The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-02 00:00:00

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The Question as it now stands between the pub-
lic and the Duke of BIICCLEIICH may be very
simply stated. An Embankment along the nor-
thern borders of the Thames from Westminster
Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge was resolved upon at
the recommendation of a Government Commission.
In obedience to the recommendations of that com-
mission, a Bill for the carrying out of this grand
scheme of an Embankment along the northern side
of the Thames was formally promoted. The im-

provements contemplated by this Bill was incontes-
tably the grandest of all the improvements designed
for the beautification of the metropolis. Upon
this noble project in all its details a Committee of
the House of Commons has for some time been
sitting. The proceedings of that Committee have
been conducted of course openly so far as Com-
mittees go. They have been conducted at any rate
not with closed doors. Witnesses have been exa-
mined. Some of these witnesses have been severely
cross-examined by counsel. Thousands of questions
have been asked, and more or less directly or
evasively answered. Shorthand writers have
day after day been in attendance, and as a
result of their "pencillings, by the way" the public
out of doors have been enabled to obtain a glimmer-
ing of these proceedings in committee. First of all,
piecemeal, throvgh the columns of ourselves, and
of our other contemporaries. Lastly, and very re-
cently, in a complete form in the shape of a sub-
stantial Blue Book. Before ever this blue book,
however, passed through the printer's hand to be-
come purchaseable by anyone who listed, at so much
avoirdupois rumours were afloat at the clubs and
in the Parliamentary purlieus down at Westmin.
ster—hints, pretty broad hints some of them, were
thrown out in the newspapers—" A West Lon•
donee among others had taken his pen in hand—
it was S. 0. again (as Mr. DICKENS facetiously has
it) showing up another S. 0. B. A noble lord, a mem-

ber of the Committee—no other than Lord ROBERT 1
MONTAGM, it will be remembered—eventually the
whole affair deliberatly before the House of Commons
charging the chairman of the committee (himself a
Minister of the Crown), to wit, Mr. W. COWPER,
'very unfairly by his brother
with having acted
committee-men, for inasmuch as he, Mr. COWPER,
quoth the noble lord, had been prompting a tall
gentleman of the name of &Quills to charge the
committee with meanness and subserviency. The
cat had slipped out of the bag, 11 - this matter, it
appeared, through the simple accident of a mis-
directed envelope. A certain communication had
fallen into the hands of a Mr. HIGGINS for
whom it had never been intended. Instead of
going as it ought to have done by rights into the
hands of Mr. J. O.—or rather, we should say, into
the hands of Mr. SI. HIGGINS, the tall gentleman.
The upshot of all this, being_. as must be within
the very recent recollection of our readers--that

Lord R. MONTAGU'S accusation against Mr. COWPER
whirled back awkwardly enough upon his lord-
ship's own knuckles without touching the
right hon. gentleman against whom it had
been hurled like a mix-thrown boomerang.
The discussions provoked by the noble lord
the member for Huntingdonshire, however, are
now fortunately and definitively closed. We are to
hear no more of those wretched little squabbles,
and recriminations, and explanations, all about
nothing—all literally beside the question. For—
here before us, in a very substantial form indeed, is
the official report, in the shape of a very bulky
Blue Book, of the whole details of the proceedings ,
from day to day before the Thames Embankment
Committee. The murder is fairly out. It is no
longer with rumours or hints that we have to deal,
but with facts put upon record and published under
authority. 44 0 that mine enemy would write a
book !" Here is the very Book produced by a little
group of enemies—certainly, at least we may say
%hie, those who have distinctly shown themselves
ito be not friends of the public at large, but friends

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1862.