The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAL.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Backing-
ham Palace, at ten minut,a past three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, in a carsitige and four, for Windsor Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess
Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Ly ttelton,
were in the next carriage and four. Colonel Bowles,
Colonel Drummond, the lion. Colonel Grey, Liehtenant-
Colonel Seymour, Dr. Proetorius, were in a third car-
riage, and the Marchioness of Douro, Hon. Miss
Murray, Hon. Miss Napier, and Viscount Sydney, were
in another carriage and four.
Her Mjesty and her Royal Consort were conducted
to their carriage by the Master of the Horse, the Vice-
ChamberlAn, Loid George Lynnox, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Wylde.
A party of Light Dragoons forna.4l the escort from
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WINDSOR, EDNE I.)A Y.— Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, accomp.,nied by their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales, Prance Alfred, the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Al:ce, pirtved at the Castle about a
quarter part fur o'clock, this afterno .n, from town,
having travelled by a special train ',n the Great Wes-
tern railway to the Slouch station. The Rjal party
proceeded from the station in four carriages and four to
the Castle.

Ttie royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of
Douro, Lady in Waiting ; the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
the lion. Mi•sea Murray and Napier, Maids of Honour
in Waiting ; Viscount Sydney, Lord in Waiting ; the
Master of the Household ; Colonel Berkeley Dru!umond,
Groom in Waiting ; Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey,
Equerry in Waiting ; and Lieutenant Colonel Seymour.
Eque!ry in Waiting to Prince Albert.
Her Ro) al Highneis the Duchess of Kent arrived at
her residence, Frogmore House, this morning from town.
Lady Augusta Bruce and the Baroness de Speth also
arrived at Frogm,ire House this morning from town.
The Honourable Miss Murray and the Honourable
Miss Napier have succeeded Lady Caroline Cock“, and
the Honourable Frances Devereux, as the Maids of
Honour in Waiting to her Majesty.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and the Hon. and
Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her
residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at ten o'clock
yesterday morning, in a carriage and four. for Frogmure
House, near Windsor.
Captain Maconochie, R.N., had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Gladstone yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday. There were present the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London,
Winchester, Bangor, Carlisle, Chester, Hereford, Lich-
field, and Oxford, and the Earl of Besborough.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday.
The Earl of Ellenhorough gave a dinner to the
Cabinet Ministers yesterday evening.
The Earl of Dalhousie had an interview with Sir R.
Peel yesterday.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY

MEETING.

A special general meeting of the Eastern Counties
Company was held yesterday at the Station, Shoreditch,
at one o'clock—G. Hudson, Esq., M.P., in the chair—fur
the purpose of obtaining the sanction of the sharehol-
ders to the following Bills now before Parliament:—
A Bill to repeal so much of the Cambridge Improve-
ment Acts as might authorise the levying of any tolls
on railway carriages.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany to make a railway from Tottenham to Barnet.
- A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany to make a railway from Hertford to Huntingdon,
with a branch to Bedford.

A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Corn
pang to make a railway from Tottenham to Farringdon.
,treat.

A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany to make a railway from the Eastern Counties Rail-
way at Cambridge to Lincoln, with branches.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany to make a railway trona Lincoln to the York and
North Midland Railway, at South Milford, in the county
of York.

A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany to enlarge their stations in London and at Strat-
ford, and for other purposes.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany to make a railway from Epping to a point of junc
tion with the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near the
Ilford station thereon.

A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany to make a railway from a point of junction with
the Brandon and Peterborough Extension of the Eastern
Counties Railway, in the hamlet of March, in the parish
of Doddington, in the Isle of Ely, and county of Cam-
bridge, to the city of Lincoln.
All the Bills were unanimously approved. The only
observations that occurred were made by the Chairman,
to the efftct that the connexion with the York and North
Midland line would be likely to carry out the anticipa-
tions which he had held out at the last meeting, of in-
creased profit. The Lincoln and March line was a loop
line originally announced by himself at Derby, and was
subsequently taken up by the London and York Com-
pany.
The CHAIRMAN said that he was happy to congratu-
late the meeting on the unanimity which prevailed, be-
cause he believed it was a good augury of future success.
There was another source of congratulation in the in-
creased traffic for this week—it had been 7,445/. 4e. 7d. ;
they had carried 2,000 head of cattle and 4,200 sheep.
There were now forty-eight trains per day in
and out of the station at Shoreditch ; and though
all might not yet be done which it was desirable, yet
still much had been effected, and he did not doubt but
that the traffic would prove as much as 10,0001. in
August. The shares were still far under their ultimate
value, but they had passed well through the late panic,
and he had no doubt but that in the course of time they
would be fairly appreciated. There had been a severe
check, it was true, but there was another similar cheek
in 1846, but wlrich was then partially occasioned by the
disarrangement of the American trade. In addition
there was a great jealousy in Parliament of all railway
schemes, but it was undeniable that the country did
require the facility for traffic, and under the circum-
stances none were such eligible parties for providing it
as the old companies who were already estab-
lished, and who, if assistance were required, no
parties would be so able to go to the moneylender
with a good chance of success. Such being the ease, he
felt assured of ultimate and complete prosperity, and he
might appeal to the proprietary as to whether the pro.
perty of the Eastern Counties Railway was not in afar
better position than it was twelve. months since. This
being his feeling, he was gratified in being
able to say that the public seeere impressed
with the fact that in the support of competing
lines they would have to pay for two capitals instead of
one, and thus it was very probable that the wildness of
speculation would cure iteelf. The object of railway
policy was simple in the extreme : to work a line as
cheaply as was consistent with true econatny, to
secure as much accommodation as possible for the public,
and to obtain as large dividends as was consistent with
fairness. The electric telegraph had already been com-
pleted. [Here the Honourable Gentleman read a com-
municatiun just received from the Chesterford station,
which unnounced the snivel of the train at that place at
twenty minutes past one o'clock, the time being
then about twenty minute; to two o'clock.] This,
would, no doubt, be of great advantage in pro-
viding additional security for the public in
the event of any derangement of the trains.
With respect to the opposition of competing lines now
before Parliament, be had been astonished to hear an in-
fluential Member the other day state that it mattered
not what the oifferential cost of a line might be, whether
500,000/. or 800,0001., for it was a well known fact, that
no, line with the exception of the Stockton
and Darlington line, had been :formed without
the Company going into the money market for a
loan, and as the old companies were the safest and the
best customers. the probability was that the new com-
panies would have to borrow under very disadvantage-
ous circumstances. This was a point the more im.
portant, inasmuch us Parliament was just now very in-
tent lion the abstraction of money from general com-
mercial enterprise to the formation of railways. He
had endeavoured to rectify the evil which might arise to
original shareholders in new companies. As the matter
stands at present a scripholder who had purchased from
the original allottees might, in the event of the concern
turning out a bad one, put his scrip into the fire, and
leave the individual who had signed the contract deed
to pay whatever loss might be incurred. The remedy
he had himself proposed was to compel the scripholdersetio;
sign within a definite period, and thus take upon himself
the responsibility which was otherwise sustained by a
party by whom it ought not to be borne. In conclusion,
he trusted that the Directors would be able to give a
better dividend each succeeding meeting for some
time to come, and that they would be able
to say that the traffic amounted to 10,0004
in August. He was happy to say that the utmost
unanimity prevailed among the directors.
Tho Hon. Geutleman was continually cheered through-
out his address, and after a few inquiries from a share-
holder, respecting Mr. Atwood's Harwich line, to which
the Ohairman IN plied that the Eastern Counties Com-
pany were likely to receive from, and were ready to give,
every facility to that company, thanks were voted to him
and the meeting separated.

JUDGES CIIAMBERS.—The chambers of Mr. Justice
Creswell, the vacation Judge, as also those of the several other
Judges in Se geants'-inn, will be closed for the holidays on Friday;
Satin day, Monday, and Tuesday next.
EFFECTS OF SIR IL PEEL'S TARIFF.—The fears of
the graziers as to the effects of the fr. e admission of live stock under
the recent Customs' regulations, operated but faintly at the sale by
auction, a few days since. of the stock of Mr. Holland, of Carring-
ton-house, Boston. The average price of hoggets of ordinary quality
being 495. ; ewes and lambs (pairs) fetched as high as 31. 17s. Gd.;
yearling beasts, Si.; and other articles in proportion.—lpstrich
Express.
WALTHAM ABBEY. APRIL 6. Last night, about half-
past eleven o'clock, a powder-mill, situated in Town Mead, blew up ;
fortunately nu person was there, it being Sunday night, and the Sa-
turday night's charge of powder taken off. The cause appsars to be
the following t—Th,re having been much rain fallen on the Saturday
and Sunday, occasioning a push or swell of water, the tumbling-bay
gates not being drawn up, the mill was set in motion by the over-
flowing of the water, inundating the lower part of the mill, and the
stones having nothing to resist them were propelled round with such
velocity as to cause ignition of what powder was under them, blowing the
roof away and cAusing other damage. The spot where this occurred
is about GO. or 710 yule from the back ~trt to the town, and if the
other in it had fired no one cat, tell what would have been the conse-
quence.
liltiODC -)CIKS. —There is an unusual number Ogfw tZ4dl-1
cocks in Sussex this spring. Last week, at Halesmer
,e a enue
Mind five woodcocks' Rests, with three and four Cns IA each.