The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCTOBER 21.—Her Majesty and her august
mother attended divine service this morning at the Chapel
Royal of St. George. The sermon was preached by the
Rev. Mr. Proby, who took his text from the 7th chap. of St.
Luke's Gospel, 35th verse, "But wisdom is justified of all
her children." The Rev. Mr. Knyvett chaunted the service,
The Rev. Mr. Proby and the Rev. Mi. Musgrave officiated
at the altar. Among the royal party and suite from the
mstle were Lady Lyttleton, Lady Mary Stopford, Lady C.
Paget, Lady E. Paget, lion. Miss Lister, Hun. Miss Paget,
Lady Charlotte Copley, Baroness Lehzen. Earl of Uxbridge,
Hon. C. A. Murray, Admiral Sir Robert Otway. and Sir
Frederick Stovin.

WINDSOR, OCT. 22.—The Queen rode in the Park this
aftornoon on horseback, attended by Viscount Falkland,

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Baroness Lehzen.

The Duchess of Kent drove to Kensington, and returned
to dinner.

The Ladies E. and C. Paget, Lady Littleton, and Lady
Mary Stopford, rode out together in a carriage and four.
Earl Spencer, Marquis Conyngham, and Viscount Arch
bourne, arrived at the Castle this evening to dinner.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge and family are expected to arrive at the Castle on
Tuesday.

WINDSOR, OCT. 23. —Sir H. Wheatley and the Earl of
Surrey arrived at the castle to dinner.

Her Majesty, attended by the Duchess of Kent, Baioness
Lehzen,
.Lady C. Copley, Lady M. Stopford, and Miss
Quentin, Lord Melbourne, Lord Uxbridge, Lord Spencer,
Lord Falkland, Lord Conyngham, Sir R. Otway, and Col.
Cavendish, rode out on horseback in the Great Park.
Ladies B. and C. Paget, Lady Lyttleton, and Miss Lister,
took an airing in a carriage.
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WlNnsott, OCT. 24. —This afternoon the Queen took her
accustomed exercise in the park. Her Majesty rode on
horseback, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, and attended
by Lady Mary Stopford, Lady C. Copley, Baroness Lehzen,
Admiral Sir Robert Otway, 'Lords Uxbridge, Surrey, Falk-
land,-and Conyngham, and Sir George and Miss Quentin.
Lady Lyttletou, the Countess Paget, and the Hon. Miss
Lister followed in a pony phaeton. •
The Duke and Duchess, and Princess Augusta of Cam-
bridge arrived this evening to dinner. Colonel Sir J. Hope,
Scots fusilier guards, will have the honour of joining the
royal dinner party this evening. •
Lord Spencer took his departure for Holkham, the seat of
the Earl of Leicester Viscount Melbourne, left for town,
but his lordship is expected to return to dinner.
The Countess of Uxbridge has been confined to her apart-
ments in the Castle for several days past, from the effects of
a severe cold. We are, however, happy to learn that her
ladyship is fast recovering.

riic Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by
the Princesses Atittusta and Mit'iy of Cambridge, and attend-
ed by Baroness Ahlefeldt, left their residence at Kew, on
Wednesday, on a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle.
Viscount Melbourne returned to town on Wednesday
afternoon front a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
His lordship visited Lord Glenelg, at his residence, in Great
Geori.te-street.

Earl Spencer arrived in town at two o'clock on Wednes-
day afternoon from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
The noble Earl remained an hour in town, and then left on
a visit to the Earl of Leicester, at llolkham.

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OPENING OF THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.

This railway, intended as a continuation of the Grand
Junction line irons London, and as a direct line from Man-
chester and Liverpool to Preston, was opened front end to
end on Monday. Shortly after eight o'clock, Hardman
Earle, Esq., Joseph Hornhy, Esq., Theodore Ratishotte,
Esq., William Taylor, Esq., (the chairman of the Preston
committee,) and several shareholders of the company, started
in an open carriage, propelled by their No. 2 engine, manu-
factured by Messrs. Jones, Turner, and Evans, of the Via-
duct Foundry, Newton, from Parkside, the place celebrated
in railway history as the spot at which the late Mr. Huskisson
met his death. The entire line from Parkside to Preston
measures twenty-two miles and a half; the first two miles
and a quarter is up a slight incline and a curve; next comes
four miles of a dead level, and perfectly straight. A steep in-
cline, rising at the rate of ouein a hundred, brings the tra-
veller to the town of Wigan, the company's first station on
the line. Here a splendid station-house has been erected,
alike well adapted for the transaction of the company's busi-
ness and general public accommodation. The line is carried,
by means of an iron bridge, supported by massive pillars of
the Doric order, across the turnpike road leading into Wigan.
This commences the Douglas contract undertaken by Messrs.
Mullens and M`Mayor, which extends five miles along the
line to Coppull, through some exceedingly heavy embank-
ments and cuttings, in some places full sixty feet deep. In
this distance there are two inclined planes, the highest rising
in the ratio of lin WO. Coppull forms the summit, and here
commences the Yarrow contract, which is carried along one
of the most beautiful valleys in England. From Coppull to
Yarrow there are three inclined planes, two short ones, and
the third extending to more than a mile in length, and formed
by embankments raised in places more titan sixty feet above
the natural level. The chief alteration iu this line is the
wooden bridge across the river Yarrow. It will be re-
collected by those conversant with railroad affairs, that
a culvert of very considerable extent had been formed
across the river, and the embankment placed upon
it. The iloeids of last November caused the river to over-
flow so considerably as to blow up the arches, and to
carry away the embankment to a very considerable extent.
The loss to the contractor was estimated at nearly £6,000.
In the place of this culvert and embankment, a bridge, made
of frame-work, has been erected. It is 73 feet above the bed
of the river, 400 feet long, and 32 feet wide; and in its eon-
stiuction more than 30,000 feet of timber was used. The
prospect is truly beautiful. On the hill stands Gillibrand
Hall, the seat of Mr. Fazakerley, and Chorley Church, and
in the distance Riviugton Pike or Hill, known as a land-
mark for inward-bound ships on approaching the port of
Liverpool. There are two more inclines between the Yar-
row Bridge and Preston, one at Leyland, the other at Far-
rington; and, immedfately previous to reaching Preston,
there is a deep excavation, 41 feet cutting. The bridge over
the river Ribble is a line specimen of architecture, erected
by Messrs. Mullen and Co., at the cost of £30,000. It is
composed of five elliptic arches, of 150 feet span, and 33 feet
rise. The stone of which it is constructed was raised from
quarries at Lancaster and Whittle. and is called " millstone,
grit," a very durable material. The span of the arches is
the sante as that of Waterloo Bridge, London. At this place
the engine was stopped, and the directors there terminated
their trip. The distance from end to end was performed in
forty-five minutes. After taking breakfast in Preston, the
directors returned to the Yarrow Bridge, where a thorough
inspection took place. The engine was made to pass over
the bridge several times at a very rapid rate ; the vibration
was scarcely perceptible; and sonic of the company ex-
pressed to Mr. Mackenzie, the contractor, who was present,
their approval of the !haulier in which this arduous task had
been completed. The directors, in their trip, were preceded
by the No. 5 engine, built by Messrs. Hicks, of Bolton,
which, with Messrs. Jones and Co.'s engine,'worked admi-
rably. The directors, on their return, arrived at Parkside
at twenty minutes past one o'clock. The line, it is expected,
will be open to the public on Wednesday next. The mails
are not expected to run upon it prior to the 9th of next
month. •