The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-16 00:00:00

TILLEARD, SONS, & FREEMAN, 34, Old Jewry.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—
(LEWISHAM, CROYDON, and BROMLEY LINES.) Power
to South-Eastern Railway Company to make Railways through
Lewisham to Croydon and Bromley, and to alter the North Kent
Railway, and to Raise and Apply Capital for those Purposes—Power
to the London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway Company to Sub-
scribe and to Raise Capital or Apply Existing Capital to that Pur-
pose—Power to those Companies to make Arrangements as to
Traffic on Proposed or Existing Lines - Confirmation of Existing
Traffic Agreements between those Companies—Amendments of Acts.
—NOTICE is "HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is intended
to be made to PARLIAMENT in the next Session for an Act
to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to make and
maintain the Railways hereinafter described, with all proper Works
and conveniences connected with such Railways (that is to say):—
A Railway commencing by a junction with the London and
Greenwich Railway at or near the point where the London, Brigh-
ton, and South Coast Railway diverges therefrom, in the parish of
Saint Mary, Rotherhithe, in the county of Surrey, passing thence
through or into the several parishes or other places following, or
some of them (that is to say), Saint Mary's, Rotherhithe, and Saint
Paul's, Deptford, in the county of Surrey, Saint Paul's, Deptford,
Greenwich, Lewisham, and Beckenham, all in the county of Kent,
and Penge, St. Mary's, Battersea without, and Croydon, all in the
county of Surrey, and terminating by a junction with the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway at or near the point thereon
where the Croydon and Epsom Railway diverges therefrom.
And also a Railway commencing from and out of the said intended
Railway at or near the gas-works at Bell-green, in the parish of
Lewisham, in the county of Kent, passing thence from, in, through,
or into the several parishes or other places following, or some of them
—that is to say, Lewisham, Beckenham, and Bromley, all in the
county of Kent, and terminating at or near the turnpike road leading
from Bromley to Sevenoaks, near Mason's-hill, at or near the town
of Bromley, in the parish of Bromley, in the county of Kent.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take
power to alter and widen, for the purposes of, or in consequence of
the construction of, the first-mentioned intended Railway, such por-
tion as may be necessary of the North Kent Line of the South-
Eastern Railway in the parishes aforesaid, or some of them, and to
convert into an open cutting a tunnel on that Railway, in the parish
of Saint Paul, Deptford, in the county of Kent, which tunnel com-
mences at or near Lucas-street, and terminates at or near Francis-
street; and also to slop up, alter, or divert, whether temporarily or
permanently, all such turnpike and other roads, highways, railways,
tramways, aqueducts, canals, sewers, streams, and rivers within, or
adjoining the parishes, townships, and places aforesaid, as it may be
necessary to cross, divert, alter, or stop up for the purposes of the
said intended Railway and works.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take powers
for the purchase of lands and buildings, by compulsion or agree-
ment, for the purposes of the said intended Railways and works,
and to vary, repeal, or extineuish all existing rights or privi-
leges in any manner connected with such lands and buildings, or
which would in any manner impede or interfere with the con-
struction, maintenance, or use of the said intended Railways and
Works ; and to vary, repeal, or extinguish all existing rights or
Privileges in any manner connected with such lands and buildings,
or which would in any manner impede or interfere with the con-
struction, maintenance, or use of the said intended Railways and
works, and to confer, vary, and extinguish other rights and pri-
vileges.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to take powers for levy-
ing tolls, rates, and duties in respect of the use of the said in-
tended railways and works, and to grant exemptions from the payment
of such tolls, rates, and duties, and to alter or vary existing el
and duties.
And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections,
describing the direction, lines, or situation and levels of the said in-
tended Railways, altered Railway and Works, and the lands in or
through which the same are intended to be made, together with a book
of reference to such plans, and a copy of this Notice as published in
the " London Gazette," will, on or before the thirtieth day of Novem -
her, one thousand eight hundred and flfty-two, be deposited for public
inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Kent, at his
1 office in Maidstone, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of
Surrey, at his office in North-street, Lambeth ; and that, on or before
the same day, a copy of so much of said plans, sections, and book of
reference as relates to each of the parishes in or through which the said
Railways and Works are proposed to be made or altered, and also a
copy of this Notice as published in the " London Gazette, will be de-
posited with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his place of abode.
And notice is hereby also given, that, on or before the thirty-Rrst
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, printed
copies of the Bill relating to the objects mentioned in this Notice will
be deposited in the Private Bill-office of the House of Commons.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the South-
Eastern Railway
Company to apply any capital or funds now or hero -
after belonging to them, or under the
control of their Directors, to the
purposes aforesaid ; and also to raise additional capital for such
pur-
poses, by borrowing on mortgage or bond, or by the creation of new
shares in their undertaking, either with or without preference or
priority in the payment of interest or dividend, or by all or any ofthose
means ; and also to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway Company to subscribe or contribute towards the construction
of the said Railways and Works. and to apply to such purpose any
funds now or hereafter belonging to them, or under the control of their
Directors, or to raise additional capital for the purpose of providing the
whole or any part of the funds which they may require for any such
subscription, by borrowing on mortgage or bond, or by the creation of
new shares in their undertaking, either with or without preference or
priority in payment of interest or dividend, or by all or any of those
means.
And it is also proposed by the said intended lAct to enable the
South•Eastent Railway Company, and the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway Company, to make and enter into, and to ear*"
into effect. and from time to time to renew, alter, or vary, contracts
or arrangements with reference to the maintenance, regulation, and
uses of the intended
conduct, managementßall, and direction
tended Railways,cWtioonrkosf,
maned
tCramonvceunpoiennceths,e asidd
or any Part of the same, and the diTioiP and al,-

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY._
(CANTERBURY and WHITSTABLE RAILWAY PUR.
CHASE ARRANGEMENTS, STEAM-*OATS, &c.)—CONFIRMA-
TION of AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SOUTH-EASTERN
and CANTERBURY and WHITSTABLE RAILWAY COMPA-
NIES, for the PURCHASE of the CANTERBURY and WHITSTA-
BLE RAILWAY, and DISSOLUTION of CANTERBURY and
WHITSTABLE RAILWAY COMPANY.—POWER to PURCHASE
UNDERTAKING of, or GUARANTEE INTEREST on CAPITAL
of the SOUTII-EASTERN and CONTINENTAL STEAM-PACKET
COMPANY.—POWER to PURCHASE, HIRE, and USE STEAM-
VESSELS. POWER to APPLY: and RAISE , CAPITAL for
ALL the PURPOSES AFORESAID, and for GENERAL PUR-
POSES of SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—AMEND-
MENT of ACTS.—NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLI-
CATION is intended to be made to PARLIAMENT in the next
Session for an ACT to confirm and ratify an Agreement, bearing date
the fourteenth of October, 1844, and made between the South-Eastern
Railway Company and the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway
Company, whereby an option of purchasing the Canterbury
tatidt
Whitstable Railway (at present under lease to the South-Eastern
Railway Company) is given to that Company upon a certain 1, _
within a certain period, and upon certain terms and conditionsooa in
the said Agreement specified and set forth ; and also toc %,_ 11-Yand every other Agreement which may have been enteredreference '' be-
tweenco the said Companies or their Directors with
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purchase; and also to authorise the South-Easternaii-nd
whttstable
pany to purchase the undertaking of the Canterbury
said intended Act to
Railway Company. And it is proposed by the mi
of the Can-
provide for the dissolution and winding-up of ands
to alter, reneal,
terbury and Whitstable Railway CompasnL,
eofthe
powers granted
amend, ratify, re-enact, and enlarge all or some
with
respect such
eet to the pur-
chase the said Companies respectively for a i
• i Act of the Bth and 9th
provisions of at .
Company, and other the p Majesty, n i tituled, "An
years of the reign of her present
,y company to alter and ex-
Actchase and sale of the said Canterbury and Whitstable Railway
to enable the South-Eastern hulltontalte Whitstableranch herefrom to Deal,
nMargate Branch of the said
and
d and Railway, and for
tendst
South-Eastern
Canterbury,sterit
Ratl t,
3 Ramsgate,
and to purchase the Canterburyoa to enable the South-Eastern Railway
other purples ;"
nadaidispurchase, to levy tolls, rates, and duties
and Whitstable Railway ; and also to
upon the said
rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, and ex-
alter existinr
tolls, rates,
from the payment of tolls, rates,
the said intended Act, either to enable the
and duties, and
Company, afterc the
d extinguish other rights and privileges. .
And it is also proposed -,
Railway Company to purchase the undertaking, and the
South-Eastern
.the steam and other vessels and boats, and all the property
whole of
Company called
ttoinLunisfher,exveanr'yP,t a%
the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-Packet Company, and tc
and effects of every description, of the Joint-Stock
enable that Company tosell the same for a sum in gross, or to accept
in ilea of the shares in their capital, Preference or other Shares of
the South-Eastern Railway Company, and to authorise the creation
and issue of Preference or other Shares of the South-Eastern Railway
solution and winding-up of the affairs of the said Steam Company for that purpose, and, if necessary, to provid packet dis-
Com-
fixed rate of interest on the capital
Com-
pany, or to authorize and empower the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany to guarantee a certain
talAonfdthiteissai edso Stpeam proposed
yt Cthoemspaianayin Act to authorize and
Company.
which has been or may have been paid up on the shares in the capi-
tal
the South-Eastern lt4ilway company
tended
to contract with any