Mr. Deputy Elliott, at the meeting of the City Connell
on Thursday, charged the Entertainment Committee of the Council with theft. He put it very politely, merely asserting that the members had provided most costly and unnecessary _articles, and then taken them away with them. Articles worth 6001. had disappeared, including all the furniture of the Princess's boudoir. One man had "taken away" things worth 2001. The two chairs of state had been rescued with inimense effort for the Mansion House ; but ivory-backed brushes, toilet services, and porcelain without end, had dis- appeared. The Committee, it would seem, took anything pretty or valuable as mementoes of the auspicious occasion. 1 t is said that a complete answer to this very singular charge will be given, and Mr. Elliott is certainly a little hypercritical. He did not see the use of five dozen bottles of eau de Cologne at a ball, and was inclined to quarrel with an item of seven ivory hair-brushes. Obviously, he expected all the ladies whose hair got loose to use the same brush, as the men do in a Far-West hotel.
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