Year: 1874

LONDON May 14.-We have Car among us, and
feel pretty sure that we know what to do with him.
Lately we had a Shah, and knew also what to do
with him; being, in fact, only doubtful whether
we did not too much; so much that il is hard TO
make the reception of the Car proportionatey
magnificent This is nation which believes in the
Rule of Three As the Shah is to the Car are,
ought to be, the splendors offered to the Shah to
those we about to offer to the Car. Very possi
bly, have confused the names in stating my proper
tion but they much alike that it is matter
1 heard lady complaining yesterday that she said
Shah when she ought 10 say Car; not having, If
dare say got the taste of the Persian potentate
out of her mouth. To add to the perplexies of the
situation, the arrival of the great Russian TOOK
place at Dover and not at Gravesend. 1t suits His
Imperial Majesty to do his sea-voyagiug in steam
yacht Of 5000 tons burden. The Russian Caesar and
his understanding in this case his luggage-can-
not be carried in less But the tide which would
not stop for Canute would not flow for Alexander,
and the overladen vessel took the ground
at Flushing her port of Dutch depart
me- nigh TO ill-omened Walcberen and the
queer little, yet considerable. town which
American tourists up the Scheld to Antwerp cannot
but have noticed and remember for what they call
its outlaodsh aspect. Whence 1t happened that the
huge Dervaja could not reach GraveScpd yesterday,
as she was intended to- and that it resolved to
make fOr Dover instead. w nat gTlcl ana rage nave
since alled the bosoms of the Mayor and burgesses
of Gravesend. ana of the disappointed sghtseers
who had throng ged thther at much cost and trouble
no muse viii ever sing. The penny papers (which
have Subscribers therc) record them tearfully, and
the Prince of Wales telegraphed tie Mayor how
sorry he was, if that be some consolation, as be-
heye ii must have been / doubt not the Mayor
why does nobody mention his wOrShiptul name =
will frame the dispatch and hang it in his best par
lor, aud that his wife and children look on him as a
greater man than ever. The reporters who had gone
Gown to Grayosend appear to have done a good part
of their work before the sad news came for we have
rather fuller description This morning of the deco
rations and arrangements for the reception which
did not occur at GraveSend than of that which did
take place Dover But not one of them prints the
address which the Mayor would have read to the
Gar an address on which anxious days aud nights
had been spent, and which the world is nobody
kuows how much poorer for not getting.


IL has long been my conviction that the Mayors of
England are her greatest men, and that more solid
chunks of wisdom are TO be found in their heads
than in an equal number of any Cabinet Ministers
that can he named Besides, there are more Mayors
than Cabinet Ministers, and it was Voltaire or some
less witty man before bim who told us that every
body Is wiser than anybody. If L were an English
man and Radical instead of being American
and tyou have il on Miss Kate Fields authority
Conservative / should certainly propose to reform
the Constitution of this kingdom By putting political
power into the hands of the Mayors for the time
being. Foreiners-iu this case you are the for
elgncr-seldcm know accurately what passes in this
singular country or what sources Of information are
best. think it highly probable you never read
Mayors address, yet some thousands of them have
been launched within the last few at the heads
Of Royal visitors. They form a species of literature


81. - hot 4hov IL,
contain views of foreign domestic policy of most
original and remarkable kind. Read, entreat YOU,
the address of the Mayor Of Dover yesterday to the
Gar The morning of Wednesday well on
toward noon before the great man who guides the
destinies OF Dover knew that he TO receive i'll
the afternoon the Gar OF all the Russias. The last
tune he heard of a Car was probably in 1854, when
he knew him rs an Oriental despOt whom England
in the interests of civilization thrashing in the
CFimea. His first impulse must have been to bar
rlcade his front door aud send to the Castle for
troops to protect the town The troops came, but
meantime the Mayor with rare versatility and MINI
blencss Of mind and readiness to receive informa-
ton Characteristic Of great natures, had brought
himself to understand that the Car came on
peaceful errand, and was to be welcomed guest.
Sudden as the change must have beeu there is
trace of il in the addressnO alluson to the Crmea
nor hint of former hostiliies Read it. copy it IN
full for I think il pity that such composition
should not I've given TO the Western Hemisphere for
admiration; though imitation, alas. be impossible.


TO HIS iMIERIAL MAJESTY TIE GAR OF ALL THE
Rrss!As: May it please your Majesty, We, the Mayor,
Aldermen and Burgesses of the ancient cnque port and
borough OF Dover hasten 10 approach your Majesty
with cen.ments of the most profound respect to tender
yonr Majesty a hearty welcome on your ARRIVAL upon
the shores OF Great Britain. We beg your Majesty to
receive our warmest felioitatioas the auspicious
marsg sge OF her ROYAL and Imperial Hghness the Grand
Daehpss Marie AlexandrOwna TO his Royal Highness the
Duke Of EuUburgb, an event which has been hailed
VITA great satisfaction by all classes OF our beloved
Soveregus loyal and devoted subjects TINS auspclous
justihes the hope that while the friendly inter-
the two great nations 10 strengthened


the peaceful relations and commercial prosperity OF the
countries Of Europe may, by the blessing of Almighty
God be iosered III the advancement of CIVILIZATION III
SOU earnest prayer that your Majesty may long De
spared family and peoples, happy In their
love and DEVOTION and in the increasing accomplish
ment OF your wishes for their welfare Given un
der corporate zeal at Dover, this 18th DAY OF May
is7l FRED. 6. PIERCE, Mayor.


WOLLAsToS KSoCKER, Town Clerk.


All this, you may say, gives you but dim notion
Of the Car and his reception / admit it, but how
much cIodtable to me il is to have discovered
this Mayor than to describe mere Car, and how
much more profitable for you. Anybody could have
gone down to GIavesend and then hurried off TO
Dover and afterward to Windsor, and told you what
he had seem If had done that doubt whether I
should have been calm enough to see what have
seen by staying at home and reading the papers at
breakfast this morning. And it the Mayors
only chance. The Car will be obect Of interest
for week to come. The Mayors appearance was
like the Transit of Venus. 1t must be seized at the
moment OF not at all, aud Is political astronomy
less delicate affair ~: si,ddsreaii


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