He connects it with hereditary abuses perfectly preserved, with large revenues imperfectly accounted for, with a system which stops the principal city government at an old archway, with the perpetuation of a hundred detestable parishes, with the maintenance of a horde of luxurious and useless bodies.
Bagehot critiques the Corporation of London for its preservation of hereditary abuses and inefficiencies.
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