The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

I3EWDLEY.

The Bewdley Election Committee met again this
morning; Mr. Wrightscn in the chair.
The whole of the day was taken up is ith general evi-
dence relating to treating-at Bewdley. The case as re-
gards-Bewdley was closed-, and to-morrow the case re-
specting Stamford will be' opened.
The Committee adjourncd till to morrow.

SOITTII,WESTERN RAILWAY.
• (THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the shareholders of this
company was this day held at the Nine Elms' Station,
for th'e" purorso of haying submitted to them the drafts
of several Bills intended to be presented by the company
in the,present session of Parliament.
Tne notice convening the meeting having been read,
The Chairman, Mr. CHAPLIN, M.P., stated the objects
of the meeting.
Mr. HotsE wished to know whether any arrange-
ment- woul I be made in the Bills about to be introduced
to secure to the company the services of gentlemen as
directors, who held other property in the company be••
sides the guaranteed stock?

Mr. 0 APLix said that no person could be a director
who was not a holder of shares in the capital stock of
the company.
Mr. BUItCHELL, the solicitor to the company, then
proceeded to read the short titles and abstract of the
Bills.

Mr. HOEES wished to know whether it was the inten-
tion of the company to proceed with the extensio❑ of the
line to London-bridge? •
The Crum!tax said that the company intended to
prosecute the work as rapidly as possible. At present
the directors thought that the better course to adopt
would be to defer any proceedings on that extension
until they had become acquainted with the working of
that portion of the extension to Waterloo-bridge.
Resolutions were unanimously agreed to, autho-
rising the directors to proceed with Bills now
pending in Parliament for enabling the London and
South-Western Railway Company to effect certain ex-
tensions and deviations at Godalming, Cosham, London-
bridge, Southampton, and Poole,- and certain arrange-
ments respecting steam-packets, arid for other purposes.
A Bill for amaig.imatinz the 4uthampton and Dor-
chester Railway Company with the London and South-
Western Railway Company.

A Bill for enabling the Windsor, Staines, and South-
Western (Richmond to Windsor) Railway Company to
make deviations in tho main line of their railway, and
an extension tt:e:efrom to join the Great Western Rail-
way at Slough; and
A Bill to amend the Acts relating to the Exeter and
Exmouth Railway Company._

Other resolutions, authorising the directors to proceed
with the following B:114, were also agreed to, there being
but two dissentients, Mr. Hues and another share-
holder, from the resolutions:—

A Bill to enable the London and South-Western
Railway Company to make a railway from Salisbury to
Yeovil, with branches to Shaftesbury and Wincanton,
and to j'iin the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, and
Vilte, Somerset, and Weymouth E.:always, near Yeovil;
and to purchase or lease the said Exeter, Yeovil, and
Dorchester Railway.

A Bill for making a railway from Exeter::_to Yeovil,
-witii branches and extensions therefrom, to be called
the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester hallway.
A Bill to enable the Taw Vale Railway and Dock
Company to !ewe their undertaking to the London arid
south-Western Railway Company.
A Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to make a railway from the Queen street-
road, Exeter, to join the Exeter and Crediton Railway at
Cowley-bridge, near Exeter.
A Bill for authorising the sale or lease to the London
and South-Wertern Railway Company of the Exeter
and Crechton Railway aid the Bodmin and Walebridge,
Railway, and the carrying into effect of certain arrange-
ments between tie same coiurriny add tha 'raw Vale Rail-
way and Dock Company.
A vote of thanks was then given to tha Chairman, and
the meeting broke up.

SOUTHAMPTON andDo RC NESTER
• RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A special general nit eting of the shareholders of this
company was this day held at the Nine Elms' Stition, at
two o'clock, forthe purpose of apprO);ing of a Bill to be
submitted to Parliament for the amalgamation of the
Southampton. and. Dorchester Railway with the South-
Western Railway.
Resolutions •to that effect were unanimously agreed
upon, and the meeting broke up.