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London, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

LONDON AND
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Directors versus Committee.
Judge.
The Directors have amaiga- The Committee have amalga-
mated with the Direct Northern, bated with the Eastern Counties
a line at a discount, the Share- Company, and obtained a 151.
holders in which are less able to share in a Company whose stock
pay their calls up than those in is at more than 50/. per cent. pre-
the London and York. mium.'
Go with the Directors, help them to get the Bill, and you must
lose all you have paid, aid 51. or 101. per share more. Go with the
Committee, and you can lose nothing; and if they succeed, you will
at vice realise 81. or 101. per shafe premium, with 4 per cent. interest
during the construction of the line. Who can hesitate? Nobody.

DUNBLANE, DOUNE, and CALLANDER
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of the sessional orders of
the Houses of Parliament, a MEETING of the HOLDERS of
SCRIP, or of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for SCRIP of this COM-
PANY, will be held within Kinross's Inn, DuAblane, upon TUESDAY,
the 26th day of May, 1846, at Twelve o'cldek at noon, when the pro-
posed Bill to empower the said Company to construct the said rail-
way will be submitted to the consideration of the meeting,
JOHN STIRLING, Chairman.
THOS. BABTY, } Secretaries.
JAMES J. STIRLING,
Dunblane, May 6, 1846.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that a SPECIAL MEETING is to be
held on THURSDAY, the 28th day of MAY
eArent, at One o'clock after-
noon, within Gibb's Royal Hotel, Priticosatroet, Edinburgh, of the
HOLDERS of SCRIP PROPOSED tp be CONVEUTED into NEW
SHARES of STOCK of the BCATAISii: CENTRAL RAILWAY,
4 COMPANY, an& which has been Issused in respect of'the Under-
takings contemplated by the Bills undermentioned, at which Meeting
copies of the following Bills will be submitted for the consideration
and approval of such Shareholders, viz.:-
1. A Bill to enable the Scottish Central Railway Company to make
a branch railway to Crieff, in the county of Perth.
2. A Bill to enable the Scottish Central Railway Company to make
a branch railway by Alloa Ferry to Tillicoultry.
3. A Bill to enable the Scottish Central Railway Company to make
a branch railway to Denny, in the county of Stirling. And
4. A Bill to enable the Scottish Centralßailway Company to make
certain terminal branches and other works at the city of Perth.
By order of the Directors,
BREADALBANE Chairman.
ROBERT D. KER, Secretary.

Perth, May 4, 1846,

THE LEEDS AND THIRSK RAILWAY
COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of the Resolutions and
Standing Orders of Parliament, an extraordinary Special General
Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company, will be held at the
Court House in Leeds, in the county of York, on Tutasne-r,the 28th
day of May next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, for the purpose of taking
into consideration, and of submitting to the Proprietors for approval,
the drafts of the following Bills, for which the Directors are now
applying to Parliament, that is to say :-
Ist. A Bill for enabling the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company
to make certain deviations in the line of the Saint Helen's branch of
the said Railway.
2nd. A Bill to enable the Leeds and Thirek Railway Company to
extend their railway over the river Nidd at Knaresborough, and for
other purposes.
3rd. A Bill for making a branch or extension railway from the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway, near Wath in the county of York, to or
to communicate with Hartlepool, in the county of Durham, with
branches therefrom.

By order,
SAMUEL SMILES, Secretary.

Leeds, April 20, 1846.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, EDIN-
BURGH, and DIRECT GLASGOW JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
of the HOLDERS of SC RIP, or of the BANKERS' RECEIPTS for
SCRIP, of this COMPANY will be held at the Company's Office,
No. 11, Eldon-square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on MONDAY, the ISth
day of May instant, at Twelve o'clock at noon, when a copy of the
Bill now before Parliament, intituled " A Bill for making a Railway
from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the llexham and Alemouth Turnpike
Road, at or near a place called Merryshiels, in the parish of Kirk-
harle, in the county of Northumberland, to be called the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, Edinburgh, and direct Glasgow Junction Railway," will
be submitted for the consideration of the meeting, which is specially
called for that purpose, and in order that such holders of scrip, or of
bankers' receipts, may express approval or disapproval of such Bill,
and determine the further proceedings thereon ; and at such meeting
such measures will be proposed as may be necessary for the purpose
of complying with the requirements of the Resolutions of the House
of Commons passed on the 23d of April.
The votes will be taken according to the amount of scrip produced
by each person present or represented at the meeting, pursuant to
the Resolutions of the House of
1846 Commons above mentioned.
Dated this Ist day of May, .
CHAS. A. MONCK, Chairman.
JAMES POTTS, Secretary.