The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-14 00:00:00

N 9 JUNE 14, 1850.

for accommodation, convenience, and benefit of persons
whose estates or interest may be affected by the making
the railway and works, or for the payment ,to any
such persons any sum of money by way-,of .penalty
ox compensation, shall be as binding on, and as gaud
against, or in .favour of, the Eastern Counties Com-
pany as they were before, the execution of such con-
veyance, binding on or valid against, or in favour of
the Eastern Union Company, an.l may be enforced
by the tame ways and means in all respects--sts-if the
Eastern Counties Railway Company had Itseen parties
to and exceuted the fatale instead of the Eastern Luaon
Company.
The CHAIRMAN said, they would perceiyv that this
clause was very different from the othesi;:atill therefore
the directors, could not recommend its 'isdoPtion. He
would propose a resolution to the effe3t Wet the meeting
do disaperove of the 6th, 7th, and Bth clauses inthe Bill
which affect the Eastern Counties Company.
Mr. GLYNN, a director, referred to the -opinion ex-
pressed ate the report of. the late Committee of investi-
gation, in favour of giving every reasonabta.assiatabce
to, the undertaking, and the establishment of a packet
station at Harwich, ou the ground that it 4Onitibave the
effect of increasing the traffic on the maialins,' The
length of line was eleven miles, and the caplets!: was not
to exceed 200,000/. The Eastern, Counties Company
lied power to lease the line in perpetuity, and the pro-
posed clauses were to enable the company to purchase
the undertaking. But the clause lately introduced in
the Bill would have tote effect, if adopted, of binding the
company hand and foot to all the liabilities the Eastern
Union may have incurred, and he hoped they would
reject the Bill.
Mr. NATHAN did not think it advisable to incur any
further liabilities in making new lines. Their object
ahould be to close the capital account as soon as, possi-
ble.—(Hear.) He thought a better and cheaper line to
Harwich could be made than thnone prOpotte4.
The CHAIRMAN said_ that at the hat meeting the
directors had pledged themselves to close the capital
account, and they would act in accordance with that
promise.
Mr. CHRISTIE said that he held a number of proxies
in favour .of. the two original clauses in the Bill, but
that since the third clause had been introduced, which,
would be prejudicial to the interests of the . Ens:ern
Counties proprietors, he had determined to revoke these
proxies, and he hoped they would not sanction such a

Mr. BITRAIL said that anything in the shape of
amalgamation could not fail to be very detrimental to
their interests. Were it not for their connexion with
the Norfolk Company, he believed their dividends
would have been larger.
After some observations from Mr. Box and Mr.
flowxs, resolution was unanimously carried, to the
effect that the special meeting of the Eastern. Counties
Railway Company disapprove of clauses 6,7, and 8, be-
ing all the clauses in the Bill which affect the Eastern
Counties Company.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to
the chairman.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, JUNE 13.
The Queen and Prince walked early this morning
in Osborne Park:

The younger members of the Royal FAmily
walked and rode as usual.
Lord Hoy/den arrived at Osborne yesterday after-
noon, and had the honour of joining the royal dinner
party. His Lordship returned to London this fore-
noon.

There was no other addition to the royal dinner
party.

Her Majesty' will hold a Privy C uncil at Buck-
ingham Palace on Wednesday. next, the 19th inst.
Summonses-were issued yesterday to the Ministers
and Officers of State from the Privy Council office.
Her. Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Mr. Ed.
mond Mildmay, honoured Mr. Henry Greville with
her company on Wednesday evening, at his residence
in Queen-street.__

Lord John- Fussell left his residence, Pembroke
Lodge, Richmond Park, at eleven o'clock yesterday
morning, for the Kingston Station, travelling by the
London and South-Western Railway, en route to
Osborne, Isle of Wight, on a visit to the Queen.
Count de Reventlow, the Danish Minister, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
A deputation, consisting of Mc. Perfect (solicitor),
and Mr. lianegan (engineer), on behalf of the Bolton,
Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway
Company ; and Messrs. Grundy, C. W. Eborall, and
R. Perring, from the East Lancashire Railway Com-
pany, had an interview with the Commissioners of
Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of
trade.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday.
Lord Monteagle ,had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. His Lordship had
also an interview with Earl Granville, at the Board
of Trade yesterday.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
COWES, J max 13.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
June 8. Ballerina schooner, John Davenport, Eiq.,
from Portsmouth; Fair Rosamond schooner, W. Lyon,
Eiq., from Southainpton; &lien' yawl, Earl of Hard-
wick, from Southampton; Resolution schooner, Duke of
Rutland, from the west coast of Scotland.
June 11. Oaprey cutter, John Petre, Esq., from
Portsmouth.
June 12. Ermine schooner, Earl of Ellismere, from
Lisbon.
June _l3. Gondola cutter, W. H. Woodhouie, E.q.,
from London.

SAILINGS.
June 10. Ballerina schooner, John Davenport, Esq.,
'or Dartmouth.

June 11. Frisk cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., for Ports-
mouth and London.
YACHTS 'AT• AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Merlin, Fair Rosationd, COnstance, Resolution, Fairy,
Ermine, Gauntlet, Osprey, Gondola, Eliraheth, Susan.
The follnwing_noblemen and gentlemen hive been at
the Royal YlOat Station during the week:—The Earl of
Ilchester, Earl of Hardwick, E. N. Harvey, Esq., Wm.
Lyon, Esq., John Davenport, Esq., R. Frankland, Esq.,
Col. W. Markham, Hon.' Col. )dloreton, Viscount So-
merton, Spencer de Horsey, E,q.. John Petre, Esq.. Sir
Rd. B. W. Bulkeleya Bart., Mundt of Hertford,
EVanat Lord Arthur Fitzgerald, Sir Charles
Rowen, Sir W. Montagne, James Maxse, Esq , Captain
Yates, R.N., Hay, Esq., W. H. Woodhouse, Esq., and
Wm. Peareth.
_There have been a number of fashionable arrivals
during the week; The villas and the lodging•houses
generally are getting ready 'for the season. Our sum-
mer visitors-win find "some of them very much improved.
Allis bustle amongst the yachtsmen, to get their vessels
ready for sea. The Castle is being embellished; the
Marquis of Anglesey and family are expected to take up
their residence there about the Ist of July. The baths
and the bathing is very much. improved, and all seem to
be going a-head with' the times.
The South-Western Railway Company have even step-
ped out of their way to put on a train to accommodate the
Londoners cif a Saturday evening, and the Packet Com-
pany have put on a Steamer to meet it; so that they may
run down from London to Cowes in two hours and a
half I Tvrelie years age it could not be done in a day.

PORTLAND' BREAKWATER.
FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)
ithinqUOM non paratus.
" This is no job, it stands on its own intrinsic me-
rits.."--JOHN HARVEY, SEN.
" Perhaps the future safety of the country may depend
on its creatton."—Szn JOHN ►SINCLAIR.

This celebrated agriculturht long felt a deep inte-
rest in this subject, he was the first who brought over
to this country the plena of the cones of. Cherbourg,
and roused the attention of the Government .to that im-
portant undertaking..
The source of our national strength and greatness
(the navy) has given us commerce and the sovereignty
of the sea,'and created the wealth and the grandeur of
England. _

This Government Breakwater is (1850) pro-
gressing, and has attracted the notice of those whose
interest led theit to set a due estimation on the mari-
time concerns of Dorsetshire, but this is a
very limited consideration when compared with
those national results, which so obviously attach
to this important national subject, and 'to
which the kingdom at large is daily
growing more alive. The Victoria Harbour of
Refuge will present a noble specimen of the riches,
the strength, the commerce, and the beauty of every-
thing connected with British seamanship, and thereby
Weymouth and Poiflicnd will be enabled to assert their
title to be ranked among the first maritime stations in
the world, worthy the renown of England, and the
renewed presence of her monarchs.
It is a pleasing task to enumerate some of the im-
portant benefits to be derived from this stupendous
work when completed. It is nearly equi-distant from
Scilly and the Downs, and is opposite to Guernsey
and the Caskets, between which and the Thames are
those dangers and intricacies which have produced
the serious loss of life and property continually
experienced. Indeed the excellence of its central
situation for an asylum from gales, and a general
rendezvous is admittesl, and the advantage the com-
merce of the country will derive by protecting it against
southeast winds, is all, that is required; it is perfectly
protected by nature from the south- west wind, and only
exposed to a sea raised bythe south-east wind in the short
distance of 50 inkleeb The breakwater abuts on the
land 'Close to the railroad, and the stone is at once de-
poeited into the sea, thin avoiding the coat and delay

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of conveyance of it by light* :and only subject to in-
terruption by the rarely occurring south-east wind. In
addition to the benefit this harbohr will offer as a rerinie
from gales and hostile cruisers, is in advanced rendek-
vous for the collection of comely,' and as a station
for her Majesty's ahips -to be in fetelioesa to proteet
the trade and follow the movement of an enemy's
squadron, it will amply afford to the merchants and
sbipoWnera of London, &c. assistance - to the
voyages of their ships. The :south-westerly
winds blow full- eight months out of twelve,
a/1(1_-the consequent delay averages four weeks on
every southern export voyage from the Tnames
this detention arises • chiefly in the DoWns, and at
the anchorage within the Isle of Wight, not from
the impossibility of getting from either, for in mode-
rate weather they can always get from them, but from
the impracticability of getting into the safe sea-room of
the channel, without exposure to those serious dangers
which present so melunuboly a -picture( in our daily
and weekly journals, The distance from the Isle of
Wight, to the part of the channel in which ships
may be said; to be iu safety, is about 90 miles, and as
Portland is SO to the westward of the Isle of Wight,
and
_may be reached in a tide time, when so protected
that ships will not only be safe when caught there
with a'Soutb-east winckbat'be enabled to get to sea
without difficulty, • with the wind from any
point of the coMpass,' they will now get
from the Downs to Spithead, from Spithead to
Portland, and from thence into the safe sea-
room of the channel ! The tides turn three hours
sooner on the shore than in the offing, and the
wind near the shore is generally influenced by the
land. • With the assistance of nine hours' tide with
them gut— of twelve, and the favourable slants'
of • the Wind, the. skill and perseverance of ship-
master!, when having this harbour to run to in
the event of a gale, will materially 'decrease the
detention they haye hitherto been subject to.
The south-east wind rises rapidly and blows strongly,
and is the wind on which outward bound ships
depend' to effect a quick voyage. Those
from the other eastern points are generally of
short, duration, and the benefit of being advanced ,
a few leagues to the westward on their springing up
is frequently equal to the time occupied in a West
India voyage, while others which sailed at the same
time from the Downs had been compelled to put
back again in consequence of the wind shifting to
the westward before they could get below
Guernsey. Although the south-west wind pre-
vails two-tbirds of the year, yet on an average it
does not blow strong above a third of that time,
and hence shelter and assistance will enable the
ships to be making progress on their voyage 160
days of the time they have been detained at the
eastern anchorages. If, then, the pay and victualling
of the crews, and the loss of interest on the invested
capital during that period will be saved, it is important;
but if we take into consideration the consequence of a
late arrival of cargoes at the foreign markets, we may
ask if by so far ensuring an early arrival, a material
benefit is not conferred ? • English manufacturers
have to compete with the productions of other coun-
tries, which, though of interior qualities, supply the
demand in the absence of British naerchandize. Even
in our own colonies, the seasons, as at home, have
their peculiar requirements, and an expeditious Toy
age is alike essential to profit, and a quick return o
the investment.

Tne merchants, shipowners, and commercial com-
panies, the public and th, Legislature, are aware of
the immense value of the trade of London, and ap-
preciate the protection and aid that will arise from
this harbour of refuge, the value of property saved
trom wreck, and the impetus given to commerce will
annually-produce millions. It is clear that the actual 1

necessity for the great advantage and practicability of
the breakwater both as. a central rendezvous on the
score of commerce and humanity so much required
between Portsmou'h and Plymouth, a-4 well as its
adaptation to afford a means of national offensive and
defensive operations, i apparent in t. very point of view.