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more Green, Halloughton, Whitacre, and Nether Whitacre, or some
of them, in the county of Warwick.
And it is intended to take powers in such Act to construct stations,
communications, works, and other conveniences, in the several
parishes, townships, and extra-parochial, and other places before-
mentioned, or some of them, for the working and using the said rail-
way, and also to authoilse junctions with any railway or railways
or Intended railway or railways, at the commencement or termina-
tion or in the line or course of the said railway as before described,
in the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial, and ether
places aforesaid, or some of them.
Lad it is proposed in and by the said intended Act to empower the
said London and North-Western Railway Company, to purchase by
compulsion or agreement, all houses and lands required for the
completion of the same intended railway and works, and also to
cross, divert, alter, or stop up either temporarily or permanently
all such turnpike roads, parish roads, and other highways, streams,
canals, navigable rivers, navigations, railways, and tramroads,
within the said parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other
places aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary or ex-
pedient to cross, divert, alter, or stop up for the purposes of the
said railway and works, and to deviate in the construction of the
said railway from the line thereof, as shown on the plans hereinafter
mentioned, to the extent which shall be defined on the same, and to
take powers to levy tolls, rates, and duties in respect of the use of
the said railway, and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and
privileges connected with the land proposed to be taken for the pur-
poses of the said railway, oz which would in any manner impede or
interfere with the objects aforesaid ; and also to empower the said
company to raise any sum or sams of mosey for the purposes afore-
said, and by the said Act to confer other rights and privileges.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter, amend, and
enlarge some of the pow:--s and provisions contained in an Act
passed In the session held in the 9.h and 10th years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intitutied, "An Act to Consolidate the London
and Birmingham, Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham
Railway Companies," and also the several Acts relating to the said
London and Birmingham, Grand Junction and Manchester and Bir-
mingham Railways, or the London and North Western Railway, or
some of them—that is to say, local and personal Acts Bth and 9th
Victoria, chapter 156, and local and personal Acts 9th fiat 10th Vic-
toria, chapters 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244,
248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396.
And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the 30th day
of November instant maps, plans, and sections describing the line,
direction, and levels of the said intended railway, and the situation
of the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes of the same, to-
gether with a book of reference thereto, containing the napes of the
owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees and occupiers of
the said lands, will be deposited for public inspection with the c'e'k
of the peace for the county of Warwick, at his office in Stratford-
on-Avon, in the said county of Warwick.
And that, on or before the said thirtieth day of November instant,
copies of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference,
as relate to the several parishes in or throtnh which the said intended
railway and works are proposed to pass or be made, will be deposited
with the parish clerks of such parishes, at their respective residences.
Dated this sixth day of November, 1846.
PARKER, HAYES, BARNWELL, and TWISDEN,
1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London, Solicitors.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham,

COVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMING-
HAM, and LEICESTER RAILWAY.
AMENDMENT of ACT, with POWER for the LONDON and
NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, and the MIDLAND
RAILWAY COMPANY, or EITHER of THEM, to PURCHASE
and CONSTRUCT the RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act to authorise
the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway
Company, to sell and transfer the railway and works au-
thorised to be made by an Act passed in the last session of Par-
liament, entitled, " An Act for making a Railway from the Trent
Valley Railway, near Nuneaton, to the Midland Railway, in the
parish of Wigston Magna, in the co inty of Leicester, to be called
the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway,"
together with all powers, rights, privileges, lands, buildings, pro-
perty, and effects of the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and
Leicester Railway Company, incorporated by the said recited Act,
to the London and North Western Railway Company, and the.
Midland Railway Company, or either of them, rnd to amsl.-
gamete with such last-mentioned companies, or either of them,
and to enable the said London and North Western Railway Company,
and the Midland Railway Company, or either of them, to effect
such purchase, and to hold, use, exercise, purchase, and amalgamate
with the said Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, and the undertaking by the said Act authorised, and other
the premises before mentioned, and to construct the said railway,
and use and exercise the powers, prlvlleges, and authorities by the
said Act conferred on the :aid Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham,
and Leicester Railway Company, and to enable the said London and
North-Western Railway Company, and Midland Railway Company,
or either of them, to raise firrther capital far effecting the purposes
aforesaid.
And it is further proposed to take powers to alter, amend, enlarge,
or repeal, so far as may be necessary, the powers and provisions of
the said Act, hereinbefore referred to, incorporating the said Com-
pany, and to enable the said London and North-Western Railway
Company, and the Midland Railway Company, or either of them, to
levy and raise tolls, 'rates, and duties, in respect of the said railway,
so authorised in the said last session of Parliament as aforesaid, in
lieu of the tolls, rates, and duties at presets', authorised to be les:ed
thereon; and to vary or extinguish all rights or privileges which
would in any manner impede or interfere with the objects aforesaid,
and to confer other rights and privileges.
And it is proposed in and by the said intended Act, to alter, amend,
and enlarge some of the powers and provisions contained in an Act
passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled " An Act to con-
solidate: the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Man-
chester and Birmingham Railway Companies."
And also the several Acts relating to the said London and Bir-
mingham Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Rail-
ways, or the London and North Western Railway, or some of them-
that is to say,
Local and personal Acts Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 156, and
Local and personal Acts 9th and 10th Victoria, chapters 67, 80, 82,
152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331,
359, 368, 369, and 396.
And it is also proposed in and by the said intended Act to alter,
amend, and enlarge some of the powers and provisions contained in
an Act passed in the 7th year of the reign of her present Majesty,
Queen Victoria, intituled " An Act to consolidate the North Mid-
land, Midland Counties, and Birmingham and Derby Junction Rail-
ways, and also the several Acts-relating to the Midland Railway,"
that is to say, local and personal Acts 8 and 9th Victoria, chapters
49, 56, and 90. Local and personal Acts 9th and 10th Victoria,
chapters 51, 102, 156, 157, 163, 203, 243, 254, 255, 311, 326, and 340.
Dated this sixth day of November, 1846.
PARKER, HAYES, BARNWELL, and TWISDEN,
1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. Solicitors.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham.
BERRIDGE and MACAULAY, Leicester.

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Railway Company to make and maintain the Branch Railways
hereinafter mentioned from and out of the Coventry and
Nuneaton Line of the London and North-Western Railway,
together with all proper works, stations, and other conveniences con-
nected with such branch railways respectively, that is to say, a
branch railway diverging from the main Pne of the London and
North-Western Railway between Coventry and Nuneaton, in the
parish of Exhall, in the county of Warwick, near to the point where
the said main line crosses the turnpike road from Coventry to Nun-
eaton, and terminating in the parish of Foleshill, In the same county,
at or near a certain colliery called the Victoria Colliery, and passing
from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra-
parochial or other places of Foleshill and Exhall, in the said county
Of Warwick.
And also another branch railway, also diverging from the main
line of the London and North-Western Railway, between Coventry
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six miles and seven furlongs on the plan of the said main line deposited
with the clerk of the peace for the county of Warwick, and referred
to in the Act passed In the last session of Parliament, authorising
the construction of the staiodrmnaioarn
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other roads,townships, and extra-
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necessary to stop up,
parochial or other places aforesaid, or any of them, as it may e
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the said branch railways respectively, and tolls
tions from such tolls, rates, or duties.
anner connected with the
all existing rights or privileges in any m which would
And it is further intended by such Act or Acts to vary or extinguish
construction, main-
in any manner impede or inter:ere with the
lands proposed to be purchased or taken as aforesaid, or
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rights and privileges, and to authorise the
tenance, or use of the said branch railways, and to confer other
Western Railway Company to ra
and works.
may be necessary, for the purposes of the said branches
Act, to empower
And it It proposed, in and by the said intended
admit
ise such further sums of money as
the said London and North-Western Railway Company to
certain parties consisting wholly or in part of the shareholders
or parties interested in a certain company, called the Oxford,
Coventry, and Burton-upon-Trent Railway Company, to be-
come shareholders in the undertaking of the London and North-
Western Railway Company, and the capital thereof, to the extent of
the capital which may be required, or estimated to be required, for
the construction of the said main line from Coventry to Nuneaton,
and of the branch railways to be applied for as aforesaid, and the
works thereof respectively, and to empower such parties to subscribo
and pay such capital accordingly, in such manner as may be deter-
mined or agreed upon, and to guarantee to such parties in respect of
such capital such fixed or other rate of dividend, and to make such
terms and conditions In respect thereof, as may be agreed upon
between the said Company and such parties, and for the purposes
aforesaid, to diminish the existing amount of capital which the
London and North-Western Railway Company are authorised to
raise.
And it is proposed in and by the said intended Act to alter, amend,
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near Coventry to the Trent Valley Railway in the parish of Nun-
eaton ;" and also an Act passed in the session held in the 9th and
10th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act
to consolidate the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and
Manchester and Bit mingham Railway Companies," and also the
several Acts relating to the said London and Birmingham, Grand
Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Railways, or the
London and North-Western Railway, or some of them, that is to
say, local and personal Acts Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 156, and
local and personal Acts 9th and 10th Victoria, chapters 67, 80, 82,
152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 531,
359, 368, 369, and 396.
And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the thirtieth
day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections, describing the
line, direction and levels of the said intended branch railways, and
the situation of the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes of the
same, together with a book of reference thereto, containing the
names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees,
and occupiers 'of the said lands, will be deposited for public inspec-
tion with the clerk of the peace for the county of Warwick, at his
office in Stratford-on-Avon.
And that on or before the said thirtieth day of November instant,
copies of so much of tire said plans, sections, and books of reference
as relates to the several parishes in or through which the said in-
tended branch railways are proposed to pass, or be made, will be
deposited with the parish clerks of such parishes, at their respective
residences.
Dated this sixth day of November, 1846.
PARKER, HAYES, BARNW ELL, and TWISDEN,
1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. • Solicitors.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham,

SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAYS and
CANAL.—LEASE to the LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the next session for an ACT to authorise
the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company to lease in per-
petuity, or for a term of years, or to sell and transfer to the
London and North-Western Railway Company, the canals, rail-
ways, and works, now vested in or belonging to such first-mentioned
company, or which they are authorised to construct or pur-
chase under the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, Newtown
to Crewe with Branches, Act 1846 ; the Shropshire Union Railways
and Canal, Chester and Wolverhampton Line, Act 1846; and the
Shropshire .'Union Railways and Canal, Shrewsbury and Stafford
Railway, Act 1846 ; and together with all the powers, rights, pri-
vileges, lands, buildings, property, and effects of Bach company ;
and also all such railways and cantos, powers, rights, privileges,
lands, buildings, and effects, as may be transferred to or vested in
such company, or as they may be authoris'd to make or purchase,
by any Act or Acts to be passed in the next cession of Parliament,
and to enable the said London and North Western Railway Company
to take and hold on lease, and to have, u.,e, exercise, and enjoy, all
and every such railways, canals, and works, and all such powers,
rights, privileges, lands, buildings, property, and effects aforesaid,
subject to such rent and other conditions as may be of may lave
been agreed on between the said two companies, and to authorise
the said companies respectively to enter into and carry into effect all
such agreements as they may deem requisite or expedient in refer-
ence to the objects aforesaid. And for the purposes of the said Act,
it is intended to alter, amend, enlarge, or repeal, so mar as may be
necessary, the powers and previsions of the several Acts of Parlia-
ment following ; namely, the A cts relating to the Ellesmere and
Chester Canal Navigation, passed respectively in the Bth year of the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, in the 11th year
of the rolgu of We ogici late Ilajoty Bing George the Fourth, hi the

Ist year of the reign of her present Majesty, in the sth year of the
reign of her said present Majesty, and in the Bth year of the reign of
her said present Majesty, and in the session held in the 9th
and 10th years of the reign of her said present Majesty ; the
Act relating to the Shrewsbury Canal Navigation, passed in
the 28th year of the reiga of his said late Majesty King
George the Third ; and the several Acts relating to the Mont-
gomeryshire Canal, or eastern branch of the said Montgomery-
shire Canal, passed respectively in the 31th and 55th years of
the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, an I in the 2nd
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, and
the several Acts relating to the western branch of the Montgomery-
shire Canal, passed respectively in the 55th year of the reign of his
late Majesty King George the Third, and in the 4th year of the reign
of his late Majesty King William the Fourth ; the Shropshire Union
Railways and Canal, Chester and Wolverhampton Line, Act 1846 ;
the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, Newton to Crewe ♦►ith
branches, Act 1846 ; and the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal,
Shrewsbury and Stafford Railway, Act 1846 ; and the Act passed in
the last session of Parliament intituled, " An Act to consolidate the
London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Bir-
mingham Railway Companies ;" and also the several following Acts
relating to the said London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and
Manchester and Birmingham Railways, or the London and North-
Western Railway, or some of them, that is to say, local and per-
personal Act, Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 156 ; and local and personal
Acts, 9th and 10th Victoria, cap 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231,
232, 233, 244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396.—
Dated this seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and forty. six.
PARKER, HAYES, BARNWELL, and TWISDEN, Solicitors to
1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, the Bill.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham,

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LONDON, OXFORD, and 'CHELTENHAM
RAILWAY and BRANCHES—(CHELTENHAM to TRING,
with TWO BRANCHES to the BIRMINGHAM and GLOUCESTER
RAILWAY, and BRANCHES to the OXFORD and RUGBY, and
OXFORD, WORCESTER, and WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAYS,
and to the AYLESBURY RAILWAY, and to enable the LONDON
and NORTH-WESTERN COMPANY to subscribe or to lease or pur-
chase the same).
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the next Session for leave to bring in a
BILL making and maintaining a Railway or Railways, with all proper
and convenient stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses,
works, communications. approaches and conveniences connected
therewith, to commence at a point on the railway belonging to the
Great Western Railway Company, in the tithing or hamlet of Alstone
otherwise Arlestone, in the parish of Cheltenham, in the county of
Gloucester, at a distancce of 154 yards or thereabouts south of the
point where the said last-meritioned railway crosses the River
Midi, near to "Upper Alstone Mill, and to terminate I n the parish
of Tring, in the county of Hertford, by a junction with
the London and North-Western Railway, at or near a bridge
across the said railway near to Parkley Hill or Park Hill Farm
there, in the occupation of Joseph Clarke, and which said intended
railway and works will pass from, in, through, or into the
several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial, and other
places following or some of them (that is to say) Cheltenham, Chel-
tenham, Arle, Aistone, Arlestone, Westall, Naunton, and Sardford,
Hatherley, Uphatherley, Swindon, Bishops Cleeve, Bishops Cleeve,
Southam, Brockhampton, Woodmancote, Gotherington, Stoke Or-
chard, Prestbury, Overton, Noverton, Charlton Kings, Charlton
Kings, Ham, Cudnall, Coxhorn, Bafford, Battledown, Leckliampton,
Dowdeswell, Sandywell, Sandywell, Andoversford, Andoverford,
Andiford, Pegglesworth, 'Whittington, Sireford, Syreford, Seven-
hamptcn, Brockhampton, Puckham, Saioerton, Cold Salperton,
Upper Salperton, Lower Salpertou, Sbiptan Sellers, Shipton Sol-
lars, Frogmill, Kilkenny, Shipton Olive, Shipton 011iffe, Hampen,
Upper Hampen, Lower Hamper', Within,ston, WithingtonComp-
ton, Cassey Compton, Foxcote, Foscote, Broadwell End, Owdeswell,
ltossley, Compton Abdele, Hazleton, Idaseiton, Hazleton, Pews-
dowu, Yanworth, Turkdean, Turlo e..n, Upper Turkdean, Lower
Turkdean, Chedworth, Stowell, Hampnett, Northleach, Northleach,
Eastington, Easington, Farmington, Sherborne, Aldsworth,
Windrusit, Winrush, Marls, Pinchpool, Lan-Maris, Barrington,
Great Barrington, Little Barrington, and Widford, in the county
of Gloucester; Barrington, Great Barrington, aad Little Barring-
ton, in the cotrity of Berks ; Bur.ord, Signett, Upton and Signett,
Westwell, Broadwell, and Holwell, in the county of Oxford ; Shil-
ton and Stonelands, in the county of Berks ; Shipton, Stouelands,
Alvescot, Black Bonrton, Swinbrook, Asthal, Asthalley, Asthall
Leigh, Minster Lovel, Norton Brize, Brize Norton, Witney, Witney,
Crawley, Halley, Curbridge, Dacklington, Coggs, Langdale, Langle,
Southleigh, Sutton, Stanton Harcourt, Ensham, Cassington, Worton,
Handborough, and Yarnton, in the county of Oxford ; Cumner,
Seacourt, Wytham, and Whytham, in the county of Berks ; Binsey,
Godstow, Port Meadow, King's Mill, St. Clement's,Walton Godstow,
Walton Caney, St. Giles, and Holywell, in or near the city of Ox-
ford, in the county of 01..brd ; Woolvereott, Woolvercott, Kings-
weir, Marston, Elsfield, Headington, Barton, Stanton St. John,
Forest Hill, Wheatley, Shotover, Cuddesden, Holton, Waterperry,
Thomley, Waterstock, Thame, New Thame, Old Thame, Priestend,
Moreton, North Weston, and Thame Park, in the county of Oxford ;
Worminghall, Ickford, Shabbington, Long Crendon, Kingsey, Had-
denham, Aston-Sandford, Towersey, Dinton. Dinton with Ford and
Upton, Aston Mullins, Westlington, ;Moreton, Waidridge Marsh,
Great Kimble, Little Kimble, Kimble Wick, Stone, Stone with
Bishopstone, Hartwell, Hartwell with Sedrup, Hartwell with South-
warp, Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, Aylesbury with Walton, Walton,
Bierton, Broughton, Burcot, Weston Turville.;Wendover, Aston Clin-
ton, Aston Clinton, Saint Leonards, Hulcot, Buckland, Drayton
Beauchamp, Draitone, Elstrop, Marswortb, Ivinghoe, Nettleden,
Pitstone, and Pightlesthonie, in tke county of Buckingham ; Aldbury,
Puttenham, Astrop, Tring, Long Marston, and Wilston, in the county
of Hertford.
Also to make and maintain the following branch railways from
and out of the same herein-before described intended railway, to-
gether with all proper and convenient stations, briages, approaches,
and other works; that is to say, a . branch to commence in the
tithing or hamlet of Alstone otherwise Arlestone, in the parish of
Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, in a close occupied by
Thomas Gilly Perry, near to and on the Louth side of Upper .a istane
Mill aforesaid, and to terminate in the said last-mentioned tithing or
hamlet of Alstone otherwise Arlestone, in the parish of Cheltenham,
by a junction with a pa'. ;; of the Midland Railways heretofore c lied
the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway at or near the post denoting
the forty-six and a half mile of the said last-mentioned railway, near
to and on the south side of the Cheltenham station of the said rail-
way, which said branch railway and works will be m 'de in, or pass
from, through, or into the severs! parishes, townships, extra-paro-
chial and other places following, or some of them, that is to sly,
Cheltenham, Cheltenham, Arle, Aistone, Arlestone, "%Vesta", Hairs-
ton, and Sandford, in the county of Gloucester.
A branch to commerce in the pat:sh of Prestbury, in the said
county of Gloucester, in a field occupied by William Hicks, adjoin-
ing to and on the east side of the turnpike-real from Cheltenham to
Evesham, near to the turnpike-gate across such rot 11, and to termi-
nate in the tithing or hanoet of Brockhampton, in Pie parish of
Bishops Clem, in the county of Gloucester. by a junction with the
part of the Midland Railways heretofore coiled the Birmingham and
Gloucester Railway, at or near the post denoting the 43 and mile
of the said last-mentioned railway, which said branch railway and
works will be made in, or pass irona, through, or into the several
parishes, townships, extra parochial, and other plisses following, or
some of them, that is to say, Prestbury, Overton, Noverton, Swin-
don, Bishops Cleeve, Bishops Cleeve Southam, Brockhampton,
Woodmancote, Oatherington, and Stoke Orchard,;ia the county of
Gloucester.
Also, a branch to commence In the pat Ish of Saint Giles, in or
near the city of Oxford, in a field occupied by William Wheeler, on
the western side of, and adjoining the towing 'path of the Oxford
Canal, near to the Ilutt public-horse there, end to tenainate by a
junction with the Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railways, in the said parish of Saint Giles, in a field
belonging to the president and scholars of Saint John's CoPege, Ox-
ford, on lease to Joseph; Parker, Esq., and occupied by Thomas CriP ps
caller Burgess Mead, which said branch railway and works w'll be
made in the said parish of Saint Goes.

And also another branch to commence in the hamlet or township
of Walton, in the parish of Aylesbury, in the county of Buckingham,
in Chorley Meadows, situate on the eastern side of the new turnpike
road, leading from Aylesbury to Tring, near to the bridge carrying
the said road over a mill-stream there, and to terminate by ajuaction
with the Aylesbury Railway, or Aylesbury Branch of the London
and North-Western Railway, in the said parish of Aylesbury, in the
county of Buckingham, at 700 yards, or thereabouts, .Yom the ter-
minus of the said Aylesbury Branch at Aylesbury; which said
branch railway and works will be made in and pass ;:om, through,
or into the said parish of Aylesbury, and the hamlet or tonPship of
Walton, in the same county.
And that it is intended to apply for powers to make laterrl deNla-
tions from the line of the proposed railways rud works to the extent
or within the limits defined upon the plans hereinafter mentioned,
and also to cross, (liven, alter, or stop up, whether temporr ay or
permanently, all such turnpike roads, parish roads, streets and other
highways, streams, sewers, pipes, crnals, navigations, bridges rail-
ways, or tramro..ds, nithin the grid polishes, townships, and extra-
parochial or o.hor places aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be
necessary to cross, divert, alter, or atop up, for the purposes of the
said railways and works.
And notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and sec-
tions of the .. id railways and works, together with hooks of refer-
ence thereto, and also published maps n :th the lines of railway
delineated thereon, will be deposited for public inspection at the
respective offices of the clerks of the pe.-ce of the several counties,
ridings, and divisions, hereafter mentioned, N:Z., for the county of
Gloucester; at Gloucester ; for the county of Oxford, at Oxford, in
1 the said county ; for the county Berks, at Abir ;don, in the said
, county; for the county of Buekinghrtn, at Aylesbury, in the said
1 county ; for the county (V Herif.rd, at St. A 'ban's, in the said
1 county, on or before the 33th day of November, 1846, and on or
before the said 30th day of November, 1846, a copy of so much of

the plans and secaons as r A:1 to each parish in or tt-ong
hwhich
the said railways and works are intended to be made, together with a
book of reference thereto, Nsi" be deposited with the parish clerk of
abode.that it is intended by the said
eachAn dsuacahtipaeariissh, hereby at hisfarplactbeer of
given,
anyforththereae pufxasdetoaf applycarrying into effee.
proposedincorporate
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a coorsmomp some part
nthieu
the compulsory purchase of lands and houses, and to vary or extin-
guish all rights and privileges in any manner connected
with the
lands and houses proposed to be taken for the purposes aforesaid, and
also to levy tolls, rates, or duties,upon or in respect of the said
rail-
ways and works, and to alter existing tolls, rates, or duties, and to
confer or extinguish exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates,
and duties, and other rights and privileges.
And it Is also proposed in and by the said Bill to empower the said
company to be thereby incorporated to lease, sell, or transfer the said
intended railways and works, or any part of the same, or the tolls
thereof, to the London andNorth-Western Railway Company, and to
delegate to the said London and or
rth-Wethsternsaid Railway d
Bil l, Companandy
the execution of all or any of the powers of e intende
to authorise the said Loudon and North-Western Railway Company,
out of their corporate or other funds, to take shares in and subscribe and
advance money for or towards the making, maintaining, working, and
usimg the said intended railways and works, or any part thereof, or to
purchase, take or lease, rent, work, or construct the said intended
railways and works, or any part of the same, and to take tolls and
duties up orated respect thereof, or to guarantee to the Company to
be incorp by the said intended Bill such interest or profit upon
their outlay as may be agreed upon, and to raise money by shares,
inortgages, or otherwise, for the purposes aforesaid, or some of them ;
and for cat rying into ei.cct ell or any of the above objects, it is In-
tended to apply for powers to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge the
provisions of an Act pasi.ed in the lilt Session of Parliament, inti-
tuled "An Act to consolidate the London and Birmingham Grand
Junction and Maneheste: and Birmingham Railway Companies,"
and also the several Acta relating to the said London and Birming-
ham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmsominghame of Railways,
or the London and North-Western Railway, or t
is to say, local and personal Act Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 136,
and oca and ersonal Acts 9th and 10th Victoria, chapters 67, 80, 82,
1521, 182 l , 184 p, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248,261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359,
368, 369, and 396.
Dated this 7th day of November, 1846.
Messrs. PARKER, HAYES, BARNWELL,'
and TWISDEN, 1, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
London,
Messrs. H. and W. TOGOOD, 22, Parlia-
ment-street, London,
Messrs. NEWMAN. GWINNETT, and
TICEHTJAST, and
JAMES BOODLE, Esq., Cheltenham,
SAMUEL
CARTER, Esq., Birmingham,

Solicitors
to the Bill

BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, and
STOUR VALLEY RAILWAY (No. 2) BRANCHES :
Proposed Branch from the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour
Valley Railway, near Oldbury, to Stourbridge, with branches there-
from to Halesowen, and junction with the Midland Railway there,
to Dudley, to Dudley Wood, to the Stourbridge Canal, and to join the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway at Stourbridge,
and also at or n:ar Dudley, with branch to Tipton, and connecting
lines ; with power to the Lordon and North Western, and the Shrews •
bury and Birmingham It Way Companies, and the Birmingham
Canal Company, to subscribe thereto and to purchase, use, or rent
the same.

Notice is hereby given that APPLICATION hi intended to be made
to PARLIAMENT, in the ensuing session, for an ACT to authorise
the construction and maintenance, by the Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Stour Valley Railway Company, of the railway
and branch railways hereinafter mentioned, together with proper
works and conveniences connected therewith, and approaches
thereto (that is to say), a railway commencing by a junction with
the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway, at or
near the point where the Old Birmingham Canal crosses a lane called
Spon-lane, and near the plate glars works of Mears. Chance and
Company, in the parish of Harborne, in the county of Stafford, and
terminating at or near a newly laid out street called Foster-street,
in the township of Stourbridge, in the parish of Oldswinford, in the
county of Worcester, near to the point where the same street joins
High-street, to Stourbridge aforesaid, and passing from, in, through,
or into the several parishes, townships, hamlets, extra-parochial
and other places of Harborne, North Harborne, Holy Trinity,
North Harborne, Smethwick, Trinity Smethwick, Saint Peter
Harborne, Westbromwich, Christ Church Westbromwich, and
Trinity Westbromwich, Saint James Westbromwich, All Saints
Westbromwich, Rowley, Rowley Regis, Saint Giles Rowley Regis,
Rowley Regis Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side, Rowley Somery,
Clent, Saint Leonard's Clent, Saint Luke's Reddall Hill, Reddall
mu, Corngraves, Cradle), Heath, Kingswinford, or some of them,
in the said county of Stafford; Halesowen, Saint Joins the Baptist
Llalesowen, Saint Kenelm's Haletowen, borough of Halesowen,
Hawn, The Hill, Lapal, Romsley, Lutley, Illey, Hasbury, Hun-
ningn, Warley, Warlcy Salop, Frankley, Warley Wigorn, Ridge
acre Christ Church Ridgacre, Christ Church, The Quinton, Cake-
,
more. Titford, Langley, Langley Green, Oldbury Saint Nicholrs
Langley, Langley WAlloaclutll,
cowry, Christ Church Oldbury,

Oldbury, Oldbury Walloxliall, Dudley, Saint James Dudley,
Saint John Dudley, Saint Edmund Dudley, Saint Thomes Dudley,
Saint Andrew's Netherton, Netherton, Cradlcy, Saint Mary Cradley,
Netherend, Overend, Cradley Tawn, or some or one of them, in the
county of Worcester • Brorrford, Titford, White Heath, flack
Heath, Cradley Heath, Ways, Netherend, Cradley, Saint Mary
Cradley, Oldswinford, Kingswirrord, Wordesloy, The Holy Thrity
Wordesley. Saint Mary Kins•sw;neord, Bl:crlcy Hill, Stint
Michael's Brierley Hill, Brockmore, Saint John Biockmorc, Hai Os
Hill, Pensnett, Pensnett Chase, Saint Mark Pensitett, Quarry Ba•A,
Christ Church Quarry Bank, Bat•row Hili, Amblecote, The Holy
Trinity Amblecote, Bedcote, or some or ono of them, in the county of
Stafford; Oldswinford, Saint Mai 's Oldswinford, Stourbridge, Stint
Thomas Stourbridge, Bedcote. Wollast n, Upper Swinford, Lower
Swinford, The Lye, The Lye Waste, Christ Clarch in the Lye, Wol-
lescote, and Foxcote, some or one of thelr, in the said county of
Worcester,

Also,. a branch railway, diverging from the said first-mentioned
intended Ilne of railway, in the township of Oldbury, in the palish of
italesowen, in the said county of Worcester, near to the point ,
where the said intend'%. resin line crosses the turnpike road from
Birmingham to Oldbury and Dudley, and ln or near a certain field
there called the Meadow near to the turnpike-road leading from
Birmingham to Dudley, belonging to the Reverend Thomas Green,
and in the occupation of Joseph Henry Crockett, and terminating
:)y a junction with the said lit, minghain, Wolverhampton, and
Stour Valley Railway, in or near to a certslit field adjoining
the Iron Works there called Bromford Iron Works, in the parish of
Westbromwich, in the county of Stafford, and passing from, ill,
through, or into the several parishes, townships, hamlets, extra-
parochial, and other places of Westbromwich, Christ Church West-
bromwich, Trinity Westbromwich, Saint James Westbromwich, All
Saints Westbromwich, Bromford, or some or one c‘f them, iu the said
county of Stafford; Oldbury, Saint Nicliolas Oldbury, Christ Church
Oldbury, Langley, Langley Walloxhall, and Ilalesowen, or some or
one of them, in the said county of Worcester.
And also, another branch railway, diverging from the said first-
mentioned intended main line of railway, in the parish of Rowley
Regis aforesaid, at or near a certain field at Old Hill there
called or known by the name of the Old Hill Meadow, and terminat-
ing in the said parish of Dudley, near to certain land there now
being enclosed for the purposes of a cemetery, and near to the tutu-
pike gate called Farthing's-lane Gate, on the turnpike road leading
from Dudley to Pedmore, and passing from, in, through, or into the
several parishes, townships, hamlets, extra-parochial and other
places, of Rowley, Rowley Regis, Saint Giles, Rowley Regis, Rowley
Regis Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side, Rowley Somery, Hail-
stone, Cleat, Saint Leonard Clent, Cld Hill, _Reddall Hill, Saint
Luke's Reddall Hill, Cradley Heath, Cradley Pool, Saint Mary Clad-
ley, the Level, Level Woods, Five Ways, Quay Bank, Clirist
Church Quarry Bank, Salt Wells, Lady Wood, Dudley Wood, Saint
Mary Kingswinford, Brierley Hill, Saint Michael's Brierley Hill,
Pensnett, Pensnett Chace, Saint Mark Pensnett, Ausblecote, Bum-
ble Hole, and Kingawinford, some or roue of thou in the county of
Stafford ; Cradley, St. Mary Clradleyi-Nethereut ~end, Cradley
Town, Musham, Dudley Wood, Lady Wood, Salt Wells, Level, Level
Woods, Netherton, Saint Andrew's Netherton, Hrlesowen, St. Job,'
the Baptist Halesowen, Borough of Dudley, Dudley, Saint James
Dudley, Saint John Dudley, Saint Edmund Dudley, Saint Thomas
Dudley, Dudley Castle and grounds and precincts, Bumble Hole,
some or one of them, in the county of Worcester.

And also, another branch railway or short connecting' line, di-
verging from the said last-mentioned branch line, at or near the
Baptist Chapel, at a place called Cinder Bank, in the said parish of
Dudley, in the said county of Worcester, and at or near the public
road leading from Cinder Bank" aforesaid to Dudley aforesaid, to
connect the said last-mentioned intended branch railway with the
line of the Oxford, Worcester, :tad Wolverhampton Railway, and
terminating by a junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway, in the said parish of Dudley, in the said county
of Worcester, in or near a field belonging to Thomas Shaw Heiner,
adjoining the public highway leading irom Cinder Bank aforesaid to
Dudley aforesaid, and ly;ng between the said highway and a house
called or known by the name of the Halfway-house, situate at a place
called Cabbage Hall, iu the said parish of Dudley, in the said county
of Worcester, and passing from, in, through, or into the several
parishes, townships, or hamlets, or extra parochial and other places
of Netherton, Saint Andrew's Netherton, Bumble Hole, Musham,
Dudley Wood, Dudley, Borough of Dudley, Dudley Castle and
grounds and precincts, Saint James Dudley, Saint John Dudley,
Saint Edmund Dudley, Saint Thomas Dudley, and Oldbury, in the
county of Worcester, or some or one of them ; Rowley, Saint Giles
Rowley, Rowley Regis Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side, Rowley,
Somery, Quarry Bank, Christ Church Query Bank, Brierley Hill,
Saint Michael's Brierley Hill, Pensnett, Pensnett Chase, Saint
Luke's Pensnett, and Kingswinford, some or one of them, in the
county of Stafford.
Also, another branch railway, diverging i'forn the said first men-
tioned intended line of railway, in the parish of Rowley Regis afore-
said, at or in a certain pasture field called or known by the name of
the Maise otherwise the West Maise Leasow, at or near Reddall
Hill, in the said parish of Rowley Regis, - and terminating in the
township of the borougk of Halesowen, in the parish of Halesowen
aforesaid, near the turnpike-road leading from Stourbridge to Bir-
mingham, and nearly opposite to the public house called the New
Inn there, where the same is intended to form a junction with the
Kingsnorton and Halesowen branch of the Midland Railway, and
passing from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships,
hamlets. extra-parochial and other places of Redden Hill, Saint
Luke's Reddall Hill, Rowley, Rowley Regis, Saint Giles Rowley
Regis, Rowley Regis Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side, Rowley
Semery, Cient, Saint Leonard Clout, Saint Mary Cradley, and Cradley
Heath, or some or one of them, in the said county of Stafford ;
Cradley, Saint Mary Cradley, Hawn, The 11111, Cakemore, Lutley,
Illey, Hasbury, Halesowen, Saint John the Baptist Halesowen, and
the borough of Halesowen, some or one of then, in the said county
of Worcester.
Also, another branch railway, diverging out of the said first-
mentioned intended Poe of railway, at or near the Foxoak Colliery,
in the parish of Rowley Regis a.oresaid, and terminating in the
p.aish of Dudley aforesaid, at or near a place called Lady Wood,
in the said parish, adioiring or near adjoining the public road there
leading f.om Rowley Regis aforesaid towards Dudley Wood and the
Salt Wells, at or near a field there, cr'ied Pool Piece, belonging to
the Right Honourable Lord Ward, and in the occupation of Messrs.
Webb, Harder, and Company, and of John Jeavons, and passim;
aom, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, hamlets,
extra-parochial and other places of Rowley, Rowley Regis, St. Giles
Rowley Regis, Rowley Regis Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side,
Rowley Somery, Cient, Saint Leonard Clout, ['Vidal! 11111, Saint
a'ce's Rcddail Hill, Foxoak, Cradley Heath, Saint Mary Cradley,
Cradley Pool, Quarry Bank, Christ Church Quarry Bank, and
Kingswinferd, some or one of them in the said county of Stailbrd ;
Cradley, Saint Mary Cradley, Musham, Dudley Wood, Lady Wood.
Salt Wells, Cradley Pool, Dudley, Saint James Dudley, Saint John's
Dudley, Saint Edmund Dudley, Saint Thomas Dudley, Netherton,
Stint Andrews Netherton, Quarry Bank, Christ Church Quarry
Bank, and Halesowen, some or one of them in the said county of
Worcester.
Also, another branch railway, or connecting line, to connect the
Said first-mention- d intended branch railway with the said proposed
branch there.fom to Halesowen, and diverging from the said, first-
mentioned hitend^d branch railway, in the parish of Rowley Regis
aforesaid, at or near a place calied the Five Ways, in the parish of
Rowley Regis aforesaid, and i Toinieg the public highway leading
from the Five Ways rforesaid towards Dudley, and terminating by a
junction Rath the said intended railway leading from the said in-
tended line of railway at Reddall Hill aforesaid to Halesowen afore-
said, at Cradley Heath, iv the parish of Rowley Regis aforesaid, in
or near a certain field called or known by the name of Over Field,
i, in, through,
Otherwise Over Leasow. belonging to-the said 1..41,rd, au,. . 1.3
o intooccupationthe osecJearmalepsaHrieThris,Etodwmnsonhelip,s,arampalesstsin,
ixtra-paroale
other places, of Cradley Heath, Saint Mary Cradley, Five wand
ys,
Rowley, Rowley Regis, Saint Giles Rowley Regis, Rowley Regis
al a
Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side, Clent, Saint Leonard Cleut,
Rowley Somery, Reddall Hill, and St. Luke's Reddall Hill, some or
one of there, in the said county of Stafford; Cradley, Saint Mary
Cradley, Hawn, Hasbury, Lutley, The Hill, Cakemore, the borough
of Halesowen, and Halesowen, some or one of them, in the said county
of Worcester.
Also, another branch railway, o:verging from the said first-men-
tioned intended line of railway at or near a certain field called
Green's Meadow, and near to certain Brick Works in the township
of Upper Swinford, in the parish of Oldswir ford aforesaid, both be-
longing or reputed to belong to the Reverend Edward Unwin, and
in the occupation of Fran:As Tongue Rufiord' and terminating at or
near a place called Chawu 11111, in the township of Upper Swinford
aforesaid, by a junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway, at or near a certain field of land there, called the
Brick Kiln Piece, belonging to William Cooke, and in the occupation
of William Cooke and Joseph Yam- -ey, or one of them, and passing
from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, hamlets,
extra-parochial and other pine-a of The Lye, Upper Swiuford, Lower
Swinford, Oldswinford, St, Mary's Oldswinford, Chawn Hill, Stour-
bridge, and Saint Thomas Stourbridge, Bcdcote, some or one of them,
in the said county of Worcester.
And also, another branch railway, diverging from the said first-
mentioned intended line of railway, in the township of Stourbridge,
in the parish of Oldswinford, in the county of Worcester, at or near
a certain field called or known by the name of the Brick Kiln Mea-
dow, and near a place called Porto Bello, in the same township, and
parish, and terrainating in the hamlet of Amblecote, in that part of
the parish of Oldswinford aforesaid, which lies in the county of Staf-
ford, at or near certain wharf land adjoining the Stourbridge Canal,
in the occupation of James Foster and the Stourbridge Canal Com-
pany, or one of them, and passing from, in, through, or into the se-
veral parishes. township-, hamlets, extra-parochial, and other places
,of Upper Swinford, Oldswir ford, Lower Swinford, Saint Mary's Old-
swinford, Stourbridge, Saint Thomas Stourbrid edcote and Wol •
kil
laston, some or one of them, in the said coun Worcester, Am-
blecote, Holy Trinity, Amblecote, Bedcote, and t iswinford, some
or one of them, in the said county of Stafford.
Also, another branch railway, with proper works and conve-
niences connected therewith, diverging from the line of the Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Saatu• Valley Railway, as now au-
thorised to be made in the parish or Rowley Regis, in the county of
Stafford, in or near to a piece of lard there, belonging to and in the
occupation of the Birmingham Canal Company, and near the point
marked on the depositA plans or the Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Stour Valley Railway, - -- refei;ed to in the Act authorising Use
construction thereof as seven miles sir flarlongs and a half, and ter-
minating in the parish of Tipton, in the county of Stafford, near the
turnpike road there leadi carom Great Bridge to Wolverhampton,
lig
and near the soot where the turnpike road from Dudley to Great
Bridge falls into the same, where it is proposed to make a junction
with the line or the South Stafordshire Junction Railway, and pass-
ing from, in, or through the several parishes, townships, or places
of Rowley, Rowley Regis, I' )wley Somery, West Bromwich, All
Saints West Bromwich, Saint James West Bromwich, Christ Church
West Bromwich, Trinity West Bromwich, Horsley Heath, Tipton,
Great Bridge, Saint Paul Tipton, and Saint Martin Tipton, or some
of them, in the county of Stafford.
And it is intended to take powers in such Act to construct sta-
tions, communications, works, and other conveniences, in the se-
veral (parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places
before mentioned, or some of them, for the working and using the
said railway and branch railways ; and also to authorise junctions
with any railway or railways, or intended railway or railways, at
the commencement or tehnination, or in the line or course of the
said railway and branches as before described, in the several pa-
rishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places aforesaid, or
some of them.

And it is proposed in and by the said intended Act to empower the
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and S
or companies with powers to make and maintain the said railway
to make and maintain the said railway and Valley
ilbealair
razw Company d
compulsion or
works, and to work and use the same, or ato incorporate a companyay:an
and branch railways and works, and to purchase by
agreement all houses and lands rrauired :or the completion of the
same respectively, and also to cross, divert, alter or stop up, either
temporarily or permanently, all such turnpike-roads, parish-roads
and other highways, streams, canalS, navigable rivers, navigation,,
'
railways, and tram-roads, within the said parishes, townships, and
extra-paroebial and other places aforesaid, or some of them, as it
may be necessary or expedient to cross, divert, alter, cr stop up for
the purposes of the said railway and works, and to deviate in the con-
struction of the said railway and branch railways from the line
thereof, as shown on the plans hereinafter mentioned, to the extent
which shall be defined on the same; and to take powers to levy tolls,
rates, and duties in respect of the use of the said railway and branch
railways,
andtothlalrayitodrs
;otipnogusedishtoablle existingtakeifor the purposes of the
said railway and branches, or which would in any nunmer impede or
interfere with the objects aforesaid, and by the said Act to confer
l rights and privileges
eonnect with
other rights and privileges.
, And it is further intended, for the purposes aforesaid, to .alter,
amend, extend, and enlarge, so far as may be necessary, the powers
and provisions of the several Acts hereinafter mentioned or referred
to, or some or one of them, that is to say—
lst.—The several Acts relating to the Birmingham Canal—that is
to say, sth William the Fourth, chapter 34 ; 2cl and 3d Victoria
chapter 61 ; 3d and 4th Victoria, chapters 24 and 56 ; 7th and 8t1;
Victoria, chapter 11 ; 9th and 10th Victoria, chapter 269 ; and
an Act passed in the Otis and 10th years of the reign of her present
Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled " An Act for carrying into effect
certain arrangements betwert the London and Birmingham Rail-
way Company and the Coinpany of Proprietors of the Birmingham
Canal Navigations, and for granting certain Powers to the said re-
*active Companies."
ad.—An Act passed in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her
said present Majesty, entitled "An
Act for making a railway from
Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton, w:th a branch, to bc called the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway."
3d,—That several Ae.a re'atatg to the London and North-Western
Railway—that is to say, an Act passed in the session held in the
9th and 10th years of the reign of her said present Majesty, entitled
" An Act to consolidate the London and Birmingham Grand Junc-
tion, and Manchester and Blrmingham Railway Companies." And
also the several Acts relating to the said London and Birmingham,
Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Railways, or the
London and North-Wes ailway, or either of them, that is to
say local and personal Acts Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 156 ;
and! local and personal acts 9th and 10th Victoria, chapters 67, 80,
82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 323, 331,
359, 368, 369, and 396.
And it is proposed in and by the said intended Act to em over
p
the said Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway
Company, or such company or companies to be incorporated as afore-
said, to let on lease, sell, or tranisler to the London and North-Western
Railway Company the said intended railway mid branch railways,
or any part or parts thereof, and to delegate to any such company
the execution of all or any of the powers of the said Intended Act;
and to enable the said London and North-Westemßailway Company
to purchase, rent, or conbi!vct the said intended railway and branch
railway, and also to viable the said London and North-Western
Railway Company, and Ilse Orewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Company, and the Company o: Proprietors of the Birmingham Camel
Navigation, or any of them, to join in bscribing towards the con-
struction of the said intended railway and branch railways, or any
part or parts thereof, Lan to raise any stun Or stuns among for such
last-saoutioucti purpOseS.

And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the thirtieth
day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections describing the
line, or situation and levels of the said intended railway and branch
railways, and the situation of the lands proposed to be taken for the
purposes of the same, together with a book of reference thereto, con-
totning the names of the ownersor reputed owners, lessees or reputed
lessees, and occupiers of the said lands, will be deposited for public
inspection with the clerk of the peace for the county of Worcester,
at his office in Worcester ; and with the clerk of the peace for the
county of Stafford, at his (ace in Stafford. And that on or before
the same thirtieth day of November instant, copies of so much of the
said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to the several
polishes in or tbroulh which the said intended railway and branch
railways are proposed to pass or be mode, will be deposited with the
prrish clerks of such parishes, at their respective residences.
Dated this 6th day of November, 1846.
INGLEBY,- WRAGGE, and corE,} solicitors.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham,

NORTHAMPTON and BANBURY RAIL-
WAY, from the London and North Western Railway, near
the Blisworth Station, to Banbury, with power for the London and
North Western Railway Company to subsc. ibe towards the same, or
to purchase, lease, -or make other arrangements In respect of the
same, and Junction with the Oxford and Rugby line of the Great
Western Railway.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the easing session for an ACT to authorise
the construction and 'maintenance of a railway, with proper works
and conveniences connected therewith, and approaches thereto,
commencing by a junction with the Northampton and Peterborough
branch of tke London and North Western Railway, at or near the
Gayton"Wharf, on the Northampton Arm of the Grand Junction
Canal, in the parish of Blisworth, in the county of Northampton, and
terminating near the town of Banbury, in the parish of Warkworth,
in the county of Nortb...P.mpton, at or near the southern side of the
highway leading from Warkworth to Banbury, and near to the point
where the same highway joins the turnpike road from Brackley to
Banbury, near to the said town of Banbury, near to which proposed
termination, and in the said parish of Warkworth it is also proposed
to form a junction with the Oxford and Rugby line of the Great
Western Railway, which said intended railway and works will be
made in, or pass from, through, or into, the several parishes, town-
ships, extra-parochial and other places of Blisworth, Gay ton, Ban-
bury-lane, TiMeld, Easton Neston, Hulcot, lihowsley, Towcester,
Caldcote other wise Caldecote, Handley, Wood Burcote, Greens
Norton, Bengali, Duncete, Field Burcote, Littleworth, Potcote,
Abthorpe, Foscote, Charlock otherwise Challock, Bradden, Slapton,
Wappenham, Astwell, Falentt otherwise Fanlcutt, Weedon, Weedon
Lois otherwise Loys Weedon, otherwise Weedon Pinkenny, Mil-
. thorpe, Weston, Helmdon otherwise Heimedon, Sulgrave, Stuchbary
otherwise Stuttesbury, Gretworth, otherwise Greatworth, Marston,
Marston Saint Lawrence, Westherp otherwise Westrop, Thenford,
Ilintou, Hinton in the Hedges, Stean otherwise Steno otherwise
Steane, Farthinglio otherwise Farthiughoe, Thorpe, Thorpe 31ande-
vine, Middleton, Middleton Cheney, Newbottle, Astrop, Charlton,
Purston, Great Purston, Little Purston, Burston, King's Sutton,
Walton, Brackley, Saint James Brackley, Saint Peter Brackley,
Halse, Warkworth, Grimsbury, Nethercott otherwise Nethercote,
Overthorpe, Iluscote, Banbury, and Saint Mary Banbury, or some
of them, in the county of Northampton. And it is intended to take
powers in such Act to construct stations, communications, works,
and other convenieuees, in. the several parishes, townships, and
extra-parochial and &her places before mentioned, or some of them,
for the working and using the said railway, and also to authorise
junctions with any railway or railways, or intended railway or rail-
ways, at the commencement or termination, or in the line or course
toofw iihisehispasi?
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sad other erplacinesthafe sevoresaierdal,
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them.
And it is proposed in and by the said intended Act to incorporate
6 a company, with powers to make and maintain the said railway and
works, and to purchase, by compulsion or agreement, all houses and
lands required for the completion of the same, and also to cross,
divert, alter, or stop up, either temporarily or permanently, all such
turnpike roads, parish roads, and other highways, streams, canals,
navigable rivers, navigation, railways, and tramroads, within the
said parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places afore-
said, or some of them, as it may be necessary or expedient to cross,
divert, alter, or stop up, for the purposes of the said railway and
works, and to deviate in the construction of the said railway from
the line thereof as shown on the plans hereinafter mentioned to the
extent which shall be defined on the same, and to take powers to
levy tolls, rates, and duties, in respect of the use of the said railway
and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges connected
with the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes of the said rail-
way, or which would in any manner impede or interfere with the
objects aforesaid, and by the said Act to confer other rights and
privileges.
And it is proposed in and by the said intended Act to empower
the said Company to be thereby incorporated, to let on lease, sell, or
transfer, to the London and North-Western Railway Compady, the
said intended railway, or any part or parts thereof, and to delegate
to such Company the execution of all or any of the powers of the
said intended Act, or to make such other arrangements with the
said Company, for the working or using of the said intended
railway as may be thought expedient, and to enable the said London
and North-Western Railway Company to purchase, rent, or construct,
or join in subscribing towards the construction of the said intended
railway, or any part or parts thereof, and to raise any sum or sums
of money for such last mentioned purposes, or to enter into such
other arrangements with the said intended company as aforesaid,-
And by the said intended Act it is proposed to take power to alter,
amend, extend, and enlarge, so far as may be necessary, the powers
and provisions of the several Acts hereinafter mentioned, or some of
them (that is to say), an Act passed in the session holden in the 9th
and 10th years of thereign of her present Majesty, entitled "An Act
to consolidate the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and
Manchester and Birmingham Railway Companies," and also the
several Acts relating to the said London and Birmingham, Grand
Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Railways, or the London
and North Western Railway, or some of them (that is to say), local
and personal Acts, Bth and 9th. Victoria, chapter 156, and local and
personal Acts, 9th and 10th Victoria, chapters 67, 80, 82, 152, 182,
184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244 248, 261, 269, 309, 323, 331, 359,
368, 369, and 396.
And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the thirtieth
day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections, describing the
direction, line, and levels of the said intended railway, and the
situation of the lands proposed to be taken, or the purposes 'of
the same, together with a book of reference thereto containing the
names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees
and occupiers of the said lands, will be deposited for public inspec-
tion with the clerk of the peace for the county of Northampton, at
his office in Northampton; and that on or before the said thirtieth
day of November instant, copies of so much of the said plans, sec-
tions, and book of reference, as relate to the several parishes in or
through which the said intended railway and works are proposed to
pass or be made, will be deposited with the parish clerks of such
parishes, at their resßective residences.
Dated this sixth day of November, 1846.

PARKER, IIAYt3S, BARNWELL and TWISDEN,I
1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. Solicitors.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham.

BUCKINGHAM and BRACKLEY JUNC-
TION RAILWAY and OXFORD and BLETCIILEY
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANIES.—AMALGAMATION
and EXTENSION of LINES.—(BRANCIIES or EXTENSIONS
t..--11A-NBURY,' AYLESBURY.. and into OXFORD, with power
to LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY la
AMALGAMATE with, or SUBSCRIBE to, or to PURCHASE or
LEASE the UNDERTAKING).
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the next session, for leave to bring In a

BILL to alter amend and enlarge the powers and provisions of the
Oxford and Bletchley Junction Railway Act 1846; and of the Buck-
inghamshire Railway (Buckingham to Brackley Junction) Act 1846;
and to authorise and empower the union and consolidation into one
undertaking of the Oxford and Bletchley Junction Railway Com-
pany and the Buckiugham and Brackley Junction Railway Com-
pany, incorporated by the said Acts respectively : and the respective
capital stock, shares, property, and effects of the Oxford and
Bletchley Junction Railway Company, and the Buckingham, and
Brackley Junction Railway Company, and the vesting in one com-
pany all the capital stock, shares, property, and effects, powers, and
privileges now vested in the said two companies respectively, and
to authorise the incorporation of a new company for the purposes
above 'mentioned ; in which said Bill it is intended to apply for
powers to enable the said consolidated company to make and main-
tain an extension or branch ofrailway from the said Buckingham and
Brackley Railway, with all necessary stations, erections, bridges,
wharfs, warehouses, communications, and other works connected
therewith, to commence by a junction with the Buckingham and
Brackley Junction Railway, authorised to be made by the Act secondly
above-mentioned near the intended termination thereof, in the parish
of Saint James Brackley, in the county of Northampton, and near the
south or south-western side of the turnpike road there leading from
Brackley to Oxford, and to terminate near the town of Banbury, in
the parish of Warkworth, in the county of Northampton, at or near
the southern side of the highway from Warkworth to Banbury, and
near the point.where the same highway joins the turnpike-road from
Brackley to Bankury, near to the said town of Banbury; and also by
a junction with the line of the Oxford and Rugby Railway, in the
parish of Warkworth, at the proposed station of such last-mentioned
railway, in a field adjoining and on the near side of the same high-
way from Warkworth to Banbury ; which said extension or branch
railway and works will be made in, or pass from, through, or into the
several parishes, townships, or extra-parochial sand other places fol.
lowing,-. or some of them (that is to say), Brackley, Saint James'
Brackley, St, Teter Brackley, Raise, Evenley, Hinton, Hinton in the
Hedges, Steve, otherwise Stene, Farthinghoe, Gretworth, other-
wise Greatworth, Marston, Marston St. Lawrence, Westhorpe, other-
wise Westrop, Thenford, Thorpe Mandeville, Middleton Cheney.
Newbottle, Astrop, Charlton Purston, Little eurston, Great_ rurston,
•

iiurs ton, King's Sutton, Watton, Warkworth, Grinsbury, Nethercote
otherwise Nethercott, Overthorpe, Huscote, Banbury, and St. Mary
Banbury, in the county of Northampton ; and Banbury and St. Mary
Banbury, in the connty of Oxford.
Also to make and maintain another extension or branch railway

om the said Buckingham and Bracklay Junction Railway, with al:
necessary stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses, commtuat
cations, and other works, to commence in the parish of Middle Clay
don, in the county of Buckingham, by a junction with the line of the
same railway, near its intersection with the line of the Oxford and
Bletchley Junction Railway, authorised to be made by the Act first
above referred to, in a field numbered 9, in the parish of Middle Clay-
don, in the plans deposited with the clerks of the peace for the coun-
ties of Oxford and Buckingham, mentioned in the Act secondly above
referred to, and to terminate in the parish of Aylesbury, in the county
of Buckingham, by a junction with the Aylesbury Railway, at a dis-
tance of about three furlongs from its termination there, which said
extension will be made in, or pass from, through, or into the several
parishes, townships, extra-parochial, and other places following, or
some of them (that is to say) Middle Claydon, East Claydon, Steeple
Claydon, Addlngton, Winslow, Shipton, Grandborougli, Hogshaw,
Fullbrook, North Marston, Pitheott, Oviug, Hardwick, Weedon,
Quainton, Waddesdon, Fleet Manton, Hartwell, Quarrendon or
Quarrington, Bierton, Broughton, tylesbury, and 'Walton, in the
county of Buckingham.
Also to make an extension or branch railway or deviation in the
line of the said Oxford and Bletchley Junction Railway, with all
proper stations, erections, bridges, approaches, works, and conve-
niences, to commence in the hamlet of Water Eaton, in the parish
of Kidlington, or extra-parochial place of Cutslow, in the county of
Oxford, at or about one mile and four furlongs from the intended
termination of such railway, as shown en the deposited plans,
and in a field belonging to Charles Sawyer, Esq., and in the
occupation of William Rowland, and to terminate in the parish of
St. Giles, in the said county of Oxford, in a field belonging to the
President and Scholars of St. John's College, Oxford, in lease to the
Duke of Marlborough, and occupied as garden ground, near the
Horse and Jockey Inn, and on the west side of the Oxford and
Woodstock turnpike-road, which said extension, branch, or devia-
tion will be made in or passifrom, through, or into the several pa-
rishes, townships, extra-parochial and other places following, or
some of them, that is to say, Kidlington, Water Eaton, Cutslow,
Marston, Summertown, and St. Giles, in the county of Oxford, and
to relinquish and abandon so much of the original authorised line of
the said Oxford aid Bletchley Junction Railway as lies between the
said point where the said extension, branch, or deviation is to com-
mence, and the commencement of the said Oxford and Bletchley
Junction Railway, as described in the said Act relating thereto, in
the parish of Saint Giles, in the City of Oxford.
And notice is hereby further given, than a plan of the said branch,
extension, and deviation railways and works, and also a duplicate
of such a plan, and a section and duplicate thereof, together with
books of reference thereto, and also a published map, with the lines
of railway delineated thereon, will be deposited for public inspec-
tion with the clerk of the peace for the county of Northampton, at
his office at Northampton, in the said county; and with the clerk
of the peace for the county of Oxford, at his office in Oxford, in the
same county ; and with the clerk of the peace for the county er
Buckingham, at his office in Aylesbury, on or before the thirtieth
day of November, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six ; and
on or before the said thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and forty six, a copy of so much of the plan and section
as relates to each parish in or through which the said work is in-
tended to be made, together with a book of reference thereto, will
be deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his place
of abode.
And notice is hereby further given, that it is Intended in the said
Bill to apply for powers for the compulsory purchase of lands and
houses, and to vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in any
manner connected with the lands and houses proposed to be taken
for the purposes aforesaid, and also to levy tolls, rates, or duties
upon or in respect of the said branches, extensions, and deviation
lines of railways and works, and to alter existing tolls, rates, or
duties, and to confer, va-y, or extinguish exemptions from the pay-
ment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other rights and privileges.
And it is also proposed in and by the said Bill to empower the said
consolidated company to lease, sell, or transfer the said authorised
lines of railway, and the said branches, extensions, and deviation
lines of railway and works, or any part of the came, or the tolls,
thereof, to the London and North-Western Railway Company ; and
to delegate to the said London and North-Western Railway Com,
pony the execution of all or any of thepowersofautheosaid Acts re-
spectively, and of the said intended Bill, and to authorise
rise the said
London and North-Western Railway Company, out of their corpo-
rate or other funds, to take shares in, and subscribe
the said auth for, or towards
orised
the making, maintaining, working, and using,
railway; and the said branches, extensions, and deviation hues of
railway and works, or any part thereof, or to purchase, take on 1, ase,
rent, work, or construct the same, or any part thereof, said ta take
tolls and duties upon or in respect thereof, or to guarantee to the
said consolidated Company such interest or profit] upon their out-
lay as may be agreed upon, and to enable the said London and North-
Western Railway Company to raise money by shares, mortgage, or
otherwise, fur the purposes aforesaid, or some of them, and for carry-
ing into effect all or any of the above objects; it is also intended to

PRICE SD.

apply for powers to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge the powers and
provisions of the several Acts following (that is to say): An Act
passed in the session held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of
her present Majesty, Intituled "An Act to consolidate the Louden
and Birmingham Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham
Railway Companies ;" and also the several Acts relating to the said
London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Bir-
mingham Railways, or the London and North-Western Railway, or
some of them (that is to say) local and personal Act Bth and 9th
Victoria, cap, 156, and local and personal Acts 9th and 10th Victot;a,
cap. 67, 80, 152, 182, 181, 193, 251, 232, 244, 248, 261, 269, 509, 328,
331, 359, 368, 369, and 396.
Dated this 7th day of November, 1846.

PARKER, HAYES, BARNWELL, and TWISDEN.i Solicitors
Lincoln's Inn-fields, for the
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham, Bill.

THE GLOUCESTER and HEREFORD
RAILWAY and CANAL PURCHASE for MAKING a
RAILWAY front GLOUCESTER to HEREFORD, ti ail CONNECT-
ING LINES,. and PURCHASE of the HEREFORDSHIRE and
GLOUCESTERSHIRE CANAL, with POWER to the LONDON
and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY to SUBSCRIBE
to the INTENDED RAILWAY and PURCHASE and MAKE
ARRANGEMENTS in RESPECT of the SAME. . _

eAdctol betoll
Tsleso,/sloisn,
authorise the construction and maintenance of a railway, with a
made Not ethe
PARLIAMENT,herebygI veit
proper and' convenient stations, erections, buildings, bridges, wharfs,
warehouses, communications, approaches, works, and conveniences
ifnortenadn
connected therew,ith, such railway to commence by a junction
ti
hu
a tt
PePaCnt
with the existing Birmingham and Gloucester line of the Midland
Railway, In the hamlet of Wootton Saint Mary, in the parish
of Saint Mary de Lode, in the county of Gloucester, at or near
to a point where the• same line crosses a public highway
called Asylum-lane, and terminating in or near to a certain
piece of land, adjoining a certain road or lane called Friar-
street or Albert-street, in the parishes of; Saint Peter and Saint
John the Baptist, or one of them, within the liberties of the
city of Hereford, belonging or reputed to beiong to John Arkwright,
Esquire, now or late in the occupation of Richard llayling, as
under tenant to George Townsend; which said railway and
Works will pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes,
townships, extra-parochial or other places following, or some of
them (that is to say) Gloucester, Wotton Saint Mary, Saint Cathe-
rine otherwise Saint Oswald, Saint Mary de Lode, Wottou Saint
Catherine, Vill of Wotton, Wotton, Longford Saint Catherine, Long-
ford Saint Mary, Barton Saint Mary, College Precincts, Kingsholm
Saint Mary, Kingshohn Saint Catherine, Holy. Trinity, North Ham-
let, Saint Mary de Crypt, All Saints, All Hallows, Saint Owen. Saint
John the Baptist, Saint Aidate, Saint Michael, Saint Mary de Grace,
Barton Saint Michael, South Hamlet, Hamlet of Littleworth, Saint
Nicholas, Town Ham, Pool Meadow, Saint Luke, and Saint James,
in the city of Gloucester, aad county of the same city ; Saint Cathe-
rine otherwise Saint Oswald, Saint Mary de Lode, Wotton Saint
Mary, Wotton Saint CatherineoVul of Wotton, Wotton, Longford,
Saint Mary, Longford Saint Catherine, Barton Saint Mary, Kings •
holm Saint Mary, Kingsholm Saint Catherine, Tuilley otherwise
Tuffleigh, North Hamlet, Barton Saint Michael, South Hamlet, Ham
let of Littleworth, Saint Nicholas, Town Ham, Pool Meadow, Saint
Luke, Saint James, Matson, Upton Saint Leonardo, Barnwoocl,
Hempstead, Sandhurst, Lasslngton, Churcham, Highnam, Over and
Lenton, Maisemore, llartpury, Redford, Rudford, Highleadon,
Titi-
berton, Tayuton, Great Taynton, Little Taynton, Upleaden, Newent,
Newent Town, Boulsdon, Kileot, Boulsdon and Kileot, Cugley,
Mawlswick otherwise Malswick, Compton, Pauntley, Oxenhall, Dy-
mock, Woodend, Leadington, and Ryeland, all in the county of
Gloucester; Donnington, Eastnor, Ledbury, Leadon, Hatfield,
Leadon and Hatfield, borough of Ladbury, Mitchell, Netherton,
Mitchell and Netherton, Wall Bills, Wellington, Parkhold, Cod-
dington, Bosbury, Upleadon, Catley, Upleadon and Catley, Munsley,
Pixley, Castle Froonae, Bishops Froome, Eagleton otherwise Eggle-
ton, Canon Froome, Stratton Grandsome, otherwise Stratton Gran-
disonie, Ashperton, Stoke Edith, Yarkhill, Yarkhill with Monkhide,
Tarrington, Cowarne, Much Cowame, Felton, Weatbide, Weston
Beggard otherwise Weston Baggard, Ode Pyechard otherwise Ode
Pychard otherwise Ode Pitchard, Livers Odle, Ullingswick, With-
ington, Preston, Wynn, Marden, Amberley, Wisterstone, Vend and
Venn otherwise Vend and Vern Vauld, Fromanten, Lngwardine,
Sutton Saint Nicholas, Sutton Saint Michael, Pipe and Lyde, Holmer,
Hunting ton, Shelwick, Hampton, Hampton Bishop otherwise Hamp-
ton Bishops, Tupaley, Vineyard, Hereford, Saint Owen, Hereford,
All Saints' Hereford, Saint John otherwise Saint John the Baptist
Hereford, Saint Peter Hereford, Saint Nicholas, Hereford, Saint
Martin Hereford, and Lower Bullingham, all in the county of Here-
ford ; and alas to authorise the construction and maintenance of the
following branch railways, with all proper works and conveniences
connected therewith, and approaches thereto, that is to say :
A branch railway, diverging from the line of the said intended
main railway, and commencing at or near a cottage and garden the
property of Edward Spencer, and now in the occupation of William
Powell, at or near Shelwick, in the parish of Holmer, in the county
of Hereford, and terminating by a junction with the Shrewsbury and
Hereford Railway, as authorised to be made by an Act passed in the
last session of Parliament, at or near certain fields the property of
George Terre, Esquire, in the occupation of William Badham, near
Shelwick, in the parish of Holmes aforesaid, which said branch rail-
way and works will be made wholly in the parish of Holmer, in the
county of Hereford.

And also, a branch railway diverging from the line of the said
intended main railway, commencing at or near the aqueduct over the
river Lugg, in; the extra-parochial part of Livers Ode, or in the
parish of Ullingswick, in the county of Hereford, or one of them,
and terminating by a junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford
Railway, as authorised to be made by an Act passed in the last ses-
sion of Parliament, at or near a certain field the property of the
President and Governors of Guy's Hospital, and now in Use occupa-

. .
tion of Peter Burlton, and near to the boundary of the parishes of
Pipe and Lyde and Marden, in the said county of Hereford, which
said branch railway and works wine madein or pass from, throigh,
or into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and
other places following (that is to say), Livers Ode, Ullingswick,
'Barden, Sutton Saint Michael, Sutton Saint Nicholas, Holier, and
Pipe and Lyde, or some of them, in the county of Hereford.
And it is also intended by such Act to incorporate a company for
the purpose of carrying the said undertaking into effect, and to apply
for pavers for the purchase of lands and houses, by compulsion or
agreement, and to vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in any
manner connected with the lands and houses proposed to be taken
for the putposes of the said undertaking, and for levying tolls, rates,
and duties in respect of the use of the said railway and works, and to
alter existing tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extin-
guish exemptions from such tolls, rates, and ditties, and to confer
Other rights and privileges.
And it is further intended by such Act to take powers for enabling
the Company thereby to be incorporated to purchase or take on
lease and hold, and to enable the company of proprietors of the
Herefordshire and Gloacestershire Canal Navigation to sell er lease
and transfer to the said company thereby to be incorporated the
canal of the said company of proprietors, and all branch canals,
cuts, railways, tramways, houses, lands, wharfs, warehouses, and
other hereditaments, and the goods, property, and effects, and
other works and conveniences connected therewith, or any part
thereof, together With the powers, rights, and privileges of the
said company of proprietors, and the capital, stock, and shares
debts, liabilities, engagements, and undertakings of the said
company of proprietors, and for enabling the said company so to be
incorporated to exercise and enjoy all such rights, powers, and pri-
vileges as may be so transferred to them, and also for converting
and appropriating all or any part of the said canal, branches, cuts,
railways, tramways, lands, hereditaunents, and other works for the
purposes of the said proposed railway and works, in such manner as
the said company to be incorporated shall deem expedient, and for en-
abling such company to stop up and otherwise discontinue the use of
all or any part of the said canal and other works, or the branches
thereof, and to alter, vary, and extinguish the tolls, rates, and duties
payable to the said company of proprietors, and to vary or extin-
guish all existing powers, rights, and privileges, In any manner con-
nected with the said canal, or the lauds, grounds, hereditaments,
works, and conveniences thereto belonging, and to enable the said
companies respectively to enter into any contracts, agreements, and
arrangements, and to carry into effect all such contracts, agree-
ments, and arrangements as may be expedient or necessary in refer-
ence to the objects and purposes aforesaid.
And, for the purposes aforesaid, it is intended to apply for powers
to alter, amend, enlarge, or repeal the powers and provisions of the
several Acts of Parliament relating to the said Herefordshire and
Gloucestershire Canal Navigation (that is to say), an Act passed in
the thirty-first year of the reign of his Majesty King George the
Third, intituled "An Act for making and maintaining a navigable
canal from the city of Hereford to the city of Gloucester, with a col-
lateral cut from the same to the town of Newent, in the county of
Gloucester ;" an Act passed in the thirty- third year of the same
reign, intituled" An Act to vary and extend the line of the canal
authorised to be made by an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the
reign of his present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for making and main-
taining a navigable canal from the city of Hereford to the city of
Gloucester, sr :th a collateral cut from the game to the town of Ne-
went, in the county of Gloucester, and to amend the said Act e " and
an Act passed in the second year of the reign of her present Majesty,
intituled "An Act for enabling the Company of proprietors of the
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation to raise a fur-
. .

ther sum of money, and for amending the Acts relating thereto."
And it Is further intended by such Act to enable tke company
thereby to be incorporated to make lateral deviations from the line
of the proposed railway and works to the extent or within the limits
defined upon the plans hereinafter mentioned, and also, whether
temporarily or permanently, to cross, stop, or alter, or divert ell
canals, navigation!, tarupike, and other roads and highways, rail-
ways, tramroads, aqueducts, bridges, pipes, sewers, streams, and
rivers, within the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra-parochial
or_other places, or any of them which it may be necessary to cross,
stop up, alter, or divert, by reason of the construction of the said
intended railway, or the works connected therewith, or any of them,
or any part thereof.

And it is further intended by such Act to authorise a junction
with any railway or railways, or projected railway or railways, at
the commencement or termination or in the line of the said proposed
railway.
And it is further intended by such Act to enable the company
thereby to be incorporated to sell, lease, or transfer the said intended
railway and works, or any of them, or any part thereof, and the tolls
thereof, to the London and North-Western Railway Company, and to
delegate to the said London and North-Western Railway Company
the execution of all or any of the powers of the said intended Act, and
to enable the said London and North-Western Railway Company to
purchase, or take on lease, rent, work, or construct the said intended
railway and works, or any of them, or any part thereof, and to exer-
cise all or any of the aforesaid powers, and also to authorise the said
London and North-Western Railway Company out of their corporate
or other funds to take shares in and subscribe for or towards the
making and maintaining of the said intended railway and works, or
any part thereof, and to make and enter into such other arrangements
and agreements for the working or using the said intended railway
as may be deemed expedient, and to raise money for all or any of
i afn
ter: sd
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fusr,piots
iess
and enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the ses-
sionaapnpdl
yforfor carryingpow ersi uttoo eftiffteccrt,
atTnh last-namedend, .t
extend,
of Parliament held in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled, " In Act to consolidate the London
and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birming-
ham Railway Companies," and also the several Acts relating to the
said London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, or the London and North-Western Railway,
or some of them (that is to say), local and personal Act, Bth and 9th

Victoria, chapter 156 ; and foCal and personal Acts, '9th sad 16th
Victoria, chapters 67, 80, 82, 142, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244,
248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 349, 368, 369, and 396.
And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections
of the said intended railway and works, and of the lands pro-
posed to be taken for the purposes thereof, and a published
map with the line of railway delineated thereon, and also books of
reference containing the names of the owners or reputed owners,
lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of such lauds respectively,
will be deposited, on or before the 30th day of November, 1846, with
the following clerks of the peace respectively, that is to say, with the
clerk of the peace for the county of Gloucester, at his office ut
Gloucester ; with the clerk of the peace for the city of Gloucester
and county of the same city at his office at Gloucester ; and with
the clerk of the peace for the county of Hereford, at his office in
Hereford ; and that a copy of se much of the said plans, sections,
and books of reference as relates to the several parishes in or
through which the said intended railway and works respectively are
intended to be made, will be deposited on or before the said 30th
day of November, 1846, with the parish clerk of each such parish
respectively, at their respective residences.—Dated the ninth day of
November, 1846.
SPURRIER pnd CHAFLIN, Birmingham.
PARKER, HAYES, BAR:WELL, and TWISDEN, London.
S. CARTER, Birmingham.
T. F. ADDISON, Gloucester.

GREAT SOUTHERN AND 'WESTERN
RAILWAY (IRELAND).
LOANS ON DEBENTURES.
The Directors of this Company are prepared to RECEIVE (under
the powers of their Acts of Incorporation) TENDERS for LOANS Of
MONEY for Three or Five years, in sums not lees than 5001., on
security of Debentures, BEARING INTEREST at the rate of
FIVE PER CENT. per Annum. The interest payable half-yearly,
on 30th June and 31st December in each year, in London or Dublin,
at the option of the lender.
Tenders (stating amount and term of years for which it is proposed
to be lent), to be addressed to the Secretary.
By order,
WILLIAM TAYLOR, Secretary.
3, College -green, Dublin, September 9, 1846.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice 'is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENEBIL
MEETING of this Company will be held At the raddingtou
Station, in the county of Middlesex, on FUnior, the 4th day of
December next, at One o'clock in the aft,:znoon, for the following
purposes, viz.:—
To consider and determine whether tt is expedient to ratify an
agreement entered into between the, Directors of the Great Western
Railway Company and the Directors of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction, and Birminsilam, Wolverhampton, and Dudley
Railway Companies, for the Purchase of the said two last mentioned
undertakings, and if ratitleu, to authorise the execution of all proper
Deeds, and the doing of all Acts, requisite for Completing such
Purchase, and for making Application to Parliament for powers to
carry the same into effect.

TO consider and determine in like manner whether it is expedient
to ratify an agreement entered into between the Directors of the
Great Western Railway Company and the Directors of the Wycombe
Railway, and the Great Western and Uxbridge Railway Companies,
for the Purchase of the said two last mentioned undertakings, and if
ratified in like manner, to authorise the execution of all proper
Deeds, ind the doing 0 all Ado, roodslto for completing such

r lIIIE ATLAS NEWSPAPER of THIS DAY,
_I. in addition to a SUPPLEILENT devoted to a complete
review of all the RAILWAY CASES tried in England, showing the
exact state of liability of every person connected with RAILWAY
AFFAIRS, contains the following special articles :—ORIGINAL
COBItES'PONDENCE—Adventures of a Divorce—Education in
South Wales—Whiter Prospects in Berkshire—The Kaill. War—
Pzczneh Gossip—lntellectual Condition et Belgium, &c. &c. URI.
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