§ MR. LOCKEasked the Secretary of the Board of Trade, What course it is proposed to take in regard to the suspended Provisional Orders and Bills for promoting Tramways in the Metropolis?
§ MR. A. PEELsaid, that having regard to the late period of the Session, and to the fact that a Joint Committee of both Houses were sitting on this question of tramways, it was proposed to further suspend the schemes for the promotion of tramways in the Metropolis which were now in suspension, and to extend that suspension so as to include all new Orders and new Bills of a similar nature. There would be one exception to that rule, in the case of the London, Streatham, and Croydon Tramway, which could scarcely be called a metropolitan tramway, since it proposed to run in a direction which was beyond the radius of the metropolis. The promoters had decided to prosecute their case before a Select Committee, and take their chance of success or defeat there.