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LON DON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, N 0 VEMBER 16, 1853.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—(CREWE to SHREWSBURY.)
(EXTENSION of LINE and ALTERATION of LEVELS; USE
of SHREWSBURY and HEREFORD RAILWAY; JOINT
STATION at SHREWSBURY; AMENDMENT of ACTS).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That anplication is intended to
be made to Parliament in the next session for an Act to enable the
London and North Western Railway Company to make and main-
tain a Railway, with all proper stations, works, and conveniences
connected therewith, in extension of the railway from Crewe to
hrewsbury, by "The Lon. on and North We,. tern (Crewe and
Shrewsbury Extension, &c.) Act. 1853," a,,thorised to be made. Fitch
extension to commence at the terminus of such branch railway, in
the tiarii=h of Hole Cross and St. Giles in Shrewsbury, and passing
thence front, in, throttat, or into the several parishes, townships,
extra•parochial, or other places of St. Mary Shrewsbury, St. Julian
Shrewshur), Coieham, Abbey Foregata Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and
'••t. Giles; Shrewsbury, Stone Ward without Shrewsbury, borough of
Sh rem!) try, li hen ies of Shrew, bury, hundred of Si trevrs,Ary, torm•
ing a Junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Ralw ty in the
parish of St. Julian IThrewsbury, near to the engine-shed recently
_ _ . .

chapters 80, 82, 152, 182, 192, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 259, 261,
262, 269, 300, 309, 322, 323, 324, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, 380, and
396; 10;11 and 11th Vic., chapters 73, 107, 114, 118, 120, 121, 132,
139, 159, 161, 178, 188, 298, 236. 270, 278, and 294: 11th and 12th
chapters, 58, 60, and 130; 12th and 13th Vic., chapter 74; 13th
and 14th Vic., chapter 36 ; 14th Vic., chapter 28 ; 14th and 15th Vic.,
chapter 94 ; 15th Vic., chapters 98 an 1 105 and 16th and 17th Vic.,
chapters 97, 110, 157, 160, 161, 205, 216, and 222; and also of the
follow mg Acts of Parliament relating to the Midland Railway Com-
pany t;that is to say): lo.•al anti personal acts, 7th and Bth Vic.,
chaptt irs 18 and 59 ; Bt.l and 9 h V,e , chapters 38, 49, 56, 90, and
181 ; 9th and 10th Vlc.:chapt-rs 51, 102, 156, 157, 163,203, 243, 254,
255, 2 i 2, 311, 311, 326, and 340; 10th and 11th Vic., chapters 122,
135, 1 5.4 191, 214, 215, and 270; 11.11 and 12th Vic., chapters 21. 88,
and 131 ; 14th ant 15th V.e., chapters h 7, 88, and 113 ; 15th Vic.,
chapter 98 ; 16th Vic., chapter 33 ; and 16th and .7th Vic., chapter
108.

And Notice is hereby further uiven, that on or before the thirty-
first d ay of December next, printed copies of the bill for effecting
the o,lects specified in th s no ice, will ba deposited in the Private
Bill-of lice of the House of Commons.
Dattid this 11th day of November, 1853.
BERRIDGE, MACAULAY, and MORRIS,
Leicester.
Solicitors.

erected on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, and terminating
On the eastern side of the last mentioned railway In a field bel
to the Reverend Edward Price Owen, and occupied by Edward Par-
ker, in the parish of Saint Julian Shrewsbury, all in the county of
Salop; together with a spur or onnecting line between the said in-
.

S. CARTER,
SWIFT and WAGSTAFF, kso
32, Great George-street,
Westaain.ster.

tended railway and the railway belonging jointly to the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham Railway Company and the Shropshire Union
Railways and Canal Company, the whole of which spur or connect-
Ina line will be situate in the Abbey Foregate in the said parish of
Holy Cross and Saint Giles Shrewsbury

And power will be taken by the said intended act to enable the
London and North Western Rail,ay Company to alter the levels of
so mach of the said branch railway from Crewe to Shrewsbury as

•
LYMINGTON AND BROOKENHURST
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
ZdAINTENA.NCE, and to enable that COMPA NY to SUBSCRIB E
and RAISE CAPI CAL ; POWERS to USE part of the SOUTH.
A Aft P TON and DOIRC HESTER BRANC H RAILWAY; ALTERA-
TION of Wi4ARFAGE, TOLLS, and RIVE ft iDUES, PAYABLE
to the CORPORA rioN of LYMINGTON, and other PURPOSES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for an act
to incortiorate a company, an' to give such company power to
make and maintain the railway and landing place and approaches
hereinafter mentioned, with all necessary, and pr,fper works, and
conveniences connected therewith, that is to say :
A railwarcommencing at or near. the Town Quay, in the borough
and parish of Lymin gton, in the county of Southampton, numbered
64, in the said parish., on the plans deposited as hereinafter mentioned,
and thence passing in, through, or into the several parishes extra-
parochial and other places of Lymington, Boldre, Brockenhurst, and
Rhinefleld 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 hii,hway from Marlpit
Oak to Brockenhurst.
A Landing Place 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 in 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 ahewn 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 Kitv'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
much 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 c orner of a field belonging to
Mis 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 constru, tion of the said landing place, and other works in
connexion therewith, to the extent, and within the limits defined on
the said plans.

lies between the property numbered 21 on the plans referred to in
the said act authorising the construction of the said branch railway
in the parish of Saint Julian Shrewsbury and the said terminus of
the said branch railway in the parish of Holy Cross and Saint Giles
in Shrewsbury aforesaid, which portion of railway, the levels whereof
are so proposed to be altered, will pass in, through, and into the
several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places of Dyther-
ington, Saint Julian Shrewsbury, Saint Mary Shrewsbury, Castle
Foregate Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and taint Giles Shrewsbury,
Abbey •Foregate Shrewsbury, and Saint Michael Shrewsbury, or
some of them :

And it is, proposed by the said intended Act to stop up, alter, or
divert whether temporarily or permanently all such turnpike roads,
parish roads, footways, streets, and other highways, rivers, streams,
brooks,' ewers pipes, canals, reservoirs, navigations, waters,' and
watercourses, bridges, railways, or tramroads within or adjoining the
parishes, townships, extra-parochial and other places aforesaid, or
some of them, which it may be necessary to stop up, alter, or divert
for ,the several purposes aforesaid, or some of them :
And it is proposed by the said Intended act to authorise the Lon-
don and North Western Railway Company, the Shrewsbury and Here-
ford Railway Company, and the Severn Valley Railway Company, or
any two of them, to enter into contracts or agreements for the joint
construction, maintenance, and use of a station, with suitable ap-
proaches, works, and conveniences, in the townships and parishes of
-aint Julian Shrewsbury, Coleham, the Abbey Foregate Shrews-
bury, and Holy Cross and Saint Giles Shrewsbury, or some of them.
And it is also intended by the said act to enable the London and
North Western Railway Company an] the Shrewsbury and Here-
fo-d Railway Company to enter into contracts and arrangements
for facilitating the transmission of traffic and the passage of engines
and carriages of the London and North Western Railway Company

over and upon any portion of the said Shrewsbury and Hereford
Railway upon payment of such tolls, rates, and charges, or
.uch sum or sums of money, either annually or in gross, and in
such manner and upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed
upon between the said companies, or as shall be prescribed or pro-
vided for by the said intended act :
And Notice is hereby further given, That it is intended by the said
act to enable the London and North-Western Railway Company to
purchase lands and buildings by compulsion or agreement for the
purposes of the said intended railway and works, or any of them,
and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges in any
manner connected with the lands and houses proposed to be taken
fur the purposes aforesaid, and also to levy tolls, rates, and ditties
upon or in respect of the said railways and works, and to alter ex-
sting tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish ea-
mptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other
rights and privileges :
And it is also propo ed, in and by the said act, to authorise the

London and North Western Railway Company to apply their cor-
porate funds to all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and to raise a
further sum of money, either by shares or by mortgage, or by both
such means. . . .

I- And it is also intended by the said act to alter, amend, extend,
enlarge, or to repeal, all or some of the powers and provisions of the
several acts of Parliament following, or some of them, relating to
the London and North Western Railway Company (that is to say) :
an act passed in the session of Parliament held in the 9th and 10th
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An act to
consolidate the London and Birmingham Grand Junction, and Man-
chester and Birmingham Railway Companies," and the several other
acts distinguished in the Queen's Printers' copies of the local and
personal acts, as Bth and 9th Vic. chapters 36, 37, 43, 105, 111, 112,
123, 156, and 198 ' • 9th Vic. chapter 67 ; 9th and 10th Vic. chapters
80. 82. 152, 182, 192, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 259. 261, 262,
269. 300, 309, 322, 323, 321, 324, 331. 359, 368, 369, 380,,and 396;
10th and II th Vic. chapters 73, 107, 114, 118, 120, I'2l, 132, 139,
159. 161, 17R, 188, 228, 236, 270, 278, and 294; I 1 th and 12th
Vic. chapters 58, 60, and 130 ; 12th and 13th Vic. chapter 74 ; '
13th and 14th Vic., chapter 36; 14th Vic.. chapter 28; 14th and 15th
Vic., chapter 94 ; 15th Vic., chapters 98 and 105 ; and 16th and 17th
Vic., chapte-s 97, 110, 157, 160, 161, 205, 216, and 222:
And also the several acts following relating to the Shrewsbury and
Hereford Rallwa> Company (that is to say): local and personal acts
9th and 10th Vic.. chapter 325 ; 13th and 14th Vic., chapter 26 ; and
15th and 16th Vic. chapter 168:
And also " The Severn Valley Railway Act, 1853:"

Ind it is also intended by such bill to take p,wers 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, asd duties, for or in respect of the use of the
said intended railway, landing place, and works, and to grant ex-
einptlons 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 or 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 tolls, dues, and payments in lieu thereof, and to enter
into arrangements with the wild 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 Notice is hereby giv, n, That a published amp and plans and
sections describing the line and levels of the said railways, and of
the portion of railway the levels of which are proposed to be altered,
and of the lands to be taken for the purposes of the paid act, together
with a book of reference to such plans, acd also a copy of this notice,

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as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited on or before
the 30th day of November, in the present year, with the clerk of the
peace for the county of Salop, at his office at Shrewsbury in the said

And it is also intended by the said bill to take powers to embank
and enclose so much as may be required or 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, with all nece•sary stairs and conveniences con-
nected therewith, and of enabling passengers, goods, animals,
and other traffic to be landed and embarked thereat at all states of
the tide.

county of Salop ; and on or before the said thirtieth day of November
a copy of so much of the plans and sections as relates to each parish
or extra-parochial place in or through which the said railways and
works are intended to be made, or in which the said lands are
sitaate, together with a book of reference thereto, and a copy
of this notice, as publi.hed in the " London Gazette," will be
deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his
usual place of abode, and as regards each extra, parochial place with
the parish clerk of some immediately adjoining parish at his usual
p'ace of abode :
And Notice is Hereby Further Given, That printed copies of the
proposed bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House
of Commons on or before the thirty-first day of December in the
present year.
Dated this 4th day of November, 1853.
S. CARTER, Solicitors,
SWIFT & WAGSTAFF)]
32, Great George-street, Westminster.

And it is also intended by the sail 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.

And it is also intended by such bit 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 which would
in any manner impede or interfere with the construction, m -,lnte-
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.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND
NOW! H STAFFORDSFIIRE RAILWAY COMPANIES.

(TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS.)

It is intended to apply to Parliament in the next session for a bill
making provision, or enabling the London and North-Western and
North Staffordshire Railway Companies to enter into contracts for
the more speedy and convenient interchange of the traffick (whether
of passengers, animals, minerals, or goods) common to the under-
takings of both companies; and for the conveyance and accommo-
dltion of such traflick along the railways, navigations, and canals,
and at the stations and wharves of the other company ; and also for
the collection and apportionment of the tolls, rates, and charges
arising out of such conveyance and accommodation as aforesaid :
It is intended by the bill to enable the London and North-Western
. . _

Railway Company to maintain and work the undertaking of the
North Staffordshire Railway Company upon conditions to be spe-
cified in the bill, or to be agreed on by the companies, and to confirm
any existing trallick arrangements between the companies, and to
enable the companies to enter from time to time into contracts
touching any of the matters aforesaid :
It is also intended to take powers by the bill to alter certain of the
tolls, rates, and duties now payable to the North Staffordshire Rail-
way Company ; and for the purposes aforesaid to amend, extend, and
where need is, repeal certain of the provisions of an act passed in the
cession of Parliament held in the ninth and tenth years of the reign
of her present Majesty, intituled, " An act to consolidate the Lon-
don and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Bir-
mingham Railway Companies ;" and also of the following acts (local
and personal) and of any other acts relating to the London and
North-Western Railway Company, namely, 8 & 9 Vic. caps. 36, 37,
43, 105, 111,112, 123, 156, and 198 ; 9 Vic. cap. 67 ; 9 & 10 Vic. caps.
80, 82, 152, 182, 192, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 259, 261,
26?, 269, 300, 309, 322, 323, 324, 328, 331, 359, 368, 269,
330, and 396 ; 10 & 11 Vic. caps. 73, 107. 114, 118, 120, 121, 132,
139, 159, 161, 178, 188, 228, 235, 270, 278, and 294 ; 11 & 12 Vic.
caps. 58, 60, and 130 ; 12 & 13 Vie. cap. 74 ; 13 & 14 Vic. cap. 36 ;
14 Vic. cap. 23 ; 14 & 15 Vic. cap. 94 ; 15 Vic. caps. 98 and 105 ;
and 16 & 17 Vic. caps. 97, 110, 157, 160, 161, 205, 216, and 222 ;
and aiso of the following acts, and of any other acts relating to the
North Staffordshire Railway Company, namely, 1 Will. 4, cap. 55 ;
9 & 10 Vic. cap. 85 ; 10 & 11 Vie. cap. 108 ; 11 & 12 Vie. caps. 66
and 83 ; and 13 & 14 Vic cap. 55 :
Printed copies of the bill will be deposited in the Private Bill-office
of the House of Commons before the first day of January, one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1853.
BURC H ELL and PARSON,}
S. CARTER, Westminster.
SWIFT and WAGSTAFF.

LONDON ANI) NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
iLad W kY COMPANY AND MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
(POWERS FOR
WOR AMALGKING ARRANGEMENTSAMATION, AND FOR TRAFFIC OR
).
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NOTICE IA HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act to unite and
amalgamai e or to authorise the union and amalgamation, ftom and
after such period, and upon such terms and conditions as may have
been or may hereafter be agreed upon, or as may be prescribed or pro •
aided for by the sail intended act, of the London and North-Western
and the Midland Railway Companies, and for the union and consoli-
dation, or to authorise agreements for the union and-consolidation,
into one undertaking of the several undertaking= of such companies,
so that all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, property, estate,
effects, rights, powers, privileges, and authorities of what nature or kind
soever, and whether with reference to the I,vying of tolls, rates, and
duties, the purchasing lands and buildings by compulsion or agree-
mrnt, the construction of work, or renting or purchasing the under-
takings of other companies, or otherwise, vested in and belonging
to, or exercised and enjoyed, or exerciseable by the said companies,
severally or jointly, at the time of the said amalgamation, may be
vested in and belong to, and be exercised and enjoyed, and be exer-
ciseable by such one united and amalgamated company, under each
corporate name or style as may be provided by the said intended act,
or as may be agreed upon between the said companies :
And it is proposed by the said intended act to make all necessary
and proper provisions for, or to authorise the entering into agree-
ments for regulating, fixing, and determining the capital stock and
borrowing powers of such united and amalgamated company, and
the rights. privilege=, preferences, a Id priorities of the different
classes of shareholders in the said companies in the capital stock of
the united and amalgamated company, and for the fulfilment by such
united and amalgamated company of all contracts, agreements.
a-rangements, or liabilities entered into by the sate companies, and
in existence and capable of taking effect at the period of such union
and amalgamation:
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to provide for
the renewal or liquidation of the mortgage or bond debts of the said
companies, and for the security of the holders of such mortgages or
bonds, and also for the future election of directors and regulation of
meetings of shareholder= of and in such united and amalgamated
company, and also for altering and varying the tolls, rates, and duties
leviable by the said companies, or either of them, from and after the
date of such union and consolidation :
And it is proposed by the said intended act to empower the said
companies, or their respective boards of directors, to enter into, exe-
cute, and carry into effect any contract=, agreements, or arrange-
ments for or with reference to the maintenance, repairs, supervision,
working and use by each or either of those companies of the rail-
ways, canals, works, or undertaking belonging to, authorised to be
constructed by, or in the possession of the other of them, or any part
thereof, either solely or jointly with the other of such companies, or
with any other company or companies, party or parties, and for or
with reference to the accommodation, collection, transmission, de-
livery, management, regulation, and interchange ef the traffic thereon,
and for or with reference to the tolls, rates, and duties to be taken
thereon and in respect thereof, arid the collection, appropriation, ap-
portionment and distribution of such tolls, rates, duties, and other
income and profits arising from the railways, canals, works, or un-
dertaking comprised in such contract agreement, or arrangement,
and also for or with reference to the supply, provision, repairs, and
use of rolling sto-k, the employment, remuneration, and dismissal
of officers and servants, and for or with reference to the exercise and
enjoyment by each or either of the said companies of all or any of the
rights, privileges, and powers of the other of them, either solely or
jointly with the other attach companies ; and to enable either of the
said companies to levy tolls or rates upon the railways or canals be-
longing t in possession of, or authorised to be constructed by the
other of them, and if necessary or expedient, to alter the tolls or rates
now leviable upon those railways or canals, or any of them :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to take powers
the appointinent by either of the said companies of directors of
for
the other of such companies, and to enable the said companies,
jointly or either of them severally to appoint committees for the pur-
poses of such contracts, agreements, and arrangements as afore-
said :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend,
extend, enlarge, or to repeal all or some of the power& and provisions
mesetnetrri. orR :toilmweayofoothmempafooylio(twhiangagrthelasatiy7
An act passed in the Session of Parliament held in tee ninth and
to
of theto several London actsand ofN
tenth years of the reign of her present Msjesty, intituled " An act
Afanchester an'! Birmingham Railway Companies;" and the several
to cons lidate the London and itirmingliam Grand Junction and
other acts distinguished in the Queen's printers' copies f the local
oPrathrl-iWa
198 ; 9th Vic., chapter 67; 9th and 10th Vie.,
end personal acts as Bth and 9th Vic., chapters 36, 37, 43, 105, 111,
112, 123, 156, and

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 MU, 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. Doces, and Piers Clauses Act,
1847," and 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 he 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 Rhinefleld 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-
joinMg 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
run 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 fine of the South-
ampton and Dorchester Branch of the London and South Western
Rai,way, 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 ejoining 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 porn: n of their said railway station
booking office.s, waiting rooms, water, watering places, warehouses,
works, and conveniences, or any of them, and to require or compel
the London and Routh-Westem Railway Company upon such terms
as shall he agreed upon, or as shall be determined by the Board of
Trade, or otherwise as Parliament shall direct, to book through and
forward all passengers, goods, animals, and other traffic, and to
afford all necessary facilities for the passage and transmission of
passengers, goods, animals, and other traffic over their said railway
to and from the said intended railway, and to enable the said in.
tended company to carry passengers, roods, animals, and other
traffic on the railways of the said London and South-Western Rail-
way Company, and of other companies and persons, and to charge
tolls and rates in respect thereof.
And it is else intended by the sail hill to enable the said intended
comnany to sell or let, and transfer the said intended railway and
landing place, and other works, or any part thereof, and all or any
powers of such company in connection therewith, or in relation
thereto, to the London and South-Western Railway Company, an!
to usable the said last-mentioned railway company to purchase or
rent the 'said intended railway, landing-place, and works, or any
part thereof, and to exercise such powers, or any of them, and also
to contribute funds for, or towards the construction, maintenance,
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 necessary to rase 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 s" to be incorporated, to enter into, and carry into
effect such agreements as they may think fit, in respect of the
working and use by the London and South-Western Railway
Company, of the said intended railway, landing-place, and
works, and the regulation and management by such company or
otherwise, of the 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 companies,
of the tolls, rates, and duties, received In respect of such traffic.

And it is also intended by 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
Vic., cap. 71 ; let and 2d Vic., cap. 27 ; 2d and 3d Vic., cap. v 8 ; 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 Vic., caps. 129, 131, 173, 174, 175, 252, 355, 370, and 391 ;
10th and 11th Vic., caps. 57, 58, 88. 96, 97, 115, 145, 167, 243, 244,
249, 273, and 297 ; Ilth and 12th Vic., caps. 75, 85, 87, 89, 125, and
157 ; 12th and 13th Vic., caps. 33 and 34 ; 13th and 14th Vic., cap.
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.

And Notice is hereby given, that on or before the thirty-first day
of December next, p,inted copies of the said intended act or bill will
be deposited To the Private Bill-office of the Hone of Commons.
Dated this twelfth day of November, 1853.
JAMES BROWN, Lyrnington.
Solicitor for the Bill.
DURNFORD & Co., 39, Parliament-street.
Parliamentary Agents.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms,
(Lessee,: CHAS- C. LAURENT Onslow-house, Fulham-road).
The above Rooms are now, OPEN FOR TFIE SEASON,
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S
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Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter.ninate at half-past 11.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.
An ENTIRELY NEW HISTORIC XL and MUSICAL LECTURE,
illustrated with DISSOLVING SCENERY, entitled " The ROAD,
the RIVER, and the RAIL," by J. E. CARPENTER, Esq. (the
penilar Author and Song Writer), assisted by Miss BLANCHE
YOUNGE, who will sing several New Songs and Ballads, written
expressly for her by Mr. Carpenter, every Evening, except Saturday,
at Nine o'clock, in addition to the GENERAL EXHIBITION and
VARIED LECTURES of the Institution.

Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Ir.; Schools, and
Children under Ten years Of age, Half-price.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.
A special general meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held yesterday, at Hawkstone-hall,
Waterloo-road, " for the purpose of considering and
deciding upon the proceedings to be adopted by the
company with reference to the proposed extension of
the railway from Dorchester, including the provision
of the capital necessary to be subscribed for the same,
and of authorising the necessary measures for carrying
the determination of the meeting into effect."
The Hon. FRANCIS SCOTT, the chairman of the board
of directors presided. The advertisement convening the
meeting having been read, the Secretary was about to
read the report, when a suggestion that it be taken as
read was agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the shareholders that
they had at last arrived at a period when they were
likely to come to a settlement of the important ques-
tion which had .been so long pending, which had given
the shareholders so much trouble, and the directors so
much anxiety. The report stated that at the half-
yearly meeting in August last the directors reported
that, on the authority of the very large majority of the
proprietors, at the meeting in May, determining that
the construction of the Devon and Dorset (broad
guage) line, west of Dorchester, would be injurious to
the interests of the railway, they had taken measures to
defeat that project. The directors also reported, that,
on the authority of the same meeting, pledging the
company to seek for powers in the next session to con-
struct a double line of railway from Dorchester to
Exeter, they had succeeded in obtaining the rejection
of the Devon and Dorset`Bill ; and that thereupon the
meeting unanimously authorised and requested the
board to take from time to time all such measures as
might appear to them most expedient for enabling the
company to carry into practical effect the pledge which
had thus been given. The directors, after stating what
had occurred during the last summer and at the meet-
ing in August, proceeded to recommend the following
course :—" 1. That the application to Parliament in the
next session shall be for powers to construct, within
five years from the passing of the act, a single line
of railway from Dorchester to Exeter, to be there con-
nected with the Bristol and Exeter, and the Exeter and
Crediton lines, with land for a double line. 2. That
the share capital to be authorised by the bill shall be
limited to such sum as will suffice for the above purposes,
and that the usual borrowing powers be sought in ad-
dition, to be used in such manner as the proprietors
may afterwards determine, either in substitution for
share capital, so far as they will extend, or for the pur-
pose of doubling the new line as next mentioned. 3.
That the bill shall contain an obligation to make the
extension line double between Exeter and Axminster,
within five years after the opening of the line, and also
between Dorchester and Axminster within the same
period, unless in the meantime an act shall have been
passed for making a narrow guage railway from Salis-
bury to Axminster. 4. That in order to obviate the
necessity for a subscription and issue of share capital in
the present state of the money market, the directors
should, on the authority and at the request of the pro-
prietors, and for their benefit, execute the necessary
Parliamentary contract, and take all the other needful
measures for complying with the standing orders of
Parliament respecting the capital." The directors then
went o, a to say that "if these recommendations receive
your sz traction, and if the meeting pass such reso-
lutions a a will be proposed in order to carry them into
effect, th e directors, in the confident belief, and for
the sole purpose of essentially promoting the best
interests cif the company, are ready to adopt the
measures in question, whereby they trust the com-
pany will reap all the advantages of the contemplated
extension, without incurring the sacrifice consequent on
a present alloOment and issue of share capital." The
report then proceeded to state generally the views of
the engineer who recommended an extension of the line
about two miles beyond Exeter,,so as to join the North
Devon and Exeter' and the Crediton and Bristol lines at
a point called Co• wley Bridge. As this company pos-
sessed shares to th c extent of 160,0001. in the two com-
panies just mentioned, it was thought desirable, by the
outlay of 100,0001 . more, to obtain the benefit of 47
miles of traffic bey, snd Exeter, which would be a most
material adjunct to any traffic which might be obtained
by proceeding to E. reter. (Hear, hear.) The question
now before the meeting was whether the proprietors
were willing, upon t he terms which had been made for
them by the directo re., to construct the line from Dor-
chester to Exeter. T hat construction the shareholders
had, on two prevh sus occasions, substantially deter-
mined upon, by meetings which, if not unanimous, were
so nearly unanimous as to make it imperative on the
directors to pursue the course then enjoined. The mat-
ter to be consider ed at present was an engineering
question, and the question of raising the capital.
(Hear, hear, and nO, no.) Taking the question of ca-
pital first, it was proposed that the directors should
execute the necessary parliamentary contract. This
was not an unusual mode of proceeding, and Parliament
had ressognised such a contract on many previous occa-
sions. He very much doubted therefore whether any
objections of a valid nature were likely to be raised
against this undertaking on the ground of the subscrip-
tion bein g raised amongst the directors. That the un-
dertaking came before the shareholders at a very un-
toward period there could be no question. (Hear, hear.)
It did not require that very significant cheer to inform
the direct( ire of that fact. With the view of carrying
out the wis has of the proprietors, and at the same time
of saving th eir pockets, the directors had felt it to be
their imperative duty, as the executive charged with
the administ ration of the affairs of the company, to
endeavour tc ) act in such a way as to tide over the dif-
ficulties whit h at present existed, and carry the pro-
prietors at all. events over six months of monetary em- •
barrassment, if such embarrassment should exist so long.
—(hear, hea,r)—and then at the assembling of the
Wharncliffe nie eting, they would have the opportunity
of saying " a:s(t" or "no" to the proposition of the di-
rectors. (Hears hear.) But there was another consi-
deration which. ought not to be lost sight of. The di-
rectors had brought forward this proposition to enable
the shareholders to preserve not only their pockets but
their honour. (Cheers, and cries of oh, oh.) He did
not know whether they desired him to go minutely
into the question . (No, no.) Some persons appeared
to be so intuitively intelligent that they were aware of
what lie was shout to say before he had time to make
any remark. (Laughter.) He held in his hand a de-
tailed statement from the engineer showing how he in-
tended the line to be constructed, the cuttings, em-
bankments, tunnels, &c., but as the matter had been so
much sifted, and a great portion of the line passed over
the same country as the Devon and Dorset project, he
thought the meeting would not require him to go ur .
ther into that part of the question. (Cries of no, nc
and tell us the cost.) The cost was the main questis ii
and that depended upon the mode in which the l i ae
was to be constructed. The engineer adhered to the
statement which he had given, and Mr, Brassey adlic seed
to the terms on which he had offered to construct the
line in May last. This question had been represente, ias
arising from the policy of the board as a body dist inct
from the shareholders, and almost opposed to th em.
Now, in February last, when he had the honour of ad.
dressing the shareholders, he laid it down as a broad y irin-
ciple of railway management, in which his colleagues , con-
curred, that boards were too frequently in the h abi t of
taking to themselves credit for the policy wk.;
.ch &„s
adopted by the shareholders, thereby not only obtain-
ing credit for success, but justly incurring nce sure for
failure. He then stated that he thought thr as vas not
a right principle of action, that the proper con .rs for
the board to take was to lay down their vir a
%vs 0 d i-,
nions, to make lucid statements, to give the sh • a-ehold-
ers full information on every point, and havinhavinglone so
to leave the responsibility upon the shareholder.
(Hear, hear.) That was the principle laid down by the
directors in their report in May. They said tl ley bad
no wish to make further extensions ; but that, in con-
sequence of the aggressions made upon their t territory
and property, they were under the necessity of making
the proprietors acquainted with the circumstances, aid
of giving them an opportunity of deciding, not whether
the directors should act, but whether the shai eh, elders
themselves would act—(hear, hear)—and, in cc inch iding
their report, the directors stated that they h ad ti I re-
mind the proprietors that the opportunity for : fiction bad
arrived, and that the decision and responsily Lay m ust
thenceforth rest with themselves. (Hear, h ear.) I 'he
directors now stood on their trial for the s Durso they
had taken. There were two points at Is
Jue—the one
concerned the construction or non-const
tuctiOn of the
line upon the terms submitted to the
proprietors---a
£11,520 0 0
matter of great importance to every
Jrre present ; the dd amount at which subsequent investiga-
other concerned a matter likewiseimp
4rta %nt to them as 'don has shown the board's estimate of re.

Difference ............... £11,943 0 0
This difference is accounted for and disposed of on a con-
sideration and correction of certain items moluded by
which
the
committee in their statement of working expenses,
ought not to have been so included. Thus :
and is a greatly
Plant reserve ....................................... 22,000 0 0
is in no sense applicable to this question.
Interest on plant ...............••.......•••"'•.. 5,920 0 0
chargesu ,m
hasessu noe
dte t
the omission existenceee i nfact,
exaggerated" This
m
outlay for the line of any sum for rolling stock. The cor-
rect course would have been to have included a fair sum '
the outlay for that object, and to the extent of that ln
to have increased tho amount of capital • sumentatled to
dividend.
Management, tarpaulins, repairs of stations,
1
law, printing, and some other items are
put down at various sums, amounting
together to 4,6001. ; an examination
of
these items demonstrates their
to be greatly exaggerated. However, amount
allowing that some proportion
of the
charges of this nature might be
placed to the account of the branch,fairly
1,5001. (which sum we say
consider to be
in excess of a strictly due
there would still remain proportion),
The item of ' carriage an overcharge of £3,100 0 0
overstated about age expenses' is also

500 0 0