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THE SUN.
LONDON, _MONDAY, JULY 28, 1862.

Another opportunity now appears b be coming
within our reach, by promptly availing ourselves
of which we may realise, earlier than we could
have reasonably hoped for under the circumstances,
a portion at least of the judicious design to which
we alluded on Saturday—the project suggested
a few years back by Lord LLANOVER. His grace
the Duke of BUCCLEUCH seems now to repent him
somewhat of his bargain in regard to the renewal
of the lease of Montagu House. And yet it is
hardly that either. For the "bargain"—so far as it
was a bargain in his eyes, an arrangement decidedly
in his grace's favour—may surely now be con-
sidered in a manner as " off." In vulgar parlance,
to use one of the homeliest phrases in the verna-
cular, the gilt is fairly rubbed off the gingerbread.
There is the renewal of the lease sure enough.
There is that document, upon the strength of
which old Montagu House has been pulled
down—a considerable part of the materials
of being it ground into powder and turned into
concrete—upon a soiid substratum of which
concrete new Montagu House has been built. Pre-
cisely, however, at the very time of its completion
as an edifice—fire-proof and water-tight—the
whole advantage of this renewed lease of the acre
and a half of Crown land upon which the edifice
has been erected—the whole advantage of the re-
newal, at any rate in the estimation of the Duke of
131JeeLEtTeu, has been spirited away by a rude Hey!
Presto! of the House of Commons in Committee.
The
Duke's town house, it is true, is there—just
finished. It only requires to be appropriately fur-
nished with "opholO.stery of suitable splendour, to be
at once habitable. But—while all this is indubi-
tably correct—ales I
the charm of the whole place
has vanished. Au effectual close has been put to
his Grace's delightful daydream of making the river
front of his renovated town house—again, and more
delectably than ever—a secluded green "pleasaunce."
h
which—orror upon
Instead of horror—the broad
thoroughfare along the Thames Embankment is to
pass immediately beneath the windows of Montagu
House as now built—between the shrubberies and
the river Thames ! Omnibuses, cabs, drays, carts,
waggons, lumbering and light-wheeled vehicles of
all descriptions, the Duke finds now, to his utter
dismay, are to be perpetually clattering to and fro
with all the Babel and uproar incidental to
London traffic—directly in the very fore-ground of
the charming river view principally for the sake of
quietly enjoying which the new residence of his
Grace has been reconstructed upon so elaborate a
plan, and at so considerable an expense. No won-
the Duke of BUCCLEUCH repents of his bargain,
under these altered circumstances. No wonder
that we now learn his Grace is disposed to be quit
of it altogether if only the Government will let
him!

The renewal of the lease, it will not easily be for-
gotten, was agai n and yet again peremptorily re-
fused. And this not by one Chancellor of the
Exchequer, but by three successive Chancellors of
the Exchequer. Among those so refusing it being
no other than the very right honourable gentleman
whose zutogr6ph is subscribed to the fatal docu-
ment conceding the boon, sought with such eager
pertinacity and refused with such remarkable
unanimity, by
Administrator after Administrator.
Mr. DTSRAELI. S signature having been really and
truly,
we are satisfied, obtained from him surrep-
titiously. Otherwise—it is impossible to imagine
that the fact of his having at length made a con-
cession that be bad previously and emphatically
declined to make could in any way have escaped

the recollection of the right hon. member for Bucks.,
Assuredly it is inconceivable that it could so
utterly have slipped from his remembrance, that
he should actually taunt Mr. GLADSTONE for
having done what he (Mr. DISRAELI) did when
the matter came to be looked into—viz., the occa-
sion of the Treasury Minute directing the renewal
of the lease! The astounding aharge brought against
Mr. GLADSTONE by Mr. DISRAELI, in reference to
this very singular transaction, affords proof
positive, indeed, that the latter right hon. gentle-
man's signature was obtained, as we have said,
Surreptitiously. It is hardly too strong language
to assert that, through some subordinate, and,
at present, invisible agency, the necessary hiero-
glyphic was obtained very cleverly upon the
sly. So that when "B. DISRAELI" was scrawled
upon that vexatious Minute, it was so scrawled
upon a document cleverly insinuated among a heap
of other papers requiring the Minister's signature.
Upon Mr. ORMSBY GORE, in a great measure, rests
the responsibility of having looked after his Grace
the Duke of BUCCLEUCH'S interests in the matter of
this lease altogether. He was undoubtedly the official
who had the opportunity of forwarding the Duke's
views, and who, so far as he could, officially appears
to have endeavoured to forward them. The valua-
tion of the land upon which Montagu House stands,
surrounded by its garden and its shrubberies, was
made, it is true, by Mr. PENNETHORNE. But that
valuation was attested as a fair one by Mr. ORMSBY
GORE! And as to the fairness of the said valua-
tion, without any doubt, the least said the soonest
mended. While Government itself is now pay-
ing there for the purchase of land in the immediate
neighbourhood of Montagu House at the rate of
£lOO,OOO an acre—the Duke of BIJCCLEUCU (thanks
to Mr. PENNETHORNE'S valuation, attested by Mr.
GORE) obtains ha acre and a half at Whitehall-
gardens from the Government at the
rate of less than a fifth of that price !
From 1856, for ninety-nine years, Montagu
House and grounds are to be held by the
Duke and his descendants at a yearly rental of
£Bso—a rental representing a capital of £20,000.
The lease thus renewed still of course holds good.
No attempt has yet been made to recall it—upon the
plea of its being a renewal in some way or other
surreptitiously obtained by some over-zealous par-
tizan of the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, of course, acting
in the matter thus adroitly, without the Duke's
knowledge. Deprived of his privacy, however, his
grace is understood to be willing, and not only
willing, but even anxious, to back out of the
transaction altogether. Ii will tend at once to
relieve everyone of a difficulty if his grace is taken
at his word promptly by her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment—and new Montagu House accepted at once
as the nucleus of a new pile of Government offices
duly to be divided among the departments.

Two points of considerable interest are illustrated
by the details of the news just received from the
States. The political difficulties of the North, and
the views of the South itself on the present position
of things.

We find Mr. LINCOLN in a double difficulty.
Both Congress and the Border States perplex
him ; the action of Congress doubtless increasing
his difficulty with the former. Slavery is of course
his trouble; the Border States evidently do not
like State abolition of slavery, and at a meeting
of the members from the Border States to Con-
gress they have passed some clever and specious
resolutions for Mr. LINCOLN'S consideration.
They remind the PRESIDENT of their practical
loyalty in having raistd the 80,000 men required
of them to fight for the Union, and affirm their
willingness to raise their proportion of the new
call. With such a preamble they point out that,
under the constitution of Kentucky—the princi-
pal of these States—it would require four years
to take the sense of the people in Convention,
and after that it would need an Act of Congress to
complete the Act of the State, and it would even
then be uncertain whether Congress would remain
disposed to vote the money. These 'cute Ken-
tuckians, therefore, propose that specific legislation
by Congress should precede legislation by the State.
To obviate, moreover, the delays of organised State
action, the Border State representatives think that
the offer should be made at once, and directly to
the individual citizens of the Slave States, and then
the question would be at once solved, and in time
to aid the Government. Congress would at once
prove its willingness to appropriate the money, and
the people of the Border states would show their
readiness to aid the Union, even at the sacrifice of
a radical change in their social organisation. They
conclude their representations to him with the
loudest professions of attachment to the Union, de-
claring that even if the Government were over-
whelmed in its struggle with secession, the Border
State will not join their broken fortune to the
Southern Confederacy, but seek elsewhere new
alliances and a new career.

The PRESIDENT could not, of course, resist such
affectionate loyalty ; and a day or two after this
programme was agreed on by the Borderers, he
sends a draft bill to Congress to carry out at least
one part of their demand. The resolution passed
by Congress, stated only its willingness to co-operate,
by pecuniary compensation, with any State in the
emancipation of its slaves. If Congress was sincere
in the resolution, it ought to be willing to put the
slave States, by a positive act, in the position to
demand the money of the Government, if it agitated
the question of abolition and carried the measure.
Otherwise the very agitation of the subject might
render abolition necessary, and Congress might then
be ruinously slow in providing the funds. Mr. LIN-
COLN'S Bill therefore proposes to pay for the slaves as
every thing else is paid for in America by appealing
to the future for money; it provides that when-
ever the PRESIDENT of the United States shall
he satisfied that any State shall have lawfully
abolished slavery within and throughout such State,
either immediately or gradually, it shall be the
duty
of the President, assisted by the Secretary of
the Treasury, to prepare and deliver to each State
an amount of six per cent. interest-bearing bonds
of the United
States equal to the aggregate value,
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pation in the Border States, unless, indeed, every
individual slaveholder should prove so tenacious of
absolute power, as to prefer retaining his slaves to
accepting money at such a crisis for slave property
as the present.

The PRESIDENT is, however, more embarrassed
with the Confiscation Bill. We described it on
Saturday, and the reader has seen that if preaae4
to the let ter it would be a virtual decree of eman-
cipation after sixty days. It is probably this which

makes the PRESIDENT hesitate. When the mail
left he was busy preparing objections and amend-
ments, to which, it was understood, he would en-
deavour to obtain the consent of Congress. It
seems wonderful, after the late repulse from Rich•
mend, that the PRESIDENT should hesitate to give
his assent to any anti-slavery or abolition measure.
The Border States would not, as they are now loyal,
be touched by it ; and what can he propose to him-
, self by endeavours to conciliate Virginia and the
cotton States ? Very plainly, however, the North
is beginning to see that willing or unwilling to
abolish slavery, it has no other chance of success.
The bombastic proclamation of INI`CIALLAN we
have already had, we have now the simpler one of
JEFFERSON DAVIS, thanking his soldiers as their
PRESIDENT, on behalf of the country, for " the
series of brilliant victories" they had won. The
Southern PRESIDENT thus states the main facts of
a struggle which, had they occurred on the other
side, would assuredly have given outlet to a much
fuller stream of rhetoric Ten days ago," says
Mr. JEFFERSON, "an invading army, vastly supe-
rior to you in numbers and in the material of
war, closely beleaguered your capital, and vaunt-
ingly proclaimed its speedy conquest. You marched
to attack the enemy in his entrenchments ; with
well-directed movements and death-defying valour
you charged upon him in his strong positions, drove
him from field to field over a distance of more than
35 miles, and, despite his reinforcements, compelled
him to seek shelter under the cover of his gunboats,
where he now lies, cowering before the army he
so
lately derided and threatened with entire subjuga-
tion." The President thinks they have done enough
for glory; but, their suffering country, and the
cause of constitutional liberty—he should have
added and of buying and selling men and working
them like cattle—still demands from them further
efforts. He expects them to study to promote
their own efficiency, and now, we believe for the
first time utters a threat to the North, in
his address to his soldiers, which we do not recollect
that this wary man has ever made use of before.
If the North will not grant peace, he now proposes
to compel her to do so. Washington is to tremble
again. They are not, now, to stop short with de-
fence ; "your one grand object being," he says "to
drive the invader from your soil, and, carrying
your standards beyond the outer boundaries of the
Confederacy, to wring from an unscrupulous foe
the recognition of your birthright, community, and
independence." Has the South any project of the
kind in view. JEFF. DAVIS has not hitherto
uttered empty threats, any more than he has con-
cealed seal defeats—when he threatened a naval
exploit, he performed one which gained the atten-
tion of the whole world—and with a general like
JACKSON, whose movements are just now very ob-
scure, it is by no means impossible that the north
of the Potomac may soon need the services of Gen.
M 'CLELLAN.

Of course, nothing can be asserted yet on any
reasonable grounds respecting the next probable
military movements. In Virginia we have POP; the
new Federal commander in the west of that State,
addressing his men as if he intended to drive be-
fore him; but we remember that JACKSON is yet
free to move when he pleases from Richmond to
Washington itself. We hear from the South that,
no siege guns were captured, but only light
pieces, which had to be recast. We are also
told of an iron-clad boat building at Rich-
mond, but of great difficulty in obtaining iron.
Still, we read in the Southern papers of great confi-
dence that the invader will soon be driven out, and
of families who had left, returning to Richmond.
Vicksburg, on the Mississippi, still holds out, and
the Border States are beccming alive with insurrec-
tion. Such facts, with the difficulty the PRESI-
DENT finds in raising his 300,000 men, and the
abolition tendency of various public measures, may
all mean that the fearful result is fast approaching
—that either the South, by its present efforts, will
abolish the Union, or the North must abolish
Slavery.

Another act of munificence on the part of the
SOVEREIGN has now to be announced. According
to the information with which we have been
honoured this forenoon by the noble earl the
leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition, the QUEEN
has contributed a sum of £2,000 to the Fund now
being collected from all ranks and classes of her
MAJESTY'S subjects for the relief of the Distress in
Lancashire. The incident is, of course, exactly
the reverse of being in any way unprecedented.
It is only another added to a very long list of
similar royal benefactions during the now quar-
ter of a century's reign of Queen VICTORIA. Her
Most Gracious MAJESTY has ever evinced her
instant readiness to come to the relief of suffering,
whenever that suffering has been brought to her
MAJESTY'S knowledge. Occasionally, this prompt
munificence of the QUEEN has been evidenced in a
very signal manner, and under peculiarly impres-
sive and afflicting circumstances. It was thus, it
will be remembered, in the instance of that sudden
and appalling affliction which befell the poor col-
liery village down at the New Hartley Pit, where
upwards of 200 poor fellows were doomed to a
dreadful death by the horrible results of an
instant's accident. Then—who can forget it ?
—her MAJESTY not only contributed a mu-
nificent donation to the funds being raised
for the widows and the orphan children of
the deceased colliers, but sent a kindly, tender,
benignant message of her heart's sympathy to
the afflicted people of that village—a message
flashed by electric telegraph from the palace
of the widowed QUEEN, down to that sor-
row-stricken neighbourhood, down by the new
Hartley Pit. Here, once more, the QUEEN evi-
dences her active sympathy with the afflicted, by
adding her donation of two thousand pounds ster-
ing, to the other gifts of money accumulating, in
lesser sums, for the alleviation of the privations
resulting from the Cotton Famine in the North of
England, but more particularly in Lancashire.

We hope Mr. COSIDEN'S high authority will
not send our Manchester friends to sleep. It may
be true that their immediate business is to spin
and weave, not to grow cotton. They cannot, as
a body, become agriculturists in the tropics, and
no such Utopian absurdity is demanded of
them. The feeling, and the complaint widely
uttered is, however, that Manchester has not
done what might be expected of her. We looked
for energy and skill equal to almost any emergency,
we find her threatened with a famine of the staff of
life to her trade, and she succumbs. We must fold
our hands, she says, till the cotton comes again ; how
we know not—but come it will, though we do not
move hand or foot.

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advantage to both countries. They already have
the main point in their education, a thorough know-
ledge of the quality of the different kinds of cotton ;
would take an uninitiated
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indeed, to attain. Why can-,
organise a not plan to send

these men as agents to India. They would only
need interpreters. A very little time would teach
them the mechanics of cotton cleaning, they could
go with prices in their hands to the natives, even
to the ryots themselves, which would almost
stagger the poor creatures, accustomed to sell
their crop at half, or a third of its worth,
to a usurer, who, besides charges them
fifty per cent. for the advance to grow it.
and it may be presumed that their presence with
the rupees in their hands, and a little advice as to
the kind of preparation of the wool required to
obtaiu them, would soon work a complete revolu-
tion in the quantity and quality of Indian cotton.
Could the Indian Government but devise a good
and easily worked contract law, to make advances
secure; and advances be then made by Manchester
monied men operating through bankers resident
in:lndia, at 121 per cent., the current interest there,
the ryot enfranchised from the usurer, and with
the certainty a buyer of his cotton for double or
treble the price he has usually got for it would be
quite a new man.

Mr. COBDEN has had many lectures lately on med-
dling with things which he does not understand, but
he ought, we all suppose, to understand Manchester
business. We differ from him, therefore, with all
proper modesty, but we do certainly think that it
is the business of every man to attend to any thing
requisite to the prosecution of his business. A
soldier's business has been always understood to
be fighting, yet we find ancient and modern
generals.agreeing that attention to the commissariat
is one of the most important duties of a commander.
His men are good for nothing without food ; and as
cotton mills are equally worthless without their
food, it would seem that their commanders are
equally bound to attend to the cotton commissariat.

Perhaps the most interesting inauguration of a
Public Drinking Fountain that there has yet been
witnessed anywhere in all London was the one
which took place on Saturday last on Islington
Green. It was in reality a twofold inauguration
—the inauguration of a Drinking Fountain and the
inauguration of a Statue. The Fountain, the gift
of many—among those donors being the New River
Company. The Statue, the gift of one—namely,
of Sir MORTON PETO, the Member of Parliament.
It represents this latter presentation to the locality,
the vera effigies in white Sicilian marble (8 feet 6
inches in height) of the revered and honoured hero of
that whol-e neighbourhood, the worthy old knight
Sir HUGH MIDDELTON. Besides the name of Si r
HUGH MIDDELTON inscribed upon the gray granite
pedestal from Devonshire, there are there legible
also the dates of his birth in 1555, and of his
death in 1631—at the ripe old age of seventy-
six, an age as ripe as his memory is still
green now after more than two centuries.
There has surely hardly ever been erected
before now any more suitable memorial of one
of the Great Worthies held deservedly in grate-
ful remembrance, than this Fountain and Statue to
the memory of the contriver of the New River supply
of water to the metropolis, good old Sir HUGH
MIDDELTON. A benefactor of the inhabitants of
London—just as SHAKSPERE was a Poet for the
people of England, of the British Empire, of both
hemispheres, wherever the English language is
understood—" not for an age, but for all time !"
Sir HUGH MIDDELTON'S beneficent project proving
in effect a priceless boon in its way not merely for
his oss n contemporaries, but for all after generations.
Happily as our gifted Chancellor of the Exchequer
has often spoken before now upon the most di-
versified themes, and upo i the most various
occasions, the right honourable gentleman has
hardly ever addressed himself to a miscellaneous
audience more felicitously than he did on Saturday.
The subject seemed to be congenial to him, and he
himself in the best possible mood for its appropriate
treatment. Among the few genuine improvements
and decorations of the metropolis that we may re-
gard with unaffected satisfaction, it is a gratifica-
tion to know that we may now count this Drink-
ing Fountain on Islington-green, surmounted
(thanks. to Sir MORTON PETO) with that happily
thought of white marble statue of Sir HUGH
MYDDELTON.

LATEST NEWS.

PARTS, JULY 28.

The Moniteur of this morning announces that the
Progres, of Lyons, has received a second warning
for publishing in its number of Thursday last a
correspondence from Paris, reporting incidents as
having taken place in the discussions of the Council
of Ministers which were completely false.

TURIN, JULY 27 (Evening).
Yesterday, in the Chamber of Deputies, the dis-
cussion was continued on the question put by Signor
Petrucelli, relative to the foreign policy of the
Government.

Signor Mordini desired that Parliament should
resound with language of encouragement to the
Roman people to break their chains, although
respecting the French flag. He asked if the
House had ever thought what would be the atti-
tude of the Government in the case of an insurrec-
tion at Rome. Signor Mordini believed that the
Franco-Russian alliance would be dangerous to
Italian interests, and that the Anglo-French alli-
ance was necessary to ensure the peace of Europe.
He thought also that Italy should fortify herself and
place herself in a warlike condition.

Other speakers spoke against the foreign policy
of the Italian Government.

TURIN, JULY 27.

The Syndic of Marsala has published an account
of Garibaldi's visit to that city on the 19th inst.,
on Which occasion Garibaldi made a speech against
the Emperor of the French exceeding in violence
all his previous speeches.

It is asserted that the Government has sent
orders by telegraph for the removal of the Syndic
from office.

The Prefect of Palermo has tendered his resigna-
tion, which has been accepted.
General Brignote is spoken of as his successor.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 28.

The Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian arrived
here this morning with the above mails, 134
passengers, 1,494,233 in speoie, and 1,200 packages

HER MAJES7Y'S THEATRE-CLOSE OF
THE SUBSCRIPTION.

A brilliant audience assembled on Saturday at
the close of the forty subscription nights which the
entrepreneur, Mr. Mapleson, had announced as
" the season." It must not be supposed, however,
that her Majesty's Theatre closes with the splendid
performance of " Roberto it Diavolo," by the un-
exampled cast which the directorate has this season
brought together. Mdlle. Tietjens' Alice, Carlotta
Marchisio, Signori Armandi, Bettini, Vialetti, and
Gassier, form a body of executants of Meyerbeer's
great opera, which it would be difficult to rival in
any opera-souse of Europe. It is but justice to
Mr. Mapleson to fully endorse the statement he so
modestly makes in his address, which we here
subjoin, prefacing it by the remark that the gene-
ral opinion of those who have watched the exertions
of his almost improvised management is, that it
has achieved more than could reasonably have been
expected, and has exhibited unwearied energy and
liberality to its close. A course of conduct which
fully deserves a future liberal subscription and the
confidence of the opera-going public, should Mr.
Mapleson essay—which we sincerely trust in the
interests of art he will—the arduous post of director
and lessee next year. The address above alluded
to is couched in these terms :

TO THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY VISITING HER MAJESTY'S

THEATRE.

I cannot allow the opera season of 1862 to terminate
without tendering you my heartfelt thanks for the kind
support and liberal patronage you have accorded me during
this my first season of directorship at her Majesty's Theatre.
It would be in vain to deny that during the past season a
few shortcomings may be laid to my charge; but when the
magnitude of the undertaking, on which I entered at a very
short notice, is taken into consideration—two weeks only
having been allowed me for preparation—l trust they will
be deemed unimportant.

The chorus, during the early part of the season, was not,
on some occasions, all that could be wished, but I was com •
pelled to organise a new one, many of the members being
entirely unacquainted with each other. By next season I
shall be prepared with a chorus whirl,. I trust will be worthy
of your approval.

I feel I may with pride draw your attention to the
orchestra, which includes some of the most accomplished
executants in Europe. In this respect I venture to claim
your approval, and to point to the unanimous opinions of
musical critics on its merits. I may also be permitted to
hope for your approval of the varied repertoire which 1
have been enabled to present to you. I do not dwell on
Signor Verdi's new Cantata, or Meyerbeer's chef d'oeuvre
" Robert le Diable," given with the greatest completeness
and effect, but I beg respectfully to point to the thirteen
different operas which have been brought out during the
first season of my management, and to the very able
manner in which they have been supported. Such artistes
as Signors Giuglini, Vialetti, Gassier, Santley, Zucchini,
&c. ; Mesdames Trebelli, Louisa Pyne, the Sisters Mar-
chisio, and Tietjens (incomparably the greatest artiste on
the European lyric stage), together with Arditi, need no
eulogy from me. I content myself with drawing your at-
, ention to the fact that the first representations of nearly
all these operas were given on subscription nights, and were
not reserved as attractions for extra performances, which in
many instances is now the practice,

It is my intention, during the next six months, to make
myself acquainted personally with any talent that exists
abroad, in order that I may be able, next season, to ilace
before you a galaxy of talent unrivalled in London, sup-
ported by an orchestra and chorus complete in every parti-
cular. In the production of operatic spectacle I shall be
greatly assisted by some very extensive alterations that are
to be made in the theatre, which will render the stage more
capacious, and the task of producing each opera with com-
pleteness more easy of accomplishment.

I hope you will not deem me presumptuous in troubling
you with this short resume of what I have done, and what
I intend doing.

The position of director of so great an establishment as
her Majesty's Theatre is one which, while surrounded with
risks and troubles, is not unaccompanied with pleasures—.
I may say honours; in both the latter I shall have largely
shared, if I have succeeded in gaining your approbation for
the past, and your good wishes and patronage for the future.

J. H. MAPLESON.

At the close of the opera the National Anthem
was sung. A supplementary season of eight nights
is announced, at reduced prices of admission, to begin
to-morrow, Tuesday.