The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-07 00:00:00

TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

We read in the St. Petersburg Northern Bee of
April 22 :
" Since the beginning of this month a stoppage has
taken place in our business matters. The price of Rue.
elan products has fallen at London out of proportion
with the prices at this city. It results that the traders
of St. Petersburg, holders of merchandise, are in no
hurry to make
new
little
6wPurebases;the Russian merchants,
on their part,disposed to lower prices, as
they are firmly persuaded that a rise in our principal
ofg export is imminent epon the opening of
,tio n at the time of the arrivals from the
the articlesna Ti
interior.
~it is with the greatest satisfaction that we see at
St. Petersburg, from the foreign journals, that the
London Bourse takes a lively interest in the con-
struction of the railway from Riga to Dunabourg.
From information received by private letters we learn
that many companies are being formed in England
for the construction in Russia of some other lines,
which will also be advantageous for our commerce
and for our country, as well as for English capitalists
themselves, who by this will put their capital to a
much more profitable account than they could do in
England. The construction of railways by private in-
dividuals being authorised by the government, com-
mercial men applaud these wise and useful projects,
and entertain the most sincere wishes for their suc-
cess."

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT or THE REGENCY. From
Original Family Documents. By the DUKE OF BUIK.
INGHAM AND CHANDOS, K.G., 2 vols.—" Here are two
more goodly volumes on the English Court ; volumes
full of blood and fruit, of new sayings, pictures, anec-
dotes, and scenes. The Duke of Buckingham travels
over nine years of English history. But what years
those were, from 1811 to 1820 ! What events at home
and abroad they bore to the great bourne !—from the
accession of the Regent to power to the death of Gorge
lll.—including the fall of Percival—the invasion of
Russia, and the war in Spain—tbe battles of Salamanca
and Borodino—the fire of Moscow—the retreat of Na-
poleon—the conquest of Spain—the surrender of Napo-
leon—the war in America—the destruction of Washing.
ton —the return from Elba—the Congress of Vienna-
-the Hundred Days—the crowning carnage of Water.
loo—the exile to St. Helena—the return of the Bour-
bons—the settlement of Europe—the public scandals at
the English Court—the popular discontent, and the Mas-
sacremany parts of this story, the do-
cuments o fPpeutbe
lrilsohoe
by(htlhe Duke of Buckingham cast new
jets of light, clearing up much secret history. Old stories
are confirmed. New traits of charact,r are brought out.
In short, many new and pleasant additions are made to
*or knowledge of those tipaes,"—Athencrum.

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LON.DON, WEDNESDAY, !ANY 7, 1856.

The debate in the C )minions has concluded.
The Address has been carried by acclamation.
None of the leaders of her MAJESTY'S Opposition
thought prepnr to give expression to their views ;
and, for practical purposes, the great Conser-
vative party, as it was once termed, might as well
have been altogether extinguished. Mr. R.
Purr.mmonn, although a Ministerialist, and Mr.
BENTINCK, were the only Members who repeated
the spirited and indignant protest of the Earl of
DERBY against "the unneceAsary and uncalled,
for" surrender of our incontestablerights, by which
the maritime supremacy of England was, at least,
seriously impaired, if not altogether sacrificed.
But neither of the Honourable Gentlemen alluded
to the constitutional part of the question. They
did not complain of the inapolitio act for being
"terse in the dark," and without the knowledge
of Parliament. They tacitly assented to the ab-
rogation of the functions of two branches of the
Legislature ; and, if they complained of the mat-
ter of the compact, said nothing of the manner
in which our birthright was so recklessly and
wantonly flung away. Mr. PHILLIKORE did not
even afford the discontented Members an op-
portunity of recording their votes on
the question. He withdrew his amendment even
in the course of the speech in which he pointed
out its necessity ; and there was no person ready
to fling himself into the breach, or take up the
position which he so speedily abandoned.
On all other matters it was a field-day for the
Aberdeenites—an ovation for Ministers. Mr.
SIDNEY HERBERT, Mr. CARDWELL, Mr. GLAD-
STONE felt the inspiration, and already seemed to
grasp the seals of office in anticipation, a matter
which will probably not long be delayed, if the
people remain silent, and still display the de-
plorable apathy and indifference hitherto mani-
fested. The Manchester School was also repre-
sented. Mr. MILNER GIBSON, as might have been
expected, made a peace-at-any-price speech, far
better suited for the platform of the broad-
brimmed Society, with which he has thought pro-
per to connect himself, than to the British House
of Commons. He concurred with the Aber-
deenites in showing that we had rather extorted
too much, than been contented with too little, and
endeavoured to show--and with some success—
that what the nation has been deluded into
supposing to be valuable concessions are
practically of little, if any, value. Lord'
PALMERSTOri might well have exclaimed, "Save
me from my friends," for they established
his shortcomings more powerfully than his nomi-
nal opponents. They explained the absolute in-
utility of the loudly.vaunted concessions, and
proved, beyond the possibility of doubt, that our
sacrifices of men and money have been perfectly
gratuitous, that we have obtained no beneficial
results for the irreparable losses we have sus-
tained—for the lives of seventy•five thousand of
the best and bravest of our brethren, and the ex-
penditure of one hundred millions of pounds
sterling, wrung from the hard hands of our over-
burdened tax-payers.

The debate has, however, established beyond
the possibility of doubt or controversy the me-
lancholy fact that we have nothing to hope for
from the present House of Commons, that En,
land is not fairly repiesented in the quasi Na.
tional Assembly. Every true-hearted. Englishman
must now Prepare himself for the "appeal to the
country," which cannot long be deterred. Whe-
ther the present Ministry be expelled from office
by a Parliamentary vote, or the Germanic influ-
ence should so far "screw its courage to the
sticking-place" as to venture on a coup d'etat, and
give the Aberdeenites the benefit of the Goverr-
meat influence at the elections', the matter must
take place within the present year—we had almost
said within the present session. Never
was there a crisis of greater magnitude
than that which it scarcely requires a pretext to
vaticination to declare must shortly arise. We
have seen the honour and interests of Great Bri-
tain deliberately betrayed at the Congress—%
New Unholy Alliance formed—Circassia, and,
with it, all the oppressed nationalities left to their
fate—the maritime superiority of England sur-
rendered without a remonstrance, and a crusade
inaugurated against the liberty of the Press in