The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1863.

has departed from his original proposition. I feel
certain that with a firm attitude held by us in con-
currence with Russia, and as I believe with France,
we should have shown the German Powers that,
though not disposed to withholding anything from
their just rights, we are not content to allow with
impunity any unauthorised or uncalled for aggres-
sion on the liberties of Denmark."

What's in a name ? A ROSE, representative of the
Lord Mayor, would supply the City want. The
debate on the new street turned on a name; and
Mr. CRAWFORD, full of City celebrities, wished to
christen it by the famous one of Mansion House, so
redolent of roast beef and turtle-soup of immortal
memories. But Sir JOHN SHELLEY would have
preferred the name of the hon. City member him-

self, Crawfish—no, CRAWFORD-but the House

only received the proposal with laughter. Then
Mr. AYRTON had a very fatal objection to Mansion
House-street—that it would require a long course
of education before the citizens would be able to
pronounce such a name, however suggestive of good
things for the body; but the mind would require an
expenditure of more money than Parliament would
grant, seeing bow much was paid away already
without anything to show for it. The Mansion
House would be only suggestive of that one faculty
of the Corporation, enormous eating. The hon.
member for the Tower Hamlets was very amusing
in his allusions to the City virtues, for he said that

the oldest writer in reference to the City remarked

that he bad seen many curious things there—but
the most curious by far was the extra-
ordinary quantity of provisions in the City,
and the extraordinary power of the citizens
in eating them. This very naturally produced
shouts of laughter in the House. Mr. AYRTON was
also entertaining in his remarks concering the mem-
ber for Stafford, a town whose electors rejoiced in
making shoes, and the prosperity of which SHERI-
DAN, in giving a toast, delighted his constituents
in proposing in these terms that the ware of Staf-
ford might be trodden under foot all over the
world, hinting thereby that there's nothing like
leather, and leather suggested stirrup and stirrup-
cup, and cup, again, was so familiar to the citizens,
that their guests were honoured by passing round
the loving cup, in token of good fellowship. But
Alderman SIDNEY was so full of historic lore that
he could tell them how the citizens, in the good old
times, had behaved in their cups, and therefore he
ought to suggest a fitting name for the way that
led so many good men to their cups. For instance,
there was WHITTINGTON and his Cat, why not call
it Cat-street ? The hon. member might have gone
a little further on the way, and added Cat-eat-on,
as a glorious City predilection, which would have
been quite in keeping with corporation feasting.
But here another objection arises—there is a street
now rejoicing in the name of Cateaton-street. As the
Brahmin said, the world was sustained on the back
of an elephant, and the elephant wishing to have a
soft resting-place for his feet, placed them on a
turtle, Mr. AYRTON said that the conclusion of
all corporate proceedings reminded him of this
theory. His own notion was that if other names
failed they should aeiopt that of the noble lord at
the head of the Government, by way of compliment
to his intellect, as contradistinguished from that of
citizen predilections. However, the noble lord who,
though no City alderman, in his varied tastes, has
yet had good experience of late in his country ram-
bles, even to the Land of Cakes, modestly declined
the new street to be honoured with the name of
PALMERSTON, and proposed that its baptism should
be left to the sponsorship of the Board of Works,
who have certainly shown great ability in mis-
naming a number of disconsolate localities much to
the perplexity of the Post-office authorities. Now,
as to the name of the new street, why not select one
that would, in the language of necessity, make both
ends meet—call it Bank Street—starting at the
Bank of the Thames and finishing at the Bank of
Money ; thus combining the want of the thirsty as
well as that of the hungry, for water and money
are of the first necessity all over the world.