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12.—This market YMARKET
was well attended to-
. - --
&
LouTGHHBREO,,
FEB.CO
day. A brisk demand for wheat, and last week's prices were
fully supported. Barley dull sale, at unaltered currencies,
Other things much the same as last week.
DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, FEB. 10.-- There was a
good show of fat beasts to-day, the quality generally was
good. The best things were readily disposed of, fully main-
taining last week's prices. The supply of sheep was large,
which were in good request, and a clearance of the best quality
was easily effected. The number of pigs was again considerably
less than the demand, consequently higher prices were ob.
tained. Fat and store calves about the average. Prim_
Beef, 4id to 5d ; mutton
spteornlebo;f
ip4i
bss,.
Hides,
7s 6 d
o7s 9d bld to 61d ; veal, 5d to 5d
per score. Rough fat, 3s 6d per
lid to lid per lb ; calf skins 2d to 3hd
per lb.
UPPINGHAM FEB. 11.--Wheat 38s to 465; barley 288 to
32s Od ; oats 17s' to 255; beans 28s to 34s per qr. Butter llid
per lb ; eggs 24 for ls.
Ll:limit, FEE. 11.—Wheat 36s to 425; barley 25s to 30s;
oats 15s to 20s • beans 25s to 29s per qr.
NEWARK,
malting 34s to 355, grinding 24s to 28s ; oats,
FEB. 11.—Wheat, white 46s to 519, red 42s to
45s ; barley,
245 t., 21s to 235. 225 t., 193 to 20s; beans, old 36s to 38s ;
new, 32s to 345; malt, L6B to 60s ; tares, 30s to 32s per qr.
MELTON MOWBRAY, FEB. 'lo.—Wheat, 40s Od to 445;
barley, 28s to 325;
oats, 20s to 25s ; beans, 30s to 358
per qr. Butter 12d to 13d per lb ; eggs 20 to 22 for ls.
BOSTON, FEB. 11.—Wheat, red 348 to 42a Od, white 443
to 465, superfine 48s to 003; barley 24s to 27s ; oats, 16s to
20s ; beans 27s to 333; peas 234 to 28s per qr.
LYNN, FEB. 10.—Wheat 36s Od to 44s Od, fine 45s to
00s; barley 27s to 325, fine 003 to O0s; oats Oos to 00s Od;
beans Os to Os, fine Os to Os per qr.
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, FEB. 11.—We had in the
arket a large supply of all kinds of grain Sales were
slowly effected. The top of wheat was 3s 6d, and the
average Is 5d down. Barley on the top 3d, and the average
3s 10d down. Oats on the top 4d up, and the average Sd
down. Beans on the top 6d up, and the average 2d down.
Unsold, 382 qrs wheat, 163 qrs barley, 276 qrs oats, and 35
qrs. beans.
Top of Wheat ..„ 641 b. 45s 6d
~ Barley 31a 9d
9, Oats 441 b. 25s Od
Beans .L. 65i1b. 36s Od

EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, FEB. 11.—The number
of cattle was 799, or 156 less than ►ast week. Top price, 6s 6d;
current, 6s 3d to Os Od ; secondary and inferior, from 5s
to 51 6d per Dutch stone. A clearance was not effected.
The number of sheep at market this morning was
2,018, being 152 less than last week. Best wedder mutton,
top price. 5Ad per lb; current, bd to Od; ewes, 4d to 41d.
A good clearance was effected.
CORK, FEB. 1

, .
Barrels. _,__
Currency.
0 White wheat 00s 04 to ON Od 00s od-20 stone
91 Red wheat l9s 04 to 21s 61 20s 6d-20 do
.0 Ditto oos Od to ON Od
o Ditto , 00s Od to ON 0d
78 Barley 12s Od to 12s Gd
0 Ditto ON 04 to 00s Od} 12s 44-46 do
0 Ditto oos Od to 00s Od
0 Bere 00s Od to ON od Os Od
263 Oats 9s 6d to lOs 24
296 Ditto ... ICs 2d to lOs 4d 00s
04.-14 do
94 Ditto ... lOs4d to 108 led 49 Pigs 24s Od to 31s Od 303 Od per owt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:--
0 barrels white wheat; 11 red ; 40 barley; 0 bare; 11 oats;
7 pigs. •
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week t—.
Wheat, 748. Barley, 911. Oats, 4,994. Pigs, 545.
PRICES OF BUTTER.
CANT.
CUARINCT.
First quality
67s
Second quality ...... 768 Second quality
Third quality . .... 64s Third quality sss
Fourth quality ............ 545 Fourth quality .........
Fifth quality .............. Oda Fifth quality
Sixth quality
... 00s Sixth quality ............ ... 00a
Return of Cattle sold for week
ending Jan. 31.
Cori.—tiour—First 123 01 to 14s Od ;
Pigs, 1,022. Sheep, 243. Cows, sa.
extra 151 Od ;
seconds, 10s 6d to 12s Od; households 94 to lOs 6d; thirds, 7s to 91
per cwt. Oatmeal 108 Gd to Ile; Indian meal 7s Od to 7s 6d; wheat.
meal, 10s Od to 10s Gd per cwt. Indian corn 712 s 6d to 7110 s per
ton. Bran 8530 d to 90s per ton. Hay—Farmers 23s to 325; average
308 • dealers 00s to ON Od; average 00s per ton. Straw—Farmers
16:0d to 248 Od ; average 18s ; dealers 00.504 to 00s Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bd to sid ;
10d per lb. Eggs-5s 6d to 6s Od per hundred.
household loaf 4d to bid per
Coals—
Newport 15s Od ; Lydney 115 s ; Landore 00s ; Culm,
12e dd per ton. Tallow us od to 40s per . cwt.
WhiskY• 25 0. 1)9 51 94 per imperial gallon. Meat
411). Fresh butter, 8d to
Beef 4d to 6id ; mutton 5d to 6d; veal 4d to
64 ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon Gd to 7d; sausages 5d per lb.
sl
61 Os ; Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 15s per stone.
Hemp 291t0 34/ per ton. Fish— to64otio; 3F/ Or
es
npeehr
Scotch herrings 19s to 00s; red
ton.Ho Bark—Barbary
Obsarpeyr
71 Oa
torte?
crso:
ditto, 245 to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10105 to 11l pet
ken. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton ; red pine, 315 s - yellow
Valoniaate2l 1157;
ditto, ej 1.5 s per ton ; deals, 151 to 181 per 100. 'Hides--
3ac,ff..iet 18,1 to 255; salted 20a to 26s per owt ; calf skins
cli to od per lb. Pot.t,s--
7"".., white 7d to 8d ; pinks,
10d to 12d. Guano— Peruvian, ill os _
; Ichaboe, 81 to 910 s
ton. Tar—Archangel, 191,
Perper barrel.

RAILWAY TRAFPIC RETURNS.
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. —Traffic for the week
ending Feb. 1:—
Passengers
Goods ...
Parcels ...
Mails

Total

... £2,356 19 5
•••
.. 1,081 18 1
... 129 2 6
•••
..• 223 4 2

AI
... £3,791 4 2
SHEENVSBUEY AND CHESTER R 'Way.—Traffic receipts
for the week ending Feb. 8:
Passengers ... .
Parcels, horses, &c. .:.: ::: 4509 16 9
Merchandise, minerals, &c. . 26 15 7
1,023 7 5

&c. • R 2,922 0 5
(I RE LAND ) RAILWAY
Total •• ••• ... £1,559 19 9
wrnAoll) forW
tEhseTwEßNeek ending
week last year ". 1:375 16 8
g. Feb. 7:-
8931tEmApiTa
sl e
parcels,synlTeArtseE,tau
Merchandise and cattle 1,002 4 0

Total ••• ••' £3,924 4 5
Corresponding week last year 4,073 19 6

e:he:heal:
been ez-
STOCK EXCHANGE. The market c and
RAILWAY SHARE
ontinue; MARKETS.active,
shares command advancedßiliST° iji:atFesE.B.Bll2;stol and Exeter'were
done to-day at 86%—Great Western, bgiii.
—Lancashire and
LIVERPOOL, F.En. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGIL—The share -market was rather better
to-day, and, though the business was not extensive, prices
are improved. The transactions were as follow :—Great
Yorkshire, 651,j c.—Ditto, Fifths, 7 dis.—Liverpool, Crosby,
and Southport, 2 dis.—London and_ North-Western, 119%—
Ditto New Quarters, WA P. 5,11
Western, 94—Great Nortlaienran,
u 010813:
N.
anchester, Sheffield, and
dis.—Lancashirepail
Lincolnshire 31—Midland, 58 /f, . S9th-Eagtern and Dover,
n. dis.—Ditt
2.1.00
12.
sLhainrec,a6shsiiire_,
F5-I,ll6:3:AC.Btwori an improved feeling ex-
hibited in the share market. to-day, a good business
has been done at advanced
_p
rii,:esas.tern e transactions were as
210ork--
13 16 n. dis.—South-Eastern
f o I :114oTkw—Sheffield,
nS—KeEf ft,
Northilceicddno' nAri 1M i
li
aA b linGd Rotherham,
.1
aCn-lildsTE2hAeb 1:
FNB.
E,
,13 .
--
0, 201. F, 17-16
che t
dis.—West Riding, and Lin-
colnshire, 31—Ditto, New Prefer9lce, .154.
v.ery little business doing.
P.—Midland, 58%
—London and North-Western,,,?.2o. It
New-Quarters,
3% n. p.—Manchester and Birmingham
(C), Quarters,
1% p.—North Stairords
and Dover, 20 13-16.
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The 33d half-yearlyproprietors
RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
GREAT WESTERN.
of
the
of this company was held yesterday at the Paddington
station, Mr. Charles Russell in the chair.
After the usual preliminaries,
The CHAIRMAN spoke as follows:—Gentlemen, the
greater facility of obtaining money, which for some time
past has existed, has had a tendency to give a renewed
impulse to railway speculation, and I was at ono time
apprehensive that we were about to witness a recurrence
of the yeas 1845 and 1846. But, fortunately, the good
sense of the country and the severe experience of no
distant period have prevailed. Many of the most im-
provident and hasty speculations which were suggested
have failed from the utter discouragement they re-
ceived; and I hope we may now trust to the Legislature
to test severely those schemes which still remain.--
(Hear, hear.) Under the circumstances, we have felt it
our duty to observe those principles which we have for
some time prescribed to ourselves. When overtures
were made to us to promote lines towards the West of
England, which were thought to bo advantageous to
ourselves at the expense of our neighbours, we at
once declined them; and we have on all oc-
casions resolutely set our faces against all ex-
tensions and branches which were not required
by an imperative public necessity, or which
were not calculated to afford a remunerative return for
the capital to be invested in them.—(Cheers.) In pur-
suing that course, I believe we consulted no less the
general interests of the country than the particular in-
terests of railway companies. The returns of traffic for
the kingdom for some time show that those extensions,
and branches, and new lines which have been last made
scarcely afford the means of working them.—(Hear,
hear.) To employ capital in such enterprises is not only
injurious to those who may be misled into investing
their money in them, but it is a waste of the national re-
sources. It may be extremely convenient to towns and
villages to have railways passing close to them, but this
is a consideration totally different from the commercial
question, which simply is, " Will the lines pay?" and
that is the only question with which railway companies
have to deal.—(Hear, hear.) If railways are to be made
for these reasons, the onus of the cost should fall, not
on the shoulders of existing railway companies, but of
those who are to derive benefit and convenience from
their construction.---(Cheers.) We have endeavoured to
bear these principles in mind in the arrangements we
have made with the new railway companies, which
arrangements are to be submitted in the report for
your approval. The .influential inhabitants of th©
county of Hereford are desirous to have a line of
railway from Gloucester, by Ross, to Hereford, and
they have fairly met the responsibilities of that de-
sire—they have subscribed largely for the purpose.
Such assistance as it is in our power to afford them
we have cordially rendered, and will continue to render
to them. We have transferred to them, at reduced
rates, land which we had purchased for our own line. We
have consented to facilitate their obtaining capital.
by permitting their debentures to have the first
lien on the receipts ; and we undertake to
work their line on very moderate terms ; and we
have negotiated with the Forest of Dean Railway Com-
pany that they shall take a considerable amount of
capital in the concern. Such assistance it was reason-
able in them to ask, and such assistance we were
enabled to afford without any verygreat sacrifice to you.
In the same way the counties through which our Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth Railway passed were desirous
that that line should be completed. They also have

taken the burden in a great meaeure on themselves, and
have formed a company for the purpose of completing
that line. The assistance that we have rendered to

them is of a different and of a more extensive character.
We have consented to surrender to their use the un-
finished works which we have ourselves made in that
direction, on the condition that they shall return to us
those works completely finished at the expiration of
a stipulated term, and for a moderate, specified
amount. This arrangement suited the purposes of
both parties. It suited us to have our line completed
without incurring any additional expenditure, and
without any extension of our capital ; it suited them to
get a line on such moderate terms that they are fully
assured that they will derive a fair rate of interest for
the money they employ upon it, and that they will be
able also to form a sinking fund which shall replace
their capital at the end of the term, when they must de-
liver the line up to us. In both these arrangements you
will observe that we have kept in view the principle to
which I have adverted—to require that local districts
shall themselves provide local means for local purposes,
and that we shall only render such assistance to them as
will prove no burden either on your resources or your
capital. The Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Company
have, I observe from the newspapers, already com-
menced their operations, and I hope the Frome, Yeovil,
and Weymouth Company will snortly be in a condition
to do the same. With respect to our northern lines,
they stand on a very different footing. These lines
are the result of a contest in which we succeeded in pre-
venting our own district from being intersected from
north to south and from east to west by narrow gauge
lines. They were undertaken for purposes of defence.
Large sums of money had been expended on them. It
was impossible to recede from them, the only
course that remained to us was that which
was recommended by your committee of con-
sultation—a recommendation in which we most
cordially concurred—that we should finish those lines
with the utmost possible expedition. When we last met we
had just failed in two earnest endeavours that we had
made to come to an amicable arrangement with the
London and North-Western Company, and in conse-
quence of that failure wo had entered into an alliance
with the Shrewsbury companies. We have since com-
pleted that arrangement by entering into an agreement
with the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Com-
pany. I regret that that agreement should have assumed
the form of a guarantee, and, for myself, I should rather
have preferred that it had been a mere traffic arrange-
ment.—(Hear, hear.) But the gross receipts of that
line already nearly equal the annual amount that is
guaranteed to it by the three companies. The question
therefore is little more than ono of working expenses,
and there can be no doubt that, when it shall be com-
pleted and in operation together with the other com-
panies, its income will be fully sufficient to meet this
additional expense.
A SLIM:MOLDER—Never.

The Ciuneteu—However, the case was surrounded
by difficulties, and I believe that the arrangement we
have made was the only safe and practicable arrange-
ment that we could make. Bills for the purpose of
giving effect to these arrangements have been sent by
the examiner to the Standing Orders Committee, but
it is on extremely unimportant and technical points, and
we have no doubt that they will he easily set right by
that Committee. I am told that we are to expect
formidable opposition to these Bills, but I con-
fess I am at a loss to understand on what
public grounds they are to be resisted. Wo do not
ask for sanction to any new line; all we ask
is, the sanction of the Legislature to make arrangements
between companies having continuous lines already sanc-
tioned, and which have a common interest. Toe only
question that can, as it seems to me, be raised is, shall
these lines be worked in a manner which shall be advan-
tageous to the companies to whom they belong, and con-
venient to the public for whose use they were made, or
shall they be obstructed and intersected for the benefit
of a rival company? This seems to me to me to be the
only question, divested of all ingenious sophistries, which
can possibly be raised; and when I hear of a renewal of
the battle of the gauges, and of the long and protracted
contests for which large sums have been hoarded, I own
I am surprised. I may have an overweening confidence
in the strength of our own case; but I must say that it
seems to me that the only question that can be raised is
one that will admit of but one, and that a very early
and easy, solution, and that a ommittee of either House
of Parliament, with the common sense and practical
manner in which they treat such questions, will di.pose
of this matter in a very few (lays. I am far from deny-
ing that it is natural that the Loudon and North-Western
Company should regard with feelings of uneasiness
end dissatisfaction our approach towards the north.
But they should not altogether forget that these re-
sults are the consequence of that policy which they
themselves thought fit to pursue towards us. It
was not to injure them ; it was to defend our-
selves against aggression from the north and from the
south, that we—how reluctantly, those about me- best
know—were compelled to push forward our advanced
posts to Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and to make
alliances with northern companies.—(llear, hear.) I
will not affirm one word which I am not capable of
proving by written evidence.—(Hear.) At every steget
of our progress we have been, not only willing, but mos
desirous to make amicable arrangements with the Lo-
ndon and North-Western Company, if we could securebnd. to
e
ourselves that position which we had actually obtained.
And, gentlemen, we feel, and we have long felt, that the
n
opening of those northern lines would be a mod ti
mpor-
tant era in the progress of your undertakundertaking,hat the
years 1852 and 1853 would be years of trial and there-
fore of necessary caution. Our lines in that direction
have been opened and worked for some time as far as
l which has been
Banbury, and the interest on thecapi
point, but to Fenny
expended on them, not only to that
Compton—a distance, I believe,
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additional distance of 42 Miles,
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current expenses.
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costly lines, but at the same
ham and Wolverhampton
that these 42 miles will
line from London byThrmiug
to the north. Some interval, however, must occur after
the opening Of these lines before the truffle
be fully developed. "
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period taut the directors unanimously recommend you
to reserve the large balance of 100,0001. We do not
want it for the purpose of warfare or for Parliamntary
which, if we can possibly help it, shall' never
isre want it to suetuiti the value of your pro-
csorinstec.ste
perty, and to maintain our credit through that interval of
transition to which I have adverted, and wo pledge our-
Agivea that Pt one ahipiDg 9f 4 owl ire yramoy or

wastefully expended. At the end of that period—a brief
period, I hope—l trust there %ill be a large portion of
that money at ycur disposal to distribute among you.
We shall then have surmounted all our difficulties, and
from that time I anticipate we may confidently look for-
ward to a steady and progressive improvement, which
shall see no further interruption.—(Hear.) In the few
observations I have addressed to you I have confined
myself to the consideration of our relations with other
companies, end of the principles on which we desire to
regulate them. We trust you approve those principles.
In conducting such affairs as these, of which we have
the management, it is indispensable to proceed with
steadiness and firmness; but the principles which have
hitherto governed us, and which, if the control conti-
and
conti-
nues with us, shall govern us, are those of forbearance,
moderation, and peace.—(Cheers.) As to your internal
therefore,
affairs all necessary information is given so fully in the
report that I will not detain you longer by going over
that ground. I will only congratulate you on its satis-
factory character as regards both the past and the fu-
ture,remarkgrettpleasure
that it
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beggingt he bestreportthe se
secretary
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for a long time presented to you.—(Cheers.) I have,
it, that it may receive your approval.--(Cheers.)
The SECRETARY then read
the report, of which the
main points were as follow:
" The remarkable increase of passenger traffic over
Great Western lines during the Exhibition of 1851,
y
which appears, in proportion to the ordinary receipts, to
have exceeded that of almost every other
railway, as
enabled the directors to present accounts for the half-
year exhibiting an unusual profit from the revenue of the
company. The only additions to the railways worked
have been 4i miles of single line between Westbury and.
Warminster, which branch was opened on the 9th Sept.
last; and it miles (the Gloucester and Dean Forest
Railway) opened on the 19th Sept. between Gloucester
and Grange Court, at which point it unites with the
South Wales Railway. The excess of passengers during
the half-year, upon a comparison with the same period
of the year 1850, shows the folltivfing result:—More
passengers conveyed, 4537,549 ; increased receipt,
123,4271. Of that number 266,645 persons were con-
veyed in excursion trains, yielding an excess of 43,329/,
over the excursion traffic during the corresponding half-
year of 1850. There has been an increase of 24,073 tons
of merchandise conveyed, which, with some minor sources
of income, have produced an additional receipt of
8,5191. Of this 108,2461. may be treated as the gross
receipts derived from travellers visiting the Great
Exhibition and agricultural meeting at Windsor.
The total additional charge for all the earnings of the
half-year is only 20,846/. The result of the half-year,
after bringing to account the previous balance, and pro-
viding for every prior claim, enables the directors to
suggest on this occasion an increased dividend, which
they recommended to be 2i per cent. for the half-year,
payable at the usual time. This reserves a balance to be
carried over, which the directors consider sufficient,
after paying mortgage interest, and all guaranteed divi-
dends en preferential stock, &c., to secure a dividend
on the ordinary rateable stock of the company of at least
4 per cent. per annum, from the time when the purchase
of the Birmingham and Oxford, and Birmingham, Wol-
verhampton and Dudley Railways shall have been com-
pleted, and the capital be charged against revenue, until
both those lines shall have been entirely constructed,
and their proper traffic acquired. In order to complete
at the new Paddington station the departure lines, roof,
and platforms for passengers, with booking offices, &c.,
and a new merchandize shed, as well as to proceed with
the erection of general offices for the business of the
company, warehouses for merchandize, stores for grain,
and goods offices, together with two convenient depots,
the one for landing cattle and the other for nn-
loading coals, iron, and other heavy goods at the
London terminus, it is requisite to apply for a further
vote of 65,0001. at this meeting, besides 10,0001. to
pay for land, which must be purchased as a site for
some of those purposes, and for a new engine-house,
with building, sidings, &c., for the use of the locomo-
tive department at Paddington. Your directors have
been for some time in negotiation with gentlemen who
have local interests to promote in Weymouth, or
between Weymouth and Frome, for the prosecution of
the unfinished works of the Wilts and Somerset Rail-
way within that district, being a distance of about fifty-
three miles; and they are happy to report that an agree-
ment has been entered into, by which they undertake to
find the capital necessary to complete the works and sta-
tions of the railway, to be worked on the broad gauge,
and in connexion with Great Western trains. This
company are to grant to the promoters a lease of the
property for a period of twenty-five years, with the be-
neficial use of the works and land, at a merely nominal
rent, and are to provide locomotive plant without profit,
for working the line during the lease; at the expiration
of which this company will be entitled to redeem the
whole in goodcondition as a double line of railway,
with stations and appurtenances, upon paying 100,000/.
to the promoters. A Bill is before Parliament for au-
_

thorising and confirming the raid agreement, as well as
for giving effect to the purchase of the Kennet and
Avon Canal, and for improving the junction with the
Oxford Railway at Didcot, by making a short
avoiding line there, essential to the convenience and
greater safety, as well as expedition, of the trains
which will have to run throughout towards the
north. A separate Bill has been introduced to secure
the completion of the short line between the Birming-
ham and Wolverhampton Railway at Priestfield and the
town of Wolverhampton, which originally formed a
portion of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway. Since the last half-yearly meeting was held
in Bristol, the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Company passed a resolution adopting the recent
agreement between the two companies—but with a stipu-
lation—the effect of which would have been to bind this
company to all their liabilities, as well as to complete
the railway; and subsequently to pay to the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton shareholders, 30/. as
principal, or 30s. per, annum as interest, for every ori-
ginal share, then worth in the market about 151. Your
directors did not think themselves justified in acceding
to a condition so entirely at variance with the principles
upon which they had undertaken to negotiate
for the lease of that railway. The agreement under
the common seal of that company still remains
in abeyance—no resolution of proprietors having
been proposed to reject it—while the directors who made
the agreement have considered themselves at liberty,
without even the sanction of a general meeting of share-
holders, and in manifest defiance of their engagements,
to employ the name and funds and credit of the com-
pany to promote a third line of railway between London
and Oxford, even before they have obtained sufficient
capital to complete their original undertaking. Your
directors deem it their paramount duty ls.o take every
means for rendering the individuals who have been par-
ties to such misapplication of the property liable for the.
expenditure, as well as to frustrate the objects of any
application to Parliament to sanction such a scheme. An
agreement has been concluded with the Hereford, Ross,
and Gloucester Railway Company, by which certain
lands previously purchased by this company have been
disposed of by them, in order that they may proceed at
once with the works upon their line to Hereford, which
is to be constructed on the broad gauge, and when com-
pleted this company have engaged to work it for their
account. Bills to confirm and carry out the amalgamation
of the two Shrewsbury companies with this company,
and also to authorise a lease or centingent amalgamation
of theßirkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Railway with
the three associated companies, are also before P'adjoi'Cknis ecnr.
t
The necessity of an early completion of the es
Plymouth is obvious, and the measure becomes daily
more important in consequence of the severalhe
traaveet s
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given, G- oaironal
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bat
and arrival
must adoption of that port for departure
should be passed at this meeting, to enable them to ar-
range, ob-
tained. et dd.epYenodurupeloinrecthtoersdorceici-omacm'coemndmotdaattioan,
orberesby
range, concurrently with other companies or persons, to
afford further assistance to an amount not expeeding
13,000 L, either by advance upon debentures
re-
ferential stock of the dock company, or upon both aoectau.d-
ritics."
The CHAIRMAN proposed the adoption of the e
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Oxford,
b
saved to both companies, of one of
Mr. OLIVEIRA. thought that in it the
treated the Oxford, Worcester,whichanw Wolverhamptondhieexhp
He(n still
with too much severity and harshness,hoed
to see an arrangement made by
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ho was a director.
both lines; and, with that object, Wofrrc.e
„Ts tEe
sr
see them entering into
some amicable arrangement.
Mr. DE WINTON said there appeared to be a litigious
feeling in the directory.—(„ Bear, hear," and " No,
no.") Mr. Glyn had
told the London and North-
Western proprietors to keep reserve
arming themselves for the
fund, by way of
or coming contest with the Groat
Western. He (Mr. De Winton)concilia-
tion would be the rule did hope that
mat
with the directors of the Great
Western Company, whose northern policy be thought
had been erroneous,
and a complete failure. In conclu-
sion, he begged to ask whether what had been stated in
the newspapers, that an amicable arrangement had been
come to by the companies was true, and whether it
would put an end to the contest?
The CHAIRMAN was extremely sorry to say that no
arrangement had been come to with the London and
North-Western, and instanced the promotion of the
Tring line towards Oxford by the old London and Bir-
mingham—the promotion of the Birmingham and Oxford
by the Grand Junction, now a portion of the London and
North-Western—and other examples. as cases in which
the aggression had clearly not been upon the Great
Western, and asked whether they were to stand with their
hands behind their backs whilst repeated encroachments
were made upon their traffic? It had been impossible
for them to do otherwise than they had done. They
would have been guilty of the greatest disregard to the
interests "of the shareholders, if at last they had not
taken the course which they bad taken, if they had not
advanced upon the enemy, instead of letting him come
among them.—(llear, hear.) The Hon. Proprietor
seemed to be frightened of a contest. Ho begged of
him to have no such fears. Among the directors of
both companies were men of the highest character and,
standing, and certainly he could not believe that such
men would ever permit themselves to bo influenced by
mere impulsez, by the suggestions of recklessness or
paasio, or th.t they would pump) spy other course