The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-12 00:00:00

MRTROPOLITIN 1101t0UOR8 OOMMITTEE.

This committee smieoshied again at the London
Coffee-house on Monday mendeg ; J. F. BOIITENIO, Req., in
the chair. This being the Seem mestlng sines the metropo-
litan members of parliament were made sz °pi° members,
two of those hon. gentlemen attended.
The Secerrator laid upon the table a map of London
sad he environs, showing the boundaries of all the metro-
politan boroughs and parishes, presented to the committee
by James Wyld, Eaq., M.P. for Rodman' and said be was
authorised by Mr. Wyld to state that if thee, were any
other mime in hie possession which would be of service to
the committee in their investigations he should be happy to
present them with a copy.
Letters were reed from Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P.,
Sir B. Hall, Bart., M.P., Sir Charles Napier, M.P. (who
was unable to attend on amount of a severe domestic afflic-
tion), and from John Locke, Beg., M.P., expressive of their
stmeg Interest in the objects of the committee. Several new
neseekers were added, W. Dawes, of Tulse-hill, Wm. Har-
rower Esq., Craven-bill-eardeas, Hyde•park, and James
Weld. 'Esq., Y.P. foe Bodmin. The secretary announced
that he had received a cheque for 101. from Samuel Morley,
Esq., se hie outeeriptioe to the funds of the committee. The
discussion on the plans for dividing the bxeughe into smeller
ormstituencies was thou resumed.
Mr. ELT said that, in compliance with the suggestion
made at the last meeting by Mr. Wright, be had pa-
pered a table showing the division of the metropolis in
the schedules of the Local Management Act of 1835,
with the amount of population represented by each
member of the bcard. Then were thirty-neves of these
dividons, returning forty.tive members, but it meet be borne
in mind that all the elections were secondary, similar to the
Premien system—a system not to be thought of in Ragland
for the election of members of Perliament. Direct respond-
. bility of those elerted to those who elected them, and whose
interests they were expected to protect, must always be main-
Untied. The mode by which the members of the Board
of Works were returned was by no means satisfactory.
The City, with its 128,000 inhabitants, was represented by
three members. Six parishes, with populations varying
from 73,000 to 167,000, returned two members each.
Seventeen other parishes each returned one; of these the
smallest In populttion was Hampstead, 12,000 the
largest was Betbnal-green. The remaining perishes,
fory-five in number, were grouped into district% each
seeding up one member. Of these the Falk= district
antained 29,646, whilst the Westminster district had
102,000. While tie.), gave but one member ta St. Margaret
and fit. John's, Westiumster, forming the laid-named dis-
trict, they gave two to St. George, Hanover-square, having
a population of but 73.000. From three discrepancies it
would be men that the divisions under the Local Menagernent
Act were utterly useless for the purposes 01 parliamentary re-

gresentation.
A long and animated discusion ensued es to the stunts
of electors and the immune of property in lath ward, ite.,lB
which lie. Challice, Mr. A. Wright, Mr. Cos, )LP., and Mr.
NOWIZIAX took part, and Mr. Eli wits ultimately requested to
obtain further particulars on those heed*.
Mr. Baoosss doubted if thins particulars would be of
much service to them, since it was certain that the divisions
under the Local Management Act could not se a whole be
mate available for parliamentary purpose. He had been
unable to obtain any map or plat of these wards, or coy
authentic description of them, but he thought it pro-
bable that they might be of service to us in aid of the pro-
posed scheme of parochial division. Take, for instance,
the peopoosd new boroughs of Msylebone and Peaces, to
the isrlE else of which so touch objection had been
urged. name new boroughs were to be made co-extensive
with thews parishes slowly because of the difficulty of divid-
ing the parish—that difficulty consisting only of the time and '
labour emissary to sticerthin and fin divisional boundaries.
Now, what he wanted to know was whether the boundaries
of these wards, sacertsined and carefully described by the
tionimiestoaers who had laid them down, would not be avail-
able for the object in view, viz., the divisice of thole pariahs
lase two or more boroughs.
Mr. Con said undoubtedly they would be quite sufficient
for that purpose. He knew that tLe construction of the
wards in the parish of Winston would he edutbubly adapted
1 for such • purpose, and he had no doubt that the wards in
the other parishes would be equally so.
The meeting edjounied to Monday next.

PAUL JONES IN IMP. Fttern.—Last week, Mee.
Reek* a widow, died at Pathheed, seed Kirkcaldy. She
wits knows I. have her the lest of those young lames who
thawed the free in Ravenecreig Nide when the men of
Pattie's,' kept armed watch end weed nightly for the return
at Peal Jones. She Ghee relerted to this period in her lift,
end described minutely the appearance of Mr. Shirrs, when
eetawpd Is prayinn ow the tweak for that ■
wind which drove
the minsis of the
yarddre Peel down the Firth. She was
27 years ebglo, 44 mried. end 28 years a widow. and
was in the habit of saying that garbed lived three life-times
Her offspring was es follows ,-9 candsea, 46 greadehildree,
116 grem-grandettildren, and 3 greed-pest-grandchilthrs—
is en 193.—Miothava Await.