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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1862,

Between " A West Londoner " and " A Member
of the Thames Embankment Committee," the truth
has Come out and we doubt not, but that before
very much longer it will have prevailed. His
Grace the Duke of BVCCLEUCH, it now appears—
and it appears with a clearness that removes the
simple statement of the fact beyond the reach of all
further contradiction—obtained the renewal of his
lease of Montagu House, in Whitehall Gardens,
about ten years ago, by what billiard players would
call a fluke. There was some uncertainty at first
as to who it really was that had signed the original
Treasury Minute granting this extraordinary bene-
faction—at the expense of the public—to the high and
mighty Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY.
What added rather ludicrously to this uncertainty,
making the confusion worse confounded, was the
rather remarkable circumstance that the very states-
man who, it turned out afterwards, had himself
actually signed this unfortunate Treasury Minute,
was the one who formally brought the accusa-
tion of having signed it against his wholly inno-
cent successor in the responsible office of Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. In unmeasured terms
of virtuous indignation, Mr. DISRAELI charged Mr.
GLADSTONE with having been guilty of this extra-
dinary dereliction of duty. As Chancellor of the
Exchequer Mr. DISRAELI, to his credit, be
it said, had declined to he ve anything what-
ever to do with the renewal of the lease of
Montagu House recognising, as he could
hardly fail to do, how seriously a renewal of
that lease would be calculated to militate against
the interests of the public at large in regard to the
great projected work of The Thames Embankment.
Startled by the haughty reprimand administered to
him by his predecessor, Mr. GLADSTONE at once
said that he would immediately look into the
matter;
avowing at the same time that he had no
recollection at all of having had anything, either
directly or indirectly, to do with the transaction.
Well, preposterous to relate, immediately Mr.
GLADSTONE had looked into
the matter—what should
the I, fact" of the matter turn out to be, but that the
Treasury Minute renewing the lease of Montagu
House for the personal advantage of the Duke of
BUCCLEUGH, the lease inveighed against se deser-
vedly, and in such unmeasured terms of indignation,
by Air. DISRAELI, had been signed by mi..
DISRAELI and not by Mr. GLADSTONE! Rare
was a veritable instance of the literal exemplification
of Lord CASTLEREAGH'S ludicrous figure of speech
about a man turning his back upon himself ! Mr.
DISRAELI, in this case of Montagu
Duke of BUCCLEUCH, bad House and the
actually done it. He
had signed the Treasury minute in the August of
28n—without having at the time the faintest
notion in the world of what he was doing. As
already remarked, he had positively refused before
then to renew the lease for the personal advantage
of even so eminent a subject of the Crown as the
Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY! And then
afterwards he had been deluded into affixing his
Signature to it. Whoever had contrived to obtain
the Minister's signature thus surreptitiously....
Coping the Treasury minute in amongst the pile of
miscellaneous documents then from ;ay to day
requiring
the authenticating 'arawl of "B. Dis-
RAeero.....haaLi • U i.b • t •
P el a
filched the concession from the right v
own prF;jousl
een• gentleman, in opposition to his
Re Chaticellor nand
•
emphatically express;:n decision
f the 'Exchequer_
Ifpn
.whomsoever r
the t responsibility of
h very adroit transaction
ie may rest; it
cPytainly inconceivable
that
great pa-
trician like his grace, the 1).4,
01a IiucCLEITCH,
can regard otherwise than with feelings of surprise
and indignation, the furtherance of his own interesta
by any such Fingularly left-handed proceedings.
No `re especially, one would think, must the Duke

Mr. ESTCOURT is out of court. He consents to
be nensuited, for the simple reason that he does
not suit—anyone. He does not appear, indeed, to
have found an avowed supporter. Good man—a
better one need not be—he thought in his simplicity
he could please all parties, he found that an inde-
pendent Conservative has as little chance as an in-
dependent Liberal. With a somewhat magnani-
mous demeanour, indeed, Mr. ESTCOURT withdrew
his resolutions, declaring that he did not care to
carry them by a small majority, all appearances in-
dicating that a division must have left him in a very
small minority. His own party would have fur-
nished almost as many opponents to rating owners
as Sir JOHN TRELAWNY'S; and if they might not
have liked to do anything so uncourteous as to vote
against one of their most respected men, they would
doubtless have walked out of the house rather than
have walked into the lobby with him.
The anti-rate party may be said to have:achieved
another triumph. Another proof has been afforded
of the impossibility of any other plan being
adopted than that of Sir JOHN TRELAWNY,
or of Mr. BRIGHT and Lord EBURY, which is, in-
deed, but virtual abolition. It is once more shown
that no ingenuity can devise a compromise which
shall be tolerated by all parties. Whoever is com-
pelled to pay exclaims against the compulsion.
The rich owners of property grumble as much as
a little dissenting tradesman. In theory, the owners
contend that they pay the rates now—and Mr.
BERESFORD HOPE, if we remember rightly, said
that he should raise all his rents by the amount
hcnu which abolition would relieve the occupiers.
Yet these occupiers kick exceedingly against being
saddled with
the rate directly, which they now
assert that they pay indirectly. We should resist
it 0D other groan
an more thands. We do not think owners,
y
occupiers, should be compelled to
support either the fabrie or the service of our
churches. They may be Nonconformist owners, for
there are plenty such. The owner of property
surely has much right to 114, exemption from
contribuatison to what he disapproves
as the occu-
pier. However, owners seem to be averse
to being rated to keep in repair the parish
churches which their tenants attend, althoup),
professing to be themselves good church,-
ought to teach all parties try This
, essential distasteful-
ness of compulsr—
payments. If any
f religious

person*

are pecuniarily benefited by Church-rate;,
it is those whose property the Church renders more
desirable as a residence, yet even these persons dis-
like to be taxed to keg) the Church in repair.
Mr. ESTCOURT shares, with many others, one
strange delusion. Ho thinks the fabric of the
Church has a better claim on compulsory support
from all parishioners than the requisites for war
ship He proposes that the rate should be volun-
tary for washing and mending the surplice, com-
pulsory for white-washing and repairing the build-
ing• Now, we admit that the churches are parish

----- - A NE. of BUCCLEUCEC be reluctant to avail himself of a
THEAT RE-.R 0 YAL, DRURY-L
Dion Boucicault, Lessee. renewal of a lease so obtained, when the whole
TO-NIGHT, Wednesday, .June 25, 186', the,performancesWEAVEß
will commence at 7, with the SPITALFIELD3 transaction is virtually repudiated by both sides in
MAe sfstr sr. Atkins
which,
TF .ffßpo b icnos 11, Sara 4 S tße vAi nws .N ,
Messrs. Dion the House of Commons, when it is reprobated in
the very strongest language by Mr. DISRAELI and
Boucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame Celeste,
Jessie M'Lean, Stevins.
To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK' : Messrs. by Mr. GLADSTONE, by the Chancellor of the
Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan. . ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. However this
Box-office open from 10 to 5.
, may or may not be—the renewal of the lease,
no matter how obtained, has been completed.
The Treasury Minute, signed in the dark by Mr.
DISRAELI, in the summer of 1852, is now, in the
summer of 1862, still in existence—with the then
Minister's signature affixed to it The successor
of Mr. DISRAELI as Chancellor of the Exchequer
had, of course, no alternative whatever but to
accept the consequence of the melancholy and
mystical Minute, signed in an evil hour by his
predecessor. What Mr. DISRAELI had committed
the office to do—the holder of the office after him
did ! C'est tout—and certainly that "little all" is
quite enough under the circumstances. For, what
now is the situation ? Why, the situation is simply
this—that to-morrow the Thames Embankment Bill
will be printed in a manner so different from what it
had originally, that it will then be found by the
public to provide for carrying the northern em-
bankment of the river Thames no further than
Scotland-yard ! There—at that sacred point upon
the borders of the tabooed slip of land known as
Whitehall Gardens, the works are to stop ! And
this simply in deference to the wishes, the whims—
the fastidious predilection for retirement from the
ways of the vulgar multitude—of certain influential
residents there in Whitehall. More particularly in
compliance with the requirements of his grace the
noble occupant of Montagu House, the Duke of
BUCCLET.ICH and QUEENSBERRY. " Can such things
be, and overcome us like a summer cloud"—in this
month of June, 1862—" without our special wonder,"
without raising a storm of indignant opposition
against these obstructors, against the arch-obstruc-
tor of this grandest among all ourgreat metropolitan
improvements ? We cannot for one instant believe
this. We cannot seriously imagine for one moment
that, in these days, any such flagrant sacrifice of the
general good to the whims of any one man, no
matter how high born he may be, no matter how
wealthy, or how influential, or how socially
puissant, can now, in 1862, be quietly, and meekly,
and meanly tolerated. It is incumbent upon us
one and all to protest against it—and to do so
promptly, loudly, and unmistakeably.
London has now, by a happy fortune, installed in
the civic chair one of the most popular, and deservedly
popular, Lord Mayors who has for a long while past
occupied that responsible post of the chief magis-
tracy. Let this popular Lord Mayor convene dpu blic
meeting, an aggregate meeting, a monster meeting
to protest against this wretched attempt at subser-
viency to one of our great nobles, in contempt for
all those interests and advantages of the community
at large which must, by that one act of subser-
viency, be sacrificed. Is it to be conceded to the
Duke of BUCCLEUCH—or any other man—that this
magnificent project of a grand embankment along
the northern border of the Thames can be cut short
abruptly at Scotland-yard, and thereby conspicu-
ously marred—at his one haughty mandate ? A
Parliamentary Committee conforming to his wishes
thus miserably in the sight of all England ! It is
inconceivable that any proceeding of the kind can
be allowed to pass sub silentio. For ourselves, we
cannot believe for an instant that the free-born citi-
zens of London and Westminster will allow it to
pass at all. The Bill may be printed in duo form
to-morrow, altered in the outrageous manner
we have signified, by the timorous hand
of the Committee, at the behest of a
bsteat Fluke. liut-the bill so altered must just
simply be altered back again. The obstructive at-
titude assumed some few years back by the Duke
of ATIIOL up in the far north of this Island of
Great Britain, was hut a mere nothing to that now
assumed by the Duke of BUCCLEUCH under the
very shadow of the Palace of the Legislature down
at Westminster. It cannot, we repeat, be in any
way whatever connived at. The House of Com-
mons will, we are absolutely certain of this, see
that it is not tolerated. And meanwhile, we are
equally well persuaded, on the other hand, that the
population of London will not look on at the con-
tention about the matter here in dispute, in silence
or with indifference.