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

YORK, Alla. -2-8,

STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Exten •
sion, 3A—Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters, 95/4
—Midland, New, 26—North British, New, 914—York and
North Midland Extension, 2.o,4—Grand Union, 2%—Great
Grimsby and Shefile/d Junction, 20—Ditto, Quarter Shares,
s—Leicester and Bedford, 414—London and York, 63/4—
Manchester, Buxton, &c., 8/4—North Staffordshire, 6
North Western, 54—Rugby, 23%.
SHEFFIELD, AvG. 28. _ _

STOCK EXCHANGE. The sales are-Hull and Selby,
Half Shares, 231/2-Midland 401. Shares, 26%-Sheffield and
Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. I, 16-Caledonian, 1114-
Cambridge and Lincoln, 27/8-Derby and Crewe, 314-Goole
and Doncaster, 1 9-16..-Grimsby and Sheffield, 18-Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 514-Grimby Railway and Dock Extension,
1014x-Huddersfield and Manchester, 143/4-Direct Northern,
2 l• 16-Leeds and Bradford, 55-Nottingham, Erewash, and
Ambergate, 33/4-North Western, 5/. Is. 6d.-Sheffield and
Lincolnshire, 51,4-York and Carlisle, 418.
EDINBURGH, AuG. 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 3/. 35.-
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21. 11s. 6d.-Arbroath and For-
far, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15/.-Armagh and Portrush, 2/.
---Banffshire, 2/. Is. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 3/. 75.-
Belfast and County Down, 3/. 155.-Cambridge and Lincoln,
3/. 10s.-Caledonian, 10/. 'W.-Caledonian Extension, 2/.
175.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 3/. 17s. 6d.-Clydesdale
Junction, 9/.-Direct Northern, 2/. 4s. 6d.-Dundee and
Arbroath, 37/. ls. 6d.-Ditto, New, 181. - Dundea and
Perth, 4/. 125.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21. 95.-Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 90/.-Ditto, Quarters, 21/. 155.-Ditto,
New, 14/. 7s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton,
1/. lie. 6d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 261.-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. 71/.-Ditto, New Stock, 22/. - Glasgow and Belfast
Union, 3/. Ms.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.-Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. 95.-Glasgow and Greenock, 21/.
-Ditto, New Stock, 101. 55.-Ditto, Preference, W. -Great
North of Scotland, 21. 175.-Inverness and Elgin, 1/. 25.-
Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, 5/. 155.-London and York, bl.
10s.-Monkland and Kirkintilloch, 33/.-Morayshire, 1/.-
North British, ex one-fifth, 291.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 5s -
Ditto, One-fifth, 71. 155.-North Wales Mineral, New, 61
55.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 25.-Scottish Central, 71. 145.-
Scottish Midland, 2/. 45.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ches-
ter, 4/. Is. 6d.-Slamannan, 18/.-South Midland, 9/. 195.-
Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. I Is. 6d.-Stirling and Dun-
fermline, 1/. 15s. 6d.--Waterford, Wicklow, and Dublin, 1/.
165.-Wishaw and Coltness, 39/.

[ADVERISEMENT.]
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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 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 which 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 had obtained, but also of my project
itself, after 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 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,
Ampthill, Thrapston, Wellingborough, llighana
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 ➢ir. 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 lane, 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.
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 he has obtained
these names to any project of his own since June, 1845?
If he hazards such an assertion, 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 which 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, ho
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
which, 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 pesti-
lence ! Where, then, is the line to which Mr. Ashurst 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, Leek,
Macclesfield, Stockport, and Manchester." Now this,
with one exception, 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 co 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. Ash urst, that I have
capriciously, or ignorantly varied my estimates ; his
sneers do not affect me, but they may possibly mislead the
public; I therefore repeat, that when I contemplated a line
to York es welt as Manchester, I mentioned 7,000,0001.
for the capital; when the scheme was confined to Lon-
don and Manchester, I limited the estimates to 4,000.0001. :
when it was proposed to add 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 yet a little more. Will he have the goodness to in-
form the public, who have been so kind as to buy his
shares and supply him with money, what be proposes
to do with their money beyond the payment Qt. hie

I own costs ? He has not surveyed any part of my line
at present ; and if this work is to be commenced
now, I can assure him, and so can Mr. Rastrick, that he
will not be ready by the 30th of November: r will do all
I can to assist him; and as my survey and sections are
nearly completed, he shall be welcome to them as soon
as the solicitors have completed the book of reference.
This is very liberal, considering that he has appro-
priated rug nine years' labour without asking leave; but
it will show him that I do not harbour resentment,
and am willing to return good for evil ; his shareholders,.
however, will do well to inquire whether he can avail
himself of my liberal offer in time to comply with the
standing orders ? If not, I fear that their shares will
he at an alarming discount before the 30th of Novem-
ber.—l am. Sir, yours obediently,
August 28, 1845. GEORGE REMINGTON.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE

CONTINENT.

Conuno, AUG. 24.—This communication will touch
upon two most incongruous subjects—the church and the
theatre—incongruous, at least, in England, but not so
here, if one may judge from the manner in which the
Sunday is spent. Those strict observers of religious
forms who, in England, are shocked to hear how the

Sabbath is spent in Roman Catholic countries on the
continent will be transported with horror to know
that the very same, or nearly the same, desecration
takei place here, in this Protestant State. The people
attend Divine service in the morning, and in the af-
ternoon and evening, as in most Catholic countries,
they recreate themselves with music, dancing, sing-
ing, or any other amusements that come within
their reach. The place where the festival of Grego-
rius was held the other day is now once more a complete
fair. A travelling theatre is open, where tumblers and
Jonjurors exhibit their feats ; the roundabouts arc in
full play, and there are crowds of people of all ages
and classes, and of both sexes, who are either dancing
to the merriest of music, or sitting at the booths
drinking beer and smoking. Others are busily engaged,
some in frying, and more i❑ eating, sausages cooked at
fresco. The children of the town schools with the dresses
they wore at the festival, the boys in their fancy cos-
tumes, and the girls in their white dresses and their
heads bound with ivy, are waltzing away in a building
which stands on the ground, to which they are evidently
admitted by authority. These are the Sunday amuse-
ments of the inferior classes ; for the higher, there are
concerts and other musical reunions. Under the late
Duke the theatre was always open on the Sunday even-
ing, but since the accession of the present Duke that
practice has been discontinued.
To come, however, to the proceedings of her Majesty.
Last night she visited the theatre, and this morning at-
tended Divine service at the church of St. Maurice, at
Saxe Coburg. The former comes first in the order of
time.

Tile theatre of Saxe Coburg is a handsome building,
the external form and architecture of which are unpre-
tending and appropriate, and the internal decorations
elegant. In form and size it somewhat resembles the
Haymarket, but it is, if anything, larger than that
theatre. The shape and arrangement of the interior
almost proclaim it to be the place of royal amusement.
The whole of the centre of the dress circle, from the one
bend of the house to the other, is occupied with a
spacious royal box, which, of course, directly fronts the
stage, and commands a better view than the royal
boxes in English theatres, so oddly placed either at the
proscenium, or close to it, and from which only a very
imperfect coup d'eeil can be obtained. But the attend-
ance of the Duke and his family at the theatre is so
constant that any other arrangement would seriously
Interfere with their gratification. There is over the
dress circle a second circle, and over that two galleries.
The parterre exactly corresponds to our pit, and there
are also stalls, called the parquet. Some idea of the
rate of prices will be formed from the fact that the ad-
mission to the parquet and the dress circle is 2s. Bd. of
our money.
The stage is about the size of that at the Haymarket,
and much better furnished with scenery and " proper-
ties." The dresses also, without being quite first-rate,
are better than are usually met with in our large theatres.
The play selected for performance, iu order to give the
Queen an opportunity of seeing the different kinds of
German theatricals, was Schiller's Bride of Messina, in
which the fire and genius of the poet struggled almost
in vain with the rigid forms he was confined to in his
attempt to construct a tragedy on the old Greek mode!.
The plot is as painful and revolting as the experiment
of the poet was in a dramatic point of view unfortunate ;
but the language is full of nervous energy, and the
sentiment is often delicate in the extreme. The one
idea of a fate or destiny, compelling all the characters
in the drama towards a blind unconscious partici-
pation in a dreadful catastrophe, is preserved in
this imitation of the Greek tragedy. A prophecy indi-
cates the downfal of the royal house of Messina, to date
from the birth of a princess, and, to evade the fulfil-
ment of this prediction, the mother of a daughter, who
in course of time is born to the house, conceals the fact
of her birth, and brings her up in secret in a distant
convent. Here she is discovered by one of the two
Princes of Messina, her brothers in fact, who becomes
enamoured of her, as also does the other brother subse-
quently. A deadly enmity is aroused between the two,
and the fluctuations of this hate between passion and
reconciliation, brought about by their mother, who is
not aware that the cause of their enmity is their sister,
form, together with the anxieties of the lovers, the chief
part of the plot of the piece. The great art of the dra•
matist consists in the skill with which he has brought
the different parties into contact, and jet allowed each
to keep his or her secret, until at last the two bro-
thers, on a fresh burst of passion, fly to arms. One
kills the other, and then commits suicide from remorse,
and the Princess (the Bride of Messina) now for the
first time made aware that the favoured lover is in fact
her brother, dies under the accumulated affliction. A
plot like this does not seem the most appropriate for a
public theatre ; but they have different ideas on these
subjects iu Germany from those which prevail in
England.
The performance began at about seven o'clock. The
royal visitors, who with their attendants occupied more
than half the dress circle, did not all arrive together.
Her Majesty arrived shortly after the play began. It
was a singular circumstance, perhaps it is a point of
etiquette, that none but reigning Princes and Princesses
sat in the front seats of the royal box. Even Prince
Albert sat in the ordinary dress circle, with the Duchess
of Kent. The Queens of England and of Belgium sat
in the centre, and on their right and left the King of the
Belgians and the errand Duke of Baden. Collect and
ices were brought into the box in profusion, and eaten
with the most perfect ease and nonchalance before the
audience.

There is the same absence of ceremony and exclusive-
ness in the theatre here that has been stated to exist in
the palaces. Everything seems open to the public eye,
even the private houses and villas OA the road• sido have
no fences or railings round them.
_ . _

The royal party seemed to be much interested in the
acting, which, on the whole, was good. Between the
acts a fine orchestra played some airs, as also the marches
and choruses which are incidental to the play. The
regal party left at about half-past 10 o'clock, on their
return to Rosenau, attended by outriders, carrying
enormous flambeaux.

This morning the Royal party attended Divine service
at the Church of St. Maurice, in Coburg—a structure
of unpretending character, whitewashed in the interior
and presenting a very bare and common-place, but
no doubt a very good Protestant, contrast to the
gorgeous splendours of the churches and -cathedrals
in Catholic countries. The church is of very
plain construction, without transepts, and the only
appearance of ornament about it consists in
a stupendous monument to three deceased Dukes of
Saxe Coburg, the tomb of whom, placed as it is, before
the communion-table, looks exactly like an altar. The
upper part of the monument consists of sculptured
figures, life-size (the fares painted in imitation of flesb),
and some very spirited sculptured scenes from scripture...
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of course, thrown open. The pulpit is exactly opposite,
and the reading-desk on the flour, below, between the
two. On this occasion, thechildren who assisted at the fete
of Gregorius on Friday were all assembled in the chan-
cel, in the dresses they wore, the girls wreathed with ivy,
and the effect in the warm bright sunlight was very pic-
turesque.
Her Majesty, the Prince, the Coburg Princes, the
King and Queen of the Belgians, and the suite, arrived'`
at the church at about a quarter to 11 o'clock. They
were received by the clergymen in their robes, and con-
ducted over a carpeted way to the royal pew. The ser-
vice then commenced, the church being crowded with
people. The service began with the chanting of a few
verses by the clergymen standing at the Communion-
table, to which there were responses from the choir.
Then the congregation generally joined in a hymn ;
then portions of Scripture were read, then another
hymn and a short prayer, and then followed the sermon ;
after which there was a blessing from the Communion-
table, as in a Roman Catholic church. A military
brass band was stationed in the church, and accom-
panied with their music the chanting of a Te Deem--
not the Te Deum of our churches, but a sort of hymn in
rhyme. The music was composed by Schicht. This
was sung by the choir alone. The effect of this hymn,
and of the fine volume of sound rolling through the
church, was magnificently grand. In certain parts of
the service the congregation also sung, and in a manner
which evidenced sound musical training, producing an
effect very different from that of our English psalmody.
The service lasted till twelve o'clock, and the royal
party left the church to return to Bosenau. From the
foregoing sketch it will be seen that there was much in
this performance of divine worship quite different from
our English custom. Still more strange was it to see a
great part of the congregation adjourn to the outskirts
of the. town where, in the course of half an hour, many
were riding on hobby-horses, or witnessing the exploits
of conjurors, while the little boys and girls were waltz-
ing away in happy ignorance that there could be any im-
propriety of that sort of innocent enjoyment.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Lc Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister,
and Mr. Murphy, the Mexican Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Hon. Edward Stewart, Deputy Chairman of the
Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday at his official resi :ence in Down-
ing-stye( L

Lord Cowley transacted business yesterday at the
oßico of the Secretary of State for Foreign Anirg.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday
for his seat, Betchworth House, Surrey.

A match of cricket came oft on Tuesday afternoon
on Southsea Common, between some of the officers of the gar-
rison and the Tortrea Club, wkieh the former lost by nearly
eighty TOM