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"R. D. P. Lross.'

[PRIM SiiAmpED su.]

REFORM' OF THE COReORATIOY OF
LO,v.DON,

(From the Times.)
' The East India Comi,aoy is not the only diets
Corporation with which Parliament will have to
deal before the recess. Amid the play of mightier
interests we have for a short while lost sight of the
affairs of the Corpoiation of .London. Fur many
years past efforts have been made from time to
time to bring the goveinment and evenues of the
City more into harmony with the exigencies of the
age. All such efforts, however, have ben inva►ia-
biy
and steadily resisted by those percons whose
interest it mainly was to see them carried into
effect. Had the City authorities baen'gifted with
but a moderate share of foresight they must have
known tlmi chano'v Was imminent, and, in one form
or another, could not for any considerable period
be staved off. 1i depended upon themselves whe-
ther such change should be mere or. less sweeping.
If they exhausted all means of obstruction which
the play of Parliamentary interests left at their
disposal—if they took advantage of every greater
incident in public affairs which might enable them
to protract the inevitable d..scussion from one ses-
sion to another, it was perfectly possible for then
to hold on from year to year ; but, when the change
came.s it would he all the more complete. Such
has been the system of tactics which they have
pursued, and now they are about to reap the
frosts. of their mistaken ji.ericy. A 'bill •is now
before "Parliament :1004e reforin of the
orporation, founded itpAt. the Report :of
E that. Commission of wlticlll\jr. Juitice Pattison
and Sir CorneWall Laois wog members, and which
is of an exceedingly- moderate character. . These
commissioners were directed—w© quote the words
used by Sir* G. Grey—" to collect information re-
specting the rights, privileges, duties,. jurisdiction,
civil an criminal, and generally to inquire into
everything which could affect in any degree the
rights or constitu ion of the corporation." The
commissioners in the first place examined witnesses
hostile' to the corporation, and next the officers of
the corporation, with respect to the grievances
alleged. The whole case was thus brought before
them, and with a full and mature knowledge of
the facts they made their report. Upon that re-
port the bill now in progress through the Commons
is founded. Now, on Thursday last, when the
formal motion was made for going into committee
upon this bill, Mr. Rolt started up, as the defender
of the Corporation, to impugn the most important
clause which it contains with regard to the financial
settlement of the City's affairs: Had Mr. Rolt
simply taken such a emirse as would have elicited
the opinion of the house upon the point at issue
there would have been no reasonable ground -of
complaint. Mr. Rolt has as good a right to his
opinion as the public has to theirs ; but his pro-
position was for yet further delay, after so many
years of delay. The bill, forsooth, was to be re-
ferred back to the select committee, with instruc-
tions to hear counsel on behalf of thel City. The
proposition is of course merely a "sporting" one
fOr the sake of gaining time. The whole case—
as far as the facts are concerned—is already before
the house. What occasion is there for the venal
eloquence of counsel to help the house to a decision
upon the point of principle ? Surely the House of
Commons is quite competent to arrive at krational
conclusion as to the justice and propriety of abolish-
ing certain old and oppressive dues, which the
Corporation seek to perpetuate upon the ground
that they have enjoyed them from time titian-
moral ?

The question mainly arose as to the 'dues derived
from the corn metage. When we say that from
Mr. Rolt's speech of Thursday night the. unlearned
reader may derive a very minute and satisfactory
knowledge of the history of this impost, we give
the learned gentleman all the credit to which le is
fairly entitled. Let us, however, grant that it
origually Constituted part of the Royal revenue,
that in ancient days it passed into the possession
of the Corporation, and that it has by them bean
enjoyed as a right founded upon immemorial usage
since our old historic times, with only a short in-
terval of wrongful depossession in the evil days of
the second Charles—what then ? Is the abuse
—supposing this to be the case—less an abuse
because it has been inflicted upon the people
for centuries I We believe that we are correct in
stating that in every other part of the kiu,gdom these
dues. have been abolished. In the City of London
only are they retained; and there is neither reason
-the whole qoestieira hit° consideration.-- --144 Rolt,
indeed, -attempted -to showotfiat if the priuciple
of summarily dealing with the rights .of corpora-
tions were once admitted the rights of property
would be shaken to their foundation. Mr. Wortley,
however, who followed on the same side, and who
in this instance proved himself of wiser counsel
than Mr. Rolt, dissented from the view of his
fellow. "I do sot shrink from admitting," said Mr.
Wortley, "that there is a broad distinction between
" property of this description in the hands cf cor-
porations and in the hands of individuals. I admit
that Parliament has the right to deal with such
property in the hands of corporations," &c, Just
so. Could so monstrous a proposition be seriously
entertained by any reasonable man as that unjust
levies on the subject are not to be reviewed. by
Parliament because a co:pea-Doe body may claim an
interest in them 1 It appears, however, -from a
statement made by Mr. Walpole, that, in all pro-
bability, the question as st will
.never be raised.
It may well turn out to ba the case that these re-
venues were never granted to the Corporation at
all in the manner alleged by their supporters in and.
out of Parliament. They claim these dues as ab-
solute property, for the purposeof raising a revenue
for th ms-lees. Mr. Walpole states that not a
tittle of evidence was given before the committee
in support of that view—so that, in fact, all the
arguments feunded upon the r ights of the Corpc-
ration as of imm,morial usage fall to the ground.
Nov, it was never intended—if we rightly un-
derstand the declarations which have been made
upon this subject—that the actual fiscal condition
of he disregarded when the ques-
tioaThe City' derives a gross
income
other dues and t,dls. The net income was set the
other night by Mr. Rolt at 70,0001.—the difference
is the
mlee Cfinoitfaylllsyohroi,eusotloo from wetage, market, and
settled.
Iderives
IY3ing deducted for expenses of coll'iction and other
drawb-Icks In a similar way the CAy enjoys a
gross income of 100,0001. from land and money ;
the net income from this source is 80,0001. Against
this aggregate annual income of 150,003/ there i 3
to be set the interest on a debt of 1,000,0301., con-
tracted for the purposes of local improvement—say
.50,009.1. per annum. Another equal sum must be
allotted to tie aeministration of justice in Middle-
sex. Then there is 10,0001. for charities, 10,0001.
for iirei.lootal co. .e se,,, nl' no orT 11-1
expenditure of 120,0001. The bab-aloe or 30,0031.,
remains for the civic government of die City. The
figures we txtract front Mr. Rolt's spedeb., and they
are, we believe, substantially correct. The question
remains whether, under a better system of adminis-
tration, such economy cannot be introduced into
the management of civic affairs as shall preclude
the necessity of making these oppressive dues per-
petual. By all means let faith be kept with the
public creditors of the City. Subject to this one
condition, Parliament may make whatever arrange-
' ment may seem most fit to insure the speedy aboli-
tion of this unjust and clumsy form of taxation.
question,duhroli7gevthere,
actual
ld
session, for
fsoerd
allat once
t
can be elicited-by inquiry is already known, and
andTthhe publice should be made aware that a discussion
so important is simmering in the House of Com-
mons at this present time.
settled

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