The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

HULL AND SELBY.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Saturday at Hull, Mr. J. R. Pease in the chair. The Secre-
tary read the report, which stated that the balance in favour
of the company was £33,557, and the directors recommended
that the dividends to be declared out of it should be £2 9s
6d. per whole, or £5O, share; £1 4s. 9d. per half, or £26,
share; and 12s 41d. per quarter share, on the capital stock
of the company, subject to deduction of income-tax retained
by the lessees. Mr. Whitaker was elected a director in the
room of Mr. T. Digby, deceased. The Chairman moved
that the report be received and adopted, and the dividends
therein recomended be declared. The motion having been
agreed to, the retiring directors were re-elected, and a vote
of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings.

STAINES, WOICINGHAM, AND WOKING.
The report of the directors states that the receipts on
past half year amount to £1,200
capital account during the
fur sale of surplus land, and the payments amount to £3,054.
The gross traffic receipts for the half year amount to £9,394,
against £8,404 in the corresponding period of 1861, showing
an increase of £990. The sum of £1,499, carried forward at
the last meeting, has been applied towards liquidating
£2,091, the residue of the amount carried temporarily to the
debit of capital, and which is now redived to £592. There
will remain £l,BOl, out of which the direckrs recommend
the proprietors to declare a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum on the preference shares, amounting, less income
tax, to £1,203, leaving a balance of £598.

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday before the examiners the bill of the Manches-
ter and Milford, for powers to construct new lines in that
district, to purchase lands and make arrangements with
other companies, and increase the share capital by £32,000,
together with the bill of the Tunbridge Wells and East-
bourne for an extension from the South-Eastern at Tice-
hurst to the London and Brighton at Hailsham, aud to
raise £370,000, were declared in some respects not to have
complied with the formal proofs required by Parliament.
The bills for the proposed Greenwich and Woolwich
Railway, and the Kensington, Knightsbridge, and Metro-
politan Junction Railway were withdrawn.

Royal Marriage Procession in the Olden

Time.

In 1236 Henry 111. married Eleanor of Provence,
at Canterbury, and journeying to London with his
bride, they were met i❑ Southwark by the Lord
Mayor, aldermen, and the principal citizens, to the
number c f 360, all being mounted on stately horses,
dressed with splendid furniture. The busier streets
were adorned with tapestry and plate. At night-
fall torches were kindled all over the city.

Henry V. entered London with his Queen (Kathe.
rine), being welcomed by an immense multitude o
the Londoners, the Corporation having prepared a
magnificent pageant for the occasion.
Previous to this, Edward the Black Prince had
wedded the beautiful Joan, Countess of Kent, much
to the joy of the whole nation, and especially of the
Londoners, who kept holiday for many days to
celebrate the event. This warrior Prince of Wales
kept another grand festival, when, in 1357, he
entered the City from Southwark, in company with
his prisoner, John, King of France. The Royal
captive rode on a noble white horse, but the Prince
accompanied him on a mean-looking black
peney.
They were met by the whole Corporation splendidly
attired, who conveyed them to the Savoy, where
John was to lodge. The procession was several
hours in passing through the City.
Henry VI., a good but weak Sovereign, married
Margaret, a daughter of the blind King of Anjou.
Their reign was little but a succession of troubles ;
yet she was a noble-minded Queen, and upheld the
red rose of Lancaster with no feeble hand. Her
hapless son, Edward, Prince of Wales, married Ann
of Warwick, at Amboise, but while a mere lad
was mercilessly slain at Tewkesbury, 1471. His
widow afterwards became the wife of ttichard 111.,
and is the Lady Ann of Shakspeare's drama.
Henry VII., by espousing Elizlbeth of York,
united the contending factions, and gave his people
a reasonable cause for rejoicing, as he thus termi-
nated long years of intestine war. His son Arthur,
Prince of Wales, when hardly 14, was martied to
Katherine of Arragon, a princess much his senior,
who, on the demise Of her boy husband, was induced
to wed his brother Henry. afterwards Henry VIII.
The history of that learned, accomplished, and
1 popular Monarch and his six unhappy wives, his
brutish foLies and caprices, his cruelty and licen-
tiousness (sparing neither man in his anger nor
1 woman in his lust), are well known.

Ttie procession of Lady Anne Boleyn through
London, previous to her marriage, was remarkably
gorgeous. May 31, 1538, all the citizens were busy
rem early morning. The streets were covered with
gravel from the Tower (where she lodged, and
where she was socn to die on the block), the foot-
paths were protected by barriers, and occupied by
the Companies, in full livery. Corn hill and Grace-
church-street were tapestried and hung with rich
arras. Cheapside had a still richer dressing of cloth
of gold and fancy velvets. At a signal from the
'rower guns the procession issued from the fortress.
First came the Franck ambassador and his train,
12 knights in blue velvets, their horses decorated
with white crosses ; a troop of English gentlemen,
two and two; the Knights of the Bath in full cos-
tume; the abbots, bishops, and peers on horseback,
robed, and with massive gold chains; the Lord
Mayor, with the City mace; Garter King-at-Arms,
and the Lord Marshal; the Queen's household, in
scarlet robes; the High Constable with his wand oi
office; lastly, a splendid chariot draped with white
silk, and drawn by white palfreys in housings of
white damask, Anne Boleyn keeping
her state under
a gilded canopy hung
with silver bells,—City Press.

THE GEORGE GRlSWOLD.—Liverpool, Monday
Evening.—The address from the Liverpool Cham-
ber of Commerce to the captain and lieutenant of the
George Griswold was presented to-day at St. George's-hall,
at a crowded and enthusiastic meeting, The Mayor of Man-
chester took part in the proceedings.
AN ANCIENT COSTUME REVIVED.—The readers
of the Constatutionizel (says a Paris letter), who
knew that the great and novel feature of the late ball at the
Tuileries was to be the representation of the heroine of M.
i Flaubert's novel, " Salammbo," were disappointed at not
seeing the name of the lady who personated that character,
or any description of her dress. But, on referring to the
Presse, I find the following paragraph, which the Constitu-
tionnel, for some mysterious reason, has struck out from
its otherwise literal production :-..-.44 The Countess de Cas-
tiglione was attired as Salammbo, with her hair given to
the wind, a golde diadem above, bare arms, and naked feet
in golden sandals ; the long train of her robe was borne by
the Ccunt de Choiseul as a negro, who held an antique
I parasol over her head. The dazzling beauty of the countess
uevor ceased to captiYsto geuersti atteution.'"