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tion of smaller companies, an
powers to them.
P°leln- this view of the matter, which, apart from other
considerations, seriously affects the practicability of that
scheme, your board aee mistaken in supposing that the
directors of this company consider absolute amalgama-
tion of the two undertekings to be the only, or even the
better mode, of attainicg that desirable result, viz, ces-
sation from costly strife and distracting disputes.
On the contrary, it is our deliberate opinion that it
would not be deemed consistent with the policy of the
present times, to commit to the hands of one large com-
pany such an redivided control and power over the
public traffic of nearly one-half of England, while the
growing requirements of the trade of this country ne-
cessitate an extension, rather than the limitation, of
means of accommodation upon existing railways.
Such being the conviction of this board with respect
to the views of the Legislature, involving consequently
the rejection by Parliament of any Bill tor the absolute
amalgamation of our two companies, even although
guarded by some general protection to the public, you
will not be surprised to find that we cannot consent to
imperil the applications to Parliament in another session
for carrying out cur existing agreements with the two
Shrewsbury companies (epeeificaely alluded to in your
letter to me), for which Bale have been already passed
by the House of Commons, and which were only arrested
at the end of the session in the Lords, by a standing
order of that House, which has since been modified, and
may at any time be suspended to meet a case of public
necessity. 1
We are aware that your proposition professes to dea
with that question, by suggesting that your company, es
well as the Great 'Western Company have entered into
agreements with the two Shrewsbury companies; that
proprietors of those companies are to have the choice of
either agreement, and that a Bill for such object is to
proceed simultaneously with that for the general amal-
gamation of our two companies. Permit me to observe,
however, that the effect of the proposition, as you have
made it, would simply be to enable the London and
North-Western Company to convert an offer, alleged to be
made by them to certain parties acting in their interests,
and connected with the two Shrewsbury companies, of
nominally higher terms, but wholly inconsistent with the
actual agreements previously entered into by those com-
panies, into an implied honourable engagement, which
could thereby practically have the advantage of super-
seding the Great Western alliance, as it were, by consent
—so that if Parliament should subsequently decline to
sanction the amalgamation of our two companies upon
public grounds, or if your shareholders should disagree
to it, the proprietors of the Great Western Company
would discover, when it was too late, that our agreement
had been supplanted by yours, and that all the traffic to
or from places north of Wolverhampton had been diverted
from their railway over the London and North-Western
lines, owing to our want of foresight, and having fallen
into the mistake of adopting a proposition, to which it
may be found impossible to give practical effect, and
which would therefore prove suicidal to the interests of
our company.
These considerations must deter the
_directors of this
had
nn
acquaint
a terms
tyoius
company from assenting to the gene_ ralconditions pro-
posed in your letter to me, evenif
the
upon which you offer the amalgamation
factory, which, however, I am requested to
is by no means the case.
We think it, for obvious reasons, superfluous to dwell
at present upon that topic, which is merely adverted to
for the
purpose of guarding the board from any sup-
posed acquiescence in the value, 'which your directors ap-
pear to assume in the proportions now current in the
market; regardless of the fact that this company has not
yet received from their northern lines a single pas-
senger or ton of goods, and bad scarcely derived any
advantage from the South Walesline, only partially
opened; although your own company have had for a
long time the development and almost exclusive advan-
tage over their lines of all the traffic from the north of
England and Ireland.
It is to be remarked also, that your suggestion of con-
vening forthwith a Wherecliffe meeting to sanction the
introduc:ion of an Amalgamation Bill into the House of
Lords, is quite inconsistent with the terms of the stand-
ing.,
to
orderiue-lf, which requires the submission of the
Hnlonuse
o the.
Common:;;?eting, as it may have been amended in the
and this would leave it quite open
to your proprietors to refuse the approval of the Bill in
such amended form, if from any cause they shall con-
sider that the main object of destroying our Shrews-
bury alliance had been already attained, or that it would
be otherwise prejudicial to their interests to proceed
with the Bill, upon such submission of it at a Wharn-
cliffe meeting.
Having thus represented to you the precise grounds
why this board cannot, under existing circumstances,
adopt the scheme for an absolute union cf interests, at
all events unless it be accompanied by positive security
against the evil consequences apprehended by us, and
upon terms more equitable to the proprietors of this
company, I am requested to assure you that the direc-
tors are perfectly willing and ready to enter into an
amicable arrangement upon some other conditons, which
may be mutually and equally protective and advanta
genus to both ceeepanies.

1. We submit ti:at this may bo accomplished most se-
curely by undertaking that all opposition shall cease on
both sides to the performance of actual agreements into
which either company may have entered, the bona fides
of which, in case of dispute, may be decided by an
amicable suit in a Court cf Equity, on condition that
equal charges, within the rates prescribed by Parliament,
for all traffic to or from places to which both companies
shall convey passengers or goods by the two independent
systems, sisal! be agreed upon, and that no obstruction
or impediment shall be given by either company to
the public desirous of using tha railway of the other
company.

2. That, if the London and North-Western Company
should desire it, sotne fixed appointment between the
respective companies of the ne:t proceeds of all such
traffic, after making a fail and liberal allowance for the
cost of managing and eieveyieg it, shall be determined
by an arbitration of three noblemen or gentlemen of high
standing, to he prcviou.ly selected.
3. That the companies in alliance either with the
London and North-Western, or with the Great Western
Company, be invited to join in the agreement for equal
charges; with the proviso that if the attempt to arrange
fails it shall not affxt any existing agreements.
4. That a general committee, consisting of equal
numbers from the London and North-Western and Great
Western boards, be forthwith appOinted to carry the er-
ragement into effect, and to determine any matters bear-
ing upon the general interests or proceedings of the two
bodies not specially provided for, and to refer all differ-
ences to similar arbiteation.
The effect of such arrangement, we conceive, will be
to give to the public two distinct lines of railway, to
afford ample scope to the traffic of all districts, and to
allow a full deeelopcoent of the mineral and manilla°
turir.g resources of the country without obstruction or
hindrance. It will secure to the proprietors fairly re-
munerative rates for their- capital, restrained by the
Parliamentary limitations, already, at vary low maxi-
mum charges, and will admit of a just economy in car-
rying on the business of both lines efficiently, without
distracting the attention or iuterfaring with the respon-
sibilities of the resat ctive boards of management in
providing fer the accommodation of the public, end
maintaining the value of the property committed to their
charge.
I sition, will thank yea to submit to your board this prop-
plan,. to which the directors of
native
this company are ready to give a prompt and faithful
adherence, after learning that it tau be made acceptable
to the London and North-Were Cpany.
As the nature of your proposal to u appears already to anee transpired, we purpose submitting the corre-
to. remtovetall doubts as to our
spocdcaec to the general meeting of our proprietors on
Sir, yours,,.r. very faithfully, Thursd;syrenmexaitn,,i:vorid,eearr
thisimpor an question.
respective visas upon,
-
(Signed) nUSSELL, Chairman.
Gi7D, Esq., Chairman of the
To George Carr
-Western Railway Com-
pany, and North
Easton-square
The accounts wae also taken as read.

SUPPIE39ION
the walls of OF A.
N ORANGE PROcEssioN IN 1.4-
vnapoof..—A few days ago
carded with an announcement that the "Liverpool were pla Loyal Orangemen"
intended to walk in procession through the town yesterday,
the 12th of August, in commemoration
their annual proces-
of the battle of
Aughrim. They intended to have had
sion on the 12th of July, the anniversary of the battle of the
• Boyne, but as the excitement in the town from the recent
political contest was still very great they were induced by
their leaders to abandon the usual pageantry ender the pro-
mise that- they should walk on the 12,1 of the following
month. The recent occurrences at Stockport and in the north
of Ireland, combined with the fact that the last procession con.
in
Liverpool was attended with fatal consequences, caused
siderable apprehension in the minds of the peaceably _
dis-
posed inhabitants, and magisterial interference was solicited.
, Wednesday an official notice was issued stating that as
the mayor had received information, on oath, that the pro-
%i_
vseedu procestion would cause a breach of the peace, he had
s.
.ordera to the chief constable to take all persons into
'°aY 'wo attempted to join it. The orangemen, not-
wi•hstandin Ina they
nie, determined to assemble; and yesterday morn-
corated with tilt .groups, in various parts of the town, de-
however, 'were if orange scarfs, ribands, &c. Their numbers,
disposition
of
trevented from augmenting by the excellent
sited hy a steadi like' who, armed and mounted, and as-
- A few of the lezerescending rain, speedily dispersed them.
were released on tliesir
were locked up for a short time, but
bor." Had it not b p.rornising to go home iike "good
eez tor the prompt measures adopted by
the authorities, a aezious coil
and the IriA2 Roman Catl,ou iSi(al between the processionists
unavoidable. c residents here would have been
FOREIGN CATTLE.-- The
foreign cattle have taken place in following arrivals of
nental States. The steam..eilii,
.3s.T'eu_day from the Conti-
bas brought 246 head of oxen and et,i,:!! front_ Tonningen,
sheep; the
Tiger, from Tonningen, 239 head of o..xen' aitlandPcBo
Lion, from
1),,, 58 head of
sheep ; the William renn, from Nieu ws, and 124
42 calves, and 112 sheep • 1
oxen and
c("rs'
head of oxen and cows, 38 'c
Le
Rotter.
Hsrlingen, 162
and 350 pigs; the Giratlea,-viQ:' 477 sheep,
15 lambs, 2 borse69
horned cattle, 600 sheep, and -,nl
ancrwa; the
dam, 132 head of
en,
the Ranger, from Bremen, 83 head of oxen and `96 lambs;
b 9 head of oxen
Adonis, from Rotterdam, b 9
lambs; the 51agnet, frer'%_' 44 calves, 692 sheep, and 153
1 calf, and 985 sheep; ;11,-, Am-
sterdam,
sterdam, 62 oxen and cows,
Dordrecht, from Dordt,
the Rainbow, from Ilotteelpr'
79 head of horned cattle, 304 sheep,
15 ca.l7es, and 107 lambs; and .
dam. 145 calves;
the whole the produce of Holland, Den.
,t he whole of the above
mark, and the Hanseatic States.
arrivals of foreign cattle took place in the port of London
alone on Alonday laat • The returns of the importation of
live stock from abroad daring the last week show a great in-
crease on previous suppliesoi this nature; hug, it is believed
that the number brought on the first day of tne present
week, amounting
sheep, 573 lambs, nm
collectively to 1,150 oxen and cows, 4,5?2
Pigs, and 289 calves, making a total
of 6,914 head of stock, ha,s
,itt introduction of foreign cattle into this country
NEWgr uLAY.—The Scotsman says—" We
never been equalled in extent
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