Mr.M'Carthy gave me also much information as to the working of the municipal system here, and a copy of the rules which govern the debates of the Town Council.
One of these might be adopted with advantage in other assemblies, to wit, "that no member be permitted to occupy the time of the Council for more than ten minutes." There is an important difference between the parliamentary and the municipal constituencies of Cork.

The former constituency comprises all residents within the borough boundaries occupying premises of the rateable value of L10 a year.

The municipal constituency consists of no more than 1800 voters, divided among the seven wards which make up the city under the "3d and 4th Victoria," and which contain about 13,000 of the 15,116 Parliamentary voters of the borough.

The same thing is true in the main of nine out of the eleven municipal boroughs of Ireland including Dublin.

The 3d and 4th Victoria was amended for Dublin in 1849, so as to give that city the municipal franchise then existing in England, but no move in that direction was made for Cork, Waterford, Limerick, or any other municipal borough.