The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

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MAJESTY; and it is insinuated that the proper facilities
for the administration of justice are to be denied in order
IfORNING, AUGUST 1, 1854 to effect that purpose. I beg to assure your lordship that
this statement is entirely unfounded. No intimation of
'ES OF THE C HER MAJESTY'S commands on this subject has been
received ; and, however acceptable such an honour as a
visit from HEIL MAJESTY would be to the people of Liver-
TER recommendation of the Committee of Convocation pool, we have no reason to conclude that it will be con-
to maim certain alterations in the mode of performing ferred upon us. The preparations for the completion of
Divine Service, so that the time of attendance at Church the building have been proceeded with totally irrespective
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aslisll be considerably abridged, has met with a cordialegret been isntro-
vespcmse from men of almost all varieties of opinion ; and \ duced. The suggestion of closing the courts for the next
'Sigh and Low Church have joined in sounding the note assizes, and the sessions until December next,arose entirely
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Having thus disposed of the unjustly alleged motives
for closing St. George's-hall during the period for holding
the ensuing assizes, the MAYOR next proceeds to say :

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" The assizes were first held in Liverpool in the year
183.5, and from that time until the temporary occupation
of the new courts, in December, 1851, they were held in
the Sessions-house. This building has been represented
to the Lord Chief Justice as ' a place not unlike the cele-
brated Black-hole at Calcutta, and situated in a marsh
where cholera rages.'

" As respects its situation, your lordship will observe,
from the Ordnance map, that it adjoins the Exchange, and
is within one hundred yards from the door of the Town-
hall, and that, so far from the neighbourhood being a
marsh where cholera rages,' it may be said that it has no
resident population, the whole of this locality being occu-
pied as counting-houses, offices, and warehouses.
" Your lordship is aware of the size and structure of the
courts in the Sessions-house, of which, however, I forward
you a plan. It is used daily by the borough magistrates
for the transaction of the vast amount of police business
arising here—two and frequently three courts being open
daily.
" That it is not in the opinion of the Corporation suita-
ble for permament occupation as a place for holding the
assizes for this great county, is readily admitted, and is
proved by the large expenditure they have incurred from
the municipal funds in pros iding another; but I believe
that such unsuitableness arises not so much from the
i insufficiency of the courts themselves as from the inade-
quate accommodation available for those attending, and
especially the bar, which, on the northern circuit, I am
told, now numbers nearly 130; and, although the business
is confined to 15 or 20 of that number, all expect to be
equally provided for."
The MAYOR next, in plain but courteous terms, refers

to the great amount of trouble he has incurred in his