§ MR. ALCOCKsaid, he would beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works, Whether he sees any objection to allow hackney cabs to pass through a portion of Hyde Park, in order to avoid Park Lane, which is now rendered almost impassable at times owing to the traffic to the Exhibition?
MR. COWPERsaid, he was aware that Park Lane was too narrow for the traffic which it was at present required to accommodate. But the proper remedy for that inconvenience would be to widen Park Lane, or else to give an outlet towards the north from Hamilton Place. He was afraid, however, that if the traffic 1558 which at present passed through Park Lane was transferred to Hyde Park, the inconvenience would be transferred with it, and a new obstruction would arise in a place which had hitherto been free from it; and, under those circumstances, he was not prepared to adopt the measure to which the hon. Gentleman had referred.