The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1870.

MR. BIZALGIITTB is popularly regarded as the de

signer, under the " governance benign " of Sir JOHN
TUWAITES, of that noblest of all the great London
improvements, the Victoria Embankment. The
Standard puts in a claim for the transference of the
credit of the undertaking to Mr. JOHN FOWLER, C.E.,
somewhat marring the force of that claim, however,

by coupling with Mr. FOWLER, as having participated
with him in the projection of the undertaking
that energetic Party Firm of Parliamentary
agents, the Messrs. BAXTER, Rost, and
NORTON, for, inasmuch as in 1861 they lodged the
lan and promoted a bill for its authorisation. As a
matter of course, palmam qui meruit ferat, say we :
perfectly conscious all the while that, in regard to a
considerable enterprise like this, it may be pretty safely
predicated, as a rule, that to the skill and to the energies
of many, and not of one man alone, the realisation of
the project is directly traceable. Whenever the fact
stands otherwise, it is, we may be certain of it, a case
quite exceptional. As, for example, in the instance
of Sir CHRISTOPHER WREN, whose name alone is
associated with St. Paul's:Cathedral. Whereas with
the building up of other among the world's greatest
ecclesiastical edifices—as, for example, may be said

in regard to the greatest of them all, St.
Peter's at Rome—the result has been owing
probably to the munificence of many Pontiffs and
o the genius of many successive architects.
The Designer of nearly all imperiakstructures might,
in point of fact, in the generality of instances, be
literally described in the familiar words of the gram-
mar as "a noun of multitude signifying many." This
is not only so in regard to minsters that have been
the growth of centuries, it is so likewise in re-
spect to important national works like ' this
very one of the 1 hames (or as it is henceforth to be
called the Victoria) Embankment, a work requiring as
many as eight years for its accomplishment, and one
consequently advancing, from its first germ—a mere
scheme upon paper—to its substantial reality when
finished, under the regime of more than one political
administration.

Whosoever the merits of the original design, of
the earliest proposal, of the energetic promotion,
and of the laborious building up of this most superb of
all our metropolitan improvements of late years—
there, to the honour of Mr. BAZAGETTE, and it may
be also of Mr. FOWLER, and to the credit likewise of
Sir JOHN TIIWAITES and of others, stands not merely
for the present day, but for all after times, in solid
material magnificence, the grand granite structure of
the Thames or Victoria Embankment. It
is the actual realization at last of what
has been a day-dream for many genera-
tions of Londoners, in fact during upwards of
two hundred years. Upon the morrow of the dying
out of the great Fire of London, 204 years ago,
namely A.D. 1666, the notion of a Thames Embank-
ment presented itself to the imagination of those who
were at once bent upon availing themselves of the
opportunity of drawing out of the very devastation
of the capital, its eventual adornment and
improvement generally. Old streets were
widened; new streets were opened up;
churches and public buildings of all kinds were
rebuilt—in the. majority of cases, upon a considerably
larger scale than those out of the smouldering ruins
of which they sprang into existence. And in the
midst of all these wonderful changes for the better,
the idea presented itself el en then, two centuries
ago, of sweeping away all the filthy and
ramshackle wharves littering either bank of the
noble river flowing through the metropolis, but a
clean sweep of which only commenced, as we all
know, eight years from the present time, when the
first pile was driven, and the first spadeful of earth
lifted, in the labour of preparing the way for this now
completed masterpiece of the Victoria Embankment.
So that a couple of centuries have slipped away in
the mere thinking about it—eight years having
sufficed for its actual accomplishment. Now
that the work is really done to hand, and
has been formally inaugurated, it behoves the Lon-
doners to see that it is in no way marred by those
supposed decorations of public places in the English
capital, by whish, instead of being in any way adorned,

they are only very conspicuously and most discredit-
ably disfigured. Until we can have fountains like
those of Paris, and street statues like those of Ber-

lin, let us see well to it that there are
no fountains and no statues to spoil the
noble grandeur of the Embankment. We want no
more ginger-beer bottles burst on the top of dumb
waiters like those in Trafalgar-square---we want no
ostler robed in a horse-cloth, and armed with a rolling
pin, to take his steed to water in their overflowings.
Rather than this, let us have empty pedestals like
that one opposite the equestrian effigy of GEORGE
IV., a pedestal that to our eyes always appears to be
one of the finest satires in the metropolis, evidencing
that we can nowhere find any match at all (thank
Heaven !) to our Royal Fum the Fourth.

The advocates of the Permissive Bill were defeated
on Wednesday, but the cheers with which they
greeted the numbers were in no way misplaced.
Important reforms linger long, and are rejected
often ; but assuredly no great change is
regarded with more rapidly-increasing favour
than is the Permissive Bill. The~ figures
will shew what progress has been made. In
1864, when the first field fight on this question came
off, the Bill received altogether the support of only
forty members, including tellers and pairs. The other
side mustered not • fewer than 297. In 1869 the
respective numbers for and against, again in-
cluding, tellers and pairs, were 94 and 200.
On Wednesday the voting with tellers (not
counting pairs) shewed 92 for the bill and 123
against it. The full list of pairs this year has not
yet been gathered, but the names of at least twenty
are known, and it is certain that more gave this
amount of support to the bill. Thus the measure this
year has polled a total of something like 120 votes
in its favour. The actual voting (exclusive of pairs)
in 1869 was 195 to 89, shewing that a difference
of 75 has been effected in one year by the increased
support and diminished opposition to the bill. The
majorities against the reform have sunk from 257 in

1864 to 106 in 1869 and 31 in 1870, Surely
this is reassuring pr tigress. There is some-
thing more to be said. The supporters
of the bill experience much difficulty in finding pairs.
Many members who are not willing to vote for the
measure are not prepared to be seen in opposition
to it ; they prefer absolute neutrality ; and hence the
published numbers represent the whole of the active
opposition. The adversaries of the bill polled
their full strength on Wednesday. Another
fact is not less interesting. The Scotch vote this
year was fourteen for and twelve against ; the Irish
vote, twenty-one for and thirteen against ; the Welsh
vote, ten for and three against. Three provinces of
the kingdom have pronounced for this reform.
England alone supplies the substantial opposition.
How long will she remain in* the rear of the less
wealthy peoples ?

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