The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

THE AJAX STEAMER.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 13, 10.35.
The Ajax, iron paddle-wheel steam-ship, Captain
Rochford, belonging to the Cork Company, struck
on a reef of rocks about 200 yards S.W. of the
Mewstoze, at half-past four this afternoon, whilst
on her passage from London to this port.
The Government steam-tug Confiance was imme-
diately sent to her assistanceshe has in, and has brouallg about
ht on
shore about 150 passengers
250, and a full cargo.
All endeavours to get her off have as yet proved
ineffectual. Sho is lying in a very awkward posi-
tion, having struck the rock a little abaft amidships.
Her bow is almost under water ; her forward com-
partment is full of water ; her other compartments
are perfectly dry.
The cause of the accident was through keeping
too near the shore. Captain Hooker, her com-
mander, was on leave. Sixty of her passengers
were bound to Sydney in the Thomas Boddington,
chartered by the Government,
and now lying in the
Sound.
The Ajax was goinr, at the rake of nine knots an
hour when she struck.' The shock is stated to have
been very great. Fortunately, there is little wind
or swell up, and hopes are entertained that in the
morning she will be got off. The authorities have
been requested to send lumps out, to heave her off.
The crew and captain will remain on board the
Monarch steamer, near the ship, during the night.

JAPANESE GALLANTRT.—A letter written by an offi-
cer attached to the Japan squadron says that, on the
part of the Japanese Commissioners, it was at first mueh
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EDINBURGH, Thursday Evening.—The Queen, Prince
Albert, and the fire senior members of their youthful
family, arrived at Holyrood Palace, this evening, from
Balmoral Castle. The royal travellers left Balmoral
about nine o'clock in the morning, and posted down the
valley of the Dee to Banchory, the terminus of the
newly-opened Deeside Railway. They commenced their
railway journey to the Scotch metropolis at half-past 12,
passing Ferryhill (Aberdeen) at 1.10, and reaching
Stonehaven at 1.40, where a delay of half-an-hour 'took
place for lunchen. The royal train passed Forfar about
half-past three and Perth about half-past four, and
arrived at Edinburgh (St. Margaret's station) at ten
minutes before seven. At the different terminal sta-
tions; where brief stoppages took place, there was a
considerable attendance of spectators. The distance of
the railway journey is 130 miles, and the running time
about 33 miles an hour. The day throughout was beau-
tiful. The Queen's train comprised three splendid sa-
loon carriages belonging to the Great Northern Rail-
way Company ; her Majesty, her Royal Consort, the
Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal occupying the•
centre saloon, and the two younger Princesses with the
ladies of the suite the first, and Prince Alfred with his
tutor the last. Both the young Princes wore kilts.
Notwithstanding that her Majesty's arrival in Edin-
burgh took place after dusk, there were large numbers
of well-dressed persons assembled in the park, and,
although the Royal party drove front St. Margaret's sta-
tion to Holyrood in closed carriages, they were cordially
cheered in passing. With the loyal welcome were blended
the strains of military nineic and the boom of the Castle
guns.
The Royal party reached Holyrood Palace at about
7 o'clock, and carriages were ordered next morning at a
quarter past 10 ; their departure from St. Margaret's-
station for Hull being fixed for half-past 10.
The Minister in waiting was the Earl of Aberdeen,
who had joined her Majesty on Tuesday from Liaddo-
house, Sir James Graham having left the same day for
London. In her Majesty's suite was Major: Lord Burg-
hersh, who had arrived at Balmoral on Wednesday
morning from London, with despatches from Lord
Raglan to the Queen, formally announcing the great
triumph of her Majesty's arms on the Alma.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, FRIDAY EVENING.—The train
with her Majesty and Royal suite reached the central
station in this town at 20 minutes to two o'clock this
afternoon. It stayed half an hour, and the royal party
partook of luncheon. There was an immense concourse
of inhabitants of the town in the station and neighbour-
hood, who greeted her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the
Royal children with immense cheering. Lord Aberdeen
was the Minister in attendance. Sir George Grey was
prevented from being present by a slight injury he has
received by a fall Irons a horse. .
The Mayors of Newcastle and Gateshead were intro-
duced to her Majesty and Prince Albert, who expressed
great sympathy for the inhabitants of the town in their
loss by the recent fire. Her Majesty instructed the
Mayor of Gateshead to place 100 guineas to her name on
the subscription list for the relief of the sufferers. The
Royal train stopped on the High Level Bridge to give
the Royal party an opportunity of viewing the ruins on
the Quayside and at Gateshead. The directors of the
North-Eastern Railway travelled in the Royal train
from Berwick to York.
HULL, Oct. 13.—Her Majesty arrived here at a few
minutes before six o'clock this evening, and was re-
ceived upon the platform by the Chairman and Directors
of the North-Eastern Railway, the Mayor and Corpora-
tion of Hull, the Earl of Yarborough, the Earl of
Carlisle, Lord Londesborough, Lord Hotham, and Sir
Harry Smith. An immense concourse of townspeople
and visitors filled the station.
The Queen and Royal family proceeded at once to the
Railway Hotel, where addresses were presented from the
coproration and local bodies.
There is a general illumination in the town this
evening.

The folio ving address of the corporation is from the pen
of the Recorder of Hull, Samuel Warren, Esq., Q.C.,
D.C.L.

"TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
"May it please your Majesty,
" We, your dutiful and devoted subjects, the mayor,
aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Kingston-upon-
Hull, humbly approach your Majesty to express our ardent
loyalty, and the pride and exultation with which, ou this
auspicious occasion, we hail the appearance amongst us of
our beloved Queen, and her Royal Consort and children.
" At any time would a visit from your Majesty to this
borough be a source of high gratification to all your loyal
subjects within it, but more especially is it so at a time
when your Majesty's arms, in conjunction with those of
your allies, have been blessed with most signal success.
"The existence of our town can bo traced to a very re-
mote period; and it has, with its inhabitants, from time
to time, been honoured with special manifestations of Royal
favour. The port with which it is connected, having be-
come, as early as the reign of your Majesty's famous pre-
decessor King Richard 1., the eg.th of importance in the
kingdom, subsequently attract from its peculiar advan-
tage of position, the notice of your Majesty's great prede-
cessor King Edward 1., who changed its original name,
honoured it with its present royal appellation of King's
Town-upon-Hull ; shortly afterwards created it a free
borough, with many important privileges, and also con-
ferred upon it the distinction, more than once, of a Royal
visit, towards the close of his long and glorious reign.
"Since that period, this borough (which, in the year
1440, was constituted a county of itself), has been several
times similarly distinguished by your Majesty's royal pre-
decessors, one of whom, King Henry the Eighth, paid it
two visits, each of several days' duration, in the year
1541, presenting to the mayor (on one of these occasions)
the sword which he himself then wore. The mayor being
then already authorised by acharter of one of your royal
predecessors (King Henry the Sixth) to have a sword borne
erect before him, in the name of the Sovereign, when out
of the' oyal presence.
" Upwards of two centuries have now elapsed since this
borough received a royal visit ; this of your Majesty at the
commencement of the eighteenth year of your prosperous
and happy reign, being the first that, has been paid to it by
a Queen of England. So signal au event will constitute
henceforth the brightest among those which our annals
record. With whatever splendour your Majesty has been,
or may be, received elsewhere in your dominions, suffer us
•to assure your Majesty that we will yield to none of our
fellow-subjects in fervent love and loyalty to your Majesty,
and in gratitude for the memorable distinction which you
have been pleased this day to confer upon us.
" We trust that your Majesty will be pleased with such
indications as you may see of our persevering efforts to
dovelope to the utmost those great local advantages which
constitute the claim of this port to rank high iu mercantile
and maritime importance. We venture to remind your
Majesty, that through the favour of your illustrious grand-
father, King George 111., those extensive walls and moats
which had been constructed for warlike purposes several
centuries before, and which extended from the river Hull
to the Humber, were removed, in order that on their site
might be constructed (happily more in accordance with the
spirit and requirements of the times) those convenient and
capacious docks now constituting the distinctive character
of this important eastern seaport, which now ranks the
third in the United Kingdom, being next to London and
Liverpool in the amount of customs received.
" Wherever your Majesty moves you are hailed, as here,
by the enthusiastic acclamations of your subjects, whojhave
always seen everything to love and revere in your Ma-
jesty's personal character, and behold in you her whom
God has set to rule over one of the greatest empires upon
earth ; your sceptre a sceptre of mercy and love, an your
throne fixed in the affections of your people so immovably
that it remained firm whilst many other thrones appeared
insecure.
" We believe that no Sovereign ever sat on the throne of
these realms more distinguished than your Majesty by a
personal and ever watchful interest in the welfare of every
class of your subjects, and more anxious to secure to all,
without any distinction, the fullest participation in the
blessings of civil awl religious liberty afforded by our in-
comparable institutions.
" We humbly supplicate Almighty God, to whom the de-
vout prayers of the nation constantly ascend on behalf of your
Majesty and your Royal Consort and family, that He, whose
authority you have, may vouchsafe to your Majesty a long
continuance of that favour and protection with which He
has hitherto so evidently blessed your Majesty, and in you
your happy people ; long preserving to your Majesty and
your Royal Consort and family the unruffled serenity of
your private life, and so lightening the heavy pressure of
your public cares, by the unwavering love of your Royal
family, and devotion of your loyal people ; and we shall
never cease to pray that after you have done His will upon
earth, you may receive from the King of kings a crown of
glory that fadeth not away.
" Given under the common seal of our corporation,
this 6th day of October, in the 18th year of the
reign of your Majesty, and in the year of our Lord,
1854."
" TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE.

" May it please your Royal Highness. 1
" We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgessesof the borough
of Kingston-upon-Hull, most respectfully and cordially
greet your Royal Highness, as the Consort of our beloved
Queen, and offer you a hearty welcome to this loyal and
ancient borough. It cannot, we trust, but afford satisfac-
tion to your Royal Highness to feel that you have long ago
acquired the admiration, confidence, and affection of the
whole nation, so benignantly ruled over by our gracious
Queen.
" A visit from her Majesty and you, her Royal Consort,
to this borough, would at all times be the source of high
gratification to the inhabitants, but the more especially is
it so at a time when her Majesty's arms, in conjunction
with those of her allies, have been blest with signal success.
" The personal character and conduct of your Royal
Highness may indeed well endear you, alike to her Majesty,
to your august family, and to all her Majesty's subjects
throughout the world. Her Majesty's alliance with a
prince of your ancient and renowned house was, of itself, a
subject of national rejoicing; and we do but express the
universal feeling of the country in acknowledging the
supreme discretion which your Royal Highness has mani-
fested on all occasions, and that profound appreciation of
the national character, and of the spirit of this enlightened
age, which give you an enduring hold upon the respect and
affection of this country, and also of every civilised com-
munity. While a zealous and discriminating friend of
scholarship and philosophy, you have ever been foremost in
advancing the cause of practical philanthropy, as based
upon the hallowed and hallowing principles of morality
and religion.
" To the persevering energy and sagacity of your Royal
Highness we were mainly indebted for that transcendant
wonder of our age, the Exhibition of the Industry of all
Nations, which, while it charmed and instructed all classes
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