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London, England, 1853-09-01 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1853.

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pHE GOVERNING CLASSES : A SERIES of
A. PORTRAITS will be commenced in the " LEADER" Newspaper
of SATURDAY next, Dept. 3, and to be continued weekly.—No. 180.—
Price 6d.
The " LEADER" is published every Saturday, in time for the
early morning malls, and sold by news agents in all parts of Eng-
land, or may be hid direct from the publisher. Terms of Subscrip-
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orders should be made payable to Mr. ALFRED C. GALLOWAY, at the
office, 7, Wellington-street, Strand.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

• calls should be allowed interest on them, and those not
paying up calls should be charged interest for not doing
so, and individuals are more likely to exert themselves
to pay up their calls when they have a decided interest
in doing so than they otherwise would. (Hear.) There
is one other point to which I wish to direct your atten-
tion. We are offered to have the electric telegraph laid
down even before the line is completed, and which we
should ultimately require. The Company would let us
have the use of it at a very moderate sum—at least not
more than that paid by the South Wales Company,
which is very small indeed ; therefore I think it is our
interest to give the company all the facility for so doing
as far as we have the power. (Hear.) Since we last
met, the West Cornwall Railway Company have obtained
a bill to carry their line on to the river into the town of
Truro. We may have the use of that portion of the
line, so far as we can make it suitable to ourselves, by
making a fair compensation for it ; and if we do not use
it we shall not pay for it ; if we do, we shall pay only
in proportion to the use we make of it. In reference
toithe opening a Vt. Austell, before finishing the Lis-
keard portion of the line, I am not in a position to say
whether it will be for your interest to open the one
before the other. As we get on with the works, we shall
consider whether your interest will be best served by
opening to St. Austell, first, or not. These openings at
short distances are attended with very great expense,
more than a common observer might at first perceive.
We have advertised for tenders for letting the works
from Saltash to Liskeard. As yet we have had no report;
when we have it and the tenders are received, we shall
be enabled to judge as to the best mode of carrying out
that portion of the line. We have made only one call
since we last met, and lookingat the state of our finances,
no licrther cat wilne—requii-ed till the-pi-Ogress of the
works are further advanced. At present we do not
want it. We have found latterly that we have • been '
enabled to increase our labour. The other day we
could not get men on any, terms. Gentlemen, I have
only one remark more, which is, that your fellow-
residents of Cornwall, with /ourselves, may rely on our
best attention being given to your interest in complet-
ing the line, and the directors have no reason to alter
their opinion that they were in a position fully and
fairly to carry out this great undertaking. If any share-
holder present wished to make any remark, the Board
would be glad to receive it ; before doing which, how-
ever, he would move that the report be received,
adopted, printed, and circulated among the share-
holders.
R. PEARCE, Esq., of Penzance, heartily seconded the
resolution, as he was glad to hear so satisfactory and
gratifying a report of their proceedings and of the pro-
gress of the line, and also that so small a portion of the
line remained to be let, which was a proof that the
directors had been most usefully engaged since, the last
meeting. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN said there was one remark which he
had omitted to make, which was that the charge for en-
gineering expenses included everything to the 31st of
March last. (Cheers.) The chairman then put the re-
solution to the meeting, which was unanimously adopted.
No gentleman rising to address the meeting,
The SECRETARY said there was no further business to
present to the shareholders.

Mr. ELLIS observed that he could not allow the meet-
ing to terminate without thanking the chairman and
directors for their constant attention to their duties, and
he hoped that all their anticipations would be fully rea-

used. On behalf of himself and shareholders of Fal-
mouth he would assure the chairman and directors that
if they could assist them in facilitating the progress of
the railway, they should be most happy to do so. He
would therefore move a vote of thanks to the chairman
and board for their energy, skill, and talent in carrying
on the various works of the Cornwall Railway.
Mr. STOKES believing that the county at large was
satisfied with what had been done by the board, and that
there was a growing feeling of confidence that the line
would be successful, he would second the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN said it was very flattering for them to
meet the shareholders with such good feeling every half-
year. He could assure them that it was a very great in-
ducement for them to continue their attention and zeal
in promoting the successful issue of this undertaking.
It was very true that their gratitude was the only
payment they received, but that was duly and amply
appreciated by himself and the board. The good-will
and confidence shown by the shareholders towards them
gave them pleasure in attending to their interests ;
and if they succeeded in carrying out the line, as they
hoped they should, successfully, no undertaking he ever
took in hand would give him so great pleasure as the
carrying out of this railway. In all countries he had
been in he had witnessed the difference railway commu-
nication had made in promoting the wealth of those
places, contrasted with other places where no railway
existed. He had recently returned from France, and in
the interior of that country he had himself observed the
advarrtsges accruipg from railway communication. In
Burgundy, a place six hundred miles from any water
communication, the wine was all brought and forwarded
by railway, and the effect of only the partial manner in
which railways ran through that part of the country,
was, that it had increased the rents of the vineyards, and
value of the wine, 100 per cent. But it did not only ex-
tend to wine, but to corn and tobacco, which merchan-
dise had improved to the same extent, and which results
were the same in every country. He had never been in
the United States, but those who had, had told him that
the development of trade, and subsequently of the wealth
of the place, had been very much increased by rail-
way communication— opening as it were a new world.
(Cheers.) Although England was not so large as the
countries to which he had referred, but as it was opened
to the rest of the world, and in proportion as it afforded
railway communication, he had no doubt but that the
produce of Cornwall would increase, and that they should
also find strangers flocking to their county for the bene-
fit of their health, the temperature being so much more
mild than that of any other part of England. They would
also find great advantages accruing to the landed inte-
rests on opening the railway in Cornwall, as it would
open the Plymouth, Exeter, and other markets to them
for their corn and cattle. He would simply add that
he was quite sure that whenever their railway was
opened, it would increase the traffic beyond calculation,
and consequently the interests generally of the county.
T. J. ROBARTES, Esq., M.P., could not, as one of the
directors, consider himself entitled to their thanks, as
he had not been able to attend the meetings of the board,
for a year or two past, as his friends had found him
work to do in the Commons House of Parliament. He
was glad, however, to hear the very flattering report of
the progress of the line, and so far as his observation
went, especially in his own neighbourhood, the line was
being carried out most energetically. He concurred in
the observations of their respected chairman, that where-
ever railway communication had been secured, great ad-
vantages had resulted to those engaged in trade and
agriculture, and more especially to the owners of the
soil. He considered himself, therefore, not only bound
as a Cornishman to promote a railway, but as a land-
owner, it was the best thing he could do for his own in-
terest. (Cheers.)

W. M. TWEEDY, Esq. (deputy-chairman), observed
that though Mr. Robartes had disclaimed being entitled
to the thanks of the meeting, because he had not as-
sisted them at their board meetings, yet he had assisted
them materially as a landowner, and representing as he
did a large interest in the county, the support he had
tendered them from the first had been of invaluable im-
portance to their interests, and he had not only met them
as regarded his own land in the most liberal manner,
but his influence on other landowners had been very
great, so that it would be seen that Mr. Robartes had
not only aided them directly but indirectly also, and
hence the company had derived great advantages by
his countenance and support in that way. He hoped
when Parliament was not open they should have his
presence and advice, which were always valuable, but
whether he attended the board or not, he was always
of essential service to them, and their thanks was as
equally due to him as if he had taken a more active
part among them.

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The meeting, which was a most unanimous one
throughout, then separated, apparently highly gratified
with the proceedings.

NORTH METROPOLITAN.

The first ordinary meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the offices, No. 47, Parliament-street, Mr.
W. Malins in the chair.
The report stated that the act had been obtained under
the most satisfactory arrangements with the parochial
and other authorities, by which all opposition in Parlia-
ment had been obviated, the preliminary expenses up to
the present time did not exceed 3,0001. The line would
pass under the New-road, from the Edgeware-road to
King'scross, a length of 2f miles, which would admit
of easy extension in the same manner, both to the west
and into the city ; but as the course of those extensions
might be affected by the arrangement to b e made with
the Great Western Company, and by a l.ne, projected
by the City Terminus Company, from King s-cross to
the Post-office, and from King's-cross to the West India
Dock Junction, now the North London line, in con-
tinuation of this company's line, the directors had
deemed it inexpedient to obtain from Parliament in the
last session powers to construct more than the line now
sanctioned. The directors, however, were happy to
inform the shareholders that the arrangements with the
Great Western Company were favourably progressing,
and that they anticipated no obstacle to the extension
to the Great Western Railway station. In the event
of the City Terminus Company not proceeding with its
project next session this company
.would apply for an
extension to a convenient terminus in the city of Lon-
don. It was intended to lay down two lines of railway
in a continuous archway under the road, of ample dimen-
sions, which would be constructed by excavating the
road from the surface at convenient intervals and relay-
ing it as the work progressed. Proper provisions would
at the same time be made for the sewage and gas and
water services. The directors announced that they had
entered into a contract with Messrs. Tredwell and Co.,
the very responsible contractors, for the construction of
the entire line, including all the requisite provisions for
sewage and gas and water supply, on terms which would
insure the line beinglipeedi▪ ly completed within the limits
of the company's capital (300,0001.) The cost of the line
per mile, though traversing the midst of London, would
not exceed half that of any of the railways hitherto made
through the suburbs. It was in contemplation to estab-
lish stations at the princip•
al streets crossing the New-