The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE.

THE JOURNEY.—The directors of the FAatern Comities
Railway, determined not to par unimproved such an oppor-
tunity of signalising their line, and of placing it on a level
with the other great trunk lines of the kingdom, as that
which the first royal journey on it fairly afforded them,
made the most strenuous and elaborate preparations for the
safe and speedy transmission of Queen Victoria and her censor,
to Cambridge. The station at Tottenham, to which her Majesty
preferred repairing rather than traverse the gloomy resorts
of the Spitalfields weavem, was gaily decorated in anticipa-
tion of the royal visit. An entirely new pavilion (
Tory, of course) was constructed for the reception of he=
jesty and the Prince Chancellor ; and the wings of this Arma-
ture, and the two sides of the corridor through which
Queen Victoria passed to the railway carriage, were crowded
with elegantly attired ladies. The space reserved for the
royal cortege of guards and carriages was decorated with
flags lent for the parpose by order of the Board of Admiralty.
The most perfect order was preserved, and great hilarity,
aided by the fineness of the weather, prevailed. The royal
carriage, which woe built expressly for this occasion, wee
brought forward to its appointed station for the reception of
the Queen at • quarter put eleven. It is in the form of a
most elegant and convenient saloon, lined throughout with
blue satin, and furnished simply with two fauteuils and a
couch placed at the opposite extremities of the vehicle. For
this auspicious occasion the secretary oldie Eastern Counties
Railway provided some elegant bouquets, and a beautifully
bound map of the counties traversed during the jour-
ney, the line of rail being marked out. A guard of honour
furnished bT the West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry, awaited the
Queen's arrival. The detachment was commanded by Capt.
Palmer, the son of one of the members for the county. lib.
Hudson, M.P., chairman of the Eastern Counties railway,
accompanied by Messrs. Gibbs, Waddington, Anderson, and
Sheriff Kennard, directors of the same, and attended by
Messrs. Roney and Duncan, the secretary and solicitor, ar-
rived shortly after 11 o'clock.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with their snits and
escort, reached the station at twenty minutes past 11 ; and,
without any delay, the Queen and Prince took their seats in
the carriage prepared for them, the Duchess of Bath
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Mires of the Robes, going in the carriage with theZt
ompla. It is perhaps an act of justice to state that when
ler-Majesty alighted from her travelling carriage, and was
received at the door of the Pavilion by Mr. Hudson and the
&restore of the line, she addressed a few words of gracious
sesespthion to the chairman, and the Prince also made his
mdtmewledgments for the spm'al preparations made for the
royal reception. The signal for departure was then given,
although it wanted nine minutes of the time appointed for
the commencement of the transit. The precautions
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and programme set down for observance by the
officers of the company, and already detailed in
the Express of yesterday, were strictly adhered to; a
pilot engine preceded the royal train ; then came the train
bearing with it the personage in whom are concentrated
the love and reverence of three kingdoms; the driver, to
whose care the royal train was confided, is named W. Young,
and he was especially selected for this duty by reason of lsu
character for sobriety and care, a fact, which entitles him to
notice. The train pared swiftly and smoothly over the
ground, making a short stay at Bishop's Stortford (to take in
water) and thence being wafted steadily and without the
slightest hindrance to the station at Cambridge. The whole
line of route was crowded with rustics mingled at intervals
with gentry and the farmers of the districts traversed. The
population, no less than the fields which they momeetarily
ceased to cultivate, bore a smiling and peaceful upset, end
the luxuriant appearance of the gram and wheatlends elm-
siderably added te the pluming character of the j
On the arrival of the royal train at the Cambridge on,
misZti
the Queen and her consort were received by the seepeation
of the town, who were in waiting, attended by their
beadles with maws, and in their robes ; the mayor,
Mr. Browns, and the chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Carus,
=ied by the aldermen and town-councillors in their
black robes, formed in prooession, and preceded the
ein which her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the
Dna= of Sutherland, were seated. Four other royal
gerrieses, containing Prince Waldemar and his suite, and
the Queen's ministers, lords in waiting, and other attendants,
headed the procession, which, thus formed, proceeded at a
walking pace from the railway station to Trinity College, the
lot ghee to which it was arranged the Queen should repair,
se therein are contained the royal apartments, reserved by
right of the reigning monarch, and there, of course, the
nye servants had made their preparations for her Majesty.
The progress from the railway station to Trinity College
was deemed by some a trial of patience to Olean
Victoria; the distance traversed was about a mile and a
half; the sun was beaming hotly down upon the
'wine containing her Majesty and the Priem.
The streets extending from the railway station to Trinity
College gate were decorated with flags, devices executed in
Sewers and evergreens, and every window and public Wal-
ks was thronged with well-dressed persons, chiefly ladiree.
The sem resembled nothing so much as that whisk wee
to Queen Victoria on her entrance into Heirs in
year 1843, 1843, and the reminiscence of this may,
_per-
rde.,r have been revived by the circumstance/ that Cam-
was the first plate in England visited by her
Mni.sty after her Mane from Belgium in that year.
DIMITY Co ccson.-IPrem en early hour the
he admission to TrMft_ OA" , which has the •
honour of being her Ilideeby s reideima when she vies
Cambridge, were lmsseentl end the numerous staiseds,
meters, end other isembime et the university, in their state
lobes. with a large amber of ladies, senembled in
the , all anxiously leaking forward he the pre-
miere of the royal party, and beeriag the mereleing rays of
the sun with exemplary_ patience, berme" a same el great
piety. Within the hall in which the reseptlas wee to take
piss all was comparatively quiet, until &only before the
approach of the royal party—the body of the build-
ing being closed until the arrival of the Chancellor.
But those amongst the female visitors who were sufficiently
fortunate to command the interest of the Vise-Chancellor
and the Master were admitted, to the number of some 60 or
60, to en orchestra or gallery at one end of the hall, wherein
they were amply compensated for the loss of the pageant
out of doors, by shelter from the weather, and a most com-
manding view of the ceremo of the reception and pre-
sentation. Here, also, the tedium of waiting was relieved
by a rummer refection, consisting of ices, wines, fruits, Le.
The first important arrival was the Duke of Wellington,
who entered the college some time before the royal party
reached Cambridge. The reception of his grace was enthu-
sheltie in the extreme, and it war not a little amusing to
see hundreds of the university men, of all degrees and of all
ogee, running-despite the encumbrance of their robes—front
one side of Trinity quadrangle to the other to assist in the
welcome.
At half past one tie disehure et artillery, the ringing
of church ails, end
the heel end ermtlistows shouts of
the populace sahib, 11101111111114 the masa tithe royal
mrtiev, which wields a Are Rhodos ball mime" the gate
and driven mai the quadrangle to the enteense "[the
hall, where lee Majesty and the Prince Chemedhe were
resolved by the VisoChassellor, the Master of Trinity, and
the ether imeheddet el the univirelli. During the ro-
ma ei the tweeds the eon. and on ittrig,
Dry were soot &abaft shouts of welcome;
d actors, mutes, aid even ladies vieing with
each other in power of bona Her Majesty having rested
I briefly at the lodge, and gene through the ceremony of re-