The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

is a certain kind of restless activity in some
repos , which renders it impossible for them to endure
04 toe; and every opportunity is,therefore, gladly seized
lobt ""ire some degree of notoriety. It is not very
liah, lance Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after a career in Par-
alii;eli t i °Nearly forty years, and after having occupied
trek tl,every ministerial office, was compelled to retire
%/I Government, from the overwhelming convic-
ativi: the public mind of his political treachery in
been 'Bl' inglorious conditions of peace when he had
it ki Zat to Vienna to maintain the national honour.
l6:t have been thought that, at sixty-three years
Iva pale day for re-constructing a political reputation
to st;:, and that the wisest course would have been
rttire-eu Inh to the storm he had himself provoked, and
into the private life to which he must have so
154
jaea n a stranger. He seems, however, to be
tllllve of rest, preferring rather the smallest mo di -
114.4 e.-: Popular notice, of however questionable a
4olittiLer, to being altogether unforgotten. It
biwasb,
tlpo:e88, this morbid feeling of restlessness w e
,ed him to the bitter mortification of beinghissed
l'te4 -h°avivial banquet by his own constituents, whose
NI:or decorum, so unusual on such an occasion,
14.ve been excited solely on account of his pea
whet `ions, so foreign to the temper of the people,
`l' the merchants of London or the inhabitants
Iltte()-141'Y places. But the few remarks which he did
rokerawere scarcely less absurd than those which pro-
t his condemnation. He congratulated the citizens
tri°ll4oll upon the election of the Lord Mayor as a
01. :1)11 of principle, and abruptly resumed his seat,
1)1e 'night perhaps have been informed what princi-
ov
4,1.' though
ouad thus triumphed. R was an old-fashioned
perhaps
hi
was
an exploded fallacy in the
pinion of modern
°I the country p osophers, that the
of Ch recognition
Of the truths based
undti upon an especial
Constitution
the fo ristianity
on of our belief and,
;tie
indeed, the only
eiple
a --the basis of our laws,
which society is or can be bound. Yet the only
-nvolved in the election of the Lord Mayorb
elu'Zlon is a practical denial of Christianity,
lbyftine
ite of a man who avowedly ignores his belief
Whieh°ettines, Is indifferentism the great principlet
-m
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was about to laud, had no
8 pc„
cave Predilections imbittered his audience again
st
4 prhs- h would be difficult to discover in what way
4414-geiPle can be involved in the election of such a
aa the chief magistrate of the metropolis, unless
gnalit
"nee to religious principle is a commendable
the Y. Be it remembered---for it is important to
hirthAluuent---that the Lord Mayor is only a Jew by
day rear and, therefore, in impugning his election, we
Jel; vin from any remarks whatever upon those
4114 Who conscientiously believe and act up to the
to pre in which they have been educated. It is absurd
thend that the Lord Mayor of London is a Jew,
at elJewish sense of the word ; for he was presiding
litewa"anquet on the Sabbath, engaged in a peculiarly
it 1. occupation, and eating with those with, whom
toh -1,5 1113 t lawful for him to eat, with forbidden vivands
IN 4e table, at the very time when the ex-Minister
Ar~c4.44uding his being there as the vindication of a,
ple
IttrB 8 is absurdity number one, of which Lord Joni,/
PoDurra, has been guilty in his futile attempt to court
tow aritY ; but, as if to leave no doubt of his in-
kett•steneY, he appeared, on Wednesday last, before a
1,0441 g of the Young Men's Christian Association in
as a lecturer on civilization ; and there, after
that et(nieeted string of historical references, declared
Neial—'l'istlanity was the only basis of national and
heeolll welfare. If the one argument be true, what
hot ]i of the other P The citizens of London would
40 he 'c'eu to his laudations at theLordMayor's banquet,
the hanged his ground, and attempted tp enlighten
1148 altllig luen on the blessings of Christianity. He
qiv
,an3r rate, shown the versatility of his genius :
life 04 n; has virtually closed the door of his political
ate,,linigelf, he may, no doubt, come out with ecldt
favottotal lecturer, varied with occasional addresses
ur of the beer-sellers, who are just now suffer-