The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—IIer Majesty and Prince Albert
took their usual early morning walk.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the sport
of shooting this morning. His Royal Highness was at-
tended by the Earl of Morton, Mr. G. E. Anson, and the
Hon. Captain Gordon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince_
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
pony exercise this morning in the grounds adjacent to
the Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty and Prince Albert this morning at the Castle,
and remained to luncheon.

In tEe afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert rode
out in a peny carriage, the Prince driving. Another
pony carriage and four followed, containing the Lady in
Waiting, the Countess of Gainsborough, and the Maids
of Honour, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss
Deverenx. The Equerries in Waiting-on ber Majesty
and his Royal Highness attended on horseback.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Exeter, and Mr. and Lady Mary Wood
are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day on a visit to
the Queen.
..

The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the
Duke and Duchess of Bedford; the Lady in Waiting of
the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Mar-
.quis and Maraioness of Exeter, and the Right Hon.
Charles and Lady Mary Wood.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend
in the Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, attended
by the Baroness Scheele, the Earl of Denbigh, and
Baron Meysenbuch, left Cashiobury-park, Herts, the
residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday
morning, for Watford, and travelled to town by the
London and North Western Railway. The Princess
and her suite went to Marlborough House, where she
arrived soon after eleven o'clock. Their Royal High-
nesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary
Grand-Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz visited the
Princess at Marlborough House.
In the afternoon the Princess of Hesse, the Duchess
of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and Prince Frederick
of Hesse, honoured the establishment of Messrs. Hunt
and Roskell with a visit. The illustrious party after-
wards returned to Marlborough House.
The Princess of Hesse, attended by Baroness Scheel
and Baron Meysenbuch, left Marlborough House at five
o'clock, on his return to Cashiobury Park.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, Sir
John Hobhouse, the Earl of Clarendon, Viscount Mor-
peth, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon.
H. Labo u ch ere.

The Council sat two hours and a half.
After the Council the Chancellor of the Exchequer left
town, accompanied by Lady Mary Wood, on a visit to
her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Marquis of Lansdowne was absent from the
Council, his Lordship being at his seat, Bowood-park,
Wilts.

His Excellency George Bancroft, Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States
to this Court, arrived at Long's Hotel on Saturday with
his lady and family.
Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the
Colonial- office.

RAMBURGH MAIL.
VIENNA, OCT. 19.—Authentic accounts from Monte-
nego say that the Vendika is on his way to Vienna ; it
is stated that ha arrived at Trieste, and is expected here
to-morrow or the next day.
With respect to the illness of the Grand-Duchess,
daughter of the Grand-Duckess Helen of Russia, there
are no hopes of her recovery. Her Highness is labour-
ing under pulmonary consumption, which is particu-
larly fatal in Vienna to some constitutions.
It appears that his Majesty the Emperor has resolved
to introduce oral proceedings in all civil causes. This
reformation is of immense importance to the hereditary
states, and will be hailed by all the inhabitants of the
empire as the beginning of a new era.
BERLIN, OCT. 22.—The Grand Duke Constantine,
who has been residing in this capital for some time,
and, as we learn, returns to St. Petersburgh at the latter
end of this month, is reported, in the higher circles, to
have been betrothed during his visit at Weimar to the
youngest daughter of the reigning Duke of Saxe Alten-
burg. His bride, the Princess Alexandra, was born on
the 11 th of July, 1830, consequently she is in her 17th
year.

- VIENNA, OCT. 20.—The Society of the Trieste Lloyd
dispatches send a steamer, on the 26th of next month,
to Alexandria, there to wait for the arrival of the mail
from Calcutta by the Red Sea, so that the central states
of Europe have now an opportunity of corresponding
with India. As Trieste is in constant correspondence
with Alexandrill, this arrangement is very judicious,
aed may tend to promote the hoped-for change in the
course of the Overland Mail.
Noun YOPPING, OCT. 21.—Their M,ljesties arrived
here the evening before yesterday from Stockholm, by
way of Tulgarn, and were received with general enthu-
siam. The town was brilliantly illuminated ; the magis-
trates and the elders of the city received them at the
gates, and 50 young men on horseback, bearing torches,
conducted them to their apartments. The Qaeen Dow-
ager arrived soon afterwards:

—Yesterday being the thirty-sixth anniversary of the
landing of the late King in Sweden, a numerous depu
tation waited on his Majesty, for permission to uncover
the fine statue of Charles John, which has been cast at
Munich, at the expeaso of the town. This permission
having been given, the ceremony took place with all the
pomp due to the memory of the deceased King.
BERLIN, OCT. 22.—The mission of the Duke Decazes
to Austria and Russia has me-t with some impediments,
the Cabinets of Vienna and St. Petersburgh, as it is
said, having spoken very decidedly on a certain transac-
tion.

say s :—" I can state to you, from a credi-
EIAMBURCH, OCT. 26.—A letter in the German Allye-
lin has received msny warnings,
m
lettertunY from Rome, that the life of the Pope is
notprivatetnsafe.
His Ho
and must make a ess
virtue of necessity. His dinner is
served at eleven o'clock, and remains standing till one,
i
till it is cold ; it ▪ s then examined by a chemist, and
warmed on the dinner tab!e over a spirit lamp. His
cup of chocolate for breakfast is prepared by the Came-
rario in his immedi▪
ate presence. When he goes to mass
he takes the host, the wine, and the water with him. At
a certain convent where be lately intended to administer'
the Sacrament, he neither performed the ceremony, nor I
took the usual refreshments. Such is the life of Pius
IX., the greatest benefactor of the Roman States."—
h amburgh rapers, Oct. 27.

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND
EDINBURGIL—A contemporary states, that when the
line of rail is completed between Berwick and Newcastle
the journey from Edinburgh to London will be a matter
of fifteen or sixteen hours. It is questioned whether
the journey will be of such a duration by several hours.
By the present speed of the Great Western express trains
the distance between Edinburgh and London would be
traversed in about nine hours and five minutes ; and by
the speed of bout nine and North Western express
trains in eleven hours. But both the broad and narrow
gauge companies have proved that the present speed of
private trip on the North-
Western
per hour may be
their express trains can be considerably increased. The
working of the broad gauge engine called the " Great
Western" shows that with trains of 80 or 90 tons an
average
eedeorfeefieintytmiles
Birmingham and Manchester, the
easily express
attlai
line
no y
betweend s,
and
the
1 working of which was conclusive that with light passen-
ger trains the narrow gauge engine can run from Lon-
don to Edinburgh in ten hours. There is reason to be-
lieve that some new narrow-gauge engines that have
lately been placed upon the North-Western line would,
with moderately heavy trains, accomplish the journey in
less than ten hours. The snail from London to Liver-
pool (203 miles) was about twenty-one hours on its
journey. The Great Western express train would tra-
vel to Edinburgh and back in two hours' less time.
There is little doubt that a mail train will, upon the
completion of the railways to Edinburgh, run the whole
journey between London and that city within ten hours
THE ARCHDUKE PALATINE. —We have great
satisfaction in copying the following paragraph:—
" Pesth, Oct. 22.—The Archduke Palatine is not dead,
as reported in the papers of yesterday. The medical
bulletin issued this day respecting the health of the
Archduke Palatine has excited general joy, inasmuch as
it confirms the reports which were afloat yesterday of
the great improvement in the state of his health. His
Imperial Highness Archduke Charles, elder brother of
the Archduke Palatine, left his august brother this
morning, which is considered as an evident indication of
the confidence with which the recovery of the Archduke
Palatine is anticipated. The Archduke Stephan is still
here, and many touching scenes are related which be-
token the deep feeling
of the young Prince at the sick
bed of his father. The bulletin states, 'His Imperial
Highness enjoyed great composure and quietude
throughout the whole of yesterday. He has passed a
very tranquil night, and his recovery proceeds gradually.
—Ofen, Oct. 22, nine o'clock, A.M.—H. WURTLEM.'—
Dr. Steinnaapler, body physician to the Archduke
Charles, set out with that Prince yesterday."
labour Working
Dorchester Railway, in the East ngMag-
dalen's Field, was walking on the iron rail at the moment
in a ortion of the tunnel formi for
a loaded waggon was approaching him, drawn by a
powerful horse, when the shoe of his left foot, which was
very defective, caught in the rail, and he fell with his
leg across the iron ; the wheel of the
loaded waggonpassed obliquely up the poor fellow's leg from his heel
to the calf, lacerating the flesh, and breaking the leg
frightfully. He was picked up, but had fainted, and
was conveyed in au insensible state to the South Hants
Infirmary, when it was found that amputation was in-
stantly necessary to have a chance of saving life. The
poor sufferer was warned in the morning, it being his
first engagement in the works, to be careful in walking
on the metals (as the rails are called by the men) with
his bad shoes, and he had promised to be careful. The
i
poor fellow's leg was amputated.
terday the house No. 17, Hanover-square, publicly7astsThere
opened for the reception of gratuitous in-patients. OPENING OF AN lIOM(EPATHIC HosrrrAL.--Yes-
disea,e3 at present on the books, besides a
The institution
of' individuals daily applying for relief. .
Lord
are upwards of 800 cut-patients suffering underitc.hlr.o.n.tic
rew bi4rYt &g,
Hobert GrodYeilor, Ma', the Eitrl of §ll-- .
is under the presidency of the Earl of Wilton,

NORTH BRITISH.
EDINBURGH, SATUTDAY.—Yesterday a special general
meeting of the proprietors was held here in the saloon
of Gibbs's Royal Hotel, to determine whether the com-
pany should proceed with the Bill for the formation of
the Edinburgh and Perth line.
Mr. Joins LEARMONTE, of Dean, chairman of the
company, presided, and stated the views of the directors
regarding their present position, observing that the di-
rectors have felt that they were placed in circumstances
of very considerable difficulty in regard to the Edin-
burgh and Perth line. They have ascertained beyond
all question that there is a very considerable body of the
shareholders of the North British Company strongly op-
posed to that line. They have also ascertained within
these few days the notorious fact that the opposition
whieh will be given to that line in Parliament has been
greatly strengthened by the additional strength which
has been imparted to the Scottish Central Railway by
their association with that powerful body reaching from
London to Perth. There also occurred to their con-
sideration various legal difficulties ; and, influenced by
these various views, they have come to a resolution
which I must now state to you, namely, that under
these altered circumstances, they deem it inexpedient
to continue their support to the Edinburgh and Perth
line.—(Great applause.) I can assure you that my own
views, at least, of the value of that line to this company
are unchanged. I wish that that lino had been made.
We have a strong interest in it ; for I am persuaded that
neither this nor any other company ought to be confined
within its own strict limits ; but I cannot give my own
judgment that weight so as to induce me to go on with
what I believe to be almost impracticable. 1 believe it
to be difficult, and very difficult indeed, for the Edin-
burgh and Perth Company to obtain their Act in the
face of the oppoSition which I have stated to you ; and I
believe still more if we go to Parliament for a Bill to
enable us to amalgamate with that company, opposed as
we certainly are by a very important section of the
North British Company, although a minority—for I
am prepared to tell you that section is in a minority—it
will be impossible for us to obtain from Parliament the
power to amalgamate with the Edinburgh and Perth. In
this attempt we will unquestionably have the opposition
of a considerable body of our own shareholders to con-
tend with, backed by other and foreign interests.—
(Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances, and looking
to the variety of legal difficulties that will arise from
various quarters, as I have now stated to you, it is the
desire of the directors not to vote for going on with the
Edinburgh and Perth scheme so far as they are concerned.
Of course we have no right to dictate to that company;
but so far as your interests are concerned, if it is your
pleasure to concur iu the views I have now stated, the
directors of the North British Company will take those
measures which present themselves, and of which they
will make the best use, to withdraw their support from
that company.—(Applause.)
Mr. WOTHERSPOON, of Liverpool, intimated his con-
tinued and determined opposition to the Edinburgh and
Perth. They would be opposed by the London and
North Western Company, and the whole of the lines
now incorporated with that line, extending from London
to Carlisle. They would likewise have the opposition
of the Caledonian, the Scottish Central, and the Edin-
burgh and Northern Companies to contend against; and
last, but not least, the opposition of a powerful and
determined body of their own shareholders, who would
not suffer snch a scheme to be carried out in Parlia-
ment.—(Applause.) He concluded by moving to the
effect that the thanks of the meeting be' given to the
chairman and directors of the company for the gracious
manner in which they had acceded to the expressed
wishes of a large body of the shareholders in with-
drawing their support from the Edinburgh and Perth
Company; and that they be instructed to take the most
prompt and effectual means to realise the scrip of the
Edinburgh and Perth Company, and that they charge
any loss arising therefrom in the accounts for the cur-
rent half-year.
Captain RICE, of York, seconded this.
Mr. SPENCE, a representative, from Birmingham, sup-
porting.
Mr. PEAS, advocate, opposed. The question was
simply this—the directors first spent 90,000/. in buying
a railway, and then some demur having arisen about the
purchase, the directors agreed to reconsider the matter.
This they had Accordingly done, and after giving to it
the fullest consideration, they had issued a report to the
shareholders, recommending that line, saying that they
were of the same opinion as they were before, as to its
value to the North British Company, and that it ought
by all means to be made. Now he must' say that the
recommendation of the directors was to him one of the
strongest reasons for going on with that line, because he
found that the giving of it up was recommended by par-
ties who had good reasons for wishing that it should he
abandoned, such as the Edinburgh and Northern. He
was perfectly petrified, on coining to the meeting to sup-
port that report, to find that the directors had turned
round and moved its disapproval. This certainly was
pertinent to the matter In fore the meeting.
Mr. JAMES AYTOUN, advocate, contended that the cir-
cumstances with regard to the Edinburgh and Perth
Railway were entirely changed, and that was the ground
on which the directors had come to the determination to
abandon the scheme, which was a good scheme at the
time they entered upon it. Last year the Edinburgh
and Perth line had almost a certainty of passing ; at
that time an agreement was made with the Edinburgh
and Northern, by which no opposition was to be offered;
and at that time also there waa,a similar agreement with
the Scottish Central; all of which circumstances afforded
a good reason for the North British entering into the
arrangement that they had done. Mr. Ay toun then
showed that, as the Edinburgh and Perth Bill had been
lost in Parliament, the agreement with the North Bri-
tish was at an end; and having quoted the authority of
Mr. Rutherford to support this argument, he went on to
maintain, with regard to the proxies, that the directors
had acted in a fair and proper manner in using as they
bad done those which lest the matter to their discretion.
Mr. WILLIAMSON, of Kinross, moved approval of the
views expressed in the directors' report in regard to the
Edinburgh and Perth Railway, and that the directors be
instructed to carry these into effect.
Mr. PEAS seconded the motion.
After a good deal of discussion, Mr. Williallason at
length consented to withdraw his motion, on the condi-
tion that it should be recorded in the minutes that 2,202
proxies had been received by the directors for going On
with the line. The motion of Mr. Wotherspoon was ac-
cordingly declared to be carried.
THE LATE DISASTERS ON THE WORKS.
Before the meeting separated,
The CHAIRMAN adverted to the late disasters on the
[file. They had put themselves into the bands of the
most eminent engineer in Scotland, and the line was sur-
veyed before it was opened to the public. Certainly,
misfortunes have happened to the line, but they have
been grossly and greatly exaggerated. You may have
seen a letter in the newspapers from the secretary, in-
forming you of the extent and of the original cost of the
bridges which have fallen down. That statement is cor-
rect, and, therefore, you may judge yourselves of the
cost required for the reparation of the bridges.
The expense is very trifling indeed, but cer-
tainly we have suffered greatly by the inconvenience
that has occurred in travelling upon the line. The
traffic has been greatly interrupted. In order to meet
the convenience of the public, we have been at very
great expense, not sparing ourselves any way. I am
happy to acquaint you that we will be able, if the wea-
ther continues such as it is at the present moment, to
open the line throughout in ten or fourteen days. I
have only to say that no one could lament more than
the directors did this matter. We, of course, being
placed in the more prominent responsibility, have felt
it most severely, and it has occupied a considerable
share of our thoughts. I believe that it will be ad-
mitted that the flood from which we suffered was a most
severe one. The line was rapidly got together. Tho
lime and whinstone required time to cement, and time
had not been given for that to take place. These
bridges, however, would have fallen, whether or not
the railway had been opened ; and, therefore, it is
merely the loss of traffic which we have in the mean-
time lost that we have sustained. I believe that we have
gained more by traffic since the railway was opened than
the loss we have experienced.
• In answer to a question as to whether General Pasley
ir had given in any report to the directors on the present
condition of the line,
The CHAIRMAN said that they had not received any
written report from that gentleman on the subject. He
was, however, happy to acquaint them that General
Pasley had in conversation stated that he was most
highly satisfied with the line, and with the new repairs
which had been made upon the works. General Pasley
believed that they were most substantial, and were most
properly done, and he expressed his most complete satis-
faction with the works now in progress. He (the Chair-
man) believed that there was no better line in the king-
dom than the North British, The misfortune they had
met with had certainly caused them to take very great
pains with the line to Hawick. Every attetation had
been paid to that branch, and he could assure them that
not a single conduit had given way in the works there.
In reference to the North British, General Pasley, he
believed, almost authorised him to say that he was ex-
tremely well pleased with the line, such as it was, and
that he had only one fault to find along the whole line.
His report would be published in the newspapers so soon
as it was given in.

RITMOURED OFFERS OF LEASE.
A Shareholder asked if there was any truth in the re-
port as to an offer to lease the North British ?
The CHAIRMAN felt great pleasure in answering the
question. At the York meeting, which had lately taken
place, suggestions had been made for amalgamating with
the North British line. These suggestions had not been
put into any shape whatever. The subject had been
discussed at York, and Mr. Hudson had expressed his
readiness to enter into terms with this company. No
terms had yet been proposed to them. Some gentlemen
had come from York with the view of having some dis-
cussion about the subject; but the matter was not in any
shape in which the directors could give any opinion.
The shareholders might depend upon it that the matter
would be seriously considered in its present aspect by the
directors, who would give a dispassionate opinion with-
out reference to themselves at all. Ile might further
mention that this was not the only approach that had
been made to the North British Company, and therefore
they were in a better position than they were probably
aware of. There was more than one bidder for the
company.--(Applause.) The directors would do nothing
in the matter without having the full.conEent and appro-
bation of the shareholders. He hoped that in any com-
munication they might have with the York and Newcas-
tle Company, the directors would get the approbation of
the shareholders for whatever they might advise them to
consent to.

CIEUECII EXTENSION IN PROVINCES.—The
Norfolk Railway Company have presented the handsome
contribution of 3,000/. towards the Qrection, of the Thorpe
ballet net chuxcb, War9lk.