The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-03 00:00:00

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The Weather--• Sun Office, Juyl 3, 1863.

THERMOMETER.

This morning
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Barometer-30.16.
Wind—S.W. ; light, and fine weather.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1863.

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A more overwhelming, or a more ignominous
defeat than the one to which it was subjected

last night in the House of Commons the Govern-
ment has not experienced throughout the whole

of this session.

Not that, the division which

took place shortly after midnight ought to be re-
garded in any way as a party division. The re-
sult can hardly be looked upon as a triumph for
the, Opposition, when amongst the minority there
is to be found no less a personage tuna the right

hon. gentleman the leader of the Opposition. Yet,
for ad that, it raust in one tense be regarded as

an immense discomfiture for the Ministry in respect
to one of its most cherished desig3a, the purchas-
ing for national purposes, and the terrible
preservation and perpetuation as a public edifice,

of that most hideous of all architectural mons •
trosilies—even in this ' age of architectural
monstrosities—the Great International Exhibition

Building of 1862, down at south Kensington ! A'

though Mr. DISRAELI found it necessary, or advis•
able, or convenient, or however else it might be ex

pressed, to walk into the same lobby, for once, with

a round dozen or so of the leading members of the
Coalition Government, secretaries and under secre-
taries, chiefs and subordinates—the majority by

which the Cabinet scheme was defeated so very

signally upon this most memorable division, corn
prised amongst them, saving and excepting the leader
of the Conservatives himself, the leading members of
her MAJESTY'S Opposition! For the vote (of
£105,000) proposed by trio Government and sub-
mitted to the House last evening by the foremost
orator of the Cabinet, meaning of course the
Chancellor of Her MAJESTY'S Exchequer, there
were numbered up 121 —in opposition to an
overwhelming majority of 287 (nearly three
to one) who voted dead against it ! The clear
majority, as the numbers show, was no less
Ihan 166 in a House, or rather a Committee, of
408. No wonder the announcement, when made
known, was greeted with loud and long continued
cheering, principally from the side of the
Opposition. For, if Ministers had had the
satisfaction of seeing Mr. DISRAELI stroll
out into the same lobby with themselves, their
exultant antagonists had had the still greater satis-
faction of finding their aggregate swelled and its
importance signalised by the fact of its comprising
in the list of the majority the names—not the name,
but the names—of Mr, HENLEY, Mr. WALPOLE,
Lord STANLEY, Lord JOHN MANNERS, and Sir JOHN
PAKINGTON. Perhaps the finest thing the noble
lord the member for North Leicestershire has yet
done in the interests of the metropolis, if not with a
view to its adornment, at any rate to the end that it
might be spared at least the mast appalling of all the
permanent disfigurements with which it has ever
et been threatened, was the simple fact of his voting,
as he actually did vote, last evening. Perhaps the
drollest evidence yet affarded of that dry humour
for which the right hon. gentleman the member for
Oxfordshire is at all times so delightfully remark-
able, was, amidst shouts of laughter, afforded last
evening by Mr. HENLEY, when illustrating, by a
most apposite apologue, the force of a certain pre-
posterous remark made by a correspondent of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the effect that this
detested and now (thank Heaven !) doomed build-
ing was' susceptible"—o that I think was the word,"
said Mr. HENLEY with irresistible sarcasm (an-
ered by cheers end laughter), wan " susceptible
of great ornamentation." Whereat, said the dry
old jaei —the Apologuist, not the Apolegist--" I
rcoooEct once seeing a mountebank with a black
oman, who was susceptible of a groat deal of
ornamentation. (Laughter.) He said, I can make
her white, and I can make litr red ; but do what I
wilt; I can'i make a handsome women of her.' (Great
laa7l-iter.) I am afraid," added Mr. HENLEY, with
twinkling eyes, otherwise with an air of im-
perturbable gravity, " that Mr. SMIRKE, do what he
may to ornament the Exhibition Building must still
leave it like that unhappy black woman.' (Laughter.)
As an anti-climax to which perfectly gocd-
bumoured but absolutely crushing remarks in oppo•
'11101:Ito the proposal for this monstrous vote—coolly
'"l'ea tot by our courtly Ministry, nominally nom-
Pl:d4Zles:ftitr.....el: Econ enaists—thcL gain rQb.e
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n eof Commons the chief ministerial