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 pleadingthe 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-
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-
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
still flourish, through winter and through summer,
the evergreens (not, observe, as " Boz" describes
them accurately enough with regard to most London
gardens, the "ever-browns"), of those same charm-
ing little twin gardens (may we not say arcades
ambo ?)—the Gardens of the Inner and Middle
Temple. Nobody wants those verdant retreats to
capital
there
am :
be marred, much less destroyed. They take
n t
con-
spicuous rank in the very midst of this vast and
busy
London'sebu
greenrose- plsheaess—h
au ncaev e w
. eWhen
we
notstroll
wafted back to u s through the perennial " leaves "
of SIIAKSPERE, that beautiful incident in
RICHARD 11., where in the •
midst of a court quarrel
the red and white roses were culled and adopted
respectively as the symbols thenceforth of the
terrible rivalry dividing from each other the royal
houses of York and Lancaster? Coming
down to more
recent associations ef a hardly less attract' - •
echaractc-r
embalmed in the amber of our national literature,
have we not glimpses here and there of familiar
forms wandering down those gravel paths, now, it
may be—in converse, now in reverie—the Portly
form, let us say, of Doctor JOHNSON in his cauli-
flower wig and snuff.coloured suit, or perhaps the
awkward shape of Doctor GOLDSMITH airing his
suit of bloom-coloured velvet, getting an appetite be-
fore going off to dine with GARRICK at Sir
JOSHUA'S ? Even fiction haunts that charming

seclusion clown 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 PINCII
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 was 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 solemn conclave, or, as it is called, magni-
ficently enough, down at the Temple, deliberating
in . " Parliament,"—" It was their opinion that
the construction 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

- -
!Gs any such roadway being formed there." Cer-

tainly a sweeping proposition. " Still," it h
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 such a scheme could be carried out,
as far as the interest of the society welte
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-

;ended 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 modest,
that last suggestion, 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 suc•
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.

CONCER7' OF THE VOCAL ASSOCIA
TION.

The last Subscription Concert of the Vocal Asso-
ciation, which takes place to-morrow evening at
St. James's Hal], promises, from the contents of
the programme, to excel in attraction the preced-
ing ones. Madlle. A nna 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—

"fly 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
Csiris," 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 ❑p" of these concerts, reflect infinite
credit on him, and place him in the first rank of
those enthusiastic artistes who claim the thanks of
a gratified public.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPIII.—His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, Prince Hesse, the Duke of
Newcastle, Major Bruce, and suite, honoured the perform-
ance of The Colleen Dawn last evening.
PARTY FEELING IN AMERICA.—The advices from
New York, it is to be regretted, describe party feeling
against this country ns yet very vehement. In the mo-
mentary excitement, England is accused of desiring to see
the United States permanently divided into two rival Go-
vernments, in order to be the supreme nasal and commer-
cial Power of the world, and also for the sake of cotton,
which, it is alleged, rules the hour. The approaching
Congress is looked for with the most intense anxiety. There
is a lingering hope yet among the peace-makers, but their
numbers are few. It is said Mr. Lincoln will ask for a
large increase in the army and navy, and appropriations of
money to meet the crisis. The session is expected to 1 e a
short one. The condition of the various country banks
causes much uneasiness. Those in the West are reported
to be in a precarious position. In Chicago gold is now the I
only recognised currency. The exchange on London re-
mains at 1051, 106, notwithstanding the large successive
arrivals of gold from this side. The majority of dealers
receive no money from the country dealers to whom they
have sold goods, and are not meeting their liabilities to the
importers in consequence. The latter, therefore, are not
abbeltAeweeteoettlrD9entaiNnitdT;oLotr:hcoeiclcEskoi,iropean manufacturer, and conse-
quently there is no demand for bills ; and there is every
probability that specie remittances from England will be
made profitably for some months yet.-11/ornin9 Post.
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AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 16.
The Royal mail steamer Persia, which touched
at Queenstown yesterday, has arrived.
It was anticipated that the Government would
make a further levy of 75,000 men.
From the Federal army at Alexandria we have
no intelligence of any particular interest. Alarms
were rather frequent. Entrenchments continued
to be thrown up. The railroad was rapidly being
put in repair by the mechanics belonging to the
troops, and would form a continuation of the mili-
tary line into Virginia. The sth New York Regi-
men has been sent back to the capital ; they appear
to have been in a disorganised state. On the 31st a
company of New York Zouaves was sent to take
possession of the old mill two or three miles from
Alexandria, and a party of Virginian troops lying
in ambush fired upon them, killing one of the
Zouaves, ant wounding another. The Zouaves
returned the fire, but without effect, as they could
not see the enemy. On the night of the 2d, during
a drenching rain, two columns belonging to Gene-
ral M'Clellan's command, one under command of
Colonel Kelly, of the Ist Virginia Volunteers, and
composed of the Indiana Volunteers, proceeded from
Grafton to Philippa, about 20 miles, and surprised
a camp of Confederates there, 200 strong. The
rebels were completely routed, aftar a brief struggle,
with the loss of 15 killed, and a large amount of
arms, horses, ammunition, provisions, camp equi-
page, &c. The surprise is reported to have been
most complete, and at last accounts the Federal
forces were in hot pursuit, with the prospect of
capturing a large number of prisoners. Colonel
Kelly, the commander of the Virginia Volunteers,
was, it was feared, mortally wounded. This, how-
ever, was the only life lost among the Federal troops.
On the 31st ult. a body of Federal cavalry made a
foray into Fairfax Courthouse, and retired with the
loss of six killed and missing. It being reported
that two of the prisoners were to be hanged by the
Confederates, the Federal cavalry subsequently made
another charge upon the town and released them.
Respecting the bombardment of the Confederate
battery at Acquia Creek, the Commander of the
Federal squadron had reported as follows :
" The firing on shore was scarcely as spirited at
any time as yesterday. The heights we abandoned,
the guns apparently having been transferred to the
earthworks at the railroad termination, to replace
the battery silenced there by us on Friday. During
the last hour of the engagment only two or three
shots were thrown from the shore, the men being
seen stealthily now and then to emerge from con-
cealment, and hastily load and fire a single gun."
From other accounts it appears that the engage-
ment lasted five hours, and that a rifled gun on a
hill was unsilenced when the squadron drew off.
Senator Douglas expired at Chicago on the 3d.
In various cities flag were hoisted half-mast high
when the intelligence was received.
The 7th Regiment of New York Militia had re-
turned from Washington.
Further bodies of troops had been sent to Fort
Monroe. More than 100 negroes had taken refuge
there.

zinc, indigo, raw hides and skins, and precious
stones not set. In the free list are all books,
pamphlets, and tracts published by religious asso-
ciations, all philosophical apparatus and instruments,
all bullion and coins, coffee, cotton, garden seeds,
guano, bacon, pork, hams, lard, beef, wheat, Indian
corn, barley, rye, oats, flour, meal, gunpowder, lead,
rags, arms, and munitions of war, ships, steamers,
barges, and all agricultural productions in their
natural state not otherwise provided for. The law
is to take effect Aug. 31, and is made applicable to
goods then in warehouse. The remaining provisions
in regard to fraud and penalties for undervaluation
are similar to those in force in the United States-
The Confederates at Pensacola had sunk the
costly dry dock between the Navy-yard and Fort
Pickens. The object in sinking it was to preserve
it from the fire of the enemy.
THE AMERICAN GENERALS.

(From the _Boston Correspondent of the Morning Post.)
GENERAL FREMONT.
There is one crop that will be abundant with us
in this year 1861, and we may have a second one,
and perhaps a third, as war is a terrible man-eater,
I mean the crop of Generals. Two new ones have
just been made, completing nearly a dozen since the
war began. They are John C. Fremont and N. P.
Banks. General Fremont has had a regular mili-
tary education, and has seen much service of
nature to make him a good commander in this war.
He is in his 49th year. It is expected that he will
be appointed to the command of that great force
which Government is rapidly organising in the.
North-West, and to which will be entrusted the
task of sweeping the South-Western Secessionists
into the Gulf of Mexico. This force, which is to
operate both on land and on the great rivers of the
West, will act in unison with a combined naval and
military force in the Mexican Gulf, and the two
will do up the work appointed for them after the
Naseby fashion—not negligently. General Fre-
mont hates the leaders of the rebels, as well per-
sonally as politically, and this will make him all
the more efficient as one of the principal actors in
the grand process of crushing them out of life.
He'll hammer them as Charles Martel hammered
the Saracens at Tours. Old Blucher's bitter hatred!
of Napoleon I. was of more service to the allies
than the Austrian alliance, and the same sort of
feeling will tell in our conflict.
GENERAL BANKS.
General Banks is in his 46th year. He has h
no experience in the field, but while Governor of
Massachusetts he paid much attention to military
matters ; and to his labours in behalf of our volun-
teer militia the effectiveness of that force is princi-
pally due. He is a superior man as an organiser
and administrator, and has few equals in the coun-
try as an executive officer. Government knows this,
and wished to make him quartermaster-general, but
he preferred a more active post, and so he goes into
the field at the head of a division as major-general.
There has been a report that Major-General Butler
was to be recalled from Eastern Virginia, and to be
appointed to the command at Baltimore, while
General Banks shall take General Butler's place at
the head of the troops in Eastern Virginia; but it
is not confirmed.
GENERAL M'CLELLAND.
General M'Clelland is in his 35th year. He is a
regular soldier, a Philadelphian by birth, a graduate
of West Point, and was distinguished for his good
services in the Mexican war, in several of the prin-
cipal battles of which he was engaged. He was a. member of the commission which our Government
sent to the Crimea and Northern Europe at the
time of the Russian war ; and he wrote a report on
the "Organisation of European Armies and the
Operations of the War." In 1857 he left the army,
and became connected with leading railroad com-
panies. On the breaking out of this war he was
tendered a major-general's commission by the
Governor of Ohio, and accepted it, declining to
accept a similar office tendered by the Governor of
Pennsylvania. Soon after this Ire was made a
major-general in the Federal army, and has com-
mand of the Department of Ohio, comprising the
States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, with por-
tions of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Ho ranks
next to Lieutenant-General Scott.,
GENERAL BUTLER,,
General Butler is 43 years old, He is a 'Yankee,
being a native of New Hampshire, though a resi-
dent of Massachusetts. A lawyer by profession,
he knows nothing of military matters save what it
was possible for him to learn on the tented fields of
the Massachusetts militia ; but the boldness and
" dash" that he has exhibited since he entered the
service have convinced the public that he has mili-
tary qualities, and his promotion from a Massachu-
setts brigadier-general to a major-generalship in
the United States army is universally approved.
He is one of the most successful lawyers of the
North, and in politics a Democrat ; and so little of
an anti-slavery man, that he was the Breckinridge
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts last year.
He is an absolute original—in appearance, in man-
ners, in his profession, and in his opinions ; and
unless he should greatly change, or should be early
killed or disabled, he will prove himself an original
in the field. I have known him for years, and I
cannot say that I ever saw or read of a person with
whom I could safely compare him.
There are the new majors-general, and there are
several new brigadiers-general—M‘Dowell, Lyon,
and others—of whom more at another time. As
the enemy's policy is to " mark down" our com-
manders, we may have a new batch of generals
every quarter.
MRS. ANDERSON'S CONCERT.