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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 recep¬
tion-rooms are
these, the so¬
Hall,
wide, is. the
100 feet
nothing Egypt¬
roof being sup¬
Corinthian col¬
some 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.
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very fine; Of
called Egyptian
and 59
There is
lan about it, the
long
finest.
ported by twenty
umns, between
are marble sta¬
sculptors, two of
(aractacus
S Bpena” are
best works.
hall that the
are held. Every¬
best and is
most magnifi¬
display 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