The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-29 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, Atia../6.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 3/, 35.-
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21. I Is. 6d..-Arbroath and For-
far, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151.--Armagh and Portrnsh, 2/.
-Banffshire, 2/. Is. 6d.-British and Irish Vzion, 31. 76.-
Belfast and County. Down, 31. 155.-Cambridge anti Lincoln,
'3/. 10s.-Caledonian, 10/. 103.-Caledonian Extenslfm, 21.
175.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31. 17s. 6d.-clvdesdale
Junction, 91.-Direct Northern, 2/. 4s. 6d.-Dundee anti
Arbroath, 37/. Is. 6d.-Ditto, New, 18/. - Dundee and
Perth, 4/. 125.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 2/. 95.-Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 90/.-Ditto, Quarters, 21/. 155.-Ditto,
New, 14/. 7s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton,
1/. Hs. lA.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 26L-Ditto,
PreferenCe, 171. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 1/. 18s. 9d.
-Ditto, New, 1/. 4s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 2/. 16s.
-Edinburgh and Perth, 1/. 10s. 6d.-Glasgow and Ayr-
shire. 711.--Ditto, New Stock, 22/. - Glasgow and Belfast
Union, 3/. 18s.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.-Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. 95.-Glasgow and Greenock, 21/.
-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 55.-Ditto, Preference, 2/. -Great
North of Scotland, 21. 175.-Inverness and Elgin, 1/. "s.-
Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, 51. 155.-London and York, 51.
10s. -Monkland and Kirkintilloch, 33/.-Morayshire, 11.-
North British, ex one-tifth, 291.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 5s -
Ditto, One-fifth, 71. 155.-North Wales Mineral, New, 6/
55.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 25.-Scottish Central, 71. 145.-
Scottish Midland, 2/. 45.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ches-
ter, 4/. Is. 6d.-Slamannan, 181.-South Midland, 91. 195.-
Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. I Is. 6d.-Stirling and Dun-
fermline, 1/. 15S. 6d.-Waterford, Wicklow, and Dublin, IL
165.-Wishaw and Celtness, 39/.

[ADVERISEMEHT.]
TO THE EJiITOu OF I HE SUN.

Sin,—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 conceite that
he has been writhing in painful indecision during this in-
terval, for in the first instance he favonred 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 edi'ion of it, occupying two-thirds of a column.
Yet, with all its length, it is somewhat difficult to ex-
tract from it a single sentenco 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 bad, 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 whiclt led to his discharge.
Thirdly, I accused him of fraudulently appropriating
to himself the patronage 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,

Fourthly, I accused him distinctly, pointedly, and
clearly, of attempting to defraud me, not only of the
patronage which I bad obtained, but also of my project
itzelf; atter many fruitless attempts to discover some
competing line which might at least hare 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 us he is, to offer answer or explanati n to any
of these charges, or eve❑ to grapple with them ; but hai;
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, anti again challenge him to call a public
meeting either in Landom 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,
Ampthill, Thrapston, Wellingborough, Iligham
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 I'

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 I:ne, either of his or mine, but only in favour of " a
direct line," at a time when mine was the only direct
line before the public: I have before me a letter of Mr.
Sheppurson, 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.
iuclosing 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 he has obtained
these names to any project of his own since June, 1845?
If he hazards such an asserticn, I will republish the list
with Mr. Shepperson's letter, and leave them all to fight
it out among themselves.

But Mr. Ashurt speaks of " the line to which I have
been appointed solicitor." What is this line to IA hich he
is appointed solicitor ? Who has appointed him ? Why
does he leave it doubtful and indefinite ? It is so strange
as to be almost incredible, that to this hour, when Mr.
Ashurst has for months been advertising a railway com-
pany, and ostensibly patronised by high-sounding com-
mercial names, and has closed his share list, and, for
anything I know or care, received thousands by way of
deposit, with all the prestige of sharemarket quotations
and premiums, and London and York amalgamations, he
has no line at all—he has published no line at all—he has
projected no scheme, no enterprise or undertaking, except
that which goes by the name of " Remington's line," and
vvbich, as my acknowledged line, I have confided to the
Protecting care of a Committee, who shun all contact
with Mr. Ashurst as they would with a walking pest',
knee ! Where, thin, is the line to which Mr. Asburst is
the appointed solicitor? His own prospectus describes it,
in July last, as a line by " Barnet, St. Alban's, Dunstable,
Luton, Ampthill, Bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering,
Market Harborough, Leicester, Loughborough, Ashby-
de-la-Zouch, Burton-on-Trent, Uttoxeter, Cheadle, Le, k,
Macclesfield, Stockport, and Manchester." Now this,
with one c xception, is precisely the line upon which I have
been at work for nine years past, varying it slightly by
the omission of Derby, to meet public opinion ; and this
is the line, with the same single exception, which I and
my patrons stand pledged to bring before Parliament—
the exception is the. town of Loughborough, because that
town could not be included without making a detour of
many miles. Mr. Ashurst, however, is like the cad
of a Paddington omnibus, who, to entice passengers, will
promise to set them down very near Hampstead-heath.
If anybody will be at the trouble of examining ene of the
Ordnance maps he will find that Loughborough is
many miles out of the direct route ; thus, through the
ingenuity of Mr. Ashurst, there is all the machinery of
Provisional Committees, acting Committees, share-
holders, share market, solicitor, and engineer, without
any ultimate object in view except to make a line which
others have projected, fostered, matured, and subscribed
their money to to construct, long before he or his friends
dreamt of such an undertaking. This fact will be recorded
by historians hereafter as a proof of the gullibility of the
public in this age of rail way speculation.
It is scarcely necessary to acquit myself a second time
of the spiteful insinuations of Mr. Ashurst, that I have
capriciously, or igiforantly varied my estimates ; his
sneers do not affect me, but they may possibly mislead the
public; I therefore repeat, that when I contemplated aline
to York us well as Manchester, I mentioned 7,000,000/.
for the capioil; when the scheme was confined to Lon-
don and Manchester, I limited the estimates to 4,000.000/. :
when it was proposed to ad.i a branch through the Potte-
ries, I increased the estimate to 5,000,0001. ; the estimate
of 2,000,0001., which he quotes with malicious triumph,
appeared in a prospectus published in my absence from
London, and without my knowledge : it was a mistake,
as I readily admit, but one for which I am not account.
able, and which was corrected as soon as it was dis-
covered ; all this was explained in my former letter, nor
would Mr. Ashurst have revived the subject if he had
not felt that his only chance of escaping detection was to
make the Most of a mistake.

I have given Mr. Ashurst enough to do ; he has found
it difficult enough to invent a' competing line ; he has
found it yet more difficult to meet, without equivocation,
the charges I-have here repeated ; but I must perplex
him ) vt.alittle more. Will be have the goodness to in-
form the public, who have been so kind as to buy his
shares and supply him with. money, what he proposes
to do with their money beyond the payment 2ff his