The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-03 00:00:00

liation to us quite as much as to Russia. Most
humbling Vandalism, most humbling policy. Of
course Lord PALMERSTON would not live to see
it—perhaps Prince ALBERT and our treacherously
advised SOVEREIGN might not. There cannot,
however, be a shadow of doubt that Russia would
quickly commence the restoration of the pirate's
nest ; that English money market would soon
be tightened by loans to repair the military and
naval mischief we had done, and that in the "rise
of Bank interest," and " less accommodation,"
we should soon be literally taxed to restore these
noble works.

But, besides the weighty considerations of
avoiding humiliations of an enemy degrading to
ourselves, and a policy which would sacrifice in a
few years all we have gained, the civilising, the
noble uses to which Sebastopol and its docks
might be applied, and the infamy of handing over
the graves of the heroes of Alma, Inkerman,
Balaklava, the Tchernaya, and the siege, to the
CZAR and his serfs, ought to stir the blood of all
France and England. The dust of the Crimea
is, alas ! now, to a sad extent, the dust of the
bravest of France and England. Russia, and
her superstitious Church, began this broil by a
quarrel about a holy sepulchre, the site of which no
mortal really knows, But the. Crimea is but a
too well-known land of holy sepulchres—
of sepulchres holy to the affections of thousands of
the kindred of the victorious dead. Surely ten
thousand families of all ranks in England and
France will rise up and forbid this gratuitous de-
secration of their holy sepulchres.
And, then, to think of what these docks and Se-
bastopol might be. Why here we have accommo-
dation for the Great Britain, we presume, and the
Himalaya themselves. Here, made to our hands,
we have the mechanical means of supporting a
traffic which might vie with that of Southampton
and still larger ports. And for destroying all
this our consolation is to be that these docks sent
forth the murderers of Sinope and healed their
wounds As wisely take vengeance on the blun-
derbuss of RUSH and give him back the fragments,
instead of placing it for ever beyond Isis power to
repair and use it again. We have alreadyshown
the vengeance which humanity and policy alike
point to. Take the Crimea for ever from Russia ;
give it to a commercial nation—sty Sardinia ;
let it be a stipulation that Sebastopol shall Le
for ever a free port, free to all the nations of the
earth ; or, if any exceptions be made, let the
three leagued despots be the only ones. Let it
be the more splendid Hamburg of the East. That
is the policy which all honest politicians must
know to be the best for the interests of civilisa-
tion in all tho vast territories within reach of
traffic through the Euxine,. and the policy which
alone will really humble Russia, because it wll
destroy alike her prestige and her means of rAfec.
tive military communication with the East.

Alderman SALOMONS is now " Lord Mayor of
great London," and a worthy successor, no doubt,
he will prove of the legendary Wm.7.TINGTONS and
modern BECKWITIIS. To be sure, the elite of his
subjects have deserted the narrow territory over
which he reigns, and have lef'. him little but the
custody of their counting-b.ouses, shops, and ware-
houses ; and even Lora Mayors themselves stay
in their now half-'iepopulated capital no longer
than they are compelled to do so. Still it is re-
garded by the citizens of the old central portion
of the modern Le•adon as a high civic honour to
be their Lord "Mayor. He has the honour of
belonging to an unreformed Corporation—one
which quite disagrees with Mr. ACLAIW and the
Commis&oiners as to its needing any reform. Ho
is net like their Worships of Bristol or Liverpool,
or even of York, a Mayor of a " new series."
He has all the value of a genuine antique, and
rides in a coach made, we forgot when, perhaps
in the time of the TUDORS ; and though ASTLEY,
it must be confessed, can beat his exhibition of
the 9th of November, yet Mr. ASTLEI'S is a
modern and mercenary display. The procession
of Lord Mayor's Day is as ancient as traditional
memory—a part of the Constitution itself—and,
out of pure patriotism, is paid for by My Lord
Mayor, not by us—that is, we do not give our
shillings and half-crowns direct to see it. If we
be taxed for it, it is in the true Royal style ; you
are not allowed to see the money go direct from
you to him. Rumour and Radicalism foretell
Mayoralty Reform in the spirit of the age—we
suppose when the War is fairly over. Civic Pu-
seyism may, however, prove too strong for the
irreverent tendencies of too many ; and, like the
new churches all about us, the Mayors may re-
tain the forms of the middle ages, though made
of modern materials.
Mr. SALomoNs, to the honour of the citizens,
be it said, has not knocked at the door of the
Mansion House in vain ; nor would he indeed,
we acknowledge, have tried to no purpose at St.
Stephen's, unless Lord SHAFTESBURY, and the
Lords spiritual and temporal had tied the knocker.
We are loud, all of us, just now, in, praise
of education as the great panacea for i.ll social
evils, for b!gotry and persecution amongst the
rest. Yet Lord SHAFTESBIIRX aid his bishops
would probably resent 'toeing put on a level with
the citizens of Lo,:adon in respect of education.
How, tiler., are we to account for the superiority
of 14.'ondon Citizens, nay, of London Aldermen, to
vulgar prejudices, which bestride the souls of
Lords Spiritual and Temporal ? The citizen less
bigoted, less persecuting than the Lord !—and the
Leader of those Lords, too, the Earl of SIIAFTES-
BUPA ! Disguise it how they will, the exclusion
of a Jew from St. Stephen's is a punishment, a
disability at the best, inflicted on account of the
difference of his faith. Ho believes in the Law
and the prophets, he believes in ONE FATHER, and
in a MESSIAH to come ; bat not in the MESSIAH
who has come. He believes all that ABRAHAM,
and DAVID, and Isaias believed, and for which
we assign them a place among the blessed ; but
not all that PETER and PAUL believed. For this
difference Lord SHAFTESBURY and his friends, as we
suppose, shut him out of Heaven, for certain they
bar iu face the door to earthly honours. The
citizens cherish, what we think, more Christian
sentiments. Our LORD certainly did not teach
his followers to exclude Jews or Heathens from
manyirec tio f
on htis hat weei
the honours of this world. indeed so strong are
galrni t ieesstt
andsayngi sn
oin t
h eC
hoz. ipsptioasni tse,
in every age,
,h avefrequently abjured worldly
rank, and chosen voluntary poverty. Surely
there is vastly more to be
said, on Christian
grounds, against Christian Ministers being Lords
temporal—State Lords—and Lords spiritual
and even against Lord SHAFTESBURY Wearing any
title but what a Quaker would give him, than
there is for a Christian's refusing a Jew the full
privileges of a citizen.

We quite sympathise with Mr. SALouor. .
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regarding his election as a tribute to ti,d •
lights of
conscience. Men educated at coil-
-
alba
and disciplined by the interco-
life, somehow understar .arse of commercial
_.a those rights far better
than the men of 0
Lion is,
~xford and Camlvidge. duca-
but a small part of it to be gained
from. school-booms, or from books at all. Many
04014 of political slaves surpass Englishmen in