The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-31 00:00:00

it would be vapid compared with the excelk

the people had at pre

(Hear, hear.)
a some. 1en7,1

Mr. ROLT, in repl_
three-fourths of the work had been comph
No. 3 was in a zreat state of forwardness,

lbserved that

,ed ; contract

easily completed. ; while coz
foward state; the pipes had all been purchased ; and
if there were any excess in the estimate
entirely to the delays caused by the council
pence without end. The entire expenditure up to the
present time had been £427,000 odd. If asked whether
more than the original estimate would be required, he
should answer in the affirmative ; but that, in his opinion,

Aouid I

was entirely of the ea

Leirs own doing: The excess
rable, would not be frightfull,

large,—with all their indiscretion.
believed the scheme to be thoroughly 801111 G
as far as they had gone, were excellent whilt
doubt the water would be beautiful. _
Fernihough he did not think it would be neces,
for another bill next year, as they had already t.
of procuring additional money, for completing tb
without going to parliament.
The amendment was Ow, --, •
by 23 to 26.

had tic
In reply to Mr

the vote, and

vor the motion—Councillors Mellor, Thomson, P
Woodruff, Moss, Nicholson, M`Gruffie, Godfrey
Banner, Fernihouzb, Mann, Jeffreys, Fle'

Johnson, Picton, Mcholson,
men Bennett, Robinson, Gardiu
Against the motion—Councillors
ner, Hornby, bolt, J. Holme, Wag
Tobin, Earle, Houghton, Hodson, Stewa

staff, Shand, B

bertson, Halhead; Gregson ;
Cooper, J. H. Turner, Brain
the Mayor.

Horsfall, R
Bold, Parke

,y-Moore, Bent

liament, was then carried nem. dis., and tl
ceedings of the committee were confirmed,

The proceedings of the Library and Museum and Hack-
ney Carriage Committees were confirmed.
The proceedings of the Baths Committee, comprising a
recommendation to increase the salary of Mr. W. D.
Pormyrrint- C9Prlt of Works. from £lO4 to £lO5 per annum.

rennycooK, unit.,,
the consideration of which was postponed at the last
monthly Council pursuant to standing order was con-

firmed.
ST. GEORGE'S-HALL INAUGURATION COMMIT-
TEE, VOTING £l,OOO TO THE MAYOR.
The report of the St. George's-hall Inauguration Com-

mittee, gave the following brief financial statement, on
the result of the . musical festivals at the opening of S
George's- hall :
Total Receipts

Payments already made
Cash in hand

£3,366 4 0
3,433 7 0
234 17 0

Deficiency

520 4 9

Mr. Alderman J. H. TURNER, in briefly moving the
adoption of the report, made reference to the: additional
expenses to which the mayor had been put, in conse-
quence of the recent meetings of the British Association.
L• r -

When they visited Liverpool in 1837, the sum of £39(
was paid the then mayor Mr. W. Earle) for the

ses so incurred by him on that account. He (Mr. Turner)
ventured to say, that the reception which had been given
by the mayor to that learned body on the recent occur-
rence, was quite equal to that which was given by Mr.

Earle. On that occasion, and again on the occasion of the
visit of Prince Albert, they had a precedent:for defraying
the civic expenses by making an additional allowance to
the mayor. He, therefore. begged to move, " That for
the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred in the
opening of St. George's-hall, and also for the reception of
the British Association in this town, the salary of the
mayor be increased in the present year, by the sum of