Metropolis

A mother city; one from which a colony was sentout. The cap ital of a province. Calvin.

when used with reference to the English metropolis, local management acts, and the decisions and practice under them, includes the city of London and the following parishes and places, arranged with reference to their representr atives in the metropolitan board of works: St. Marylebone; St. Pancras; Lambeth; St. George, Hanover Square; Islington; Shoreditch; Paddington; Bethnal Green; Newington, Surrey; Camberwell; St. James, Piccadilly; Clerkenwell; Chelsea; Kensington; St. Luke, Middlesex; St. George the Martyr, Southwark; Bermondsey; St. George-in-the-East; St. Martinin-the-Fields; Mile End Old Town; Woolwich; Kotherhithe; Hampstead; Whitechapel District; Westminster District; Greenwich District; Wandsworth District, including Clapham, Tooting Graveney, Streatliam, Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, Roehampton; Hackney District, including Hackney parish and St. Mary, Stoke Newington; St. Giles' District, including St. Giles-in-the-Eields and St. George, Bloomsbury; Holborn District; Strand District; Fulham and Hammersmith; St. Saviour's District; Plumstead and Lewisham, including Penge; St. Olave District. Also the following places: Lincoln's Inn; Gray's Inn; Staple Inn; Furnival's Inn. The metropolis, as thus defined, must not be confounded with the London postal district, which embraces a radius of twelve miles from the post-office, or with the metropolitan police district. Mozley Si- W.