The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-28 00:00:00

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Beethoven's overture to Egmont, 144 id F 4049 r/
two madrigals, " Now is the merry iiig,"antl
" All creaturesmew are merry-nninde ifinpvisv,4l,l4p,
Oberon, " Ocean, thou mighty monster," for Miss Rainforth
Hatton's celebrated " Revenge ;" and the song, " Haste, nor
lose the favouring hour," from Der Freischutz ; with several
other pieces allotted to Staudigl, and songs and duets for the
Misses Williams.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE

CONTINENT.

COBURG, Auc. 23.—There has been no incident in
connexion with the royal party here to-day that is
worth recording. After the little excitement of the fes-
tival yesterday they have settled down into quiet again.
After leaving the festival ground, they returned to the
town palace, where there was in the evening a ball. It
was over at an early hour. Supper was served at half-
past eleven, and the royal party returned to Rosenau at
two o'clock. Her Majesty, the Prince, and the Duchess
of Saxe Coburg (the wife of the reigning Duke) drove
out to-day for a short time. They came into Coburg to
see the museum and picture gallery. The rest of the
party dispersed on pedestrian excursions to view the
beauties of the surrounding scenery. This will in all
probability be the history of the movements of the Conn
here for the next few days—indeed, until Tuesday next,
when Prince Albert's birthday is to he celebrated. The
Court will leave the next day for Gotha, where they
will remain four or five days, returning by way of Fulda
and Frankfort to the Rhine, on their journey home. It
is expected that there will be at Gotha a grand stag-
hunt, or rather a battue on a very large scale.
The place on which the festival was held yesterday
presented throughout the evening, and till a late hour at
night, the appearance of a fair. The whole meadow
glittered with lights, and there were long line's of booths
and drinking tables ail filled with merry people. An
odd and grotesque addition to this sc( ne of necturnal
revelry presented itself in the shape of al fresco cooking
pieces, where, on fires made of heaped fir branches, enor-
mous gridirons were continually covered with still more
enormous sausages, which were handed round among
circles of greedy purchasers, on whose faces the lurid
light of the fires produced an effect quite Rembrandt-
like. Then there was also a travelling theatre aks Ri-
chardson, where tumblers and posture-makers performed
their jests to a gaping audience ; and gigantic merry-
go-round', with hobby-horses and carriages, mounted or
filled with people of both sexes, produced the most 'ab-
surd combinations of effect possible, as they whirled
madly round to the music of polkas and other airs
played by a capital band. And although the people
were as merry as _ they could be, what made this
German fair so pleasing was, that there was no drunken-
ness or indecorum. The people here seem always to re-
member what is due to themselves. They do not, in the
midst of their enjoyment, lose by excess the faculty of
enjoying
The beauty of the neighbourhood of Coburg increases
upon you the longer you stay. From every point fresh
views open, and with the most delightful variety. Kids
lenberg, the favourite palace of the reigning Duke, dis-
tant about four miles from Coburg, commands some of
the finest prospects. Like almost all palaces or " resi-
dences" around, it is perched on an eminence, which is
reached by winding roads through a plantation, quite as
beautiful as that which leads to Rosenau. The interior
of the palace is fitted up in the most elegant and at the
same time "comfortable" style. Indeed, it deserves to
be so characterised more than royal residences generally.
There is no ostentation or display such as is met with in
" show places," but everything is of the most perfect
workmanship, and in the most exquisite taste. This
summer palace is not built on a grand scale, but,
like Rosenau, it has more the air of the residence of
a private gentleman. The architecture is an odd mix-
ture of the turretted style with the cottage orrtee, and
the effect is very pretty, although the materials are
incongruous. Ilene the Duke and Duchess spend
the greater part of their time during the fine weather,
and a more delightful retreat could not well have
been selected. Like everything else in and around Saxe
Coburg, it belies the vulgar notions entertained in Eng-
land as to the German style of living and manners. The
Duke is fond of sporting, and keeps here a small pack
of hounds. The residence is full of evidences of his in-
clination this way. One room, for instance, is almost
entirely filled with emblems of the chase, worked into
all imaginable ornaments. The easy chairs are made of
antlers. Another room (the Doke 's private study) is
filled with engravings of every sort of sporting, French
and English. The country, however, from being so
much wooded, is not well adapted for field-sports gene-
rally ; but a large preserve of wild boars is maintained
at a short distance from Kallenberg. Attached to the
palace is a neat private chapel, in which the English
spectator is surprised to see the crucifix on the altar, as
in Catholic churches. But this is a very general custom
in the Lutheran churches of Germany.
To. night the Queen and the chief visitors at Rosenan
attend the theatre in Coburg. The performance will be
Sthiller's Bride of Messina. The Duke of Saxe Meinin-
gen is expected to join the dinner party to-day.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were
taken an airing on the sea beach on Monday morning.
In the afternoon the Prince of Wales, and the Princess
Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
were taken a carriage-drive to Wotton, and Prince
Alfred and the Princess Alice rode on ponies in the
pleasure-grounds of Osborne House.
On Tuesday morning the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked on the
beach. Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice were
taken an airing in a carriage to Newport in the after-
noon, and the Prince of %Vales and the Princess Royal
rode on ponies in the pleasure-grounds.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial office for the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
STOURBRIDGE RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Gold Cup Handicap Stakes of 10 soy,, each, h ft.;
the second to save his stakes. Two miles.
Mr. Flintoff's Princess Royal, 3 yrs (C. Edwards) 1
Mr. J. Clarke's bf by Defence, out of Nike, 3 yrs 2
Mr. F. W. Fryer na Jack Sheppard, aged 3
Mr. Walmsley's ch gby Dick, out of 65. to Sir Ralph 4
Mr. Skerratt's b e Intrepid, 4 yrs 0
The New Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added. Oae
mile and three-quarters.
Mr. Sheppard's b f by Glaucus, out of March Ist
Mr. Jones's The Disowned, 5 yrs
Mr. Warman's ch g The Sailor, 6 yrs 3
The Himley Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added.
Heats, one mile and a quarter.
Mr. Flintoff's Princess Royal (C. Edwards) 0 1 1
Mr. Sheppard's b f Reliance, 3 yrs 2 4 2
Mr. Whitworth's b f Lady Sarah, 4 yrs
Mr. Martin's b f Trifle, 4 yrs 0 2 dr
Mr. Walmsley's ch g by Dick, 3 yrs 3 dr
Mr. Sheppard's b fby Glaucus, 3 yrs 0 dr
HUNTINGDON RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each ; to start at the mile-
post and run once round and the !Rile.
Duke of Rutland's b c Keppel, 3 yrs .. ...... (Cotton) 1
Mr. Ongley's b m Fama, aged
Lord Exeter's ch c Lyons
The Huntingdon Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 20 added ;
the winner to be sold for 1501., if demanded, &c. Heats.,
the last mile.
Mr. Onslow's br c Ruft; 3 yrs (Pettit) 5 1 1
Gen. Grosvenor's b f Scarlet-runner, 3 yrs 2 3 2
Mr. Ongley's bl c Symmetry, 3 yrs 1 2 3
Col. Peel's f by Slane—Mary Ann, 3 yrs 3 dr
Lord Sandwich's br c Tawney, 3 yrs
The Member's Plate of 50 sovs. ; the winner to be sold
for 2501., if demanded, &c. Heats, once round.
Mr. Robinson's b f Glee, 3 yrs (Clary) 1 1
Hon. G. Ongley's br m Fama, aged
ECHAN RACES.—We understand Sir n. P. Fleetwood,
Count Batthyany, and R. M. Jaques, Esq., have ac-
cepted the stewardship for 1846. The Cup, Surrey and
Middlesex, Magna Charts, and Amateur Stakes look
well.

THE UNREPORTED BARRISTER.
(From Punch.)
Oh ! no, they never mention me,
My name is never heard ;
The press has now refused to speak
That unimportant word.
From Court to Court I hurry me,
But sad is my regret ;
For even should I win a fee,
No notice can I get.
They bid me seek at Common Law
The business others gain,
But if I e'en tried Chancery
My efforts would be vain.
'Tis true that many I behold
Who by reporting get
What I ue'er could, by pen or fee,
To my extreme regret.
They tell me there are many now,
Who in their early day
Were aided by the press, but I
Don't care for what they say.
I only say I've struggled hard
Reporter's work to get,
But can't ; and so 'gainst those who can
I'll make the deadest set.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-011 the 3lst of
December last, there were 106 patients in the hospital ;
admitted during the half-year ending June last, by letters of
recommendation, 19S; urgent cases, without letters, 322 ;
accidents, 40 ; making a total of t 366. Of these, 513 were
discharged either cured or relieved, 44 had died, 11 incurable
or disorderly, and 94 remain in the house. The number of
out. patients during the same period was 8,359, exclusive of 173
poor married women attended during confinement at their own
homes. Since the toondation of the hospital, the total number
of in patients was 6,210; out-patients ( including poor marriekt
women in the midwifery department), 56,825—making a gross
total of 63,035.

ACCIDENT TO TIIE HON. COLONEL IL A SCELLES, OF
TIIE GRENADIER GUARDS.--We have much pleasure in
stating that this gallant Waterloo officer is not in so dan-
gerous a state from the effects of the serious accident which
befel him on Monday last. as is generally supposed. It ap-
pears that as the Gallant Officer was riding on Monday fore-
noon, on turning a corner he gave the animal on which he was,
mounted a sudden spur, which occasioned a plunge on its part.,
and the sudden effort had the iirro-diate effect of unseating the
rider, who, as might be expected, was somewhat injured. The
Gallant Officer was conveyed to his residence, 35, Upper
Grosvenor-street, adjoining that of the Marquis of West-
minster, and the assistance of sir Benjamin Brodie and two.
other medical gentlemen, who are still in attendance, was ob-
tained. It appears that the right -eye is somewhat cut or:
bruised, but is not forced from the socket, as stated, and awe
shoulder is injured.

A SNOW STORM IN AUGUST.—On Wednesday
last, about one o'clock, the. town of Framlingham was visited
with a snow storm, which lasted about ten minuted, with in';er-
vals.—lpswich _Express.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
DIRECT LONDON and MANCHES-
TER RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—Mr. Remington has replied to my letter. lie
is kind enough to say, in the opening, that if any ex-
pressions condemnatory of the course taken by me have
been used by any parties, they have not been published
by him or with his privity or consent.
I was compelled to vindicate myself against a charge
as absurd as it is untrue. To repel a charge of stealing
Mr. Remington's line, I was obliged to use arguments to
show the absence of all inducement to do it ; and for that
purpose I was obliged to show that Mr. Remington-had
asked the several sums of two, three, four, and five
millions of money to mike his line.
That he had varied that line.
That he had subsequently started a London and Man-
chester and York line, asking seven millions to make the
two.

That he might as well have charged the London and
York Company with having stolen their line, as charge
m- with stealing a line to Manchester.
Mr. Remington does not deny asking for the various
stuns of money which I have mentioned, to accomplish
the same line.
Either his judgment was unsound, or he varied what
be calls his line as often as he asked different sums.
I have founded my statement on documents issued by
himself.
Mr. Remington says—l quote his own words :
" In 1840 it was proposed to carry out the scheme
alone between London and Manchester, for which I
thought then, and think now, four millions sufficient."
If he thinks so now, how can he reconcile with that
opinion his prospectus, to which I reflr him, in the
Morning Herald of the 23d of May last, asking for
two millions only, in forty thowiand shares of fifty
pounds each ?
How does he reconcile with this his improved judg-
tnetit, asking three millions ?
Or bis sounder judgment, asking four ?
With his present opinion that four millions are
enough, why does he ask five ?
I have published no names in support of the line to
which I have been appointed solicitor, but such as were
given Lo me in or subsequent to June in this year.
It is a sufficient answer to the statement about my
n ai joining the Company of 1844 to say that which
Mr R-mington has said for me—that I was unwilling.
1 proceed to stow, from Mr. Remington's answer, the
absurdity of his calumny that I have sto'en his line.
Speaking of a oir,et line, he says, " Where two pro-
jected lines start from the same termini, go near the
some towns. cover the same route from beginning to
becomes a matter of grave consideration which of
t uvo competitors have the priority of conception."
Now this will be seen by any one who will pause to
en/13i •er it, to he nothing but a verbose mode of claim-
in thy- conception of a straight line !
I. is Hr. it,oo .gtoo's, mode or eio.at:rig himself into
the (leat a. he !vat made a discovery, and the wan who
can flatter haus, If with such a bubble, just the man
to destroy himself by raising the foolish cry that another
ha i robbed him of his novelty, and attracting men's
attenti, e to its airy nothingness.
Remington says he concedes that uo vested inte-
rest can exist in a line drawn on a 1:13p between two
termini, but that he h is yet to learn that the pencil and
the map are the only requsites in the formation of a
railway. This is an admission of the question, for he
had no other claim.
He admits he had not surveyed the line from Leicester
to Manchester, and he told me that he had examined the
sect ors deposited by other engineers.
His imputation induced me to make inquiry who had,
us he had net, surveyed the country, and I now give him
an extract from a letter written by an engineer who did
survey it, and deposited the plans and sections of the
greatest portion of the country:—
"Birmingham, Aug. 22, 1845.
" Dear Sir,—Just as I was leaving Manchester to-day
you inquired of me when it was that I first made a sur-
vey down the Churnet Valley. I told you, as I had the
plans eat! sections in my portmanteau, I would, as soon
I arrived here, refer to them, and send you my answer
by post. I have done so; and I find, in the'year 1837,
at the request of the then-styled 'Manchester, Cheshire,
and Stafford Railway Company,' I took plans and sec-
tions in almost every part of the country between the
Grand Junction Railway and the Staffordshire Potte-
ries, ai well as to Macclesfield and Congleton, and also
front the Potteries at Stoke and Lane End across the
country down the valleys of the Team and the Blythe to
Uttoxeter, Tutbury, Burton-upon-Trent, and Welling-
ton. I also, in the year 1839, made a survey from
Stockport, by way of Macclesfield, the Rhudya Reser-
voir, down the Churnet Valley to Uttoxeter, Tutbury,
and toe Birmingham and Derby Railway at Wellington.
" And in the year 1840 I was employed by Mr.
Macauley, on behalf of' the Midland Counties Railway,
to set out a line from Stockport to Macclesfield and to
Leek, down the Churnet Valley and the Valley of the
Dove, to join the Midland Counties Railway at Derby.
" The plans and sections are regularly deposited with
the Clerks of the Peace.

" I also surveyed a line for a railway from Stoke, in
the Potteries, to join the last-mentioned line at Leek,
which was also deposited with the Clerks of the Peace.

"Although these plans were, as I have stated, regu-
larly deposited with the Clerks of the Peace, no further
proce, dings ever took place upon them. I believe this
is all the information you asked of me.

" I am, dear Sir, yours truly,
" JOHN M. RASTRICK.
." Messrs. Ashurst and Sun, at the Royal Hotel,
Manchester."

is now for Mr. Remington, who did not survey the
courLry, to show the superiority of hi: claim against
tik.ise who did.

Mr. Remington says that he examined the valleys of
tiht I),,rwent, the Wye, the Dove, and the Tean, and
au.tistied himself that any direct route from London to
Manchester must pass by one or other or both of the
Batter valleys.
Norr..if Mr. Remington were to tell us that he had
-xamined the Cnannel between Dover and Calais, and
fiad ati,fied nimself that the man ‘a-ho taished to go di-
rectly from the one place to the other must pass that
Channel, no would give just as much information on the
Fine suoje,.tt as he gives on the other, and would have
just as much reason for calling it au original conception,
and to cry " stop thief I" after every steamer that he
did plot. there is not an enginoer or any
name to practice who has not " examined" those valleys.
Tiles, are traversei, or proposed to b,, traversed, by a
,variety of companies, against whom and their respective
engineers Mr. Remington, upon his own tactics, ought
to shout " stop thief !"
The plan he published, and to which he refers, in-
let:Tsai of going through those vallep, ran away to
Derby, and this he called a direct line from London to
Manche.ter.

He claims to have published a direct route from Lon-
a.-,rl to Manchester in 1840
That ran to Derby and the hills by the Midland Coun-
ties Railway; the present one goes no nearer Derby
than Leicester, and this deviation, he says, is easily
explained, fur that he found that by carry;,,p; the line
Charnwood Forust, north o: suith of Barden

Nr,rint, his line was rendered more perfect and direct,
independent of the aidland Counties Railway, and con-
siltrab'y siiorter in distance.

Ar) d this deviation, he says, he made in compliance
with public opinion!
IC,iw mark, art engineer, who on such a subject is to
guide the public, says he bends the straight line to suit
-the public taste ; and, though not born on the other side

of tli,; Coannel, adds, that he found by deviating some
twenty miles that he made his direct line considerably
shot ter in distance ; this is another original conception.
He must take care that Mr. Babbage, or some other
.eminent mathematician, does not filch it.

Mr. li,mington talks of meetings to support his line ;
t•tero was but one meeting, that was at Bedford, got up
bv himiclf to aid his project to got, York and Man-

Tne people ofl3Aforil were only anxious about aline
to or through their own town.
They la not limos, that he had not surveyed it below
Lei ester, nor was it in the order of things for them to

inquire, ,or they thought, as was natural, 0' f the import-
ance of b>•tting a railroad, not of getting an engineer.
Re ci.ose to attend, and a then active patron of his took
the initiative of the business, and praised his " original
moriception" most enormously. The result of conceiving
to much was a miscarriage. It never entered into any-
body else's bead but Mr. Remington's that because a
meeting at a-dford passed resolutions i❑ favour of a
rail say to York an I Manchester through their town. that
he theretsy acquired a fee simple in a line to Manchester,
though he had not surveyed it. .

I ha a shown that other engineers had surveyed the
.country and &posited sections.

Mr. Tltem:ngt-on has shown that he made no survey,
bas that he published a map and a line notwithstanding.
I don't say he filched it, but he says he did not survey
it, and lip has published it as his own.
Ile thus exhibits an engineer hoisting himself with
hi; oAn petard, W. IL ASIIIIRST.
Aug. 28, 1845.

lit the C!ty article of the Times yesterday, it was said
that a ramour had of about 'Change that the London
and 17,+ra,aud London and Manchester Direct (Rastrick's)
LiNo h-d coalesced, with the intention of being better
We to cope with the Birmingham Company, and this
repart seems to have sent up the Ma,lc'aes7 r Direct
54r...5, bat we find to-day that no such arrangement
has ;;Aken place between these Companies.