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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1863,

'Tis a very pretty quarrel as it stands—this one
resulting from the astounding discrepancies between
the statements made by Mr. ROEBUCK on the

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part of his Majesty the Emperor of the FRENCH,
and by Mr. LAYARD on the part of her Britannic
MA•JESTY'S Government. ' Even Sir Lucius
UTRIG GER, in this age of non-duelling, might

have been disposed to repeat himself thus, by
echoing his famous ejaculation, could he but have
had his hot Irish blood stirred anew by conning the

particulars of the rise, development, and bewildering
complication of the, Misunderstanding which has

suddenly sprung up between the member for Sheffiald
and the leaders of Lord PAL3IERSTON'S Administra-
tion. Ono way or another, there must somewhere

be enormous—we will use no stronger phrase than

—misrepresentation.

Mr. ROEBUCK anE Mr

LINDSAY, with the recollection of their very recen

visit to the Emperor NAPOLEON in his palace a'

Fontainebleau, both relate identically the same

story—both report his Majesty to have said so-and-
eo, the very words uttered by the Emperor
have been reported (zpsissinta verbs) in the
British House of Commons—those words having re-
ference to his Majesty's diplomatic communications
in respect to the American war and the recognition
of the Confederates ! The EMPEROR'S diplomatic

communications upon that head, that is to say, direct,
now indirect,with her Britannic MAJESTY'S Govern-
Lord COWLEY has not yet had an opportu-
nity of coinciding with the opinions, or rather, it
should be said, With the recollections, of any one
among the high disputants. Neither, for that
foreign Minister of France,
matter, has the imperial
M. DR.OUYN DE L'ltuYs.
But saving and except-
ing those two respon-
ibie personages, the
EMPEROP:S foreign Minister and the QUEEN'S am-
bassador at the Court of the Tuileries—every
individual almost in any way interested in the
question at issue, has already now pronounced
himself either by word of mouth, or in writing, for
one or the other of the two diametrically contra-
dictory statements put forth. Nothing,
it cannot
but be already remarked, could by possibility be
more positive, or more distinct, than the de-
clarations made by word of mouth the other evening
by Mr. ROEBUCK—in writing only this very morn-
ing by Mr. LINDSAY. Here are two most honour-
able gentlemen who vouch for the perfect accuracy
of their very recent recollections as to what occur-
red the other day at Fontainebleau: Mr. LINDSAY'S
objections to anything in the way of comment, or
we presume he means, by comment, contradiction--
as yet—are resolvable obviously enough to one,
viz., that they are premature. He asks that all
comment, meaning of course, we repeat, contradic-
tion, shall be reserved yet awhile. " The debate,"
he reminds the general public, " is yet pending, I
and comments can only prejudge. In the mean-
time," he adds quite distinctly, " I think it due to
Mr. ROEBUCK to say that what he has stated is true,
and shall be confirmed by me in Parliament, with
time, place, and circumstance, when the debate
is resumed." Observing, with not unreasonable
vexation—" I have to regret that it [the debate]
is postponed for a time even so long as the 13th
instant." Opposed to these blunt words—preceded
by words if possible yet more plain and blunt in
their way, that is the equally positive and explicit
words conveying the original statement to the
knowledge of the House of Commons from the
lips of Mr. ROEBUCK—opposed to all these delibe-
rate declarations, uttered by the member for Shef-
field, written by the member for Sunderland, we
have as yet nothing more than the rather confused

went.

and hesitating, and upon one or two points
slightly evasive, denials of the Under- Secretary of
i.State for Foreign A Uri; the hon. member for south-
;gal k. Those denials, however, it is but right to re-
mark at once, however vague they may be, and how-
ever uncertain in several particulars, are understood
to be hacked up by the coincident contradiction, so to
speak, of the noble can the Secretary of State, Mr.
LAYARD'S chief, and of Baron GROS himself, the
French EMPEROR'S Ambassador at the Court of St.
James's. The "facts" vary so much in colour and
in hue at every turn, that the quarrel " as it stands"
remind,
one simply of the old fabulist's dispute
moot
ircutl4ea;Cia.raeleon., Asia that instance, actual
any inferen: may 'prove to be totally difieren ironi-
c have formed of them hitherto.