The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
LESMAIIAGOW BRANCHES; REVIVAL of POWERS;
RELINQUISHMENT of WORKS; ARRANGEMENT of SHARE
and LOAN CAPITAL; and AMENDMENT of ACTS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to

be made to Parliament, in next session, fisr leave to bring in a bill
to empower the Caledonian Railway Company, or the Holders of
the Lesmahagow Branches Shares in that Company, to make, com-
plete, and maintain the following lines of Railway, now partly in
course of construction, or one or snore of them, and all proper
works and conveniences connected therewith, viz. :
First, A railway commencing by a junction with the Motherwell
Branch of the Clydesdale Junction Railway at a point in the pa-
rish of Hamilton near the village of Motherwell, and terminating
at a point in the parish of Lesmahagow, on the lands of Bankend,
near Coal Burn Head; which railway, and works connected there-
with, will be situate in the parishes of Hamilton, Daiziel, Dalserf,
and Lesmahagow, all in the county of Lanark.
Secondly, A branch railway commencing by a junction with the
said intended railway at a point near Kaiminghill or Commonhill,
and terminating at a point near North Southfield, all in the said
parish of Lesmahagow: and
thirdly, A branch railway commencing by a junction with the said
intended railway at a point near Anchenheath Colliery, and termi-
nating at a point on the lands of Nether Hall-hill, near Little Gill
Coal Pit. all in the said parish of Lesmahagow.
And Notice is further Given, that duplicate plans and sections,
describing the lines, situation, and levels of the said intended works,
and the lands, houses, and other property through which the a ime
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are intended to be made, and within the limits of deviation as defined
on the said plans, or which may be required to be taken for the
purpose of such workr, together with a book of reference to such
plan, containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees
or reputed lessees and occupiers of such lands, houses and praperty,
and a published map to a scale of not less than half an inch to a
mile, with the lines of the proposed railways delineated thereon
so as to show their general course and direction, and a copy of this
notice as published in the London and Edinburgh Gazettes,
will, on or before the thirtieth day of November current, be
deposited for public inspection in the offices at Glasgow, Hamilton
and Lanark, respectively, of the principal Skeriff-Clerk of
the county of Lanark; and that a copy of so much of the said
plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each of the parishes
before specified, with a copy of this notice as published in the said
Gazettes, will, also on or before the thirtieth day of November cur-
rent, be deposited for public inspection with the schoolmaster, or, if
there be no schoolmaster, with the session clerk of each such parish,
at the usual place of abode of each such schoolmaster or session
clerk.

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

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

the share capital prescribed by the said last mentioned act, and to
confer upon a portion of such share capital certain preferences and
priorities over the remainder thereof, as also to authorise the bor-
r,wing of a stun of money, and the application of such share capital
and borrowed money, or part thereof, to the execution of the works
before described.

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

JOHN MARR, Lanark.
GRkHAME, AVERMS & GRAHAME,
Westminster.

9th November, 1853.

WREXHAM AND RUTHIN RAILWAY.
INCORPORATION of COMPANY for CONSTRUCTING
a RAILWAY from WREXIIA.M. in the COUNTY of DENBIGH,
to RU CHIN, in the SAME COUNTY, WITH a BRANCH to COED
PORTE.' COLLIERY—POWERS to USE PORTIONS of the
SHREWSBURY and CHESTER RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to
be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act or acts to
authorise the construction and maintenance of a railway or railways
with all proper and necessary works, stations, and conveniences con-
nected therewith or necessary thereto, commencing by a junction
with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway at or near to a gate-
keeper's lodge or cottage on or adjoining the Shrewsbury and Chester
Railway, in the occupation of Edward Kenrick, situate in the
township of Wrexham Abbot, in the parish of Wrexham, in the
county of Denbigh, and terminating at. or near to a certain field
called or known by the name of Coppy bacb, near to the town of
Ruthin, in the parish of Llanrhydd, in the borough of Ruthin, in the
said county, which said intended Railway or Railways and Works
will be made in and pass from, in, or through, or into the several
parishes, townships, townlands, and extra-parochial and other
places following, or some or one of them (that Is to say). Wrex-
ham, Wrexham Regis, Wrexham Abbott, Bersham, Broughton,
Brymbo, Minera, Llandegla, Trefyd (otherwise Trevyd), Bychan,
Trer Ilan (otherwise Trellan), Llanarmon• yn-yale, Llanarnion,
l:odidris, and Bodidristrian, in the county of Denbigh;
liodidris, and Bodidristrian, in the • county of Flint ; Gel-
InYnnen, Eryrys, Trerllan, Chwyleiriog, Bodigree yarl (other-
wise lel) and Bodigree Abbott, Tallibidwell, Gwethrenie, Bodynwy-
og, Trerllan, Bryn-Egiwys, Lilanelidan. Llanfair-dyffryn-clwyd,
f:aenol-quarter, Derwen-quarter (otherwise Derwen Llanerch),
(z,rthynan-quarter, Eyarth-quarter, Llanrhydd, Ruthin, Llanrhydd-
.,,laaa,tand Llanrhydd-issa, in the said county of Denbigh. And also
( _ horise the construction and maintenance of a branch railway
Chester Railway
a Junction
railways,°JebienceC with all necessary and proper works, stations, and con-
ownintfictV therewith or necessary thereto, commencing by
the said cell
(leggin, la the township ham, in at
Minera Branch Railway of the Shrewsbury and
point or points in a field, situate near the
.of liiniera. in the said parish of Wrex-
-10 the Coed Poeth county of Denbigh, and terminating at or near
Ilershatn, lu the said Colliery, situate in the said township of
Denbigh, which said branintepuirlesdhof Wrexham, in the said county of
connected therewith will be ch railway or railways and works
or into the parishes, made in and to pass from, in, through,
sham aforesaid, in tl townships, and town lands of Miners and Ber-
le said come
And it is further proposed In and by the •
hie "rporate a company for said act to take powers to
carrying in
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with lull power to purchase and take lands
to effect the •
objects aforesaid,
hareditaments by compulsion or reetne„,' houses, tenements, and
and for varying or extinguishing 'au rights for the purposes thereof,
manner connected with such lands, houses, atV Privileges in any
ditaMeuts, and also to levy tolls, rates, and lutineseraents, and here-
s 4id intended railway or railways, branch railwayfor the use of rho
works, and to raise money on the credit of the sair rareways, and
rail-
ways, branch railway er railways, and works, and of the
said tolls,
rates, and duties, for the purposes of the said intended act.
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to take power to
deviate in the construction of the said railway or railways, branch I
railway or railways, and works connected therewith respectively, to 1