The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-28 00:00:00

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

Another opportunity now appears to be coming
within our reach, by promptly availing ourselves
of which we nasy 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 abargain 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 strergth 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 solid 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-
ne'a'al, at any rate in the estimation of the Duke of
331-Tee tern, 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. 3t only requires to be appropriately fur-
nished with vpholdstery of suitable splendour, to be
at once habitable. But—while all this is indubi-
tably correct— alas! the charm of the whole place
ha? vanished. An eficctual close hcs been put to
his Grace's delightful 6aydreana of making the river
front of his renovated town house_again, and more
than
ever—a secluded green "pleasaunce."
delectably
Instead of which—horror upon horror—the broad
thoroughfare along the Thames Embankment is to
pass immediately bencatlt the win does of Montagu
House as now built—between the shrubberies and
the river Thames ! Omnibuses, cabs, drays, carts,
NW • ggons, lumbering and light-wbeeled 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 fort-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 EECCLEUCH repents of his bargain,
under these altered circumstances. No wonder
that we now learn his Grace is disposed to be quit
of rt altogether if only the Government will let
him!

The renewal of the lease, it will not easily be for-
gotten, was again and yet-, again peremptorily re-
fueed. And this not by cue Chancellor of the
P'ellecitter, but by thrf c successive Chancellors of
111°11lacquer. Among these so refusing it being
to otter than the eery rif,;•:t. honourable gentleman
w'hi°)". !'ulcio.t.ph is subsetibed to the fatal (Icon-
treljt eprieding the boor, ~:ought with such eager
pertinacity
and relu'6G with such remarkable
unanimity, by Administrator' alter Administrator.
Mr. DTSEAELI': Eigtia4cre having been really and
we Lem! FiZtiSfitli, Obtained trona him surrep-
truiy,
titiousle. o;Lervilz it is impossible to imagine
length made a eon-
that the fact of his having at I
cession that he had prerviouslY and emphatically
in any way have escaped
declined to make could