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. LONDON, MONDAY, DRUMM= &

Is the Metropolitan Board of Werke to be a
reality, or a sham P Lit to show the equity of 1
Leaden foe ataaegisg Itself, draining itself, sad
providing itself with parka and street izsproventeate t

or is it merely a ;teasingly devised mentrivenos
interposed by the Bxecudve between the people and
the Ministry—set op in order to fail—with pewees
that won't work, sad authority that wee never
intended to be operative P This lea pestles which
the Board of Works has recently bean patting to itself,
and not, we think, Wore it was time. It wee created
primarily for the purpose of providing an adequate
system of main drainage for this city of 2,000,000
of inhabitants. That by Ad of Parliament is its
main bedtime, the &Joked and eldest fee whisk it
wee ant ushered into the troebled world of heads sad
ansmissiess. A great parpass—a gigands Mame—
perirstions pinwale epee stem. It may not have gone
to work with absolute wisdom, bat at all emirs it
has taken a world of pains. It has met and met
spin, end bewildered Itself with plans, and mistime,
and sedzaates, till the wry seam ~ faints *tiring.
Ole Wenn perplexity into whisk it has plunged.
With infinite dimealty, tad eller wield sauWap
from all sides, it at length arrives at something like
ea approximate estimate of the proboble east of the
work expected from it. It is not at all metals who.
they any modification eves of the plea last seat is
will be adopted, bat this at all mate is adds, that
for lets than some three sillies sad a half sterling,
so plan whatever of main daisy, sea have a Ghana
&Deis, carried out. Is oddities to this preepestive
. _

Aerie, the late Comminimmes of Bower; ban left
ea band a little debt of between 400,00 W. awl
600,0001. waiting to be liquidated. On turning to
its Aot of Parliament, with the reeeenable desire of
assertabaing bow this 4,000,0001. et peaspestiv• liabi-
lity is to be defrayed, the Board Inds that it has no
pewee of raising capital mein by boerowiag of
lasuranos Moue on the enmity of its rates. This
is sot a comfortable state et things. At the pre-
sent prim of mosey it may readily be oosjestured en
what tense the Metropolitan Board would be enabled
to borrow, from the./ass such a sum as 4,000,000/.
en mob a smutty as its retie. In this dilemma the
Beira went to the CHANCILLOIL of the Ricimitausa
en Thursday last to ask the minimums of Goverammit.
They requestul a loan of 1,000,00 W. a year for four
yearn, to be repaid in fifty years, and the mourity
they peered was rate of Sjd. in the pound ou the
rateable value of property in the metropolis, the
estimated anseeet of whisk is now 11,460,0001., an
nascent which, it is needless to add, is every year
increasing.

The CHANCILLLOII of the EICHIQUIM, °sallow
sad wary as all astioaal parse-keepers are boned to
be, of coarse "took time to sonaider," intimating in
My emit, even if Governmeat were disposed to
accede to the request (se to which he avoided
pledging himself ), that nothing could be does without
as Act of Parliament. No doubt the CadocuLon
Was perfectly right in this. We are by so
means prepared to maintain that cdronmetances
might not arise which would justify as adman
of public moneys for the promotion of seek an
object as the efficient drainage of the metropolis.
We are atroogly disposed to go along with Mr.
THWAITZS to some extent in his argument that a
work of such magnitude and utility almost dam tato
the proportion of a national undertaking. and may
fairly therefore make a claim foe amistanee cm the
national Exchequer; bat It is at Wet equally obvious
that before any amistanes of the kind is afforded we
most be quite certain that the work to be
executed is so dssigaed, and will be so
carried oat, as to be really effective foe the
purpose is view. It is se/dent to remark that sash
is not the case with the drainage plea now under
consideration of the First Commissiour, and that
the application of Mr. Tswana and his coadjutors
was therefore premature. But *yea supposing the
plan submitted to be as perfect me a plea can Do, it
may still admit of very coosiderable doubt whether it
would not be far preferable for the Board of Works
to go to Parliament for the sake of obtalaing sew
and improved borrowieg powers, than thus to solicit from Government, siniatanes that would
.n all probability oily be extended oa sou-

ditba of giviag the Enmities a entrolliag power
ever all the works so to be =sesta with
their aid. We admit at saes thee it; nits
Works is to he a reality and not eitelts
lag power must be improved
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sure that there is say their
hitherto been kept ourelisdat It -
every news, architect, Cr surveyor, who ma safely
be 'alluded with the spending of other people's
capital, sad Beards are not, as a pedal rule, so mash
more to be depended upon la this respect than
private individuals, that we should rash at cam
to the endision thit the Metropolitan Perlis-
meat would maks so use wept a wise and
sparing on of 4,000,0001. of easily borrowed capital.
At all snots, let 04 wait till they have predated
a plan of drainers which will slowly warrant so
large an outlay. When this is owe made out to the
satiefasticia of all compbut judges thin will not, we
apprehend, be any disposition to refuse an improve-
meat of their borrowing powers.
With regard to the fanatics of parks and the
improvement of streets, those are both of them etdects
in which we need not say that we cordially sympa-
thise ; but for ths fortherenoe of these objects the
Board ought to be hat to it. own rosouross. As
respects street improvements more partioalarly, they
ought, as a general role, to be made so ea to pay ;
sad if really wanted, there are very few that
would not do so. At any rate, the drifiderray ought
to be made good by the parties more immediately
benefited. Then is no doubt that very many ha-
prormants might be mads, and would be made, in
Loudon at the cost of private parties, if the Beard of
Works had simply the power, when it approved of
the scheme, to aid its promoters by compulsory
powers of pardons, no se to save them the anormous
expense of applying for private Aab of Parliament.
The Board of Works, in fin, if it la really to Garry
out its finetion In the true spirit of self goverment,
ought to keep as is order and aid as in improving
ourselves. Buperiateadenee, suggestioo, and timely
assistance in among the mod important of its duties.
We should regret to see the Baud prematurely
entrusted with too large ea amount of capital in bead,
sad we should still moos regret to find it obtaining
as undue power of Reading, by surrendering to
Government say pardon of its legitimate power of
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