The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

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orming
)t the journey, as representatives of the
)mpany, and of the Canal Company, in
Messrs. Thomson and Mac Connell. Mr.
ad the honour of escorting Her Majesty
ge, which was fitted up in Glasgow, un-
ler the direction of those gentlemen, for the Crinan Canal
Passage. The barge was drawn by four horses, ridden by
two young jockeys in red livery—two boys we believe in
the service of the Canal Company. The barge, sur-
mounted by a magnificent crown and sceptre, with the
crimson-covered cushions, and all the appearance of regal
state, decorated by six or eight silk flags, formed an ob-
ject of great admiration to the people who lined the banks,
and expressed their gratification in enthusiastic Gaelic.
The Queen and her suite were greatly pleased with this
part of the journey, and with the very excellent arrange-
ments made for them by the Steam-packet and Canal

connexion wi

The Queen and Prince Albert were much
interested in the locks of the canal, and the manner of
)assing through them. The country at Crinan is de-
cribed as very romantic. The hills immediately over the
s laid out artificially, but still look as if
lges or terraces. her

landing-:

they had been laid out in narrow

Majesty v

ratified with her novel journey

)vei the mountains

the re

espectful attention she re-
Lunicated to Mr. George

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On TI

isfaction

day, the squadron started from Rothesay A
o'clock, and, passing through the Kyles of Bute
Lamont point and up Loch Fine, entered Loch

The journey of Thursday was the most interesting ever

taken by the royal party iii Scotland, the scenery being of
a new and very interesting character. The Royal yacht
left Crinan Loch on Thursday at seven o'clock a.m. and
proceeded up the sound of Luing into Loch Linne, passing
Easdale on the right. Easdale slate quarries, the property
of the Marquis of Breadalbane, afford employment to a
large body of labourers. The coasts of the Breadalbane
estates are inhabited by a bodyof the most hardy boatmen
in the world. They were collected in large numbers on
Seil Island. We heard that 150 boats were to be manned,

and drawn up in two lines, through which the yacht would
pass. Ultimately, it was said that double that number
(300 boats) were collected, manned each by six men, and
each carrying its little flag. Their rendezvous was off
up exhibited
n each of the two

Luing Island, and their a.
no little taste and discipline.
lines were so close that the men, while receiving the
Queen, resembled two solid bodies of infantry drawn up
two or three deep, as a guard of honour, on the waters_
Those who are in the habit of seeing many pageants, and
saw the compliment paid to Royalty by the Breadalbane
men,' call it the most impost

ing and drawing

The boa

sort that they have ev

,nd striking thing of the
d. The yacht ran into

arse we3tN

.t again lett shortly after eleven, tal-
to the sound of Mull and to, the r

passed Lismore, one of the most fertile of the western
islands, and at this point the royal tourists had one of the
finest f Scottish views. The farm houses had all their
little flags fluttering in the breeze. Vainly in all her wide
dominions might the Sovereign look for aught more mag-
nificent and wildly grand than this entrance to the Sound
of Mull. The bold bleak Morven hills, famed in our
oldest poetry, associated with dark tales in history, are

on the right. Behind, the far distant peaks
Cruachan stand proudly over its multitude of a

ant and minor -mountain
up to their sharpest and highe
far away to the right the n

without a streak of mist
cliff on pinnacle, and
intains stretch

endless

le Duart

1 the

Misses of mountains, in all grotesque shapes and forms,
that to the eye make up the island of Mull, as they really
conceal its green pasturage, stretch along on the left,
making altogether a matchless scene of wild and romantic
beauty. The royal yacht was placed under the pilotage
of Captain M`Killop, of the Dolphin, and from her
frequent crossing and recrossing of the channel, so as to
command the best points of the view, it was evident that
the Queen and her party were greatly delighted with a

ge which,Sir yValter Scott describes as-so tempting

fine weather

rmory, where it was moored
party were expected to reach
orning about ten o'clock.

Albert forwarded c

,cent of the

cloud-

iccupy six or eight hours, it is sup-
d party would not proceed to Loch
miles further, till Saturday. Positive
Elect, it is said, has been received by

Laggan, which i
information to t'