Alexandria Gazette

Novel method of defeating an act of Parliament.—Last week, at Queen's square Police office, the drivers of two Hammersmith omnibuses were fined 40s., or one months imprisonment, for obstructing the carriage way by stopping in the road. It appears that by the act of Parliament any constable or peace officer has the power to take into custody the driver of any public vehicle who refuses to remove while obstructing the high road, without taking the trouble of summoning them. The drivers in the above-mentioned cases were taken off their boxes and conveyed to the station house and convicted the next morning. On Saturday evening an omnibus was obstructing the road at Knightsbridge, and the driver refused to move on when desired by the constable, who was about to take him to the station house, when he found that the driver was chained on the box, and fastened by a huge padlock. The attempt to remove him was useless. Several other omnibuses came along at the same time, stopped as long as they pleased, and the drivers, who were all fastened to their boxes, shook their chains at the police, and defied them to take them into custody.—London Paper