New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-11

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dinner to an American Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary in the good old City OF
of Moscow; home Of Oriental antecedents and
Napoleonic post cedents, of the coolest winters
60 a 3tt:est fames Of long boards and Of greasy
breeches "bequeathed by dying sire to son. of
much tanow and little soap; Of Moscow, where
the great medieval wonder of coronation makes
sixty million hearts beat and perhaps sixty million
eyes water with 10y aty-the genuine old hard-shell
| lOyalty-nO pinchbeck constitutional imitation, but
| the verdantique itself, which regards the Head of
the State as the Chosen OF GOd-the incarnated force
of Divinity acting for the moral, political and re-
| ligOus gOvernance Of the greatest empire in the
world Yes, at this pivot of the turning cviliza-
tions at this maelstrOm Of the tradestreams of the
Orient and the Occident dinner has been given
to the above superatve, supererOgatory, supernu.
merary, superfuOus, superseviceabe, superfne Off
cial-tbe representative of ninety thousand Olgarchs
governing twenty-five millions of "poOr white
trash of poor white and black slaves, South, and
of "greasy mechanics, filthy operatives and small
" listed farmers" North.
Dinners where American Ministers speak and are
spoken to, are generally bores-wanting the merit
Of novelty. We do remember one, however,
which had certain genuine flavor about it. That
was aboard the steamer Franklin, the first Of the
Havre line, on her arrival at that port, when five
hundred of the Cabinet, legislative, ec,lesiastic,
art site, scientific world of Paris, were mixed up
with Boulevard loaferdOm of the clean-shlrt order
generally. DrOll was it to see and hear the effect
on the crowd of the magnificent steamer, many of
whom bad never beheld anything larger than
Seine tub or tea-kettle. The immensely of adjec-
tives, and the food of interjections Droll, too
WIS it 10 witness the effect of an American dinner
on a knot of 1fois Trins devotees, men living
from year to year mainly for new gustatory
sensation. We do remember the effect Of certain
American Shrewsbury oysters on the palate of
stomachc hero of that class, well.bre1, undemOn-
strative man, and the manner in which he conveyed
to the select circle-an extract of his club-that
be had found a sensation. Then some American
ham was praised so artistically that it must have
brought CHASTITY drops to the ghastly eyes Of the
spirit of that particular pOrcne emigrant from
Cincinnati. But when Dir. Rives, the American
Minister rose to inaugurate the occasion with some
capital remarks GALL in French, too) the effect on
the Parisans was subtle in the extreme. French
man in the audience remarked that the Virginia
orator was worthy of the Ohio ham. Praise could
no further 90 from such source on such an occa-
sion.
But this dinner Of long-besded merchants of
Moscow to an American Minister-and the only
dinner of the kind so given on the occasion Of the
Coronation of the present Russian Emperor-must
have been queer concern, The points of con-
Northumberland contact-tbe great unsad, the
large abusive arsenal of thought, on such Occa.
sions-where were these The common laws,
common lineage, common prayer book, Shakespeare,
Jack-tbeG Giant Killer, Mother Goose and so forth
which are wont to fill out the very extraordinary
harappues of our Envoy in Eneland-at these were
minus What did they talk about 4! Trade How
much is there between Russia and the United
States We shall not give the nakedness Of the
land in fgures-it is really too small. The talk on
trade then must have been COZ fined TO the prophetic
lie.
But as to politics, We haze sufficient confidence
in The present American Minister to the Russian
Court to believe that he was as discreet and as
luminous as possible Imagine something of this
kind from his Exceency's mouth "In fa lure
"there need be no fear Of the Democracy of
America, because in regard to the maintenance OF
"serfdom they are infinitely more conservative than
"his Majesty the Gar [Sensat;on.] Yes, mer-
"cal tile Muscovites the PLATFORM that is, the
"poicy of the ascendant party-ascendant now,
'and de tined go to be in November of this year
"s the Extension OF Slavery Marks Of surprised.
"Our Democratic party, with the advance Of light,
"haye discovered that Slavery is the normal con.
"dtion of workingmen. and that all mechanics and
"laborers, whether white or black, may properly
be bought and Sold worked and logged.
hunted with bloOdhOunds, aud for Ger.
tain crimes be roasted at the stake. [Several
Muscoy.e merchants here rose in their seats-one
"of them FIeeandeasyo vsky, said, soto voce that
such remarks were 6isgisceful; but lock from
The Chairman si.enced him. perceive, gentle.
men, that you rise with approval. Thanks there.
FIR. Believe ne. that in regard to our ;nterna.
toLa iutuIe there needle no abrasiols, no heart.