The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-12 00:00:00

111ID1JLESEX. SESSIONS.

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(Tills DAY.) Mr. Pownall and a bench of magistrates sat this morn-
ink: at the &batons !louse, Clerlienwell-vreen, and re-
al nuft the further hearing of applications for music and
dancing lie,nee, under the Act of 25th Geo. 11., C. 36.
Mr. Joseph PireY, of tho Brown Bear, Knightsbridge,
applied for ti lie,,nce, but was refused.
:The application f Daniel Gover, of the Brack Lion,
eingar-yard, in the pari:4l of Si. Martin's-in-the-Fields,
was ordered to be struck out, ho not having answered
to hit name whim called.
.!.clSamuel Robert Bishop, of the Angel Inn, Fore•strect,
inontu, was supported in his application by Mr.
Wilkes. The appheatiop was, after some discussior,
uted.

Miles
opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. I Receipts.
1850. 1819. 1850.
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72 , Aberdeen .. ...
37% Belfast and Ballymena • • •••• •• •• 492 573
17 Belfast and County Down• • • - 204
16 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Ches hire 928 1,195
27 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • • . 438 702
85% Bristol and Exeter .•
160 Caledonian._ ....... .......... • - 6,659 7,087
94% Chester and Ilolyhead. ••.• • • .... •• .. 1,916 3,282
32 Dublin and Behest Junction ••.. • • .• 237 469
53 Dublin and Drogheda• .••••••• • • •• •• 740 1,068
7% Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 676 786
16 Dundee and Arbroath •• • • • • •• • • .• • • - 384
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 622 6.70
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen • • .. • • • • .• • • 136 176
67% East Anglian.... •• •••••••• • • • • • • •• 686 759
79 East Lancashire •• •
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • .... 14,906 14,399
95 Eastern L'irion •••••• • • • • • •
57% Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• •• • 3,886 3,961
71 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee- •• 2,237 2,574
18 Furness Railway •• • ••..•••• • • .• • • - 373
100 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr •• •• • 3,006 3,022
22% Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock •• • • 971 1,081
219 Great Northern and E. L. •• .. 2,743 6,813
188% Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 3,362 4,452
257 Great Western •••••••• •• •• • • •• .. 15,864 17,720
90 Lancaster and Carlisle •• • ........ 3,789 4,584
25314 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. •. •• • • 10,995 14,487
39 Leeds and Thirsk ••..•••••• •• • • • • •• 725 1,150
12% Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.• 96 564
5181 A London and North Western .•••••••• 40,018 48,127
5% London and Blackwell.. • • ••••• • •• 677 953
171 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 11,677 13,871
239 London and South Western. ...• •• i 0,302 11,683
15 Londonderry and Enniskillen . ...... . 150 141
1134 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 167 166
167•', Manchester, Sltellield, andi Lincolnshire 4,825 6,164
9% Manchester and South Junction 281 428
28 Maryport and Carlisle •• • • •• • • •• •• 581 552
491% Midland •.••••• • • • • • • • .• .• .• .. 24,186 24,698
50 Midland Great Western (Irish) 1,189 1,260
60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. •• ..... 2,269 2,063
146 North British .• ..... ............ 3,346 3,714
222 North StafforCshirs .• •• .... 4,530 5,085
47 North-Western • • .. • • • • .. • • •• •• •• .. - 601
45 Scottish Central .• •• •• •• 1,616 1,563
52 Scottish Midland •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 491 504
47 Shrewsbury and Chester •• •• •• •• 1,4,9 1,672
30 Shropshire Union ..... .......... 443 525
58 South Devon.. • • • ... . • • • • .• ........ 1,456 2,001
234 South Eastern ••••• • • • .. 12,358 15,3 i 2
75 South Wales .. ••..••• • • • • • ••• • • • • • - 1,045
69 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. - 1,219
40 lair vale . • 2,055 2,2:7
36 Ulster .
25 Waterford sod Limerick • • ........ • • - 339
13 West Cornwall .. •• • • • .... • • •• • • 289 297
12 Whitehaven J unction •
293 York and Newcastle, and Berwick 12,996 16,504
256 York and North Ni idland •••. • . .. 6,521 9,317
FOREIGN.
763 Amiens and 80u10gne..... •• • • 1,460 1,868
44 Di, ppe .•••• •• •• 751 665
63 Montereau and Troyes .......... •• 991 1,316
336 Northern of France • ••• •• 18,141 23,454
143 Orleans to Bourges (Cent.) 2,996 2,900
72 Orleans to Bordeaux .... .•.. • • ...... 3.842 3,894
82 Paris and Orleans
85 . Paris and Rouen .••••••••• • •• .• .• .- 7,592 7,988
593 Rouen and Havre .. •••• • • • • •• •• 3,000 3,0;8

• THE LATE ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE ERIN'S
QUEEN STEmt-Sittr. Yesterday Mr. W. Payne held an
inquest at the:Vestry-hall, Horselydown, on the bodf,of;Mr.
John Ferguson, aged 38, the head engineer of the above
vessel, who lost his life in the manner described in this jour-
nal yesterday. The only additional facts connected with this
melancholy event elicited from the several witnesses were the
following :—The unfortunate deceased, on finding the water
issuing from the door of the slutch-hole, to( k a spanner
which had considerable leverage to screw up the bolt.
The door was only about five or six inches in diameter,
but, instead of being inside the front of the boiler, it was
placed outside, which was described by several scientific men
to be exceedingly unsafe. The vessel was worked from Belfast
to London without the water escaping, and it was not until
the steam was got up for the vessel to return that the least
leakage was perceptible. Captain Silly, who had charge of
the ship, was of opinion that the accident was owing solely
to the deceased screwing the bolt up whilst it was hot, and
with too much leverage. Had the door been inside it would
have been safer, but the force deceased used in screwing the
bolt would no doubt have wrenched it off. The worm of the
screw was not broken, but the solid iron. A juror said that

it the door had been inside the deceased would not have lost
his life. The captain and several of the crew explained that
in the present instance the door could not be made inside
without weakening the iron-work of the boiler. The jury
returned a verdict "That the deceased was accidentally
killed through using a spanner to turn the screw of the
slutch-hole door," and recommended that the doors, whenever
practicable, should be placed inside, to prevent a similar
casualty from occurring.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT BY MACEIINERY.—A shock-
ing accident by machinery has been received at the General
Hospital, Bristol. Some men were engaged in taking down
an engine at the Great Western steam-ship yard, when the
shaft fell upon a poor fellow, named Maggs, and mutilated
him in a shocking manner, plr.cing his life in the most im-
minent peril. When received at the hospital he was in a
state of collapse. His right arm was torn away, and only
hung by a piece of flesh ; his ribs and several of his other
bones were fractured, and ha had received extensive injuries
of the head and other parts of his person. I3is arm was im-
mediately amputated above the injury, and his other ail-
ments promptly attended to, but he lies hi a precarious state.
THE MAILS.—It is matter of surprise that the
public of the northern and eastern counties interested in
business, rod consequently in the rapid transit of the mails,
do not memorialise the Post-office on the subject of the pre-
sent arrangement of the mails between the east and north
shores of the Moray Firth. The mail from the south, via
Perth, is dispatched northward from Inverness at a quarter
past six o'clock in the morning. The mail from Aberdeen
arrives here about a quarter before seven, and to sort it re-
quires less than half an hour. By delaying the departure of
the mail for the north three-quarters of an hour, a delay
of more than twenty-three hours of all the correspondence
betwixt the east and the north would be saved. We do
not see that much inconvenience would be suffered. It
would make no change in Dingwall, where letters could
be answered on the same day; and at present the mail
arrives at Tani too late to permit the merchants of
that burgh to answer their letters. But if the incon-
venience should be considered material, it would be no great
matter to accelerate the speed of the Aberdeen mail-coach a
mile an hour. This would perhaps be the best, as by delay-
ing its departure eastwards from Inverness from 44 min. past
five, as at present, to 44 min. past six, it could carry on the
letters received from the north. The Aberdeen mail now
actually leaves the Inverness Post-office only a quarter of an
hour before that from the north arrives—the whole east cor-
respondence from Caithness, Sutherland, and Ross, thus lying
in the Post-office here for twenty-three hours and three-
quarters. We have no reason to believe that the authorities
of the Post-office are disposed to disoblige the lieges, and we
can see no way in which they could accommodate the public
better than by nicking this slight acceleration of the Aber-
deen especially if the long-talked of change of the
Perth mail into a day mail, giving a double mail from Lon-
'ion to Inverness daily—the north mail r unning in connexion
with the Aberdeen mail at the former's present hours—can-
not be carried into effect.— Inverness courier.

PENRIIYN AGRICULTURAL SIIOW.—The annual ex-.
hibition of live stock and general produce of the tenantry
,of
the Bon. Colonel Pennant took place On Wednesday last.
There was a much larger exhibition of horned cattle than
has been exhibited in former years, and the show was in
other respects very satisfactory. Among the visitors on, the
ground in the course of the day were the Duchess of Caul-
bridge, the Ductless of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Prin-
cess Mary of Cambridge.
A Touon• UN.—Sophia Quibbs, an elderly woman,
while crossing the railway in South Shields, a short time
since, was struck by au engine, and thrown upon her back
between the rails, Al hen 33 wagons passed over her without
inflicting the slightest injury !
W ATER Fo RD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY.—The
Lords of the Treasury have advanced 130,0001. to carry on
this company's works during the winter, and the number of
workmen, now amounting to 300, will be greatly increased.

HER MAJESTY'S PROGRESS
FROM THE HIGHLANDS.

(From a Second Edition of the Edinburgh Evening
Cow-ant.)
STONY:HAVEN, THURSDAY iSIORNINC, TEN O'CLOCK.
—1 have just returned from inspecting the arrange-
ments at the railway tt...tior, and am Lappy to report
that everything has In fiuidied, or nearly so,
in first-rate order. The eininge wrought in the
several apartments during the night has been almost
miraculous ; for what yesterday seemed a mass of
confusion, has been transformed into a suite of taste-
fully got up and richly furnished apartments. The
town is rapidly filling with strangers from all parts,
and it is nearly an entire holiday. A hustings capable
of containing three hundred people has been erected
near the station, for the accommodation of the pub-
lic ; and the porch of Melvin's Hotel is literally a
mass of dahlias and evergreens, forming the richest
arches I have ever seen. The weather up to this hour
has been all that could be desired ; but it has now
assumed a threatening appearance, and in all likeli-
hood we shall have passing showers.
HALF-PAST TWELVE.—Since eleven o'clock the
weather has been tempestuous. Heavy showers have
fallen, accompanied with fierce gusts of wind. The
royal saloon carriage arrived from Aberdeen about
an hour ago.

Two O'CLOCK. - Exactly at twenty-five minutes
past one o'clock the royal carriages drove up to the
station, amid the cheers of an immense multitude.
In the carriage with her Majesty were Prince Albert
and the royal children. The Queen and the Prince
bowed very graciously in acknowledgment of the en-
thusiastic acclamations with which their appearance
was hailed.

On the platform, which was covered with crimson
cloth, were assembled nearly all the directors of the
Aberdeen Railway Company, Lord James Hay, Sir
John Stuart Forbes, Bart., of Fettercairn, Captain
Barclay of Ury, Sheriff Cowan, Sheriff Robertson,
Mr. PiHe, Mr. Christie, Mr. Tasker, and other gen-
tlemen of the neighbourhood.
While the carriages were being arranged on the
truck, the royal party partook of a luncheon which
had been prepared in the station, under the care of
Mr. Douglas, of the North of Scotland Hotel, at
Aberdeen. This repast being ended, her Majesty
was conducted to the royal saloon carriage, and the
suite having taken their places, the train—consist-
log of six carriages, with a locomotive and tender—
departed amid the cheers of the dense crowd.

HER MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL AT HOLY-

ROOD.

The interest excited here by the Queen's return to
Holyrood from her Highland retirement, was nearly
as general and intense es was felt during her brief re-
sidence in our ancient Palace six weeks ago.
The preparations for her Majesty's reception were
extensive and varied, though they necessarily had
much the same character as on the occasion of her
departure for Balmoral on the 31st of August last.
The state apartments at Holyrood Palace, which
bad been closed since their brief occupancy, were
prepared some days ago for the Royal-Family, some
trifling alterations having been previously effected.
Most of the domestics had arrived early in the
week, and the curling smoke from the chimneys
gave evidence that the ancient abode of the
Stuarts was once more tenanted. Besides the hand-
some lamps outside the main entrance to the Palace,
an elegant lamp was suspended from each
wall of the projecting wings, which shed a brilliant
light upon the palace-yard. The ordinary gas burners
in the public lamps around the palace had been re-
moved, and argend jets substituted, which burned
with great brilliancy. The palace-yard, from a re-
gard to the privacy and comfort of the Royal Family,
was kept clear by barricades thrown across the dif-
ferent avenues leading to that open space. Public
galleries were erected in the private grounds at St.
Ann's-yard, from which several flags were displayed;
and barriers, to prevent disorder or confusion, were
placed at the south-east angle of the palace, where they
were found very effective on the last occasion.
The guard of honour, at Holyrood, consisting of
one captain, two subalterns, and fifty men of the 93d
Highlanders, with the Queen's colour, and the band
of the regiment, was mounted at four o'clock this
afternoon. Bailie Rogers, and the constables of Holy-
rood, were also in attendance, and took up a position
beside the Palace gate. A detachment of the lath
Light Dragoons lined the Palace-yard.
The road through the Queen's Park from
St. Margaret's station to Holyrood Palace was
lined on both sides by the 13th Light Dragoons
and 93d Highlanders. The arrangements for
lighting the Park, in the expectation of its being
dark before her Majesty would arrive, were very com-
plete. A series of about forty posts, nine feet in
height, was erected along the road at intervals of 200
feet, each displaying six variegated lamps, sheltered
from the wind in a glass globe similar to those em-
ployed in lighting the streets. Some regret was felt
that the strong current of air in the valley had pre-
vented the arrangement of the variegated lamps in
ornamental devices, the effect of which would pro-
bably have been extremely fine. Still, as it was, the
light shed by the lamps upon the road, through the
medium of the coloured glass, had a pleating ap-
pearance.
The most prominent feature in the arrangements
was the immense bonfire on Arthur's Seat, which had
been raised both as a mark of public rejoicing, and to
assist the royal cavalcade to the Palace. It was
erected on a circular urea or base, and consisted of
thirty tons of coal, about one thousand tar barrels,
besides many cart-loads of wood, saturated with oil,'
turpentine, and other inflammable matter. The pile
was about 25 feet in diameter, and nearly 40 feet
high. It was kindled at five o'clock this afternoon,
amidst the acclamations of a vast crowd on the hill.
The decorations at the landing-place at St. Mar-
garet's station, on the North British Railway, were
the same as on the occasion of her Majesty's arrival.
The ground on the landing-place sloping consider-
ably, the pavilion leading to the public road, where
the royal carriages were, stationed, consisted of a
double series of steps, with a platform 100 feet in
length, fronting the railway. The entrance from the
railway was by an elegant vestibule, fashioned in front
so as to resemble festoons of drapery, and surmounted
by a royal crown in the centre, with the letters
V. A. on each side, wreathed in flowers. The plat-
form was lighted by large glass lamps, each having
four burners ' • and the neighbouring slope was fenced
by a light frame. work, decorated with heather.
The vista of the interior of the pavilion was very
fine. The roof was finished in the style of
an Arabian tent, by graceful festoons of pink and
white drapery. Slender and tasteful pillars supported
it on each side, covered with pink, fluted white—the
pink drapery between the columns assuming the
form of a Saracenic arch. Vases of a tasteful and
elegant design—the contribution of Mr. Grieve of
Tranent—were ranged at intervals on each side of
the pavilion, displaying a magnificent collection of
exotic plants, from Mr. Eagle Henderson, Vice-
Chairman of the North British Railway Company.
Two chaste and beautiful pedestals, each bearing
roses, with splendid fuchsias in the full luxuriance
of flower, adorned the entrance to the pavilion. The
steps were laid with crimson cloth, from end to end :
but the carpet was formed of what is termed the
" Stewart hunting tartan." The interior was lighted
by a series of eight obscured glass globes on each
side of the pavilion, displaying tastefully executed
figures of flowers, the work of Mr. J. Laing, Calton-
hill. The old gatevA ay closing upon the road having
been removed, its place was filled by a splendid
crimson curtain, which hung in graceful folds from
the very neat arch that spanned the entrance from
this side. The arch was finely decorated by green
bay-leaves, with dahlias of different colours inter-
spersed, and was surmounted by a royal crown in gas,
which burned with great brilliancy. "V. A.," in
flaming letters, adorned each side
goaftheentranacned;
and several stars, executed in gas,gave variety
effect to the whole. The public road was lighted by
gas lamps, each with several extra jets. The area in
front of the landing-place was protected by barricades
across the road at Parsons-green and the old watering-
place beyond Meadowbank Tower.
The guard of honour here consisted of fifty men
of the 93d Highlanders, under the command of one
captain and two subalterns, with the band of the
13th Light Dragoons, and the Queen's colour. They
arrived shortly after five o'clock. The cavalry escort
was composed of one officer and twenty-five men of
the 13th Light Dragoons. Mr. Sheriff Gordon,
Lord Robertson, Sir W. Gibson Craig, Mr. Lear-
month, Chairman of the North British Railway
Company, Mr. Eagle Henderson, Vice-Chairman,
Sir James Forrest, Mr. Trotter, Mr. Horne, Mr.
Thomson, directors, and Mr. J. A. Campbell,
Sheriff-Clerk, were in early attendance at St. Mar-
garet's, to receive her Majesty.
The military were under the command of Major-
General Riddel.

The afternoon was observed as a holiday. The
Queen's Park was the great rendezvous, and its
various avenues were thronged by anxious crowds
from an early hour. The day was fortunately fine,
though rather cold ; and thousands of every age, sex,
and condition, arrived every moment to swell the
immense multitude The lining ground on the north
side of the road through the Queen's Park was early
occupied by spectators, while the more adventurous
dotted the jutting prominences of the hills opposite.
Every available spot commanding a view of the line
of railway was also occupied, from the Haymarket
station to Waverley-bridge, where the spectators
were very rumerous.

The royal train was expected to reach Edinburgh
shortly after six o'clock this evening. Its arrival
was awaited without impatience by the vast multi-.
tudes ; while its gradual approach to the city was
communicated to the authorities by the wires of t►he
electric telegraph. Every few minutes brought in-
telligence of the distance being diminished, until its
passage at the Haymarket station showed its