The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace soon after
eleven o'clock yesterday morning, in an open carriage and four, for
the Old Palace at Kew. The Lady in Waiting, the Viscountess
Canning ; the Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Buckley; and the
Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert, the Hon. Captain Gordon, fol-
lowed in anottu.r carriage •nd four.
The august party remained to luncheon.

Her Majesty and the royal party drove out in pony carriages in the
afternoon in Kew Gardens

Her Majesty and her Royal Consort, accompanied by the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal, and attended by the royal suite, took
their departure from Kew Palace, and returned to town soon after
six o'clock.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice took
their accustomed exercise yesterday in the pleasure grounds of
Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty the Qneen Dowager, accompanied by his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, honoured the Italian
Opera with her presence yesterday evening. Her Majesty was at-
tended by the Dowager Lady Clifton, Mon. Mary Seymour, Hon.
William Ashley, and Captain Somerset. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, Sir George Couper, Bart., and Captain the Hon.
James P. Mnrray, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge also honoured the performance of the opera
with their presence.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
Mr. Ingham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commis-
sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the
Governor of West Australia.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Connell sat yesterday.
There were present, the Master of the Rol.s, the Vice Chancellor
Knight Bruce, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the
Judge of the Admiralty Court.
An Appeal from Madras—" Konadry Valabha v. Yalta Tambu-
rati," was concluded.

Dr. Curteis was heard on an appeal from the Arches Court,
" Bluck v. Rackbane." The case was adjourned.
Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Bart., Knight Grand Cross of
the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, expired yester-
day morning, at his residence in Hyde Park Gardens. Sir Robert
was a Groom in Waiting to the Queen.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.
ENTRIES FOB. TUESDAY.

50/. for 3 yrs old, 11.31.—Blackie, Lebanon, b c by Emelius
out of Mee.sene, Phenericus, and Ignus Fatuus._ _ _

50:.. T.M.M., winner to be sold for 200/., &c.—Alexa, 3
yr,—Balance f, 3 yrs—and Ganymede f, 3 yrs.
Black Cat receives from the Retriever colt, and Taurina
from Foinnualla.

Two other matches complete the day's racing, which corn.
mences at two o'clock.

NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.
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Match-50 sovs. Last half of Ab.M. Mr. Watson's fby
Stockport, out of Ganymede, 7st (W. Abdale), beat Lord
Exeter's Brainless, 7st 101 b (Mann). sto 4 on Brainless.
Won by three lengths. Run im 58 seconds.
Match-50 sows, h ft. T.Y.C. Mr. Greville's Billie
Krankie, 6st 7lb (Kitchener), beat Duke of Bedford's Captain
Phebus, Bst 10lb (Robinson). Even betting. Won by a
head. Run in 1 minute 18 seconds.

Fity Pounds for three years old. Colts, Bst 71b ; Fillies,
Bst 41b.

Mr. Gurney's c by Emilius, out of Messene
Lord Exeter's Lebanon
Lord Orford's Blackie
Mr. Ford's Ignus Fatuus _ a

Betting-7 to 4on BlachiP, 7to 2 agst Ignus Fatuus, and
sto 1 agst Messene colt. The Messene colt made play till
near the Bushes, where Ignus Fatuus took up the running,
and carried it on to the cords; here the Messene colt re-
sumed the lead, and won easy by two lengths, Lebanon
beating Blackie by a length. Run in 2 minutes 2 seconds.
Fifty Pounds for three• years old, 6st 21b ; four, Bst ; five,
Bst 71b ; six and aged, Bst 121 b. The winner to be sold for
200 says., if demanded, &c. ;
Mr. Watson's fby Stockport, out of Gannymede, 3 vra... 1
Mr. Stephenson's f by Montreal, out of Balance, 3-yrs... 2
Duke of Rutland's Alexa, 3 yrs
Betting-6 to son Alexa, and sto 2 agst the other two.
Gannymede made all the running, and won easily by two
1 ingths.

Match-200. h ft, T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Black Cat,
Bst 41b, received forfeit from Lord Glasgow's c by Retriever,
darn by St. Patrick, Bst 71b.
Match-200, b ft, Bst 71b each, D.M.—Duke of Bedford's
Taurina received forfeit from Lord Miltown's Foineralla.

The weather is remarkably fine, but the sport is indifferent
and the company thin.
A match is made for to-morrow between Mr. Grewllle's
Motilla and the Duke of Bedford's Black Cat, Bst 71b each,
first half of Ab. M.; and one for Thursday, between Mille
Krankie and Hawkeßbury.

MR. C. PEARSON,S PROPOSAL FOR
A METROPOLITAN TRUNK RAILWAY, WITH A
CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION IN FARRINGDON-
STREET.
A meeting was held on Monday, in the Council C)iamber,
Guildhall, for the purpose of offering to the inspection of the
municipal authorities and the citizens of London, Mr. Charles
Pearson 's large model of his proposed trunk Metropolitan
Railway. The open space in the middle of the Council-room,
was occupied by a large model of the proposed railway, with
its passengers and goods termini. The doors were opened at
six o'clock, and Ling before seven o'clock, the hour at which
the proceedings were to commence, every seat in the chamber
was occupied. The Lady Mayoress fy-d several ladies
honoured the meeting with their presence, and were accom-
modated with seats c•ose to the chair.
At seven o'clock the Lord Mayor took the chair, and im-
mediately afterwards
Mr. C. PEARSON commenced the exposition of his pro.
posed plan. The City of London, he said, had for centuries
maintained its commercial supremacy by means of its mag-
nificent river, which brought it the wealth of the world.
Other towns of the empire had latterly taken advantage of
the physical advantages of their situation, and had been
enabled, not to compete with London, but to hang upon its
skirts, by improving the advantages of water communication
by means of the rivers on which they were situated. As
long as the rivalry was confined to water communication
London bad nothing to fear, but of late years men had tra-
velled by iron instead of by water, and unless London was
prepared to compete with them in the iron Ways as well as
in the water ways, she must eventually be distanced in the
race of competition. The blocking of the streets of London
by the traffic was matter of notoriety. The traffic
had outgrown the streets. Various endeavours had been
made to remedy this evil. The Corooration, at an expense
of 50,0001. had opened Gresham-street as an easement to
Cheapside, but it had not operated as an easement, be-
cause in that street was situated one of those great empo-
riums which operated as a feeder to the railroads. Persons
having goods to send into the country dispatched them in
carts to this great warehouse, where they were deposited
again, loaded upon other carts, by those carts conveyed to
the various railroad I ermini, and again transhipped there
to the various luggage trucks. Now each transhipment of
those goods was attended by expense, and when competition
pinched so tightly as it did in these days, that expense was
a great object of consideration. Now by the plan
which he proposed, the merchant would only have
to send his goods to the City terminue, whence
they would be at once transferred to the railway goods car-
riage, and the expense of one unloading would be saved. The
line which he proposed for the Metropolitan Trunk Railway
was this ; there was an open space near Battle-bridge,
situated close to the confluence of the great metropolitan
railways, which he proposed to take as the comm -ncement.
He proposed that from this spot the railway should cross the
New Road, near King's Cross, that it should run at the back
of Gray's Inn-lane, traversing the new street to Calthorpe-
street, that then it should hug the wall of the Cold Bath
Fields' Prison, and debouche in Doddingten-street; that it
should pass through the district of Mutton-hill, Saffron-
hill, and Field-lane, diverging towards the north
in the upper part of Field-lane; that it should
cross under the Holborn valley to Farringdon Market and
the site of the Fleet Prison, which should be the passengers
termini, while the pods termini should be in Field-lane, so
as not to cross the Holborn Valley ; thus he would keep the
goods and the passenger termini entirely separate. Hitherto
there had been but two methods devised by engineers for
passing the levels of streets; the one was to pass over them
by means of a viaduct, the other was to pass under them by
means of a tunnel. In both these ways property was sacri-
ficed. He proposed to adopt a third plan, by means of which
the property in the neighbourhood of which the railway
should past would be improved instead of deteriorated.
He proposed to raise the whole of the streets by
taking the basement as the railway line, and
area ling it over with spaces at every ten feet,
to admit light and air to the railway, while on
the roof of the arcade he would carry the usual car-
riage-way and the usual passenger traffic, thus forming a
street over his railway, while he secured to his railway all
the advantages of light and air, advantages of which a tun-
nel would necessarily deprive it. Tale would secure an ex-
cellent street frontage above the railway, and would transform
Field-lane, Saffron-hill, and the other localities celebrated in
"Oliver Twist," into the abodes ofrespectable tradesmen, while
it would secure a grand arterial communication from
the north to the south of the metropolis, which
was much wanted. The gradients and curves were
of the most favourable descrption, and he proposed
that, where excavations were necessary, the earth excavated
should be used to raise the low parts of the ground over
which the railway was to pass; for instance, the low ground
at the foot of Snow-hill, which would be of great advantage
in facilitating traffic. Having taken Farringdon Market as
one of the termini, he proposed to erect a new market for
vegetables, fruits, and flowers, near to Sea-coal, lane, if such
should be deemed necessary, and he also left in the neigh-
bourhood of the Fleet Prison sufficient space for the London
and Birmingham Company, should they be disposed to carry
out the proposition for a tunnel from Islington, terminating
at that point in a City terminus. He insisted most particu-
larly on the absolute necessity of keeping the goods terminus
separate from the passenger terminus, and as a proof of the
advantage of having the goods terminus on the Field-lane
side of Holborn, he mentioned its vicinity to the Smithfield and
Newgate markets. He then entered into very minute details
as to the advantages by the proposed termini, explaining
them by referring to the model, and also explained the re-
adjustment which he proposed to make in the streets in the
vicinity of the proposed station, explanations which it would
be impossible to describe without reference to a map or a
model. He then entered into various details to show what
would be the outlay for the purchase of property, of good-
will, and the construction of the railroad; and, on the other
side, what would be the probable receipts for ground-rents,
&c. ; and he concluded from these premises that the proposed
railway would be constructed at the cost of about a million.
He proposed that it should be worked by atmospheric trac-
tion, which had answered so well in the Dalkey and
Kings-
town line that for six months no train had been one minute
beyond its time, and the length of the proposed metropolitan
line would be about the same as that of the Dalkey and
Kingstown, viz., about a mile and a half: He proposed to give
the management of the line to a commission, 13of members of
which should be nominated by the Coporat ion London, 8 by
the shareholders in the various lines which would be benefited
by it, and a certain number ofcommissioners to be appointed by
the Board of Trade. If the board were thusecnortipted the
line could never become a monopoly in theAeny one
railway company, to the exclusion of the publics.°
posed to raise the funds by means of a 5
per cent. stock, with
a sinking fund of 214 per cent., so that in the course of time
the debt should be extinguished. As it was nearly ten
o'clock before his explanations on the subject of railways
were completed, he deferred his observations on country
houses for the poor to another opportunity.
A vote of thanks to Mr. C. Pearson for his able exposition,
and another to the Lord Ma3-or for his kiudness in taking the ,
chair,
havinb been passed by acclamation, the meeting I
separated.