CITY ETIQUETTE.
A CYNIC says, that the use of merrymakings is to make people uncomfortable. Ladies, of imperturbable temper so long as "their ban' is in their huswifeskep," become fidgetty and annoyed with the slightest contretemps when out on a picnic party or bound for a dance ; and the gallants who take part in pageants are more apt to encounter mortifications than to have their vanity gratified. The great gala-day in the City, this week, has been no exception to the general rule. The citizens are wobegone and malecontent because the Sheriffs have not been knighted when the Lord Mayor was made a baronet. If the customary etiquette in bestowing honours in the City has been violated, it is to be regretted: the rule ought to be ascer- tained, and observed in future. If, as Tilburina (in The Critic) mad in white satin is attended by her maid mad in white muslin, the Lord Mayor in the bran-new dignity of baronetcy must be at- tended by his Sheriffs in the bran-new dignity of knighthood, so be it lit sacula seedulorum. But let not the loyal citizens be wroth with Majesty for leaving out the Sheriffs on the present occasion : there was a plausible reason for the omission. Alderman McKim was no longer Sheriff, and the Queen naturally thought that when the Moon had set it would be a work of supererogation to make a night.
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