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versally defective ; and the same remark applies to the nu"
nagement of the gaols and prisons.
(5.) Many corporate bodies possess the right of levyinl
tolls, and enjoy other privileges, sometimes disadvantageous'
and often inconvenient to the rest of the community. It 15
evident that such rights should, when practicable, be extin-
guished, giving full compensation to the parties interested
therein.

(6.) Instances of peculation, or the collusive disposat
corporate property, for the benefit, either direct or indirect
of members of the ruling bodies, are rare, and few cases of
such misappropriation have occurred of late years. Yet
the law should prevent even the suspicion of such a
gross abuse ; and it is highly expedient that the ma-
nagement and disposal of corporate property should be
regulated so as to prevent its application to any pur-
poses except what are strictly municipal and for the be-
nefit of the town ; and that in every case the accounts
should be rendered to the main body of the freemen, or
others to be included in the municipal community, and for
whom the ruling body, however elected, nominated, con-
stituted, or appointed, ought to be considered as trustees.
In the whole of their financial concerns the City of Lon:
don offers the best example to other corporations, an-I
very particularly so, in the self-denying ordinance by whieli
the members of the Common Council are prevented from
deriving any profit from the corporate concerns.
(7.) Important defects, however, remain to be consi-
dered, of which, perhaps, the most influential is the ab-
sence in the ruling bodies of the requisite authority for an
effective municipal administration. The Crown, by its an-
cient prerogative—and it possesses no other—is incompe-
tent to impart by charter the jurisdictions, rights, ant'
powers which, by the general course of the law and polio,
of the realm, and the habits and usages of modern society'
are requisite for the good government and management
of a modern town. The Crown can confer, if it please°:
upon the most inconsiderable corporation the unlimited
power of criminal jurisdiction ; but it cannot enable thi
magistrates of the largest commercial city to hold a pro'
cess. The Crown can grant-pavage to a corporation, bat
it cannot grant them the summary power of removing a pr°-
jection over the footpath. The Crown can grant portage
to a corporation, but it cannot grant them the power ofo'
forcing the sale of the smallest portion of ground which mg
be necessary for erecting the abutments of a bridge. 'lle
Crown can grant the conservancy of the peace to a corpora'
tion, but it cannot grant the compou2.l3us pcwcrc of I"l'3l,ng
rates and penalties, and affecting the arrangements 01..
which a town police alone can be maintained and regulated
In these and all similar cases, the plain and proper course
would have been to have conferred upon the Crown, ouee
for all, but under all proper restrictions for preventing 11.11_
abuse of the prerogative; the authority of dispensing to
ns
corporate authorities the power of exercising the funct_mi°
which they need. But instead of thus providing a Eaul—d
of corporate renovation, the practice has been adopted
us
applying to. Parliament for local acts, creating vane
boards, trusts, and other similar bodies, independent of wd
corporations, and often in direct conflict with them, &If
thereby depriving the municipal magistrates of the Pond
and influence which ruling body ought to possess, an

which, are now vested in other
8. Another great defect is the want of sufficient ce1::
nexion between the corporate institutions and the i0138b,;
tants of the town. At present, the freemen of the ncirP";
ration form only a small, and generally the smallest,
of the population ; whilst it cannot be doubted but that as
individuals dwellinc, or pursuing their trades or avoeatiecil'er
in the town, or alding property therein, should (iin
such restrictions only as may render the burgess-ship 1.1,i
ficient test of stability and trustworthiness) be aggregate
to the municipal community.
(9.) In many corporate towns dissensions exist betwe
the ruling bodies and peculiar sects, sections, classes, ore
Lions of the inhabitants. Very frequently these animosities('
have plainly arisen from the habitual hostility of party, an,
from other similar adverse sentiments, rather instigated
passion than grounded upon any sufficient reason-41%1y
ments, requiring to be conciliated, calmed, and allays
the Legislature, but which it never ought to obey. Ain°'iche
other causes it is probable that in the smaller towns, -0
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circumstance of individuals being raised by their officher
station above persons of their own rank in society, and °t
feelings purely local and personal, may have tended t° n,
crease these animosities. Some towns perhaps scarcely
tain within them the materials for a municipal establisbillet" a
In these cases it may be expedient to adopt measures fer..clb
partial or total extinction of the municipal franchises of sutio
corporations ; legal proof being nevertheless give" °I. 1
~es
fact, and sufficient opportunity being afforded to all Pai:no
interested to show cause (if they shall so think fit) ag3l'
such disfranchisement. 't
(10.) In the larger and more important towns 1.4
probable that the efficacy of municipal institutions
be increased, by rendering the municipal magistraeY" ,Sion
councils elective by the freemen, upon the assimir`^ of
that not only the inhabitants but also the ownersor
property are to be aggregated to the municipal c-
„et
munity ; the magistrates or members of the alirral
bench to hold their offices for life, subject to atti:ge
for the causes before indicated (see section 9, 4r-rop
16) ; the council, to hold their office for a stated l'etbe
It appears, however, that great mischiefs arise from._ of
circumstance of municipal elections being rendered trial9_,
strength for contending parties on Parliamentary
and, without presuming to point out any measures by lad
this great evil is to be counteracted, it becomes ne.c°,:ace•
to call the attention of the Legislature to its assists
That all the members of the municipal magistraelerty
councils should possess a qualification arising from Pr°Ptiier
is a proposition which will be recommended, amongst !'riti
reasons, by adverting to the fact that in the great iiiil•l-neri,
of local acts erecting boards of trustees or commissi°tios
for purposes which in fact are municipal, some qualifileace
founded upon property is required ; thus affording 01' aces
that, by experience, it is found advantageous to ciinnot,
the performance of duties with possession of propert:t
whatever plans may be adopted for altering the cons tiand
of municipal corporations, the diversity of the locale ne
particular circumstances of the towns, as well
as thilabi,
cessity of obtaining the deliberate opinions of the inuallge
tants, will probably render it expedient that the e"by
should be effected, not by a general enactment, but atioo
special adaptation of general principles to each corPlectea
which may require the same, such adaptation to be e

through some, competent tribunal. O'
APRIL 3, 1835. FRANCIS PALGR— ap.
(Here follow Tables of Culpabilities, Default9' nOr
Abuses, with an Appendix, containing extracts Eros r
tions of the evidence referred to in the tables.)

closSl
THE HOPETOUN OAT, ITALIAN RYE tfi to the
AND CHEVALIER BARLEY.—AII of these contributions( opt'
science of agriculture have not only stood the test c!, otlier
rience, but promise, at no distant period, to superseue,l:ol
descriptions of green and white crop. The barley shrt; re-
of takes its name from the introducer, a gentleman vilft, volt°,
sides near Cambridge, and has become with many - Ls'
a grain that they seem determined to sow no othenchevr
year the demand exceeded the supply. At first, the 10
Tier barley ripened more slowly than the other kind ;t
l'reu;
an improvement has taken place in this respect, and sc, the
sent "it is coming fast up." The straw is stroncile
ear longer, and pickle larger, than in the common „O'g
advantages which tell on the weight, price, and g"pit,
profits. In this quarter it is exclusively used for seed.'
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