The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-11 00:00:00

lan another to tvhieli I max venture to lay claim, it is
att of consistency, an•i of sincere devotion to what I be-

ieee to be the true in►erects of my country. I have had,
,O various occasions, the good fortune of attending public
.neetings of the citizens of London, and I have at all times
witnessed their proceeding. with much satisfaction, for
liey have ever exhibited proofs of enlightened and liberal
a•alings, of a genuine love of liberty, and of a warm at--
ai:lunent to the genuine principles of the British Consti-
ution. If such were my feelings of gratification upon
-ormer occasions, what roust they be at present, when I
er you assembled for the purpose of marking your admira-
den of the public conduct of my Noble Friend, by placing
Joon the toll of your ritirons a name dear to Englishmen
—.a name which, for its devotion to public liberty, has
.tren counnunicated in tie highest annals of history. A
entury and a half has now elapsed since Lord Russell .
.bed his blood on the scaffold for the purpose of promoting
tliat great c tine which eventually triumphed at the Revo-
lution, and of which our ancestors and ourselves have en-
jt4red the benefita. We are now met to do honour to bis
losceneant, who, with no less of virtue, though, fortu-
, Irately. with more of success, has had the gratifying op-
portunity of rendering such services to his country as to
procure him the honour of being enrolled amongst the citi-
zens of London. YtP, my Lord, his services were indeed
of an order to entitle Pins to public rewards—services de-
voted to the removal of abuses which time has introduced,
and which stood in the wry of that which, I tt ust, we ate
now on the point of seeing established ; namely, a full,
fair, and free representation of the people in the Commons
House of Parliament. It affords me infinite gratification
that you should have mentioned my name as having pat-
ticipated in that great and noble work, and I tit ed scarcely
olds that having been mentioned doubly enhances the gra-
tification which the entertainment of this day affords toe.
Indeed, I can have no higher satisfaction than receiving
the approbation of the citizens of London, knowing, as I
do, that their best efforts are at all times directed to
,he advantages of the public—and frequently with signal
success. To such a body, then, I feel peculiar plea-
sure in declaring my sentiments and principles, and
those of toy Noble and Right Hon. Friends whom it
has been the pleasure of his Majesty to associate with me
in his councils. I can assure you, with perfect sincerity,
that since we have been called to those councils, it has
been our first object to preserve peace abroad—to preserve
it by respecting the independence of other nations, as
we are determined to maintain our own—to secure peace
art borne by uniting all classes through a just recognition.
of their rights. It must be matter of just congratulation
that at the present moment the gracious Sovereign who
reigns over these realms lives in the attachment of his
people, and has attracted to himself the attachment of
every class in society, by the simple and obvious process
of securing to all the full enjoyment of their rights.
Acting upon principles such as these was the surest course
fur preventing all that could produce mischief to society,
and for securing that sacred attachment to the institutions
of a Government which experience has proved to be better
than any other for securing peace and good order, at the
same time that it afforded the frailest mean, of developing
the principles of rational liberty. I have only to add,
I for myself and for my colleagues, the expre.sion of our
k deep and heartfelt acknowledgment.--(Applause.)
The Loan MAron then got up to propose ►. The health
of the Lord Chancellor." After expressing his deep sense
• of the many personal kindru saes which he experienced at
f the bands of the Noble and Learned Lord, and dwelling

upon his various services to the public, his able advocacy
of the great question of Reform—of his labouts in the
cause of public charities—of his gm it and successful efforts
in the cause of public education, and in the diffusion of
useful knowledge amongst all classes of the community—
he went on to say that he (the Lord Mayor) felt be
should grievously disappoint the just expectations of the
company whom he had then the honour to address, did he
not propose to them the health of the Noble and Learned
Lord whom his Majesty had called to the high and
honourable situation of Lord Chancellor of England.
The health of " The Lord Chancellor" was then drunk
with every demonstration of respect.
His Lonnsnir briefly returned thanks.
Signor Paganini, who had a few minutes before left the
Hall, for the purpose of procuring his violin, returned
when the applause upon the health of the Lord Chancellor
was at its height. He instantly ascended a chair and gave
a solo, which appeared, though erroneously, to have inter-
rupted the brief address of the Lord Chancellor.
The LORI) MA YOR then rose to propose '6 The health

of Lord John Russell." He trusted that, on an ordinary
occasion, he would not be guilty of such bad taste as to
introduce political tnitters at the festive board ; hut, on
the present occasion, he hoped he should be excused for
varying from the general custom ; indeed he felt he should
not do justice to his own feelings, nor give satisfaction to
his distinguished and respected guests, did he not for a
moment refer to the question which had called tl.ern to-
gether.—(Cheers.) The Corporation of London, long
renowned for its uniform support of a liberal line of policy
bad done themselves the honour of presenting Lord John
Russell that day with the freedom of that ancient and re-
rowned city. He repeated, they had done themselves tl.e
honour, because it always must redound to the honour of
the citizens of a free city to applaud those who advocated
the principles which promoted the cause of freedom, and to
offer the highest testimony of respect they were capab'e of
bestowing on those distinguished friends of their country,
who, forgetting their own private interests and aggran-
dizement, nobly devoted themselves to their country's
cause.—(Cheers.) The company assembled round him
knew that there were few individuals who had more stre-
nuously exerted themselves in the great cause of civil and
religious liberty than the noble person to whom he made
allusion. Descended from a line of illustrious patriots,
whose names adorned the page of history, and who
had nobly fought and bled and died in support of
those principles the triumph of which the people of Eng-
land had, he trusted, witnessed in the glorious majority
of last Wednesday evening, and to accomplish which Lord
John Russell had so manfully contributed—(Loud cheers)
—if ever there were an individual justly entitled to the
freedom it was that Noble Lord, who, exalted as he was
by rank, was still more exalted by bearing that illustrious
name to which the friends of liberty would always look
with admiration acd gratitude: illustrious as he was from
connexion with such a noble ancestry, lie was still more,
illustrious from the Character he bore, and the deeds he
had achieved.—(Cheern.) So long as the name of liberty
and of England remained unforgotten, the name of Lord
John Russell would lie revered and cherished, as the great
advocate of those principles the happy tffects of which it
would be the happy privilege of our children to enjoy. It
must, indeed, be a source of the highest gratification to
his Lordship, while he felt conscious that he deserved the
good opinion of his country, to be confident that his
country felt the obligation : the citizens of London did
their utmost to manifest their sense of his services.—(The
toast was drank amidst immense cheeti.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL returned thanks, but in such a
tone of voice as to be inaudible, except to those imme-
diately near him. A few of such fragments of his sen-
tences as did reach the- middle of the Hull appeared to lie
to the following effect ;-,-He: felt most grateful for the
honour conferred upon him, and infinite, pride and gratifi-
cation in having his name associated with the great mea-
sure which was to restore to the people of England rights
and liberties which had been too long withheld. He could
not pretend that his abort experience iu public life could
have imparted to him' that official exp, rience and acquaint-
ance with details which some might possess, but he would
field to no man in zeal for the pubic service. Guided,
then, by the great principles which he bad ever professed,
and looking to the great examples by which he was sur-
rounded, he hoped to be able to render some substantial
services to that country which they all loved and revered:
Ile concluded by giving Prosperity to the City of London.'
This was followed by " The Health of the Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland," for which his Lordship returned thanks.
The Duke of BRAGIANZA proposed " The Health of the
Ladies," for which the Lord Mayor, on behalf of the Lady
Mayoress, returned thanks.
The ladies then retired. There were a few toasts given
afterwards, amongst which were the healths of the Attor-
ney and Solicitor-General. The company then proceeded
to the drawing-room, and soon afterwards separated.

THE 93D HIGHLANDERS AT BRECON.-It
is a fact highly creditable to this orderly regiment that the
men march every Sunday to church with side arms, not
io commonly seen with soldiers, as we trust they will soon
be, viz. each man carries his own Bible ! Indeed, such is
the sobriety and the steady conduct of these men, that their
Colonel has been heard to say, that if he wanted money to
'my an estate, he could borrow it of the privates of- his
regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel M‘GREGOR, who corn -
mands the regiment, is the same gallant officer who wrote
he narrative of the burning of the Kent Einv-Indi man,
,whose answer as to how they were to be taken into the
Cambria when the Kent was expected every moment to be
down up, was, "In funeral order." Colonel FrattON
iniself would of course have been the last on hoard. The
patient and manly forbearance Which these men dis-
glayed at Merthyr, in the unhappy affair of the 3d Julie,
mild only have been expected drum such men commanded
iy such an officer! Our correspondent at Brerod say.,
-he detachnunt which are here are shortly to be removal,
[heir conduct during their stay has herb most exemplar:.
Cambrian of Jum.. 25.