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London, England, 1846-11-27 00:00:00

I NOVEMBER 27) 18.46.
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No. 16,908. LON DON, FRIDAY E E N

more Green, HaHoughton, 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,
cornmnnicatiens, 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 authorise 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.
And 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 ar.l 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 ctainected wills the land proposed to be taken for the pur-
poses of the said railway, or which would In any manner impede or
interfere with the objects aforesaid ; and also to empower the said
company to raise any sum or sums 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 powers and provisions contained in an Act
passed in the session held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intitutled, "An Act to Consolidate the London
and Birmingham, Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham
iilway 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 Rail way, 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 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 names of the
owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees and occupiers of
the said lands, will be deposited for public inspection with the cle'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 throughwhich 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. II
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 county 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, and to amal-
gamate 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, privileges, and authorities by the
said Act conferred on the said 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 Rather capital for effecting the purposes
aforesaid.
And it is flirther 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 present authorised to be levied
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, HATES, BARNWELL, and TWISDEN,
1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. Solicitors.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham.
BERRIDGE and MACAULAY, Leicester.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—PROPOSED BRANCHES from the COVEN TRY
and NUNEATON LINE to the MOUNT PLEASANT and VIC-
TORI A COLLIERIES, with POWER to the LONDON and NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, to ADMIT CERTAIN PAR
TIES as SHAREHOLDERS in their UNDERTAKING.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended
to be made to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing session for
an ACT to authorise the London and North-Western
Railway Company to make ani 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 ltne 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
andNuneaton, in the parish of Bedworth, in the said county of War-
wick, near to the town of Bedworth, and at or near a part marked as
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 said main line, and terminating in the said
parish of Bedworth, at or near a certain colliery called Mount
Pleasant Colliery, and passing from, in, and through the said parish
of Bedworth.
And it is intended by such Act to take powers to stop up, alter, or
divert, either temporarily or permanently, all such turnpike and
other roads, highways, aqueducts, canals, railways, tramways,
streams, and rivers, within the parishes, townships, and extra-
parochial or other places aforesaid, er any of them, as it may be
necessary to stop up, alter, or divert, by reason of the construction
of the said branch railways, or either of them.
And it is also intended by such Act to take powers for the purchase
of lands and hereditaments, by compulsion or agreement, for the
purposes aforesaid, and to levy tolls, rates, and duties for the use of
the said branch railways respectively, and to grant certain exemp-
tions from such tolls, rates, or duties.
And it is further intended by such Act or Acts to vary or extinguish
all existing rights or privileges in any manner connected with the
lands proposed to be purchased or taken as aforesaid, or which would
in any manner impede or interfere with the construction, main-
tenance, or use of the said branch railways, ant to confer other
rights and privileges, and to authorise the London and North
Western Railway Company to raise sueh further sums of
and moneyworks. as
may be necessary, for the purposes of the said branches
And it is proposed, in and by the said intended Act, to empower
the said London and North-Western Railway Company to admit
certain parties consisting wholly or in part of the shareholdersit
or parties interested in a certain company, called the Oxfor ,
Coventry, and Burton-upon-Trent Railway Company, to
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 subscribe
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
Lontion and North-Western Railway Company are authorised to
rain.
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 em-
power the London and Birmingham Railway Company to make
a Branch Railway from the London and Birmingham Railway
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
oon
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fR
them,al e,
thats
is to
Manchester and Bit mingliam Railway Companies," and also the
several Acts relating to the said London and Birmingham, Grand
Junction,
ncl 1 e s t r
Railway,and
or
Birmingham
or the
say, local and personal Acts Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 156, and
London anda nd
North-Western i 4
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,
3.59, 868, 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 the 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 theirr respective
residences.
Dated this sixth day of November, 1846.
PARKER and TWISDEN
, HAYES, BARNW ELL, ,
1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. Solicitors.
SAMUEL CAR PER, 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 PARLIA.MENiin the next session for an ACT to authorise
the Shdtshire Union Rail way 4 nd Canal Company to lease in er-
petuityr , or for a term of yearas, or to sell and transfer tot he
London and North-'Western Railway Company, the canals,
oned
rail-
ways, and works, now vested in or belonging to such first-menti
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 ailways and Canal, Shrewsbury and Stafford
Ilallivey, Act 1846 ;and together with all the powers, rights, pri-
vileges, tee, buildings, property, and effects of such company ;
and also all sch railways and canals, powers, rights, privileges,
lands, buildings, effects, as may be transferred to or vested in
such Company, or as theY may be authorised to make or purchase,
by any At or Acts to be pessed in the next session of Parliament,
and to enable the mad London and f,7orth Western Railway Company
to take and hold on lease, Ina to have, exercise, and enjoy, all
annl
and every such railways, canals,
--- Yvette, eiKl all such powers,
been to such rent and other conditions as may
Tights, privileges, lands, buildings, property, and effects aforesaid,
been agraa4 al between the said two compank s, and to W1)00801
the said compautc.4 ;enectlvely to enter into and carry into effect all
such agreements as they rnr,i7 deem requisite or expedient in refer-
plc* to the objects aforesaid. Aiii.insv
,y purposes of the said Act,
be or WV have
it is inten4e4 to alter, amend, enlarge, or 144, Eo far as May be
necessary, tke powers and previsions of the several Acis of Parlia-
ment following ; nolely, the eta relating to the Elleimertlf iind
Chester Canal Naylgation, pBesed respectively in the Bth year of the
reign of his late liajestYrg Cleorge the Fourth, in the 1 Ith year
of Pie rely l ci 14.4p1,1 Pni gawp the Fourth, 14 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 o the rein of his said late Majes King
George the Third f ; and the several Acts relating to thety Mont-
gomeryshire Canal, or eastern branch of the said Montgomery-
shire Canal, passed respectively in the 35th and 55th years of
the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, ani in the 2nd
year of the reign of his late 15Iajestv 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 with
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, BS, 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 T WISDEN, Solicitors to
1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, the Bill.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham,

LONDON, OXFORD, and CHELTENHAM
RAILWAY and BRANCHES—(CHELTENHAM to THING,
with TWO BRANCHES to the BIR M INGHAM 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 distancee of 154 yards or thereabouts south of the
point where the said last-mentioned railway crosses the River
Chelt, near to Upper Alstone Mill, and to terminate in 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, Alstone, Arlestone, Westall, Naunton, and Sandford,
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, Leckbampton,
Dowdeswell, Sandy well, Saudiwell, Andoversford, Andoverford,
Andiford, Pegglesworth, Whittington, Sireford, Syreford, Seven-
hampton, Brockhampton, Peckham, Salperton, Cold Salperton,
Upper Salperton, Lower Salperton, Shipten Sollers, Shipton Sol-
lars,
Frogmill, Kilkenny, Shipton Olive Shipton 011iffe, Hampers,
Upper Hempen, Lower Hampers, Withington, Withington, Comp-
ton, Cassey Compton, Foxcote, Foscote, Broadwell End, Owdeswell,
Rossley, Compton Abdale, Hasleton, Haselton, Hazleton, Pews-
down, Yanworth, Turkdean, Turksdean. Upper Turkdean, Lower
Turkdean, Chedworth, Stowell, Hampnett, Northleach, Northleach,
Eastington, Easington, Farmington, Sherborne, Aldsworth,
Windrush, Winrush, Maria, Pinchpool, Lan-Maria, Barrington,
Great Barrington, Little Barrington, and Wldford, in the county
of Gloucester; Barrington, Great Barrington, sad Little Barring-
ton, in the county of Berks ; Burford, Signett, Upton and Signett,
Westwell, Broadwell, and Holwell, in the county of Oxford ; Shil-
ton and Stonelands, in the county of Berks ; Shilton, Stonelands,
Alvescot, Black Bourton, Swinbrook, Asthal, Asthalley, Asthall
Leigh, Minster Lovel, Norton Brize, Brize Norton, Witney, Witney,
Crawley, Halley, Curbridge, Dncklington, 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,
Walters Osney, St. Giles, and Holywell, in or near the city of Ox-
ford, in the county of Oxford; Woolvereott, Woolvercott, Kings-
weir, Marston, Eisfield, Headington, Barton, Stanton St. John,
Forest Hill, Wheatley, Shotover, Cuddesden, Holton, Waterperry,
Thomley, Waterstock, Thame, New Thame, Old Thame, Priestend,
Mdreton, 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, Waldridge 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, Halcot, Buckland, Drayton
Beauchamp, Draitone, Elstrop, Marsworth, Ivinghoc, Nettleden,
Pitatone, and Pightlesthorne, in the 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 intethied railway, to-
gether with all proper and convenient stations, bridges, 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 south side of Upper Alstone
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 part of the Midland Railways heretofore called
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 made in, or pass
from, through, or into the several parishes, townships, extra-paro-
chial and other places following, or some of them, that is to say,
Cheltenham, Cheltenham, Arle, Alstone, Arlestone, Westall, Naun-
ton, and Sandford, in the county of Gloucester.
A branch to commence In the parish 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-road from Cheltenham to
Evesham, near to the turnpike-gate across such road, and to termi-
nate in the tithing or hamlet of Brockhampton, in the parish of
Bishops Cleeve, in the county of Gloucester. by a junction with the
part of the Midland Railways heretofore called the Birmingham and
Gloucester Railway, at or near the pest denoting the 43 and to mile
of the said last-mentioned railway, which said branch railway and
works 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, rrestbury, Overton, Noverten; Swin-
don, Bishops Cleave, Bishops Cleeve Southam, Brockhampton,
Woodmancote, Getherington, and Stoke Orchard, in the county of
Gloucester.
Also, a branch to commence in the parish 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 Hutt public-house there, and to terminate 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 College, Ox-
ford, on lease to Joseph Parker, Esry., and occupied by Thomas Cripps,
caller Burgess Mead, which said branch railway and works will be
made In the said parish of Saint Giles.
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 ajunction
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, from the ter-
minus of the said Aylesbury Branch at Aylesbury ; which said
branch railway and works will be made in and pass from, through,
er into the said parish of Aylesbury, and the hamlet or township of
Walton, in the same county.

And that it is intended to apply for powers to make lateral devia-
tions from the line of the proposed railways and works to the extent
or within the limits defined upon the plans hereinafter mentioned,
and also to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, whether temporarily or
permanently, all such turnpike roads, parish roads, streets and other
highways, streams, sewers, pipes, canals, navigations, bridges rail-
ways, or tramroads, within the said parishes, townships, and extra-
parochial or other places aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be
necessary to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, for the purposes of the
said railways and works.
And notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and sec-
tions of the said railways and works, together with books of refer.
enee thereto, and also published maps with the lines of railway
delineated thereon, will be deposited for public inspection at the
respective offices of the clerks of the peace of the several counties,
ridings, and divisions, hereafter mentioned, viz., for the county of
Gloucester, at Gloucester ; for the county of Oxford, at Oxford, in
the said county; for the county of Berks, at Abingdon, In the said
county; for the county of Buckingham, at Aylesbury, in the said
county; for the county of Hertford, at St. 'Alban's, in the said
county, on er before the 30th day of November, 1846, and on or
before the said 30th day of November, 1846, a copy of so much of
the plans and sections as relates to each parish in or through which
the said railways and works are intended 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 iti s ntended by the said
Bill to incorporate a company for the purpose of carrying into effect
the proposed works or some part thereof, and to apply for powers for
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 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 Bill, and
to authorise the said London and Nortk-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
using the said intended railways and works, or any part thereof, or to
railways and works,
or to guarantee to the Company to
purchase, take or leasare,aaryenpta,rtwoorfk,thoer
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Dated this 7th day of November, 1846. 'ors 67te,8r0,15826,
Messrs.aadw
TPAiRsKDEEINI,. HAYES, BARNWELL,'
1, Lincoln's-inn-fields,

London,
Messrs. 11. and W. TOGOOD, 22, Duna- Solicitors
ment-street, London, to the Bill.
Messrs. NEWMAN. GWINNETT, and
TIC EHURST, and
JAMES BOODLE, Esq., Cheltenham,
SAMUEL CARTER, Esq., Birmingham,

BIRMINGHAM GVHALALMEY,. WRAIOLLWVAYEROTH..A2M) PBRTAONNCH,Esan:LI
Proposed Branch from the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour
Valley Railway, near Oldbury, to Stourbridge, with branches there-
from to lialesowen, 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 near Dudley, with branch to Tipton, and connecting
lines ; with power to the London and North Western, and the Shrews
bury and Birmingham Railway Companies, and the Birmingham
Canal Company, to subscribe thereto and to purchase, use, or rent
the same.

Notice is hereby Oyer, that APPLICATION id 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 glass works of Messrs. 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, is Stourbridge aforesaid, and passing from, in, through,
or into the several parishes, townships, h..miets, extra-parochlal
and other places of Harborne, North Harberne. Holy Tri• ity,
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,
14owley Regis Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side, Rowley Somery,
mut, saint Leonard's Clent, Saint Luke's Reddall Hill, Reddall
Hill, Corngraves, Cradley Heath, Kingswinford, or some of them,
in the said county of Stafford ; Halesowen, Saint John the Baptist
Halesowen, Saint Keneira's Hales Owen, borough of Halesowen,
Hewn, The Hill, Lapel, Romslay, Lutloy, Illey, Hasbury, Hun-
ningtop, Waylay, Warley Salop, Frankley, Warley Wige:n. Bldg,
Chureil Ridgacre, Christ Church, The Quinton, Cake-
more. Langley, Langley Green, Oldbury Saint Nicholas
w Oldbury, Lanicle7 Lang Wegowlici
"01rdebnii°,sCftebriirN,chiuzu

Osaldinbtsaryao,hnogibdulre
Saint Andrew's Netherton, le ',ttherton, Cradley, Saint Mary CrssdltcY,
Oldbury
sWaialntlohdamli,undDpuudldelye3,,, paint t
ThJamoZ
Netherend, Overend, Cradley _Town, or some or one of them, in he
county of Worcester ; Bromford, Titford, White Heath, Black
Heath, Cradley Heath, Five Ways, Netherend, Cradley, Saint Mary
Cradley, Olds,win ford, Kingswinforci, Wordesley, The Holy Trinity
Wordesley. Saint Mary Kingswinford,. Brierley, Brierley Hill,
Michael's Brierley Hill, Brockmore„Saint John Brockrnore, Hart's
Hill, Pensnett, Pensnett Chase, Saint Dfark fensnett, Quarry Bank,
Thomas Dpuuddlleeyy:
Christ Church Quarry Bank, Barrow Hilt, Amblecote, The Holy
Trinity Amblecote, Bedcote, or some or cue of them, in the county of
Stafford ; Oldswinford. Saint Mary's Oldmeinford, Stourbridge, Saint
Thomas Stourbridge, Bedcote. Wollaston, Upper Swinford, Lowei
Saint
Swinford, The Lye, Tho Lyo Waste, Christ CNurch in the Lye, Wol-
lescote, and Foxcote, some or one of them, in the said county of
Worcester,
Also, a branch railway, diverging from the said first-mentioned
intended line of railway, in the township of Oldbury, in the parish of
Halesowen, in the said county of Worcester, near to the point
where the said intended main line crosses the turnpike road from
Birmingham to Oldbury and Dudley, and in 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
by a junction with the said Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and
Stour. Valley Railway, in or near to a certain field adjoining
the Iron Works there called Bromford Iron Works, in the parish of
Westbromwich, in the county of Stafford, and passing from, in,
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 of them, in the said
county of Stafford; Oldbury, Saint Nicholas Oldbury, Christ Church
Oldbury, Langley, Langley Walloxhall, and Halesowen, 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 turn-
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, Clent, Saint Leonard Clent, Cid Hill, Reddall Hill, Saint
Luke's Reddall Hill, Cradley Heath, Cradley Pool, Saint Mary Crad-
ley, the Level, Level Woods, Five Ways, Quarry Bank, Christ 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, Amblecote, Bum-
ble Hole, and Kingswhsford, some or one of them in the county of
Stafford ; Cradley, St. Mary Cradley, Netherend, Overend, Cradley
Town, Musham, Dudley Wood, Lady Wood, Salt Wells, Level, Level
Woods, Netherton, Saint Andrew's Netherton, Halesowen, St. John
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, and 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 Hellier,
adjoining the public highway leading from Cinder Bank aforesaid to
Dudley aforesaid, and lying between the said highway and a house
called or known by the name of the Halfway-house, situate at a place
called Cabbage Hall, in 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 from 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
11111, in the said parish of Rowley Regis, and terminating in the
township of the borough 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 Reddall Hill, Saint
Luke's Reddall Hill, Rowley, Rowley Regis, Saint Giles Rowley
Regis, Rowley Regis Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side, Rowley
Somery, Clent, Saint Leonard Clent, Saint Mary Cradley. and Cradley
Heath, or some or one of them, in the said county of Stafford ;
Cradley, Saint Mary Cradley, Hawn, The Hill, Cakemore, Lutley,
Illey, Hasbury, Halesowen, Saint John the Baptist Halesowen, and
the borough of Halesowen, some or one of them, in the said county
of Worcester.
Also, another branch railway, diverging out of the said first-
mentioned intended line of railway, at or near the Foxoak Colliery,
in the parish of Rowley Regis aforesaid, and terminating in the
parish of Dudley aforesaid, at or near a place called Lady Wood,
in the said parish, adjoining or near adjoining the public road there
leading from Rowley Regis aforesaid towards Dudley Wood and the
Salt Wells, at or near a field there, called Pool Piece, belonging to
the Right Honourable Lord Ward, and in the occupation of Messrs.
Webb, Harper, and Company, and of John Jeavons, and passing
from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, hamlets,
extra-parochial and other places of Rowley, Rowley Itegis,St. Giles
Rowley Regis, Rowley Regis Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side,
Rowley Somery, Clent, Saint Leonard Clent, Reddall Hill, Saint
Luke's Reddall Hill, Foxoak. Cradley Heath, Saint Mary Cradley,
Cradle)* Pool, Quarry Bank, Christ Church Quarry Bank, and
Kingswinford, some or one of them in the said county of Stafford ;
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,
Saint Andrews Netherton, Quarry Bank, Christ Church Quarry
Bank, and Halesowen, some or one of them is the said county of
Worcester.
Also, another branch railway, or connecting line, to connect the
said first-mentioned intended branch railway with the said proposed
branch therefrom to Halesowen, and diverging from the said first-
mentioned intended branch 'railway, in the parish of Rowley Regis
aforesaid, at or near a place called the Five Ways, in the parish of
Rowley Regis aforesaid, and adjoining the public highway leading
from the Five Ways aforesaid towards Dudley, and terminating by a
junction with the said intended railway leading from the said in-
tended line of railway at Reddall Hill aforesaid to Halesowen afore-
said, at Cradley Heath, in the parish of Rowley Regis aforesaid, in
or near a certain field called or known by the name of Over Field,
otherwise Over Leasow, belonging to the said Lord Ward, arid in the
occupation of James Henry Edmonds, and passing from, in, through,
or into the several parishes, townships, hamlets, extra-parochial and
other places, of Cradley Beath, Saint Mary Cradley, Five ways,
Rowley, Rowley Regis, Saint Giles Rowley Regis, Rowley Regis
Overside, Rowley Regis Lower Side, Clent, Saint Leonard Clent,
Rowley Somery, Reddall Hill, and St. Luke's Reddall Hill, some or
one of thew, 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, diverging 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 Oldswinfonl aforesaid, both be-
longing or reputed to belong to the Reverend Edward Unwin, and
in the occupation of Francis Tongue Rufford' and terminating at or
near a place called Chawn Hill, 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 Yardley, or one of them, and passing
from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, hamlets,
extra-parochial and other places of The Lye, Upper Swinford, Lower
Swinford, Oldswinford, St. Mary's Oldswinford, Chawn Hill, Stour-
bridge, and Saint Thomas Stourbridge, Bedcote, 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 terminating in the hamlet of Amblecote, in that part of
the parish of 011swinford 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, townships, hamlets, extra-parochial, and other places
of Upper Swinford, Oldiwinford, Lower Swinford, Saint Mary's Old-
swinford, Stourbridge, Saint Thomas Stourbridge, Bedcote and Wol
lesion, some or one of them, in the said county of Worcester, Am-
blecote, Holy Trinity, Amblecote, Bedcote, and Kingswinford, someor 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 Bit
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway, as now au-f
Stafford, In or near to a piece of land there, belonging to and in the
thorised to be made in the parish of Rowley Regis, in the county o
occupation of the Birmingham Canal Company, and near the point
marked on the deposited plans of the Birmingham,
Wolverhampton,
and Stour Valley Railway, referred to in the Act authorising the
construction thereof as seven miles six furlongs and a half, and ter-
minating in the parish of Tipton, in the county of Stafford. near the
turnpike road there leading from Great Bridge to Wolverhampton,
and near the spot where the turnpike road from Dudley to Great
Bridge falls into the same where it is proposed to snake a junction
with the line of the Soutl:Staffordshire Junction Railway, and pass-
ing from, in, or through the several parishes, townships, or places
of Rowley, Rowley Regis, Rowley 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 termination, or in the line or course of the
said railway and branches as before described, in the several pa-
, riches, townships, and extra-parochial and other places aforesaid, or
1 some of them.

And it is proposed in and by the said intended Act to empower the
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway Company
to make and maintain the said railway and branch railways and
works, and to work and use the same, or to incorporate a company
or companies with powers to make and maintain the said railway
and branch railwa3 s and works, and to purchase by compulsion or
agreement all houses and lands required for 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, navigations,
railways, and train-roads, within the said parishes, townships, and
extra-parochial and other places aforesaid, or some f 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, and to vary or extinguish all existing right., and privileges
connected with the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes of the
said railway and branches, or which would in any manlier impede or
interfere with the objects aforesaid, and by the said Act to confer
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
•Ticthtoartia is,
chapter 61 ; 3d and 4th Victoria, chapters 24 and to say,
to, or some or one of them, that Is to say-
7th and Bth
t
56;
Tshthe swevieumriaalActhtsererlaotihrnt,
ghtochthapeteltirndflg2dhan arli dCa3dhal
34
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Victoria, chapter 11 ; 9th and 10th Victoria, chapter 269 ; and
an Act passed in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present
majesty Queen Victoria, entitled " An Act for carrying into effect
certain arrangements between the London and Birmingham Rail-
way Company and the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham
ls .
Canal Navigations, and for granting certain Powers to the said re-
spectiveCompanles."
2d.—An Act passed in
the
9th and 10
"An th
years of the reign of her
said present Majesty, entitled Act for making a railway from
Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton, with a branch, to be called the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway."
3d,—That several Acts relating 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 '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 Nort h-Western Rai w, or eiher of tem, that Is to
rsonal Acts Bth and 9th[ Victoriah,' chapter 156;
say local and pc
an local and personal acts 9th and 10th Victoria, chapters 67, 80,
232, 233, 244, 24
152, 182, 184, 193, 231,8, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331,
82,
359, 368, 369, and 396.
And it is proposed In and by the said intended Act to empower
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 I ransfer to the London and North-Western
Railway Company the said intended railway and 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-Western Railway Company
to purchase, rent, or construct the said intended railway and branch
railway, and also to enable the said London and North-Western
Railway Company, Shrewsbury and and the Birmingham Railway
Company, and the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal
Navigation, or any of them, to join in subscribing towards the con-
struction of the said intended railway and branch railways, or any
1 ,
part or parts thereof, and to raise any awn Or Mina cifrooisey for such
loasontionod prmes!

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-
taining the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputec.
I^ssees, 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
comity of Stafford, at his office 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
parishes in or through which the said intended railway and branch
railways are proposed to pass or he made, '% ill be deposited with the
potish clerks of such parishes, at their respective residences.
Dated this 6th day of November, 1846.
INGLEBY, WRAGGE, and COPE,} Solicitors.
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham,

NORTEIAMPTON 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 subscribe towards the same, or
to purchase, lease, or make other arranlements 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 ensiug 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 the London and North Western Railway, at or near the
Gayton Wharf, on the Northampton Ann of the Grand Junction
Cana., 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 Northampton, 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, Tiffield, Easton Neston, Hulcot, Showsr Towcester,
Caldcote other wise Caldecote, Handley. Wood cote, Greens
Norton, Bengali, Duitcote, Field Burcote, Littieworth, Potcote,
Abthorpe, Foscote, Chariock otherwise Challock,- Bradden, Slapton,
Wappenham, Astwelt, Falcutt otherwise Fauicutt, Weedon, Weedon
Lois otherwise Loys Weedon, otherwise Weedon Pinkenny, Mil-
thorpe. Weston, Helindon otherwise Helmedon, Sulgrave, Stuehbury
otherwise Stuttesbury, Gretworth, otherwise Greatworth, Matat
Marston Saint Lawrence. Weatharp otherwise Wtstrop, The o
Hinton, Hinton in the Hedges, Steau otherwise Stene otherwise'
Steane, Farthingho otherwise Farthinghoe, Thorpe, Thorpe Mande-
ville, Middleton, Middleton Cheney, Newbottle, Astrop, Charlton,
Purston, Great Purston, Little Purston, Burston, King's Sutton,
Walton, Brackley, Saint James Brackley, Saint Peter Brackley,
Warkworth, Grlmsbury, Nethercott otherwise Nethercote,
Overthorpe, Huscote, 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 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 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
of the said railway, as before described, in the several parishes,
townships, and extra-parochial wad other places aforesaid, or some of
them.
And it is proposed in and by the said intended Act to incorporate
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 consthict,
o• join 41 subscribing towards the construction of the said intended
railway, or any part or parts thereof, sod 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, Sth 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,
363, 369, and 396.
And notice is hereby Maher 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 hook 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 respective residences.
Dated this sixth day of November, 1846.

PARKER, HAY ES, BARNWELL and TWISDEIT,I
1, Lincoln's Ina-fields, London. Solicitors,
SIMUEL CARTER, Birmingham.

BUCKINGHAM and BRACKLEY JUNC-
TION RAILWAY and OXFORD and BLETCHLEY
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANIES.—AMALGAMATION
end EXTENSION of LINES.—(BRANCHES or EXTENSIONS
to BANBURY, AYLESBURY, and into OXFORD, with power
to LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY to
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 1446 ; 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 Buckingham 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 of railway from the slid Buckingham and
Erackley Railway, with aU 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 Banbury. 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
sevc-al parishes, townships, or extra-parochial and other places fol-
lowing, or some of them (that is to say), Brackley, Saint James'
Brackley, St. Peter Brackley, Heise, Evenley, Hinton, Hinton in the
Hedges, Steane, 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,
Burston, 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
Barbary, in the county of ()ALM.
Also to make and maintain another extension or branch railway
from the said Buckingham and Brackley Junction Railway, with all
necessary stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses, communi-
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, ruthorisell 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, Addington, Winslow, Shipton, Grandborough, Hogshaw,
Fullbrook, North Marston, Pithcott, Oving, Hardwick, Weedon,
Quainton, Waddesdon, Fleet Marston, Hartwell. Quarrendon or
Quarrington, Bierton, Broughton, Aylesbury, 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 ono 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 pass] from, 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 and 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 of
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
he 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, rind 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, vary, 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 tile London and North-Western Railway Company; and
to delegate to the said London and North-Western Railway Com-
pany the execution of all or any of the powers of the said Acts re-
spectively, and of the said intended Bill, and to authorise the said
London and North-Western Railway Company, out of their corpo-
rate or other funds, to take shares in, and subscribe for, or towards
the making, maintaining, working, and using, the said authorised
railway ; and the said branches, extensions, and deviation lines of
railway and works, or any part thereof, or to purchase, take on lease,
rent, work, or construct the same, or any part thereof, and to 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 Rail way Company to raise money by shares, mortgage, or
otherwise, for the purposes aforesaid, or some of them, and for carry-
, log Into act 411 or Pi 9( the above ojects Is nano lot9ltgo4 to

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 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 Loudon 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 Victoria,
cap. 67, 80, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328,
331, 359, 368, 369, and 396.
Dated this 7th day of November, 1846.
I'A RKER, HAYES, BARN WELL, and TWISDENI Solicitors
Lincoln's Inn-fields, for the
SAMUEL CARTER, Birmingham, Bill.

THE GLOUCESTER and HEREFORD
RAILWAY and CANAL PURCHASE for MAKING a
RAILWAY from GLOUCESTER to HEREFORD, with 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.
Notice Is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT, in the ensuing session, for an ACT to

authorise the construction and maintenance of a railway, with all
proper and convenient stations, erections, buildings, bridges, wharfs,
warehouses, communications, approaches, works, and conveniences

connected therewith, such rail way to commence by a junction
with the existing Birmingham and Gloucester line of the Midland
Railway, in the hamlet of Wootton Saint Mary, in the parish
el Saint Mary de Lode, in the county of Gloucester, at or rear
SO a point where the saute 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 Hayllng, as
uuder tenant to George Townsend ; which said railway anti
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, Wotton_ Saint
Catherine, Vill of Wotton, Wotton, Longford Saint Catherine, Long-
ford Saint Mary, Barton Saint Mary, College Precincts, Kingsholm
Saint Mary, Kingsholm Saint Catherine, Holy Trinity, North Ham-
let, Saint Mary de Crypt, All Saints, All Hallows, Saint Owen. Saint
John the Baptist, Saint Aldate, Saint Michael, Saint Mary de Grace,
Bar n Saint Michael, South Hamlet, Hamlet of Littleworth, Saint
lc • . Town Hain, Pool Meadow, Saint Luke, and Saint James,
fn he city of Gl.weester, a.lil county of the same city ; Saint Cathe-
rine otherwise Saint Oswald. Rains 34,wrat. x.na, Ivnttnn SaMt
Mary, Wotton Saint Catherine, Vill of Wotton, Wotton, Longford.
:•-itint Mary, Longford Saint Catherine, Barton Saint Nary, lTire,
holm Saint Mary, Kingsholen Saint Catherine, Tuffiry ...I!erwi-
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 Leonards, Bamwood,
Hempstead, Sandhurst, Lassington, Churcham, Highnam, Over and
Lenton, 3faisemore, Hartpury, Redford, Rudford, Highleadon,'fib-
berton, Taynton, Great Taynton, Little Taynton, Upleaden, Newent,
Newent Town, Bout sdon, Meet, Boulsdon and Kileot, Cugley,
liftwiswick otherwise Malswick, Compton, Pauntiey, Oxenhail, Dy-
mock, Woodend, Leadington, and Ryeland, all in the county of
Gloucester ; Donnington, Eastnor, Ledbury, Leadon, Ha ffield,
Leadon and Ha ffield, borough of Ledbury, Mitchell, Netherton,
Mitchell and Netherton, Wall Hills, Wellington, Parkhold, Cod-
dington, Bosbury, Upleadon, Catley, Upleadon and Catley, Munsley,
Pixley, Castle Froome, Bishops Froome, Eagleton otherwise Eggle-
ton, Canon Froome, Stretton Grandsome, otherwise Stretton Gran-
disome, Ashperton, Stoke Edith, Yarkhill, Yarkhill with Monkhide,
Torrington, Cowarne, Much Cowarne, Felton, Westhide, Weston
Beggard otherwise Weston Baggard, Ode Pyechard otherwise Ode
Pychard otherwise Ode Pitchard, Livers Ode, Ullingswick, With-
ington, Preston, Wynn, Marden, Amberley, Wisterstone, Vend and
Venn otherwise Vend and Vern Vauld, Fromanton, Litgwarcline,
Sutton Saint Nicholas, Sutton Saint Michael, Pipe and Lyde, Holmer,
Huntington, Shelwick, Hampton, Hampton Bishop otherwise Hamp-
ton Bishops, Tupsle,y, Vineyard, Hereford, Saint Owen, Hereford,
All Saints' Hereford, Saint John otherwise Saint John the Raptist
Hereford, Saint Peter Hereford, Saint Nicholas, Hereford, Saint
Martin Hereford, and Lower Bullingharn, all in the county of Here-
ford ; and also 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 Holnier, 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 Holmer 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 Ulling,swick, 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 the 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 will be madein or pass from, through,
or into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and
other places following (that is to say), Livers Ode, Ullingswiek,
Marden, Sutton Saint Michael, Sutton Saint Nicholas, Holmer, 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
fbr powers 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 purposes 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 duties, 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 er take on
lease and hold, and to enable the company of proprietors of the
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation to sell or 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, hereditaments, 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 exnedient, 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 lands, 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, with a collateral cut from the same to the town of Ne-
went, in the county of Gloucester, and to amend the said Act ;' " and
cm •m h ep tahne
an Act passed in the seeond 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 fin,
ther sum of money, and for amending the Acts relating thereto."
And it is further intended:
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thereby to be incorporated to make lateral deviations from the line
of the proposed railway and works to the extent or within the limits
definedreiftrivers,
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parishes,ee
temporarily or permanently, to cross, stop, or alter, or divert all
rail-
ways, tramroads, aqueducts, bridges, pipes, sewers, streams, and
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 thrther 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 executioa 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
the purposes aforesaid ; and for carrying into effect the last-named
objects, it is intended to apply for powers to alter, amend, extend,
and enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the ses-
sion of Parliament held In the ninth and tenth years of the reign of
her present Majesty, Intituled, "An 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 local and personal Acts, 9th and 10th
Victoria, chapters 67, 80, 52, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244,
248, 261, 269. 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396.

And notice is hereby flirther 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 fhe owners or reputed owners,
lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of such lands 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 at
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
respecmber, 1 tively, at their respective residences.—Dated the ninth day of
Nove 846.
SPURRIER pnd CHAPLIN, Birmingham.
PARKER, HAYES, BARNWELL, and TWISDEN, London.
S. CARTER, Birmingham.
T. F. ADDISON, Gloucester.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
Notice is hereby given, that upon payment,
COMPANY.
Consolidated
Stock of this Company, on the 12th ofJanuary next, or
by the Proprietors of
on any previous day subsequent to the 28th instant, to any of the
Company's Bankers, of the sum of li. 45., in respect ot each sum of
141. 16s. ef the Consolidated Stock of the Company, to which the pro
prietors may be respectively entitled, and upon transmission of
the banker's receipts for such payments to this office, Certificates for
Twenty Pound Shares et' Consolidated Stock will be forwarded in ea-
change for the same, and for the existing certificates, which will be
cancelled, in terms of the following resolution, passed at the Special
General Meeting of the Proprietors, held on the 12th instant:—
" That upon payment, on the 10th of January next, of U. 4s. per
share on each of the 14/. 16s. shares of the Companyts caphei, the
same shall be converted into 201. shares, taking dividends from the
4th ofJanuary next, and that equivalent advantages be granted to the
holdersof the Northern and Eastern Capital."
Circular letters will be sent to the Proprietors, on or before the
28th instant, with instructions as to mder, aking the above payment.
By or

C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Blshopsgate Station.
MST OF COWANTES' BANKERS.
London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, or any of its Branches.
Liverpool Borough Bank, Liverpool.
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester.
Wilts and Dorset Banking Cnmpany, Salisbury.
Messrs. Lemon and Co., Brentwood.
Messrs. Mills, Bawtree and Co., Colchester.
Messrs. Sparrow and Co., Chelmsford.
National Provincial Bank, Bath.
National Provincial Bank, Birmingham.
National Provincial Bank, Boston.
Messrs. Fisher and Sons, Cambridge.
Messrs. Beckett and Co., Leeds.
Western Bank of Sootland, Edinburgh,
western Bank of Scotland. Glasgow.
AVIA 4(41116 of ;DMA D 414411!