The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

EXPENDITURE.

By cash on account of engineering expenses £7,000
Ditto on account of expenses of Parliamentary
proceedings
By miscellaneous expenses—petty cash 363
By office expenses, salaries, Scc.
By stationary and printing
By advertising expenses

Total amount disbursed
Balance in hand

£169,808

THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
EXTENSION, NORTHAMPTON, DAVENTRY,
LEAMINGTON, AND WARWICK RAILWAY.
A meeting of the shareholders of this Company took
place yesterday at the Hall of Commerce, in pursuance of
the requisition contained in the following advertisement:

We, the undersigned, being respectively Shareholders in the
London and Birmingham Extension, Northampton, Daventry,
Leamington, and Warwick projected Railway Company, in virtue of
the powers given by an Act, passed in the present session, cap. 28,
intituled "An Act to Facilitate the Dissolution of Certain Railway
Companies," having left, at the registered place of business of the said
Company, a requisition, calling on the Members of the Provisional
Committee of the said Company to call a Meeting of the Share-
holders of the said Company, and the said Committee having
neglected or refused to comply with the said requisition, do, by
the authority aforesaid, hereby call a meeting of the Shareholders
of the said Company, to be held at the Hall of Commerce, Thread-
needle-street, in the City of London, on Friday, the 4th day of
September next, at One o'clock precisely, for the purpose of deter-
mining whether the Partnership or Company formed, or intended to
be formed, shall be dissolved, and in what manner the affairs of the
said Company shall be wound up.
As witness our hands the 24th day of August, 1846.
EDMUND EVANS MOLLADY, Warwick.
GEORGE READ, Warwick.
GEORGE THOMAS SMITH, Leamington.
EDWARD COLLINS, Birmingham.
BENJAMIN STOKES, Islington, Birmingham.
Mr. Powell took the chair at two o'clock.
After an irregular discussion, Mr. Powell, Mr. Rice
Davis, and Mr. Sparkman were appointed scrutineers,
for the purpose of ascertaining whether a sufficient num-
ber of votes were present.

It was then moved by Mr. WHITCOMB, and seconded
by Mr. LewsoN, that the Company should be dissolved,
but that the dissolution should not be considered an act
of bankruptcy.

The scrutineers then proceeded to ascertain whether
a sufficient number of scrip votes were present to enable
the meeting to adopt a resolution for the dissolution of
the company. . _

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After some considerable lapse of time,
The scrutineers reported that there were 4,636
votes present; that the whole of that number voted
for the dissolution of the Company; that 110 voted for
the dissolution being an act of bankruptcy, 4,321
against it, and 205 were neutral.
The CHAIRMAN then said that, there not being a suffi-
cient number of votes present to constitute- a meeting,
it must be adjourned to some future day.
Thanks baying been voted to the Chairman, the meet-
ing adjourned to Thursday next, at one o'clock.

THE WARWICK and WORCESTER

RAILWAY.
A meeting of this Company took place to-day, at the
Hall of Commerce, in consequence of the following re-
quisition :

We, the undersigned, being respectively Shareholders in the
Warwick and Worcester Railway Company, in virtue of the powers
given by an Act, passed in the present session, cap. 28, intituled
" An Act to Facilitate the Dissolution of Certain Railway Companies,'
having left, at th'e registered place of business of the said Company,
a requisition, calling en the Members of the Provisional Committee
of the said Company to eau a Meeting of the Share-
holders of the said Company, and the said Committee
having neglected or refused to comply with the said requisition, do, by
the authority aforesaid, hereby call a meeting of the Shareholders of
the said Company, to be held at the Hall of Commerce, Thread-
needle-street, in the City of London, on Friday, the 4th day of Sep-
tember next, at Three o'Clock precisely, for the purpose of deter-
mining whether the Partnership or Company formed, or Intended to
be formed, shall be dissolved, and in what manner the affairs of the
said Company shall be wound up.
As witness our hands this 24th day of August, 1846.
EDMUND EyANS ~IkIOLLADY, Warwick.
CHARLES REDFERN, Jury-street, Warwick.
RICHARD GRANT READING, Warwick.
WALTER COOKES, Warwick.
EDWARD COLLINS, Birmingham.
Mr. Lewis Davis, shortly after four o'clock, took the
chair.

Some discussion then took place as to the propriety
and validity of the meeting, the Company having amal-
gamated with other railway companies, which ended in
its being decided that the meeting was a proper one.
The usual advertisements calling the meeting having
been read, the requirements of the Act having been
gone through, and Mr. Powell, Mr. Nathan, and Mr.
Blurton, having been appointed scrutineers,
Mr. HODGSON moved, and Mr. NATHAN seconded, a
resolution to the effect that the Company should be
dissolved; and
Mr. HASTINGS moved, and Mr. POWELL seconded, that
" That dissolution should be considered as an act of
bankruptcy."
Upon these motions the scrutineers then pro-
ceeded
meedseodto
considerable
the
votes,time
and after the lapse
they
announced the
numbers to be—for the dissolution
2,280 ; against it
none. There were 400 in favour of the dissolution
being considered an act of bankruptcy, and 1,880
against it.
The CHAIRMAN then declared that there was not
a sufficient number of votes present to constitute
a meeting that eould adopt a resolution for the dissolu-
tion of the Company, and the meeting was therefore
adjourned to Thursday next, at three o'clock.
The meeting did not break up till after five o'clock.
The following protest was put in against the meet-
ing
" To the Chairman of the meeting of the Warwick
and Worcester Railway.
We, the under-mentioned shareholders, do hereby
protest against the regularity of the meeting called of
the above-named company, to be held at the Hall of
Commerce, London, on the 4th day of September,
1846, on the ground that the notices in the Gazette
were contrary to the provisions of the Act of Parlia-
ment, the Warwick and Worcester Railway Company
having amalgamated with other companies.
" Dated the 4th day of September, 1846.
" J, N. WHITCOMB.
" W. J. LAWSON."

Earl Grey left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to
the Earl of Clarendon, at Grove Park, Herts.
Viscount and Viscountess Seaham left Finance's
11901 yesterday fox the liertb.