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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1853.

LONDON AND Nonni WESTERN RAIL-
wAy.-(cRE to sIiftEWSBHRY.)
(EXTENSION of LINE and ALTERATION of LEVELS; 'GA
of SIIREWSHI.TRY and HEREFORD ItNILWAY "JOIXT
STATION at StIREIVSBURY ; A3tßaiDafrirat be ACTS):
NOTICE IS HEREBY That explication is intended to
be made to Parliament I.lt 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, rtatha, MI conveniences
eonneeti'd therewith, in extension ir±f the railway from Crewe to
Shrews:airy,
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r11:-sed caecato be ma (Crewe,
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aserld,
exteasion to cuuttneace at the terminus of such branch railway, in
the earolt of Holy Cross and St. in Shrewslytry, and pas,ing
thence from, in, th...onth, or into the several parishes, townships,
extra-la:aro:anal, or other p'a"ae of St, Mary Slire wsl,ury, St. Julian
Shrewshar), Coleham, Abbey Voregata Shreivalatry, ly Cross 411(1
St. Gees Shrewsbury, Stella Want without Shrewsbury, borough of
Shrew; b try, iiherties tilipew, bury, hundred of shrews'itry, form •
leg a Junction with, the Shrewsbury • alla Hereford Ra'lw ea, in the
parish of St. Julian Shrewsbury, mar to the enOte-she l recently
emoted on the Shrewsbury an 1 !fere:srd Railway, and terminating
on the eastern side of the last mentioned railway in a nein.' bl nting
to the Reverend Edward Price Owen, and occupied by Edward Pita-
ker, in the parish of Saint Julian Shrewsbury; all in the county of
Salop; together with a spur or connecting line between the said In-
tended railway and the railway belonging jointly to the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham Railway Company aed the Shropshire Union
Railways and Canal Company, the asho'e of which spur or connect-
ing line will be situate in the Abbey Fotegate in the acid parish of
Holy Cross and Saint Giles Shrewsbury
And power will be taken by this said intended actio enable the
London and North Western Rail "ay Company to alter the levels of
so much of the said branch railway from Crewe to Shrewsbury as
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 :threwshury and the said terminus of
the said branch ra;lway in the parish of Holy Crass aunt 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 Jit, hit Shrewsbury, Saint Mary Shrewsbury, Castle
l'oregate Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and Saint Giles Shrewsbury,
Abbey Feregate 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, footw,tys, streets, and other highways, riven=, streams,
brooks, sewers, 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 ft may be necessary to stop up, altar, 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-
for t 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
saint 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 I 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 pa, ment of such tolls, rates, and charges, or
'nets sum or Rims 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 ba prescribed or pro-
vided for by the said intended act :

And Notice is hereby further given, ?het 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
for the purposes aforesaid, and also to levy tolls, rates, and defies
upon or in respect of the said railways and works, and to alter ex-
isting tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish ex-
imptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other
rights and privileges :
And it is also proposed, in and by the said act, to authorise the
London arid North Western Railway Company to apply their cor-
porate funds to all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and to raisi a
further sum of money, either by shares or by mortgage, or by both
such means.

•
• And it is also intended by the said act to alter, amend, extend,
enlarge, or to repeal, all or soirrs of the powers and provisions of the
• several aids 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' coales 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, 241, 248, 259 261, 262,
269, 300, 309, 322, 323, 321, 324, 331. 359, 368, 369, 380, and 396;
10th and 11th Vic. chapters 73, 107, 114, 118, 120, 121, 132, 139,
159. 161, 175, 188, 228, 236, 270, 278, and 294 ; 11th and 12th
Vic. chapters 58, GO, and 130 ; 12th and 13th Vic. chapter 74 ;
13th and 14th Vic., chapter 36; 14th Vie., chapter 28; 14th and 15th
Vic., chapter 94 ; 15th Vic., chapters 98 and 105 ; and 16th and 17th
Vic., chapters 97, 110, 157, 160, 161, 205, 216, and 222:
And also the several acts following relating to the Shrewsbury and
Hereford Railway Company (that is to say): local and personal acts
9th and 10th Vie., chapter .325 ; 13th and 14th Vic., chapter 26 ; and
15th and 16th Vic. chapter 168 :
And also " The Severn Valley Railway Act, 1853 :"
And Notice is hereby giv is, That a published snap and plans and
sections describing the 1171 e and levels of the said railways, and of
the portion of railway the levels of which arc proposed to be altered,
and of the lands to he taken for the purposes of the said act, together
with a book of reference to such plans, aed also a copy of this notice,
as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited on or befisre
the 30th day of November, in the present year. with the clerk of the
peace for the county of Salop, at his °Mee at Shrewsbury In the said
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 throalli which the said railways and
works are intended to be made, or in which the said lands are
situate, together with a book of reference thereto, and a copy
of this notice, as published 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
pace of abode :
And Notice is Hereby Further Given, That printed espies 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 -.,ear.
Dated this 4th day of November, 1853.
S. CARTER.
SWIFT & wA Gs TAFF,/ Solicitors,
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, ail turnpike
and other roads. streets, causeways, slipways, highways, railways,
tramways, aittelucts, canals, streams, rivers, waters, mill dams,
water works, and other works, situate within -or a-l.iiiining 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 existinq rights, privileges, or exemption', in any manner con-
nected with the lands aad 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, In ,inte-
nance, or use of the said intended railway, landing place, approaches,
ald works, or any of them, and to confer other rights, pilvileg,s, 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 ter some of the powers and provisions of
" The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," " The Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1815," " The Railways Clauses Consolida-
tion Act, 1445," "The Harbours. lamas, and Plus 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 looks 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
dayof November, with the palish 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 ithinetield 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 rhilieth day of November, with the parish clerk of the ad-
johyng parish of Broekenhurst, 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 lobe thereby incorporated
or any other persona lawfully using the said intended railway, to
run aid pass over with their own engines and carriages, or with
the engines and carriages of well other persons using or passing
over the said intended railway, that p irtion of the line of the anti ll-
ampton and Dorchester Branch of the London and South-Western
Rai way, which lies b?tween the proposed point of junction there-
with, near the BrO;kenhurst 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 convenience, at or connected with the said station, or on
the line of or aajoinMe 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 shell he paid by the said intended com-
pany, or smell other persons for the use by them of the said railway
stations, booking office, waiting rooms, water and watt ring places,
works, and conveniences or any of them ; and also if necessary to
alter and limit the tolls, rates, and charges now author'sed to be
levied and demented by the London and South Western Railway
Company for the use of the said peril n of their said railway station
booking offices, waitine rooms, water, watering places, warehouses!,
works, and convenieners, or any of them, and to require or compel
the f ondon and South-Western Railway Company upon such terms
as shall be agreed upon, or as shall be determined by the Board of
Trade, or otherwise as Parliament shall direct, to book through and
forward all passeneers, goods, animals, and other irallic, 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, goods, animals, and other
traffic on the railways of the said London and Smith-Western Rail-
way Company, ant of other companies and persons, and to charge
tolls and rates In respect thereof.
And it is also intended by the sail bill to enable the said intended
company 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 iii connee,ion therewith, or in relation
thereto, to the London and South-Western Railway Company, an!
to usable the said lasiamentioned 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 raise additional capital hy the
creation of new shares or stock, for all or any of the said purposes,
and to enablethe London and South-Western Railway Company, and
the company as 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
work's, anal 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 the said bill to alter, wend, or repeal,
so far as may be necessary for the purposes thereof; all or some of

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL.
W kY COMPANY AND MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY
(POWERS FOit AItIA.LGA.M AVON, AND FOR TRAFFIC Or,
WORKING ARRANGEMENTS).
NOTICE I; HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act to unite and
amalgamate or to anthorise the union and amalgamation, from and
after such period, and upon such terms and conditions as may have
been or may hereafter be agreed upon. or as mar be prescribed or pro •
vided for by the sal I 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 undertakings 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 1: vying of tolls, rates, and
duties, the purchasing lands and buildings by compulsion or agree-
ment, 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 exereiseable 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 he ester-
eiseable by suelk one united and amalgamated company, under sect
corporate name or style as may he provided by the said intended act,
or as msy 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 sad amalgamated company, and
the rights, privileges, preferences, aid priorities of the different
classes of shareholders in the said companies in the capital stock of
the united and amalgamated company, and for tiro fulfilment by such
united and amalgamated company of all contracts, agreements.
arrangements, or liabilities entered into by the sal i 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 reetklation 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
, agreements, or arranre-
repairs, supervision,
companies, or their respective boards of directors, to enter into, exe-
cute,
men:nls for and
ocrarwryithinrteofeerffeneccet
to
ythe maintenance,contraet
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 of the traffic thereon,
and for or with reference to the toils, rates, and duties to be taken
thereon and in respect thereof, and the coilectten, appropriation, ap-
portionment and distribution of such tells. rates. citifies, and other
income and profits arising from the railways, canals, works, or un-
dertaking comprsed in sun contract agreement, or arrangement.
and also for or with reference to the supply. provision, repairs, end
use of rolling stock, the emeloym ent, 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 ofsueh companies ; and to enable either (late
-aid companies to levy tolls or rates upon the railways or canals b •
longing t •, in possession of, or aathorised 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 the said intended act to take powers
for the appointment by either of the said companies of directors of
the other of such companies, and to enable the said companies,
jointly or either of them severally to appoint committees for the lair-
poses such Contracts, agreements, and arrangements as afore-
poses of 131110 OYA_L POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
said :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend, --IU PATRON PRINCE ALBERT.
extend, enlarge, or to repe
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of the several acts of Parliament or ome of them eonsnvina, relating Illustrated with DISSOLVING SCENERY. entitled " The ROAD,
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tenth years of the reign of her present Majesty. intituled an act YOUNGE, who will sing several New Songs and Ballads, written
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Manchester aryl Birmingham Railway Companies and the several at Nine o'clock, in addition to the GENERAL EXHIBITION and
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and personal acts as Bth and 9th Vic., chapters 36. 37, 43, 105, 111, Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, 1 k.; schnols, and
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the powers and provisions of the several local aml personal Acts of
i Parliament hereinafter mentioned, directly or ndirectly relating ti,
or affecting the London and South-Western Railway Company, or its
undertakings, that is to say : -4th and sth William 4, cap, 88; Ist
, cap. 71 ; Vic
Ist and 3d Vic., cap. 27 ; 2d and 3d Vic., cap. '4B ; 4th
and sth Vic.. caps. 1 and 39; 7th and Bth Vic., caps. 5, 63, and 85;
Bth and 9th Vic., caps. 86, 88, 93, 107, 121. 165, 185, and 199 ; 9u;
and 10th Vic., caps. 129, 131, 173, 174, 175, 252, 355, 370, and 391 ;
10th and 1111; 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., cap.
24; 14th and 15th Vie., 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,' printed copies of the said intended act or bill will
be deposited in the Private BilhoMee of the Honse of Commons.
Dated this twelfth day of November, 1853.
JAMES BROWN, Lymington.
Solicitor for the .
DURNFORD & Co., 39, Parliament-stßillreet.
Parliamentary Agents.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms,
(LCSSeC,! CIIAS. CarenURENT, 011310W-hOU4
e. FUIhEIM-TOad).
The above Rooms now OPEN' FOR TETE SEASON,
and 'will continue open every evening, with LA.URENT'S
CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8 ;
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11.

• chapters 80, 82, 152, 182, 112. 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 259, 261,
262, 269,' 303, 339, 322, 323, 324, 323, 331, 359, 368, 369, 380, and
- 396 ; 10th and 11th Vic., caantPrs 73, 107, 114, 118, 120, 121, 132,
130, 159, 161, 178, 188, 218, 236, 270, 278, and 294: 11th and 12th
Vic., chapters, 58, GO, and 130; 12th and 13th Vic., chapter 74; 13th
and 14th Vie., chapter 36; 14th Vic., chapter 23 ; 14th and 15th Vic ,
chapter 94 ; 15th Vie., chapters 98 an 1 105 ; and 16th and 17th Vic.,
Chapters 97, 110, 157, .160, IGI, 255, 216, and 222; and of the
following' Acts of Parliament relating to the Midland Ita;lwa34Coni.
patty (that is to say):' local dint persoaal acts, 7th and titit Vic.,
chapters 18 and 59 Bth and 9lt V:c, chapters 33, 49, 56, 90, and
181 ; 9th RIP) 'l9q, Vie.o 1t pt ri 51, 102, 156, 157, 163;203, 243, 254,
255, 272, 3 311, 326, and 313 ; 10th and 11th Vie., chapters 122,
135, 15.'051, 21 1, 2;5, and 270; 11;Ii and 12th Vie., chapters 21. 88,
and 131 ; 14;9 n t 15th V.c., chapters I+7, 88, and 113 ; I 9th Vie.,
chapter 93 ; 1!:th Vic., chapter ; and 16th and .7th Vie., chapter
103.

BAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND SOUTII-WESTERN.

A ad Notice 18 hereby further t:lven, that on or before the thirty-
flay of ited►mber nest, printed copies of the hill ter. effecting
the °Fleets sPeeilled in tits no ii e, will be deposited lit the rrivato
Bill-office of the House of Commons.

Dated thiiltti, day ~f Noveinber;lBs3.
BERRIDGE, MACAULAY, and MORRIS,
Lei:ester.
8. CARTER,
Solicitors.
SWIFT and wAosTAFF,
32, Great George-street,
Westminster.

LYMINGTON AND BROCKENHURST
JUNCYION RAILWAY.
INCORPORATION of COMPANY; POWERS to COMSTRTJCT
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and RASE GAPI CAL ; POWERS to USE pert of the SOUTH.
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TION of Wi4ARFAGE, TOLLS, and R I VEI tDDES, PAYABLE
to the CORPORATION of LYMINGTON, and other PURI'O3ES.
' NOTICE IS lIEREBY GIVEN, That application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for an act
to incorporate a company, and to give such company power to
make and maintain the railway and landing place and approaches
hereinafter mentioned, with all necessary, and proper works, and
conveniences connected therewith, that is to say:
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 heroine, er mentioned,
and thence passibg in, throtigth-oeinto the several parishes extra,
parochial and other places ofCytitirgtqn;,,Boldre, Brockenharst, and
Rhinefield walk, in the New Forest, or some of them, all in the
county of Southampton, and terminating in the said . parish of
Brockenharst by a junction with the ralis 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 hichway from Marl Pit
Oak to Broekenhurst.
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
Lymtngton 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 irom and out of the street in
Lymington called Captain's Row, at a point about 70 yards south-
ward from the entrance of the Kin's Heel Inn, and thence pro-
ceeding eastward to and teiminating in Quay-street, opposite and
near to the said Town Quay, the whole of which said approach will
be situate within tire said parish of Lymington.
And it is also intended by the sa'd 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
Br.dge Road, and the north-eastern corner of a field belonging to
Mi,s Catharine Beckwith, No. 57 on the said deposited plans, andto
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.
-find it is also intended by such hill to take powers for the com-
pulsory purchase of the lands and houses required for the purposes of
the said intend, d 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 front all or any'of such tolls, rates, and duties; and to raise
money on the credit of the said tolls, rates, arid 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, arid burgesses of
the Borough of Lymington, for the use of the Town Quay, and the
cranes and landing places thereon, and in respect ot the landing arid
embarking of passengers, goods, arid animals thereat a.,;(1 in respect
of vessels entering in and anchoring or mooring or departing from tire
said river, arid 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 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
Lyrnington River opposite to and near to tire 'I own Quay at Lyming-
ton, as may be necessary for the purpose of forming the proposed
landing place, with all necessary stairs and conveniences ecau
netted therewith, and of enabling passengers, goods, animals
and other titanic to be lauded and embarked thereat at all states a
the tide.

A special general meeting of the proprietors of this
compsny was held yesterday, at Hawkstone-hall,
Waterlog-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 on to say that "if these recommendations receive
your sanction, and if the meeting pass such reso-
lutions as will be proposed iu order to carry them into
effect, the directors, in the confident belief, and for
the sole purpose of essentially promoting the best
interests of 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 allotment 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 Cowley Bridge. As this company pos-
sessed shares to the extent of 160,000/. 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 beyond Exeter, which would be a most
material adjunct to any traffic which might be obtained
by proceeding to Exeter. (Hear, hear.) The question
now before tho meeting was whether the proprietors
were willing, upon the terms which had been made for
them by the directors, to construct the line from Don
chester to Exeter. That construction the shareholders
had, on two, previous 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 considered 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 recognised 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 being 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 directors of that fact. With the view of carrying
out the wishes of the proprietors, and at the same time
of saving their pockets, the directors had felt it to be
their imperative duty, as the executive charged with
the administration of the affairs bf the company, to
endeavour to act in such a way as to tide over the dif-
ficulties which 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, hear)—and then at the assembling of the
Wharneliffe meeting, they would have the opportunity
of saying "aye" or "no" to the proposition of the di-
rectors. (Hear, 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 about 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, &e., 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 i.ito that part of the question. (Cries of no, no,
and tell us the cost.) The cost was the main question,
and that depended upon the mode in which the line
was to be constructed. The engineer adhered to the
statement which he had given, and Mr, Brassey adhered
to the terms on which hela,d offered to construct the
line in May last. This question had been represented as
arising from the policy of the board as a body distinct
from the shareholders, and almost opposed to them.
Now, in February last, when he had the honour of ad.
dressing the shareholders, he laid it down as a broad prin-
ciple of railway
management, in which his colleagues con-
curred, that boards were too frequently in the habit of
taking to themselves credit for the policy which was
adopted by the shareholders, thereby not only obtain-
ing credit for success, but justly incurring censure for
failure. He then stated that he thought that was not
a right principle of action, that the proper course for
the board to take was to lay down their views and oni-)
nions, to make lucid statements, to give the sharehold-
ers full information on every point, and having done-so,
to leave the responsibility upon the shareholders alone.
(Hear, hear.) That was the principle laid down by the
directors in their report in 111ay. They said they had
no wish to make further extensions ; but that, in con-
sequence of the aggressions made upon their territory
and property, they were under the necessity of making
the proprietors acquainted with the circumstances, and
of giving them an opportunity of deciding, not whether
the directors should act, but whether the shareholders
themselves would act—(hear, hear)—and, in concluding
their report, the directors stated that they had to re-
mind the proprietors that the opportunity for action had
arrived, and that the decision and responsibility must
thenceforth rest with themselves. (Hear, hear.) The
directors now stood on their trial for the course they
had taken. There were two points at issue—the one
concerned the construction or non-construction of the
line upon the terms submitted to the proprietors—a
matter of great importance to every one present ; the
other concerned a matter likewise important to them age i

The 'SECRETARY then read the fol:owing report from
Messrs. Quilter and Ball :
" 57, Coleman-street, N0v.12, 1853.
" Sir,—Having investigated the matter of a certain
statement made by the directors of the London and South
Western Railway Company, in their report to the special
general meeting held ou the 10th May, 1853, namely, that
the traffic on the Southampton and Dorchester branch
yielded in the year 1852 a profit equal to 31 per cent.
on the outlay, we have to report, as the result of our
investigation, that the statement in question is entirely
borne out by the facts and figures as found in the hooks,
and elucidated by the authentic calculations of the re-
sponsible officers of the company.
"Further—regard being had to the private explanation
stated to have been given by the chairman to the meeting,
of the non-inclusion in the amount of outlay of any sum
for rolling stock, and also to the object for which it was
made, namely, the furnishing of data to assist the meeting
in forming an opinion of the policy of the extension to
Exeter—the integrity and pertinence of the directors'
statement becomes yet more clearly apparent.
" Time will not permit us to go into a lengthened expla-
nation of details in support of this conclusion, nor do we
think that course necessary, seeing that such an explana-
tion has been already arrived at by competent parties, and
rendered to the proprietors in clear and intelligible terms
through the columns of Herapatles Journal, and also in
the form of a pamphlet circulated amongst the proprietors
by Captain Moorsom.
" But should detailed explanations be required, we shall
be prepared to furnish them, either in writing or otherwise.
"It may be useful, however, to refer to the committee's
circulars to the shareholders, dated 19th October, for the
sake of comparing the net result pat forward therein
with that alleged by the directors : and after showing the
difference between the two, to briefly point out what ap-
pear to be the inaccuracies in the statement of the com-
mittee, the adoption of which has led to the erroneous con-
clusions at which they have arrived.
The net earnings, according to the coin-
rnitteo, amounted, in 1852, to e16,121 0 0
According to the estimate of the board,
2064 0 0
they amounted to

Difference 0 0
This difference is accounted for and disposeloYo l 3 n
a con-
sideration and correction of certain items =eluded by the
committee in their statement of working expenses, which
ought not to have been so included. Thus :
Plant reserve

is in no sense applicable to this question.
' Interest on plant
" This charge has no existence in fact, and is a greatly
exaggerated sum, assumed to meet the omission from the
outlay for the line of any sum for rolling stock. The cor-
rect course would have been to have included a fair sum in
the outlay for that object, and to the extent of that sub,
to have increased the amount of capital entitled to
dividend.
Management, tarpaulins, repairs of stations,
law, printing, and some other items are

putdown a' • f various sums, amounting
an examination of
together to 400/. ;
these items demonstrates their amount
to be greatly exaggerated. However,
.allowing that some proportion of the
charges of this nature might be fairly
placed to the account of the branch, sa
:1 y
,5001. (which sum We consider to be
in excess of a strictly due proportion),
there would still remain an overcharge
of £3,100 0 0
The item of `carriage expenses' is also
overstated about ....

500 0 0

R2O
Add' mount at Which subsequent inveztiga-
-11,5 0 0
tioll has 01101Y11 the board's estimate of re.