The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-29 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

Yesterday a special general meeting of this com-
pany took place at the Paddington station to consider ve-
nous bills now pending in parliament ; Mr. Sreocen Wat.-
rots, M.P., in the chair.
The CRsraye.o explained that of the eleven bills which
the shareholders had been called together to take into their
consideration, only four ware ready to be submitted to them
Those four were :—An set for increasing the capital of, sad
conferring further powers on, the West London Extension
Railway Company ; amending their ads • providing for the
dissolution of the West Loudon Railway &spiny, and fee
other purposes. A bill for incorporating a company,
and for making end maintaining the Ely Valley Exten-
sion Railways ; and for other purpose'. A bill to
revive the powers for the purchase of land ; sod
for the completion of the Milford Railway ; and to raise
further capital ; and to *tabula, agreements with other
companies ; and for other purposes. An act to authorise
the Hammersmith and City Railway Company to make
another junction with the Great Western Railway ; and
for other purposes.
The first bill wu not one promoted by the Great Western
Company, but by the West London Extension Company,
and powers were taken under it to raise a certain amount of
capital for the execution of various works on the latter
railway. The arrangement was that the sum required
should 'De supplied io this manner. The London and North
Western should subscribe one-third, the Great Western
one-third, sod the London and Brighton and the South
Western the other third. The capital sanctioned sod raised
by the Extension Company was ;MI ,000/.. but the liabilities
of the undertaking., added to the expenses entailed by the
necessary completion of the lice, required a farther outlay
of from 80,00 W. to 100,0001. ; and it was intended, if
thought advisable, to raise a further sum of 150,000 i. in
the proportions mentioned. It was poesible, however, that
the whole of the amount would not be required. Hs then
moved a resolutioa to the effect that the bill be approved.
The Roo. Mr. PONSO24bY seconded the motion.

Mr. ADAua urged that neither of the bills should be
submitted for oonsideratvon at the present moment, and he
moved that the meeting be adjourned sine die.
Mr. ALIAANDISII seconded the amendment, which was
discussed at some length, and was ultimately lost by a large
majority.
Thr motion for the approval of the bill was then put and
signed to.
The three other bills were then severally brought forward
and approved, the chairman explaining that neither of them
required the Great Weeterr. Company to subscribe any
capital.
The meeting was then adjourned to the 12th June for the
consideration of the remaining bills, together with another
bill not included in the present list, but mentioned in the
oompany's notice of the 10th May.
The meatier separated with a vote of thanks to the chair*
man sad director.

CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL, BROMPTON. The
annual court of the governors of the Hospital for Con-
sumption and Diseases of the Chest was held yesterday at
the hospital, under the presidency of the Marquis of
Westminster. Mr. Dobbin, the secretary, read the re-
port, which stated that the hospital had been enabled
during the past year to relieve a greater amount of suffer-
ing than at say former period, 1,116 sich persons having
been inmates, 1,096 being the number of inmates for 11461.
On the :41st December, 1861, 189 persona were in the hos-
pital. 927 had been discharged during the past year, leaving
179 in the hospital on the 31st of December, 1862. There
had been an increase in the number of persons admitted
to the benefits of the outpatieot department, and last
year 6,019 new oases had been registered ea compared with
5,706 in the previous year. The anmial sabscrip.
time in 1862 amounted to 4,456/. in 1861, 4,408/.,
being as Increase of 481. The &;mations in 1862
were 2,211 f., sad in 1961, 2,0071., showing an increase of
2041. The church collections received last year amounted
to 6731., and the legacies to 3,3401. 1,199/: was received
from eascorts, and the gross Memos from military goatees
is 1862 amounted to 13,1161. 17s. 4d., being an imams of
1,4101. over the receipts of 1861. During the past winter,
as in 1861, extra beds were put up in every available space,
so as to increase the number to 210. Oa the mottos of the
Hon. Mr. Stuart, seconded by the Rev. Oval Molysimax,
the report wee adopted. Several alteratiosa having bees
made in the rules, the prooeedinp terminated with • vote
of thanks to the *am's.

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LONDON, PRIDAT, MAY 29.

THE public will probably be of opinion that Mr.
WAtrots and the gentlemen who acted with him
last night were more than usually ill-advised in
bringing forward again the question of the Dover
Packet Contract, which had been fully discussed