New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-03
much perception Of politics, history and common
sense, o. il has Of common morality.


encounter. We do not refer to the conformation
which the cOntasion Of our money panic may carry
into the counting rooms and Offices of the mer-
chants and bankers, when the news of the tumblns'
down Of their correspondents houses in this
country sets there. Whether the yellow fever b
contagious or not there can be no doubt that
pabio 49, and that the breadth Of the ocean itself il
not wide enough 10 check it. But that is not Whist
we have in our mind. The ancient City Of London,
itis'aid suspected of having elected aTeetotaer
for Lord Mayor! What . confusion OF ideas does
not the bare statement Of the proposition occason
II is enough to throw the whole Court of Aldermen
into fits of the govt, not to say Of spopeIy. Such
danger, 50 frightful in it's men, never threatened
the royal city before. The resumption Of tho
Charter by James ii. was 9 bag,selle in CON-
parison. That only touched the corporate life OF
tho Aldermen and Common Councilman; this
strikes at their very heart of hearts as men and Is
citizens. II is no wonder that they are up in arms
aboutit.
This affective dispensatiOn befell that devoted
metropolis in this wise: In that land Of precedenh
ard in that capital Of welLpreserved abuses, it is
usual for the Aldermen to be elected Lord Mayor,
each in his due turn of seniority. This is by no
means invariably the case but, as general thing,
in the City Government, as in the train bands in
Mayor Surgeons time, promotion is regular,
call fair play, no jumping over heads" The
present year would, very possibly, have been one
Of those exceptions which prove the generality Of
the rule, bad the horrible suggestion been made in
time. For it il affirmed that Sir Robert Garden,
Knight and Alderman for the Ward of DOwgate, il
teetotaler and has been guilty of sundry treason
able practices tending to curtai the consumption Of
good liquor among the lieges This did give rise to
a vigorous opposition to the proposed elevation
of Sir Robert to the civic throne, which it
is not unlikely might have resulted in deferring it,
if not in defeating it altogether, il it had had time
to consolidate itself. Public meetings Of those
aegrieved by what he had done, and BY what they
feared that be would do, were called and strenu
GUS agitation set on foot to check betimss this in
vasion of the vested rights of the City and its Cor
poration. But it was not sufficient to defeat him.
And one really cannot much wonder at the stir
which the threatened innovation created. Imagine
q Lord Mayors Feast without champagne and bur-
gundy Why it might just as well be without
turtle soup and venison. Conceive Of Lord Palm
erston, primed with Thames water, rising to reply
to the health of her Msjesty's ministers drank en-
Enthusiastically in Adams ale And then, the
Loving Cup Imagine it passed from lip to lip,
Drumming with the delicious beverage the
city compounds out Of the contents Of its
sewers, poured into the fair bosom Of
"the silver Thames" but silver that stands in
much need Of cleaning We fancy, that for the
first time since that genial custom was inaugu
rated, the cup would complete its revolutions
around the table, as brimmiDg full as when it frat
set out If it should have the effect Of making the
City Fathers .et about the task of purifying the
open drain which has usurped the place of the
Thames of the poets, such an adversty would not DO
without its sweet uses. But, perhaps, they would in
their aquatic ignorance, suppose that all water was
20 favored and condimented, and thus the benefit
Of the lessen and of their solitary experiment be
lost forever.
The thing however, is morally physically and
municipality impossible. Sir Robert Garden mast
choose between his Mayoralty and his teetotalism.
He has until the 9th of November yet to deliberate
Could the turtle soup itself on that Lord Mayors
Day be assimilated into Aldermanic human nature
without the genial concordance of the iced punch
Could the endless succession OF long drawn-
out courses detcend solemnly even Aldermanic gull
lets without the cheering fabrication Of sherry,
hook and champasnel And when the cloth was
Of last and the luscious pneappss and grapes
and all manner Of "Fruits and flowers from Anal
theas horn" should crown the board, would they
not lose half their SAVIOR and their fragrance il not
heightened by
aTbe eay serene good. natured Burgundy,
And the fresh, fragrant vintage Of the Rhine"
OF course they would. And the Queens health,
too-coud that precious gift be preserved to her
sjesty and her people if imprecated with such very
thin potationsl Would it not smack Of the trea
son Of the last century-the oath to guard against
which is all that keeps the House Of Israel out Of
the House of COMMONWEALTH used to drink to
"tbe King orer the ,cater?" And the Ministers and
the ambassadors, and the army and the navy, and
the Lady Mayoress and the ladies in general To
drink them all in water! And to make thank Offer
ings and speeches for it into the bargain Ugh!
the things impossible. Cog and Magog would start
to life to ward off such dshsnor. We shall watch
the history of that great Days proceedings with an
intense and intelligent interest; but We are conf
dent that il will show his Lordshp clear in his great
Office and faithful to the unbroken traditions Of the
Mansion House.
While The Journal Of COmmeree-both editors
and correspondents, including "a reformed Re-
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