The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY MEETINGS.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK.
ADJOURNED SPECIAL MEII rum.
Mom our own Reporter.)
Tons, Jerez 1.
The mewing of the shareholders in this company,
adjourned from the 4th ult, wse hold in the Festiva Concert
Room at nooa to-day, to reeeive the report of the Committee
of Investigation with respect to the bill is of the company f
the
row
In parliament, their partsespatims la e constraction ti
Sunderland Docks and other works, and with regard to the
various works now is progrua Rehear DAVIS*, Em., the
deputrehairman of the oompany, took Midair.
The LORD MAYOR said, the committee having pub-
lished their report, he apprehended that every shareholder
was in poduseelon of it. The committee, in submitting this,
their tint ?sport, to the sharehAdere, had given in that
report those itivestigstions into which they had en.
tired. The shareholders woull form their own
opinion, and the committee proposed that *lvy should meet
again on the 11th of July, by which time they hop.d to be
prepared to submit their final report, which would embrace
the opinion of the committee upon the different subjects
brought brfur• theists the come of their requires, and with
reference to whiet the sharokohlers sir,suid then have
an opportunity of forming their ewe judgment.
(Hear.) lie begged to rail the attendee of the shershaders
to one or too arrays whirls kid been made in the ripest.
The first wee with regard to the N.wormie and Cerible
leasing, in which they woad Rad the 'mown eased to be
1,610,000 L, for le iek they made reed 1,155 000:. There
was another typographical ewer lathe leer page or the report.
The paragraph Tea thus : " Tice directors resolved to let the
contract for snaking this too* en the 2nd of April lest, to
Mum. Rush end Immo, lee /24,50411, but on condition
that they should not make say arrangement for extending
the works unless, gisc." In that ease, for" extending the
works," they must read " executing the works." Having
mid this much, he world not trespass further, but would at
we move the resolutions referred to in the repwt which
were—" That this report be received and adopted ; had that
the meeting be further adjourned to the 11th of July nest,
srisea ytiar committee hope to be able to make that Baal
IfirtLOVE weeded the resolutions.

Mr. /171;;;RIN, of Edinburgh (one of the committee),
submitted that if the resolutions were carried, there
Wen many things in the report which would not be
ovule of king smonsidersd at the next meeting.
For rumple, at the last meeting the shareholders
posed a resolution., at tte request of she preliminary
rusasittre, that three bills be suspended till this day. Now
the report recommended that this suspension should be
withdrawn ; s,.d were this agreed to, the company's solicitors
would go on with these bills, and before the nest meeting
they would be passed into law. On ire other head, if they
Isupended Sum bills, by not approving of the opine, and
the solicitors saw it to bs their duty, soling under the in.
Mrsetions of the directors, not to proceed with those bills, it
WS quite plaia that limy could not pass at all during the
regent norm. Then there was the question of the Sunder-
land Dams, and the n with respect to the 3,000
sham. There was a chime in the bill which stated, in effect,

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that the di:sacra shall hare the power in respect to these
shack to settle the questies by the passing of this act. If
the set did pus, that clause would
and these 3,000 shares, woald become the property of
the compare) whatever the eltueholdere might resolve arm
hereafter. Al to the other Sunderland dock shares that
question would be satiny open; the adoriou of the report
wojit not at ail interfere with that, tkeause the recom-
mendation co the committee was that they should say nothieg
at present about the additional 2,300 shims. Again, with
regard to th-i time allowed for the purchase of land, that
time would he expired in three months, and that seas an
important twitter to consider. lie °Joist g.) into a number
of other Emma in the mane way, but without doing so he
would recommend that shoelJ atopt the report,
aithoegh he did not arse t:ria Mr. Lees that its rejection
would involve any eseuntr• on the committee.
T'At LORD MAYOR said that the bills would
probably by the neat seating have become stets
et Pediment, but still the shareholders would
have the power to decide fee themselves whether they
would carry them out or not. The committee to a certain
intent did Five an opinion, bat that opinion might be con-
trolled at a subsequent meeting, exempt as to the 3,000 San-
derland Dock shares. He was wrong in saying that the re-
port was not at all binding, Demise if they passed the pro
posed resolutions they would be binding as to V e 3,000
shares, bat mei as to the 2,315, which would remain to be
eleselt with hereafter.
After sow diecuesion ea this point, Mr. STOCKS. of Halt-
las, pasted out she &bidets necessity of adopting the report,
ere some of the bills were at the utmost importance t the La-
tinate of the company.
The resolution affirming the report was then put and car-
ried by a large majority.
It was then resolved that the meeting be adjourned to the
11th of Jul., at noon; and a vote ot thanks to the their-
man having been pared, the meeting separated.
It efferwerds lausepired that a number of shareholders had
amemble4 at the De Orey Rooms under the impression that
the meeting was to be held ther, and that consequently
they had not hid the opportunity of taking part In th pro-
seeding' This sense from a false notion of economy by the
geminate*, who bad lamed an order limiting the usual atur-
tieuneabi calling the meeting.

LEEDS AID Twisun RAILWAT.—BILAIEHOPE TUNNEL.
--Os Thursday let, the important ceremony of driving a
steam engit.e, with gawky railway cazriares attached,
through the 1111.91=111 tunnel which is now in course of com-
pletion at lltambepe, took place in the prrenco of a biro
suatker of workmea and others, who cheered lusthy as the
Iran promeded. Shortly before four o'clock in tie after-
s**, Mr. H. C. Manhall, the chairman of the ettapac_Y I
Mr. Newman Cash. the mangles director ; Mr. Nell, Mr.
Medea, sad other directors; Mr. Bourne, the re-
ideal engineer; Mr. Addison, the law clerk; Mr.
Sian. the secretary of the comptny • Mr. Bray,
the oeutract•A for the tunnel ; Mr. 'Thornton, toe
esettact felt the construction of the Leeds end of the line ;
Mears. Joeeph, John, Edwin, and Thomas Bray, the sous of
Mr. Bray ; Mr. Robert Watson, princital superintendent of
Mr. Bray ; Kr. James Taylor, Mr. hampin, and Mr.
Paws's',
_uneven's; whh several subcontractors and others
Interested in the suers of the railway, assembled on the
railway at the north end of the tunnel near to Kirkskill
Hall, where they mounted the carriages provided and took
their places, and precisely at four o'clock the engine—the
Stephensen--tondusted by Mr. Joseph Bray, entered the
tunnel, and passed through it southwardly in the space
of thirteen onsatea. The train prxeeded onwards to the
north *ad of the inseam viaduct which cross. s the beds
and Halifax turnpike road, 11011 to Carditiao.place, Burley,
making three or lour stoppages in the course of its progress
to enable the directors to alight and curbs the progress of
the works at Carr-bridge, Anspreth, Headingley station. rte.
At the viaduct the directors again alighted, and traversed
the line on foot to Leeds. The length of the Stanhope tun-
nel is 3,720 yards, and is some parts it is more than SOO het
below the surface of the earth. Considering the diffi-
culties which have been overcome, arising from the
orators of the soil and the quantity of water that waa met
with, the completion of this tunnel may be regarded as a
great feat of engineering skill. The ground on the Bram-
bops entrant was first broken on the 16th October, 1846, lr
Mr. Eddison, solicitor, on the site of what is now called eat,
No. 1 Peraineat Shaft. The first permanent rail on that
contract wa• laid May 19,1846, near Cart-bridge, by' AT. It.
Watson; and the first brick of the tunnel was laid. by hie.
Bray, the contractor, on the 27th July, 1846. vde under-
stand the line is likely to be opened throughout early in the
swab of July next.

TRAFFIC RETURN FOR THE P&ST WEEK.

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