The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-13 00:00:00

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN, GREAT
WESTERN. and LONDON and SOUTII-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY COMPANIES.
Power to Amalgamate, Alteration of Tolls, and Amendment of Acts.
Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to
Parliament in the next Session thereof, for leave to bring in a Bill to
alter, amend, and enlarge, and to repeal some of the powers and pro-
visions of the several Acts following, or some of them : that is to say,
an Act passed in the Session of Parliament, held in the 9th and 16ila
years of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled " 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 sa'd 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, Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 156 ; 9th and 10th Vie-
toria, chapters 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248,
261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 3-59, 368, 369, and 396 ; 10th and 11th Vic-
toria, chapters 73, 107, 114, 113, 121, 132, 139, 159, 178, 188, 228,
270, 278, and 294 ; and Ilth and 12th Victoria, chapter 130 ; and
also the several Acts relating to the Great Western Railway, or
some of them : that is to say, Local and Personal Acts, sth and 6th
William IV., chapter 107 ; 6th William IV., chapters 36, 33, 77, and
79 ; Ist Victoria, chapters 91, 92, 24, and 26 ; 2cl Victoria, chapter
27 ; 3d Victoria, chapter 47 ; 3d and 4th Victoria, chapter 105 ; 4th
and sth Victoria, chapter 41 ; sth Victoria, session 2d, chapter 28
6th Victoria, chapter 10; 7th Victoria, chapter 3 ; 7th and Bth Vic-
toria, chapter 68 ; Bth and 9th Victoria, chapters 40, 53, 155, 156,
184, 188, 190, 191 ; 9th Victoria, chapter 14 ; 9th and 10th Victoria,
chapters 166, 181, 236, 239, 240, 273, 313, 315, 335, 337, 338, 369, and
402; 10th and 11 th Victoria, chapters 60, 72, 76, 91, 101, 1 9,
149, 154, 226, and 243; 11th and 12th Victoria, chapters 28, 77, 82,
135, 74, 159, 158, 59, 133, 95, and 131. And also the several Act, re-
lating to the I.,indon and South-Western Railway, or some of them :
that is to say, Local and Personal Acts, 4th and sth William IV.,
chapter 88 ; Ist Victoria, chapter 71 ' • 2d Victoria, chapter 28 ; 4th
and sth Victoria, chapters 1 and 39; 7th and Bth Victoria, chapters
63 and 86 ; Bth and 9th Victoria, chapters 165 and 185 ; 9th and 10th
Victoria, chapters 252, 131, 174, 175, 370, 173, and 391 ; 10th and
11th Victoria, chapters 88, 115, 145, 249, and 244 ; 11th and 12th
Victoria, chapters 85, 87, 89, and 125 ; 51st George 111., chapter
19G ; 10th and 11th Victoria, chapter 297 ; Bth and 9th Victoria,
chapter 93 ; 10th and 11th Victoria, chapters 97, 94, 58. and 57 ;
11th and 12th Victoria, chapter 75 ; 9th and 18th Victoria, chapter
129; 10th and 11th Victoria. chapter 243; 11th and 12th Victoria,
chapter 157, And the said Bill will provide that the London and
North-Western Railway Company, the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, aid the London and South-Western Railway Company, may
unite and consolidate their respective undertakings and property into
one undertaking, so that all the rights, powers, and privileges, whe-
ther as to the levying of tolls, rates, and duties, or otherwise, exer-
cised or enjoyed by the said three Companies severally, at the
time of the said amalgamation may be exercised and enjoyed by one
amalgamated Company, to be incorporated for the purpose either by
the name of one of the aid Companies, or by a new name.
And the said Bill will further provide that if the three before-men-
-` 'toned Companies shall not have so united or agreed to unite their
. . imdertakings as aforesaid, within a time to be limited in the said Bill,
It shall be lawful for the London and North-Western Railway Corn-
" pang and the Great Western Railway Company, avid for the Londeu
and South-Western Railway Company, and the Great Western Rail-
' way Company to unite and consolidate as aforesaid their undertak-
ings and property, and for the two undertakings so united to be called,
and the Company in whom the same shall be vested to be incorpo-
rated, by the name of one-of the said two Companies, or by a new
, name, and that the same amalgamated Company may exercise and
enjoy all the rights, powers, and privileges, both as to the levying of
tolls, rates, and duties, and otherwise, which had been exercised and
were enjoyed by the separate Companies at the time of such amal-
gamation.
And the said Bill will flirther provide, that after such arnalgama-
tlon as aforesaid of two of the said companies in the first instance,
it shall be lawful for the Company which shall not have been amal-
gamated, stbsequently to unite its undertaking with that of the pre-
viously amalgamated Company, so that the undertakings and pro-
perty of the said three Companies may become one undertaking
in the manner and for the purposes firstly hereinbefore mentioned.
And the said Bill will alter the tolls, rates, and duties now autho-
rized to be levied by the several Companies before named, and will
grant exemptions from the same, and will confer such rights, powers,
and privileges as may be needful for the attainment of the objects
aforesaid, and will extinguish all rights and privileges which may
prevent the attainment of those objects.
CHARLES EDWARD STEWART,
Secretary of the London and North-Western Railway Company.
CHARLES ALEXANDER SAUNDERS,
Secretary of the Great Western Railway Company.
WYNDHAM lIARDING,
Secretary of the London and South-Western Railway Company.
November, 18 48.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given. that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
. MEETING of the LONDON. and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY will be held at the Euston Hotel, Euston-square, Lon-
don, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of December, 1848, at One
o'clock precisely afternoon, for the purpose of considering the pro-
. priety of obtaining powers from Parliament to amalgamate this Com-
pany with the Great Western and the South-Western Railway Com-
panies, or under certain circumstances with the Great Western Rail-
way Company alone, and for considering certain preliminary and
other arrangements proposed in connexion therewith.
And there will be submitted to such meeting the draft of "A Bill
to authorize the Amalgamation of the London and North-Western,
the Great Western, and London and South-Western Railway Com-
panies, with powers for the malgamation of the Great Western
Railway C wnpauy with eitheAr of the other Companies, and for
• other purposes."
Dated this 2d day of .November, 1848.
GEORGE CARR GLYN, Chairman,
CHARLES LAURENCE, Deputy-Chairman,
HENRY BOOTH, } Secretaries, &e.
C. E. STEWART,

• GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
of the PROPRIETORS of SHARES in the GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY will be held at the Paddington Station on
the 13th day of December, 1848, at one o'clock precisely, for the
• Purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of making an ap-
plication to Parliament for powers to amalgamate that Company,
with the London and North-Western and the London and South-
Western Railway Companies, jointly or separately, and also to con-
sider the preliminary and other arrangements proposed in con-
nexion therewith, and for other special purposes.
And if it shall be determined to make the said application to Par-
liament, there will be submitted to the Proprietors of Shares, present
at such meeting, for their approval, the draft of a Bill to be intro-
duced in the next Session, with the title and for the purposes follow-
ing (that is to say), " A Bill to authorise the Amalgamation of the
'London
and North-Western, the Great Western, and the London
and Sonth-Western Railway Companies, with powers for the Amal-
gamation of the Great Western Railway Company with either of the
other Companies, and for other purposes."
The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
C. RUSSELL, Chairman.
C. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddington Station, Nov. 2, 1848.

CHESTER and HOLTHEAD RAILWAY.
lJ OPENED THROUGHOUT TO HOLY READ.
London to Dublin in Thirteen Hours.
DOWN TRAINS.

London

Chester I Holyhead

Kingstown
H.M.
10 30 P.M.
10 30 A.M.

11. M.

' 111. M.
Express 9 0 ♦.x.
6 45 P.M.

i'ss P.M. I i 45 P.M.
3 45 A.M. 6 45 ♦.M.

UP TRAINS.

Holyhead I Chester

Loa don

Kingstown

Express ...
Mai 1.......

S 30 A.m.
11 30 A.Y.E

2 0 P.M. I 3 • r.m.
620 P.M. 925 r.nt.

10 30 r.m.
4 45 ♦.x.

The company's Steamers run in conjunction with the Express
Trains, and the Admiralty's Vessels witk the Mail Trains.andays.
Only the Admiralty Packets and Mail Trains
nut on il
By order,
ANDREW G. GIFFORD, Secretary.

RACING OFFICE, 301, STRAND.
The Distribtion for the LIVERPOOL GREAT AUTUMN
BTEEpLE-CHASEu will take placer 0
the Strand Theatre, on the
, 16th and 17th of November.
For prospectuses and Lists, apply to Mr. Joseph Darcy, Secretary,
to whom Post-office Orders are to be made payable at the Strand
Post-office.

HREE-HUNDRED-AND-ONE, STRAND.
The Managers of 301, Strand, beg to announce to the racing
• Pit lie that they are about forming a BANKING ESTABLISH-
MENT, to be called the Racing Joint Stock Banking Company,
which, amongst ether advantages, will afford facilities of discount to
.members ef the Turf, as also for the deposit of stakes for races,
steeple-chases, &c., &c. An influential and monied Directory will
be published shortly.

LENT, OXENHOITH, only five miles from the Railway Station at
Tunbridge.
Yery important and extensive Sale of Short-hurried CATTLE, Lei-
cester and other SHEEP, HORSES, WAGGONS, AGRICULTL--
RaL IMPLZMENTS,&C.
MR. WETHERELL and Mr. HERBERT
PRICKETT (who are conjointly engaged in this Sale), will
by AUCTION, without reserve, on the Premises, at Oxen-
hoath, near Tunbridge, on WIDNESDAY, November 15, at Eleven
o'clock, in suitable Lots, by direction of the Proprietor, Sir William
-Richard Pouiett Geary, Baronet, in consequence of having Let his
Farms,
The entire HERD of Short-horned CATTLE, Leicester Ewes, and
Bogs, crosses betwixt Southdowns and Leicesters, consisting of up-
• Wards of 40 Bulls, Cows, and Heifers, of the pure short-horned breed,
,7Q Cows, Heifers, and Steers, of different ages, 200 first-class Leices-
ter Ewes. 150 Leicester Gimmer and Wedder Lambs, 200 Shearling
Gimmers and Wedders from the Down Ewe by a Leicester Tup, Six
Good Cart-horses, Waggons, Agricultural Imp' ement,s, &c. Mr. We-
therell, from a personal inspection, can most strongly recommend the
'Whole of the stock at Oxenhoath, for Sale, by Auction, they being
• Well calculated not only to Improve the herds of old breeders, but to
I°7 a good foundation for any young beginner. The Shorthorns have
been most judiciously selected from the herds of Messrs. Topham, of
•'eal-hall, Shaw, of Brantingharn, and Mr. Salisbury, of Mavis En-
derby. The The remaining 70 Cows, Heifers, and Steers (although with-
Tit Pedigrees) are of the short-horned breed and exceedingly good.
The Leicester Ewes are two shear, having been selected (shearlings)
In 1847, from the well-known flock of William Richardson, Esq., of
Limber, Lincolnshire, are remarkably good, being large-sized, good
sfool, well made, and as good blood as can be. The crosses are from
Leicester Ewes by a Down Tup, and from Down Ewes, by a Leices-
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.and of good quality.
Catalogues, with pedigrees of the Short-horned Cattle, and all
other information, may now be had of Mr. Herbert Prickett, 123,
Chancery-lane, and 23, Paddington-green, London ; and of Mr. We-
therell, Durham.
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