The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

BIRMINGHAM, Friday.—This afternoon a meeting
of the Liberals of Birmingham was held in the
cowmittee-room of the Town Hall, for the purpose
of presenting an address to Lord John Russell.
His lordship having arrived, Mr. George Dawson
proceeded to road the document. which expressed
the grateful remembrance of the inhabitants of
Birmingham for theservices he had rendered to the

cause of political reform, and a hope that he might
long be " spared to consummate those political
and religious reforms with which his naine
will over ho associated." Lord John Russell
in reply said Allow me to express my
gratitude to you for the honour you have done
me by the presentation of this address. I feel
exceedingly sensible of the honour done me by those
who represent the Liberal party of the town of Bi
mingham. lam quite aware how very imperfect
at best have been my services in the cause of rd-
form, and I am equally aware of the laity me
which your town exerts in promoting the of jects
which we have in common at heart, and I think it,
very desirable that that influence should ho ri
tamed and increased. (Cheers.) I can assure
you that I have pursued a course which was 1, t
all events in consonance with my own opinions, and
if I have differed from you in some things on
which the Liberal party has not been united, it
was that I might promote the welfare of the country
in that manner which I thought the best—(hear,
hear, and. chee:s.) And there is that respect fir
free discussion in this country that we are will r:g
to allow each other to promote what we console, -
tionsly believe to be right in our own way without
imputing on the one hand insincerity, or on the
other hand, inconsistency. I have Iv, itten down
a few words which I intended to read to you in
answer to the address, and with your permission I
shall read them. His lordship then read as
follows :

" Gentlemen, —I beg to return my sincere thanks
for the address you have done me the honour to
present to me.
"I appreciate highly the good opinion of en-
lightened men of the Liberal party, and I shall b
happy if I am able iu any degree to promote objects
of political and religious freedom which we hope to
attain iu common." (Loud cheer....)

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
official residonca of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The ministers present wcre—Viscot at
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Earl of llarrowhy, the EaTl of Clarendon, Mr. Secre-
tary Labourchere, Lord Pannaure„ the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right lion. R. Vernon
Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Ron.
M. T. Daines„

ir Henry Winston Barren has left the Brunswio
Hotel, Jermyu-street.

Tin SOULAGES COLLECTION.- Thig splendid collection
of objects of nrt, chitfly tnedimiral from Italy, and now
tiling one of the departments of the Museum of Ait in
the Exhibition at Old Trafford, is to bo open to view in
Manchester for a short tune in the Royal Manchest
Institution.

REPRESENTATION OF WICKLOW.—The Hon. Grenville
L. .Proby has addressed the electors of Wicklow. II
`ll'3'B he wll "give an independent support to Lord
Pahnerston's government." Furthermore, he is anxious
to strengthen the bands of the executive, to enable it to
crush the foul rebellion which is new desolating a great
portion of our Indian empire.
THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN THE REGENT'S-
CANAL.—Last evening an inquest was held at the
Quceo's Aims public-house, Twig Folly-bridge, Bethnal-
green, respecting the dent's of a man, unknown, who was
found dead in the Regent's-oanal, near the Victoria-
park. The jury, although the case was involved in
mystery, returned an open verdict of " Found dead in
the Regent's-canal, but when, how, or by what means
the deceased came into the water there was no legal
evilenee to show."