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THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL
LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION AND BENEVOLENT
FUND, 42, Moorgate-street, Nov. 23, 1853.
ELECTION OF AUDIrORS.

Notice is hereby given, that a Special General Meeting of the
Memb: re of the B nefit or Mutual Life Assurance Department of
this Association, will be held at the D.ndon Tavern, Bishopegate-
street, in the City of London, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th December
next. at Six o'ci •ck p.m. precisely, for the purpose of Electing Two
Members as Auditors, in consequence of the vacancies occasioned by
the election of Mr. Edward Coleman and Mr. Sancten' Wood as
Managers of this Association.
By order of the Board,
PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary.

Any Member duly qualified intending to become a Candidate must
be nom'. ated loy two Members, In a letter addressed to the Chairman
of this Association at least Fourteen Days before the day of election.

SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY.—
(Abandonment of present terminus at Shrewsbury, and
junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway at
Shrewsbury; construction of new station at Shrewsbury;
powers to use the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, the
Chester and Holyhead Railway, the Birkenhead, Lancashi r
and Cheshire Junction Railway, the London and North-Wes-
tern Railway, the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, and the Shrewsbury
and Hereford Railway ; Limitation of Tolls ; working or
other arrangements with the several companies; use of joint
station at Shrewsbury ; and amendment of acts.)
Notice is hereby Given, that application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an act to enable
the Severn Valley Railway Company to abandon and relin-
quish the construction of so much of their main line of rail-
way, by "the Severn Valley Railway Act, 1853," authorised
to be made, as extends from the point marked thirty-eight
miles on the plans referred to in the said act, in the parish
of Saint Chad, in the county of Salop, to the authorised ter-
minus thereof in the parish of Holy Cross and Saint Giles,
Shrewsbury, in the said county, which portion of Railway so
intended to be abandoned is now authorised to be made with-
in the parishes of Saint Chad, Atcham, and Holy Cross and
Saint Giles, Shrewsbury, in the said county, or some or one
of them :
And it is proposed by the said intended act to authorise
the Severn Valley Railway Company to make and maintain a
railway in substitution for the portion of railway so proposed
to be abandoned, with all proper stations, approaches, works,
and conveniences connected therewith, commencing from and
out of the Severn Valley Railway, as now authorised to be
made, at or near the said point marked thirty-eight miles, in
the said parish of Saint Chad, and county of Salop, and ter-
minating in the parish of Saint Julian Shrewsbury, in the
said county, by a junction with the Shrewsbury and Here-
ford Railway at or near a point thereon three hundred yards
or thereabouts southwards of a locomotive engine house re-
cently erected or now in the course of erection on or adjoin-
ing to that railway, which said intended railway and works
will be made and maintained from, in, through, or into or
be situate within the several parishes, townships, and extra-
parochial or other places of Berrington, Saint Chad, Batton,
Great Batton Abbots Betton, Batton Abbots, Little Betton,
Betton Strange. Betton and Alkmere, Frankwell, Atcham
Attingham, Emstree otherwise Emstrey, Chilton, Croak
Hill, Berwick Mavison, Uckington, Longner, Sutton, Sutton
Mill, Meole Brace otherwise Brace Meole, Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury, the Abbey Parish Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and
Saint Giles Shrewsbury, Saint Julian Shrewsbury, the liberties
of Shrewsbury, the borough of Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury,
Coleham, Trinity Coleham, and the Stone Ward Without
Shrewsbury, in the said county of Salop, or some or one of
them :

And it is also intended by the said act to enable the Severn
Valley Railway Company, either solely or jointly with the
London and North-Western Railway Company and the
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company, or with either
if them, to construct and maintain a station, with suitable
approaches, works, and conveniences, in the parishes, town-
ships or other places, of St. Julian Shrewsbury, Coleham,
Trinity Coleham, the Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury, the
Abbey Parish Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and St. Giles Shrews-
bury, Shrewsbury, the borough of Shrewsbury, the liberties
of Shrewsbury, and the Stone Ward Without Shrewsbury, in
the said county of Salop, or some or one of them, and also to
enable the Severn Valley Railway Company to enter into
contracts, agreements, and arrangements with those com-
panies, or with either of them, for and concerning the joint
construction, maintenance, and use of such station :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to apply
for powers to enable the said Severn Valley Railway Com-
pany to make lateral deviations from the lines of the said
intended railway and works to the extent and within the
limits described upon the plans hereinafter mentioned, and
also to cross, stop up, alter or divert, whether temporarily
or permanently, all such turnpike and other roads and high-
ways, streets, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, tow-
ing-paths, streams, drains, pipes, rivers, navigations, and
other works within the aforesaid parishes, townships, and
extra-parochial or other places, or any of them, as it may be
necessary to cross, stop up, alter, or divert, by reason of the
construction of the said railway and other works or any of
them :

And it is also intended by the said act to apply for
powers for the purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, of
lands and buildings, for the purposes of the said intended
railway, station, and other works ; and to alter, vary, or
extinguish all existing rights and privileges connected with
such lands and buildings, or which would in any manner
impede or interfere with the construction, maintenance, and
use of the said intended railway, station, and other works,
or any of them, and to confer, vary, or extinguish other
rights and privileges, and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties
for or in respect of the use of the said intended railway,
station, and other works, or any of them, and to alter
existing tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or
extinguish exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and
duties :

And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the
thirtieth day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections,
showing the direction, line, and levels of the said intended
railway and other works, and the lands which may be taken
for the purposes of the same, together with a book of refer-
ence to such plans, containing the names of the owners or
reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and of the occu-
piers of such lands, and also a copy of this notice, as pub-
lished in the London Gazette, will be deposited for public
inspection with the Clerk. of the Peace for the county of
Salop, at his office at Shrewsbury ; and that on or before the
slid thirtieth day of November a copy of so much of the
said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each
parish or extra-parochial place in or through which the said
railway and other works are intended to be made, together
with a copy of this notice, published as aforesaid, will be de-
posited as follows (that is to say) : in the case of parishes,
with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his residence ;
and in case of any extra-parochial place with the parish clerk
of some parish immediately adjoining thereto, at his resi-
dence :

And Notice is hereby further Given, that it is also pro-
posed by the said intended act to empower the Severn Valley
Railway Company to apply to the purposes of the said in-
tended act, or some of them, any funds or capital already au-
thorised to be raised by them under their existing act, or
which now or hereafter may belong to them, or may be under
the control of their directors, and, if necessary, to raise a
further sum of money for the purposes of such act, or some
of them, by the creation and issue of new shares iu their
undertaking, or by mortgage or bond, and to enable the
company to assign and attach, if they shall see fit, to any
shares to be created under the authority of the said intended
act, such guaranteed or preferential dividend, terms, condi-
tions, rights, or privileges, as the company shall see fit :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to enable
the said Severn Valley Railway Company, or any other com-
pany, or persons lawfully using the lines authorised by " The
Severn Valley Railway Act, 1853," or by the intended act, to
run, pass over, and use with their engines, carriages, and wag-
goes, or with the engines, carriages, and waggons, of such
other company or persons using and passing over the lines au-
thorised by the said act, or by the intended act, the several
railways and stations, watering-places, sidings, offices, and
other works and conveniences, or some of them, or some part
or parts thereof, now or hereafter belonging jointly or seve-
rally to or under the joint or several management or regula-
tion of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company, the
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company, the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Company, the London and North-
Western Railway Company, the Shropshive Union Railways
and Canal Company, and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Railway Company, or any or either of them, upon payment
of such tolls, rates, and charges, or such sum or sums of mo-
ney, either annually or in gross, and in such manner and
upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon be-
tween the said Severn Valley Railway Company or the said
other company or persons, and the said several railway com-
panies before mentioned, or any of them, or as shall be pre-
scribed or provided for by the intended act, and also to apply
f.r powers to alter, limit, and regulate the tolls, rates, and
duties authorised to bo levied under the saveral acts herein.
after mentioned, or some of them, so far as the same shall be
le riable in respect of such engines, carriages, and waggons,
running, passing over, or using such several railways, sta-
tions, and other works and conveniences, or any or either of
them, or any part or parts thereof :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to autho-
rise the said Severn Valley Railway Company, and the said
several Railway Companies before mentioned, or any or either
of them, to make and enter into and carry into effect such
contracts and arrangements, on such terms and conditions,
and subject to such restrictions, as may or may have been
mutually agreed upon by or ou behalf of the Severn Valley
Railway Company and those Companies, or any or either of
them, with reference to the working and use of the Railway
or Railways, or any part or parts thereof, authorised by
" The Severn Valley Railway Act, 1853," or by the said in-
tended Act, and of the Railway or Railways, or any part
or
parts thereof, now or hereafter belonging to the several
them,
and Companies before mentioned, or any or either of
.m,
and the conduct, management, direction, and transmission
of the traffic, or any portion of the traffic,a aupon_swt Rail-
ways, or any of them, or any part ex f
and apportioument of such traffic, and the tonldlstiratclesiv,lbain
charges arising therefrom, between thees-b'edfeiSe.;NinernentVieanleledy,
Railway Company and the said Companies before
Companies,
or
or any or either of them; and to enable
alungy
iourteeietfrheeertoft
anyh° them,
°committee, or otherwise,
etho aepeinatorainetntast joint
r a rreoamagmeinitteenetfso,racnadrryt
su
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Privileges, whether with exercise, by means of such joint
such of the rights, powers, an
to such Companies
or
re-
ference to the levying of tolls, rates, and duties, or otherwise
new or hereafter vested in or belonging
as. may be necessary or expedient for
parties to
maysuch
any such contract or arrangement, other rights,
into effect any such contracts or ar-
any or either of them, or such of themand asbe
naglso proposed by the said intended act
more powers,
effectually
and p privileges ydei laei
rassi
rangements a
to confirm all or any agreements now or hereafter to be
entered into between such Companies, or any or either of
them, or on their behalf, with reference to all or any of the
purposes before mentioned :
And it is also intendedbyatande
the several said
saecvtetol companies enable the
inte-
rested Severn
Valley
in theilail tawsaytion Company,
at Shrewsbury belonging, or alleged to
belong, jointly to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Shrews-
buryn ena d
Railways Hereford
a aßailway
Canal
and C haensdt e rt, h
ea nShropshire
b uury a
Companies,
Company, or some of them, to make agreements for the ad-
mission of the Severn Valley Railway Company as copartners
in the said station, and for and concerning the use by the
Severn Valley Railway Company, jointly with such other
compasios, or some of them of such station, together with the
watering-places, sidings, platforms, booking offices, ware-
houses, and other buildings and conveniences connected there-
with, or such portions thereof as may be necessary ; and also
to enable the Severn Valley Railway Company, and the seve-
ral and respective companies aforesaid, to enter into agree-
ments for and concerning the use of and passage over, with
engines, carriages, and waggons of the Severn Valley Railway
Company, such portions of the lines of railway belonging to
the said Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Shrewsbury and Ches-
ter,_ and Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Companies, and
the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Ceocmezainryy
for rho
respec-
tively, or any or either of them,
use by the Severn Valley RailwayaC'ornrealy)aoub;
any part thereof, and for and concerning then
of ssuet
sums
n station
gross,or
or other charges
or by annual payments, or the rate
which shall be paid by the Severn
.v
s for or in respect of all
to all or any of such other companies %lolelyls,Railway Company
or any of the matters aforesaid :
consolidate all or some of the
extend, vary, amend, enleafrge,,
The Severn Valley Railway Act,
And it is also proposed byerthe said intended act to alter,
powers and provisions
1853 ;" and, if it should be
de
part of the provisionstinned
ofexpedient the said last-men-
repeal all or any
act with such alterations and amend-
emed so o do, to
,

DARTMOUTH, TORQUAY, and SOUTH
DEVON EXTENSION RAlLWAY.—lncorporation
of Company ; construction of Railways from the Torquay
Station of the South Devon Railway to or near to Dart-
mouth, and also to the Pier or Harbour at Torquay, with an
Approach Road to the Dartmouth Floating Bridge ; Power
to make Working Arrangements with the South Devon
Railway Company, and to enable that Company to subscribe,
&c., to the Undertaking ; Amendments of Acts to
the South Devon Railway Company, and of the Dart-
mouth Floating Bridge Company.)—Notice is Hereby
Given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament
in the ensuing Session for an Act or Acts to incorporate a
Company for the purpose of making and maintaining the rail-
ways hereinafter mentioned, or some or one of them, with all
proper approaches, stations and other works and conveniences
connected therewith (that is to say) :
A railway commencing by a junction with the Torquay
branch of the South Devon Railway at or near the north end
of the Torquay station, at or near Torre otherwise Torr, in
the parish of Tormoham otherwise Tormohun, in the county
of Devon, and terminating at or near Hoodown Ferry Pas-
sage House, in the occupation of Mary Burgoine, in the
' parish of Brixham, in the same county : which said intended
railway will be made or pass from, in, through, or into, to be
situate within, the several parishes, townships, extra-pa-
rochial or other places following, or some of them (that is to
say), Tomoham otherwise Tormohun, Torre otherwise Torr,
Torquay, Tor Abbey, Chilstou, Cockington, Paignton, Good-
rington, Galmptou, Churston Ferrers, Kingswear, and
Brixham, all in the said county,:
Also a railway commencing by a junction with such in-
tended railway at a point in a field or enclosure adjoining to
and on the north-west side of the lane leading from the Brix-
ham and Kingswear turnpike-road to Hoodown Ferry Passage
House aforesaid, and which point is three hundred yards, or
thereabouts, in a direct line from the proposed terminus of
the first mentioned intended railway at or near Hoodown
Ferry Passage House aforesaid, and terminating in the parish
of Brixham aforesaid at or near a certain public-house called
or known by the name of " Dartmouth Floating Bridge Inn,'
occupied by George Griffis, and situate at the eastern end of
the Dartmouth Floating. Bridge, and on the east side of the
harbour of Dartmouth; and which said railway will pass
from, in, through, into, or be situate within the said parish
of Brixham.:

Also a railway commencing at or near the western quay or
pier of the harbour of Torquay, in the said parish of Torinoham
otherwise Tormohuu, and terminating by two junctions with
the first-mentioned intended railway, the one at or near
Livermead House, in the parish of Cockington, in the said
county of Devon, and the other at a point in a field belonging
to Charles Herbert Mallock, Esq., adjoining to and on the
west side of the road leading from Livermead House aforesaid
to Torre otherwise Torr, and which said last-named point is
twenty chains or thereabouts in a direct Line from the sea-
shore; and which said railway and junctions will pass from,
in, through, or into, or be situate within, the several parishes,
townships, extra-parochial or other places of Tormoham
otherwise Torinohun, Torquay, Cockington, and Tor Abbey,
or some or ono of them, all in the county of Devon :
And it is also intended by the said act or acts to authorise
and empower the said company so to be incorporated as afore-
said to make a road or approach, commencing from or near the
proposed terminus of the firstly-described intended railway
near Hoodown Ferry Passage House aforesaid, and terminat-
ing in the said parish of Brixham at or near a certain public-
house called or known by the name of " Dartmouth Floating
Bridge Inn," occupied by George Griffis, and situate at the
eastern end of the Dartmouth Floating Bridge, and on the
east side of the harbour of Dartmouth ; and which said road
or approach will pass from, in, through, into, or be situate
within the said parish of Brixham :
And it is also intended by the said act or acts to confer
upon the company to be thereby incorporated all necessary
powers for effecting the purposes following (that is to say):—
To stop up, alter, divert, cross, or break up, either tempo-
rarily or permanently, any turnpike or other roads, high-
ways, footpaths, streets, railways, tramways, canals,
aqueducts, streams, rivers, navigations, sewers, drains,
pipes, and watercourses within th beforenamed parishes,
townships, extra-parochial or other places, or any of
them, which it may be necessary or desirable to stop up,
alter, divert, cross, or break up for any of the purposes
of the intended railways, road, and works;
To make lateral deviations from the lines of the said in-
tended railways, road, and works, to the extent and
within the limits defined upon the plans hereinafter men-
tioned, and to purchase, by compulsion or otherwise,
lands, houses, and hereditaments for the purposes of the
intended railways, road, and works, and to vary or ex-
tinguish any rights or privileges connected with such
lands, houses, and he.reditaments ;
To levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or in respect of the in-
tended Railways, road, and works, and to alter existing
tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish
exemption from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties,
and to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights and privi-
leges :
And it is also proposed by the said act or acts to authorise
the South Devon Railway Company to subscribe and contri-
bute funds towards the said undertaking, and to guarantee
to the intended company such interest, dividend annual or
other payments, as may be agreed upon between' such com-
panies respectively, and to take and hold shares in the said
undertaking, and to apply any capital or funds now or here-
after belonging to them, or under the control of their direc-
tors, or to raise additional capital by the creation of new
shares, either with or without preference or priority in pay-
ment of interest or dividend, or by borrowing on mortgage
or bond, for the purposes aforesaid, or of them ; and to
enable the said South Devon Railway any Company to vote at
meetings of the company to be incorporated as aforesaid, and
to appoint directors of that company.
Ana It also pioposed by the said
intended act or acts to
enable the said intended company and the said South Devon
Railway Company to make, enter into, and carry into effect
such contracts and arrangements, on suchismay terms
condi-
tions, and subject to such restrictions, be oramnda y havebeen mutually agreed upon by or on a
behalf of those compa-
nies, with reference to the working and use of the said in-
tended Railways, road, and works, the conduct, management,
and direction of the traffic, or any portion of the traffic, upon
the same, and the division and apportionment of such traffic,
and the tolls, rates, and cbarges arising therefrom, between
and amongst the said two companies ; and for enabling the
said intended company and the said South Devon Railway
Company to appoint a joint committee for carrying into effect
any such contracts Or arrangements, and to exercise by
means of such joint committee or otherwise, such of the
rights, powers, or privileges, whether with reference to the
levying of tolls, rates, and duties, or otherwise, now or here-
after vested in or belonging to the said companies, and all
such other rights, powers, and privileges as may be necessary
or expedient for more effectually carrying into effect any such
contracts or arrangements.
And it is also proposed by the said inbended act or acts to
confirm all or any arrangements, now or hereafter too be
uetn-
tered into, between the said intended company and th Sa
referenceh
Devon Railway Company, or on their behalf, with
to all or any of the purposes before mentioned :
P
before he
And Notice is hereby further Given that on
or
30th day of November instant, maps,
showing the direction, line, and levels-olfantshe asanid in tended
railways and works, and plans and sections of the said road,
together with a book of reference to such plans, and a
copy of this notice, as published in the London Gazette,
will be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the
county of Devon, at his office at the Castle of Exeter in
the said county ; and that on or before the same clay a copy
of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference
as relates to each parish or extra-parochial place in or through
which the said railways, road, and works, or any part
thereof, will be made or pass, together with a copy of this
notice, as published in the Loudon Gazette, will be deposited
for public inspection, in the case of each such parish With the
parish
I clerk thereof at his residence, and in the case of each
such extra-parochial place with the parish clerk
parish immediately adjoining thereto at his of
some
residence.
And Notice is hereby further Given, thatreosnofore the
31st day of December in the present year, printed copies of
the intended bill or bills will be deposited in the Private Bill
Office of the House of Commons
And it is also proposed by the said intended act or acts, so
far as may be necessary for the purposes thereof, to alter,
amend, extend, vary, and enlarge or repeal the powers and
provisions or some of the powers and provisions of the seve-
ral acts of Parliament following,
is to say);:—« Th_ or some or one of them (that
0 South Devon Railway Act, 1844," The