A select number, also, will be taken in rotation, and given a ride in glass-coaches, that will be directed to follow the precise route that the Lord Mayor's procession was in the habit of taking every memorable 9th of November. Pocket handkerchiefs will be provided gratuitously, to stem the grief of such Aldermen for whom the sight may be too much.
Negotiations are in treaty for the Mansion House, which will be unoccupied as soon as the City Corporation has died its unnatural death. It is expected to be vacant in a year. A better locality could not possibly be chosen, on account of the number of pleasant associations that are connected with that building, which was so proverbially hospitable with other people's money.
Those Aldermen who are prevented, by illness or modesty, from applying at the Mansion House, will be relieved at their own mansions.
All Aldermen will be expected to bring their own basins and spoons.
Any Alderman convicted of bringing up his basin to be filled a second time on the same day, will be denied any further relief for an entire twelvemonth.
The tickets, under any circumstances, are not to be sold; but it is hoped, in the event of the expected success of the Association, that measures will be taken to add venison to the Turtle.
Further particulars will be shortly published, with a list of the bankers and houses where subscriptions are to be paid, and where the smallest contributions, in the way of turtle or venison, will be thankfully received.
A smaller Charity will also be established—at least the attempt will be made—in connection with the parent one. Its object will be to relieve the Common Councilmen with Mock Turtle.
It is a source of great consolation, to think that these poor miserable creatures, when they are turned out of their comfortable quarters, will not be totally unprovided for in their old age. Ruin, it is true, is staring them in the face; but still their few declining years may be rendered comparatively happy, by their being still supplied with those comforts which the custom of a whole life has turned into nothing less than positive wants. To prove we bear no malice towards those who are fallen, we wish every success to these "Turtle Soup Kitchens for Destitute Aldermen;" and, as soon as the casseroles are got into boiling order, we are ready to pay our first subscription.