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THE CITY GOVERNMENT 117 the corporation. George Dance was the architect selected, but it need hardly be said the cost largely exceeded the sum named. Cunningham puts it at £71,000. A great deal has been laid out in improvements, especially in 1867; but nothing can make the exterior worthy of the city. The interior 1s sufficiently commodious, and some of the reception-rooms are these, the soHall, wide, is. the 100 feet nothing Egyptroof being supCorinthian colsome of which tues by eminent them by Foley. and the nymph amongst his It is in this famous banquets thing is of the served in the cent manner, the and gold being derful sight. rar Lie He ir ‘ | e| on i | erti i ék i 4 | very fine; Of called Egyptian and 59 There is lan about it, the long finest. ported by twenty umns, between are marble stasculptors, two of (aractacus S Bpena” are best works. hall that the are held. Everybest and is most magnifidisplay of silver in itself a won-. Behind the Lord with a jockey cap, all that is left of the old privilege of the citizens granted to them by Henry I to hunt in Middlesex and Surrey, and as far away as the Chiltern Hills. Each Lord Mayor takes over the plate and furniture from his predecessor at a valuation. The salary given by the city amounts to £10,000, but no Lord Mayor is
