A Sunday paper, which has, through its (quasi) correspondents, taken
a considerable interest in the progress of the Railway Commission for Ireland, put forward in its last publication some very invidious charges against the commis- sioners, which we have authority to state are totally, and in every particular, 'untrue. The report, which is stated to have been in Downing Street some weeks, is not there yet ; but it will be there, we dare say, in a few days, and at the same time it will be in the hands of the public likewise. As to the insinua- tions that it has been kept back for jobbing purposes, and that alterations have been made, in collusion with certain speculating parties, we can state that there is not the slightest foundation for such an assertion ; and we can only express our surprise that a respectable journal should admit so serious an impu- tation, without the shadow of a proof, iuto its columns.— Chronicle of this Morning.
The paper, not quite etsTredy alluded to as a" Sunday" one, doubt-
is foe Spectator, in which a paingraph on the subject of the Irish Railway Commission appeared last Saturday. The statements were given on the authority of a real, not a " quasi " correspondent, whose letter we hold having ourselves neither personal interest in the matter, nor any knowledge of it beyond what we derive from others. The Chronicle, for reasons best known to itself, has thought proper to delay any notice of the subject till this morning, when time will not permit us to make inquiries in the proper quarter. At present, we take leave to say, that the authority of our correspondent is at least as good as that of the Morning Chronicle—albeit that respectable journal is espe- cially sensitive on the subject of jobbing in railways. It is amusing to observe, that in the article immediately preceding that which we have copied, the Chronicle protests against being made answerable for the statements of correspondents, although it endeavours to fasten on the Spectator precisely the same kind of responsibility which it dis- claims for itself !
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