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THE METROPOLITAN GAS WORKS
SUPPLY MPANY.
(INCORPORATION of COMPANY ; POWERS to MANUFAC-
TURE GAS and SUPPLY the METROPOLITAN GAS COMPA-
NIES, to MAKE ARRANGEMENTS with those COMPANIES,
to take LAND for WORKS, and to CONSTRUCT WORKS.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That it is intended to apply to
Parliament in the next Session for an Act for all or some of the fol-
lowing purposes :
l. To Incorporate the Metropolitan Gas Works Supply Company,
provisionally registered.
2. To enable the Company to erect and maintain Gas Works on
the Northern side of the River Thames, near Devall's House, in the
parish of Woolwich, in the county of Kent.
3. To enable the Company to make, maintain, vary, extend, en-
large, and use gas mains, pipes, and other apparatus, the main line
thereof commencing at the Gas Works, passing along or across Bow-
creek, Limehouse-cut, Bow-common-lane, Regent's-canal, Iridge-
street, Bancroft-place, Mile-end-road, Globe-road, Green-street,
Cambridge-road, Hackney-road, Old-street-road, City-road, Pen-
tonville-hill, the New-road, Great Portland-street, Oxford-street,
Regent-street, Condait-street, Old Bond-street, Piccadilly, Grosve-
nor-place, Upper and Lower Eaton-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road,
Vauxhall Bridge, New Bridge-street, Upper Kennington-lane,
Vauxhall-road, Lower Kennington-lane, High-street, Lendon-road,
Blackfriars-road, Blackfriars-bridge, Bridge-street, William-street,
Water-lane, and the intermediate lands, or some of those places and
lands, and terminating at the City Gas Works, with the following
branches from such main line.

Ist. At Bow Common-lane to the Great Central Gas Consumers
Works. 2nd. At Bridge-street, Mile-end-road, through Bancroft-
place, Johnson-street, York-place, Rhodes Well-road, White Horse-
street, Brook-street, Back-road, and John-street, to the Commercial
Gas Stations. ;.•3d. At the junction of Hackney-road with Great
Cambridge-road, through Great Cambridge-street, Gloucester-street,
Haggerstone-lane, to the Imperial Gas Works, and the Independent
Gas Works 4th, At the junction of Old-street-road with Curtain-
road. through Worship-street and Curtain-road, to the Chatered Gas
Works. sth. At the junction of York-road with the City-road, through
Macclesfield-terrace, City-road, York-street, and Brick-lane, to the
Chartered Gas Works. 6th. At King's-cross, through Old St. Pan-
eras-road and Wharf-road, to the Imperial Gas Works. 7th. Near
Trinity Church, New-road, through Portland-street, New-road,
Chapel-street, Edgware-road, Harrow-road, Brindley-street,
and Kensall Road, to the Western Gas Works. Bth. At the junction
of Grosvenor-place with Grosvenor-street West, through Grosvenor-
street West, King's road East and West, Kensington Canal, and
Factory-lane, to the Imperial Gas Works. 9th. At Vauxhall Bridge-
road near Vincent-square, through Regent-street and Ilorseferry-
road to the Chartered Gas Works. 10th. At Vauxhall Bridge-road
near Bessborough-street, through Bessboro4h- street and place to
the Equitable Gas Works. 11th. Atlittlanction of New Bridge-
street with High-street, Vauxhall, through High-street to the Lon-
don Gas Works. 12th. At the junction of Devonshire-street with
Upper Kennington-lane, through Devonshire-terrace, to the Phoenix
Gas Station. 13th. Near the Elephant and Catsle, through New
Kent-road, Old Kent-road, and the Grand Surrey Canal, to the South
Metropolitan Gas Works. 14th. At the junction of Wellington-
street with Blackfriars-road, through Friar-street and Wellington-
street to the Phcenix Gas Works. 15th. At the junction of Holland-
street with Blackfriars-road through Holland-street and Bankside to
the Phcenix Gas Works.

4. To enable the company to carry on all the business of a Gas
Light and Coke Company except the supplying of gas directly for
private consumption, and for the purposes of their business, to build,
buy, provide, hold, and ass ships, steamers, and other vessels, and
to import coals.

5. To enable the company and the Victoria Dock Company
(London) to make contracts and arrangements for the use by the
company of the Victoria Docks, and to enable the company to make
and maintain works and conveniences for landing coals, and accom-
modating vessels bringing coals for the use of the company.
G. To enable the company to supply with gas the several gas com-
panies now or hereafter established within the City of London and
the Metropolitan Police district, or supplying gas within those limits,
7. To enable the company to make with those gas companies, or
any of them, arrangements in the nature of an amalgamation of their
interests, &c.

8. To authorise the company to guarantee to those gas companies,
or any of them, any dividend on their share, capital, or any interest
on their debts, or any other benefit mutually agreed on
9. To authorise those companies respectively to hold shares in the
capital of the company.

10. To authorise the nomination by those companies, or some of
them, of directors of the company.
_ _ _

11. To authorise the company to hold shares in the capital of
those companies respectively.
12. To authorise the nomination by the company, of directors in
those companies respectively.

13. To enable the company, and those companies, or any of
them, to make arrangements and contracts with respect to such
supply of gas.
14. To provide for the sanction by such of the companies as are
supplied with gas by the company, of the appointment and removal
of inspectors, of meters, and auditors of the company.
15. To provide for the discontinuance of the manufacture of gas by
companies supplied by the company.
16. To provide for the sale, lease, or other disposal by the com-
panies discontinuing the manufacture of gas of such lof their gas
works, lands, buildings, and plant as cease to be required.
17. To levy tolls, rates, and duties; alter existing tolls, rates, and
duties ; confer, vary, and extinguish exemptions from payment of
tolls, rates, and duties; and to confer, vary, and extinguish other
rights, and privileges.
18. To confer on the Home Secretary or the Board of Trade, or
some other public authority, powers of control with respect to the
execution of some of the powers of the act.
19. To incorporate with. the intended act all or parts of all or
some of the following acts:—, ' The Companies Clauses Consolidation
Act, 1845 ;" " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 ;" and
" The Gas Works Clauses Act, 1847."
20. To repeal or alter all or parts of all or some of the several
Acts of Parliament relating respectively to Bow Creek Limehoese
Cut, Grand Surrey Canal, Kensington Canal, Grand Junction
Canal, Regent's Canal, Paddington Canal, Vauxhall Bridge, Black-
friars Bridge, Harrow Road, City Road, Hackney Road, Commer-
cial Road, Fulham Road, Old Pancras Road, Old North Road, New
Cross Road, Surrey and Sussex Road, Metropolitan Roads, London,
Woolwich, and Blackwell Railway, Eastern Counties Railway,
North London Railway, Blackwell Railway, Victoria Docks
(London), River Thames, River Lee, Metropolitan Commissioners of
Sewers, and Coramiasionars of Sewers for the Havering levels, and
to the several streets, roads, and other highways above named, and
to all lands and houses to be taken or used for, or interfered with by
the works.

21. To confer on the company powers for the compulsory pur-
chase of lands and houses.

And Notice is Hereby Given, that on or before the 31st day of
December, 1853, printed copies of tho Bill for the intended Act will
be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons.

T. L. MARRIOTT,
Parliamentary Agent,
1, Lancaster-place, Strand.

LYMINGTON AND BROCKENSURST
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
INCORPORATION of COMPANY; POWERS to CONSTRUCT
RAILWAY and LANDING PLACE, with APPROACHES at
LYMINGTON, and. to agree with the LONDON and SOUTH
WESTERN RAILWAY, for WORKING, MANAGEMENT, and,
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A railway commencing at or near the Town Quay, in the borough
and parish of Lymington, in the county of Southampton, numbered
64, in the said parish, on the plans deposited as hereinafter mentioned,
pfporroaaenhaecst
and thence passing in, through, or into the several parishes extra-
parochial and other places of Lymington, Boldre, Brockenhurst, and
Rhinetield walk, in the New Forest, or some of them, all in the
county of Southampton, and terminating in the said parish of
Brockenhurst by a junction with the rails of the Southampton and
Dorchester branch of the London and South Western Railway, at a
point distant two furlongs or thereabouts, westward from the point
at which the said branch railway crosses the highway from Marlpit
Oak to Brockenhurst. - . _ _

A Landing Mee or Quay for the Landing and embarking of pas-
sengers, goods. animals, and other traffic, at or near the TerminUS
of the said Railway at the Town Quay he Lymington, and extending
over the said Town Quay and into and on the shore and bed of the
Lymington River to such extent as will be shewn on the plans, to
be deposited as hereinafter mentioned, with all proper and conve-
nient stairs and other works connected therewith, the whole of
which said landing place and works will be situate in the said parish
of Lymington, and on the bed and shore of the said river.
An approach or road commencing from and out of the street in
Lymington called Captain's Row, at a point about 70 yards south-
ward from the entrance of the King's Head Inn, and thence pro-
ceeding eastward to and terminating in Quay-street, opposite and
near to the said Town Quay, the whole of which said approach will
be situate within the said parish of Lymington.
And it is also intended by the said bill to take power to divert so
muck of the highway called Mill Lane in the parish of Lymington as
is situate between the road, in the said parish of Lymington, called
Bridge Road, and the north-eastern corner of a field belonging to
Miss Catharine Beckwith, No. 57 on the said deposited plans, and to
abandon and use for the purposes of the said railway so much of the
said highway called Mill Lane, as will be rendered unnecessary by
the formation of the intended new line of road.

And it is proposed by the said bill to take power to form a Junc-
tion with the Southampton and Dorchester Branch, of the London
and South Western Railway, in the said parish of Brockenhurst,
and otherwise to interfere with the said Railway and the works
thereof. Also to lay down tramways upon the Quay, at Ly-
mington, and to make communications between the same and the
said intended Railway.

And it is also intended by the said Bill to take powers to deviate,
in constructing the said proposed Railway, landing place, approaches,
and works, from the line or lines laid down on the plans thereof, to
be deposited as hereinafter mentioned, to such an extent as is, or
will be defined upon the said plans, and to alter and vary the situa-
tion or construction of the said landing place, and other works in
connexion therewith, to the extent, and within the limits defined on
the said plans.

And It is also intended by such bill to take powers for the com-
pulsory purchase of the lands and houses required for the purposes of
the said intended railway, landing place and works, and also for the
levying of tolls, rates, and duties, for or in respect of the use of the
said intended railway, landing place, and works, and to grant ex-
emptions from all or any of such tolls, rates, and duties; and to raise
money on the credit of the said tolls, rates, and duties, or otherwise
for the purposes of the said bill.
And it is also intended by the said bill to vary and alter, or reduce
and repeal the wharfage tolls, river dues, and other payments now
demanded by, or payable to the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of
the Borough of Lymington, for the use of the Town Quay, and the
cranes and landing places thereon, and in respect of the landing and
embarking of passengers, goods, and animals thereat, and in respect
of vessels entering in and anchoring or mooring or departing from the
said river, and to enable the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses
to take other tells, dues, and payments in lieu thereof, and to enter
into arrangements with the said intended company for altering, re-
ducing, or abolishing the same or any of them, in respect of all or
any traffic to or from the said intended railway and landing place, or
either of them.

And it is also intended by the said bill to take powers to embank
and enclose so much as may be required of the bed and shore of the
Lymington River opposite to and near to the Town Quay at Lyming-
ton, as may be necessary for the purpose of forming the proposed
landing place, wills all necessary stairs and conveniences con-
nected therewith, and •f enabling passengers, goods, animals,
and other traffic to be landed and embarked thereat at all states of
the tide.

And it is also intended by the said bill to take powers to cross
on the level several public highways, and to cross, alter, vary
stop up, or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all turnpike
and other roads, streets, causeways, slipways, highways, railways,
tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams, rivers, waters, mill dams,
water works, and other works, situate within or adjoining the afore-
said parishes, and extra parochial or other places, or any of
them, with which it may be necessary to interfere in the construc-
tion of the said intended railway, landing place, approaches, and
works, or any of them. , _ '

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And it is also intended by such bill to vary, repeal, or extinguish
all existing rights, privileges, or exemptions, in any manner con-
nected with the lands and houses, or other property, or works pro-
posed to be purchased, or taken, or interfered with, or wkich would
in any manner impede or interfere with the construction, mainte-
nance, or use of the said intended railway, landing place, approaches,
and works, or any of them, and to confer other rights, privileges, and
exemptions.

, And it is intended by the said bill for the purpose of carrying into
effect the said intended Railway, landing place, approaches, and
works, to create a Joint Stock or Capital, and to confer on the said
Company so to be incorporated, and to make applicable to the
objects of the said bill, all or some of the powers and provisions of
" The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," " The Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," " The Railways Clauses Consolida-
tion Act, 1845," "The Harbours, Docics, and Piers Clauses Act,
1847," mid all other necessary powers and provisions.
And Notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and sec-
tions of the said intended railway, landing place, approaches, and
works, and of the lands and houses proposed to be taken for the
purposes thereof, together with books of reference to such plans, con-
taining the names of the reputed owners, lessees, and occupiers of
such lands and houses, and a copy of this notice, as published in the
"London Gazette," will be deposited, on or before the thirtieth day
of November in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the
county of Southampton, at his office, in the city of Winchester ; and
that a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of refer-
ence as relates to each of the parishes or extra-parochial place,
in or through which the said intended railway, landing place, ap-
proaches. and works, are intended to be made, and also a copy of the
said Gazette Notice will be deposited, on or before the said thirtieth
day of November, with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his
residence ; and that a copy of so much of the said plans and sections
as relates to the extra-parochial place of Rhinefield Walk, together
with a book of reference to such plans, and a copy of this notice, as
published in the " London Gazette," will be deposited on or before
the said thirtieth day of November, with the parish clerk of the ad-
joining parish of Brockenhurst, at his usual place of abode.
And Notice is hereby also given, that, it is intended by the said
bill to take powers to enable the company to be thereby incorporated
or any other persons lawfully using the said intended railway, to
rus and pass over with their own engines and carriages, or with
the engines and carriages of such other persons using or passing
over the said intended railway, that portion of the line of the South-
ampton and Dorchester Branch of the London and South Western
Railway, which lies between the proposed point of junction there-
with, near the Brockenhurst station thereon, and the said station at
Brockenhurst; also powers to use the said station at Brockenhurst,
and the booking office, waiting rooms, water and watering places,
and other conveniences at or connected with the said station, or on
the line of or adjoining the said railway, so to be used or run over by
the said intended company, and to fix and determine the amount of
rate, toll, or charge which shall be paid by the said intended com-
pany, or such other persons for the use by them of the said railway
stations, booking office, waiting rooms, water and watering places,
works, and conveniences or any of them ; and also if necessary to
alter and limit the tolls, rates, and charges now authorised to be
levied and demanded by the London and South Western Railway
Company for the use of the said portion of their said railway station
booking offices, waiting rooms, water, watering places, warehouses,
works, and conveniences, or any of them, and to require or compel
the London and South-Western Railway Company upon such terms
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as shall be agreed upon, or as shall be determined by the Board of
Trade, or otherwise as Parliament shall direct, to book through an
forward all passengers, goods, animals, and other traffic and o thd
of
afford all necessary facilities for the passage and tratmlnssi
passengers, goods, animals, and other traffics over their said
other
to and from the said Intended railway, and to enable the railway
tended company to carry passengers, goods, animals, said in.
traffic on the railways of the said London and South-Western and
way Company, and of other companies and persons, estern Rail-
' tolls and rates in respect thereof.
to enable the said intended
and to Charge
And it is also intended by the sail blll
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comthereof, landing place, and ny to sell or leother t. an
works, ore transfr
a the said intended railway and
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powers of such company in c.onnection therewith, or relation
and all or any
thereto, to the London and South-Weste
to citable the said last-mentioned railway ttallway Company, and
rent the 'said intended railway, landi ,
and works, or any
eninpany to Purchase or
part thereof, and to exercise such ag-place,
of them, and ato contribute Rinds for, or towards theconstZion, maintenanclsoe,
and use of the said intended railway,landing-place, and works, and
to hold shares In the capital of the said company, and to apply their
*corporate funds, and if necessaryto raise additional capital by the
creation of new shares or stock, for all or any of the said purposes.
and to enable the London and South-Western Railway Company, and
the company so to be incorporated,
may think effect such agreements a to enter into, and carry into
working and use by the London and
CoSouth-Western respect
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Wetly, of the said 1
works, and the intended railway, landing-place, and
otherwise, of the regulation and management by such company or
traffic
upon, or over the said intended railway,
landing-place, and works, or any part thereof, and the payment, and
also the division, or apportionment, between the said two companite,
of the tolls, rates, and duties, received in respect of such traffic.
And it is also intended by the said bill to alter, amend, or repeal,
so far as may be necessary for the purposes thereof, all or some of
the Powers and provisions of the several local and personal Acts of
Parliament hereinafter mentioned, directly or indirectly relating to,
or affecting the London and South-Western Railway Company, or its
undertakings, that is to say :-4th and sth William 4, cap. 88 ; Ist
Tie., cap. 71; Ist and 2d Vic.' cap. 27 ; 2d and 3d Vic., cap, 28 ; 4th
and sth Vic., caps. 1 and 39; 7th and Bth Vic., caps. 5, 63, and 86;
Bth and 9th Vic., caps. 86, 88, 93, 107, 121. 165, 185, and 199 ; 9th
and 10th Vie., caps. 129, 131, 173, 174, 175, 252, 355, 370, and 391 ;
10th and 11 th Vic., caps. 57, 58, 88, 96, 97, 115, 145, 167, 243, 244,
249, 273, and 297 ; 11th and 12th Vic., caps. 75, 85, 87, 89, 125, and
157 ; 12th and 13th Vic., caps. 33 and 34 ; 13th and 14th Vic.,
24 ; 14th and 15th Vic., cap. 83, and "The London and South-West-
ern Railway (Basingstoke and Salisbury) Act, 1853 ;" and any other
Act or Acts of Parliament relating to or affecting the said London
and South-Western Railway Company, or their property and in-
terests. rty-first day
And Notice hereby given, that on or before the thi
bill will
of December next, printed copies of the said intended act or
be deposited in the Private Bill-office of the House of Commons.
Dated this twelfth day of November, 1853.
JAMES BROWN, I,9alingthn'
solicitortor the Bill.
DURNFORD & Co., 39, Parliament-street.
Parliamentary Agents.

DUBLIN and WICKLOW and DUBLIN and
KINGSTOWN RAILWAY COMPANIES.
be made
POWERS of PURCHASE, SALE, LEASE or AMALGAMATION,
and TRAFFIC or WORKING ARRANGEMENTS.
the Dub('
Notice is Hereby Given, That application is intended to
the Dublin -'
to Parliament in the nest session far an act to authorise
and Kingstown Railway Company to sell or let their Undertakig:
and all their rights, powers, and authorities, to
Wicklow Railway Company, and to enable that company to n and
rities, whether with reference enjoy
or rent the same or any part thereof, and to exercise Purchase
righ
ts. powers, privileges, or autho
the construction and completion of works, the levyingreference to
rates, or the purchase of lands by corn all
Allston of
tolls
or
vested or hereafter to be vested in the Dublin or otherwise, now
t is proposed by
way Company ; and, if necessary or Dublin and Kingstown Roll-
and Kingstown Railway Company, Yn"7"l, to dissolve the Dublin
Intended act to uaite and amalgamate, or I
r to authorise the union and
the said
amalgamation, from and after such period,
conditions as may have been and upon such terms and
upon, or as may be preaerine,, or may hereafter be agreed
Provided for by the said
intended act, of the Dublin . or
and Wicklow and the Dublin
and Kingstown Railway Companiand consolidation,or to authorise es ; and to provide for the union
solidation auto one undertaki agreements for the union and e0n-
.,,..'4Q _ all, of the several and of
companies. And it is ertakings
also Proposed by the said Intended actsuch, if

And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend,
extend, enlarge, or to repeal, all or some of the powers and provisions
of the several acts of Parliament, or some of them following, relat-
ing to the Dublin and Wicklow hallway Company (that is to say)—
the acts (local and personal) 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 208, 10 and II
Victoria, cap. 61, 11 and 12 Victoria, cap, 29, 14 and 15 Victoria,
cap. 108 ; and also of the following acts of Parliament relating to
the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company (that is to say)—local
and personal acts, 1 and 2 William IV., cap. 69; 4 and 5 William
IV., cap. 27, and 9 and 10 Victoria, cap 213.
And Notice is hereby further Given, That on or before the 31st
day of December next, printed copies of the bill for effecting the
objects specified in this notice will be deposited in the Private Bill-
office of the House of Commons.
Dated this 12th day of November, 1853.
W. 0. and W. HUNT,
3, Whitehall-place, London.

DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND
WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
(REVIVAL OF POWERS ; EXTENSION TO COLWICH ; ABAN -
DONMMENT ; POWER AS TO CANNOCK RAILWAY.)
IT is intended to apply to Parliament in the n eat session for a bill
to continue and extend and if necessary to revive the powers for the
taking of land and construction of works granted by the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Act, 1847, to the
company thereby incorporated, and to amend and extend the said
act in other respects; or, if necessary to repeal the same, and re-
enact certain of the provisions thereof:

the said act as at
described in The portion of the undertaking authorised by the said act, for which
infusnecoefsthsaerys,amtoerervallivwe
atyh,e powers, commences at the
or near to Cannock Mill, in the parish of Cannock, in Staffordshire;
passes through Cannock, Rugeley, Colton, Blithneld, Abbots Bromley.
Kingston or Kinson, and Uttoxeter, in the same county, or some of
them; and terminates in the said parish of Hugely, In or near a
plantation in Cannock Chase called Moore's Gorse: and it is in-
tended by the said bill to abandon the formation of so much of the
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railway authorised by the said act as was intended to be constructed
between the last described spot and the northern terminus of the
same railway, described in the said act as a junction with the North
Staffordshire Railway (Potteries line), near the Stoneyford Brook, in
the parish-ef Uttozeter,-in Staffordshire.
It is also intended by the said bill to enable the said company to
extend their railway from the spot hereinbefore described at or near
Moore's Gorse, and terminating by a junction or junctions with the
North Staffordshire Railway, at about a quarter of a mile westward
of the railway station at Colwich, and also, by a junction with the
London and North-Western Railway at or near the same station, the
said railway will pass through Rugeley, Cannock, Cannock Chase,
Cannock Wood, Great Haywood. Hayw •
Haywood, Hammerwick,
Norton Canes, Brereton, Farewell, Lo e
ngdon Bednal Acton, Acton
Trussel, Baswich or Berkswich, WolseleY'
Armitage, Handsacre
Armitage and Handsacre, Mavesyn Ridware,
Ridware, Pipe
Ridware, Hampatall Ridware, Bellarnore, Bishton, Colton, Stowe.
Colwich, and Stowe and Colwich intermixed,
all in the county of
Stafford.
Plans and sections showing the line and levels of the railways, f
the construction of which powers are intended to be revived or tof):
granted by the said bill, and showing, also, the lands for the
taking
of which powers will be sought; a published map showing the gone:
ral course of the said railways ; a book of reference to the plans,
giving the names of the owners, lessees, and occupiers of the said
lands; and a copy of this notice, will, before the Ist day of Decem-
ber next, be deposited for public inspection at the office of the Clerk
of the Peace for Staffordshire, at Stafford; and a copy of se much
of the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each
parish in which the works are intended to be constructed, will, to..
gether with a copy of this notice, be deposited for public inspection
with the clerk of that parish, at his dwelling ; and with respect to
extra-parochial places, those documents will be deposited with the
clerk of an adjoining parish:
It is also intended by the said bill to alter the tolls, rates, and
charges which the company are authorised by the said act to take;
and also to enable the company to levy tolls, rates, and charges, in
respect of their undertaking ; and to take lands and houses by com-
pulsion, for the purposes of the same undertaking :
It is also intended by the said bill to enable the Derbyshire, Staf-
fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Company to apply
their corporate funds to the construction of the extended railway
hereinbefore described. and also towards the construction and main-
tenance of an intended railway, to be called the Cannock Railway,
for the construction of which powers are about to be sought from
Parliament ; and for the purpose of such contribution, and also for
the purposes above described, the bill will enable the same company
to raise additional capital, by shares and by loan or by mortgage of
their undertaking; and to attach to those shares such priority of
dividend or guarantee of interest as the bill may define :
The bill will also enable the first-named company, and the com-
pany who may be authorized to construct, or who may for the time
being have co ntrol over, the Cannock Railway, to enter into mutual
agreements for the maintenance, use, and working of the same rail-
way and works by the first mentioned company, and for the inter-
change of traffic between the Cannock Railway and the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, and for the con-
veyance and accommodation over the Cannock Railway, and at the
stations thereof, of the traffic coming from or destined fbr the
undertaking of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire
Junction Railway Company, and of the carriages and waggons of
of the same company, and for the use by either company or their
leases or assigns, with their engines, carriages, and waggons, of the
railway stations and works of the other company, and with respect
to the collection and apportionment of (the tolls and charges in re-
spect of such traffic and of each use, conveyance, and accommo-
dation.

Printed copies of the bill will, on or before the 31st day of Decem-
ber next, be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of
Commons

Dated this 14th day of November. 1853.

THE CANNOCK RAILWAY.-
RAILWAY from WEDNESBURY to CANNOCK: POWERS
to GREAT WESTERN, and to DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORD-
SHIRE, and WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANIES.

Application is intended to be made to Parliament in the
next Session thereof, for a bill to incorporate a company,
and to enable that company to make and maintain a railway,
either of the broad or narrow gauge, or of both gauges
with all proper stations, sidings, approaches, works, and conve-
niences connected therewith, commencing at or near the town of
Wednesbury, by a junction with the authorised line of the Birming-
ham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway, near to the point where
that railway crosses the turnpike-road from Wednesbury to Dudley,
in the parish of Wednesbury, in the county of Stafford, and termina-
ting by a junction with the line authorised to be made by the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Act, 1847,
In the parish of Cannock, in the county of Stafford, at or near a cer-
tain field called Hill-field, near White-hill, and adjoining the high-
way leading from Cannock to Itugeley ; which proposed railway
will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within,
the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places
following, or some of them ; (that is to say) Cannock, Hednesford,
Hednesford with Leacroft, Hatherton, Huntington, Leacroft,
Churchbrldge, Cannock Wood, Cannock Chase, Wyrley, Great
Wyrley, Little Wyrley, Brewood, Aldridge, Great Barr, Wyrley Bask,
Landywood, Chealyn Hay, Saredon, Great and Little Saredon,
Shareahill, Hilton, Featherstone, Norton, Norton Canes, Norton-
under-Cannock, Brown Hills, Bloxwich, Great Bloxwich, Little
Bloxwich, Birch Hills, Rushall, Pe lsall, Walsall, Walsall
Foreign, Essington, Sneyd, Essington Wood, Bushbury, Old
Fallings, Bentley, Wednesfield, Wlllenhall, Batton, Wolver-
hampton, Darlaston, Delves, Bescot, fleck, Wednesbury, Sedgley,
Tipton, and Westbromwich, or some of them, all in the county of
Stafford :

' Also a railway commencing from and out of the before men-
tioned intended railway, in the parish of Wednesbury, at or near
the point where the turnpike road from Wednesbury to Bllston
crosses the private tramway from the Old Park Collieries and Iron
Works to the Walsall Level of the Birmingham Canal, and termi-
nating in the township of Bilston, in the parish of Wolverhampton
at or near the point where the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and
Dudley Railway crosses the turnpike roa
shidtofwnrotnGpso,spaenldOexaktrton.
Bilston; which intended railway will pass from, in, through, or into,
or be situate within, the severalparishes,
parochial or other places following, or some of them : (that is to
say) Wolverhampton, Bilaton, Sedgley, Tipton, Darlaston, Mosley.
Bradley, and Wednesbury, all in the county of Stafford :
Also, a railway commencing at or near the point lastly above de-
scribed, ialnirnitsehhoe townsfoftb edgoxhifieopyr
do
ifnWl3thoilracet°escontelurna, terminating
Stafford,pabtotyonar hallway.
in iwpnoiitithlhtetwhpehere the public carriage road from Prince's End to Coseley
Church crosses the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway;
which intended railway will
situate within, the several parishes,
or other places following, or Some of townships,
from, in, through, or into, or be
. (tb a
tan:
to extra-parochial
sa
hampton. Billiton
and Wednesbury, all in the
, Sedgley, Tipton, Darlas. to , )Wolver-
n Mosley, Bradley,
county of Stafford
The bill will take powers for the purchase of lands and buildings,
by eoMptusion, for the purposes of the intended railways and works,
and will vaor extinguish all existing rights or privileges connected
with the said lands and buildings, or which would interfere with the
construction, maintenance, or use of the said intended railways and
works, and to confer other rights and privileges ; it will also enable
the company to levy tolls, rates, and charges for and in respect of the
use of the said intended railways and works, and to grant exemptions
from such tolls, rates, and charges :
also a copy of
together with books of reference to such plans, andirtieth day of No-
Maps, plans, and sections of the said intended railways and works,
this notice, will be deposited on or before thfenrth
1 votuemnebeirnisntsataffnardt, ranthdthaenCoplery koroanf the
m plans, sections,
said plans,
at his
of the parishes in or through
and books of reference as relates to each works are proposed to be
which the said intended railways and m be deposited on or before
as may be
the same day with the parish clerk ofweach such parish, at his red-
Made, and also a copy of this notice. uPchea:fe
the
such Part
dence ; and as to so much or
f. the adjoining parish of Cannock :
of Cheslyn Hay
extra-parochial, with the clerk o
cstershire J ti R..
unc on ailway
and Wore
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
ontribute towards the intended un-
The bill will enable the Great Western Railway Company and
Company, or either of them, to c
be
tive corporate funds as shall
defined by the bill, and to raise a further sum of money by the crea-
tion and issue of new shares in their respective undertakings, and
arantee by mortgage or bond ; and to ae of interest, as the bill created
may
such priority of dividend,
or gu
ttach to th shares so to be
prescribe Great Western Railway i
Stadsie and Worcestershire
Com-
pany, and the Derbysany
or either of them, to complete the
Junction Railway Conn)
and works, or such parts of the
The bill will also enabblren, the
said intended railways
1, the company to be incorporated by the
within a specified time y
enable the Great Western Railway Company
same as the till shall define, if the same shall not be completed
bill ; and it will
into arrrangements with the intended
and also to enter
carriages, an ce and working of the said undertaking
maintenan
to use the said laintsclided undertaking with their own engines and
company for the
stern Railway Company, and for the conveyance
by the Great
and the collection and apportiotunent of
common to thetner
charges affecting all such traffic :
of traffic thereWoene;nainpadnflocrst:he conveyance and interchange of braille
the tolls and o
Junction Railway Company to grant the facilities de-
The bill will also require the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wen-
cestershire
bill for the conveyance and accommodation, along
in the
d at their stations, of the carriages and wag- gons,
and of the Panimals, andgoods, coming assengers,
ded Railways, and for the passage along their
for the inten
tsbcrelibredßailway,
an
railway
local
of the engines, carriages, sand waggons of the intended coui
for the time being working, or uSing, or kaPvainngy'uoier
toome of the
te intended railways :
will, if need be, amend and enlarge 8
aitd the Great
powers and provisions of the acts following, relating
control o f
Tt hhee
ba companyit;over,
i,
Western Railway Companylo:7(;tl6lat\Nl,smt.o
Isvay.)
5 and 6 Wns. IV., cap.
79 ; 1 Vict., caps. 91 and 92 (1837), and 24 Ca". 36, 38, 77, and
cap. 27 ; 3 Viet., cap. 47 ; 3 and 4 Yid. , and 26 (1838) ; 2 Viet.,
41; 5 Viet., seas. 2, cap. 28 ; 6 Viet.,, cap. 105 ; .1 and 5 Vict., cap.
8 Vict., cap. 68 ; 8 and 9 Vict., ca a. ca1). 10 ; 7 Viet., cap. 3 ; 7 and
and 191 ; 9 Vict., cap, 14 •
. 9 and I() 40, 53, 155, 156, 184, 188, 190,
240, 278, 313, 315, 235, 337, 338, Viet., caps. 166, 181, 236, 239,
60, 72, 76,91,101,109,149, l 5 369, and 402 ; 10 and 11 Viet., caps.
28, 59, 74, 77, 82, 95, 130, 13 4, 226, and 242 ; 11 and 12 Viet., caps.
6 and 7; 13 and 14 via 1, 133, 136, 158, and 159 13 Vict., caps.
, caps. 44, 98, and 110 ; 14 and 15 Viet.,
caps. 48 and 81; 15 . and 16 Vict., caps. 125, 133, 140, 145, 147, and
168 ; and 16 and 17 Vict,, caps. 121, 153, 175, and 212; it will also
amend and
extend certain of the provisions of " The Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Act, 1847 :"
011 Or before the 31stday of December next, printed copies of the
intended bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House
of COMMOIIS.
Dated the 10th day of November, 18b3.
W. O. & W. HUNT.
J. W. & G. WHATELEY.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON-11.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.

CLASS LECTURES.
Mr. J. H. PEPPER will commence TWO SEPARATE COURSES
of Twelve Lectures each on PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY in the
LABORATORY on MONDAY, December the sth, at Eleven o'clock
a.m., and on the Evening of the same day at a quarter to Nine.
Fee for each Course, including use of Apparatus, Three Guineas.
Also, TWO SEPARATE CLASSES on PHOTOGRAPHY, each
including Six Practical Lectures on the Paper and Glass Processes,
to commence December Ist, at Eleven o'clock In the Morning, and
in the Evenings at Eight o'clock.
Fee for each Course, ThrOo Guineas.
CLASSES on MATHEMATICS by Mr. SMALLEY (a Graduate In
First Class Mathematical honours of the University of Citinbrldge)
Commencing MONDAY, the 28th inst., at LIMA p.uw,
Terms, One GIIIROA per MeMth.