The Commission named to inquire into the Livery Companies of
the City of London is a very strong one. Lord Derby is to be its chairman, and he is to be supported by the Duke of Bedford, Lord Sherbrooke (better known as Mr. Lowe), Lord Coleridge, Sir Richard Cross, M.P., Sir Nathaniel de Roths- child, M.P., Sir Sydney Waterlow, M.P., Alderman Cotton, M.P., Mr. Albert Pell, M.P., Mr. Walter James, M.P., Mr. Joseph Firth, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Burt, M.P. No one can say that the rights of property, or even of corporate property, are not adequately represented there ; but with Lord Sherbrooke to ferret out abuses, with Mr. James and Mr. Firth to represent the common-sense middle-class view, and Mr. Burt to represent -the common-sense working-class view, of the Livery Companies, we fancy there can be no evasions, and no sanction given to the curiously romantic illusions of City Corporations.
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