The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-22

Hsre, acconiing to immemoriA usage, there
should have suddenly appeared knight armed
cap a-pie, on q richly caparisoned horse, with
lance in rest; who, throwing down his glove-of
mail-should have called upon the people of
Fifth avenue, Fourteenth street and the Bowery
to step over the footlights and pick that glove up
If they dared In this particular precedent was
neglected. No knight appeared; the Chevalier
Fuller, however, holding not a lance but mir
ror, and as richly caparisoned as fashion will
permit, stepped jauntily forward leading the
Queen to the footlights Behind him there walk
ed not regiment of guards clad in coats of mail
(hers again the managers deviated from historic
pIecedent) but young woman in brief skirt,
holding pillow in her hand.
Among that portioD of the audience which
hailed from the rural districts the impression at
this stage of the performance was that the Cheva-
lier Fuller was part of the play and that Polio
would presently appear and do for him. Sympa-
thy was freely expressed for the ardent but youth
full Chevalier, and some indignation was felt
at the seemingly heaItless behavior of Madame
La Grange. Just at the moment, however,
tenor strains, for his appearance there in that
costume, he began, in voice suspiciously twangy
and slightly nasal to level prose speech at the
head of the defenceless La Grange. She bore it
WELL uncomnonly WE'LL She WINGED when the
Chevalier Fuller told her she was returning
freighted to her native land !" she sighed when
be said the ovation was a reward for her "su-
perior character !" che blushed at being told that
che chad never disappointed the public in her ap-
pearance )" she gasped when the Chevaller, with
the determination of Mott or a Dupuytren, tod
her he was going to fix off her head with "lyric
coronal." Something in the expression of the
Chevalier and the terror of the lady led the
juvenile portion of the audience to fear that q
"lyric coronal " might be surgical instrument.
Screams were heard. The Chevalier looked
sternly at the audience, and bursting into a food
of metaphor, he extemporized such figures as the
armament of bright eyes," showers of floral
tributes" Swelling hearts," and fixing the
"lyric coronal" on the lady's head, bade her
adieu, and dashed into side scene, as well to
hide his emotion as to prepare for the tidy little
supper which he had with Madame La Grange at
later period Of the evening.
So ended our first coronation. On the whole,
it was success, and may become fashionable.
As we are not, like the French or English,
obliged to wait for death to crown our Queens,
we may have coronations as often as we like
We may recall Grisi, Alboni, Jenny Lind, Pa
rodi, Catherine Hayes, Sontag and all the other
singers and have Colonel Fuller fire off his
speech at them and crown them Nor is there
any reason why singers shodld monopOlse the
crowns. We may crown our artists authors,
editors lawyers, merchants and politicians We
may crown Mr.. Devlin and Mr.. Conover for
keeping the streets dirty while they are SQUAD
bling; Mayor Wood, for his pluck; Sim. Draper
for resigning; and General Nye, for not doing 10
Strictly speaking there is no one who does not,
In some way or other deserve a crown; and now
that the Chevalier Fuller has got the way of
doing the thing, we hope he may be kept busy.