The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-01 00:00:00

THE SUN,

KOSSUTH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIII,—I enclose the copy of a letter I have this
day addressed to the editor of the Times, and shall
feel obliged by its insertion in The Sun.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
DUDLEY COUTTS STUART.
Literary Association of the Friends'of Poland,
Sussex Chambers, Dulie-street, St. James's,
Saturday, Nov. 29, 1851.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—As brevity is not one of the excellences
usually affected by Mr. Anstey in either oratory or
composition, I think I may venture to conclude that
the " silence in which he passes over the principal
points in a letter complimented by him as elaborate,
can arise from no other cause than the difficulty he
finds in answering them.
Mr. Anstey's letter, short as it is, contains some
misrepresentations, and, therefore, I trouble you with
a few words in reply. He says I have cast aspersions
on the good faith of Count Teleki. Now, the only
reference to Count Teleki which occurs in my letter
is the following :—" A careful examination of his
conduct during that brief administration shows that
he was more scrupulous than even so sound a states-
mas as Count Ladielas Teleki to preserve unimpaired
the provisions of the treaty which regulated the rela-
tions between Austria and Hungary."
Is this casting any aspersion on Count Teleki?
Ile may well have thought that the reckless violation
of that treaty by Austria in former times justified
some departure from it on the part of Hungary.
Honest men may, besides, differ in their interpretation
of a treaty less obscure in its terms than the Pragma-
tic sanction. So far from desiring to cast aspersions
on Count Teleki, I, in common with all who are ac-
quainted with his character, either public or private,
entertain for him the most unqualified admiration and
respect.
Mr. Anstey regrets that Kossuth should have aban-
doned the democratic party ; but this he has not done.
On the contrary, he has approximated towards it.
M. Kossuth opposed the democratic party whilst he
was Minister, because he preferred the existing Hun-
garian constitution to the untried experiment of a
republic.
It is singular that be should be found fault with on
this ground by a Member of the English Parliament.
But Mr. Anstey says, "I do not see, under these
circumstances, how M. Kossuth or hEs apologist can
claim to have been defenders of Italian independence,
which was the main ground on which I objected to join
in the homage rendered to M. Kossuth while in this
country." I confess this sentence is to me unintelligible.
Does Mr. Anstey mean that he ohj2cts to Kossuth
chit fly because he claimed to be the defender of Italian
independence, or because he failed in substantiating
such a claim ? But M. Kossuth's title to the
esteem of Englishmen has never been supposed to rest
on his conduct towards the Italians. It is his conduct
towards the Hungarian people which has secured him
the attachment of the liberal party throughout the
world. Besides, Mr. Anstey has retreated from his
original charge, which was, to use his own words,
" that Kossuth had mainly contributed to the destruc-
tion of Italian independence." He now (so far as his
meaning can be discovered) puts forward as the main
ground of his objection to Kossuth, merely that of
Italian independence he was not the defender.
I cannot pretend to so accurate a knowledge of the
science of special pleading as my Hon. and Learned
Friend, but it appears to me that he has been guilty
of what is termed, I believe, by pleaders " a depar-
ture ;" that is, he has shifted his attack from its
eriginal ground. I have as earnest a desire for the
eitablishment of Italian independence as any man can
possibly entertain ; but I do not, therefore, forget
that M. Kossuth must be judged as a Hungarian, and
not as if he were an Italian.
In conclusion, permit me to express the hope that
Mr. Anstey, when he has acquired more correct in-
formation respecting the administration of Kossuth
than can be obtained from his " Life by Bogue," will
admit that he has formed an erroneous judgment re-
specting that remarkable man with the same candour
he has displayed towards another great statesman,
against whom, not many years ago, Mr. Anstey made
noinconsiderable preparation for preferring articles of
impeachment.
With thanks for the insertion of my former letter,
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
DUDLEY COUTTS STUART.
Literary Association of the Friends of Poland,
Sussex Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's,
Nov. 29, 1851.

RAILWAY BETWEEN GALWAY

AND BELFAST.

BELFAST, Noy. 29.—At the conclusion of the
proceedings of the meeting of the Royal Flax So-
ciety, yesterday, an intimation was conveyed to the
gentlemen present that it was desirable such of them
as felt an interest in the establishment of railway
communication between Belfast and Galway, now
that the latter port is regarded as the most likely
packet statio❑ between this country and America,
should remain to discuss the matter. A large number
of highly influential parties accordingly remained,
and the chair was taken by the Earl of Erne.
After some preliminary conversation,

Mr. W. COATES remarked that he had been in-
formed that a meeting was to be held on the subject,
by the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, to-morrow
(cbis day). He had also been favoured with a com-
munication from Dublin on the subject ; and, as he
now understood the question, it had resolved itself
into the difference between taking the line up from
Armagh, and continuing it to Mullingar, or whether
they would have a continuation of the line from
Drogheda to Navan on to Mullingar. With refe-
rence to this question, so for as the North of Ireland
was concerned, he thought there could be no com-
parison at all.— (Hear.) He was himself one of the
first parties who took up the question of railway com-
munication in the North of Ireland, in promoting the
Ulster line; and he could say for himself, that the
idea at that time entertained was that of going on to
Sligo.—(Hear, hear.) Of course, they had due re-
gard, in making the partial lines, to their own imme-
diate interest, in the way of having a fair return for
their capital ; but when they came to consider its
extension to Sligo, and the opening up of railway
traffic to the west of Ireland the matter became one
of national importance ; and he conceived that it was
the duty of the Government to take it up, and assist
in having it carried out, and that the Board of Works
would be very happy to aid it in the way of loan.
However, from the difficulty which they had thrown
in their way, in the affair of Exchequer- bills, they
found it impracticable. He believed, if they had
been like other parties, and had more experience in
burrowing, they could easily have arranged it. The
money advanced in the way of loan was restricted to
earth-works, and such like ; and they could easily
have retained their own capital for the purchase of
rolling stock, expending the money borrowed in the
construction. But they had not this experience ; and,
being plain• sailing, straightforward sort of people
they had declined to proceed ; and the result was that
the continuation towards Sligo had never been effected.
He thought there could be no two opinions upon the
subject, that it would be most decidedly for the
benefit of Belfast that railway communication should
be opened from this town to the west of Ireland.
He believed also, that there was no interest which
would be in a greater degree benefited than the
Ulster Railway Company. It would be a decided
advantage to them to have the communication effected;
and he thought it lay strongly upon them to take the
matter up.
Mr. ANKETELL here observed that it might not be
perhaps kno ,en to all the gentlemen there that a
general meeting upon that subject was to be held on
Tuesday next, in Cavan, at twelve o'clock.
Mr. WORKMAN, applying himself to the observa-
tions of Mr. Coates in regarded to the propriety of
having the proposed line taken up by the Ulster
Company, remarked that they all knew that railway
property was not returning anything like a fair in-
terest on capital ; and he held that to suppose that
the Ulster Company would take up the proposed line
was downright nonsense. If the landlords who were
interested in it and the Government jointly were to
take it up, under such circumstances it might be made
to pay; but for the Ulster Railway Company or any
other to proceed in it would be, as he had remarked,
nonsense. If it were to go on, he believed the right
Car;Ar-
maghl turse wviaous.ld be, instead of eighty miles, from Ar-
magh to Mullingar, to make sixteen miles, which was
the Navan requiredierches. to connect the latter town with
Lord MASSEREHNE observed, that there was another
country which would be benefited by the proposed
line, if it were constructed,
and which seemed to be
left out of consider
oattiunia,
anxious to alluded to Scotland.
That country ought haveßelfast
communication between Galway and
estab-
lished, and thus placed on an equality with
bithe,Epengr_hlaanpds:
His Lordship conceived that they might
taking a premature step, until they ascertained what
Scotland w( uld do in the mutter, for he fearyd their
own ability to carry out any project of the kind.
Mr. MULHOLLAND assured his Lordship that the
people of Scotland would take no step of the kind.
directorH e believed
o f
the
L Tls t e r ethereline, singly,and
hein the
confessed
capacity
thathe
of ae
di i not take the same view of the matter to that put
stood
forward by Mr. Coates. He did not think that it
would be the duty of the directors to engage the
proprietors in such an undertaking; and he believed
that the first move should be taken by the landed pro-
prietors interested. When they had made the pre-
liminary arrangements so far as to be able to come to
the company, and say that they were prepared to offer
them the land at a reasonable rate, and that they were
in a position to engage them 3i or 4 per cent. for
working the line, on the security of the rates, or in
any other eligible way, then the directors would be in