The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-26 00:00:00

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GREAT WESTERN and WYCOMBE
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The first general meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held to-day at half-past eleven o'clock.
Frederic Pratt Barlow, Erq., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said, the present meeting was for the
transaction of the ordinary business of the company,
preliminary to the special general meeting, which was to
succeed it. The directors were not under any obliga-
tion to call the present meeting for several months, but
as a special general meeting was to be held at the close
of the present one, and as the power of the directors
ceased to-day, it was necessary to hold the general
meeting for the election of directors before the special
business could be gone into. When there two lines
were originally proposed the state of the railway world
was much different to what it was now, but from the
altered times end the condition of the money market,
and in order to relieve the shareholders of frequent
calls for the construction of the line, it was thought best
that an arrangement should be come to with an
established company. But to make a treaty of the kind
referred to, the directors wished to be placed in the
position and to have the power to do so. The directors
had found the directors of the Great Western Company,
willing to treat with them; and although he (the Chair-
man) was not in a condition to lay- arty terms "before
them at present, he had no doubt that some satisfactory
arrangement would be come to. All that was required
at present was for the shareholders to give the directors
power to treat, and for that purpose had the special
genet al meeting, which was to follow, been convened.
The SECRETARY then read the report :
" Whilst your directors have much pleasure in being
able to announce to their shareholders the success at-
tending their application to Parliament for a Bill for
making a railway from Maidenhead to Wycombe, and
from West Drayton to Uxbridge, the Act for which has
been granted and the royal assent given thereto in July
last, they cannot but regret that the outlay should have
been attended with so heavy an expenditure compared
with the magnitude of the undertaking. The Bill had
to encounter a strong opposition in the Commietee of
the House of Commons, of fourteen days duration, with
the London and Oxford projected Railway.
" The directors have convened the first general meeting
of the proprietors of the company, for the purpose of
conforming to the clause of the Consolidation Act, to
effect which resolutions will be submitted for your ap-
proval."
Mr. DELLONY moved the adoption of the report.
Mr. THOMSON seconded the motion, which was put
and unanimously agreed to.
Resolutions were then submitted and successively
carried, appointing Frederic Pratt Barlow, Esq.; Robert
Wheeler, Esq.; A. F. Paul, Esq.; George Emery, Esq.;
Francis Parker, Esq.; and William Rose, Esq., direc-
tors, with 4001. a year, and nominating the secretary,
Mr. J. H. Wilson, at 1001., and two auditors at 5L each.

GREAT WESTERN AND UXBRIDGE RAIL-
WAY.

The meeting next resolved itself into a general meet-
ing of the shareholders of this company. Mr. Barlow
in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said the same report which had been
adopted by the Great Western and Wycombe meeting
would do for the present one, and the explanation he
had given of the affair of the one company would suffice
for the other.

The report was then submitted and unanimously
adopted.
The resolution appointing the same directors as those
appointed for the previous company, and fixing their
remuneration at 2001. a year, were agreed to, and the
salary of the secretary fixed at 1001.
This terminated the general business of both com-
panies, and