Alderman Salomons addressed his constituents at Greenwich on Wednesday. He
was satisfied with the Parliament which had reduced tea 5d. a pound, and income-tax 2d.—had provided for the Prince and Princess of Wales, helped Lancashire, and kept out of mischief. He saw nothing but difficulty in connection with Poland, whether we went forward or went back, and the Alderman could not make up his mind which was best. As for America, when he was a young man he had wept over a slave auct:ou ; but he had always foreseen that whenever the slavery ques- tion came to be settled, it could be settled only by disunion or the sword, and of the two peoples who were fighting—the one for slavery the other against it—he took part with the former, apparently because they had always taken the same line, while the North had changed theirs, and are now opposing what they formerly tolerated. The Alderman evidently respects con- sistency, even in those over whose vices his too tender heart weeps. How much more he must sympathize with the bigots who still per- secute the Jews, than with those who have abandoned their pre- judices, and welcomed them to every social and political privilege !
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