The Sun. — 1862-07-02 (London, England)

NOTICE.  All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof.  The Question as it now stands between the public and the Duke of BIICCLEIICH may be very simply stated. An Embankment along the northern borders of the Thames from Westminster Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge was resolved upon at the recommendation of a Government Commission. In obedience to the recommendations of that commission, a Bill for the carrying out of this grand scheme of an Embankment along the northern side of the Thames was formally promoted. The im provements contemplated by this Bill was incontestably the grandest of all the improvements designed for the beautification of the metropolis. Upon this noble project in all its details a Committee of the House of Commons has for some time been sitting. The proceedings of that Committee have been conducted of course openly so far as Committees go. They have been conducted at any rate not with closed doors. Witnesses have been examined. Some of these witnesses have been severely cross-examined by counsel. Thousands of questions have been asked, and more or less directly or evasively answered. Shorthand writers have day after day been in attendance, and as a result of their "pencillings, by the way" the public out of doors have been enabled to obtain a glimmering of these proceedings in committee. First of all, piecemeal, throvgh the columns of ourselves, and of our other contemporaries. Lastly, and very recently, in a complete form in the shape of a substantial Blue Book. Before ever this blue book, however, passed through the printer's hand to become purchaseable by anyone who listed, at so much avoirdupois rumours were afloat at the clubs and in the Parliamentary purlieus down at Westmin. ster—hints, pretty broad hints some of them, were thrown out in the newspapers—" A West Lon• donee among others had taken his pen in hand— it was S. 0. again (as Mr. DICKENS facetiously has it) showing up another S. 0. B. A noble lord, a mem ber of the Committee—no other than Lord ROBERT 1 MONTAGM, it will be remembered—eventually the whole affair deliberatly before the House of Commons charging the chairman of the committee (himself a Minister of the Crown), to wit, Mr. W. COWPER, 'very unfairly by his brother with having acted committee-men, for inasmuch as he, Mr. COWPER, quoth the noble lord, had been prompting a tall gentleman of the name of &Quills to charge the committee with meanness and subserviency. The cat had slipped out of the bag, 11 - this matter, it appeared, through the simple accident of a misdirected envelope. A certain communication had fallen into the hands of a Mr. HIGGINS for whom it had never been intended. Instead of going as it ought to have done by rights into the hands of Mr. J. O.—or rather, we should say, into the hands of Mr. SI. HIGGINS, the tall gentleman. The upshot of all this, being_. as must be within the very recent recollection of our readers--that  Lord R. MONTAGU'S accusation against Mr. COWPER whirled back awkwardly enough upon his lordship's own knuckles without touching the right hon. gentleman against whom it had been hurled like a mix-thrown boomerang. The discussions provoked by the noble lord the member for Huntingdonshire, however, are now fortunately and definitively closed. We are to hear no more of those wretched little squabbles, and recriminations, and explanations, all about nothing—all literally beside the question. For— here before us, in a very substantial form indeed, is the official report, in the shape of a very bulky Blue Book, of the whole details of the proceedings , from day to day before the Thames Embankment Committee. The murder is fairly out. It is no longer with rumours or hints that we have to deal, but with facts put upon record and published under authority. 44 0 that mine enemy would write a book !" Here is the very Book produced by a little group of enemies—certainly, at least we may say %hie, those who have distinctly shown themselves ito be not friends of the public at large, but friends  .„ •:,:i.i.,‘. ..' .. fi -• . .... .I',R. eVi - ~,,,,,,,,,..z. s „& ?'',. ••••,;:,•• .i,-,' . -41.7 •',' '' . ‘ltoP,`' , . •,•.dff— ... • • ..!.,, •F,7- ..,; i !,',. ' , ...-.4.**, '''' s: h'• 4,11.4 ' , i ' 40 I;) ." .„... •-. T ti—.1—j17;;;;;7141:!,,:•,',„,':' 4.1'..., .. ..,,iit•-• .- , 1"—?7,": R