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

The Question as it now stands between the pub-
lic and the Duke of BUCCLEUCH may be very
simply stated. An Embankment along the nor-
thern borders of the Thames from Westminster
Bridget to Blackfriars Bridge was resolved upon at
the recommendation of a Government Commission.
In obedience to the recommendations of that cora-
sciiene of a—ri'Efai ban-Eng-AY nco Nig r 71CY
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, through 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-
doner" among others had taken his pen in hand—
it was J. 0. again (as Mr. DICKENS facetiously has
it) showing up another J. 0. B. A noble lord, a mem-
ber of the Committee—no other than Lord ROBERT
I'I"TAGIT, 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. Cowreet,
with having acted very unfairly by his brother
committee-men, for inasmuch as he, Mr. COWPER,
quoth the noble lord, had been prompting a tall
gentleman of the name of HIGGINS to charge the
and subserviency. The
committee with meanness
cat had slipped out of the bag, in this matter, it
Appeared, through the simple accideut of a mis -
directed envelope. A certain
communication had
fallen into the hands of a Mr.W. F. 11-locales 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. at. HIGGINS, the tall gentlemen.
The upshot of all this, being— es must be within
the very recent recollection cf 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
been hurled like a mis thrown boomerang.

The discussions provoked by the ;obis lord
the member fer _Huntingdonshire, however, are
now fortunately and definitively closed. w, ~,re to
hear 130 more of those vvrAched little squabbles,
and recriminations, and explanations, all about
nothing—all literally beside the question. For—
bore before tr, in a very substantial form indeed, is
the official report, in the shape of a very balky
Blue Book, of the whole cies:Ails of the proceedings
from day to day before the Thames Embankment
CommAtte. 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. " O that mine enemy would write a
book !" Here is the very Book produced by a little
mits—certainly, at least we may say
group of ene
11[. Te distinctly shown themselves
this, those who
to ba not friends a the public at large, but friends

rather (at the expense of the public) of his Grace
the Duke of BUCCLEUCE and QUEENSBERRY! Let

us give their names at once, they are those
of the members of the Thames Embank-

ment Committee—they are the names espe-

cially of Sir JOHN SHELLEY, and Mr. CRAW-
FORD, and Mr. GARNETT, and Sir WILLIAM

JOLLIFFE, and Lord ROBERT MONTAGU, and Mr.

KER SEYMER, and Lord HARRY VANE. Whether

or not, under the guidance of those members of the

committee, the interests of the public are to be sac

rificed to the whims and fancies of the Duke a

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BUCCLEUCII remains a problem yet to be solved.

The House of Commons will more immediately have

an opportunity of solving it. Already they have
the facts to go upon, put upon record, and submitted
to their scrutiny. Perusing the pages of the Blue
Book just published, it is within the capacity of
anyone to pronounce whether or no the majority
of the committee, in this affair relating to the Duke
of BIICCLEUCH, have been guilty of meanness and
subserviency.

The facts,- as they are now distinctly be-
'ore us, are undeniably to the effect that the

Thames Embankment is to be very seri
ously marred, that the gardens of Montagu
House are to be extended and improved,
to the advantage, of course, of the Duke of BUC-
CLEUCH, and to the detriment of the Public—and
at whose cost ? Why, absolutely, in one direction,
by spending £300,000 of the public money, and in
another direction, by drawing an additional sum of
£90,000 sterling from the Treasury ! If any
one is
incredulous, let him turn to the Blue-book pub-
lished under authority, as the authentic report of
the proceedings of the Committee. Let those who
are naturally incredulous upon the matter, who
doubt if such things seriously can be, turn to the
evidence of one witness alone—the Hon. CHARLES
GORE. It will be quite sufficient to do that. The
evidence of Mr. GORE alone affords us all the in-
formation we could possibly need, a great deal more
than we could possibly desire, in respect
to these charges of meanness and subser-
viency. Whitehall Gardens, more particularly
the river frontage of those portions of
Whitehall Gardens appertaining to Montagu
House, the newly-built town mansion of his
Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, come, as a
matter of course, under the consideration
of the committee. Mr. GORE, as an important
witness, is under examination. He is asked by
Lord HARRY VANE—" Do you consider that the
Duke of BUCCLEUCH would be sufficiently compen-
sated by the land which this bill proposes to give
to him ? This bill proposes to give to all the lessees
of the Crown certain land, for ornamental purposes,
to be added to their gardens." Whereupon thus
answers the Hon. CHARLES GORE—" The Duke of
BUCCLEUCH represented to me that the amenity of
his house would be seriously injured by making a
road between him and the river ; that he would
much rather not have an embankment made,
as far as his personal interest was concerned,
and that he did not wish an extension of his gar-
den, and that therefore no'extension of his garden
would remove the objection which a roadway be-
tween him and the river would give to him." This,
however, is not by any means enough. Following
the same witness yet further, in his very notable
examination before the committee, any one who ex-
amines this blue book will come at last to the fol-
lowing amazing series of questions and answers
between the examining counsel and the Hon.
CHARLES GORE

" Do you mean that the promoters of the bill, or
the Metropolitan Board of Works, are to make it,
and you to pay the expense ?—That portion in front
of the Crown property.
" You are prepared to encounter the expense of
making it, that is to say ?—Yes.
v,94.c99BJittc.l7AVlAPlliu pOlia .417.
sury, for instance P they are your masters.—l named
it in a report which I made to the Treasury, object-
ing to that portion of the plan recommended in the
Report of the Royal Commission.
" But have the Treasury confirmed your wish to
undertake this expense ?—I do not apprehend they
would make any objection ; they have made none
whatever.

" Bat have they signed their approbation ?—lt
is only necessary, under the Lands Revenue Act,
that the Treasury should give their consent when I
bring before them estimates for the carrying out of
the work.
" Have the Treasury taken the preliminary step
of entertaining the paying for this Embankment ?
—I can only say that I have had clmniunication
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, under whose
notice this subject was brought, and he did not
dissent from it as an application of Crown revenues
to which the Treasury would object.
" Did he signify in any way his assent; did he
approve ?—I only say that it is not the practice of
the Treasury, till a distinct estimate is brought
before them, to do a work (and this has
not arrived at that point which would enable such
a proposal to be submitted to the Treasury), to
express their assent.
" In point of fact, there has been no assent of the
Treasury; that is all I care about P—No assent, be-
cause no assent has been required ; but I think
that if the principle I proposed had been thought
objectionable, during the last six months they
would have signified their dissent.
" They have not signified any opinion either
way P—They have not expressed any dissent what-
ever.

" Or assent either P—Because their assent is not

yet required.
"Nor is their dissent, I presume ?—I think they
would have stopped it in the preliminary state if
they had objected to the principle."
The fencing of all these queries by the witness
cannot but be regarded as in itself most significant.
Remembering that it is upon evidence such as t' is
that the majority of the Thames Embankment
Committee have acted, who shall have the effron-
tery to assert that in this transaction relat-
ing to the Duke of BUCCLEUCII they
have not been guilty or the most flagrant
meanness and the most pitiable subserviency?
Party to proceedings of this kind, hUwever, the
House of Commons will not be. It is to the House
of Commons that we look in this matter for the
conservation of the public rights and for the main-
tenance of the public interests—and for both, in
this matter, we look to the House of Commons with
1 implicit confidence.

The
ledies.tions of a Federal checkTpresented by
the news
brought by the Persia, are confirmed by
those just received ,
by the North American. " The
more menacing attitude,"
Confederates assume a
They continue
their harassing attacks on the in-
,adiDg army, and open fire on the fleet which
obiEet be to have the last shot and
i. to reach the City.
see.,sThe Federals appear,
advan'a,7s, if
al ways to have the
ho wever,
provisions in I
Reinforce-
ments
does not look
innodt e emde,
rellise-irto disturb and. wear
.out.
eilrlautecs,to:crir•eivPs.howrhtle'olif
asifth also
sCoolellidt
which case they would not accumulate more eon_ 1
sumers-in the same phler. ?, ei!her does it look as 1
if evacuation were the ultimate intention. M'CLEL-
LAN reports " daily skirmishing,'' and " fire from
heavy guns," and shelling," but no harm, done, and
‘CLEL-,
his own preparations `°progprogressingWeil'll,l
LAN'S own reports have always been as correct as
circumstances permitted, and we may presume,
therefore, he feels himself strong enough to hold
his own,- if not strong enough, without reinforce-
ments, to make the grand attack. The Secretary
of War is calling on the Governors for more

troops, and all looks as if the hot weather would
be on them before the Federals were able to
move on Richmond. Still we must remember that
NPCLELLAN is one of the make- sure, Lord CLYDE
school.

JACKSON appears to be a very able man. After
having driven BANKS to Harper's Ferry, alarmed
Washington, and compelled M‘DowELL to remain
where he was at Fredericsburg, instead of joining
M'CLELLAN before Richmond, he had to retreat
before the reinforcements of BANKS and the arrival
of FREMONT. He did this with such ability as to
inflict heavy loss, while retiring, on FRE➢IONT; he
went on retreating, and to rejoin, it was thought,
the Confederate army at Richmond. Nothing of

the sort, however. He only fell back for reinforce
ments, and, these obtained, he in turn became the
pursuer of FREMONT—re-entered the valley of the
Shenandoah, and appears likely to beat FREMONT,
BANKS, SHIELDS, and all there opposed to him.
This valley is of great importance. Militarily, its
possession by the Confederates keeps Washington
disquieted, and prevents the different army corps
from marching to the South and joining M'CLEL-
LAN. As a source of supplies, it is the most fertile
wheat district in Virginia, and is said to be abun-
dantly able to supply the whole Northern Confe-
derate army with food. While the Confaderates
are strong there they will not want provisions, at
least after harvest has commenced, and they will
prevent the full force of the North from being
brought to bear on Richmond. Our readers must
keep their eyes on this " valley of the Shenan-
doah ;" it has much to do with the fate of Rich-
mond, and with the course the Confederates will
take should they have to leave that place.
In the west we learn that the Federals think of
closing the campaign for the hot weather. BEAU-
REGARD has still with him, according to Northern
accounts, a large army in Mississippi; POPE has
given up following him, and the Federals are to be
content for the present with the care of Corinth and
Memphis, ceasing from aggressive movements dur-
ing the summer months. The Confederates will
therefore have ample time to reorganise themselves
in those parts The city of Mobile, situated in its
own fine bay on the Gulf of Mexico, and defended
by the very strong Fort Morgan, is making a
vigorous resistance. The fort at least refuses to
yield. The gunboats could doubtless easily pass it
into the bay, as they did Forts Philip and Jackson
on the Mississippi, but the unprofitable bombard-
ment of the city would be too bad. The Confede-
rates are accumulating force there, and the Federals
do not appear to have a military force sufficient to
hold the place. It is the only place of importance
in those parts now left to the Confederates. Like
Savannah, however, and Charleston, it does not
appear willing to yield easily to Federal demon-
strations. BUTLER reigns supreme at New Orleans
—he hung a man for lowering the Federal flag, and
justifies his infamous proclamation. At Memphis
too the strongest measures are taken—the press is
of course put under supervision, and the sentinels
are to shoot persons who molest the Federal flag.
The Federals seem to understand how to keep
order, as well as Marshal St. ARNAUD did on the
2d of December.
The House of Representatives has at last agreed
to a bill for confiscating the slaves of rebels.
Whether the Senate will assent to it is doubtful.
The PRESIDENT, perhaps, will think it useless, for
he has told an Emancipation Committee that a pro-
clamation of emancipation would fail of its object,
because the constitution itself cannot be enforced in
the South. This is true. But it may be doubted
whether Mr. LINCOLN'S determined support of the
pro-slavery clauses in the constitution at first, is
not the reason why the valuable parts of it are not
to be enforced now. Now that the South has hun-
dreds of thousands of men in the field.. it is useless

believe the North ; had Mr. LINCOLN begun with
attacking the cause of the rebellion, it is doubtful
whether the whites dare have left their slaves and
united in armies which it taxes all the resources of
the North to meet.

The public will learn with pleasure that the
Royal couple married yesterday are to be domiciled
in the native country of the bride. We all remem-
ber how the departure of the PRINCESS ROYAL, so
early in life, to a foreign land, and to a country not
very high in the esteem of England, touched every
heart with a feeling of sadness. "Poor thing, and
so young," was the exclamation we ourselves heard,
as her carriage passed along the street, from the
lips of rough-looking working men, whom no one
would have suspected to be guilty of the senti-
mental. We believe that a proportionate gratifica-
tion will be felt by all classes that our next young
princess is not torte taken from her home; and this,
indeed, will go far to reconcile us to the
choice of a foreigner for the hand of the
Princess ALICE. He will be now, to us, an English-
man, and our beloved SOVEREIGN will not be
deprived of the society of that one of her children
who is endeared to her by some peculiarly tender
though melancholy reminiscences. We may well
believe also, and hope, that the creation from the
bosom of her own family of another family circle
in this country, with whom our SOVEREIGN will be
on an equality of social confidence, will do its part
in mitigating the monotony of that sorrow she has
so long borne. His Royal Highness Prince Louis
will commence the first of that series of Royal fami-
lies, which, following the example of the family
whence they spring, are destined, we trust, to com-
fort the heart of our widowed QUEEN, and to
adorn by their character the highest places in the
land.

The wedding itself, if a happy occasion, could
hardly be one signalized by the usual marks of joy
and gladness. The absence of the one who would
have given away his daughter—the presence of the
one, wno in tne aeepest mourning, attended by her
four bereaved children, reminded all that she, who
of all spectators would have been most happy, was
the most sad—these visible facts could but give
their hue to the whole ceremony. Rarely, perhaps,
in the thoughts of all the circle admitted to the
marriage, and in the minds of all who read of it,
have the thoughts of sadness and of joy, of cheer-
fulness and solemnity—of long and painful separa-
tion, and of a hoped for long and happy union, been
more intermingled. Insensible, indeed, must be
the heart which would not be bettered by con-
templating this touching combination of mar-
riage and mourning, occurring as it does in that
circle in which we almost instinctively imagine
that all is sunshine, unclouded by the cares and
troubles of vulgar life. The young couple enter
on life with unusual monitions of what life is ; nor
can the effect of real court and national mourning
fail, for some time, to give its tone to all their
hiibits. Not only mere cold etiquette, but we have
little doubt that their own sentiments also, will
interdict to them those associations and amusements
there
1 which would otherwise, and at their age, be so
com-
parative natural. Possibly, however, with the quiet tem-
perament which is understood to characterise both,
may be nothing like self-denial in the com-
those which
privacy which propriety will for a time
require of them. It is not in every case that the
ual social uuetnuittsi.
it:ftittchhem Honeymoon
ent are
the young married couple would them-
selves prefer; and -
erhaps less so, in proportion to
tho depth of tehenirsei