Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Transport, Invention, Public Health, Progress, Exhibitions

    Expresses boredom at newspaper reports of the imminent arrival of a new omnibus and treats as 'pure fiction' the report of an exhibition of a new omnibus at Stoke Newington—an omnibus that is claimed to be of considerable length and breadth, to have extensive passenger space and decent ventilation, and to be extremely 'light' and 'springy'. Denies having faith in any 'improvement in our old constitutional 'bus' and tries to find reasons for retaining the older invention.