The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-19 00:00:00

SOUTH-BASTERIN It AIL WAY COM.

PANY.
A special general meeting of the proprietors of the South-
Eastern Railway Company was heal at 1 o'clock yesterday,
in the Board-room, London-bridge station, for the purpose
of having submitted to them for approval the drafts of the
following Bills, viz. :-
1. A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company
to make a railway to connect the London and Greenwich
Railway and the North Kent line of the South-Eastern
Railway with the Bricklayers' Arms Branch Railway.
2. A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company
to make a Railway from the South-Eastern, Gravesend and
Rochester Railway at Stroud, to join the South- Eastern,
Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Railway, at Chilham,
in the county of Kent, with branches to Sheerness and Fa-
versham Creek.
3. A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company
to make a railway from the North Kent Line of the South-
Eastern Railway at Lewisham to Tunbridge, with branches
to Dartford, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Paddock Wood.
4. A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company
to make a railway from the South-Eastern Railway at Maid-
stone to the same railway at Great Chart, near Ashford, in
the county of Kent.
5. A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company
to make branch railways from the North Kent Line of the
South-Eastern Railway, near Lewisham, to Croydon and
Bromley.
6. A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company
to make a railway from the South-Eastern Gravesend and
Rochester Railway at Strood, to Maidstone.
7. A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Rail way Company
to widen the London and Greenwich Railway, and to enlarge
their London-bridge station.
S. A Bill for providing increased station accommodation at
the terminus of the South-Eastern, and London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway, at or near London-bridge, and for
the arrangement thereof.
And also for the purpose of making, extending, and alter-
ing bye-laws, orders, and rules for the management of the
undertakings belonging to or in lease to the South-Eastern
Railway Company.
And also for the purpose of determining whether interest at
any, and what rate, shall be paid on the shares of this com-
pany commonly called the No. 3 shares.
And also whether interest at any, and what rate, shall be
paid on the amounts paid and to be paid up in respect of the
shares of this company commonly called the No. 4 shares.
Mr. GREGORY, chairman of the company presided.
Mr. FEAROte, solicitor, having read the titles, preambles,
and marginal notes of the several Bills,
The CitnutmAx then said, that the projects which they
were about to promote in this session of Parliament had all
received the approbation of the shareholders, with one single
'
exception—that of the Lewisham, Bromley, and Croydon
Bill. There had been much public and private discussion
with regard to the conflicting interests of the South-
Western and Londonland Brig t'n and East Coast Junc-
tion Railway Companies. Statements had been made
unwarranted by the circumstances, and it would be
his duty to relate these circumstances as they
actually occurred. They were aware from the cor-
respondence which had already been made public,
that a conference had taken place, on the 4th November,
between a deputation of the South- Eastern Company and the
Brighton Company's Board, a.id misunderstandings having
arisen as to what had passed at that conference, in order to pre-
vent a recurrence of the same error, it was suggested that a
short-hand writer should be in attendance at the next meeting.
The shareholders had had already a verbatim report of what
took place circulated among them, and he should trot, there-
fore, occupy their time with comments upon these proceed n ts.
The deputation had had two more interviews since that period
with the chairman and Mr. Shuster, of the Brighton Company,
and an endeavour was made to bring about an amicable
settlement of the differences existing I,,en the r om-
panies. In order that the meetartt he aware of wh;r t
had taken place at these liter Int.—ye-a s would read to
them the draft submitted by the Brighton Company. The
Chairmen then proceeded to read the terms of the draft
which were bristly that the South-Ea'-tern Compmly
thould pay, for the use of the ltrigletoi.",::ornpan, 's
the sum of 20,0001. for five years; that the Brighton
Company should discontinue the promotion of their
North Kent projects, the South Eastern at the same time
withdrawing their Lewisham, Bromley, and Croydon Bill ;
that both companies should enter into an agreement not to
make or support any line hostile to the interests 44111?, other
that with regard to the enlargement of the London-brides
Station, the arrangement should be left with Messrs. Ste-
phenson and Cubitt, the engineers, to report thereon :
that in the event of the Brighton Company accepting
the accommodation of the Bricklayers' Arms Station
from the South-Eastern Cr.mliany, any difficultirs which
might arise as to the cost of erecting warehouses, or other
expenses, should be refeired to other and disinterested
partia.; that in the event, of an amalgamation being decided
on between the companies, a term of years (to he agreed
et"l
Upon) §h9lthi olipse in order that the proportionate amount