Hackney-Coaches.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-The plans which I have hitherto seeni suggested by your correspondents for preventing the imposition and the insults to which the public are so frequently exposed from the drivers of hackney- coaches, seem to me of too partial a nature to remedy the evils com- plained of, and also to require a littlc more arithmetic than many who make use of such conveyances are possessed of. As the present system of regulating hacknev-coach fares is really insuffcient to pro- tect His Mlajesty's lieges from knavery and insult,and calls for some amendment, notlhing less, I conceive, thaR a plan decidedly efficient if such can be found, should be adopted in ius stead. And such, i thlink, is the following one.:-Iet it be niatle imperative upon the proprietors of the carriagets in question to attach to every Yehicle a piece of mechanism (an odometer), communicating with one of the wheels, to indicate the exact distance which has been gone over. All, then, that would be required of the fare to prevent Impositien, would be a glance at the Index upon entering and leavintg the coacb. The only objection that can be raised to thc above plan is? that it waould entail a considerable expense upon the proprietors, without conferring upon them any adrantuee. But such an objection may surely be obviated: for, in the first place, I am persuaded that the expense would be but trifling, and that the proprietora would be suf- fiecently indemnified by the 3ess frequent attendance at the police- office of theiT scrvants, by whose absence they must, in some de- gree, suffer; and, secondly, if a pecuniary remenekation be really necesary, let thc public be taxed in such proportion as may be re. quired fbr the purpose: anid I must confess that I have formed a very erroneous notion of John Bulll's character, if he would not willingly pay an additional legal fare to secure himself from Imposition; for John woild at any time rather pay a pound which may be lawfully dempnded, than a shilling where it is not due. But I must now lea-ie the subiecs in the h. n d ,l- th A LANCASTRIENSIS. I Oct. In. BA CKA7EY-COACIBES.