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LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.
AMALGAMATION WITH THE DIRECT NORTHERN.
In accordance with the Circular already issued to the Shareholders
who have signed the Deeds, the Directors take this means of giving
notice to those parties who have become Shareholders since
the date of the Deeds, that on the transmission of their Scrip to the
oMces of the Company, in a letter in the form subjoined, such Scrip
will be endorsed and become negotiable on the basis of the AMAL-
GAMATION with the DIRECT NORTHERN.
By order,

J. .R. MOWATT, Secretary.
Offices, 7, Lothbury, London, May 8, 1846.
Several parties having signified their approval of the amalgamation
with the Direct Northern, without forwarding their Scrip, it is re-
quested this Letter, properly filled up, may be sent to me without
delay, together with the Scrip, which is required for the purpose of
registration, preparatory to a Meeting, to be called, and of which
early notice will be given.
FORM OF LETTER TO BE ADDRESSED TO J. R. MO WATT,
ESQ., SECRETARY OF THE LONDON AND YORK RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, 7, LOTHBURY, LONDON.

May, 1846,

Sia,—l hold s
and
I now inclose.

London and York Shaie's of 501.,
Extension Shares of 251. ; the Scrip for which

I APPROVE of the AMALGAMATION of the LONDON and
YORK and the DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANIES,
as publicly announced under the signature of the Chairman of the
Board of each Company, under date of sth of May, instant.
Name and Address

of the Shareholder. /
NOTE.—Copies of this form may be bad at the offices, 7, Lothbury,
* Insert the Number.

rpHE LEEDS AND THIRSK RAILWAY
1. COMPANY BRANCHES AND EXTENSIONS.
Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of the Resolutions and
Standing Orders of Parliament, a Meeting of the Holders of Scrip
or of Bankers' Receipts for Scrip of the Company, for the Shares
issued for the Branches and Extensions, will be held at the
Court House in Leeds, in the county of York, on THURSDAY, the 28th
day of May instant, at One o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose
of giving or withholding their sanction to the further proceeding with
the following BHA, at present before Parliament, the, preambles of
which have been declared proved, that is to say :-
Ist, A Bill to enable 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 Thlrik Railway Company to
extend their railway over the river Islidd at Kuareshorough, and for
other purposes.

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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,
Leeds, May 11, 1846

SA3IIJEL SMILES, Secretary.

'The-holders of Scrip or Bankers' Receipts for Scrip must
produce those documents at the Meeting; and it is requested that
each Proprietor will, at the same time, hand in a statement of the
numbers and amount of his Scrip or Receipts, with his name and
address in full written on such statement, in order to facilitate the
taking of the votes, and to save the time of the Meeting. Forms
for this purpose may be had on application at the Offices of the Com-
pany, 5, South Parade, Leeds.

SHEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK POT-
TERIES. AND CREWE RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of the Sessional Orders
of the two Houses of Parliament, a SPECIAL MEETING of
Holders of scrip, or of Bankers' Receipts for Scrip, in the SHEF-
FIELD, BUXTON, LEEK POTTERIES, and CREWE RAILWAY
COMPANY will be held at the Albion Hotel, in Manchester, in the
county of Lancaster, on FRIDAY, the 22d day of May instant, at
Twelve o'clock at noon, for the purpose of submitting a copy of the
Bill now before Parliament, relating to the said Railway, for their
consideration.
And Notice is hereby further given, that all holders of Scrip or
Bankers' Receipts for Scrip attending the said Meeting will be re-
quired to give their names and addresses, to produce their Scrip or
Bankers' Receipts, and permit the denoting numbers thereof to be
correctly taken before the votes can be received.
The form of votii paper may be had on application to the
Secretary, at the Company's Offices in Leek. A statement of the
proceedings and prospects of the undertaking will be submitted to
the Meeting.

Leek, 7th May, 1846.

THOMAS CARR, Chairman,
R. Y. CLARKE, Secretary.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE and OXFORD and
BLETCHLEY JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Parties who have sent in the Scrip of this Company for the pur-
pose of being produced at the Meeting held on the 9th current, are
informed,
That in consequence of forgeries of the Scrip of this Company having
been discovered, the Committee of Management deem it their duty,
for the satisfaction of their shareholders and the protection of the
public, to verify tha Scrip which has been sent in before they return
it to the parties sending It in.
The Scrip, when examined and found correct will be stamped and
immediately returned to the parties sending it in, and the alumina-
will be made with all possible dispatch.
),11 parties holding the Scrip of this Company, are recommended to
dad it in immediately for verification.
HARRY VERNEY, Bart., Chairman of the Committee
of WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary. Management.
Offices of the Company, 29, Great George-street, Westminster,
May 11, 1846.
The Bills of this Company were unanimously approved of at the
Scripholders' Meeting held on the 9fn current.

CALEDONIAN AND DUMBARTONSHIRE'
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
In terms of the ItCSolution of the House of Commons, of date the
23d ultimo, the Provisional Committee of the Caledonian and Dum-
bartonshire Junction Railway Company hereby call a GENERAL
MEETING of the Scrip-holders, and holders of Bankers' Receipts,
In this undertaking, to be held within the Court llrll of the County
Buildings, in the Town of Dumbarton, on TUESDAY, the 26th day of
Nay current, at One o'clock P.M., when a Copy of the Bill will be
submitted to the meeting for their consideration.

At this meeting such further instructions as may appear necessary
will be giTen to the Acting Committee of Management.
By order of the Committee,
R. D. MACKENZIE, Secretary.

Ist May, 1846.

CALEDONIAN EXTENSION RAILWAY.
V Notice is hereby given, that in compliance with the Sessional
Orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, a SPECIAL GENE-
RAL MEETING of the HOLDERS of SCRIP and BANKERS' RE-
CEIPTS for SCRIP, of the Caledonian Extension Railway, will be held
within the Thatched House Tavern, 85, St. James's-street, London, on
MONDAY, the Ist day of June next, at Twelve o'clock Noon, when
there will be submitted to their consideration and approval, a copy
of the Bill now pending before Parliament for incorporating this
Company and authorising the construction of the railway.
Parties attending this meeting will be required to produce their
Scrip or Bankers' Receipts, and to furnish the Secretary with a me-
morandum of their name and address, denoting the numbers of the
Scrip produced.

J. J. HOPE JOHNSTONE, Chairman.
JOHN 2B, Parliament street, Westmi NARR, Secretary.
nster, May 14, 1846.

CALEDONIAN EXTENSION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction of an-
nouncing to the Shareholders, that the Bill for incorporating the
Company having passed Standing Orders, has been introduced into the
House of Commons, and will be forwarded through Parliament with
the least possible delay.
A Meeting of the Shareholders has been called, in accordance with
the Sessional Orders recently passed by both Houses of Parliament,
at which it is necessary that one-third of the capital of the Company
should be represented.
Shareholders who are unable to be present are requested to lodge
their Scrip with any of the following parties, who will give a receipt
for the same, and return the Scrip after it has been produced to the
Meeting, viz. :
Mr. John Marr, Secretary to the Company, 28, Parliament-street,
Westminster ; Messrs. Hope and Oliphant, W. S., Princes-street,
Edinburgh; Messrs. Grahame, Maxwell, and Co., St. Vincent-street,
Glasgow.
In consequence of the works being now limited to the Western
Extension, the Directors will be enabled either to reduce the amount
of the shares or to restrict the sum to be called upon each to a
very considerable extent. ,
The project, as DOW limited, consists, first, of the Branch from
Lesmahagow to the Clydesdale Junction Railway at Hamilton,
opening a direct communication from the most valuable mineral
field in the Nest of Scotland to the city of Glasgow, from which a
very large return may be expected, as:the gas coal of Lesmahagow
is well known for its superior quality, and for that description of
coal there is now an unlimited demand for exportation, as well as
for home consumption. The funds already in the hands of the Di-
rectors will be applied, in the first instance, to the construction of
this line.

The other portions of the line will open a direct communication
in conjunction with the Caledonian Railway from the important
town and neighbourhood of Ayr, with Edinburgh on one hand, and
Carlisle and the manufacturing districts of England on the other.
These lines also pass through extensive mineral fields, and the local
traffic will be considerable, but the Directors do not look on the im-
mediate formation of these works as equally pressing, inasmuch
as the traffic cannot be completely developed until after the com-
pletion of the Edinburgh branch of the Caledonian Railway.
Under these circumstances it will not be necessary to press incon-
veniently on the shareholders by early or frequent calls.
A question will come before the meeting as to the propriety of
inserting a clause in the Bill, authorising the Directors to allow in-
terest on the amount of calls from the date of payment.
J. J. HOPE JOHNSTONE, Chairman.
JOHN MARR, Secretary.
28, Parliament-itroot, Woliminator, Div 14, MO.