The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in an
open carriage on Sunday afternoon in the pleasure-
grounds of Osborne House.

Yesterday morning their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and
the Princess Alice, were taken on ponies to the beach
fur their accustomed exercise.

Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual
early walk yesterday in the plantations of Osborne
House.

There was no addition to the Royal dinner party at
Osborne House en Sunday Evening►.
The Duke of Cumbridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester on Sunday at Gloucester
House. The Royal Duke went to Kew in the after-
noon.

Mr. Candy had an interview with the Earl of
Dalhousie and Sir George Clerk, yesterday, at the office
of the Board of Trade.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel returned to their residence,
in Whitehall-gardens, yesterday afternoon, from
Worthing.

Earl Jermyn hail an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

Mr. Grogan, Af.P., had an interview, yesterday, with
the Earl of Dalhousie, at the office of the Board of
Trade.

ADELPHI THEATRE.
A new and most interesting drama, in two acts (from
the French), intitled The Cabin Boy, was produced at
this theatre last evening. The scene is laid in the Island
of Guadaloupe, where we find the Mademoiselle Jenny
Laroche (Miss Woolgar), has been left by her father
much in debt. There are two suitors for her hand,
M. Henri (Mr. Braid), a lieutenant in the French navy,
and M. Vincent (Mr. 0. Smith), a rich planter. Vincent
is a hard and harsh taskmaster, and is hated by every-
body. In order to secure the hand of the lady, he buys
up all her father's debts, and then, as the principal
creditor, threatens to deprive her of all her property sin-
less she consents to be his bride. She haughtily rejects
his suit, and gives up the whole of her property to him,
announcing her determination of leaving the island with
Henri. Vincent replies that she cannot leave the island
until her debts are liquidated, but it is urged that, as she
is yet a minor, she is not answerable personally for
her father's debts. Vincent demands proof of her
minority ; the ship of Henri is to sail in the
morning—a dreadful storm is raging—the certificate
of her birth is in a neighbouring isle. Who will venture
on the sea in the fearful storm to seek it? Julien
(Madame Celeste) a cabin-boy—the adopted son of Lar-
garette (Mr P. Bedford), an old pilot, volunteers to
cross the sea in a canoe. Mademoiselle Laroche has
been kind to his old mother, and gratitude impels the
brave boy to risk his life in her service. He embarks in
the midst of the raging storm, and thus ends the first
act. In the second act, we find that the sale of the
property of Mademoiselle Laroche has taken place.
The pilot has picked up at sea the hat of a cabin-boy,
and the canoe floating capsized. Suddenly Julien enters
—he has performed his mission, having swam to the
neighbouring Isle of Dominica, and having returned,
bringing with him the papers which he delivers to Vincent.
The papers prove t hat she isa. inor. But alas! they also
prove that she is a slave, beingm the daughter of La oche,
and of an unemancipated mother. Vincent has her put
up to auction and purchases her, the cabin-boy oilers to
become a slave in her place, so that he will emancipate
her, but Laroche refuses to emancipate except on condi-
tion that she will become his wife. She asks for time
to write a last letter to Henri, and retires for that pur-
pose; Vincent rushes forward to 6:rag, forth his victim,
but Julien seizing a musket, threatens to shoot him dead
upon the spot if he dares to advance. At this instant
the pilot enters and recognises in Vincent the captain of
a pirate ship, which has long been a terror to the Car-
ribbeen scac. He communicates his discovery to Julien,
and goes off to give information to the governor of the
island. Julien immediately advances to Vincent, tells
him that he knows him as the captain of the pirate, and
repeats to him the pirate's signal. Vincent, finding he
is discovered, offers any sum of money to Julien to
permit him to escape. Julien demands the emancipation
of Jenny, which he refuses. Henri enters, and Julien
threatens to denounce him to the French officers. Vin-
cent then signs the act of emancipation, and is about to
make his escape, when he is arrested by the guards of
the government, to whom the pilot has conveyed the in
formation. Henri and Jenny are united, and all ends hap-
pily. The acting of Madame Celeste, as the cabin-boy,
was full of energy and pathos; and Miss Woolgar, as
Jenny, came cut in quite a new character; she was beau-
tifully pathetic—Mrs. Yates, in her best days, could not
have acted the character more beautifully. Munyard,
as a curiosity dealer from Paris, was very funny,
although he was wanting in the rich unctieusness
which Wright would have infused into the part. 0.
Smith, as Vincent, was the prince of villains, and Paul
Bedford was the pilot, who not only weathered, but raised
the storm—to wit, a storm of applause whenever he made
his appearance. The house was crowded, and the success
of the piece was decisive. We can promise The Cabin Boy
a long and happy voyage, for his sails will be filled by
the gale of public approbation as long as he chooses to
continue it.

LONDONDERRY and ENNISKILLEN

RAILWAY.

A Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of this Com-
pany was held in the Board. room, at their offices, 5, Church-
passage, Guildhall, at one o'clock yesterday, to approve of the
Bill, now pending in Parliament, for altering the line of .Rail-
way, and extending it to the bridge of Londonderry.—Mr.
I. G. Frith took the Chair.
The SRCRLTARY read the advertisement.
The CluattsiAN said they were no doubt aware of the pur-
port of their meeting. It appeared from Mr. Stephenson's
report, which they had received last year, recommending an
alteration in the line, that a saving would be effected by that
alteration to the Company of 209,0001. It was necessary,
however, to have a Bill from Parliament, sanctioning that al-
teration, and they had been called together to consider whether
they would authorise the change.
The CHAIRMAN moved, and Mr. SKYSIER seconded, a
resolution to that effect, which was carried without oppo-
sition.

Mr. Stephenson's report to the Company confirming his
report after actual surveys had bees made, was then read, and
the meeting separated.

LONDON AND► BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of the proprietors of this rail-
way was held yesterday, at one o'clock, at the Terminus'
Euston-square, for the purpose of confirming, or otherwise, a
conditional agreement for selling and transferring the Trent
Valley Railway to this Company. Mr. Glyn occupied the
chair.

The advertisement announcing the meeting having been
read,

The CHAIRMAN said, as the subject-matter of the
amalgamation of the London and Birmingham into
the Trent Valley Company had been so often before
them, it would be unnecessary for him to trouble
them with any lengthened observations. It was
necessary to call them together, because the Legislature had
wisely provided that their sanction to such an agreement
should be in the first instance obtained, and that a subse-
quent meeting should be convened to confirm it. They
would recollect that so far back as their meeting in
August, 1844, the question of the London and
Birmingham Company becoming purchasers of or part-
ners in the Trent Valley Railway was brought before
them, and was unanimously approved of. At a special
general meeting, held in February, 1845, a further propo-
sition for effecting such an amalgamatien, was brought before
them—namely, that they should become lessees of that
line, that the directors of the two Companies should sit at
the same board, and that their shares should be considered
of the same value as the London and Birmingham shares.
Their co-partners in that arrangement were the Grand Junc-
tion and the Manchester and Birmingham Companies;
each Company taking 2 -9ths, and the Trent Valley pro-
prietors 3-9ths. In the Act which received the royal
assert last year, a provision was inserted giving them power
to lease the line to this Company, or to this Company in
conjunction with the Grand Junction and Manchester and
Birmingham Companies. In preparing the deed for leasing
the line several technical objections had been discovered,
which first called the attention of the directors to
the great inconvenience which could not fail to
arise on account of three-ninths of the shares
being held by the Trent Valley proprietors. The Directors
finding that the Trent Valley proprietors were disposed to
make the bargain a money one, entered into an agreement
with them to purchase their shares at 281. each, namely, 231.
for the premium to which they had arisen, and 51. for the
money paid upon them by those to whom they were allotted.
It was, therefore, evident that this arrangement was
the best which could be devised, as it was
quite clear from the favourable position which the
Grand Junction and the Manchester and Birmingham line now
occupied, possessing as they (the London and Birmingham)
did, 6.-9ths of the whole capital of the Trent Valley, and the
amalgamation of them all, and the arrangement of the whole
accounts and business details,
that
they would all derive
greater advantages from the arrangements into which they
had entered than under a lease. After a few other
remarks, he concluded by pressing the confirmation of the re-
solution passed at the last meeting for the amalgamation of
the two Companies, which was acceded to.
1 bset hi n
a day of April next;
condition to do so, the
Trent Valley proprietors would not be entitled to reciva
In reply to several questions, the CHAIRMAN stated
that they might defer the payment of the purchase-money
until the 15th of July ; but that he had every
reason to believe that they would be in a con-
ditionbut,supptoosidnog
from them any interest on their capital until the opening if
the line. They confidently expected that the line would be
opened in the middle of next year.
The meeting then separated.
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A very extensive importation of Italian Sculpture
has been removed from the Docks to Robins's auction rooms,
in Covent Garden, and is now arranged for public view pre -
preraratory to the sale, which takes place on Thursday.
Lovers of the Fine Arts will find congregated rare mamples
of modern sculpture, far surpassing any previous consignment
from Italy. The collection includes numberless figures copied
from the renowned models of the ancient masters, which
adorn the Florentine and Roman Galleries; well calculated,
from their chasteness of design and elegance, as ornaments
for the drawing-room, whilst the noble vases and tazzas,
sculptured from the rare marbles of Tuscany and Elba, pre-
sent splendid specimens of modern art for the gallery and
vestibule. The sale is directed by the importer to take place
unreservedly.
HORRIBLE DISCLOSURES AT NOTTINGRAM.—TheNo
lingham Journal mentions the discovery in that town of a practice o
procuring abortion, carried on systematically by some female
wretches, who charged regular fees according to the advanced state
of pregnancy. A young woman, named Catherine Snowden, last
week fell a victim to the practice, and a coroner's inquest was held
on her body, when the horrible system became known. A woman,
named Goodall, was apprehended on the charge, but the coroner's
jury returned merely a verdict of—" Died from inflammation of the
bowels." Who eaS9 Wal, however, be hrelight berm the =nista*.