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London, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY,
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET.
ING of the PROPRIETORS of the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
will be held at the offices of the Company, at Paddington, in the
county of Middlesex, on TUESDAY, the 16th day of June, at One o'clock
precisely in the afternoon, when copies of the following Bills will be
submitted to the consideration of the meeting in compliance with the
Standing Orders of the House of Lords :
" A Bill for making a Railway and other Works from Plymouth to
Falmouth and other places in the county of Cornwall, to be called
' The Cornwall Railway.' "
" A Bill to authorise certain alterations and extensions of the line
of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Bailway."
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be called 'The Gloucester and Dean Foresstoßuthwikavie's"Railway,
and
" A Bill for completing the Line of the
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" A Bill for making a Railway from Birmingham to join the Lines
of the proposed Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
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Western proposedPtitan nu
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:
ford Junction Railway.'"
s . and to be called ' The Birmingham and Ox-
" A Bill for making a Railway into Birmingham in extension of
" A Bill for making
ABillfor Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway."
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and extensions,
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line of the South authorisingDevonßilway, and the formation of Branches
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London Railway and the ae.nt-ham, Kings wear, and othet places."
improvement of the line of the West
" A Bill for making a
Railwension thereof to the River Thames."
and Hereferd, the town of RoasY to co
city r,
and Gloucester Railway.'"
" A Bill for making a Railway from the Great western Railway, at
Maidenhead, in Berkshire, to the town of High Wycombe, in the
cou,,nAtyßoifullfuocrkingham
constructing.'t a Pier at Portbury, in the county of
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Somerset, and for making a Railway from the same to the city of
Bristol,
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West Drayton, to Uxbridge, in Midis lesex."
" A Bill for making a Railway front the Great Western Railway at
ibeltenham, to join the Oxford, Vi "orce.ster, and Wolverhampton
' ' ,Ilway, near Shipton-under-Wychw ood, in the county of Oxford."
The Chair will be taken at One B'4 ick precisely.
Dated tillo 7th clay of May, 1846.
_, . C. RIISSFLL, Chairman.

CALEDONIAN EXTENSION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that in compliance with the Sessional
Orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, a SPECIAL GENE-
RAL MEETING of the HOLDERS of SCRIP and BANKERS' RE-
CEIPTS for SCRIP, of the Caledonian Extension Railway, will be held
within the Thatched House Tavern, 85, St. James's-street, London, on
MONDAY, the Ist day of June next, at Twelve o'clock Noon, when
there will be submitted to their consideration and approval, a copy
of the Bill now pending before Parliament for Incorporating this
Company and authorising the construction of the railway.
Parties attending this meeting will be required to produce their
Scrip or Bankers' Receipts, and to furnish the Secretary with a me-
morandum of their name and address, denoting the numbers of the
Scrip produced

J. J. HOPE JOHNSTONE, Chairman
JOHN MAIUi, Secretary.
28, Parliament strAet, Westminster, May 14, 1846.

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Committee 0
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have
Housean-
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of Commons, and will be forwarded through Parliament with
the least possible delay.
A Meeting of the Shareholders has been called, in accordance with
the Sessional Orders recently passed by both Hoqses of Parliament,
at which it is necessary that one-third of the capital of the Company
should be represented.
Shareholders who are unable to be present are requested to lodge
their Scrip with any of the following parties, who will give a receipt
for the same, and return the Scrip after it has been produced to the
Meeting, viz.:—
Mr. John )Barr, Secretary to the Company, 28, Parliament-street,
Westminster ; Messrs. Hope and Oliphant, W. S., Princes-street,
Edinburgh; Messrs. Grahame, Maxwell, and Co., St. Vincent-street,
Glasgow.
In consequence of the works being now limited to the Western
Extension, the Directors will be enabled either to redece the amount
of the shares or to restrict the sum to be called upon each to a
very considerable extent.
The project, as now limited, consists, first, of the Branch from
LesmahagoW to the Clydesdale Junction Railway at Hamilton,
opening a direct communication from the most valuable mineral
&id in the West of Scotland to the city of Glasgow, from which a
is well known for its superior quality, and for that description of
very largo return May be expected, as:the gas coal of Lesmahagow
for home consumption. The funds already in the hands of the Di-
e construction of
coal there is now au unlimited demand for exportation, as well as
rectors will be applied, in the first instance, to the
this line.
The other portions of the line will open a direct communication
in conjunction with the Caledonian Railway from the
e importand
ant
town and neighbourhood of Ayr, with Edinburgh Onhand,
Carlisle and the manufacturing districts of England on the other.
These lines also pass through extensive mineral fields, and the local
traffic will be considerable, but the Directors do not look on t'ie im-
mediate formation of these works as equally pressing, inasmuch
as the traffic cannot be completely developed until after the com-
pletion of the Edinburgh branch of the Caledonian Railway.
Under these circumstances it will not be necessary to press incon-
veniently on the shareholders by early or frequent calls.
A question will come before the meeting as to the propriety of
insertins a clause in the Bill, authorising the Directors to allow In-
terest on the amount of calls from the date of payment.
J. J. HOPE JOHNSTONE, Chairman.
JOHN MARE, Secretary.
28, rArliArnettltrott Weatiabgiter,MAY
14,'040.