The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-01 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMON—(This Day.)

The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 2 o'clock.
The hon. gentleman did not wear his official robe. He
was babited in full court dress, with a barrister's wig.
The mace was laid on the table, and not on the floor,
the form observed yesterday.
Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD entered the house,
and, addressing the Speaker, said the Lord C Jmnais-
sioners desired the immediate attendance of the house in
the House of Peers.

The SPEAKER then proceeded to the House of Lords,
accompanied by nearly all the members present. Oa his
return, and having taken the chair, he said he had to
state that he had that day been to the House of Peers,
where he communicated to the peers preQent that the
house bad proceeded to the election of a Speaker, and
that its choice had fallen upon himself. The Lords'
Commissioners on behalf of her Majesty confirmed the
choice, and also her Majesty's most gracious
approval. He had, on behalf of the beuse, laid
claim to the ancient and undoubted privileges heretofore
presented by the house, especially the privilege from
arrest, the freedom of debate, and free access to her
Majesty at all iwonable times when the house desired
it, and that her Majesty woul I put the most favourable
construction upon the words and actions of the Commons,
and the Lords Commissioners had conceded the privileges.
Having made this communication to the house, his next
duty was to subscribe to the oaths.

the oaths having been administered, the hon. gen

lemAu reAumtid the chair,

The SPEAKER, then informed the house that the
members would be sw6rn in in the alphabetical' order of
the counties.

Tne Clerk then commenced the list with Bedford
county, and, having read about a dozen names, the re-
spective members advanced to the table and took the
oaths in the prescribed form.

THE RUSSIAN RAILWAY ROBBERY
sau Of E.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.

GLASGOW, April 24, 1857

Sir,—l consider the c iuntry deeply indebted to
you for the patriotic view you have t Ikea in rela-
tion to the Russian Railway Scheme, and for the
light you have thrown on the trick now playing off
by the black-leg speculators of London and Paris,
to aid Russia and relieve Messrs. Baring and Co.
from the burden which they have thought proper
to assume. _ _ _

How any respectable English, house could be
found to embark in any scheme so well calculated
to advance and stren.gthen the most powerful, and
cer.ainly the greatest, enemy Great Britain ever
had, puzzles me, and must puzzle most men who
have any love or respect f r the glory and honour
of th it country. But are the Ba-ins really Eng-
lish ? I doubt it. Were they not originary Dotal?
Certainly one of their chief partners—Mr. Bates
—is not an Englishman. He is an American ;
and a'l the world knows the predilection our
cousins have for dollars, titles, and despotion
itself, provided the Autocrat or any crowce
King knows how to administer suffieient doses
of flattery to the recipient, mixed up w;th deelara-
Cons of pr. found respect and estee,n for the United
States, and adafiration of the government, institu-
tio6s, and in' elligence of the "most enlightened
people on earth."
No man of sound judgment will believe that the
late mis rabic), or rather diegraceful peace, can last
ton years. Our apology for the peace was, that
Napoleon refused to continue Vie war; that he
could not afford. it. Now, the chief, if
not a'l the expenses, for anoth-r six
months' campaign had been incurred ;
and t!!ere can be no question as to the fact that
Russia was on her last logs when we thought fit to
re-establish her—much in the same way as our
unnatural kin lness spared Odessa ; which piaci.) of
treason cost us minims of money, and the still
greater loss of much precious blood of our best and
bravest. We must all respect and love our nob'e
French ally, but it is semewh tt strang i to roe
Napoleon cottoning wi'h Russia and Austria. It
i 3 no great honour to our Queen to Fee a Russian
archduke reo, ived with like honours as herself. Did
not Victoria recognise and acknowledge Louis Na-
poleon, While RtisAa, Austria} rrussia, Awl all the
kinglets of Germany ttirned their' baclts -don hint
There is no doubt, however, that he refused to carry
on the war ; still I am satisfied that Great Britain
alone could hive carr:ed on the fight with greater
ad vantage than with the ail deny foreign Power—
not with our gallant s-AlierA, for the barbarians of
the north would have met 1.14 with a hondred to ono
of such Wages as mit:de aid the wdundol on the
field of Inkerman ; and that, too, under the eyes
of two of their Arch-Dukes I But the " wooden
wells" of England would easily hare sealed up
every port in the Euxine and Baltic, and effectually
destroyed_ their commerce, leaving them to the en-
j yment of their own wilds and wastes. Indeed on
the declaration of war, this should have Leen the
game for Britain to have pliyed—infinitely thebest
mode of fighting a barbarous foe, under a ruthless
despot, who can without compunction sacri-
fic 3 his people, by burning their cities,
and sinking fle.:,ts afraid to meet an enemy even
on equal terms. We talk of Yell and the atroci`ies
committed by him at Canton, and the poison ad-
mi istered at Hong Koeg ; but no man who has
studied the conduct of Ru.sia, in the last war, will
al!ow that she is lass cruel, or more enlightened
and civilised than " the Sons of the Moon." .Yet
it is said, for I can hardly yet credit the report,
that an English mercantile house of standing—one,
t indebted to our Government (was not a peerage
granted to one of them within the last few years ?)
has undertaken to support and carry through a
scheme to aggrandise our powerful and inveterate
enemy, a scheme which every high minded man,
would turn from with loathing as an "unclean
thing," and which Jew and Scot alike eschew.
I remain,
ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S JUSTICES OF
THE PEACE FOR LANARKSHIRE.

The Vimiera has arrived yesterday from Sydney, but
is not believed to have brought any gold.
Ferukh Kban, gho has been of late travelling about
incognito, a few days back paid a visit to the manufac-
tcry of boking-glasces at St. Gobain, in the Aisne, and
at the same time examined very minutely the fine ruins
of the old cast* The object of his visit to the manu-
factory was to make important purchases for the Shah
of Persia.
Lord Goderich bas been in communication with the
curious society at Sheffield, waled the "Foreign Affairs
Committee." During their meeting the other evening,
a letter was read from his lordship, containing the fol•
lowing passage :—"I am of opinion that criminal pro-
ceedings ought not to be taken against Sir John Bow-
ring, S:r M. Seymour, and Mr. Parkes, not because I
wish to 'deal with a crime by a different process than
that of the law,' but because I do not believe that they
have done anythirg which the law would punish crimi-
nally. If they had, I should have been anxious that
they or any other persons should have been duly punished
by legal proem!: