The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-28 00:00:00

LORD JOHN RUSSELL IN SHEFFIELD.

71111 VIENNA CONPIMILNCI.
On Saturday morning another address was pre-
masted to Lord John Russell at the residence of Alderman IL
Z. Boole, whose guest he was. The address was from the
Nouconforinist ministers of Sheffield, and was read by the
Rev, Henry Batchelor. It was as folios.,

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TO THIR WONT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, N.D.
" My Lord,—We the andervigned clergymen of the Mon-
orail:samba congregations in the borough of Sheffield, beg
permission to express to your lordship the unfeigned gratifi-
cation which your visit to our town affords us.
" We congratulate your lordship that the benevolent ob-
ject which brings you amongst us is in the strieten accord-
ance with the spirit of • public life which has never loot
sight of the aerial well-being of the people. We rejoice that
the philanthropy for which your lordship has been so
very distinguished affords us an opportunity of recording our
humble but sincere admiration the nobleman whose life in
the service of constitutional government, whose political
trim/lona, whose generous patriotism, whose rectitude end
industry have won fur him the foremost place amongst the
greatest and most enoreseatil statesmen of the age. Daring
the last thirty years the name of your lordship la hatimetely
connected with every act of political and social legislation,
which will be gratefully runenahered by ra7oh.rity. The re-
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Mejesty's government, ha7sM—siL a lasting imperious on an
the friends of religious liberty and rational progress, and
with all those invaluable attributes to national reform and
popular improvement you • lordship is inseparably associated.
Since your lordship will be aware that we differ from
you, not only in some of the practical detuils of religious
feeling, but even in some of its fundamental principle. we
have a great desire to acknowledge, with unabated think-
fulness, the great and varied services of your lordship on be-
half of religious liberty, and to express the earnest hops
that the administrative legality and uprightnese of your
lordship may long be employed to advance the moral and
social welfare of our country.
"We are eepecially glad that your presence in Sheffield
allows us an opportunity to declare our sympathy with your
lordship under the iutputations which have been cast on mime
labs acts of your public conduct, and which the circumstances
of the government and the nation prevent your snswering.
May we also be permitted to secure your lordship that we
honour the delicate and dignified retinae which your lordship
has maintained, end that we have the fullest confidence that
when the pustule of affairs will justify an explanation, we
shall discover IN moral consistency and the honour which
your lordship has ever manifests as • nobleman, statesman,
and patriot of Greet Britain. MW. remain, my lord, your
lordship's obliged and faithful servants." (Signed by all the
Nonconformist ministets in the town.)
In reply, his lordship expreNd himself as much gratified
by the address which bad been presented to him. lie did
not wish it to be thought that all the honour which seemed
to be attributed to him could be justly claimed, as many
others had 'Ahmed with himself in carrying three manure.,
and he owed a great deal to the state of public sentiment
that he wan enabled to suconefully secure throe important
objecte. Hie lordship was pleased to expreen the high ad-
mustiest which he had ever felt for the conduct of protestant
diseenters in their put history, and referred es-
pecially to their conduct at the time of the acces-
sion of the house of Hsnover, when their moderation
snowed them to abstain from peening claims which were
justly due,but to which the administration of the country could
not at that time hare yielded. The same moderation had
ever marked their political conduct. lie believed them to be
the firmest supporter. of the throne, and to be warmly at-
tached to the institution of the country. There might be
some points on which he differed from them, but he was
happy that he had been able to co-operate with them in the
attainment of certain groat measures for religions freedom.
He trusted that their future history would be marked with
the Paine frames., end oleo with tho same consideration of all
the interests of the state, as their put history had been. Ilia
lordship was especially gratified by the references to his
public conduct. , I have ever been convinced," he said,
" that whatever opinion* may gain ground for • time—owing
to certain speakers or writent, who hsve been eitaltedinto tem-
=Y notice, giving prominence to their opinions—that Eng-
en are not long deceived by such opinionssa to the cha-
reeler of any newsman. It hue been rightly noticed in the
oddness presented to me, that the time has not yet arrived
in Which to make full explanations as to my conduct at
Vienna. Eking employed as the confidential servant of my
sovereign, I thought it better that my reputation as a state..
man should suffer injury than that I should make untimely
explanations. Most certainly I believed at We time—though
I might be mistaken—that the =ensures I proposed and sup-
ported were for Ow intends of my country ; though perhaps
I have thought moos of the interests of my country than, I
am bound to say, the prevailing passions of the times." (Ap-
plauae.)
The deputation then withdrew. His lordship left Sheffield,
accompanied by Lady Russell end their children, Mies Mary
Agatha and Masters George William Gilbert end Francis
Albert Rolla Russell, by the 11.13 train for London the same
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