On Tuesday were published the proposals for the amalga- mation
of the City and the County of London, prepared by the London County Council. These proposals have been sub- 1 milted to the Royal Commission, presided over by Mr. Leonard 1 Courtney, at present inquiring into the subject. The ides is to extend the City of London with its rights and privileges -1
over the whole Metropolis, but to retain in the hands of the new Corporation (the Council of which will be elected on the same basis as the County Council) all the powers of the present County Council. There will be a Council of one hun- dred and eighteen Councillors dud nineteen Aldermen, and a Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor, elected by the Council. The Lord Mayor, who will be "admitted into office as the Lord Mayor of the City of London now is" [i.e., Lord Mayor's Show will be retained], is apparently to be a ceremonial official, and the Deputy Mayor will be what the present Chairman of the County Council is. All the City's rights and privileges are to be maintained, and the interests of all the City officials are -carefully guarded. The freemen are ultimately to die out, but till then they are protected from injury. The only revolutionary clause is that which declares that the Irish Society is to be dissolved and its charter repealed—the City's Irish estates being transferred, "as to part thereof, to the Corporations of Derry and Coleraine, and as to the rest, to any elective county authority which may be created in Ire- land," and till then to nine Trustees named by the Irish Lord Chancellor.
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