The Metropolitan Board of Works has ceased to exist, and
Lord Rosebery made an interesting speech to " the County Council of the administrative County of London" on March 21st, the day on which it took over the duties and rights of the defunct Board. He said that the London County Council had been described as an Assembly of " Bads, Cads, and Fads," but he did not think that their infant body had at all deserved that contemptuous brand, either by the work they had done or by the opinions they had expressed. He thought that the first list of Aldermen drawn up by the majority was not a very wise one ; but he had no great fault to find with the actual Aldermen elected, who included many men to whom they would be greatly indebted. He pointed out the extreme diffi- culty of their work, and declared that, so far as he could judge, political animus had entirely disappeared from the working of the twenty Committees to which the preliminary organisation of the County Council had been entrusted. The conclusion of his speech, in which he claimed the help and encouragement of London for their arduous undertaking, was very vigorous and eloquent.
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