The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-29 00:00:00

BOYAL VISIT TO THE LEVIATHAN.

This great ship received its crowning honour yes-
terday in a visit from her Majesty and the Prince
Consort, accompanied by the King of the Belgians
and the other imperial and royal guests at present
on a visit at this Court.

The royal party left Buckingham Pa' ace shortly
before five o'clock, and travelling by road, reached
the victualling-yard at Deptford in little more than
half an hour. Here her Majesty was received by
Cape. Buckle and the other officials of the esta-
blishment, by whom the royal party were conducted
to the landing jetty, scarcely honoured by such an
occurrence since Queen Elizabeth went to visit the
the ship of Sir Francis Drake, from the same spot.
The royal party then entered the Admiralty barge,
and dropped down to the ship, the vast proportions
of which evidently struck them with surprise as
they approached her side. A commodious com-
panion-ladder, covered with crimson cloth, had
been rigged out for the occasion, up which her Ma-
jesty ascended easily, and as one who was ac-
customed to shipboard.
Mr. Yates, the secretary of the company, and
Captain Harrison, awaited her Majesty at the gang-
way, on reaching which she was received by Mr.
H. T. Hope and his co-directors, Sir Joseph
Paxton, M.P., Hon. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Mr.
R. J. R. Campbell, M.P., Mr. Samuel Baker, Mr.
Sr. George Burke. The deck of the ship not being
yet laid, on the iron framing a platform had been
constructed for the royal party, ex! ending her
full length, along which they proceeded-, Mr.
Yates and Captain Harrison explaining on their
way the va:iuus arrang,AnLl,ts :In-! construction of
the gigantic vessel. After making the tour of
the deck, the Queen, accompanied by the royal
party, returned to the bows °lithe ship, whke a
dais had been elevated, from which the royal party
had an opportunity of surveying the whole extent
of this mighty vessel. On Mr. Yates partially
apologising for the rude, unfinished state in which
the ship appeared, her Majesty was pleased to ex-
press
her great admiration of the first idea of its
construction, and her singular pleasure at seeing
the successful manner in which the fabric of its
structure had been so successfully brought neAlly
to completion. Her Majesty added with much
graciousness that she felt a warm interest in the
ship as a monument of national naval enterprise,
and she hoped that it would ever remain part of
the mercantile navy of the country, an aspiration
which the directors hastened to respond to by an
assurance that as Endishmen they would take care
that a ship so honoure I should never sail under a
foreign flag. ILI. Majesty then intimated a wish
to inspect the machinery, but the descent into the
engine-room being considered not sufficiently com-
modious, the royal party ma re invited to view them
from the hatchway. From this point Captain
Harrison explained all the gigantic mechanism by
which the inotiAi of this vast argosy would be given
and controlled. The royal party appeared very
much interested in this portion of their visit. After
remaining there for more than a quarter of an hour,
the royal party were conducted to the principal
saloon in the fora part of the vessel, where an idea
was conveyed of the abundant accommodation
which the ship in its future arrangements will sup-
ply by temporary fittings-up for her Majesty's re-
ception.
The royal party remained on board nearly an
hour, evidently highly gratified, and before leaving
her Maj-sty again expressed her sense of the great-
ness of the enterprise which had placed this nation
so far in advance of all others in the important
science of naval architecture.

The King of the Belgians united with her Ma-
jesty in the high compliment to the public spirit ,)f
the directors, and was pleased to honour with his
especial notice Mr. Yates, not only as the principal
mover in this grand undertaking, but also person-
ally, as having been one of the first Englishmen
whom he had met on landing at Dover in 1816.
The royal party on leaving tho ship were rowed
back to the vietualling.yard, experiencing on their
way the common fate of all who now navigate the
Thames between Battersea and Gravesend. Her
Majesty was, perforce, cc_mpelled to hold her bou-
quet to her face, and the whole party were evi-
dently pleased hen they reached the shore.
The visit was strictly private, and beyond the
directors and crew of the vessel no one was
allowed on board, with the exception of Mr. J.
W. Sams, the West-end agent for the exhibition of
the ship.

The directors, in acknowledgment of the honour
eDitfer.l ed by the royal visit, have determined to
set asde the proceeds of the exhibition of the
ship on Saturday next for the benefit of the Poplar
Hospital and the Dreadnought.
The public will 'elm with satisfaction that the
directors have also resolved to restore to the ship
the prestige of its former name, and henceforth the
vessel will be known as the " Great Eastern."

EXTENSIVE BANSEUPTCY.—A sequestration, wo regret
to state, was taken out on Saturday in the affairs of the
firm of C. D. Young and Co., Edinburgh, very exter •
sively engaged in the trade of wire-working and iron.
founding, and also known in connection with speculations
in newspapers. The difficulties of the house have for
some time been pretty notorious, and it was considered
almost certain that a crisis would be brought on by
r, cent events in connection with the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Bank. A meeting of the creditors was held
about a fortnight since, and adjourned for a week with-
out coming to any arrangement—the offer being, we
believe, 4'. in the pound ; and in the end of last wrek
the attempt was abandoned. The largest creditor is the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank, to which the firm is
indebted to the enormous amount of 108,0001. The
firm gave employment to probably not far short of a
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