The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY MEETING.
THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE
EAI-WAYS.
An extraordinary meeting of the sharehelders of the
Belton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway
Company was held on Wednesday, at two o'clock, to take
into consideration the beads of an agreement•posed to be
entered into between this company sad the But Lancashire
Railway Company, and wkioh unwanted to a proposition to
leas* the Blackburn Railway to the Esst Lancashire Com
sway for a term of 21 peen. The chairman, W. Hcmhy,
Reg , thought the term arms proposed too long, and men-
tioned that a ptoposition had just been sent in. on the subject
of an amalgamation, by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Re 1-
way Company. After a long discus4on, it was resolved to
refer both propositions to a committee of five shareholders
consisting of Messrs. Potter, Parkinson, John Hargreaves,
Hardcastle, and Barnes—three to form a quorum.

LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

The following communication has bees addressed to the
shareholders in this lime
" 118, York-road, Lambeth, Dee. 7, 1849.
"Sir,—At the special general meeting held on the 28th
ult., a charge was brought forward against the directors,
affecting the integri.y of the management. After statements
and explanations from the auditors and some of the directors,
the meeting declined to appoint a committee to inquire into
the fame, which was the come recommended by the chair-
man (Mr. Chaplin, M.P.) and by the deputy chairman of
the board of directors (the Berl of Morley). As, however,
only a small section of the shareholders was present at this
meeting, and no public notice had been given that any such
charge would be brought forward, the directors have thought
it due ne less to their own characters, than to the shareholders
at barge, that an opportunity should be immediately afforded,
of instituting the fullest and freest inquiry into the charge
in question. They have accordingly called a special general
meeting for Saturday, the 22nd instant (this being the
earliest day which can legally be named), at 12 o'clock, at
Niue Elms Station, to afford the shareholders the oppor.
trinity of appointing a committee from 'heir own booty to
inquire into the facts. Having adopted this as the simplest
and most straightforward course, they retrain from entering
into any statements which might, under existing circum
stances, be regarded as partiAl. They will content them-
selves by saying that the charge advanced is founded
on • total misapprehension of the circumstarmes.
The directors, so f.r as their personal interests are concerned,
are only desirous that the facts should be dispassionately
investigated they therefore trust that the shareholders ge-
nerally will feel it • duty to attend the meeting, or appoint
proxies authorised to act for them, in order that • fairly con.
stituted committee may be secured, and that, in the mean-
time, they will guard themselves against being influenced
by reports or partial statements. To the advertisement call-
ing the meeting is appended a notice, suggested by certain
shareholders, to consider the propriety of ordering to be
printed, in the first week in January of every year, a list of
the proprietors entitled to vote, together with the number of
votes to which each proprietor is entitled, corrected up to the
31st December then best, to be sold at a reasonable price to
every shareholder requiring the same.
" I am, sir, your obedient serv..nt,
" WYNDHAM HARDING, SCCTetAry."