The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.
A special meeting of this company was held yes.
terday at the London•bridge station ; Mr L.
Schuster in the chair.

The Secretary read the notice convening the
meeting.

The CHAIRMAN said his duty would not be very
onerous, as nearly all the measures he had then to
submit had been agreed to at the ordinary general
meeting by the shareholders. The first resolution
he had to propose was that the agreement for the
amalgamation of the Banstead and Epsom Dawns
Railway with the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway be approved, and that the directors
be authorised to do all that was necessary for carry-
ing the same into effect.
Mr J. SCOTT seconded the motion.
Mr C. CHILD wished to know on what terms the
amalgamation was to take place,
Mr FAITHFUL, the solicitor, read the agreement,
which was to the effect that the original agree-
ment, dated July 23, 1808, be cancelled, and. that
from the date of the present agreement the two
"companies should be amalgamated, the Brighton
Company paying to the Banstead Company
£'34,127 to be divided among the shareholders, and
the shares to be cancere3.

The resolution was approved and adopted.

The CHAIRMAN then submitted a resolution
authorising the amalgamation of the Horsham and
Guildford Direct, tilway Company with the
Brighton Company.
Mr WISHAW seconded the motion,

The Solicitor read the eg cement, from which it
appeared that the unthrtt.hing of the Horsham
Company was to be vested in the Brighton Coma
pany on the latter paying X 65,000, to be divided
among the Horsham and Guildford shareholders,
and the shares to be cancelled.

The resolution was carried unanimovly.

Formal resolutions were also passed authorising I
the amalgamation of the East Grinstead, Groom-
bridge, and Tunbridge Wells Railway Company
with the London and Brighton Company, on
payment by the latter to the former company of
£73,276 to be divided among the shareholders,
upon which the shares were to bo cancelled; and
approving the amalgamation of the Brighton, Uck-
field and Tonbridge Railway Company with the
London and Brighton Company. The payment of
interest on the 1,9J3 41 per cent, preference shares
of the former company was to be deferred until the
opening of the line fcr traffic, and the aura of
£105,184 was to be paid over and distributed among
the Uckfield shareholders, end the shares are to be
cancelled.
The meeting then sep:rate?,

BANSTEAD AND EPSW,I, BRIGHTON, UCK-

FIELD, AND TONBRIDGE.

Yesterday consecutive meetings of these come
panics were held at the Londonebridge terminus,
under the presidency of L)rd West, Mr Schuster,
and Mr Scott, when resolutions were passed unanip.
mously, in accordance with the Act of Parliament,
for the amalgamation of these companies with the
London, Brighton, and Suuth Coast Railway Com-
pany, and authorising the directors to do whatever
might be necessary to carry the agreement into
effect. Under these circumstances the companies
would not clriv;:ne any further meetings of their
respective proprietors, as all the four uldertakings
would in future be merged in that of the Brighton
Company.