The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1861.

say, for once—failed in its attempt to dictate the
course to be pursued by the Government! It is
true that on Monday, the 10th, the 3d Clause had
been rendered a mere skeleton clause by the
erasure of the names introduced into it by the
Home Secretary, those twin names of Chelsea and
Kensington. Ministers having been baulked in
that laudable endeavour to enfranchise the
inhabitants of the West-end of London,
must, perforce, it was argued, drop the
Bill altogether. Ministers, however, it has now
turned oat, did not by any means think thus them-
selves. There were many suggestions proffered of
new names wherewith to fill up the hiatus left in
clause 3, and the Cabinet complacently determined
to give the members of the House generally the
opportunity of substituting some other name or
names for the obliterated names of Chelsea and
Kensington. Sir JAMES GRAHAM had suggested
on Monday last what Sir F. GOLDSMID suggested
for him yesterday—that is to say, the London
University. Mr. SCULLY—evidently agreeing with
Colonel DUNNE that " there were no interest so
badly represented in the House of Commons as
those of Ireland" (a truly Irish lapsus lingua that
instantly, upon its utterance, called forth shouts
of laughter)—Mr. SCULLY evidently concurring
with Colonel DUNNE in this sagacious opinion—
proposed to accord the vacant seat about to be
apportioned by clause 3 to the " County of Cork."
Mr. DUNCOMBE talked of " Burnley " in Lanca-
shire. Mr. KNIGHTLEY moving in fine an amend-
ment, that an additional member should be accorded
to the Metropolitan County of Middlesex.
This last proposition it was that Ministers them-
selves at length decided, after some hesitation,
upon regarding the most favourably. Mid-
dlesex they could not but recognise had
many conspicuous claims—containing within
it 2,208,000 inhabitants (not according to Sir
GEORGE LEWIS'S statistics, which are rapidly
acquiring to themselves a certain pre-eminence
as about the faultiest anywhere to be met with)—
and far beyond this of course, in fact beyond every
other imaginable consideration, Middlesex having
had the distinguished honour, naively announced by
the hon. gentleman the member for North Warwick-
shire himself, by a lapsus lingua funnier even than
that of Colonel DUNNE'S already particularized—
Middlesex we say, having had the distinguished
honour of having given birth to Mr. NEWDEGATE
Everything in fact encourages the Cabinet in this final
determination to stand by Mr. KNIGHTLEY'S amend-
ment and award the vacant seat of clause 3 to
Middlesex ! The committee goes to a division--
Ministers troop after Mr. KNIGHTLEY into one
lobby—into the other passes forth in solemn order
the formidable throng of the Opposition. Numbers
are announced—for the motion 186, against it 236
—clear majority against the awarding of an addi-
tional member to Middlesex—Fifty ! And then,
quite as a matter of course, we read in the Parlia-
mentary reports a sentence fast assuming to itself
the privilege of being stereotyped—" the announce-
of the numbers was received with loud cheers
from the side of the Opposition." Previously to
the division in question, Colonel FRENCH
has agreeably suggested to Ministers the ad-
visability in the event of their being again defeated
(as they have been) upon "clause three," they should
summarily abandon the bill altogether. Not so,
however, thought the Home Secretary, who instead
of throwing the Bill aside, simply suggested when
the cheers of the Opposition have died out, that the
clause itself, merely that little vexatious, annoying
" clause three" should be negatived. Whereupon we
read, with a sort of gusto, it was negatived accord-
ingly. Afterwards comes " clause four," according
a new member to Birkenhead—that clause with the
very reasonable proposition involved in it having
been carried, upon a division, triumphantly.

When the report of the Bill shall have been
brought up, we shall learn what is likely
to be the ultimate decision arrived at first of all
by the Government, and afterwards by the House,
in its regard. As yet its fate is—to this ♦ery
moment—sufficiently problematical. Sir JAMES
GRAHAM is yet to be heard, if he should only be
restored to health, as we earnestly trust he may,
early enough for the personal advocacy of his own
favourite amendment—Sir J. GRAHAM, we say, is
yet.to be heard pleading the cause and enforcing the
claims of the London University. That safe seat
is to be got ready for Mr. GLADSTONE in South Lan-
cashire. The Scotch members are still hankering
after a colleague who shall sit as representative of the
University of Modern Athens. The Irish members
are still hungering and thirsting with an insatiable
appetite for a new county member, who shall
enable Cork to go on more swimmingly. Finally,
with an eye to the gratification alike of the North
and the South of England, Mr. DISRAELI (who last
night went dead against the appointing of one
new member to Middlesex) looks favourably
upon the notion of so dealing with the Four
Vacant Seats that the West Riding of Yorkshire
after being split in twain shall have TWO more,
while the other TWO shall be, according to a simi-

that last sngyes:ion, certainly under the circum-
stances ! However, we may implicitly trust
the clashing interests of the Societies and of the
Public generally, to the wise 'discrimination of

her MAJESTY'S Commissioners. Doing this, how•
ever—we must yet remark distinctly and sue

cinctly in conclusion, that while we love not less
the Temple Gardens, we love assuredly still more
the long-hoped for project of the Thames Em-

bankment.

CONCERT OF THE VOCAL ASSOCIA
TION.

The last Subscription Concert of the Vocal Asso-
ciation, which takes place to-morrow evening at
St. James's Hall, promises, from the contents of
the programme, to excel in attraction the preced-
ing ones. Madlle. Anna Whitty will make her
first appearance at the hall this season, having a
choice variety of music assigned her, which cannot
fail to charm her audience. Madlle. Koch, who
has formed a great feature at the Gewandhause
concerts at Leipsic, Miss Stabbach, and Miss
Messent will lend their valuable aid in illustrating
the beauties of Mozart, Haydn, and Rossini. The
delicious old canzonet—

lar arrangement, given to the metropolitan county
of Middlesex. So that Sir G. C. LEWIS'S Bill is

still as dubiously " dangling" before a great variety

of tantalised constituencies, as the Larger Measure

of Reform has ever done before now, at the in-

" Iffy mother bids me bind my hair,"
being among the selected moreeaux of melody.
Herr Dalle Aste, who has gained an enviable
fame at the Theatres Royal of Dresden and Am-
sterdam, will sing the exquisite air, " 0 Isis tend
Osiris," from Mozart's "Flauto Magico," and two
favourite German songs. Signor Belart and Signor
Belletti will render numerous solos and duets from
our most popular operas ; and the Choir, of two
hundred voices, will have a full share of work,
giving for the first time Bach's beautiful chorale,
" God is our refuge in distress." The zealous
attention and talent exhibited by M. Benedict in
the " getting up" of these concerts, reflect infinite
credit on him, and place him in the first rank of
those enthusiastic artiste: who claim the thanks of
a gratified public.

stance of successive Administrations, to the anguish

and distraction more or less of the entire com-

munity.

If there is any particular spot that can be
pointed out as the green oasis in the Desert of
London, it is certainly that refreshing little sou'-
west corner of the City upon which still bloom the
Temple Gardens. If there is any particular portion
of the river bank upon the northern margin of
the Thames along which we would entreat the pro-
jectors of the Thames Embankment to " tread lightly',
as upon, if not holy ground, at any rate classic

ground—it is certainly that very portion where

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Tem against this country as yet very vehement. In the mo-
ple. Nobody wants those verdant retreats to mentary excitement, England is accused of desiring to see
be marred, much less destroyed. They take con- the United States permanently divided into two rival Go-
spienous rank in the very midst of this vast and vernments, in order to be the supreme na% al and commer-
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seclusion down by the river Thames behind the
dingy southern courts where the Strand and Fleet-
street meet at Temple-bar ! Don't we all remem-
ber that pretty love scene between RUTH PINCH
and JOHN WESTLOCK hard by the Middle Temple
Fountain—still happily plashing there to this day
at the top of the Garden Steps. In a word—we
yield to no one in having a fondness for the Temple
Gardens.

BUT - ! The Templars, it would actually
now appear, claim to themselves a right of ob-
truding those Gardens between three millions of
Londoners and their long cherished hope of a
Thames Embankment. The societies of the Middle
and Inner Temple, consisting as those societies do
of most able lawyers, are quite capable of taking
care of themselves. There cannot consequently be
an instant's fear, therefore, of anything like an un-
just encroachment being adventured upon in their
regard by the projectors and promoters of the great
national scheme of the Thames Embankment. Sa-
tisfied, perfectly satisfied as we are, upon that
point—we hesitate not to protest at the same time
that we cannot 'but deem the demands put forth
by those two honourable and learned societies,
with:a view to the maintenance of the pri-
vacy hitherto appertaining to their respec-
tive Gardens, and consequently while so doing
to the obstruction of the scheme of the north em-
bankment of the river Thames—as demands in
many respects really and truly very extravagant.
It appears, according to the report of yesterday's
proceedings before the Royal Commission upon
the Thames Embankment, that resolutions
have recently been passed by the Societies of the
Middle and Inner Temple—resolutions which, if
acceded to by the Commissioners and afterwards by
the Government, would render futile the dream of
London ever Possessing upon the north bank of the
river Thames one uninterrupted line of embank-
ment. "It vas their opinion," we read—i.e., the
opinion of those two hon. and learned Societies of
the Temple, meaning, of course, their Benchers
sitting in sole= conclave, or, as it is called, magni-
ficently enougo, down at the Temple, deliberating
in " Parliament,"—" It was their opinion that
the constructon and maintenance of a public
thoroughfares along the north shore of the
Thames, and extending from east to west in
front of the property of the Inner and Middle
Temple, in whatever way such a work should be
carried out, would most injuriously affect the value
of their property, and therefore they were opposed
to any such roadway being formed there." Cer-
tainly a sweeping proposition. " Still," it is
added, " if in the wisdom of Parliament it should
be determined that an embankment should be
formed, the bodies which they respectively repre-
sented considered that the least objectionable mode
in which suca a scheme could be carried out,
as far as fhe interest of the society were
concerned, would be by constructing such
a road at the lowest possible level, and at
the greatest possible distance from the present river
frontage of the Temple-gardens." The report
thereupon adds—" With respect to the combination
of a railway with the roadway, they felt strongly
upon:this part of the projects submitted to the com-
missioners, and considered that such a scheme was
not necessary and not required by the public, and
if adopted would have a tendency to in-
crease the injury 'and depreciation of their
property." The Societies, moreover, not only earn-
estly entreat her MAJESTY'S Commissioners not
to sanction the proposition for the in-
tended embankment, but absolutely we read,
" They (the Societies) also expressed a hope that
if a scheme should be ultimately adopted which
should leave any space between the present river
wall and the Inner or Middle Temple Gardens and
the proposed roadway, that such space should on
no account be applied to the formation of docks,
but should be considered as the property of the
societies, to be dealt with by them in the manner
which they might consider to be the most ad
vantageous to their interests !" Pretty modes