The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

lar about the manner in

ch Co

n surplus funds disappear

There

when-

ever the Council, or the public, wish to grasp them.
Most sensitive plants are these said funds. If

£28,000 odd was the real excess of income over
expenditure during the past year, the £11,351, if

an ordinary charge, ought to go against next year's
revenue; and most of Mr. tioaNnv's other items

of expenditure are prospective. It is singular, too,
that, on all occasions of public improvements, the
Finance Committee are the retarding power, except

when some pet Water scheme is on the carpet

Surely a more comprehensive vision n
Neither Mr. HoLmE

by that bod

be used

z, nor any other

party, wishes to rush headlong into an expenditure
which will beggar our local estate. A loan, under
the powers of an Act of Par'

ament, wou'

obtained, sufficient to carry out an efficient scheme

sanatory improvement

The rate of interest
3, as the St. George's Hall drain

could be low ; an

cease, there can be little doubt of

the Corporate estate having elasticity enough to
meet the interest of such a loan, and to repay the
principal at no distant date. Under the circum-
stances, the motion for the proposed improvements
has been postponed until next year.
_ _

The question of the Mayoralty has tern, for the
past ten days, regarded as settled in favour of Mr.
SAML. HOLME, by the almost universal concur-
rence of the Council and the public, Mr. MOLY-
NEUX and Mr. J. B. LLOYD having each in suc-
cession withdrawn their names. We observe,
indeed, that another new candidate has been men-
tioned—Mr. JOHN STEWART—who, it is said, is
to be brought forward this year, and Mr. J. B
LLOYD to ha

e the office next year, thus shelving
ether. There seems to be some

Mr. HOLME alto;

personal spleen against the latter gentleman existing
somewhere. We doubt much, however, whether
Mr. JOHN STEWART has given any sanction to his
name being put forward for such a purpose.
It will he felt as no slight indignity by the people
Liverpool, that the authorities connected with
Duke of WELLINGTON'S funeral have refused
e Mayor and Council of Liverpool
own on the occasion, on the plea
)uld render it necessary to admit
all other great municipal authori-

represe

to do so

elegations frc

urety,

_ that Liverpool is the greatest
commercial port in the empire, or in the world,
cannot have penetrated the hazy region of the Earl
Marshal's office ! We trust that this matter will
be reconsidered. Such treatment, on such a great
national occasion, is an insult to our town, and to

the cutnrnerce gtnerally of the nation, which is its
strength, and without the aid of which, the great
hero, whom it is sought to honour, could never
have been permitted to advance more than a very
his glorious career. What must the

steps it

strious fo

ent at th

produced on

alian Boomera

gners, who are expected to be pre-
ernonial, think of the national grati-.
which compels its mercantile aristo-
.elf in the shade, as iE unfit to be
ich an occasion ?

r,—an anx
I graduall!

PROPELLEII.—The steamer Keera,
rith Sir Thomas Mitchell's "
opeller," made her trial trip on
At twenty-two minutes past two
hV the boomerang pro-
nventor,
r rudder

Lit in motion

ment, no doubt, f 4
squired speed, ob,
describe a fine cur

.ent slip, in

on the water,

cheers of t

of steam, and highly gratified are
record the successful result. The
of 12i knots an hour against a stro
...Sydney Morning Herald,

her direc

arves, the warm
greeted this first

:ed to
speed
tide.