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LON DON, TUESDAY EVENING, N OVEMBER 22, 1853.

WHALLEY TESTIMONIAL—The Friends
of GEORGE HA 4i.MOND WHALLEY, Esq.,' being de-
sirous of commemorating the , Election of December last, propose
PRESENTING that Gentleman with some TESTIMONY or their
sense of obligatidn tor his arduous efforts to secure to the Electors of
this cit% the choice of their representatives in Parliament. They
also propose, on TUESDAY, the 6th of December, to have a PUBLIC
DINNER, when Mr. Whalley will be Invited, and the Presentation
made.—VV ILL VERGETTE, Chairman. The following gentle-
men in Peterborough are deputed-to receive subscriptions :
Mr. JAMES ALDGATE. Mr. JAMES ELGOR.
Mr. WILLIAM VERGETTE. Mr. JOHN MILLER.
Mr. R. II ELLIS.

Peterborough, November 16, 1

reference to the levying -f tolls, rates, and duties, or otherwise, now
or hereafter vested in or belongin.; to the y aii companies, and all
such other rights, powers, and privileges as may be necessary or
expedient, for more effectually carrying into effect any such contracts
or arrangements :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act or acts-to confirm
all or any arrangements, now or hereafter to be entered into.
between the said intended company and the South Devon Rail-
way Company, or on their behalf, with reference to all or any of
the purposes before mentioned:
And Notice is Hereby further Given that on or before the thirtieth
day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections allowing the
direction, lines, and levels of the said intended railways and
works, and plans and sections of the said road, together with
a book of reference to such plans, and a copy of this notice, as
published in the London Gazette, will be deposited with the
clerk of the peace for the county of Devon at his office, at the
Castle in Exeter in the said county; and that on or before the
same day a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book
of reference .as relates to each parish or extra-parochial place in or
through which th:: said Railways, road, and works, or any part
thereof, will be made or pass, together with a copy of this notice,
as published in the Londo a Gazette, will be deposited for public in-
spection, in the case of each such parish with the parish clink
thereof_ at his residence, and in the case of each such extra-
parochial place, with the rarish clerk of some parish immediately
adjoining thereto at his residence.
And Notice is hereby further Given that on or before the
thirty-first day of December in the present year, printed copies
of the intended bill or bills, wilt be deposited in the Private Bill-office
of the House of Commons :

And it is also proposed by the said intended act or acts, so far as
may be necessary for the purposes thereof, to alter, amend, extend,
vary, and enlarge or repeal the powers and provisions or some of the
powers and provisions of the several acts of Parliament following, or
some or one of them (that is to say) :
" The South Devon Railway Act, 1844," " The South Devon Rail-
way Act (Amendment and Branches) 1846," "The south Devon
Railway Act (Extensions and Amendment) 1847," and "The South
Devon Railway Act, 1851," and also an act passed in the 11th year
of the reign of his ➢iajesty King George the Third, intituled " An
Act for establishing a Floating Bridge over the 11 aruour of
Dartmouth, from or near to Lower Sand Quay Point to Old
Rock, in the county of Devon, and for building quays and landing
places, and fbr making roads and approaches thereto, with branches
therefrom."
Dated this third day of November, 1853.

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TOZER, WiIIDBORNE, iIACkENZIE,
& and TOZER, Telgnmottth, ~ , Stdiettots for
1/4.11. and W. TOOGOOD,
22, Parliament street, Witstmingt.r,- '
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CALEDONIAN RAILWA.Y.-
LESMAHAGOW BRANCHES; REVIVAL of POWERS;
RELINQUISHMENT of WORKS ; ARRANGEMENT of SHARE
and LOAN CAPITAL; and AMENDMENT of ACTS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to
be made to Parliament, in next session, for leave to bring in a bill
to empower the Caledonian Railway Company, or the Holders of
the Lesinaliagow Branches Sharesin that Company, to make, com-
plete, and maintain the following lines of Railway, now partly in
course of construction, or one or more of them, and all proper
works and conveniences connected therewith, viz.:—
First, A railway commencing by a junction with the Motherwell
Branch of the Clydesdale Junction Railway at a point in the pa-
rish of Hamilton near the village of Motherwell, -and terminating
at a point in the palish of Lesmahagow, on the lands of Bankend,
near Coal Burn Head; which railway, and works connected there-
with, will be situate in the parishes of Ilauniltun, Daiziet, Dalserf,
and Lesmahagow, all in the county of Lanark.

Secondly, A branch railway commencing by a junction with the
said intended railway at a point near Kaiminghill or Commonhill,
and terminating at a point near North Southfield, all ,ba the said
parish of Lesinahagow : and
Thirdly, A branch railway commencing by a junction with the said
intended railway at a point near Auclienheath colliery, and termi-
nating at a point on the lands of Nether Hall-hill, near Little Gill
Coal Pit, all in the said parish of Lesmahagow.
And Notice is further Given, that duplicate plans and sections,
describing the lines, situation, and levels of the saidintended works,
and the lands, houses, and other property through which the same
are intended to be made, and within the limits of deviation as defined
on the told plans, or which may be required to be taken for the
purpose of such work?, together with a book of reference to such
plan?, oontaining the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees
or reputed lessees and occupiers of such lands, houses and property,
and a published map to a scale of not less than half an inch to a
mile, with the lines of the proposed railways delineated thereon
so as to show their general course and direction, and a copy of this
notice as published in the London and Edinburgh Gazettes,
will, on or before the thirtieth day of November current, be
deposited for public inspection in the offices at Glasgow, Hamilton
and Lanark, respectively, of the principal Skeriff-Clerk of
the county of Lanark; and that a copy of so much of the said
plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each of the parishes
before specified, with a copy of this notice as published in the said
Gazettes, will, also on or before the thirtieth day of November cur-
rent, be deposited for public inspection with the schoolmaster, or, if
there be no schoolmaster, with the session clerk of each sach parish,
at the usual place of abode of each such schoolmaster or session
clerk. _ _

And it is further intended by the said bilit_to apply for powers to
deviate in the construction of the said several worts from the lines
and levels delineated on the plans and sections intended to be depo-
sited as aforesaid, to such an extent as will be defined on the said
plans, and provided by the said bill ; and also to cross, alter, divert
and stop up highways, turnpike and other roads, railways, bridges,
streets, paths, passages, rivers, canals, streams, sewers and water-
courses, so far as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose of
making, maintaining, and using the said several works or any of the
conveniences connected therewith.

And it is further intended by the said bill to confer powers for
the purchase, compulsorily or by agreement, of the lands, houses,
and other property required for the purposes aforesaid; and also
for the acquisition of such lands, houses, and other property by way
of lease or feu, and to empower all parties possessed thereof, or
holding inteir therein, to convey, feu or let the same to the
Caledonian • way Company, or the holders of the said Lesma•
hagow Branc a Shares, for the purposes of the said works, in con-
sideration of such price, feu duty, ground annual, or rent, as may
be agreed upon.
And it is further intended by the said bill to confer powers for
levying tolls, rates, and charges on and for the use of the said intended
works and the conveyance of traffic thereon, and to confer certain
exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and charges.
And it is further intended by the said bill to revive the powers and
extend the time granted by the Caledonian Railway (Motherwell
Branch Extension) Aet, 1847, the Caledonian Railway (Lesmaha-
gow Branches) Act, 1847, and the Caledonian Railway (Lesmaha-
gow Branches) Act, 1851, for the construction of sects portions of
the railway from the Motherwell Branch of the Clydesdale Junction
Railway near Motherwell, to the Auchenheath:Mineral Field near
Connellholm, described in :the first above-mentioned act, and of
the branch railway from a point near Forties, to a point on the
lands of Bankend, described in the second above-mentioned act, as
do not diner (beyond the statutory limits of deviation) in line or
levels from the said works as now proposed to be constructed, and, as
delineated on the plans and sections, to be deposited as aforesaid ;
and also to revive the powers and extend the time granted
by the said acts for the compulsory purchase of certain of the
lands, house's, and other property thereby authorised to be acquired
for the aforesaid portions of the said railway and branch railway;
and to relinquish the remaining portions of the said railway and
branch railway, or otherwise to relinquish the whole thereof.
And it is further intended by the said bill to alter the amount of
the share capital prescribed by the said last mentioned act, and to
confer upon a portion of such share capital certain preferences and
priorities over the remainder thereof, as also to authorise the bor-
rowing of a sum of money, and the application of such share capital
and borrowed money, or part thereof, to the execution of the works
before described.

And it is further intended by the said bill to empower the Caledo-
nian Railway Company, and the holders of the said Lesmahagow
Branches Shares, or their committee, to enter Into agreements with
each other in relation to the construction, maintenance,management,
and working of the said several works, and the tolls, rates, and charges
to be levied thereon, and on the said company's lines of rail-
way communicating therewith ; as also to empower the holders of
the said shares to enter into agreements with each other in relation
to their respective privileges and priorities ; and to confirm any
agreements which may have been entered into in relation to any of
the purposes aforesaid.
And it is further intended by the said bill to vary or extinguish
an existing rights and privileges which may in any manner im-
pede or interfere with the objects aforesaid, or any of them, and
to confer other rights and privileges.
And for these and other purposes it is intended by the said bi'l
to amend the said several acts, and to extend certain of the powers
and provisions thereof to the said bill, and also so far as necessary
to amend the Caledonian Railway Act 1845, and the several acts
relating to the Caledonian Railway Company. pass." respectively
in the ninth and tenth, the tenth, the tenth and eleventh, the eleventh
and twelfth, the twelfth and thirteenth, the fourteenth and fif-
teenth, and the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of her
present Majesty.
And notice is further given, that copies of the said bill, as proposed
to be introduced into Parliament, will be deposited in the Private
Bill-office of the House of' Commons, on or before the thirty-first day
of December next.

JOHN MARR, Lanark.
GRAHAME. WEEMS Sr GRAHAME,

Westminster.

9th November, 1843.