The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-19 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1854.

Remember what was said on Wednesday last,
the 14th of June, 1854, in the Guildhall, by
Lord JOHN Russia:l,, the Member for the City of
London, the Leader of the House of Commons,
the President of the Council, and, as such, one of
the most important representatives of the policy
of her Majesty's Government !

Whatever may be rumoured. about the retreat
of the Russian forces, and the evacuation of the
provinces to the right of the river Pruth, and the
possibility of a disgraceful compromise, leading
to a merely temporary, but an everlastingly infa-
mous, pacification—remember the words that fell
froth the lips of Lord JOHN RUSSELL on Wednes-
day afternoon when addressing the citizen-electors
of the capital from the hustings in their ancient
Guildhall.

The declaration then made by the Noble Lord was
sufficiently remarkable. His Lordship had pre-
viously said, "I think it should be our endeavour to
obtain a durable, a solid, and an honourable peace."
Observe, a peace—durable, and solid, and honour-
able ! Three very important requisites. Re-
ferring once more, towards the close of his oration,
to the topic of the day, the all-absorbing theme
of the so-called war with Itussia, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL said—the words are very notable, and
should be borne throughout the struggle in perpe-
tualrernerabrance—"My hope is that that warwill
meet with the success which, from its object and
its motive, it deserves ; but this I will say, that
no insufficient peace ought to be made ; that we
ought not to lay down our arms until we have
obtained security for the future—(prolonged
cheering)—that, having made the great exertions
that
desi we have done, that having our eyes open to
the gns Russia,
having their eyes open likewise, we should be the
most sillyof mortals if we were to sign an inse-
cure peace,
which would leave it to our present
his bide
enemy to time, until by the dimensions
of other powers, until by the weakness of some of
those powers,
he should find a better opportunity
of design." It was scarcely neces-
sary
of accomplishing
that the reporter should have added, by inti-
mation, that this manly avowal was received, as it
oughtto have been received, when uttered, with cor-
dial and unanimous acclamations. For the opinion
therein expressed by the Leader of the House of
Commons is the deliberate and rooted conviction
of the majority of the intelligent population. _
Immediately after speaking thus plainly in regard
to the necessity of crushing out for once and for
ever the sinister design of the Russian AUTOCRAT,
Lord Jourr took occasion to define the nature of
that design, declaring that it amounted simply to
this -- that " Constantinople should be, like
Cracow and Warsaw, subject to Russian protec-
tion and Russian influences." Whereupon the
Noble Lord added—"I say that such a consumma-
tion would be fatal to the liberty of Europe "
observing yet further—" I ask you [meaning
thereby, of course, not merely the citizens of
London but the people of England], I ask you to
oppose such a consummation." Ave, Div L
rcl
that is the true m a th tt t:l,, ,i.nin-
cance of the war against Russia. It is to oppose
any niol% disastrous consuramation, it is to pre-