The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-30 00:00:00

EASTERN COUNTIES 'RAILWAY
(HERTFORD to IIITCHIN; with Power to sell to the
Great Northern Railway Company so much of the intended line as
will be situate between Broadwater and Hitchin.)
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the next session for an ACT to
authorise the construction and maintenance of a railway, with all
proper works, stations, approaches, and conveniences connected
therewith, commencing by a junction with the Hertford Branch of
the Northern and Eastern Railway, near the terminus of the said
branch, in the parish of Saint John Hertford, in the borough of
Hertford and county of Hertford, passing thence from, in, through, or
into, or being situate within the several parishes, townships, and
extra:parochial and other places following, or some of them, that is
to say, Saint John Hertford, Saint Andrew Hertford, Bengeo in the
borough of Hertford, and Bengeo in the county of Hertford, Staple-
ford, Watton, Aston, Datchworth, Broadwater, Knebworth, Sheep-
hail, Stevenage, Little Wymondley, Much Wymondley, Ippolits, and
Hitchin, in the counly of Hertford; and terminating by a junction
with the line of the Great Northern Railway as at present authorised
to be made, and by a junction with a certain proposed extension of
the Midland Counths Railway from Leicester to Hitchin, at or near
a certain road leading from Hitchin to Baldock, and in the parish of
Hitchin and county of Hertford.
And it is also intended by such Act to take power to stop up, alter.
or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and
other roads and highways, streets, paths, passages, aqueducts, canals,
streams, pipes, sewers, waters, and water-courses, within the afore-
said parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places, or
any of them, which it may be necessary to stop up, alter, or divert,
by reason of the construction of the said intended works or any of
them.

And it is als• intended by such Act to take powers for the pur-
chase of lands and houses, by compulsion or agreement, for the pur-
poses thereof, and for levying tolls, rates, and duties in respect of the
use thereof, and to grant certain exemptions from such tolls, rates,
and duties.

And it is further Intended by such Act to vary or extinguish all
existing rights and privileges in any manner connected with the
lands and hoases proposed to be purchasel or taken for the purpo-es
of the said undertaking, or which would in any manner timed,. Or
interfere with the construction, maintenance, or use thereof, and to
confer other rights and privileges.
And it is also intended by such Act to enable the Eastern Counties
Railway Company to carry info effect the said proposed works, and
to raise such additional capital as may be necessary for the purpose.
And it is further intended by such Act to enable the said Eastern
Counties Railway Company to sell or let and transfer, upon such
terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, so much of the said in-
tended railway works as will be situate between Broadwater and
Hitchin, to the Great Northern Railway Company, together with all
powers of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, in relation to
such portion of the said intended railway, and to enable the said
Great Northern Railway Company to purchase or lease the same
and all or any powers of the said Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany in connexion therewith or in relation thereto, and to raise
capital for the purpose, or to construct such part of the said intended
railway as shall be so transferred to them as aforesaid, and to
enable the said Companies respectively to enter into contracts and
agreements in reference to the purposes aforesaid, or as to the
working or using of the said portion of the said intended railway ;
and for the purposes of the said Act it is intended to amend, vary, or
enlarge, so far as may be necessarj , the powers and provisions of the
Great Northern Railway Act 1845, and the several Acts of Parliament
relating to the Eastern Counties ailway, local and personal—follow-
ing (that is to say), passed in the 6th and 7th William IV., cap. 106 ;
Ist and 2,1 Viet., cap. 81; 4th Viet., cap. 14; 7th Vict., cap. 20; 7th
and Bth Viet., cap. 62 ; Rth and 9th Vict., caps. 110 and 201 ; and 9th
and 10th Viet., cap. 258 ; 6•h and 7th William IV., cap. 103 ; 2d and
3d Vict., caps. 77 and 78 ; 3d Vict., cap. 52 ; 4th Vict., cap. 24 ; 4th
and sth Vict., cap. 42 ; 6th Vict., cap. 24; and 7th Vict., cap. 35.

And notice is herely further given, that maps, plans, and sections
showing the direction, situation, levels of the said intended rail-
way and works, and the lands proposed to be taken for the
purpose thereof, together with books of reference to such plans, con-
taining the names of the reputed owners, lessees, and occupiers of
such lands, will be deposited on or before the thirtieth day of No-
vember, in the present year, with the clerk of the peace for the
county of Hertford, at his office at Saint Alban's in the rtme county ;
and that a copy of so much of the said plans, sa-tions, and books of
reference as relates to each of the parishes in or through which the
said works are intended to be made, will be deposited on or before
the said thirtieth day of November, with the parish clerks of those
parishes respectively, at their respective residences.
Dated the seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and forty •slx.
JOHN DUNCAN, Solicitor,
7, New Palace-yard, Westminster.

LOUVAIN A LA SAMBRE RAILWAY,
Direct to NAMUR and to CHARLEROY.
The Directors of the above Company have the greatest pleasure in
being enabled to announce to their Shareholiers the accession to
their Board of M. A. Goldamid, Esq., President of the Banque de
Flandre, in Belgium.
The Directors take this opportunity of requesting that the few
Certificates which have Rot yet been sent in to this office for the pur-
pose of their being exchanged for Stamped Shares, may be trans-
mitted with the least possible delay, in order that the necessary
preparations may be made for the payment of the half-yearly
dividend, due on the Ist JANUARY next, of 41. per cent, on the 61. per
share paid up. JOHN BARNES, President.
GEO. DANCE, Secretary.
28, Threadneedle street, November 27, 1846.