The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-30 00:00:00

IRISH LINES.

ULSTER.—The traffic on this railway (twenty-five
miles opened) was, for the week ending 24th August,
1845 :—Passengers, 15,731 ; amount, 5161. 19s. 11d. ;
goods, 147/. ss. Bd. ; total, 664/. ss. 7d. Corresponding
week of last year :—Passengers, 9,784 ; amount, 376/.
10s. 2d. ; goods, 114/. Is. Bd. ; total; 490. I Is. 101.
lursrt WEST COAST.—The Mayo Constitution an-
nounces an entirely new line, " to complete the chain of
coast communication, and form a connexion with lines
already established or projected. It will commence at
or near the city of Limerick, and taking a northerly
direction proceed through the counties of Clare, Galway,
Mayo, and Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and
Railway, and accommodating on its route
the important cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort,
Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam, Ballinrobe, Castle-
bar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Killala, Swinford,
Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected
with the north, east, and south, by the different lines
through Enniskillen, Londonderry, Coleraine, Belfast,
Arma,,h, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow,
Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Vulentia, Tralee,
and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause
Ireland to present a completeness of locomotive ':a.mnu-
nication which no other country in the work' enjoys."
EXTENSION FROM TEMPLEMORE TO NENAGII AND THE
SHANNON.—The Secretary of this Company has been
sent over specially by the Board of Directors to Inverse
the line from Nenagh to Templomore, and from Nenagh
to the Shannon, accompanied by the acting engineers,
with a view to have all matters connected with this rail-
way completed in due time for the obtaining of their
Parliamentary Bill in the ensuing session, and that im-
' mediately after which the works may be proceeded with
without delay.-IVenagh Guardian.

lirsosrow-s Asp BRAY.—On Wednesday a meeting
of such scripholders in this lino as purchased at a pre-
mium was held at Judu's Hotel, Grafton-street, and
preliminary arrangements NI ere entered into for meeting
the Directors of the Kingstown Company, with the view,
if possible, of effecting an amicable settlement of their
claims.

[ADVERIIIEMENT.]
DIRECT INDEPENDENT LONDON
AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIVI-
SlR,—After taking ten days to consider of it, Mr.
Ashurst has at length ventured to publish a rejoinder to
my reply of the 18th instant. I can well conceive that
he has been writhing in painful indecision during this in.
terval, for in the first instance he favoured me with some
ten or twenty lines of this same rejoinder, and published
them in your paper, four or five days ago. His friends
no doubt told him that this paltry apology for an answer
would never do ; and now he favours me with an ex-
tended edition of it, occupying two-thirds of a column.
Yet, with all its length, it is somewhat difficult to ex-
tract from it a single sentence that can be considered by
the most good-natured man at all relevant to the issue
between us. It is a common artifice with lawyers, when
their case is ball, to make a great splutter and pother
about points of no consequence, while they fight shy of
all that they cannot answer. And such is the policy of
Mr. Ashurst.

I accused Mr. Ashurst, broadly and publicly, and in
all the newspapers,
First, of most culpable negligence while acting, or
professing to act, as the solicitor for my line in 1840,
1841, 1842, 1843, and 1844.

Secondly, I accused him of supercilious and con-
temptuous treatment of the Bedford Committee, in 1844,
a line of conduct which led to his discharge.
Thirdly. I accused hip of fraudulently appropriating
to himself the patronag4 of the London and Manchester
houses, which had been given to my line, when my line
was the only direct line before the public, or in contem-
plation ; and,
Fourtly, I accused him distinctly, pointedly, and
clearly, of attempting to defraud me, not only of the
patronage which I had obtained, but also of my project
itself, after many fruitless attempts to discover some
competing line which might at least have the merit of
originality, even if it were found utterly destitute of the
higher merit of practicability.
Such were the charges I brought against him, and in
terms so strong and unequivocal, that without a perfect
conviction not only of their truth, but of my power to
prove their truth, I dared not have expressed myself as
I did. Mr. Ashurst has not had the courage, or I
should rather say the audacity, plagiarist, pirate, and
attorney as he is, to offer answer or explanation to any
of these charges, or even to grapple with them ; but has
prudently enveloped both himself and his readers in a
cloud of dust and confusion, which makes it impossible
to guess what the squabble is about. I suspect it is in
vain to hope for a reply, although I again reiterate my
accusation, and again challenge him to call a public
meeting either in Londom or Manchester, with reason-
able notice, and there meet me and my proofs face to
face. Mr. Ashurst is too sagacious to accept the chal-
lenge.

Yet even in this hubble-bubble letter, falsehood vies
with bad taste for the ascendancy. I quote his words—
" Mr. Remington talks of meetings to support his line.
There was but one meeting—that was at Bedford, got
up by himself, to aid his project to go to York and
Manchester."
I answer that there were not less than eleven public
meetings held in support of my line at the following
eleven places :—namely, Barnet, St. Alban's, Luton,
Am pthill, Thrapston, Wellingborough, Ingham
Ferrers, Kettering, Bedford, Northampton and Leek. I
have on my table before me printed copies of the reso-
tions passed and published at each of these meetings. I
may well say with Mr. Hume, "Let him take his change
out of that 1"

Again, Mr. Ashurst says, "I have published no names
in support of the line to which I have been appointed
solicitor, but such as were given to me in, or subse-
quent to, June of this year." I answer that Mr. Ashurst
has published and prefixed to his prospectus more than
100 names, which were never given at all to any particu-
lar 1 ne, either of his or mine, but only in favour of
direct line," at a time when mine was the only direct
line before the public. I have before me a letter of Mr.
Shepperson, one of his Committee, and of his active sup-
porters, addressed to Mr. Rogers, one of the present so-
licitors of my line, and dated the 16th of October, 1844.
inclosing the names of fifty-six houses, most of which
are now daily advertised by Mr. Ashurst, but which
names were then obtained to sanction my undertaking!
Will Mr. Ashurst dare to assert that ho has obtained
thQse names to any project of his own since June, 184 b?
If he hazards such an assertion, I will re-publish the list
with Mr. Shepperson's letter, and leave them all to tight
it out among themselves.
Bati Mr. Ashurt speaks of " the line to which I have
been appointed solicitor." What is this line to which he
is appointed solicitor ? Who has appointed him ? Why
does he leave it doubtful and indeanite ? It is so strange
as to be almost incredible, that to this hour, when Mr.
Ashurst hr.s for months been advertising a railway corn-
;„::.lay, and ostensibly patronised by high-sounding com-
mercial names, and has closed tilS share list, and, for
anythinz4 I know or me, received thotisauds by way o
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