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

THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1862,  The Question as it now stands between the public and the Duke of BUCCLEUCH may be very simply stated. An Embankment along the northern borders of the Thames from Westminster Bridget to Blackfriars Bridge was resolved upon at the recommendation of a Government Commission. In obedience to the recommendations of that corasciiene of a—ri'Efai ban-Eng-AY nco Nig r 71CY of the Thames was formally promoted. The improvements 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, through 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 Westminster—hints, pretty broad hints some of them, were thrown out in the newspapers—" A West Londoner" among others had taken his pen in hand— it was J. 0. again (as Mr. DICKENS facetiously has it) showing up another J. 0. B. A noble lord, a member of the Committee—no other than Lord ROBERT I'I"TAGIT, 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. Cowreet, with having acted very unfairly by his brother committee-men, for inasmuch as he, Mr. COWPER, quoth the noble lord, had been prompting a tall gentleman of the name of HIGGINS to charge the and subserviency. The committee with meanness cat had slipped out of the bag, in this matter, it Appeared, through the simple accideut of a mis directed envelope. A certain communication had fallen into the hands of a Mr.W. F. 11-locales 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. at. HIGGINS, the tall gentlemen. The upshot of all this, being— es must be within the very recent recollection cf 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 been hurled like a mis thrown boomerang.  The discussions provoked by the ;obis lord the member fer _Huntingdonshire, however, are now fortunately and definitively closed. w, ~,re to hear 130 more of those vvrAched little squabbles, and recriminations, and explanations, all about nothing—all literally beside the question. For— bore before tr, in a very substantial form indeed, is the official report, in the shape of a very balky Blue Book, of the whole cies:Ails of the proceedings from day to day before the Thames Embankment CommAtte. 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. " O that mine enemy would write a book !" Here is the very Book produced by a little mits—certainly, at least we may say group of ene 11[. Te distinctly shown themselves this, those who to ba not friends a the public at large, but friends  rather (at the expense of the public) of his Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCE and QUEENSBERRY! Let  us give their names at once, they are those of the members of the Thames Embank ment Committee—they are the names espe cially of Sir JOHN SHELLEY, and Mr. CRAWFORD, and Mr. GARNETT, and Sir WILLIAM  JOLLIFFE, and Lord ROBERT MONTAGU, and Mr.  KER SEYMER, and Lord