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MR. A. W. FLUX, M.A., ON CITY GOVERNMENT AND

It is worth mentioning, too, while on the subject of roads, that several of the wider roads are provided with special paths for cyclists, while, as if to show that this is not done out of undue consideration for that important section of the community, cyclists are forbidden to ride in one of the most important lines* of streets, now too narrow for the traffic, except between mid- night and nine o’clock in the morning. As in other cities of the Oontinent, the foot passenger has no rights as against vehicles on the road, but in that matter theoretic rights and actual custom are not always identical. Even at busy crossings the foot passenger is, as a rule, hardly more regarded in our city than in Copenhagen, in spite of the differences in the nominal situation. The police force of Manchester stood recently at 1,037 men, or one to each 520 of the population. In Copenhagen there are 624 constables and sergeants, or one to each 560 of the population, practically the same proportion. The contribution of the Central Government there to police expenses is a fixed sum, and only about one-tenth of the contribution from Imperial funds to the Manchester police outlay. The latter contribution is entered at half the cost of pay and clothing, according to which the cost of pay and clothing of the Manchester force would exceed by one-third the total gross cost of the Copenhagen force. It may be mentioned that the superior and subordinate members of the latter force are not recruited from the same section of society. A difference analogous to that existing between officers and rank and file in the army exists. To stray yet further from the heading of the present section, reference may be made to the complete supervision exercised over the meat supply of Copenhagen. Reports of the Medical Officer of Health for Manchester have called attention to the practices in this respect in some Continental cities. In Copen­ hagen all animals slaughtered are slaughtered in public abattoirs. The flesh undergoes examination, and diseased carcases, or portions, are condemned to destruction. A similar examination of all imported meat is also obligatory. The meat, when