The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY' EVENING, AUGUST SI, 1850.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
PAISLEY RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, and 20 added.
Ooe mile. (6 Sub:.)
Mr. Roberts's Miss Lot:cry, 3 yea, ist 511) (G. Oates) 1
Mr. F. Nichol's Laundrymaid, aged, 9st 41b (Skeen() 2
Mr. Jamieson's Recluse, 3 yrs, 7st s:b (S. Peers) 3
Mr. Tremayne's B Ily, cgcd, Ost 41b (llalliwell) 4
Won by half a lergik.
The Paisley Cup of 401., added to a Sweepstakes of 5
sovs. each. Heats, once round. (4 Sul:tr.)
Mr. Thrift's John Dory, 7st 51b...(H. Robertson) 1 1
Mr. Roberts's Miss Lottery, 7st 5!b...(G. Oates) 2 2
The first heat was won by a length, and the second
by a neck.
The Glasgow Cup of 50/., aided to a Swe:pstakes of
10 Soya. each, h ft. Two miles. (2 Subs.)
Mr. J. Brown's Haricot, 3 yrs, Gat 1 llb (G. Oates) 1
Lord Eglinton's P,esima, 3 yrs, bit 1 llb ...(Walker) 2
Won easy.
The Settling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft, with 25 added,
by the Glasgow and Paisley Railway Company. Heats,
once round and a die. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Dewson's The Methodist, Oat 111 b ...(Ryder) 1 1
Mr. 13ineie's Sir Astlay Cooper, 7st 51b (Pringle) 3 2
Mr. Smart's Asi asia, 5 yrs, 9st 41b...(Rolertson) 2 3
Won cleverly.
The Burgh Members' Plate of 50 guineas. Heats, 2 miles.
Capt. holder's Woodland, 841 21b (Robertson) 1 3 1
Mr. Thrift's John Day, Tat 131 b ...(PI iugle) 2 1 dr
Mr. A. Johnston's be by Charles XII., 7st 21b 3 2 dr
Won easy.,
CANTERBURY RACES.—THUBSDAY.
The City Membere' Plate of 501. Heats, one mile and
a half.
Ur. C. Marson's Nutbrown, 3 yrs, 7st (Plummer) 1 1
Mr. Higgins's California, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (C. Boyce) 2 2
5/r. Sherrard's Florence Dombey, 9st llb (Etwall) 3 dr
The first heat was won by a length, and the second in
a canter. •
The East Kent Handicap of 10 soy& each, h ft, and 2
only if declared, with 80 added, the :wend to receive
2cl. out of the stakes, &c. Two miles. (18 Subs., of
whom 11 declared.)
Mr. Hawkins's The Marchioness, 4yrs, 6st (Sherrerd) 1
Mr. E. R. Clark's Rodney, 4 yrs, 7st (Dockeray) 2
Mr. Scott's Landseer, 4 yrs, Est
Mr. Anderson's Iby Redshank, 5.t 12ib (G. Mann) 1
Won easy by two lengths, Rodney beating Landseer
for second place by a neck.
The Ramsgate Plate of 331, added to a Sweepstakes of
3 sovs. each. Heats, one mile.and a half. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Hornsby's Old Fox, 4 yrs, Bst (Hornsby, jun.) 1 1
Mr. Simmonds's Dan Tucker, Bst slb (Etwall) 2dr
Mr.' Anderson's Diana, 3 yrs, Est 41b (G. Mann) 3 dr
Wen easy.
The Ladies' Purse and a Sweepstakes of 2 soya. each
(6 Subs.) were won in a canter, by Mr. Simmonds's I)an
Tucker, 5 yrs, lOst 6'b (owner), beating Lady Ford-
wich, aged 1 2st 21b; Bedford, 4 yrs, 10et 41b; and Flo-
rence Dombey, 6 yrs, 1 2st.
FRIDAY.
The Stewards' Plate of 50/. Heats, once round and a
distance.
Mr. Simmonds's Dan Tucker, 5 yrs, 7st 81b ... 0 1 1
Captain Lemotte's Miss Nipper, 5 yrs, 7st 51b 1 0 3
Mr. E. R. Clark's Rodney, 4 yre, Bst 71b
Mr. Marson's Nutbrown, 3 yrs, bat 61b
Mr. Wotton's Marchioness, 4 yrs, Est 1 llb
Mr. Greville's Puffy, 4 yrs, 7st 71b . . 0 dr
The first heat was won by a neck, and the others by
a length. The winner was claimed fir 50/.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas. Heats, two miles.
Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalie, Ost 6b (R. Pettit) 1 1
Mr. J. S. Douglas's Cora, 8.1 2ib (Abrahams) 3 2
Mr. Scott's Landseer, 9st 6lb
Both heats won by a length.
The Isle of Thanet Plate of 40t, added to a Sweepstakes
of 2 soya. each; the winner to be sold for 1 2 01., and
the second to receive Si. out of the stakes. Heats, one
mile. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Hornsby's Old Fox, Bst Ila (C. Hornsby, jun.) 1 1
Mr. Wotton's Marchioness, 4 yrs, Bst 91b (Email) 2 2
Mr. Anderson's Diana, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (G. Mann) 0 dr
Mr. Marson's Nutbrown, 7st 71b (Plummer) odr
The first heat was won by a head, arid the second by
two lengths.
The City Plate. Heats, one mile and a half. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Simmonds's Dan Tucker, 5 yrs, Bst 91b... 2 1 1
Mr. Anderson's Diana, 5.t 1211 ...(G. Mann) 1 2 dr
The first two heats were %ion by a length, and the third
walked over for.

HER MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL IN

EDINBURGH.

(From a Second Edition of the Edinturgh Evening.
Courant of Thursday.)
Since the memorable visit of George IV. to E Hn-
burgh, in 1822, or the more recent visit of her Ma-
jesty twenty years later, no event in our civic annals
has excited Luch general interest in the Scottish
metropolis as the expected sojourn brief as it is
to be—of Queen Victoria in the palace a her an-
cestors, at Holyrood. The residence amongst us
of a Sovereign so beloved, is an event that will
be remembered for generations, as marking tier
Majesty's attachment to Scotland, and her confidence.
in the hereditary loyalty of the Scottish nation. The
arrival of the royal party this afternoon was ex
pected, therefore, with enthusiasm ; and the latter
part of the day was generally observed as a holiday
in honour of the occasion—the shops being shut,
while dense crowds in their best attire flocked from
all quarters to the long-forsaken " Court- end" of the
city.
The station at Meadowbaelr, about a quarter of a
mile from Holyrood Palace (now to he named " The
Queen's Station,") on the line of the North British
Railway, was selected—(on the suggestion, we be-
lieve, of the Lord Provost) —as an appropriate land-
ing-place for the royal party, and the requisite ar-
rangements were consequently made for her Majesty's
arrival by the directors of the North British
Railway Company. Its chief advantage consists in
its being in the neighbourhood of the palace, which
is easy of access, without the pressure and incon-
venience of a crowded thoroughfare. The royal
demesne of the Queen's Park. (the right of forestry
over which, once exercised by the Earl of Hadding-
ton, has recently been acquired by purchase by the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests) extends to
within a few yards of the landing-place at Meadow-
bank. The lower part of the Queen's Drive, formed
on the site of the old Duke's Walk, affords an excel-
lent carriage road to Istolyrood Palace.
The preparations made for the reception of her
Majesty in this quarter were in general marked by
an absence of laboured " pomp and circumstance,"
though they were of an elegant and tasteful de-
scription. The character of the royal visit was such
as to dispense with extensive or ostentatious display,
although there were not wanting everywhere ex-
pressive symbols of the popular regard. The land-
ing platform is about one hundred yards west of the
tunnel below the Portobello-road, and on the south
side of the railway. It is ninety-seven feet in length
and ten feet broad, and was covered with crimson
cloth. Immediately in the centre is the vestibule lead-
ing to the spacious flight of steps by which her Ma-
jesty.was conducted to the royal collage in waiting on
the Abbeyhill-road, close by Parsensgreen. The vesti-
bule was roofed by an elegant timber canopy, finished
in front to resemble festoons of drapery. The royal
crown surmounted the centre, with the letters V. A. on
each side. The neighbouring slope was fenced by
light frame-work, and decorated with. heather; and
at the entrance to the flight of steps, on each side,
two elegant pedestals were placed, bearing urns
filled by splendid exotics, in the full luxuriance of
flower. Tne interior of the landing gallery, or pa-
vilion, had a superb and tasteful appsarance. The
roof was finished in the style of an.. Arabian tent, by
graceful festoons of white and pink drapery. Be-
tween each column the pink drapery assumed the
form of an Arabian arch; and the pillars themselves
were finished with pink, fluted white. The steps,
which were divided into two series, were laid with
crimson cloth from end to end ; but the carpet placed
for her Majesty to walk from the railway train to
the royal carriage was formed cf what is called
" the Stewart hunting tartan." The pavilion was
open at the sides, and was separated from the
neighbouring green slopes by a neat rustic rail-
ing. The steps were lined on each side between
the pillars by a superb collection of exotic plants
from the conservatories of the Duke of Buccleuch
and other noblemen and gentlemen. The old gate-
way closing upon the road was entirely removed, and
its place filled by a splendid crimson curtain, hung
with much taste, and forming an appropriate ter-
mination to the beautiful vista of the interior. The
gateway whence the Queen emerged to the royal
carriage was spanned by a graceful arch, decorated
with bay leaves, and dahlias interspersed. It was
surmounted by a floral crown, with an anchor sus-
pended ; and displayed on each side the initials V. A.
in flowers. The effect of the whole was striking—
the bright hues of the dahlias presenting a pleasing
contrast to the sombre green.
The decorations of the works at St. Margaret's
were rather more limited than last year. Various
buildings displayed floral emblems and devices, and
the numerous flags which waved from their summits
imparted an aspect of gaiety to the whole. The most
prominent object was an immense crown of ever-
greens and flowers erected near the line. The ordi•
nary engines and trains were also decorated in every
variety of style. •
Emerging from the landing gallery, the first ob-
ject that attracted the attention was the tasteful and
beautiful gallery erected in the grounds of Parsons-
green by A. Mitchell limes, EN. The front dis-
played a series of five Roman arches, divided in
the centre by a projecting arch of double the propor-
tions of the others, bearing a handsome entablature,
enriched by chaste and elegant cornices and mould-
ings. The columns of the arches were wreathed in
bay leaves, and encircled at the base with splendid
exotics. Floral stars adorned the panel ling with
the exception of the centre, which displayed graceful
festoons of dahlias. The cornices and other parts of
the entablature were enriched with paterre formed of
a single dahlia ; and between each arch floral festoons
were hung with exquisite taste. The ornaments on
the other parts of the gallery were of the same rich
and varied character : and the erection being em-
bosomed amidst the fine old trees that adorn the park,
the effect was perfectly unique and striking.
Along the whole route galleries were erected at
every eligible locality for the accommodation of the
spectators. They were in general plain but substan-
tial structures, and erected without ornament. Se-
veral were in the immediate neighbourhood of the
palace ; and an extensive platform erected, under the
express sanction of the authorities, on the sloping
ground which borders the road through the Queen's
Park, was estimated to contain above 3,000 persons,
and, with other galleries, was filled long before
the hour of her Majesty's arrival by respectable
parties.
A large area on the old Abbeyhill-road, fronting
the royal landing-place, was secured by closing 'the
thoroughfare from the Abbeyhill on the one side and
the Portobello road on the other. Near the watering-
place a barrier and gallery were erected to prevent
communication from behind; and a similar erection
was placed across the Portobello road, opposite Par-
sonsgreen lodge. The area thus enclosed was occu-
pied by the royal carriages, the military escort, and'
other parties.
The guard of honour at Meadowbank, consisting
of one captain, two subalterns, and 50 men of the 93d
Highlanders, wish the band of the 13:h Light
Dragoons, and a Queen's colour, arrived on the ground
shortly before two o'clock. Tne cavalry escort con-
sisted of one cfficer and twenty men of the 13th Light
Dragoons.
The route of the royal Fey through the Queen's
park was lined on both sides, from the railway sta-
tion to the Palace gate, by the 13th Light Dragoons
and 931 Highlanders. The latter fine body of men
extended from Meadowbauk for some distance along
the road. No access was allowed to the palace
yard, and barricades were erected across the streets
leading to it, to prevent any approach. At the
eastern extremity ipf the park, near Parsonsgretn,
a strong barrier was raised to prevent the pressure of
the crowd ; and a similar erection was formed near
the south-eastern angle of the palace.
The hour of her Majesty's . expected arrival was
generally known in the city ; and, as we have said, li
from an early hour in the afternoon crowds of well-
dressed parties poured in a continuous stream through
all the different avenues leading to the Queen's Park.
Each moment augmented their numbers, and in a
short time every eminence likely to command a view
of the royal progress was occupied. The great ex-
tent and diversified surface of the park, forming on
the north side a vast natural amphitheatre, was of
ample capacity for the immense concourse. Many
females mingled in the dense throng, which over-
spread the heights to their summit; and the gay and
varied colours of their dresses presented a striking
and singular contrast to the more sombre shades of
the verdant hill-side: The sloping ground along
the road through the park —as, perhaps, the most
favourable for commanding a near view of the
formed throughout
near
itsthewhoollde
royaleent. party--visa
This
road "
Duke's Walk," which is supposed to have ceics u Phice.rde
de-
rived its name from having been the favourite pro-
menade of James VII , -when Duke of York, during
his residence at Holyrood. It is difficult to conceive
a more magnificent avenue to the old Palace of our
Kings. The hill rears its dusky sides to a great
height on the south, broken towards the west by the
steep ascent which bears on its summit the crumbling
ruins of the ancient chapel and hermitage of St. An-
thony. The overhanging cliffs beyond impart an as-
pect of grandeur to the prospect, which is terminated
by the towering peak of Arthur's Seat. The graphic
pen of Sir Walter Scott, in the " Heart of Mid-Lo-
thian," has described with characteristic felicity the
picturesque beauties of the scene; and Scottish song
has added its poetic charm in the well known lyric—
" Now Arthur's Seat shall be my bed—
The sheets shall ne'er be pressed by me;
St. Anton's well shall be my drink,
Since my true love's forsaken me."

The immense multitude awaited the arrival of her
Majesty in their elevated position, without impa-
tieuce, and the exercise of the greatest good humour.
Tne morning was marked by bright sunshine, and
many anxious spectators were busy examining the
different preparations at an early hour. • The sky

became dull and uncertain in the course of the fore-
noon, but, notwithstanding the threatening aspect of
the sky, the enthusiasm of the inhabitants would not
be dameed, and they continued to flock in gnat
numbers to the Queen's Park. About two o'clock
the clouds passed off, and the sun shone brightly out
from a blue sky.
having thus described the scene which awaited
her Majesty's arrival in her ancient capital, we prc-
.ceed to chronicle the stages of the Royal progress
northwards as they were transmitted to Edinburgh
from time to time by electric telegraph.
Her Majesty li-ft Castle Howard about nine
o'clock, arrived at York—a distance of about twenty
miles—at twenty minutes from eleven, at Darlington
at thirty-five minutes past eleven, at Belmont at
twenty minutes past noon, and at Newcastle-on
Tyne at one o'clock. Here the approach of the Royal
train was made known about fifteen rninues before its
appearance, by a salute from the guns of the ancient
Norman Castle, so long " the bridle of the Scots," in
their forays into gland. Scarcely had the
wreaths of smoke cle.lrel off from the grim old
Keep, when the train was seen gliding slowly
along from Gateshead across the High Level Bridge,
towards the nf, w Central Station. In waiting for the
arrival of the royal carriage was the Earl Grey,
who conducted her Majesty, Prince Albert, and
the Prince cf Wales, to a room where refresh-
ments had been laid out for the royal party. Fully
fifteen minutes were spent here, when the royal
travellers again entered their carriages, and the train
proceeded northwards. The Central Station, the
High Level Bridge—in fact, every spot whence a
view of her Majesty could be obtained—were
crowded with spectators ; and loud, long, and o.tm
renewed, were the cheers which burst forth from the
multitudes as her Majesty alighted. The morning
was fine on the whole, though here, as at Edinburgh,
the sky was occasionally overclouded.
The royal carriage left Nevicastle at twenty.five
minutes past one o'clock, and, passing Morpeth and
Warkwortb, " proud of Percy's fame," arrived at
Lesbury, near Alia wick, at half-past two o'clock.
Belford—distant from Newcastle fifty-one miles, and
from Berwick-on-the-Tweed, fifteen miles— was
reached at three o'clock,

Her Majesty arrived at Berwick at 3.30, and re-
mained till 3 28. Addresses to her Majesty and
Prince Albert were presented by Captain Smith, the
Mayor, who was presented to her Majesty by Sir
George Grey.
Her Majesty then left the carriage and proceeded
along the platform to the quadrangle at the end,
accompanied by Prince Albert on the left, who was
uncovered, and by George Leman, Esq , chairman
of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway
Company. Four of the royal children fillowed,
behind whom were Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, the
Mayor and Sherla of Berwick, the Countess Grey,
Lady Grey, and other ladies. Having arrived at
the quadrangle at the end of the platform, her Ma-
jesty was pleased to express her admiration of the
bridge and surrounding scenery, and intimated her
desire that the viaduct should be called the " Royal
Border Bridge." It was spanned by an arch, over
which was incribed in large letters, " The last act of
the Union."

The lady of the Mayor, the Sheriff and bis lady,
Lieutenant-Colonel Wellesley; and lady and eldest
son of Sir George Grey, were then presented to her
Majesty by the Home Secretary. The royal party
then returned to the train, where they resumed their
carriages. Sir George Grey accompanied her Ma-
jesty as Secretary of State. Earl Grey and the
Countess:remained behind, the Earl having to attend
a public dinner at Berwick this afternoon. Her
Majesty was loudly cheered.
The weather was fine until the departure of the
train, when a few drops of rain began to fa.
It was expected, from an official communication
received by Mr. Sheriff Gordon last night from Sir
George Grey, that her Majesty mould reach Edin-
burgh at a quarter to four o'clock ; but the royal train
did not make its appearance till a few minutes past
five o'clock. •

The Royal Archers, the Queen's Body Guard for
Scotland, had arrived at the royal landing-place
shortly before three o'clock, headed by his Grace the
Duke of Buccleucb, on horsebuck, in the uniform of
the honourable corps, and wearing the green ribband
of the Order of the Thistle. The guard of honour of
the 93d Highlanders was drawn up opposite the g►ate-
ay with the band of the 13th Light Dragoons on
their right. The cavalry escort was stationed on the
left, towards the entrance to the Queen's Park.

Vat ions telegraphic messages were received in
the company's station at Meadowbank, respecting
the progress of the royal party to Edinburgh. The
royal train was telegraphed as having left Dunbar—
where the Duchess of Roxburghe and many others
were in waiting as her Majesty passed—at eighteen
minutes past four o'clock.
The directors of the North British Railway, ac-
companied by Mr. Sheriff Arkley, left Edinburgh to
receive her Majesty at Berwick this morning, at half-
past ten o'clock. They left Berwick, on their return
to this city, at twenty, five minutes past three o'clock,
preceding the royal train by five minutes.
The first intimation of the approach of her Majesty
was the arrival of the special train from Berwick with
the directors, . -which reached Meadow bank a few
minutes before five o'clock.

The royal train made its appearance at Meadow-
bank about five minutes past five o'clock, and was
greeted with loud acclamations by the assembled spec-
tators, who were aceommodated in the windows of
the buildings at Meadowbank and on the neighbour-
ing eminences.
The royal engine, which is one of the most powerful
in the company's service, was decorated in a superb
and tasteful style. It is the same that was used on
a similar occasion last year, and displayed in front a
semicircular arch of wood, bearing in gilded letters
the inscription—" God save the Queen," and having
a magnificent star suspended from its centre. This
arch, with another behind, was surmounted by a
large and splendid royal crown,
ful cushion of crimson velvet. The motto, " Long
live the Royal Family," was displayed on one side of
an elliptical arch, which extended longitudinally
having
along the engine, resting on a besuti-
- also en the revere side,
" Success to the British empire." This arch was
surmounted by a floral crown, having a Scotch
thistle on each side, and the initial letters " V. A."
at the extremity. Two beautiful stars were sus-
pended from the centre of the arch, and by the
tassteful addition of shrubs and evergreens a pleasing
and superb effect was produced. The ,tender was
decorated with festoons of crimson velvet, with yel-
low tassels, displayed on framework, and interspersed
with flowers. The crown and decorations were the
workmanship of the men in the employreent of the
company at St. Margaret's station, and reflected great
credit on their taste and skill. The pilot engine was
adorned with evergreens, and displayed in front a
floral crown.

There were waiting on the platform to receive her.
Majesty the Duke of Buceleuch, Lord-Lieutenant of
the county of Edinburgh Major-General Sir James
Riddell, Commanding
,the Forces in Scotland, and a
brilliant Staff; also Sheriff Gordon, John Lear-
mouth, Eq., of Dean, Chairman of the North British
Railway Company, and a number of the directors.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert occupied a splen-
did saloon carriage, in which were the Prince of
Wales and Prince Alfred. Her Majesty was at-
tired in a dress of deep mourning, as were also
Prince Albert and the Royal children. The
Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, travelled in a
separate carriage, under the charge of the Marchio-
ness of Douro, and the lion. Miss Lennox. her
Majesty on alighting from the royal carriage, was
received by Sir George Grey. The Duke of Buc-
clench was immediately recognised by the Queen,
who remarked to his CTlace that it was a fine atter-
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Her Majesty having bowed her acknowledgments
to Mr. Learmouth, Chairman of the North British
Railway Company, ascended with Prince Albert the
d
flight of steps leading to the royal carriage, which
was lined by the Royal Archers. The dfferent naein-
hers of the Royal Family followed. Her
Majesty
Prince Albert occupied one side of the royal carriaan ,
and the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal sat
opposite.
headed by Mr. The royal cortege moved off,Sheriff
Gordon and J. A. Campbell, Esq., Sheriff-Clerk, in a
handsome barouch and pair, followed by a detach-
ment of the 13th Light Dragoons. The Royal
Archers formed the body guard around the royal
carriage. The Duke of Buccleuch and Mijor-Ge-
neral Riddell rode immediately behind, and Lord
Elcho walked by the side of the royal carriage.
The royal party were greeted with hearty applause
by the distingui:hed party on Mr. Mitchell lames'
platform, among whom the venerable figure of the
Lord Justice-General was conspicous.
Her Majesty, on emerging into the park from the
Abbeyhill-road, seemed impressed with the magni-
ficence of the scene before her. Sha was hailed 1
wiqi an enthusiastic burst of acclamation from the '
multitudes in the park. The Queen and Prince Al-
bert seemed to feel deeply this loyal expression of ho-
mage, and testified their gratification by repeated ac-
knowledgments.
The shouts of welcome were caught
up by the more distant crowds, and echoed from
peak to peak of the surrounding hills. Every suc-
cessive stage in the royal progress witnessed the
same manifestations of enthusiastic feeling, till the
arrival of the Queen at the gates of Holyrood,
where she arrived at nineteen minutes past five o'clock
precisely. Her approach was announced by a royal
salute from the Castle.
Her Majesty and the Prince were observed re-
peatedly to remark the more prominent features of
the scenery. The dark and irregular mass of the
Old Town at once arrested the attention of the royal
party, who afterwards glanced with apparent interest
at the precipitous sweep of Salisbury Crags, on the
one side, alid the Calton Hill, with the fine structures
. that adorn its summit, on the other.

Early in the afternoon a guard of honour of the
931 Highlanders, consisting of one captain, two sub-
alterns, and 50 men, with the Queen's colour and
band, was in attendance at Holyrood Palace. Fifty
men of the Royal Artillery, with arms, and two-
officers, also tcok part in the procession.
A party of the Royal Archers, under the command
of the EErl of Merton, was stationed in front of the
palace, vtith the colours and the fine band of the
corps. Bailie Roger:, and the High Constables of
Holyrood, took up a position close by the main en-
trance of the palace. The High Constables of the
city, headed by Mr. Mackie, the Moderator, attired
in a full court dress, were also in attendance. The
magistrates of Canongate, in their :obes of office,
and the constables of the same burgh, and of Easter
and Wester Portsbtrgh, under Baillies Stevenson
and Scott, were also on duty.
Upon the arrival of the royal cortege, her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert, with the other members of
the Royal Family, alighted from the royal car-
riage. Mr. Rutherford, W.S., deputy keeper of
Holyrood, in the absence of the Duke of Hamilton
from indisposition, was present to receive the
Queen. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, having
again recognised the Duke of Buccleuch, heartily
shook hands with his Grace as they entered the gate-
way. In the quadrargle and colonnade of the palace
were a select and distinguished party of the nobi-
lity and gentry, who greeted her Majesty and
Prince Albert with silent and re.pectful homage.
The Lord Bravest, Sir William Gibson Craig,
M. Mavison, French Consul, and ,the Hon. B. F.
Primrose, were also present.
Her Majesty then retired to the state apartments,
and the royal standard now floating above the en-
trance gate announces to the citizens of Edinburgh
that Holyrood is again tenanted by a Sovereign.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
EDINBURGH, FRIDAY.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort at an early
hour this morning ascended to the summit of Arthur's
Seat. The Prince at one o'clock laid the foundatioL-
stone of the proposed National Gall ry, and the cere-
mony, vk hich attracted an immeLse concourse of
spectators, was very imposing.
In the afternoon her Alsj:sty visited the splendid
new hospital founded by the late Mr. DJoaldson in
the suburbs of the city for the education of 300 desti-
tute children. She was most enthusiastically re-
ceived on her route.

taken out of dock to-gay, and the Buzzard steam-sloop
taken in to hays her bottom coppered.
A trial took place on Wediusday last, by order of
the birds of the Admiralty, with Captain the Hon. W.
E. Fi zinaurice's gun carriage, on board her Majesty's
ship Excellent, at Portmouth, in presence of Cap-
tain Chads, Sir William Wiseman, and several naval
officers. The carriage stood all the esvire tests it
was subjected to with fell service charges for the
eight-inch gun, without the smallest sign of anything
giving way.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

Fatl3l TILE 31..:RNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY, -
TIIIESS.—Ou Wednesday evening, at 9 o'clock, the
pessibi3 y of communicating between France and Eng-
land by electric telegraph was practically esteblished.
Early in the morning of that day the projectors of the
great enterprise sailed from Dover in the steam-ship
Guliah with a quantity of the electric line on board, and
steered for Cape Grisnez, on the opposite coast of
France. As they proceeded they sank the line, taking
care to communicate with Dover at intervals by electric
agency, in order to test the value of their work as they
went. Each experiment was in turn successful. The
connexions were well secured, and at 9 o'clock in the
evening intelligence war forwarded across the bottom of
the Channel from Cape Grisnez to Dover that the
task had been accomplished. Instantaneous ccmmuaica-
lion le tryeen England and France by electric
agency may, even while we write, be actually
taking place. It requires a shorter time for the
actual transit of a message from London to the
French coast than is necessary for tracing upon
paper the shortest word in the English language. Some
three thousand years ago Homer talked of " winged"
words; wao doubt if even he imagined they would
ever chave their way through space at such a rate as
this. The electric telegraph appears to us more like a
miracle than any scientific discovery or mechanical
achievement of our time. Assume the steam-engine,
and railroads are a mere question of finance. Even so
magifficent an operation as the completion of the tubular
bridge across the Menai Straits does not affect the mind
with a sensation of a ender. What power was requisite
to raise a given weight? What material could best en-
dure the strain of the traffic? How could it be most
effectually laid down?—how best supported by the single
arch or from above. Such a work is in its way no doubt
astounding from tte combination of forces brought to
hear in order to obtain a certain result, but they are all
forces wi;h which we are perfectly familiar. Now the in-
troduction of electric coma :animals is but of the other
day. We had scarcely taught ourselves to acquiesce
in the idea that instantaneous Communication t °tie( en
two points on solid land was a mere matter of course
than it was gravely proposed to drop the communicating
line and trr.nsmit intelligence along the bottom of the
ocean. The jest or scheme of yestercdsy has become
the fact of to-day. The wildest exaggeration of an
Arabian tale has been outdone by the simple achieve-
ment of modern times. The consequences of the electric
telegraph must be as important as the agency by which
they are obtained is wonderful. Great excitement pre-
vailed throughout Europe when the first balloon carried
up an adventurer into the skies. But there was no com-
parison between such au achievement and the ,present.
Even the most enthusiastic projectors must have enter-
tained certain doubts as to the practical value of their
aeronautic expedition. In the case of the submarine
electric telegraph, the first and obvious effect of this in-
stantaneous communication between to two most
civilized and powerful nations of the world will be
to unite them so closely in community of interests as to
secure their co-operation in all designs that may pro-
mote the advancement of humanity and maintain the
pose() of the world. In a great measure this has been
already e ffected by a mode of communication which re-
quired at least a certain number of hours. But with the
electric telegraph across the Channel, communication
with I'aria is not even a question of seconds. At pre-
set t no doubt a message must be forwarded to Dover;
at Dover a delay will take place, another at Cape Gru-
m z, and so on through France; but these are mere points
of detail new that the chain of communication has been
carried across the bed cf the ocean. Same few ar-
rangements are all that is re quisite in order to render a
sustained conversation between two persons, the one in
London, the other in Paris, not merely a possibility, but
a fact.
CHRONICLE.—The history of the Great Northern
Railway Company—which, within the last few weeks.
has virtually restored a considerable portion of the traffic
between the northern and southern extremities of Eng-
land to the old line of communication, viz , the " Groat
North Road" of traditional celebrity—certainly forms
one cf the most extraordinary episodes even in the an-
nals of English railway enterprise. In 1844, when the
disposable space of many metropolitan and provincial
journals was pretty nearly absorbed by the gigantic ad-
vertisements of a new and independent line of railway
between London and York, most of those who con •
sidered themselves possessed of something beyond
the average share of shrewdness were disposed to
look upon the entire project as a capital joke. It
was acknowledged that the scheme looked all very
well oa paper, and that it made an extremely good
show in a prospectus; but as to the thing being
done—as to the actual performance of a railway journey
by Barnet, Pates borough, and Newark, into the very
heart of Yorkshire—that was one of those contingencies
which seemed to be so unlikely that it might be safely
dealt with as a myth. Must people are aware how those
early opinions have b_en gradually falsified. It is no
part of our present purpose to enter into the details of
the narrative. We hive no immediate concern either
with that greatest of Parliamentary battles which,
during the space of nearly half a year, was carried on
before a Committee of -the House of Commons by the
'London and York Company and its legion of adversa-
ries, or with the execution of those vigorous measures
which, even during the gloomiest portion of our experi-
ence since 1845, have kept the works on this lino of rail-
way in a state of progressive activity. We are quite
ready, however, to bestow the commendation which has
been so fairly earned by the conductors of this great na-
tional work. We are perfectly sensible that from the very
commencement of their operations there have been a unity,
a discretion, a perseverance, and an amount of adminis-
trative skill displayed in nearly the whole of their pro-
ceedings, which stand out in the boldest contrast to the
reckless and imbecile systems of management which have
conducted many similar enterprises to infamy and ruin.
The Great Northern Company has, emphatically, been
saved from shipwreck by the character and the skill
of its principal leaders—that is the whole secret. Any
scheme of management less cautious, leas temperate, less
honest, or less able than that which they have adopted,
would long ago have car tied the project of 1844 and
1845 into the inexorable vortex which has swallowed so
many of the abortions, the follies, and the conspiracies of
that period. The meeting of the Great Northern Company
on Thursday last was in the highest degree satisfactory.
Mr. Denison is not a kind of chairman whose presence
Is propitious to mere exhibitions. It is quite
clear to those who Lear him that he places his
constituents very nearly on a level with himself
as to the secrets cf the company. Very wisely
for himself, and very fortunately for his railway,
he has extremely few secrets to tell. He bete hap
pily bad a very limited share of experience in the diplL-
macy of railway superintendence. The Great Northern
Company, unlike acme of its contemporaries, is not in
the habit of effecting hairbreadth escapes from the fangs
.of jesuitical agreements; nor does it enjoy the habitual
good fortune of accomplishing, once or twice in the half-
year, unparalleled successes in its negotiations or
alliances with surrounding companies. Mr. Denison,
therefore, is reduced to the necessity of speaking upon
perfectly intelligible topics, in perfectly plain language;
and we must be allowed to say that, whenever a similar
simplicity of procedure shall be introduced into the public
meetings of other railway companies, the alteration will
be as creditable to the common sense as it will certainly
be conducive to the general interests of those concerned.
Mr. Denison very properly pointed out that no
fair inierence me_ Itt to be drawn from the present
traffic re turns of this line, because hitherto not even the
whole of the passenger trains are at work, nor has any
portion of the mineral traffic between the northern
counties and the metropolis been yet commenced. He
conceives, with justice, that perhaps the greatest strength
of the new line will be in the last-named branch of
trade. Coals are now sold in London at something like,
245. a ton for the fiat qualities; but once set the coal-
waggons on the Great Northern fairly in motion, and it
is a very moderate supposition that the same commodity
maybe equally well afforded for 15 or 20 per cent. leer;
money. Now every material reduction. in the cost o
such a prime necessary of life as coal is to a city popula-
tion, acts in a geometrical ratio upon the demand. Under
the it flcence of low prices, false grates assume their
normal dimensions, and fuel is kurchased, even by the
very poor, in hundred weights instead of ounces; and
the parties who have introduced a revolution of this
kind into the domestic economy of the population,
will ever find, to their own eminent advantage,
that one of the speediest paths to wealth is that which
increases demand by first establishing cheapness. Tak-
ing into account the
in the
these considerations, we
dare say that Mr. Denison, the course of his life, has
predicted many things much less likely to happen than
that the Great Northern Company will be fully able to
pay a dividend of 5 per cent. While the Great Nor-
thern shareholders were discussing their affairs in per-
fect good humour and in perfectly intelligible language,
at the London Tavern, the Norfolk Railway Com-
pany were engaged at Guildhall-buildings in dis-
secting their hall-yearly report, and in wrangling over
the paragraphs in a very different style. In discus-
sing yesterday the case of the Bristol and Exeter
Company we animadverted upon the mischievous
effect of these railway disputivions, and upon the
ruinous influence, as regards certain classes of rail-
way property, of the damaging disclosures which some
companies seem to delsght in thrusting upon the
public. Very much the same thing occurred at
the Norfolk meeting cn Thursday last. Major Court—
a gentlemen who is, it appears, employed us auditor—
has taken a fancy to promulgate an original exposition
of the past, present, and future condition of the Norfolk
Company. So far as the facts are at present revealed,
we can form no other opinion about the matter than that
he has done either a very good thing or a very bad
one; and it seems to be tolerably clear that he must
either say a great deal more, or that he ought to have
said a great deal less. Among other alleged discoveries,
Major Court conceives that he can make ioapparent that
a Preerence Five-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock to the
extent of 105,0001. has been wrongfully created, and, as
a necessary consequence, that a certain number of pi r-
sons. who have invested their money in this particular
stock upon the faith of the Norfolk Company
as pledged by the directors, will find themselves
suddenly dragged down, from a compa!a, ively
secure position, into the agitated anti uneasy n:ass wl 0
at present constitute the general b ,cly of pro; ristors of
this line. In the present stage of this di: puce, we say
nothing e f the plausibility of Major Court's case against
the 51 per cent. holders ; but we can have no drffictaty,
in pointing out that, if discoveries and discussions 9

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this nature ere to go on, there will very soont-be
an end to every kind of corm:fence in what may
,be
I called the secondary cla,s of railway securities. Who -;\
can tell what coankuny has, or what ills nut, an astute
or an alarmist Major Ct.urt in the background, ready -
explode with figures, and statistics, and shreds fro :4dV(ISAi
Acts of Parliament, and obso'ete resolutions, with the
intention of producing a complete reconstruction of the
entire concern? Confidence will in that case be at an
end, nnd gentlemen in the position of the Norfolk pr„-
prictors will find to their cost that they have pushed the
game rather too far, for it will become apparent that, in
their z:al for a microscopic accuracy, they have brought
down the whole of the edifice bodily.

GUTTA PERCHA.

The history of guttyspereha—or gatti till a as the
learned tell us the best quality r f the gum ought to be
called—is brief but not uuoventful.
Previous to 1844, the very name of gutta percha was
unknown to European commerce. In that year two cwt.
of it were shipped experimentally from Singapore. The
exportation of gutta percha from that port rose in 1845
to 169 piculs (the picul is 1331 lbs.); in 1846, to 5,364;
in 1847, to 9,296; in the first so veu mouths of 1848, to
6,768 piculs. In the first four and a half years of the
trade, 21,598 piculs of gutta percha, ta'lued at 274,190
dollars, were shipped at Singapore; the whole of which
was sent to England, with the exception of 15 pleats to
Mauritius, 470 to the continent cf Europe, and 922 to
the United States.
But this rapid growth of the new trade conveys only a
faint idea of the commotion it created among the native
inhabitants of the Indian Archipelago. The jungles of
Johore were the scene of the earliost gatherings, and
they were soon ransacked in every direction by
parties of Malays and Chinese, while the indigenous
population gave themselves up to the search with an
unanimity and zeal only to be equalled by that which'
made railway jobbers of every man, woman, and child
in England shout the same time. The Tamungong,
with the usual policy of oriental governors, declared the
precious gum a Government monopoly. lie appropri-
ated the greater part of the profits and still left the Ma-
lays enough to stimulate them to pursue the qaest, and
to gain from 100 to 400 per cent. for themselves on what
they procured from the aborigines. The Tamungong,
not satisfied with buying at his own price all that was -
collected by private ent.rprise, sent out numerous par-
ties of from 10 to 100 persons, and employed whole
tribes of hereditary serfs in the quest of gutta percha.
This organized body of gum-hunters spread itself like
a cloud of locusts over the whole of Johore, peninsular
and insular. They crossed the frontier into Lingo, but
there the Sultan was not long of discovering the new
value that had been conferred upon his jungles. He
confiscated the greater part of what had been collected
by the interlopers, and in emulation of the Tamungong
declared gutty perch; or gat.Li 7a ai, a royalty.
Whether any pratoeolizing between the potentates was
the result of these stringent measures, the 'historian
leaves untold.

Tie knowledge of the article stirring the avidity of
gatherers, gradual!), spread from Singapore, northward
as far as Pinang, southward along the east coast of Su•
matra toJatia, eastward to Borneo, t• here it was found
at Brut 6, Sarawak, and Pontianak on the west coast, at
Keti and Pamir on the east. The imports of gotta
percha into Singapore from the Ist of January to the
12th of July, 1848, according to their geographical dis-
tribution, were—From the Malay Peninsula, 593 picula;
from the Johore Archipelago, 1,269; from Sumatra,
1,866; from Batavia, 19; from Borneo, 55. The price
at Singapore was originally 8 dollars per picul; it rose
to 24, and fell about the middle of 1848 to 13.

The commotion among the human race in the Archi-
pelago was great, but the vegetable kingdom buffered
most by it. Ia the course of three and a half years
270.0001 i. It .1 trees were felled in order to get at the gum.
The commodity which let such excitement behind

it in the far east produced excitement in England,
too, but of a more mixed and equivocal character.
The capabilities of the new gum were undoubtedly
great, but invention was rather put upon the stretch
to decide how they should be turned to account.
Liko many other persona and things destined ulti-
mately for higher employments, the first occupations of
gutta percha were as low as could be imagined. It was
used to make waterproof soles for shoes, and a most
portentous cackling and puffing was rased about its
virtues in kteping the feet thy. Less hss been heard of
it of late in this line: some easy bachelors, who loved to
sit with their feet on the fender, rather brought it into
discredit, or it softened under the influence of the fire,
and kept their feet lucked to their genial footstool.
Surgical bandages, draining Opt s—it is impossible to
recapitulate the number of articles proposed to ba manu-
factured out of gutta percha. Bread•beskets, ink•
atandisher, &c.: the ductile gutta percha allowed itself
to be cast in moulds into all of these forms. Dull-
makers—the comical ones—pressed it into their service.

But a day of triumph has at last come for gotta per-
cha; " Fitter hope and nobler doom." It is no longer
to be used merely to keep the fleet feet of the Post office
letter-carriers dry, but has become an essential adjunct
in the transmission and interchange of information by a
mode, that in point of rapidity distances the post, and
all its officials to boot, even with the aid of express trains.
The crowning glory of gutta percha's brief cal cer
was displayed on that day when, as the Goliah paddled
slowly over a waveless sea, 30 miles of copper wire,
thickly coated with the Indian gum, were slowly "payed
out," to form the line of electric telegraph from the Bri-
tish to the French coast. The idea of asking a ques-
tion in London, and receiving an answer from Paris, in
less than half an-hour, is sufficiently stupendous. But
if a submarine telegraph is possible from Dover to Cape
Grin(z, what is there to hinder the extension of a line
to Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and Simla? The autho-
rities, in Leadenball-street and Cannon-row may be
transformed from an absentee into a virtually resident
Government, without 12:.ing, obliged to budge from their

And what has been done of wonderful, and may be
yet done of more wonderful still, is in no small dogr-e
owing to gutta percha. As manage able, enduring, and
economical a coating for the submarine telegraph wires
it would be d:tficult to find. Fur hundreds and thou-
sands of years this gum kept exuding unnoticed and un-
cared fur in the jungles of the Ind:au Archipelago. A
seeming accident drew to it the notice of an European
adventurer only seven 3 ears ago. And already it has
made the fortunes of thousands of the rude natives; has
become a bone of contention batwean their proud and
barbarous chit s; has taskyd the wi a of many of our
numercus speculators possessed of more ingenuity than
steady industry or money; and has contributed materi-
ally to the ruccess of one of the boldest projects in the
way of rendering science practically bubdervient to our
daily uses, that even this age, fertile in such triumphs,
has witnessed.