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gy the Crown. I think it would be d• • = le •
lever the existing, connection between the orporation
knd the trading companies of the City, as I see no
.dvantage in maintaining that connection. The accounts
•f the corporation certainly require revision—they ought
to be fully investigated, audited, and laid before the
public more intelligibly. As they stand at present (to
use a common expression), no one can makd either head
or tail of them. The mode of keeping the accounts is
very complicated, and when I have often asked persons
whom I thought competent to answer me, " What is the
revenue of the city of London ?" nobody could tell me.
The system of accounts adopted has grown complicated
by the lapse of time and the course of events, and it is
certainly susceptible of great improvement.
The Chairman—Have you any other •bservations to
address to the commissioners

Mr. Dillon—Any one taking up the map of London,
and looking to the boundaries of the city, would first
conceive the idea that the area ought to be extended
so as to embrace the whole metropolis, with its 2,000,000
and upwards of inhabitants. Now, a municipal body of
such gigantic proportions is open to very grave objs.
lions. If in the hands of the Government it would be
destructive of the rights of the inhabitants, and if left as
a perfectly independent body it would be so powerful u
on the other hand to be dangerous to the Govern-
ment. Again, the population of the metropolis was
lot at all homogeneous—the pursuits and the wants and
r.ecessities of different districts are very varied and
diverse, and what was suited for Marylebone, for in-
stance, might not be at all adapted for the City. It
would not be desirable suddenly and violently to destroy
the corporation of the City ; but corporations might be
given to the other metropolitan districts, without their
Epplying for them under the Charter Act.
The Chairman—Do you mean that they should be
compelled to receive municipal institutions whether they
wished for them or not ?

Mr. Dillon—l do ;it being a public advantage that
there should be a species of federal boards established in
the metropolis—one, for instance to take the manage
ment of the police ; another, that of the lightning, sew-
erage, and water surlily of the whole community ; aid
another, that of the Thames couservancy, including the
port and the regulation of the trade and 'commerce of
the City. For this purpose I would take from the. City
its present-powers and privileges, and so exercise them
as not to produce a sudden or dangerous effect. The
City corporation,
with all its abuses and defects, has.
promoted the interests and prosperity of the public and
of the country at
,large. Therefore it would be with
great hesitation that I should take anything out of its
hands and place it in the hands of the centralised autho.
rity—the Government.

The Chairman—Might not the joint action in the
matters you have enumerated be obtained in the metro-
polis, without compelling the whole of London to ac-
cept municipal institutions ?

Mr. Dillon—lt would be very desirable if there
could.

Mr. C. Lewis••••A.ocordiag to your plan, the City
would remain within its present limits as a city corpo-
ration, and the remaining portion of the metropolis
would be partitioned among several municipal bodies,
such as the corporation of Finsbury, the corporation o
Marylebone, &c. ?
Mr. Dillon--Yes.
Mr. C. Lewis —But you also said that, with regard o
other regulations, it would be desirable to have separate
boards, possessing a jurisdiction extending over the
whole of the metropolis.
Mr. Dillon—Yes.
Mr. C. Lewis—Do you think that the police juris-
diction ought to extend over the whole of the metropo-
lis ; and not be longer divided into the City and metro•
politan police respectively ?
Mr. Dillon—Certainly.
Mr. C. Lewis—Do you think it desirable that the
sewerage should be plaeed under a single authority, and
not under a board of sewers for the north side of th
river, with the exception of the City, and another and
distinct board for the City alone ?
Mr. Dillon—Certainly.
Mr. C. Lewis—What would you recommend with re-
spect to the lighting and paving ? Would you place
them under parochial or municipal regulation, or would
you place the paving and lighting of the metropolis
under one board ?

Mr. Dillon—l am afraid that lam leaving our cor-
poration nothing to do, but I oonfess that, seeing the
inconvenience to the public consequent on the streets
being opened at different places at one time, I think
the paving and lighting also ought to be placed under
one board.

Mr. C. Lewis—The present supply of water for the
metropolis is in the hands of several independent corn-
patnies—would you take it out of the hands of those
companies, and place it under the municipalities, or
under one board ?

Mr. Dillon—l see no reason for taking the water
supply out of the hands of private enterprise. I would
lave it in the hands of the water companies.
Mr. C. Lewis—You say that the magistracy ought to
be chosen by the Ministers of the Crown ?
Mr. Dillon—Yes.
Mr. C. Lewis—Well, now, tell us what municipal
functions would remain for the City corporation and the
other corporations of the different metropolitan boroughs
to discharge ?
Mr. Dillon : I believe that the tendency of the view I
take is, that I would alternately arrive at nearly the
same result as those seek to attain who advocate a more
extensive change ; but the difference between me and
them is, that I am favourable to a more gradual mode of
accomplishing nearly the same end as they desire.
Mr. C. Lewis—ls the City corporation not possessed
of a large amount of trust property, independent of the
revenue from its rates, taxes, and dues !
Mr. Dillon----It is.
Mr. C. Lewis—Do you not think it would be a legi-
timate object, in improving the system of corporation,
o endeavour to secure a good administration of thos -
funds ?

Mr. Dillon—Yes, under public control, but not under
the control of the Governriient. This [trust property
ought to be exclusively in the hands of the corporation
itself.

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connected with the present area of the city, or that they
can be legitimately applied to objects and purposes use-
ful to the metropolis at large ?
Mr. Dillon—l do not think that it can be fairly ap-
plied to objects out of the City.
Mr. C. Lewis—Do you think it possible to find ob-
jects within the limits of the City to which the whole
might be applied 1
Mr. Dillon—l do.
Mr. C. Lewis—Give us an idea of such objects.
Mr. Dillon—The widening of the streets, the improve-
ment of buildings, and the like.
Mr. C. Lewis—Objects in the nature of public w ork s

you mean ?
Mr. Dillon—Yes.
The Chairman—Have you any reason to complain o
the trade regulations of the City, so far as your own
business is concerned?

Mr. Dillon—l have not.
The examination of this witness having been con.
eluded, the commission then adjourned till this da
(Friday) .

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DEATH OP THE S sage. " the slee • , r,EEPING MAN.—Cornelius Vrooman,
plum man," •
Clarkson, 0 6 died at his brother'residence, in
in n Monday, the 17th of October. While on ex-
hibition New York he was taken sick, which seemed
to induce a wakeful state for a short period, and then a
Stupid
condition, with intervals of wakefulness until he
was brought home on the 14th. He talked but very
little, inquiring after his mother, who had been dead two
years, his father and brothers, whom he seemed par-
tially to recognise. He complained of great internal
heat, and soreness of his throat and stomach. On the
morning of the day of his death he called for food, and
ate a hearty Meal, and from that time he seemed to be
in pain until two o'clock, p.m., when he died without a
struggle. His age was some 34 years.—Rockester De-
mocrat.
CAUTION TO PASSIONATE PEOPLE.-011 Saturday last
an inquest was held in the board-room of the union
workhouse, WTordsley, before W. 11. Phillips, Esq., de-
puty coroner, upon the body of William Appleby, an
inmate of the house. The day previous the deceased
quarrelled with another inmate, named Perry, and
worked himself into such a violent fit of passion in con-
sequence, and while venting forth his rage he fell do'bin,
and instantly expired. The jury returned a verdict that
the deceased died by the visitation of God, while in a
, violent fit of passion.— Wolverhampton Herald.
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