The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-28 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON', SATURDAY EVENING JUNE 28, 1862.

SRPARITION Or 4 OETTICII & EITAT3I-MART' ETRZ JVSTICE
Pay.—No "Pensions, Queen's nor ministers' money,"
On W. Hackett, of Corby-le-time a, N.ampton 1591, gib-
bot'd in Cheapside by Q. Elizajesu 'in cart°. cceli's low, unday
zenith to Alt Corby a 2' 30" ideclin. of Pole ite. fair 11,,Calvin
Lat. its Nonconformist Anderson stangrider of 9 June. So
20 yrs Peter-chained Prometheus' of '42 erby Indn• 3ty,
as Antichrist by the (Will death-Crt.) law, in God, without
Theatricum Ecelesiasticum mime'ty by French-british-
Filibuers, for Mexi-letter- of-Marque war-issue. Conven-
tion of Oct. 31, 1861, not ratified within 15 days time.
APAN'S EMPIRE—Its Niptni Quetec-mission
Jof Pekin's river fork 01—as England's Privy-council on
Carib's-(St Toma & St. John's Porto Rico by white,flag
with red ball, as Foretop'd over by Dutch text- aanebrog
order)-Virgin-tie's law for 'sea lands and salt-shores re-
sumption lifetrust' Aug. 1828, as Afric sgypt's Hed,i,
June 11. fiag
white(„ Cathay San Luci.mark—See Times,
This 199-yr. Telegraph, for allies' treaty in token of trade
on retrospect 284 yr to Earth a) meridian. long. Act 1841, c 39,
by Art. 1-10, under 'German-text Hon
for E.
Ind. Co's yellow Coppor-erown. revision every 14 yrs, signed
26-August, 1858, by Russian Count Ignattef in 1859, under
Pekin's Xun-Tien-(' sin. Treaty—in Al-Cores's Vi and Bi
demands), Obedience to the heaven's Zenithsol Lta-me ter
sphere fate 'Z overhead'-spiral earth-fist. Thus distinct fro
the 7 planeterry. Sun's declin. N. and s. for Scythic arc 404
Dead-Crt, 1:580 in Ton- Qui' Chua, on Edw. m's Hanza
1335 Duchy-chancery Crt. hiS of Macae's faulalle Cabotage
as England ' itself of the isles, 50' pied-de-noi,' [against the
Tartar-british Papuafiugis hidslave trade, on 7th Pii's motu
12 May 1814-16, Thibet-jesuit-reset petition by Paul° Mae-
_Karin & other] on Hobart-Castle-says of Java molucco.
Not of my Danifh pueri-Jan. 14-May P•set on Coorg-Ne-
paul seniory 3ty. against nullified (North of St. Cross -25=
Bentinck, Bertie-aobart Foster... Stuarts de Newcomen by
Canning's native E. Ind. trust '25 &'62-evictions, thro'
Executor's in-and-in marriage), by 7•Hen• B's Fiscal-privy
Council will Act, only three being now left, on Chelten-ham-
let'r Sir T. Chamberlayne's' I' firussels Governor 1553-60,
to its Wales plume mark by Car. 1., of Dtidstone King's-
Barton Hundred, on Hick's-life Campden'd in Christ Coll.,
Oxford, for barony of Churchdown-14 J. I.- olcifts-gate
register. —See Lodge's Illus. Hist., v. i. p. 210-17.
You'll Belgrade the old Tegra-cone Ches-&-peak vont&
Ru'civic limit-wall of China, as Jezz°s horizon of London,
40/ N., on 11. B's Troy 1526-81 ae;cite of Exchequer, and
take out the Yedo copy of standard Pigmeter weights' for
exemplification, of red moon on white sqr., in red flag of the
Menam-cab" empire of Ard isles, Borne' on Eliz.'s Troy 'BB
in Jm. i's pal-4 letter on Sicily's *font in skycl link 'twist
Nan and God, its still-Laird 'fferpentine : : .. • fly audits.'
" Arc ambulare per orbi firit-annos, (Sept. 29)
/Tbi more sit, in May" Scythian hortos • (Mar. 24)
Tell the free TAIL-men—This results from my Lincoln's-
inn (de Lacy Clair, in Butler-Wogan, Slaney's co Fleming),
Macao charge, in Rtc. Ifs Wilton orgy line of Holland (on
the Holy alliance abolition, of Christ kings), 29th August,
1825 by 11 G. TIT c 55, 1772., 74—based on 14 G. tn., c 83, and
the MINT-unit in 4-6 W. 4, c. 63, as th' Earth's TROY, re-
stored by 1824, G. iv. c. 74—suspended one year to kill off
its life and death 1815 justice-men' for 6 Jan. '26 Romish
motu—so cause, of 12 Leo's Hanza white Mitre being set on
Criminal law exchequer deeds (by reason yr-1246 of Irarifh-
cost for ' Abbot's mitre in precedent for 1604's canon-'5B
for a pariah Gown' from the Tuthill-fair Brompton rates for
the two warden daysman-investiture), over which,—as the
Jesu-police have no right to touch the fiscal meters—if not
removed, I will sign for the people's rights without work-
house crop'ng by Rur-tartar-ctians in China's Scot-Imp. ,
shaved mark of Macartney's 1793 ftsord,,CAH, & 6-Harness
Act, on Brant adoptliercy, so Moravian Chelsea-act to Bri-
tish misrule by U.S. I-Cent papal confusion, lately seen in
Pekin summer palace—to out 'Norton'-Simcoe-ism, by the
Cathey'lic Abjuration Act, for 12 Cal. April, Calvin Swiff
Co's., of 1557 Brazil Guespe—by 1791-3 G. in., e 44, made
effective for Pombal and Manilla missions in 1825.

"By JAN Company' raised above its buff compeers,
On shag- baech' y title,—Master of the bears."
gr The suspended act 1824.25 on C' 'A, was reset by
clause' in '35-7, and I, its Antichrist State wall martyr
to 1843, for spirit-level inter-'-national oathing to all office,
without Sect-creed ask, by a .—. Staff-inset poy'ze right on
the Ogolxos Thumb-ball inch ring of Aristoltalis.
THUS on `water trespass,' YEA'S ask of Lisbon's Macao
Ga.'s governor in 1857—(50 to R01116‘14 dead-eye Papus) who
was England's 1594 Stil-laird of N. Guinea 1713 and 1826-
River-King 'Gerafa Judge Conservator' on Brazil-marshal
s 135.t0n‘ rouge submission to Admiral Hamond's
Beresford'
flag-lieut. Aokerley as Sir C. Stuart, for facing in Manilla's
Kuriile Pollicis Court—the Redmans Jeeskin'd Tycoon, by
Gaspe's hies at Q. An's Bnty of., W.minster, 1841 act.
Your Philipii ll.'s At-kin MISSION was to P Ga;coyn the
3-ty of A.D. 1667, with Angl'nutch executive of Holland,
as of Leicester's creation 1585, so Cromwell & Louis xi.,., t
55, yes'd by Parliament-16 Car. n's-Graft-ongennet '72for
Phillipine-iles 6 & 6 native jury-1764-Calvin-scholastic of
Red indians by Act of 1832 for America's w Behring land
'3B Bug Troyjan-wt. guarantee Dutchloan Obtend "'r New-
foundland-1820 as Crown colony Antipodean to N. Zealand,
Siam, and its Ceylon trop'arctic Jfword dexpendencies, bar-
ing the Belgjesu restetue'd Pedro IT. at Rio Jan. '62.
' " "

You'll now see into the May 14 Baeing-Bruce visit (lead-
ing by Labuan Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON treaty)
of my state-set—and afterwards to Northumberland-house
to bow before the Supreme mil= Imr, portrait of Joseph
Brant, (Sag6mothean Stamp act Chef of 1774-'93 of British
Chinese Afric'd America), my uncle & Freeman predeces-
sor to my now Siderial-crown, by Income-tax Basquet'd as
P. Nwr wary, Chief, one of y our race under '3l's ' ligne tiree
for Washington §, Texas—extradition act, 1843—its alien's
having no French ' white' flag for their Co-chin Le Bua-
Annam assumption vers Colberti's l'annee 1821 of ' 1557
Calvin Co's foist on my Meximicmac Brazil-Canton sponsor-
ship '25, with Ind. lady, as Prince Consorted for law—so all
s gifts—not being Y'r Queen's, but my Ind. ally's !
BY /' Braganza tax, Ye are the up-out'd 1582 Deyro-surab.
low Sinto Gregory red-letter Papists, severed from state
m-kub'ship- coroner t so, not of the peoples 'mats-mal y-ltr-
pole Zenith Court, of elect Tycone over the provincial Dal
m i-6,and district Sio-mi-6. If' so ? Rip' or Ratify by meter
oath as East-Searchmen ' on the Nipon water flag limit of
Port Gaspe pasin, by high contracting parties' April?, 1862,
W.-n. Seward &R. Pemell, City niQ'd LYONS; Amer. Ind.
Co'mission'rs by Art, f, rule 2 within the territorial water,
of the other (L'aiitrewise neutre) party' in Carib's 16 anta-
costa Isle Mingan Right of search 'mother earth's legi.
statrices sn Mary Brant's son Peter.§

Know ! By 28 H. iii., as Pekin's .< the W,minster tidal
Octagon-tower flag of Parliament, when 1265 sitting at the
Ec-Kich. Aid 'Apt- ery-howe, was of Red sarsinet with Gold
(Dragon . Tetra-conic ' thus the Portugue-mason change
of your national Red.ol into a merchant church flag by Ma-
cao'd nips (1549-94-1606), under an Edin. St. John's grip
Dutch-Japan Lodge 3ty with China, Naviga-3aelii• signed
Feb. 1663-64 by Tycoon, BORT & Does, whereby a White-
flag with Red-moon ball, was set as the Jetfengo emblem of
your hut'd- Tail Orient-lodge Embassy in London.
" Stat fatum supra totem-Qu' Deeima-staat Arens
Pafcitur et nigris orbem, Circum-sonat Corvus."
- •

Hence, by Haifa; Span'sh-dutch 3ty, in mexi-Anahuaq'
reciprocity to perpetuate Goa's-french Cutvre on Art. 10, the
Japan admiralty Coin-flag will be from 1862, Red pierced
white square, with Red moon'—for ever, [by E. India Co's
AR-sign-ian Coge Cofar's Arab-persia Gulf, in Baron Loyola
Mascarenhas, Palm'erst'ons refugee 1808-list, to '62]—Thus
on 1521 CARL. V. & Lea X' s-Lnther 3ty, for Clement 14th
Jesuit abolition—on Ackerley-Chandoa succession in Labra-
dor 1769-72 for Surrogate ingressu and egressu will-probate
on 'Cook' Sir Philip Francis to 1818—and 'Burton-crescent
statu'd Cranmer-Major Cartwright, to Ackerley's 1820-25,
Yet on £9O a-yr. unrelieved 37 Hen. B's lay State-Deputy for
the people, as in Vespasian's meter-law—through Castle-
reagh's Union '93 Ireland's Water-course deposit.
Une fair qui (fit Armer la race-rouge si grand('
;74 En la lot § civique), pese en Hans ete . -°- .
l'on voit que jaraais I'ENGLAND' ne trarchands
8 Quand it faut par la flier leur donner Liberte.
-1-+ • • • N.] Atkyns- Montague C. x ACICERLEY Exec.
t• • • 1-2 W. Iv., N.. 54, Chamberlayne' Gie-sworn.
• PETER BAsQUET, Income-tax chief (1842 unpaid§ of
. • China Rug wall circuit horizon of-. London, June 28.
e
Ac, 1862) its Montezuma 'd red flag of B. Ind.-Rs., not in
Brant's power to give up IMP. China, h rcy in 1793.
So Paris While ship in red flag, 1189--kielga3-vocant
Kalfaterea skiff
Het fchip sßylt wel, het is ras in seylen,
item, het is een klock-ship in failen'7by Cape NaVawk.
1 By 7.25 Hen. 111. the Purser discargo-rer' or steward
is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact, ' under Shipping
Act to avoid Mid/sex Ty-cons Coroner's sequestration in
log default on death or Offences to the Chinese—by the
1842 British Emigra triad-xesu Soc :, (Belly-skin Vac-sign
marks s. A. C.' of Sandwich-isles, Austral, allfornia-Beru
hut-poll-tail-tax, by Spanish sr feheduie goldfinders, on Art.
8, to OUT & IN head-money as K. Poet Pentaeoet 1640 Ind.
trust), for their Sky-drama season-augury, of no Cone-sub-
stantial halt—in their Heli-0/impic-sham-sect—Yet with
Tights as free-born Englishmen—thb tail-less victims.
(See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & Times June 11.)

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TREAT R E-R 0Y A DRURY•LANE.
Dion Boucicault, Lessee.
TO-NIGHT, Saturday, June 28, 186', the performances
will commence at 7, with the SPITAL FIELDS WEAVER :
Messrs. Atkins, F Robinson. Sara Stevins.
After which, THE COLLEE N HAWN : Messrs. Dion
Boucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson;Madame Celeste
Jessie M'Lean, Stevins. ,
To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK : Messrs.
Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan.
Box-office open from 10 to 5.

T a EAT it E-R 0 y 1.. HA YM ARKET.
Lessee Mr. J B. Ruckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven., MRS. WHITE. Mr. Comp-
ton, Miss Caroline Hill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
After which, at a -Ittarter,to 8, will be
Perionned (161 st time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, 'Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sotheni,
Followed by
a new Spanish Ballet entitied LA. CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora rerea Nene, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.

tz 0y AL LYCE UM THEATItz
Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
19Ith!Night of the ..ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day.s,
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deellsh.
3lessrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund lealconet : Mrs. D. I'. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After whi^h, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna IVhitty and
311ss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Air. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manacrer—Ntr. F. 11. Chatterton.

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;,OYAL PRINCKSS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
Viss M. Harris.
Atter which, at Eight o'clock, LOUIS xr. Mr. and
Mrs. C. Kean. Supported by Messrs. J. P. Cathcart, B. Potter,
Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, Szc. ; Miss Chapman,
and Miss N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE: MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No halt-price.

TsT-F w T U t'KE-1-t0 Y A.l„ A DELPHI.—
Q.nie Proprietor and Maunder. Mr. B. Webster.
TO-NIGHT, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Eillington, Fm2ry ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw,
K. Island, and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs.
C. Verner, Emery, Billington, Stephenson, Kburne, C. J.
Smith, Romer; Miss Ao-nes Burdett, Miss Woolgar, Mrs.
Billington, and Mrs. 11. Lewis.
Toole s?nclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L.
r. Bedford, Emery, 31iss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis.
Commence at 7.

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The Greatest Trap STECK EL,
Immense slimes: 029 Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock
f the Grand Selection from Donizetti's
"DON s
Onpera
ASTIEN,"
(Produced here for the first time in this country).
Arranged and conduct,
Principal Artistes—Misg Y Mr. Jonetmans.
The Great Conllc Trio, Euzeneell andi Signor Tivoli.
uley, and Unsworth
(the original of the celebrated Stun; s)
man "). Iso the following array mot trech, "Or any other
E. Marshall (in Paul Pry). J. G Talent, viz. :
worth, Miss Georgina Smithson, wad lA. B. Hollings-
rown, the re-
n owned Dancer.

THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1862.

Apropos to the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and the
Thames Embankment, the House of Commons was
indulged last night with an amusing little interlude.
As Mr. SCULLY took occasion to remark towards
the close of the discussion " all the rows this session
are English." And here sure enough was the
latest and not by any means the least amusing.
Thanks to the virtuous indignation of the noble lord
the member for Huntingdonshire, it all came out
about the Dalre,the Committee,the limes, the "West
Londoner," and the rest of it General scorn had been
excited, as everybody almost was more or less aware
during the last eight or ten days, by the knowledge
(tolerably accurate from the fist) of facts that had
got bruited about to the effect that in regard to this
long looked-for and magnificent scheme of a grand
Embankment along the northern margin of the River
Thames, the Duke of BUCCLEUCH'S mansion was
likely—nay, was more than likely, was tolerably
certain, unless Parliament interfered resolutely and
be times to prevent it—to "stop the way." It
came to be known far and wide about town several
days before the report of the Committee had been
published, that the plans originally regarded with
a favourable eye by the Committee had somehow
or another at the eleventh hour hour been marred
by a very serious and vexatious modification. The
printed evidence of the fact of this modification did
not, until several days after its announcement had
flitted by, come in any shape whatever before the
public. Nevertheless the reality of the fact was
for the chief part of the week before its
official notification in print, a matter of
positive notoriety. How had it all crept out ? How
had the " West Londoner" come by his particularly
early, and as was, from the very first, apparent, his
perfectly authentic information ? Even now, the why
and the wherefore of all this remains somewhat
enigmatical. Last evening, during the earlier part
of the discussion provoked by the rather caustic
remarks of Lord ROBERT MONTAGUE, we were for
a while seemingly upon the verge of a disclosure.
We had all but contrived to drop the pinch of salt
upon the tail 'of the " little bird " that had evidently
been flitting about Clubland.
The Right Hon. the Chairman of the Thames
Fmbankment Committee, the step-son of the Prime
Minister, the Chief Commissioner of Public Works,
of Woods and Forests, of Parks and Palaces, or
whatever his most exact Ministerial title may
chance to be had, it appeared, communicated
privately with a gentleman "of some influence in
many circles" (the definition here is Mr. COWPER'S
own) : had, in point of fact, written a letter (enclos-
ing minutes of evidence carefully " ticked" and
marked with annotations), a letter directed to a Mr.
HIGGINS. Wishing to be precisely, we should
rather say, perhaps, to the Mr. HIGGINS, of what
Mr. ANTHONY TROLLOPE calls the The Thunderer.
As it happens, this communication of a Cabinet
Minister to one of the staff of The Thunderer, was
written by the PREMIER'S step-son subsequently
to the appearance of " A West Londoner's" letter
in The Times (under date June, the 23d), and—
what is still more to the purpose, for inasmuch as it
extricates Mr. COWPER from the charge of being
' this mysterious informant " upon the sly," who has
been peaching against his brother committeemen
—the communication addressed by the Chairman
of the Thames Embankment Committee to the re-
presentative of The Thunderer, never actually
reached its destination, but was returned back upon
the hands of the right hon. gentleman the Chairman
of the Committee and the Chief Commissioner of
Public Works ! How this all came about was
brought to the knowledge of the House of Commons
last evening. It is a ludicrous little equivoque
that is exposed is its full absurdity by the noble
lord the member for Huntingdonshire. It is ex-
plained by Mr. COWPER, and it is commented
upon by Mr. HORSMAN. They are all together more
or less angry in consequence of the proceeding. It
is nothing more than a contretemps, but it is,
apparently, a contretemps of a singularly irrita-
ting character to those who are more immediately
concerned in it.

IMr. COWPER addresses his letter (containing
" private advices" upon the matter of the Thames
Embankment) to—Mr. HIGGINS. So wholly un-
acquainted is the Chief Commissioner of
Public Works with the number of the
HIGGINSES as a clan, that he naively assures the
House that in sending out his letter he was
actually not even aware that there was a
second Mr. HIGGINS! An intimation that was
at once greeted by the house with derisive cries of
"Oh !" and " Laughter." And no wonder : for
supposing the Minister to have been unaware of
the existence of any other Mr. HIGGINS at all, any-
where in the whole length and breadth of the
United Kingdom, he ought surely to have known i
that there was still " one" other Mr. HIGGINS here
in England : to wit, the learned gentleman who
occupied for so brief an interval the position of
°i'atuling-pan to the late M.P. for Midhurst,
in that
learned gentleman's present capacity
as one of the Masters of Lunacy. Mr. COWPER
might at any rate have known that there was
Mr. HIGGINS, the Bon-in-law of the ex-Chancellor,
Lord CHELMSFORD! As ill luck would have it for
Mr. COWPER, his private communication addressed
to Mr. HIGGINS goes not, as was intended, to
Mr. "HIGGINS" of the Thunderer, but, as was de-
cidedly not intended, to Mr. HIGGINS, the son-in-
law of Lord CHELMSFORD. Bewildered by receiv-
ing a letter of this kind addressed to himself
so very
unaccountably, Mr. HIGGINS No. 2 shows it to a
Member of the Committee to whose proceed-
ings the letter has immediate reference. And
thereupon the said committeeman returns it
(as Mr. HIGGINS No. 2 should have done
at once himself, and not thus indirectly and
vicariously) to the right hon. gentleman whose
signature was appended to it. " From what has
occurred," exclaims Mr. COWPER, directly he be-
comes aware that there is a second Mr. HIGGINS,
" I do not feel the least desire to increase my acquain -
tance with the second Mr. HIGGINS !" Whereat
the House "cheers." If, however, the Minister (as

Chairman of the Committee and writer of the letter
referred to) is indignant with the total want of tact,
of discretion, and of courteous reticense evidenced
by this rather ill-starred relative of the late Chan-
cellor's, this Mr. HIGGINS who, doubtless with the
best intentions in the world, is nevertheless always
putting his foot in it, or trampling heavily upon
somebody's corns—Lord ROBERT MONTAGUE (as
himself a Member !of the Thames Embank-
ment Committee) is even more indignant with
Mr. COWPER, Minister of the Crown, and Chair-
man of the Committee, for having written this
unfortunate letter at all ! Having related, in the
House of Commons yestesday, the whole of the
circumstances of the case, as we have here given
them, the noble lord remarked that " The Thames
Embankment Committee, therefore, placed them-
selves in the hands of the House, and asked whe-
ther it was fair towards them, after they had
spent 25 days upon a most stupid subject—Ca
noble lord's opinion !]—in investigating very
intricate questions, that they should be insulted
out of the House, and have articles written
against them upon information supplied by some
member of the Committee." Warm words, truly,
but words, the application of which to himself, Mr.
COWPER at once takes occasion emphatically to
repudiate. And certainly the fact that the letter
that miscarried—the letter intended for Mr.
HIGGINS No. 1, but inadvertently delivered to Mr.
HIGGINS No. 2—the fact that that letter was
written by Mr. COWPER after the 23d instant, the
day upon which " A West Londoner" spoke so
loudly to the public at large through the columns
of the Times—is proof positive, if such were needed'
corroborating this emphatic repudiation. As the
affair stands altogether, the difficulty in regard to
it appears to us really and truly to be, not so much
to discover who has been in the wrong throughout
these proceedings, as, in point of fact, who has not
been in the wrong. Mr. COWPER would have done wok
—no doubt of it—both in his capacity as Minister
of the Crown and as Chairman of the Committee,
if he had never written any letter of the kind to any
Mr. HIGGINS. Again, that unlucky gentleman,
the wrong Mr. HIGGINS, who is everlastingly get-
ting himself "into the wrong box," would have done
much better than he did, in this matter of the mis-
directed letter, if he had returned it at once to the
writer of it—showing it previously to no one—cer-
tainly least of all to a Member of the Thames Em-
bankment Committee. Lord ROBERT MONTAGUE,
again, is too hot in his way of taking the matter
up, and in calling the parties implicated to account
in the House of Commons yesterday. Mr.
HORSHAN, moreover, has pleased no one
by the tone in which he commented upon
the whole transaction, saving and excepting only
one delightful mis-reading of a passage of the letter
of "A West Londoner," in the Times of the 23d of
June, a passage running, according to Mr. HORS-
MAN, as follows :—" The real reason put forward
by counsel before the committee was that the Duke
of BUCCLEUCH and one or two other noblemen and
gentlemen who live between Whitehall-stairs and
and Westminster-bridge, wish to enjoy all the ad-
vantages afforded to them by a profuse ex-
penditure in purifying the Times (loud
laughter)—in purifying the Thames." As to
Mr. COWPER and the Committee, we leave
them to fight out the present dispute that
has sprung up among them, to fight it out quietly,
at their leisure, and to their own entire satisfac-
tion. All that the public at large really cares
about—and it does care about this in veritable
earnest, (as certain are we that the result will
prove)—all that the public at large does care about
in the matter is that the interests of A Duke shall
not interfere with the interests of The People in
realising npnn a fitting scale of erandenr and
completeness, this great scheme of a Thames Em-
bankment.

Again the Confederates in Virginia have shown
themselves, if not the stronger, the more dexterous.
They appear to have, for the present, checked
M'CLELLAN's advance. According to the terms of
his own proclamation to his army, by this time we
were to have had another great and decisive battle.
The flooding of the river Chickahominy imposed
on both parties a not unwelcome armistice after the
murderous battle of Fair Oaks, but we expected as
soon as operations were practicable to hear of a
Federal advance, and to receive tidings either of a
fearful battle, or of the evacuation of Richmond.
The news by the Persia looks all the other way.
In two parts of Virginia the Confederates " show
fight" in a way which does not look like retreat.
Directly in front of Richmond they have made a
second successful assault, this time on the right wing
of M'CLELLAN'e army. It was chiefly by cavalry,
which was sustained by artillery; not improbably the
very artillery captured on the left flank from Gen.
CASEY on the 31st of May. They actually turned
M'CLELLAN'S flank, went boldly to his rear, did
all the damage they could in the time to the railroad
and telegraph by which he keeps up his commu-
nications with West Point, destroyed forage and
tents, took many prisoners, and then got back to
their lines again before the Federal army could be
put in motion. We do not know how this informa-
tion should come to us except from a Northern
source; and if so, and it turned out to be in truth
the best phase of the affair, it shows either unac-
countable negligence in the army which allowed
itself to be surprised a second time, or great skill
on the part of the Southerners. It shows at least
that their energy and courage have not relaxed.
A similar spirit appears in the movements of
General JACKSON. It will be remembered how he
was sent into the Valley of the Shenandoah to drive
the unduly diminished army of BANKS out of the
district, an operation which he accomplished, of
course, easily and successfully. That, perhaps, re-
quired little skill, and not much courage ; it was
intentionally a business of overpowering by superior
force, and perhaps BANKS rather deserved credit for
carrying off his 4,000 so little injured from the pur-
suit of 15,000. But BANKS returned largely rein-
forced ; FREMONT by forced marches reached the
valley from the opposite quarter ; JACKSON now
had to retreat, but in doing so he contrived to draw
part of FREMONT'S cavalry into an ambuscade, and
to inflict on him the maximum of injury, while he
made his own way back eastward to join the main
Confederate army at Richmond. So it was thought.
It now turns out that the main army of the Con-
federates is strong enough to spare him sufficient
reinforcements to turn back again on FREMONT and
BANKS; and FREMONT, in turn, is reported to be
in a precarious position, in want of provisions,
and falling back to 11Iount Jackson. Intercepted
despatches, it is said, show that the real object of
the Confederates in sending FREMONT against
BANKS was to prevent M‘DowELL from joining
M'CLELLAN. M'DOWELL certainly dare not quit
his position at Fredericksburg, if Jackson were as
near Washington in the northwest of Virginia as
he himself was on the southwest at Fredericksburg.
Inadedo
addition to
which
we are told that the rear of the
Federal army is harassed by Guerilla corps. That
is, h
eh the Federals have conquered,
and which lies between M'CLELLAN and M'DOWELL
is not secure for the Federals, and communications
cannot be kept up through it except where they are
in two strong force to be attacked by the Guerillas.
We find as the consequence of the whole that, only

five miles from the Confederate capital, where with
his telescope he may count the very chimneys of the
house, the Federal general is brought to a stand. He
is again reduced to the necessity of demanding large
reinforcements, from which it seems to follow that
he considers the army opposed to him as at least far
too numerous, and in too efficient a state to be at-
tacked at present. Thus, unless M'CLELLAN him-
self be deceived, which is quite possible, for the
South has shown great skill in imposing on their
invaders, the campaign would seem to be brought
to a close for the summer. It is not probable that
either army will attempt much during the very hot
weather, which is close at hand, and it is quite a
possibility that M'CLELLAN may spend the whole
summer before Richmond, as he did the last before
Manassas, and then find, when he has made himself
strong enough to be sure of victory, that he must
march another fifty or a hundred miles south,
through a hostile country, to find his foe.
In the West, in the States bordering on the
great river, the Federals are the confessed victors.
But one place on the Mississippi, Vicksburg, has
yet refused to surrender. Bat the Federal fleet
from the North, which has just destroyed the Con-
federate fleet and taken possession of Memphis, is
descending the stream to join that of Commodore
FARRAGUT, and there can be no doubt of the result_
On laud HALLECK is completely triumphant, and
that without a battle. BEAUREGARD has evidently
been compelled to retreat by two difficult enemies
to contend with, hunger and disaffection. The
accounts of the destitution in which the Federals
found:the inhabitants show that those who reduced
them to this condition must themselves have been
reduced to great distress. BEAUREGARD would
certainly not have allowed his men to plunder the
Confederate State of Mississippi of all its food unless
he had been reduced to extremity. There is also
no doubt that his regiments, which belonged to
Tennessee and Kentucky, had no mind to fight for
the plantation States, and the story that they had
to be escorted south when the movement was made,
is every way likely. But for the fear that they
would be added to the Northern army, it is probable
they would have been left behind, as BEAUREGARD'S
object was to feed his troops, who were already too
numerous for his means. He is reported to have
still a large army in the heart of Mississippi, but of
his means of keeping it together there is much
reason to doubt.

The fighting 'elsewhere is indecisive and of little
importance. To us, while the skill and courage
which the South has shown in defending the "chief
corner-stone of the Confederation, the Divine Right
of Slavery," does seem worthy of a better cause,
we must confess that, were they fighting simply
for independence of a domineering North,
the spirit and energy they have shown with
such limited resources, would have commanded
the sympathy of all Englishmen. The dark crime
on which they base their whole action—the right
to hold 4,000,000 of men in the condition of
cattle, and next to curse and blight the yet free
territory of America with the same iniquity—this
it is which compels us to look with indifference on
the subjugation of 350,000 slaveholders by Northern
freemen. Not that those Northern freemen are
guiltless in the matter. They have nursed in the
South the hated institution which they have ex-
pelled from the North. Still, the North does, at
least, believe in free soil, and the two Houses have,
we just learn, passed a noble bill for the prohibition
of slavery in all the territories of the United States.
For this—also for hanging the slave captain, for
enfranchising the district of Columbia, for opening
diplomatic relations with two black Republics, for
offering compensation to all States which abolish
slavery, for all these things every one of which the
South would bitterly oppose—we must wish success
to the North. Whether we wish it or not, it will
however fight till it conquers ; and it is perfectly
vain to think of intervention.

We do not doubt the loyalty of our soldiers and
sailors, however much they may have been wronged
by those in power. Still if there be any body of
men who ought to feel assured of the most honour-
able treatment from the country it is these who
fight its battles. A little wrong rankles injuriously
in every mind far more than any of the unavoid-
able hardships attendant on any service. Even in
civil matters we see how the little injury of Church-
rates raises implacable hostility, out of all propor-
tion to its importance, in the minds of Dissenters.
In India, the wrong of not asking the consent of
troops enlisted to serve the Company under
her MAJESTY, was so resented by the men that they
demanded to be sent home, and we had to lose the
pith of our Anglo-Indian army. Surely there is
danger of the same feeling of wrong resting in the
hearts of the men to whom, by the confession of all
parties, the Kertch prize money is due.
The case was brought before the Lords last night
by the Earl of HARDWICKE, and it cannot be Said
that even Lord GRANVILLE denied the right
of the men. Our readers may remember the ex-
ploit—an equal number of French and English ships
appeared before Kertch on the QUEEN'S birthday,
landed some troops, took the place by surprise, and
captured guns, coal, steam engines, and other pro-
perty which were used in the public service. Ac-
cording to the terms of the QUEEN'S proclamation,
this was prize property. The captors were entitled
to its proceeds. But, not to enter into details, the
case was banded about bet ween the Admiralty and
the Treasury, the result being that the men were
hindered from seeking redress at law, while the
Treasury evaded the payment of any sum as a com-
promise. It is, indeed, well enough for the Trea-
sury to be economical on behalf of the country, but
the country will agree with Lord DERBY that it
does not wish for economy at the expense of plain
justice. Much less, we would add, does it wish
that our sailors and soldiers should ever doubt that
a proclamation of their SOVEREIGN'S, intended to
stimulate and reward their courage, may not be
relied on to the letter.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' BENEVOLENT IN STI-
TuTioN.—The half-yearly court of the governors of the
Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution was held
yesterday at the London Tavern, for the reception of the
report and the transaction of the ordinary business. Mr.
11. J. Cherer presided. The report congratulated the sup •
porters of the institution on its increasing prosperity. The
gross receipts of the half-year had been £BB6 18s. 6d., and
after defraying the expenditure and making an addi-
tion to the stock, a balance of £2lB 15s. 2d. remained in
hand. The annual festival of the institution would be held
on the sth July, at the Crystal' Palace, under the presi-
dency of Sir James Duke, and it was to be hoped that it
would be highly successful. The income of the half-year
had enabled the board to add £250 to the invested property,
which now amounted to £3,750. It was earnestly hoped
that the institution would receive increased support. The
report was unanimously adopted, and after some routine
business had been transacted, the meeting proceeded to the
election of one annuitant.

THE UNDELGROUND RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—
Although the waters of the Fleet Sewer now flow freely
along the completed portion of the new trench or grip, a
large stream still finds its way into the railway cutting.
On Thursday evening Mr. Jay, the railway contractor, had
a large dam constructed at the mouth of the tunnel, which
has effectually prevented any further flow of the water into
that portion of the work, and yesterday a powerful steam
pumping engine was sat to work, which has already relieved
the tunnel of a great portion of the water accumulated in
into
the part, which after being pumped up is discharged
the Brook-hill district sewer. The grip will, it is expected,
be completed by Monday or Tuesday, when the flow of
water into the railway will be entirely stopped. The large
main pipe of the New River Company has now been, safely
removed from its hitherto dangerous position.

LATEST NEW'S

WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND

MEXICAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon,
Captain Abbott, which left St. Thomas on the 13th
inst., arrived at 4.30 a.m. She brings 294 passen-
gers, 1,245,239 dols. in specie (of which 276,697
dols. is gold and 968,542 dols. silver), jewellery,
&c., value 25,350 dols., and a cargo comprising 477
bags cocoa, 481 serons cochineal, 4 serons indigo,
806 serons bark, 171 cases cigars, 203 bales tobacco,
333 casks coffee, 84 bales sarsaparilla, 83 bales
indiarubber, 35 packages skins, 32 packages vanilla,
and 185 packages sundries.
Colonel le Vicomte de la Pierre, the bearer of
important despatches from Vera Cruz, is a passen-
ger by the Shannon, and also Mr. J. Crawford,
C. 8., the English Consul-General at Havannah,
with his family.

Her Majesty's ships Ariadne, Imaum, and Plover
at Jamaica; Immortalite, at Antigua ; Phaeton, at
Vera Cruz ; Landrail, cruizing in Bahama Channel;
Cygnet was to leave Havannah for Bermuda; and
Barracoata, bound to Halifax.
At Jamaica the long drought had been succeeded
by heavy floods and rain, threatening great destruc-
tion of property. Ground provisions were very
scarce. The public health was good. Business was
perfectly stagnant owing to the severe weather.
Business, weather, and the health and general
prosperity of the people were all promising well at
Barbadoes. Exports during the fortnight included
32,531 hhds. 2,544 taw. 11,410 brls, of sugar;
4,725 puns. 239 hhds. 644 brls. of molasses; and
60 puns. 212 hhds. of rum.

The schooner Charlotte, of Surinam, had arrived
at Demerara, with 19 escaped slaves, who were
placed temporarily under the care of the Immigra-
tion Agent-General. Exports for fortnight in-
cluded 1,347 hbds. 691 trcs. 180 brls. 82 bags
sugar ; 330 puns. 49 hhds. 37 brls. rum.

At Valparaiso exchange on London was 45d. to
44d. per dollar. Freights to England, £4 to £4 ss.
per ton ; rates firm, and shipping in request. Stocks
of nitrate being low at ports of shipment, holders
stood out for 1.871 dols., and even 2 dols. per
quintal, at which figure no transactions took place.

Silver lodes had been discovered in the district of
Copiapo, which had given a stimulus to business.
An attempted revolution at Arequipa, on the 14th
of May, was frustrated.
Rather a severe shock of earthquake was felt at
Callao and Lima on the 28th of May, but little or
no damage was done.

There had been no arrivals at Callao of vessels
from England since previous aelvices. Exchange
on England, 37d. to 38d. per dollar.
The small English steamer Thomas, from London
for the Sandwich Islands, through the Straits of
Magellan, 169 days out, called at Lota on the 29th
of April for costs.
Business at Havannah was dull, and the health of
the population about as usual at this season.