Taken all round, our cabs and our cabmen are not unsatisfactory. The men are cheerier than a number of their foreign contemporaries. They are, as a rule, civil and obliging; as for the cabs, in spite of the complaints about the hansoms, there are no better vehicles for the public in the world. The is exactly suited to Londoners. Victorias, well enough in the summer, would be impossible in the winter. As to the several specimens of this type of conveyance are far from bad. There are worse four-wheeled conveyances on the Continent than in London. But it is only right to add, However, we might go farther and fare worse, and with this rather half-hearted benediction I reserve further remarks about cabs and cabmen for my next chapter.