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although the weather is cold in their native habitats, the
great amount of sunlight elaborates their juices and per-
fects their wood, so that any amount of cold can be en-
dured without injury. The Cembra pine would grow in
the most exposed places ; its wood is not equal to many
others. Riga deals are made of a great variety of pines,
and the common Scotch fir (Pinus sylvestris rigensis)."
Nothing but a judicious examination of the soil and sub
soil, guided by experience, could detei aline the kind of
British trees best adapted for particular soils or situations.
All the trees will flourish in the lower valleys : in South
Derbyshire there are magnificent specimens of the oak,
the elm, and sycamore ; but the land is too valuable to
grow timber except for ornamental purposes."

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

EAST ANGLIAN.

A special meeting of the holders of original shares in
this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern,
to consider a bill now before Parliament to authorize
the company to make an extension line to the quays at
Lynn, and to regulate the capital of the company ;
Mr. H. Bruce in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said, that the meeting was convened,
in compliance with the standing orders of the House of
Lords, to consider a bill for enabling the company to
construct an extension line to the quays and harbour of
Lynn, with a view to increase the traffic and accomo-
date the merchants of Lynn. At present they had no
place for ships to discharge their cargoes convenient to
the railway, and the result was, that vessels were fre-
quently delayed three or four days, and some of them
had to discharge their cargoes into lighters, and then
they had to be conveyed to the railway. They now car-
' ried on their traffic at a great disadvantage, in conse-
quence of the station being so far from the warehouses.
The proposed extension line would pass along by the
storehouses, so that the goods, &c., could be delivered
to the parties from the railway, instead of being carted
from the railway to the storehouses. In some cases
farmers found it less expensive to cart their produce the
whole way to the quays at Lynn than to send it by the
railway, and then afterwards to convey it from the rail-
way to the'stores, but this disadvantage would be ob-
viated by the proposed extension line. They would
also have a new traffic from steamers and other vessels
in consequence of the facilities they would be enabled
to afford the shipping at Lynn. The low price of
wages and food for horses had also enabled the boats
to compete with the railway, but the late rise in these
would give the advantage to the railway. Agricultural
affairs were now far more cheering than for years
past, and on the whole the prospects of the railway were
better now than at any former time. The clause in the
act of 1852 for enabling the East Anglian and Eastern
Counties Company to enter into a lease or traffic ar-
rangements was now in operation, as the Norfolk Com-
pany had not exercised their option during the twelve
months ending the 17th of June last of preventing
them. There was nothing now to prevent the East
Anglian Railway being leased to the Eastern Counties
Company. All the debts of the company, had been set-
tled, and the amount of their borrowed money was
small, as compared with the extent of their undertaking.
Mr. BOND, the secretary, then read the heads of the
bill, authorising the company to make a railway at
King's Lynn, at a cost of 18,000/., and specifying that
the works should be completed in three years from the
passing of the act. With regard to the capital of the
company, it was fixed by the bill at 1,600,0001. The
directors were authorised to issue ordinary stock in the
company to the holders of the Class B and C preference
shares, to the nominal amount of 269,2061. in full satis-
faction of all interest due on those preference shares up
to the 31st of December, 1835 ; after which time, the
net revenue of the company to be appropriated half-
yearly
in the following order :—First, in the payment
of interest on mortgage and debentures ; 2d, on calls
paid in advance ; 3d, dividend to class A shareholders ;
4th, dividend to class B shareholders sth, to Class C
shareholders ; and 6th, the surplus to be paid by way of
dividend on the ordinary stock of the company. There
were permissive powers in the bill to enable the holders
of 6 per cent. and 7 per cent, preference shares to accept
a lower rate of interest than that authorised by former
acts, the consent of four-fifths of each class of share-
holders represented at a meeting specially convened for
the purpose being requisite to enable the permissive
arrangements between the ordinary and preference
shareholders to be carried into effect.

On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. L.
SIMPSON, a resolution approving of the bill was carried
unanimously, as was 5130 a resolution authorising the
conversion of the 6 per cent. and 7 per cent, shares into
a 6 per cent. and 7 per cent. stock, in order to save
expense.

The CHAIRMAN then announced that a meeting of the
7 per cent. preference shareholders would be held at 2
o'clock, and of the 6 per cent. shareholders at 3 o'clock,
to consider the bill which the ordinary shareholders had
approved of at the present meeting.
The special meeting of the 7 per cent. preference
shareholders was held at the appointed time ; Mr. Bruce
in the chair. A discussion ensued, in the course of
which it was stated that the present amount of ordinary
shares was 764,4001., and to which was proposed to be
added a nominal amount of 269,206/.,in order to satisfy
the claims of the preference shareholders for interest, up
to the 31st of December, 1853, and from which time no

further arrears are to accrue ; the amount of A stock is
375,2501., of B stock 120,0001., and of C stock 70 873/ •
•
total, 1,600,0001.
After somelopposition to the proposed outlay at Lynn
from Mr. Kettrick, and other shareholders, a resolution
approving of the bill was carried unanimously.
At 3 o'clock the special meeting of the 6 per cent.
preference shareholders was held ; Mr. Bruce in the
chair. Some discussion ensued, in the course of which
Mr. Maclaurin warned the directors against placing the
property of the company in the clutches of the corpora-
tion of Lynn, and recommended them, before laying out
any money on the proposed extension, to ascertain
whether the corporation could lay any further claim upon
the company, and whether they would be disposed to re-
duce their present exorbitant tolls in consideration of the
company's proposed outlay, and of bringing increased
traffic to Lynn.

The CHAIRMAN said, he believed there was every dis-
position on the part of the corporation to meet the com-
pany on liberal terms.

A. resolution approving of the bill was carried unani-
mously, and the meeting separated.

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES ON RAIL-

WAY BILLS.

TYNEMOUTH DOCKS, AND MORPETH AND SHIELDS
DIRECT.—Mr. Evans reported from the committee on
this bill, that they had examined the allegations contained
in the preamble of the bill, but the same had not been
proved to their satisfaction.
SOUTH WALES (POWER TO PURCHASE, &c.).—Lord
J. Manners reported from the committee, that by the
bill as originally introduced, it was proposed to authorise
a lease or purchase by the South Wales Railway Com-
pany of the undertakings of the Llynvi Valley Railway
Company and Llanelly Railway and Dock Company, or
working arrangements between those companies, as well
as to grant further powers in reference to leasing and
selling the undertaking of the South Wales Railway
Company to the Great Western Railway Company, and
to authorise working arrangements between those com-
panies ; but the bill, as submitted to the committee for
their consideration, and as passed by them, contained
no provisions whatever in reference to the Llynvi Valley
Railway Company, or the Llanelly Railway and Dock
Company, and the further powers of leasing and sale by
the South Wales Railway Company to the Great West-
ern Railway Company were limited to the works to be
executed, or for the execution of which further time may
be granted by acts of the present session.
CHARD.—Viscount Jocelyn reported from the com-
mittee, that the works authorised by the bill will not
involve any further outlay of capital than the company
have already power to raise. The length of the proposed
new line is two miles, three furlongs, and 8.50 chains ;
and it will be constructed on a gauge of seven feet. The
steepest gradient is 1 in 100, and the smallest radius is
a curve of 30 chains. The estimated cost of the railway
is 25,0001., and the quantity of land required 181 acres.
Mr. P. Bruff was the engineer examined in support of
the bill. The committee were satisfied of the fitness in
an engineering point of view of the proposed railway,
and they had inserted in the bill the necessary provisions
for insuring the completion of the line.
KILKENNY AND GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN.—
Yesterday the select committee of the House of Lords,
the Earl of Derby in the chair, declared that the preamble
of the bill for constructing this proposed line was " not
proved to their satisfrction, and that the committee had
arrived at this decision solely in consideration of the
financial position of the company, but the committee
considered the extension of railway communication in a
north-western direction from Waterford to Kilkenny in
itself highly desirable."

EAST KENT.--The committee of the House of Lords
on this company's bill, the Earl of Verulam in the chair,
have declared the preamble proved, inserting clauses to
to the effect that the South-Eastern Railway Company
shall make a station at Strood, to suit both their own
and the East Kent line, and that if the South-Eastern
Company make the portion of the line between the
Medway and the tunnel, the East Kent Company need
not do so.

SOUTH-EASTERN.—Yesterday the same select com-
mittee aiso passed this company's bill for a line between
Strood and Maidstone, and for dissolving the Canterbury
and Whitstable Railway.