12 JANUARY 1867, Page 2

The Metropolitan Municipal Association waited on the Home Secretary on

Tuesday, to press their plan of exchanging the forty or fifty jurisdictions in London for eleven municipalities of the ordinary type, with power to control the police, govern the gaols, and appoint judges—three powers which will never be granted. Mr. Walpole, of course, had nothing to say, except that he . thought the administration of the metropolis could be improved, and that the municipalities, if created, must cover very large areas. He and his colleagues would consider the matter, and till then he was very civil, and quite helpless. We shall have to make Mr. Lowe Home Secretary yet, if only to be sure that Vestrymen will be occasionally snubbed.