The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-24 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1881.

Yesterday, the twenty-third of July, 1861, will
long be looked back to as a date marking an epcch
in the political history of our own times, of the
City of London, and of the British Parliament.
For it will be remembered that upon that day Lord
JOHN RUSSELL not only bade farewell to his latest
and greatest constituency, but, by so doing, cele-
brated in a signal manner his advance from the
popular to the hereditary branch of the Imperial
Legislature.

Comparatively brief though the speech de-
livered by Lord JOHN, upon this profoundly
interesting occasion, was in itself, it was
in every respect worthy of the orator and
of the occasion. Within a very brief interval
from the moment of its delivery we had the satis-
faction of laying the whole of it, through the Third
Edition of The Sun of last evening, before our town
and country subscribers. As might very confidently
have been predicted, the appearance of Lord JOHN
yesterday upon the platform of the old Guildhall of
the City of London was the signal for a display of
enthusiasm on the part of those there assembled
together in his honour, to Welcome him, and, at the
same time, in one sense, to bid him Farewell--a
display of enthusiasm in its character, in its
fervour, in its protraction, really and truly worthy
of being designated extraordinary. Nor can this
be wondered at. For—with all his faults,
and they are not a few, with all his
shortcomings, and they have been not un-
frequent—Lord JOHN RUSSELL has now, during
the chief part of this last half-century, held good
his place among the first and foremost in the front
rank of our leading Statesmen. A couple of years
longer were alone wanting, when exactly half-a-
century would have elapsed since Lord JOHN'S
entrance in his youth into the British House of
Commons. During forty-eight years—from 1813
till 1861—he has taken a conspicuous part, during
certain intervals the principal part, in the labours
of our national representatives. Almost all the
Ministerial offices he has held at one time or
another—Prime Minister, President of the Coun-
cil, Secretary of State, now in one, now in another,
of the various departments. Throughout a long
series of sessions--year after year—the noble lord
has at one period led the House, at another that lesser
moiety of the house, if the bull may be allowed—
the Opposition. The mere titles earned for him-
self during these ei,,ht-and-lorty years of public
life as a Member of Parliament, an Administrator,
and at one time even (though perhaps the less said
about that the better) plenipotentiaryx traordi-
nary (very Extraordinary
!)—iudicate the maeni- I
tude of the share taken by Lord JOHN RUSSELL in
the development of the Parliamentary History
of this country, and in the development, the
extension, and the consolidation, of the con-
stitution. And those titles or designations by
which Lord JOHN'S political, social, and even we
might sat, literary reputation will henceforth be
held in the national remenabroce? It wets 4.