The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert rode on hrTsebaclr, on
Friday afternoon, in the pleasure grounds of Osborne
House.

The Royal Children took a carriage airing on Friday
afternoon, and on Saturday walked and rude on the
sea beach.

On Saturday afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Viscountess
Canning and the Hon. Miss Kerr, drove in a car to East
Cowes and Barton Woods. The. Equerries in Waiting,
the Hon. Colonel Grey and Colonel Bouverie, attended
on horseback.

The royal dinner party at Osborne House, on Satur-
day, included the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of
Ormonde, Lord and Lady Ashley and Mr. Shedden.
Yesterday her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the
ladies and; gentlemen of the royal suite, attended
Divine service in Whippini,ham Church. The Rev. Mr.
Protheroe officiated.

The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took
their usual airings yesterday.
If& Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia, attended
by her suite, arrived at Marlborough House, Pall, mall,
on Saturday morning, from Cashtobury Park, Herts, the
residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The
Princess visited his Royal Highness Prince George in
the afternoon at his residence in St. James's Palace,
where her Royal Highness was met by her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, who arrived in town,
and also by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who
arrived from their residence at Kew.

A dejeuner was served to the illustrious party, which
included their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Prussia,
the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, Prince George, and the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, his Excel-
lency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Hon. Miss Eden, Baron
Witzleben, Ccunt Puckler, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
and Mr. E. Mildmay.
After luncheon the Princess of Prussia accompanied
by the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz honoured the
establishment of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell with a
visit.

The Princess of Prussia, attended by her suite, left
town at six o'clock by the London and Isl',•rth- Western
Railway, on her return to Cashiobury Park.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Here-
ditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, returned to Kew.

COWES, ISLE OF 'WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROH OSBORNE.
SEPT. 20.—Her Majesty,
Prince Albert, and the royal
children, leave Cowes at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning
for Windsor ; they are not expected back again till
November.

Her Majesty attended divine service at Whippingham
Church this morning.
THE LATE EARL OF YARBOROUGH.
The Kestrel, with the remains of the Earl of Yar-
borough on board, has not arrived. The account of his
Lordship's death in the Times is a very incorrect one.
He died on the sth, not the 10th; and as to his Lordship's
death having been caused by eating unripe grapes the
day before, he had not eaten anything for four days.
Also as to his having been found dead in his bed ; there
were several present when he died—in fact his doctor
and valet had not had their clothes off for seven days,
but were in constant attendance. Indeed, nothing was
wanting ; and if the writer had known how much his
Lordship was beloved by all on board, he would not
have written what he did. On the arrival of the Kestrel
in these roads, the different yachts and the Royal Yacht
Squadron battery, will each salute with 66 guns.—Wind
E. N. E.

The body of the Hon. A. Duncombe is to be moved
from Cowes :o London on Monday.
Her Majesty's ship Ajax is to go out of the Medina
dock on Tuesday. She has been fitted for a steam
guard•ship.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENlNG.—Yesterday evening
another train of the royal carriages was brought down
by the Great Western Railway from London to Slough,
where a number cf the Queen's horses and grooms were
waiting to take them to the royal stables ut the Castle.
The gilders, upholsterers. and others who have been
engaged in the decorations of the Castle this last
month, completed their labour on Saturday evening, and
everything is now ready for the immediate reception of
the Court. There is now no doubt whatever, that on
Tuesday next her Majesty and the Court will return to
Windsor, for orders have been given for the royal car-
riages to be in waiting at Broomball Hut, midway be-
tween the Farnborough station of the South-Western
Railway and Windsor Castle, to meet the royal party on
their return from the Isle of Wight. Her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent had a small dinner party on
Saturday evening, having previously rode out with the
Baroness de Spaeth and Lady Anna Maria Dawson in
the Great Park.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.

—Queen Adelaide and the Princess of Prussia, with the
members of their respective suites, will remain guests
of the Queen till the 29th inst., during which time her
Majesty will give a series of splendid banquets in honour
of the Princess of Prussia. Her Royal Highness will
then return to Marlborough House, and according to
arrangements at present contemplated, will embark on
board the Black Eagle, at Woolwich, on the Ist of next
month for Rotterdam, on her return to Berlin.

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON--A paragraph has gone
the round of the journals that Prince Louis Napoleon
was at Ostend awaiting his passport to proceed to Flo-
rence to take possession of the fortune that he will inhe-
rit by his father's death. There is no truth in the state-
ment. The Prince is still residing at Bath, where his
cousin, the Prince de Montfort, accompanied by M. and
Madame Corr 6, have arrived from Italy.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford intend to re-
ccleoiTsee aofsuccessionn
go visitorsfmo nth. at Woburn
party
assemble onn Abbey, at the
.
the 28th.

The Earl and Countess Cowper left Panshanger,
their seat in Herts, on Saturday last, on a tour of visits.
Lord Carteret has given the handsome donation of
1001. in aid of the erection of national schools at Stratton,
Cornwall, as well as a sufficiency of land for a bite.
DRAYTON MANOR.—Sir Robert and Lady Peel
have during the last week received a numerous and dis-
tinguished circle of visitors at their seat in Staffordshire:
his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, the Countess
Dietrichstein, his Excellency Count Pollon, his Excel-
lency Prince Castelcicala, Sir Stratford and Lady Can-
ning, Miss Canning, Viscount and Viscountess Villiers,
&c. His Excellency Baron Brunnow, Lord Forester, the
Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert, and other visitors,
are expected in a few days.
CONTENTS OF " BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON" OF
SEPTEMBER 20 :—Eight folio columns of Doncaster
four days' races, including a portrait of the winner, by
The
aquatics,
v aer Ilse
two columnst o syorting
matters ;
and about fourteen folio columns of miscellaneous Intel-
ligence. Mr. Herring, ben. ; other races, about two columns and
a half ; cricketing, upwards of four columns ; pedes-
trianism, two columns and a half ; a column of chess, a
column
Evadvertisements, nand
ahal
f o f angling,
chiefly la re i
Bell's Life, price 6d., is published in time for
all the Saturday afternoon railways. T
weekly sale of Bell's Life exceeds 25,000 mph B.
NORTH AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, SATUR-
DAY.—The Royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain
Ayres, sailed hence to-day with the usual mails for
Canada and the United States. The Great Britain sails
, again for New York on Tuesday next.

RAIL WAY INTELLIGEIN CE.

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.
SUREWSAURY, SATURDAY EVENING.—The first general
meeting of the shareholders was held to-day at the Lion
Hotel, Shrewsbury, Mr. 0. Gore, M.P., in the chair.
There was a full attendance.
Mr. KNOX, the secretary, read the directors' report as
follows:—It is with much satisfaction that the directors
meet the proprietors for the first time under the provi-
sions of the Act of Incorporation, which obtained the
royal assent on the 3d of August, 1846, after a strenuous
opposition during two sessions of Parliament, on the
part of the promoters of competing schemes. In conse •
quence of the period to which the contest was prolonged
in the last session, and which, if an arrangement had not
been effected, would have prevented the Bills, of this and
other companies being introduced' into the House of
Lords in sufficient time to comply with the resolutions
of that House, and whereby Shropshire and the South
Staffordshire mining districts might have been deprived
for another year of the railway accommodation so much
desired, and the shareholders in the several undertakings
put to great additional expense and anxiety, the direc-
tors of this company, with the concurrtnce of other
parties in friendly alliance with them, and with the
sanction of the Committee of the House of Commons,
suggested terms of arrangement by which the (13-
jact of this company, in securing one conti-
nuous and unbroken line of railway communication
between Shrewsbvry and Birmingham, and thence to
London, will be obtained. The report then proceeds to
state the terms of arrangement approved of by the Group
Committee. Their substance, so far as the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham Company, as between Wolverhampton
and Birmingham, the main line proposed through Tip-
ton, Oldbury, and Sanethwiek, was sanctioned, with a
branch to Dudley, and will be executed under the sepa-
parate powers of the Act of Incorporation of the " Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway
Company," at the joint expense and for the joint benefit
of the London and North-Western, this company, the
Birmingham Canal, and the public, in four equal parts;
each party being represented on the board of manage-
ment by an equal number of directors, as between
Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton. The following ar-
rangement with the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and
South Staffordshire Junction Company was proposed
and agreed to:—That the line of railway from Shrews-
bury to Wolverhampton, with the branch to Coalbrook-
dale, laid down by the engineers of this company, should
be carried out and executed; -that the power should be
retained to make such portion of the line of the other
company as by a short diversion out of the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham line near Wolverhampton, might, if
requisite, enable a station to be formed on a lower level
at Wolverhampton, and that the capital, as between
Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, should be found equally
by both companies and the direction formed, and here-
after continued, of two-thirds elected by the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham shareholders, and one-third by those of
the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Stafford-
shire Company, which terms of amalgamation have been
ratified by the shareholders of the latter company at their
first public meeting. As between Shrewsbury and Wel-
lington, the line is to be formed at the joint expense,
and be the joint property of this company and of
the Shropshire Railway and Canal Company; and the
latter company is also to have power to run over the line
of this company, and to use their station at Wolver-
hampton upon terms to be hereafter settled. As the
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire
Junction shareholders are interested only as between
Shrewsbury and 'Wolverhampton, and not in the share I
of this company between Wolverhampton and Birming-
ham, two classes of shares are to be created; the one,
Class A, . for the Shrewsbury and Birmingham share-
holders, and Class B for those interested only between
Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton. The amalgamation
as to capital which was effected in December last with
the Dudley and Madeley Company was then made
known by advertisements and circulars to the share-
holders. By the arrangement then made a sum of
110,0001. was transferred to the credit of this company,
'and by the terms of the amalgamation a sum of about
25,0001. will have been obtained when the affairs of the
Dudley and Madeley Company
.are finally wound up,
towards the expenditure previously incurred by this
company. The next topic adverted to in the report was
the capital of the company, which is fixed by the Act at
1,300,0001., divided into 52,000 shares (Class A) of 25/.
each, with power to borrow any sum not exceeding one-
third of the capital when one-half of the sum has been
paid up. In order to comply with the Act, the present
shares have been reduced in the proportion of five shares
with 21. 103. paid on each, to four shares having 3L paid,
the surplus of 2s. per share to be returned with the new
certificates when they are issued. In order to carry out
the amalgamation -with the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and South Staffordshire Company, it is
provided by the Act of Incorporation, that it shall
be lawful for the company to reduce the nominal
value of the shares in this company to such
an extent, and to create such number of new
shares of -such amount as may be necessary for
ensuring the shareholders of the other company
an equal; participation in the capital between Shrews-
bury and Wolverhampton. The directors, therefore,
propose to create 52,000/. shares of the Class B, of the
nominal value of 101. each for the shareholders of the
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire
Junction Company. When the amalgamation with the
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Slaifordshire
shall have been completed, the amount of calls on shares
of Class A will be restricted, so that the united-capital
will not exceed the total amount authorised to be raised
by the Act. The directors have determined to proceed
with the works with all convenient speed. They hope
to make arrangements, and to obtain possession of the
land between Wellington and Oakengates, and to let the
contract for that portion of the line in the course of the
present year. This forms the heaviest part of the work,
as it includes both tunnels. The other contracts will be
let in sufficient time to have the whole of the works
finished and the line opened contemporaneously through-
out from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton. The plans
and specifications are also directed to be prepared for
the station at Wolverhampton; and as the directors have
been in possession of a portion of the land for some time,
they expect soon to let this contract, and to commence
the erection of a station sufficiently commodious for the
railways centering in Wolverhampton; and it is hoped
that the 'superior advantages of the high level will be
proved such as to render unnecessary the construction
of any other station. Specifications of the rails and
chains are ready to be sent to various manufacturers,
and the contract for these.will be forthwith entered into.

The directors are glad to state that, with the calls which
must be paid upon class B, so as to contribute an equal
amount to the shares of class A to the amalgamated scheme,
there will be funds sufficient to enter into and prosecute
the contracts referred to, without making any call on

the present shareholders, payable within the twelve
months from the passing of the Act. The directors have

had underaconsidaeratiozi the question of extensions, or

branches, from the present line. At present they have
only directed .their engineer to make the necessary sur-
veys for an extension of the line from the station at
Wolverhampton to the Grand Junction line at Willen-
hall, thereby effecting a communication from Shropshire
towards Walsall and Lichfield; as the Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley line forms a junction
with the Grand Junction line north of Wolverhampton,
both will supply the place of the Showhill and Portobello
branch, not prosecuted through Parliament. The direc-
tors have also in contemplation to extend the Coalbrook-
dale branch, so as to make it beneficial to the district,
and with which a convenient junction might be made of
the line fr,,in Dudley to Madeley, which the directors of
this company feel under a pledge to prosecute in the
next practicable session of Parliament. In the short
period which has elapsed since the passing of the Act it
has been found impossible to collect all the accounts and

adjust their settlement, but an abstract of the receipts
and expenditure has been drawn up. The directors ex-
pected that after taking credit for the sum received from
the Dudley and Aladeley Company, and the proportion
of the expenses incurred by this company, both in the
last and preceding session of Parliament, in respect of
that part of the line between Wolverhampton aid Bir-
mingham which is to be repaid to this company by the
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Com-
pany, the preliminary expenses up to the date of the
Act of incorporation will be less than los. per share,
which, considering the severe struggle that has been

carried on since the early part of 1844, and the value of
the undertaking secured, the directors trust will be most
satisfactory to the proprietary. The directors have
taken power in the Act to allow four per cent. en the
deposit and on all future calls. Interest on the deposits
will be paid from the respective dates of registration,
and shareholders wishing to anticipate calls will be al.
lowed interest on all amounts paid in advance. The
shares registered amount to 47,000, and, in order to

complete the register, the remairder will now be put
into the names of the original allottees. The report
concluded by recommending the appointment of di-
rectors and auditors, and the continuance in office of the
present secretary, Mr. George Knox.

The SECRETARY then proceeded to read an abstract of
receipts and expenditure to August, 1846:

RECEIPTS.
52,000 shares Class A, amount paid 31.
Return to be made on 6?5,000 scrip 6,500

At credit of capital account..
EXPEN DITURE.
Preliminary expenses as published in report of
October 8, 1845 .
Less received from the Dudley and Madeley
Company on amalgamation 23,087

£162,500

£29,943

£6,586

Subsequent expenses of advertising, printing,
rent, office expenses
*Solicitors, local and Parliamentary agents, and
engineer's account 37,731

1,785

Expenditure in carrying out the Act £46,373
Paid for land for station at Wolverhampton
Paid deposit of 221. per share on 13,875 shares,
or the fourth part of the capital of the Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley
Company

£85,516
The SECRETARY read the report of the directors pre-
sented at the first general meeting of the Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Company, with which
the Shrewsbury and Birmingham had bLcome partly
allied. The report congratulated the shareholders on
the success that had attended their application fur
powers to construct a line through the densely popu-
lated and important mineral district of South Stafford-
shire, and stated that the directors, during the progress
of the two Bills which were presented to Parliament,
considered it to be for the interest of the company to
withdraw, until the ensuingsesion of Parliament, the
Bill for that portion of the line between Suieth wick and
Stourport. Every exertion will be made to complete the
line at the earliest possible period. The engineer 4 are

. now actively engaged in making the Parlian.lentary
survey and working drawings.
After a good deal of desultory conversation on the
terms of arrangement entered upon with the Birming-
ham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Company, and
the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Stafford-
shire Junction Company, the re-election of the following
gentlemen as directors was proposed, seconded, and car-
ried unanimously :—Messrs. William Ormsby Gore,
M.P., the Hon. Henry Clive, M.P., John Benbow,
William Rickford Collett, M.P., Wm. Collins, M.P., Win.
Techney, Block, James Clay, "Stephen Phillips, Richard
Smith, George Probyn, William Bennitt, William
Chance, Richard Heath, Joseph King, and Win. Austice,
Pursuant to the recommendation of the directors,
Messrs. Benjamin Collett and Richard Law were ap-
pointed auditors, their remuneration being fixed at 201.
each per annum.
Mr. BLOCK proposed, and Mr. PIERCY seconded the
motion, " That Mr. George Knox be continued in the
office of secretary, at his present salary of 500/2 per
annum, until the opening of the line ; and in considera-
tion of the very zealous exertions of this gentleman, that
a sum of 3001. be presented to him, in order to testify
the sense which the proprietors entertain of his services
generally, and more oat tieularly in having been instru-
mental in effecting the amalgamation with the Dudley
and Madeley Company, an arrangement whereby the
opposition of that company, as a competing scheme, was
avoided, and the position of the Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham Company materially improved." •
The resolution was carried unanimously.