he flunkey and the
potentate, which it would be difficult to analyse. At the Mansion House
dinner he is a Monarch, but at the Coronation banquet he is a Butler, in
virtue of which menial occupation he takes a golden tankard home to
clean, and then claiming it as a perquisite, he never brings it back
again. Why the LORD MAYOR should appropriate a bit of the plate because
he is acting as Butler, is as much a mystery to us, as it would be if
the man we paid to wait when we give a dinner-party were to walk off
with our best piece of plate--our sugar-tongs, which are real, all the
rest being electro--under the paltry subterfuge of its being a
"perquisite." We can only say that if the LORD MAYOR were to be stopped
on his way from the Coronation banquet with the golden tankard in his
pocket or under his arm, it would require nothing short of the
production of the original charter, to satisfy the police that he had
lawful possession of the property.

It appears also that the LORD MAYOR is a Privy Councillor, but is so
completely cut in that capacity that he is never summoned to attend, and
the probability is, that if his Lordship were to present himself for
admission he would have the door shut in his face by the "proper
officers." It is, however, inconvenient that those dignities should
nominally attach to an individual who is not permitted to use them, and
we can only compliment those who have held the office of LORD MAYOR, on
their good sense in not bringing on an unseemly altercation with the
royal porters and door-keepers, by attempting to "get in" when a Privy
Council is sitting. There is no doubt that if "his Lordship" were to
force a passage up into the Council Chamber, and attempt to take his
seat at the Board, there would be a general cry of "turn him out" from
the Cabinet Members. The absurdity of the situation is so apparent, and
the incongruity of the LORD MAYOR at the Privy Council is so striking,
that nobody can doubt the propriety of abolishing a nominal position,
which only subjects its holder to ridicule.

The only real power that is still exercised by the LORD MAYOR is the
right of shutting up Temple Bar when the Sovereign is expected; but
since the side bar has been rented by a loyal hair-dresser, who would
assuredly let the monarch through his shop--if any serious obstacle were
to be offered by the civic authorities--it is high time that even this
dim branch of the civic prerogative were lopped off by the