The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-27 00:00:00

EASTERN CDUNTIES RAILWAY.
NEWMARKET RACES.
SPECIAL TRAINS will leave LONDON for CHESTERFORD
and CAMBRIDGE, calling at Lea Bridge, Brombourne, and Bishops
Stortford, at 8.40 A.m. on MONDAY the 27th and TUESDAY the 28th
inst., returning from CAMBRIDGE at 6.30 P.M., and from CHES-
TERFORD at 7 P.M. On FRIDAY a SPECIAL TRAIN will leave
CAMBRIDGE for LONDON one hour and three quarters after the
Races terminate, and will call at CHESTERFORD half an hour
later.

Passengers booked through, to and from Newmarket, at the same
fares as for the first Spring Meeting.
For further particulars see handbills, to be had at any of the Com-
pany's Stations. By order,

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C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Offices, Shoreditch Station, 22d April, 1846.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
From an anxious desire to meet the public convenience, and with
a view to placing the varied advantages of their Railway, in respect
both of business and pleasure, more within the reach of every class
of the community, the Directors of this Company have resolved, on
and after the Ist of May ensuing—

To inerease the number of the trains and to accelerate their speed,
and vary the hours of departure and arrival of many of them.
To carry Second-Class Passengers with their Express Traine.
To abolish their Slow Trains altogether, and to convey Third-
Class Passengers at the Parliamentary fares, with their ordinary
Trains, four times a day each way, and at hours to allow of an early
departure and late return to and fro.

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To make he following great Reduction in their Fares through-
out

• Express Train, first class reduced to 2Cs.
second class —17 s.
Fast Trains, first class —17 s.
second class —14 s.
Mixed Trains, first class —14 s.
second class —10 s.
Third class at .......... Gs. Gd.
By an arrangement with the Floating Bridge Company, the Omni-
bus fare between Gosport and Portsmouth is reduced from Is. to 6d.
each Passenger, Including the same weight of luggage as allowed by
the Railway Company. First class, 1121 b.; second class, 841 b.;
third class, 561 b.
Steps are in progress to increase the convenience of passengers
proceeding by steam to France, the Channel Islands, the Southern
Coast, and the Isla of Wight. This route to France, although same-
What longer, is by far the most certain and secure, from there being
good harbours tbr departure and arrival at both ports.
Parcels will be carried at a greatly reduced scale, the throughout
charges between Southampton, Gosport, and London, including
delivery by passenger trains, being Axed as follows, viz.—
Is. Od. for 28 lb.
Is. 6d. „ SG lb.
2s. Od. „ 1121 b.
Time Bills, giving fhll particulars, are in course of publication.
(By order), P. LAURENTZ CAMPBELL, Secretary.
April 18, 1846.

cOUTII MIDLAND, OR LEICESTER,
NORTHAMPTON, BEDFORD, AND HUNTINGDON,
RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that a General Meeting of the Shareholders
of the South Midland Railway Company, will be held at the Railway
Station, Derby, on SATURDAY, the 2d of May next, at Two o'clock in
the afternoon, for the purpose of giving their sanction, or otherwise,
to the further proceeding with the Bills now before Parliament rela-
ting to this undertaking.

The votes will be taken according to the amount of Scrip held by
each Shareholder, present, or represented by proxy, at the Meeting ;
and every person claiming to vote, either in his own right, or as
proxy, will be required to produce and deliver up the Scrip attached
together, with the name and address of the owner affixed, whose
vote will then be noted, and the Scrip returned.
rorms of Proxy may be obtained by applying to the Secretary, at
the Company's Offices, Midland Railway Station, Leicester.
The Directors think it right to inform the Shareholders, that the
Preamble of the Bill for the Huntingdon Branch of the South Mid-
land Railway, has already been declared proved by the Committee of
the House of Commons, and that the Bill for the Rugby and Hunt-
ingdon Railway (a competing line) has been rejected.
The Committee on the Bill for the Northampton and Bedford lines
appointed to meet en the 27th instant.
Dated this 13th day of April, 1846.
GEO. HUDSON, Chairman of the Committee of Directors.
By order, G. N. BROWNE, Secretary.