A Statistical Vindication of the City of London ...

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Longmans, Green, 1877 - 201페이지

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14 페이지 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
164 페이지 - The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.
28 페이지 - notes and observations" of a magistrate of the county of Middlesex, upon the minutes of evidence taken before a select committee appointed by the House of Commons, to inquire into the state of the police of the metropolis.
131 페이지 - ... extremities have few interests in common ; its area is so large that each inhabitant is in general acquainted only with his own quarter, and has no minute knowledge of other parts of the town. Hence the two first conditions for municipal government, minute local knowledge and community of interests, would be wanting, if the whole of London were, by an extension of the present boundaries of the City, placed under a single municipal corporation.
160 페이지 - Magistracy, the description of its various public officers, the gradation and subordination of their various classes, the division and subdivision of its local limits — affords an example of that unity and of that dependence of parts on each other, without which no wellconstructed and efficient system of Police can ever be expected.
172 페이지 - Corporation, as an institution suited to its present limited area, would be destroyed ; while, at the same time, a municipal administration of an excessive magnitude, and therefore ill adapted to the wants of the other parts of the metropolis, would be created. But we see no reason why the benefit of municipal institutions should not be extended to the rest of the metropolis, by its division into municipal districts, each possessing a municipal government of its own.
172 페이지 - We see no reason why the benefit of municipal institutions should not be extended to the rest of the metropolis, by its division into districts, each possessing a municipal government of its own. We further suggest the creation of a Metropolitan Board of Works, to be composed of a very limited number of members, deputed to it from the council of each metropolitan municipal body, including that of the City; and that the management...
56 페이지 - The limits of the chief office are defined by s. 14, to include all parts of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the several suburbs thereof, and parishes, within the weekly bills of mortality, together with the parishes of St.
161 페이지 - Members forming that committee, although of all shades of politics, have come almost to a unanimous decision in favour of the opinion which has been so strongly expressed, that the control over the police, in the city of London, ought to be left in the hands of those who now exercise that power. They are convinced that a good and efficient police would be kept up under their superintendence.
171 페이지 - We think, indeed, that if an attempt were made to give a municipal organization to the entire metropolis, by a wider extension of the present boundaries of the City, the utility of the present Corporation, as an institution suited to its present limited area, would be destroyed ; while, at the same time, a municipal administration of an excessive magnitude, and therefore ill adapted to the wants of the other parts of the metropolis, would be created. But we see no reason why the benefit of municipal...

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