The Home Secretary has asked the City Corporation to draw
up a scheme for the government of the whole Metropolitan District such as they could agree to and support. This scheme will be submitted to the Committee, which is to report on Mr. Buxton's bills and all other schemes, and will, Mr. Bruce hints, be very favourably considered. A Committee of the Common Council appointed to consider the matter have reported in favour of drawing up a scheme, and the Council has agreed. The Corporation has a great chance for once. If it can only draw up a good working scheme,—may we humbly submit our own, published on 27th November last,—the City may be made conterminous with. London, and begin a new history of a thousand years. The points to be secured are a Governing Council, with all power of control ; a City Cabinet, with all power of action ; and a Constitutional Monarch or Mayor, with all dignity.
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