The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-15 00:00:00

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„VI

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock

RAILWAY COMMIT" EES
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP I.
NORTH RENT 7.1'NE.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Captain Dyke cf Sittingbourne, gave very positive evi-
dence in favour of the South-Eastern scheme.
Mr. Hawes proved that the consent of the landlords from
to Chilham, to the South-Eastern North Kent
line, had been obtained.
Mr. C. J. Hilton, mayor of Feversham, was called to prove
that the inhabitants of Faversham were decidedly in favour
of the line from Strcod to Chilham.
Mr. Alston, of Sheerness, bore testimony to the great ad-
vantage the proposed railway would prove to the oyster trade
of Kent.
Mr. Basenda7e, of Qacenborough, near Sheerness, gave ,
similar testimony.
Mr. Talbot, storekeeper of Chatham Dockyard, proved '
that the proposed line would be of the utmost importance to
the public service. In hisopinion the line would be a national
benefit. The present stores had to be conveyed all the way
round by Sheerness, and up the Medy,-ay: The railway
would remove that circuitous route.
Colonel Simpson, Commandant of the Military Depot at
Chatham, gave corroborative testimony.
Mr. Hayward, Mayor of Rochester, proved that the inha-
bitants, corporation, and most of the public bodies were in
favour of the South-Eastern scheme.
Mr. Nicholson, banker of Rochester, and Mr. C. W. Martin,
M.P., gave corroborative testimony.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

TATTERSALL'S-THIN EVENING

LEAMINGTON STEEPLE CHASE.
3 to I on the field
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HANDICAP.
t) 1 agst Ilalo—taken
8 to 1 agst Doleful—taken
10 to 1 agst Euclid colt—taken
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
8 to 1 agst Sheraton
20 to 1 agst Euclid colt
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
8 to 1 agat Liberator
12 to 1 agst Sister to Cobweb colt
CHESTER CUP.
17 to 1 agst Antler
25 to 1 egst Camera Obscrtra
30 to 1 agst Peach
20 to 1 agst Mickey Free
SO to 1 agat The Lamb
40 to 1 aget Neweourt
LO to 1 agst Intrepid
DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Van Tromp
20 to 1 agst Glentilt
30 to 1 agst The Liberator
50 to 1 agst Red Hart
50 to 1 agst Will o' the Wisp
511 to 1 agst Christopher
50 to 1 agst Clarendon

MEETING OF THE SOUTH-EAST-
ERN AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPA-
NIES' SHAREHOLDERS.—(THIS DAY.)
A meeting; of the shareholders in these two companies
was Lehi this day, in the Lo::cion Tavern, Dishopsgate-
street, for the rurpose of adopting; some measures to
stop, if possible, sshat was termed " the wasteful and
extravagant expenditure" incurred by the Parliamentary
contest:', b -tween the South-E•lstern Company, on
the ono hand, aed the London and Brig!-itm. on the
other.

The Jorge room r.-as repeetalily fil!c.1, and a consi-
derable number of the mire influential shareholders
were seated the tal_1-.
Mr. CASH called to 11;e chair. The chairman
add, that he heeled the company would not be conzidcred
al having been called together out of opposition to the
dircc:or.. It had been called togetly'r for the purpo-e
of putting a s'op to ilia shameful and rulw-Jus course of
expenditure now going on on the part of the directore.
—',Heat, hear.) He pa:Foie:1, on a bite ceetviit n, tlrA
some a, rangeau nts should be come to betwven the two
companies by which they should be united. That pro-
position had not been acceded to, nutwithstanding the
favourable opinions which were at one time entertained
of that result having been brought about. He had re-
ceive 1, on t. o part of the committee, six hundred
letters from the Brightou shareholders in favour
of an union of the two companies, and representing
shares to the value of 900,0001. and that morning their
committed had received upwards of 1,100 letters from
the South; Eastern-Company in favour of an arrange-
ment between the two companies. Those who had
given any attention to the subject, considering at the
same time the state of the money market, had c)ire to
the conclusion thst the Lest course would be to petition
Parliament to prevent any further progress in the ex-
tensions now pending before the Committees of the
House of Commons.—(Cheers.) He thought if the
two Committees had to en united, a most wasteful
expenditure would have been saved in the con•
struction of the two lines, witch had received the
sanction of ParliAnicnt last session, between Tun-
bridge and Hastiegs, end wh:ch would when
con, tructed, be most formidable rivals to each other, and
in their rivalry would injure the interests of the share-
holders.—(Oliver:.) At the same time he must beg
leave to say, that there had been a few letters received
from large sharohohlers expressing an opinion adverse
to an arneleamatliD between the two companies. '1'h;:
committee had prepared a number of resolutions, which
he pr posed to read to the meeting, and afterwards to
take the opinion of the meeting on the same.
Sir L. GOLDgMM thought iia!, if a motion with re-
spect to the poetponernent of the question should he
agreed to, it would he unnecessary to enter into any
angry discueeion as to the conduct of either of the
companies concerned. Ile therefore called upon the
meeting to postpone the consideration of the question of
the extensions till another year. He called upon the
meeting, as friends to their country, to the poor, rod to
themselves, to consent to the postponement of the con-
sideration of the proposed extensions till another year.
He would move that the meeting should petition Par-
liament to postpone the consideration of the schemes
before the Committees till another year.
The CHAIRMAN said that the Hon. Gentleman had
anticipated the resolutions which he purposed to read to
the meeting.
Mr. EDE then read a series of resolutions regretting
the contest which was now being carried on between
the rival companies, and recommending that measures be
adopted calculated at once to put a stop to the wasteful
expenditure ehich must result from that contest, and
recommending the me etne; to adopt a petition to Parlia-
ment, pro. jug the Loose to postpone the consideration
of :he vArir,us iine..; proposed by either company.
The CHAIRMAN the a said that a petition to the II...use
of Commons had been prepared, which would be ready
fur sienature at the close of the inecieg.
A 'SHAREHOLDER said that the Commit& es of the
Howe of COMITIons invariably it-fused to receive the
petitions of the shareholders, en the ground that they
were represented by she directors, who were supposed to
he in possession of information which the body of the
shareholders did not possess.
The CHAIRMAN sent that the petition prepared by the
committee did not cast the slightest refleetien upon the
conduct of the cempanee The committee were perfectly
unbiassed in their opinion towards either company; they
were of opinion that it would be absurd and ridiculous
to waste the money of the shareholders in a contest be-
tween the two companies.
Mr. Witanease then moved "That it is the opinion of
this meeting that the time. will undoubtedly arrive when
the Brighton and South-Eastern Company would be-
come consolidated," and for this reason he thought it ad-
visable thst no further expenditure or the capital of
either company should be expended in opposing each
ether.
Mr. WILLYAMS seconded the resolution.
Mr. SAVAGE suggested that instead of the expression
" will arrive" the resolution should be altered to " has
arrived."—(Cries of " No, no.")
Mr. LEVY said that he was one of the persons who
coalesced with Mr. Cash, and he believed that if
the resolutions were put to the meeting they
would meet the sanction of all present. But one
thing he must add, the committee had expended about
2001., and he hoped that, as Englishmen and gentlemen,
they would not allow the burden to fall upon a few iadi-
thluals.—(Laughter and cheers.)
Mr. P. A. TAYLOR sail that he had anticipated that
the question they had met to discuss was one of some
fair arid equitable arrangement between the companies,
arid looking to the resolutions placed by Mr. Cash in the
hands of the directors at the meetings of either company
some time before, he conceived that the tike had already
come for the union between the two lines. Ile trusted
that the object before them would be limited, therefore,
to the one important inquiry of amalgamation. He did
not see that it was necessary to stop the whole of the
proceedings in Parliament, further than to check any
needless expenditure, arising from a contest in which
one of the lines would suffer, and in which they (the
shareholders) would suffer also. The speaker concluded
by moving an amendmer t, that the word " has" be sub-
stituted for " will," in the first resolution.
Sir I. L. GOLDSMID addressed the meeting aginst the
amendment.
Wesnew was in favour of the original resolution.
e amendment and original resolution having been
put from the chair, the latter was declared carried by a
large majority.
The second r(soluti
meeting that terms of"'expressive of the regret of the
arrangement
upn by the direetGrs of the had not been agreed
_ cointaheedtwo companies was moved
hy Mr. Titoetesox,
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Asw
rx3Eze,s,,(1
the' carried.
carried.
.sstoltbiteitT.rece‘nTtliriact
cmaema:
sures be adepted to stay the cot:sr:et
panics."
-Mr. EAST seconded it.
Mr. JENNINGS thought this resolution tens
gpides_seed an
undue interference with the preceedines
esnecially as the shareholders had not
'had sufEciente:Zrt'a'
o❑ which to grouad an opinion.
. Mn'. A. TAYLOR objected to the resolution, because
the shareholders had not been apprised that this courco
would bo p-GCcGjeci
11::(1he movedmovedanamendment,
that at this time it is no: expedient to stop the pro-
ceedings of the compfir,i s BLrl.tatn.nt."
Mr. COLEMAN smelled the amendment.
In answer to certain questions,
The,CmieeerAN said, that the prepon,derance in favour
of the amalgamation of the cempaeies seemed to him to
emanate from the Brigb'on sharehoa
Iders • he (the
Chairman) had a greater interest in the Brighton than
in the South-Eaztern Railway.
Mr. Wesetew said that the present expenses, in con-
sequerc) of ParlaDentary altercation, was 5001. per day
to either company.
Mr. Jonas Lzvv, among other remarks, said that a J

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