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EDINBURGH
In compliance with the resolutions or Orders of the Houses
of Parliament, a SPECIAL MEETING of the Shareholders or Stock-
holders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company will be held
within the Railway•office in Queen-street, Glasgow, upon TUESDAY,
the 12th day of May next, at one o'clock afternoon, when a copy
of a Bill before Parliament, intituled, "A Bill or Act to enable the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company to alter the line of the
Glasgow Junction Railway, and co form a Branch to South Queens-
ferry," will be submitted to the consideration of the meeting, and a
vote taken on the said Bill, as required by the said resolutions or
orders. By order of the Directors,

JOHN LEARMOUTH, Chairman
H. G. WRIGHT, Secretary.

4FAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.
In compliance with the Standing Orders and Sessional
Orders of Parliament.

Notice is hereby given, that an Extraordinary General Meeting of
the East Lancashire Railway Company will be held at the Eagle and
Child Inn, Silver-street, Bury, in the county of Lancaster, on WED-
NESDAY, the 3rd day of June now next ensuing, at Twelve o'clock
at Noon ; when the Drafts of the undermentioned Bills, introduced
into Parliament in the present session, will be submitted to the
shareholders for their approval, namely :
A Bill to enable the East Lancashire Railway Company to alter
the line and:levels of such railway, and to make branches there-
from, and for other purposes relating thereto.
A Bill for making a railway from the East Lancashire Railway, at
Accrington, in the county Palatine of Lancaster, to Long Preston
and Settle, in Yorkshire, with branches therefrom.
A Bill to unite and consolidate the Blackburn and Preston Rail-
way Company with the East Lancashire Railway Company.
A Bill for making certain branches from the line of the Blackburn
and Preston Railway, in the county of Lancaster ; and for amending
the Acts relating thereto.
A Bill for making a railway from the Liverpool and Bury Railway
to Preston, and to the Blackburn and Preston and North Union
Railways, with branches therefrom, to be called "The Liverpool, Ormekirk, and Preston Railway."
A (proposed) Bill to incorporate the Company of Proprietors of the
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, with
the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company.
Dated the Twenty-ninth day of April, 1846.
JAMES. SMITHELLS.

COLCHESTER, STOUR VALLEY, SUD-
ii BURY, and HALSTEAD RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that a MEETING of the HOLDERS of
SCRIP and of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for SCRIP of the COLCHES-
TER, STOUR VALLEY, SUDBURY, and lIALSTEAD RAILWAY
COMPANY, will be held at the Offices of the said Company, No. 1,
High-street, Colchester, Essex, on THURSDAY, the 7th day of May,
1846, at One o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of submitting
a copy of the Bill now before Parliament, to incorporate the said Com-
pany and construct and maintain the said Railway for the considera-
tion of the said Scripholders and Holders of Bankers' Receipts for
Scrip. Dated this 27th day of April, 1846.
GEORGE BAWTREE, Secretary.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE and OXFORD and
BLETCIILEY JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
In pursuance of the Sessional Orders of both Houses of Parliament,
notice is hereby given that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of
the SCRIPHOLDERS of this Company, that is to say of the Holders
of Scrip, or of Bankers' Receipts for Scrip, of the Company, will be
held on SATURDAY, the 9th of May next, at twelve o'clock at noon,
at the London and Birmingham Railway Station, in Euston-square,
London, for the purpose of approving (or otherwise) the following
Bills now before Parliament, viz. :
A Bill for making a railway from the London and Birmingham
Railway, at Aldbury, in the county of Hertford, to Banbury, in the
county of Oxford (Tring to Banbury).
A Bill for making a railway from Oxford to the London and Bir-
mingham Railway, at Bletchley, in the county of Buckin;ham (Ox-
ford to Bletchley).
The Sessional Orders, before referred to, require that one-third
of the capital proposed to be raised by the Bill shall be represented at
the meeting by persons producing thereat scrip or bankers' receipts
for the same, and the holders of such scrip or receipts are therefore
requested to attend accordingly.
The Directors take this opportunity of announcing that both the
above Bills have been read a second time ; the latter is now in Com-
mittee, and wholly unopposed ; the Committee on the former Bill is
not at present named

The Secretary will afford such information and assistance to the
shareholders as they may desire with reference to their scrip or re-
ceipts, and the prodectien thereof, and the voting thereon at the
meeting. Communications may be addressed to him at the Com-
pany s office, No. 29, Great George-street, Westminster.
As no parties will be entitled to vote at the meeting until his or
her name and address, and the denoting numbers of all the scrip or
receipts arc first recorded, shareholders are particularly requested,
with a view to the convenience of the meeting, either to send their
scrip or receipts to the Secretary, or to any of the Committee of
Management,. at the offices of the Company, or to furnish a state-
ment of the denoting numbers of the scrip or receipts to the Secre-
tary forthwith, as otherwise the proceedings of the meeting will be
greatly delayed by the necessary preliminary investigations.
HARRY VERNET, Bart.,
Obairman of the Committee of Management.
WYNDHAM HARDING, secretary.

Dated 29th April, 1846.

Offices of the Company, 29, Great George-street, Westminster.
' The following gentlemen are the Committee of Management :
Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon House, Bucks.
The Hon. Philip Sidney Pierrepont, Evenley Hall, Brackley, Nor.
thamptonshire.
Captain Edw. Hewes, Buckingham.
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham.
Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford.
Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxon.
Zacharias Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks.
George Carr Glyn, Esq., London
Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham
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Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool Directors
Thomas Smith, sq., Reigate Lodge, Surrey of the
Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, London London
Ross Donelly Mangles, Esq., 3f.P., London and
Birmingham
Captain Constantine Richard 3foorsom, R.N.,u—w Ra
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Robert Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester

LONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at the
Euston Station, London, on THURSDAY, the 7th day of May now
next ensuing, at 12 o'clock, when copies of the undermentioned Billa
now pending in Parliament, will be submitted to the proprietors for
their approval, by which Bids it is proposed to authorise the London
and Birmingham Railway Company, either to constructor to become
the lessees or proprietors of, or to contribute toward. the formation
of the railways therein mentioned, that is to say—
A Bill for making a railway trona the London and Birmingham
Railway at Aldbury, in the county of Hertford, to Banbury, in the
County of Oxford.

♦ Bill for making a railway from Oxford, to the London and Bir-
mingham Railway at Bletchley, in the county of Buckingham.
A Bill for making a railway from the London and Birmingham
Railway, in the parish of Hampton-in-Arden, in the county of War-
wick, to the town of Banbury, in the county of Oxford.
A 11111 for making a railway from the London and Birmingham
Railway, in the parish of Hampton-in-Arden, in the county of
Warwick, to the Biriningharn and Gloucester Railway, in the parish
of Ashchurch, in the county of Gloucester.
A Bill to empower the London and Birmingham Railway Company
to make a branch railway from the London and Birmingham Rail-
wa, , near Coventry, to the Trent Valley Railway, in the parish of
Nuneaton.
A Bill for making a railway from or near the city of Worcester, to
the London and Birmingham Railway, in the parish of Weedon, in
the county of Northampton, with a branch to Alcester, in the county
of Warwick.
A Bill to empower the London and Birmingham Railway Company
to make a branch from the said railway, to the Blisworth and Peter-
borough branch thereof.

A Bill to empower the London and Birmingham Railway Company
to extend their line at andLeamington,toenlarge their stations at
ry, Covent and Rugby, and for otherpurposes.
A Bill for making a railway from the London and Birmingham
Railway, to or near to Navigation-street, in the borough of Bir-
mingham.
A Bill for making a railway from the London and Birmingham
Railway, in the parish of Rugby, in the county of `Warwick-, to Leam-
ington and Warwick, in the county of Warwick.
A Bill for carrying into effect certain arrangements between the
London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the Company of
Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigation, and for granting
certain powers to the said respective Companies.
A Bill for making a railway from Birmingham to Wolverhampton
and to the Grand Junction Railway in the parish of Buahbury, with
a line diverging therefrom to Wolverhampton, and a branch to
Dudley.
A Bill for making a railway from Sinethwick, in the parish of liar-
borne, in the county of Stafford, to Stourport, in the county of Wor-
cester, with branches therefrom.
A Bill to consolidate the Linden and Birmingham Grand Junction
and Manchester and Birmingham Railway Companies.
A Bill for making a railway from Blisworth, in the county of
Northampton, to Ashchurch, in the county of Gloucester, to be called
" The Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway."
A Bill for making a railway from Illisworth, in the county of
Northampton, to Banbury, in the county of Oxford, to be called
" The Northampton and Banbury Railway."
A Bill to empower the London and Birmingham Railway Company
to make a branch railway from Rugby to the Syston and Peter-
borough Railway at Stamford.
A Bill to empower the London and Birmingham Railway Company
to make a railway from Wolverton to Newport Pagnell and Bedford.
A Bill for vesting the Aylesbury Railway in the London and Bir-
mingham Railway Company.
A. Bill to empower the London and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany to make a railway from the London and Birmingham Railway,
near Watford, to St. Albans and Dunstable, with a branch to Luton.
A Bill to authorise an improvement of the line of the West London
Railway and the Extension thereof to the river Thames.
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Dated this 22d day of April, 1846.
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RICHARD CUED, Secretary.