deplored. I reter to the frequent e-hibidons of giants and other curiosities, natural and unnatural, which are pernitted to takeplace, even in out most crowdeI thoroughfarsc. Dur.ing the summer sea- son, when the numnber of persens in towvn is comparatively trifling, such sights arc seldo-m to be seen; but no souwer are tbe country fairs over, than they flock to the envitor.s of London, and areallowed to deforrr our streets, at a time when carriages roll in every direction, and it is necessary eveni for the most fearless to be cautious. The crowvds that are Kathered, and the Iiindrace occasioned to fbot-pae.- sengers, might be urged as sufficient reasons lbr the interferernce r, the police, but how miiuchi more imperative does that interference be- come wbten we consider the danger that must result from1 collecting a crowd of ciildren in a public thoroughlfre 5' An instance has just occurred that fally Wilustrates what I assert. An exhibitor of some monstrosity (I know not wvhat) took his stand this afternoon in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's.inn-fields, and bv- sound of drum and pipe, drew around }is show-cart a great crowd, through which everv carnage that passed had, of'course, to make ihs way. The result may be toreseen: for somie time all went on -well, but the crowrd increased-carriaaes had rnore and more difficulty in forcing their way, and at length a poor little girl was kinocked down., and tie w heels of' a chariot passel in succession over hcr body. A gentleman who was in the clisiot imnuediajey opened the door, sprung fromn it with a prontptitude that does him infinite credit, anti. bote the bruised and wounded child into the uhop of a toedical man, wvhich luckily was close at hand. I am pleased to leamrn that the in- Jury it nototsoscrious anatureas might be anticipated; buttheoc- currence is one that poirts out in the strongest manner the imnpro. priety and danger nftsuch exhibitions. As regards the public, tutey can be attended withi ro other coasequences than to render the streets insecure. by -fihrdJng opportunities for pickpockets, aud nultiplying those disAbtrous accidents that occur far too frequently. I am, Sir, yoiur most obedient h,,,,hl A FRIEND 'V1 hU.iAN ITY. (ircat Quee sltreet, Nov. 24. TO Tir EDITOR OF TIlE TIJM ES.