The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

THE. SUN, LONDON, TUTSDAY EVENING,

QUEEN'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.

ANOTHER A TINT.
EDINBURGH, SATURDAY NING, SEPT. 3.—At
an early hour in the morni'g tse crowds began to
assemble. The Canongate was the first position in
which the great bulk of the population took their
ground, and from the termination of this antiquated
street—a street not to be equalled in the strangeness
of its appearance, and the many remarkable historical
facts with which it is connected, by the streets of any
other capital in Europe—up to the Lawn-market,
and thence to the very entrance of the Castle, where
the way is almost precipitous, as compared with
streets in general, the whole length of road was in a
manner choked up with a living mass. Close to the
Exchange was erected the "barrier"—a row of strong
pieces of timber, placed perpendicularly, and capable
of resisting the attack of a small rising. It was here
that the keys of the city were to be presented to her
Majesty by the Lord Provost and the members of
the Town Council, who, for that purpose, were in
attendance in the Council Chamber, which is in
the Exchange, awaiting the arrival of the Royal
carriage. Within the walls of the Castle and on the
esplanade before it, a great number of persons
were admitted by tickets. Those who were fearful
of the crushing in the main gangway of the street,
were to be seen at the windows and on the seats of
the scaffoldings erected against the sides of several of
the churches and public buildings, and in these places
also were to be seen the females and children. Every
window to the highest story or tier of every house
was occupied ; even in some places spectators were to
be seen seated on the roofs of the houses, and com-
manding a sort of bird's-eye view of what was being
transacted many feet beneath their almost perilous
situation. The crowd was tremendously thick in
Bank-street, the street leading from the Lawn-market
to the "Mound," the connecting link from the old town
to the new. The " Mound " itself was swarming
with human beings, the dwarf wall which forms one
boundary of it was covered with people, and the
trees behind were studded with groups of boys,
who were swayed backwards and forwards in their
seats as the wind and their own weight moved the
branches. On the opposite side were hundreds on
scaffoldings, whilst in the arena between were
thousands of persons on foot, and a long line of vehicles
filled with those who preferred to move about at in-
tervals from one place to another. Along Princes-
street, leading to Dalmeny Park, the crowd was also
dense, whilst at the windows of the houses and hotels,
with which this district abounds were spectators of
a higher class and rank. At the New Club-house,
which is situate in this street, exactly opposite to the
Castle, were the elite of all the beauty, rank, and fashion
of Edinburgh and the adjoining country, indeed of all
Scotland, and certainly there was an adinirabledisplay
of the feminine beauty and grace of the north. The
line of route beyond Dalmeny Park, Queensferry,
&c., also had its crowds, but they were not so thick
as in the streets just named.
The Royal party quitted Dalkeith about half-past
ten o'clock, with an escort of the Enniskillen Dra-
goonsyand arrived at the bottom of the Canongate at
about twenty minutes past eleven. Their arrival was
immediately announced by a salute of twenty-one
guns from the Castle. Here the body-guard of
Archers, under the command of Lord Elcho, fell into
the procession, and took their place around the.
Royal carriage, the Dragoons riding in advance,
six abreast, and clearing the way, which, as
they proceeded, was no very easy task, and another
guard of the same regiment following. The 53d regi-
ment was also employed to keep back the pressure of the
multitude, and was placed at intervals along the street.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
were in an open phaeton. Her Majesty was wrapped
round by a blue shawl or scarf, and wore a white silk
bonnet and feathers. His Royal Highness was in a
plain brown coat. They both looked remarkably well,
and returned the enthusiastic shouts which arose from
thousands of throats immediately as they entered the
city, and by which they were accompanied through-
out their whole passage, with their usual affability
and condescension.
The cortege, which consisted of a long line of car-
riages, in which were to be seen the Duchess of
Buccleuch, the Duchess of Norfolk, the Eirl of Aber-
deen, Sir R. Peel, who was repeatedly cheered, and
others in attendance an her Majesty, proceeded,
amidst the usual demonstrations of loyalty, to the
barriers, 'where the Royal carriage was met by the
Lord Provost and the Members of the Council, in full
civic costume. His Lordship at this point of the pas-
sage advanced to the Royal carriage and presented
the keys of the city to her Majesty.
This ceremony having been' concluded, the Royal
cortege proceeded onwards towards the Castle amidst
the cheers of the beholders, and entered the esplanade
about five minutes before twelve o'clock, where they
were received by the Commander of the Forces, Sir
Niel Douglas, who accompanied her Majesty and
Prince Albert in the inspection of the various parts
of the building which attracted their attention. The.
Queen and the Prince were recognized as they looked
down from the lofty battlements, by the people on the
Mound, and were immediately cheered. The Duke
of Argyll, Lord Melville, and the Lord Justice Clerk,
were also at the entrance of the Castle to receive her
Majesty, and accompanied her in her inspection. The
Royal party made, however, a very short stay in the
Castle, for at twenty minutes past twelve the whole
cortege passed through Bank. street, and debouched
upon the Mound. The Mound at this time presented
a scene the most animating that can be imagined ;
perhaps a larger mob of persons could not
be collected together in so short a space
of time in any given point of a modern city
as was collected here to-day at the moment the Royal
cortege appeared on the higher ground coming down
from the Castle ; there could not have been less than
30,000 persons, all to be seen from one point of view,
and all thickly wedged together. This immense clus-
ter was momentarily increased by hundreds of persons
hurrying across the North-bridr, and from the dif-
ferent closes and " wynds " leading from the High-
street, as the cortege passed, the shouts that rent the
air were really tremendous, and it required some
nerve in the illustrious personages it was meant to
honour not to feel alarm at the uproarious welcome.
Fortunately her Majesty and her Royal Consort pos-
sessed the firmness, and received the welcome of her
Scottish subjects as it was meant. And now a most
painful scene occurred, which if it have not occa-
sioned the death of any persons, has, been the cause of
broken limbs, dislocations, and bruises, to upwards of
20 individuals, many of them females. Just after
her Majesty's carriage had entered Princes-street, a
large portion of a scaffolding erected at the corner of
that street, opposite the shop of Mr. Hill, the pub-
lisher, suddenly gave way, and in an instant nearly
150 persons were precipitated from a height of 20 or
25 feet to the earth, amidst the falling of planks,
heavy pieces of wood, small beams, &c. The reserve
guard of the Enniskillens, with the most prompt hu-
manity, immediately cleared the ground around the
place, and afforded an opportunity for the maimed
and wounded to be extricated from beneath the
ruins of the scaffold, and carried to the houses in the
neighbourhood. Many were conveyed asVay on
boards, bleeding and mangled, and others were put
into carriages and taken home. A female with a
child in her arms was amongst those who fell from
the highest altitude, yet both escaped ,miraculously
unscathed. This mournful event was the only draw-
back on the proceedings of the day, but it is satisfac-
tory to state that no lives have been lost.
When the Royal procession reached the corner of
Charlotte-street, which is on a right line with the
western end of the castle, the guns of that fortress
thundered forth another Royal salute, and the multi-
tude set up a cheer that almost seemed an exaggerated
echo of the report, so loud was it, and so perfectly
overpowering. The Royal procession then moved
slowly along Queensferry-street and the Dean-bridge
to Dalmeny Park, the seat of the Earl of Rosebery,
where the Royal party partook of a splendid luncheon
provided for them by the noble owner.
After a short stay at Dalmeny, her Majesty re.
turned by the Leith Queensferry-road, proceeding
along it, Jamaica-street, North Leith Junction-street,
Hermitage-place, Leith Links. to Seafield Baths, and
thence to Dalkeith, by the Portobello-road. Through-
out the entire of the route her reception was of the
most enthusiastic description, and could not fail to
make a happy impression on her Majesty's mind. The
morning, though very lowering, was tolerably fine,
but in the evem9. the rain set in, and continued till
after her Majesty s arrival at Dalkeith.
DALKEITH PALACE, SUNDAY EVENING.—At half-
past eight o'clock this morning her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert went out privately,
and walked for some time on the terrace and slopes
of the pleasure garden 3, unattended by any member
of their respective households.
At eleven o'clock Divine service was performed at
the Palace, the principal dining-room being appro-
priated for the solemn duties. A temporary pulpit
and devotional chairs in the Gothic style, of oak,
richly carved, and trimmed with crimson velvet, were
used-on the occasion.

In addition to the Queen and Prince Albert, the
Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch Duchess of Norfolk,
Lord and Lady John Scott, Earl and Countess of
Cawdor, Lady Caroline Thynne, Earl of Morton,
Hon. Miss Paget, Colonel Bouverie, and the junior
branches °tithe Duke's family, were present.
The Rev. E. B. Ramsay, of St. John's Episcopa-
lian Chapel, Edinburgh, officiatedon the occasion.
The Earl of Aberdeen, with Sir Robert Peel, Earl
of Liverpool, and Mr. G. E. Anson, went to the
Established Church of the town of Dalkeith.

This afternoon, at half-past four, several of the
illustrious guests, inmates of the palace, went out
walking, and at 20 minutes to five her Majesty, with
the Duchess of Buccleuch, went for a drive in a
pony phaeton, the Duchess driving—his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, the Duke of Buccleuch, and the
Earl of Liverpool, accompanying the Queen on horse-
back, attended by out-riders and grooms. The Royal
party were absent from thq palace upwards of an hour.

PREPARATIONS AT TAYMOUTH.
I Ever since it was' known that her Majesty and •er
Royal Consort were to honour famed B ea lalbanAith
a visit,- tradesmen and labourers of every class and grade
have been employed, from grey dawn to dusk, in
putting every thing.in and around the princely Castle.
of Taymouth in a state of preparedness worthy of its
noble proprietor, and, it is trusted, of the Royal visi-
tors. Triumphal arches are being erected at all the
approaches to ,and from the castle, asAvell as at each
end of Kenmore-bridge, which nobly spans the infant
' Tay, and at the pier at Acharn, two miles distant from
Kenmore, where her Majesty is expeeted to land from
her excursion on the lake, when she visits the.far-
fained Falls of Acharn—the hermitage and approach'
to which have undergone scrubbing for the purpose.
A party of 200—it is even said of 250—brawny
Highlanders, in full Highland costume, are to assemble
at Taymouth on Friday, the 2d, and are to be
put in training for forming her Majesty's guard
of honour during her stay. They are directed to
appear provided with full camp accoutrements, and
are
.to have their bivouacs there till she leaves on the
9th. The tenants and other visitors are also requested
to come provided each with his quaich (cup) to join
in drinking to her Majesty's health—the beverage,
best mountain dew of course, is to be provided by
the Noble Marquis. Such huzzas, we are sure, the
Highland hills never reverberated to before. Four
platforms, 20 by 24 feet, are also to be erected on
the lawn in front of the Castle, where her Majesty
will witness " Tullochgorum," and other national
dances, in all their peculiar evolutions and variorums,
tripped with all the characteristic airiness of High-
landers. It is not supposed that Prince Albert, as
has been reported, will go to the Black Mount
Forest—the shortness of the stay of the Royal party
indeed precludes the possibility of it, if he is to in-
dulge in any spert around Taymouth. It is rather
expected that he will spend one day at grouse-shoot-
ing in Taymouth and Kenmore hills, and another at
deer and roe-hunting in Drummond Hill.
We understand that the Highland gentlemen have
arranged triumphal arches along the road by which
her Majesty will progress from Perth to ICenmore.
From Rannoch to Aberfeldy there will be nearly 600
Highlanders in full costume, who will meet at Ken-
more. From Atholl to Dunkeld there will be an
equal number of Highlanders, headed by Lord Glen.
lyon, and Fascally, Balnakeilly, Lude, &c. The
Atholl men, so much admired at the tournament, have
been greatly augmented in force, and will be com-
manded by Lord Glenlyon and his brother, the Hon.
Captain James Murray. It is expected that the
Queen will corne,from Scone, by the 'bridge of Isla,
through Meikleour, to Dunkeld, and lunch with the
Duchess of Athol. This is probable, from the great
attachment uniformly evinced by the Athol family to
the Crown. The whole Societies of Dunkeld go
along with the Highland bands; and all, we believe,
will meet in the home grounds of the Athol family,

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FRENCH EXPRESSEs.
In our City article of this day a subject is glanced
at which has attracted and deserves no ordinary at-
tention from the commercial classes of England. We
mean the trickery which appears to be resorted to by
' the French Government in their dealing with the
Indian news which our vessels bring to Marseilles.
Our readers have probably long been familiar with
those arbitrary interferences, unsanctioned even by
their own not very independent Courts of Law, by
which they have exerted themselves to impede the
transmission of news safely and accurately to the
English Press. It is not easy for an uninitiated
public to detect the inducements to that apparently
gratuitous sacrifice of character which necessarily at-
tends-upon a' despotic and obnoxious course, pursued,
as we have said, in the very teeth of formal decisions
pronounced by French Courts in favour of the rights
of the foreign Press, and literally condemning the
Governments conduct. These acts, however, of
oppressionnotmoraiyetybe
whichca
carried on
the necessary and on without that very
instant
may be un-
almost immediate result of their presenteenptreos-t
pro-
ceedings. The proprietors of a journal
with
the to
Government
eentof
themselvesone of the great European fairly Into a
Powers, and the matter may blow over. Justice,
even when there is a fair prospect of getting it, may
not always be worth the difficulties and disadvantages
which are its price. Those who are obliged or who
are anxious to run their couriers, however legally,
across the-whole length of France, are too dependent
upon the vexatious impediments which Government
hostility.
foralas last Inbdoiladner mail, however, has fur-
nished
may be pleased to interpose
experiment.willingly to provoke
Themoistts
important statement of the telegrsThic despatch for-
warded and announced to the public by Government
authorities has been found to be utterly unjustified by
the details of the Indian news. A statement was
coined by somebody, calculated to produce---and
which did produce—a visible effect on prices, and the
falsity of which must have occasioned losses as serious
as undeserved to those who founded their speculations

upon it.
This is no longer a private but a public injury. It
is an act of dishonesty which calls forth the reproba-
tion, not of one, or two, or three individuals, but of
the commercial classes of two great countries. It is
an act which a Government, or a Government func-
tionary, would hardly have ventured upon from the
mere caprice of power or personal animosity. Its im-
portance is too great, its detection too certain and too
immediate, to admit of this hypothesis. We do not
know whether the business morality of the Bourse at
Paris is less exacting than that which reigns in the
commercial circles of London ; but let our readers
conceive the indignation which would burst upon the
head of ony member or employe of an English Cabinet,
who, having in his hands correct and important ac-
counts, was proved to have deliberately misled specula-
tion by publishing, with the authority of Government,
a garbled or perverted statement of them. .
not anEyen in
this country, we say, where stock jobbing is
ordinary crime of Ministers, such a breach of faith to
the public, such an abuse of powers delegated for the
public service, would elicit not merely energetic com-
plaints of carelessness and consequent injury, but,
pointed and unsparing accusations of interested dis-
honesty. Nor certainly would our knowledge of
French politics lead us to be more chary of our in-
ferences with respect to the authors of the present
deception, even if report did not point to a gentleman
high in the confidence of M. Guizot as not very cre-
ditably implicated in the manoeuvre. The transactions
of the Cabinet and of the Bourse have unfortunately
been too frequently mixed up in that country to
allow us to wonder at, or dismiss as incredible, such
an accusation, however much we may regret the stain
which it casts upon a Ministry to which we wish well.
Nor is this trick much less discreditable in a na-
tional than in a commercial point of view. It is some
considerable advantage to the French port of Mar-
seilles to be made the rendezvous of our East Indian
packets. It is not altogether a matter of indifference,
whether or not the current of communication and of
voyagers which those packets occasion is carried to
England through Marseilles and Paris, or by some
other and independent route. We do not wish to
magnify this convenience or advantage; but a con-
venience and advantage it certainly is which is con-
ferred upon parts of Prance in this choice of a har-
bour by the English Post-office. Call it even a con-
fidence, a compliment—and in return even for such
an act of friendship, fair play, one would think, might
at least he expectated ; and an English Ministry might
fairly complai
their allies findin
these power which they had
confided to unscrupulously abused to
the misleading of themselves and the British public—
to the creation of false impressions, not, perhaps, at
the present moment of any very vital importance to
their interests, but which, in other and more critical
circumstances, might exert a serious influence upon
their Parliamentary or other political contests.
But it might be answered that we are reversing the
relations of the parties; that if we are to strike a
debtor and creditor account at all, France is not fa-
voured in being made the means of transit for our
Indian intelligence, but favours England by allowing
herself to become so ; that we have no choice in the
matter, and must for our own interests take the only
safe and rapid means of gaining our news, and be
thankful that that is permitted us.
We think not. It is, we believe, a mistake to sup-
pose that the shortest route by which news can he
transmitted from Alexandria to London is that by
Marseilles ; and taking into consideration the system
of impediment at present pursued
by France, we
have little doubt that, by an arrangement with Aus-
tria and other German Governments, an equally
speedy communication might be effected through
Venice, which would shake us free of the petty and
unworthy obstacles to which we are now liable ; and
we presume there can be little question of the readi-
ness with which Austria would second an arrange-
ment so conducive to the prosperity of a seaport of
her own, of which she is wisely and naturally
anxious to increase the importance.
We should be glad to believe that the misconduct
of which we have now to complain resulted from the
ignorance, the misapprehension, the animosity, or the
hurry of a mere subordinate. It is with reluctance
that we admit the suspicion that any functionaries of
a higher rank in public opinion, ancfin the responsi-
bilities of their office, can be, parties to a proceeding
indeed, should we have al-
so discreditable. Nor,
lowed that suspicion to enter our minds were the pre;-
sent a mere isolated case. Unfortunately we have
ourselves had reason to complain that it is not so, and
from the treatment which has been perseveringly ad-
ministered, in spite of justice and declared law, to our-
selves and others, we are compelled to conclude that
there is some more powerful influence at work than
the officer in charge of a telegraph—that it is not to an
not to an accident but to a
agent but to a principal,
system, that these dishonest tamperings are due. And
for the sake of justice we are glad that they have now .
reached a point which brings them into conflict, not
with the protests and actions at law of detached indi-
viduals, but with the powerful voices of those in-