The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

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LONDON AND TOP.X (TEE EAS TE 72N

C °UNTIES).
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
A few witnesses were then called to prove the value of the
property proposed to be taken by the Eastern Counties line.
Th:3 dosed the case for the promoters of the line.
Mr. Calvert, Mr. Brent, and Mr. Spooner, were heard for
the landowners against the Eastern Counties.
No witnesses were called in support of the case.
Mr. BArnes was then heard on behalf of the Cambridge
arm Lincoln Extension line. The Learned Counsel, in an able
address, sought to impress upon the Committee the supe-
riority of the line over that proposed by the Eastern
rt or the London and York Companies.
he conclusion of the Learned Counsel's speech, the
Committee adjou
rned till eleven o'clock to-morrow.

CAL-EDONI
A,c.: RAILWAY.
lIeIsDAY.)
A special genertirr m
forietiu the
meeting of the holders of new
shares in this Company,purpose of construct-
ing the following bratch lines of railway,
day, at eleven o'clock, in the Thatchedwas
House to-
Tavern,held
St. in:mega-street, in pursuance of the resolutions of
both Houses of Parlkment, to consider the propriety of
procet ding with the Bills empowering the formation of

ihe.same.
The list of Bills is as follows:—
I. A Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company
to deviate the line of the said railway in the vicinity of
Carl'sle.
2. A Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company
to make branch railways to the town of Dumfries.
3. A Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company
to make a branch railway to the town of langholm.
a. A Bill to enable th© Caledonian Railway Company
t. deviate certain portione of the Clydesdale Junction

5. A Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway
to form certain branch and terminal railways in the vi.
cinity of Glasgow.

6. -A
Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company
to make a branch railway from the Clydesdale Junction
Railway to the Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge
Railway at Dundyvan and Coatbridge.
7. A Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company
to indite branch railways from the Castlecary Branch
f the Caledonian Railway to the Glasgow, Garnkirk,
and Coatbridgo Railway, and from the last-mentioned
railway to the town of Airdrie.
S. A 13i11 to enable the Caledonian Railway Company
to nnike c.ertain bratch railways in the county of Mid-
lothian.
Tho meeting, which was numerously and respectably
attended, was presided over by J. J. dope Johnstone,
E. q., M.P., the chairman of the board of directors.
Among the gentlemen present besides the Hon. Chair-
man, we recognised Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P., Mr. Hodg-
son. Ml',
The CHAIRMAN said, the first thing they had to do
was for the secretary to read the advertisement calling
the meeting together.

Mr. MACKAY then read the announcement of the
meeting, which he stated had been inserted in all the
newspApers, and in the London and Edinburgh Gazettes,
as required hv the sessional order of Parliament.
The CrurrisrArt proceeded to address the meeting to
the following effect:—Gentlemen, -it is now my duty to
submit for your consideration the Bills, the names
of which have been read to you, in order
that your decision may be taken upon them.
But before submitting them to you let me, in the first
place, call your attention to the most unexpected deci.