The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-12 00:00:00

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THE PLYMOUTH (SUTTON) HARBOUR
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in
this sompany was held at the Exchange, Plymouth, on Mon-
day, for the perms of receiving and considering a report
from the directors on the subject of railway communication
with the harbour, "and to adopt such resolutions thereon as
the misting may determine."
The chair was occupied by W. H. Hawker, Esq., the
chairman of the board of directors.
The CHAIRMAN, havinge read the advertisement by which
the meeting was convened called called upon the ems etary, Mr.
Luscombe, to read the dime. ore' report. This document,
which use of no great length, was to the effect
that the directors, since the last meeting of the share-
ho!dere, bad been in further correspondence with
the directors of the South Deve,n Railway Company,
and had received from them on !neurone of their in-
tention to provide an efficient communication between
Lain and Sutton Harbour, by an adaptation of the Dan-
moor Railway, and of their having instructed Mr. Brunel
to make a survey of the line, and to advise them as to the
best means of effectuating that intention, with reference to
the trade of the Harbour. The directors need scarcely
MUM the proprietors of the company, that the important
subject of railway communication, was one which they on-
tinned to regard with anxious solicitude; and that the beet
meats of making the proposed extension—as well as the ben
eltuat on for the terminus—would receive their serious and
attentive consideration—especially with reference to the pro-1
vision of a continuous communication to the quays of
Batton Harbour—an object in which they hoped they
should receive the cordial assistance of the South Devon
Company. Looking at the present state of the negotia-
tion, the directors had come to the determination—
great as wan the responsibility—of ominously recom-
mending to the proprietors to leave them to pursue and
adopt such memsnres with reference to railway communica-
tion as they might deem expedient, and as might be in, et
likely to coodnee, in their judgement, to the present and im-
manent welfare of the company.
The CHAIRMAN moved that the report be received and
adopted, and Mr. H. BAHTTOI( eseonded the motion.
On the suggestion of Mr. JOHN BATLT, the proceedings
of former meetings of the company (ordinary and extraordi-
nary) held in 1M after the month of Aug., 1848, were read
by the secretary, so far as they related to the subject.
Mr. W. F. MOORE observed that one of those m-
e:ding resolution referred to a specific spot as the ter-
minus of the proposed communication, and that at or near
that spot certain works were expected to be executed at
the expense of this company. Now, he, for his
part, saw no mesa why the whole of Sutton Peril might
sot, in feet, be made the tension or why trammed& might
be lakl down all round the Whorl%

1671141.61416110LLS said, at the present moment,
there was no agreement whatever between this company
and the South Devon Company—the qmstio• was com-
pletely even
Mr. KELLY mid the whole matter would undergo con-
eideration by both parties, with the view of giving the most
ellicient railway conummication to the whole harbour.
Mr. W. ACLAND wished to how whether the direction
bad ever been informed by the South Devon Company why
they had abandoned their parliamentary branch, and now
proposed to sake their communication to the south-east
comer of Sullen Huber, inetead of to the north-cut? He
had never beard any satisfactory reason given why the source
should be adopted, or why they should be called open to trust
M • IMO trammed, worked by hone-power, and
eating at the extreme end of the harbour, to the great im-
provement of the property of dr se who had orposed the tut-
dertalking from the beginning, and to the great prejudice of
many who bed taken the warmest interest in its mew.
The South Devon Company bad got rid of a powerful oppo-
sition, and had obtained parliamentary powers to raise •
large capital, expressly on the understanding that they would
co. etruct that branch to Sutton Pool, which now appeared to
have been given op.
Mr. W. FOX said Mr. Aeland was mistaken. The bill
which the Sutton Pool Company opposed was the original
bill of the South Devon Company, which only gave power
to treat with Main. Johnson and the Dartmoor Railway
Creepily, for the use of that line as a means of comment.
eating with the harbour. To the bill which gave power to
the company for the mattruetion of the parliamentary
branch, the Sutton Harbour Company had never given any
opposition.
- Me. NICHOLLS said, the old Sutton Pool Company, had
opposed the original South Devon bill, and that opposition
woo withdrawn, as Mr. Fox had said, on the introduction cf
the clauses, authorising the treaty with the Plymouth and
Dartmoor Company. It was also tree that the Sutton Pool
Company had not opposed the hill for the construction of the
parliamentary branch, because Mr. Whit/lord had come to
the antamittee, and had agreed with them that the terminus
should be in the north-east corner, on condition that the
company should petition in favour of the hill, instead of
opposing it.
The CHAIRMAN said he for one bad nothing to do with
the old Sutton Pool Company, and was not answerable for
their sets. The proprietors of this company, with a full
knowledge of the facts—seeing that in all probability unless
sh 7 could got that the/ should get nothing—had Instructed