§ MR. READsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to some recent convictions of carters for driving farm waggons "with reins attached to all the horses;" and why drays and vans with three or more horses can with impunity be driven through the most crowded streets of the metropolis, while the driver of a common waggon cannot ride upon such carriage upon any turnpike in the rural districts without rendering himself liable to a heavy fine?
§ MR. GATHORNE HARDY, in reply, said, no application had been made to the Home Office on the subject, and he consequently had had no information upon it beyond that communicated to him by the hon. Member. The Act under which persons were fined in the country did not apply to the metropolis. It was required that in addition to the driver there should be some one to guide the horses, and this had probably been neglected in the cases in which convictions had taken place.