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London, England, 1846-05-14 00:00:00

FOltil OF APPLICATION.

To the Committee of Direction of tho Birkenhead, Chester, Mold,
Ruadon, and Vale of Llangollen, or the Birkenhead and Llan-
gollen Railway Company.

May, 1846.
Gentlemen,•—ln compliance with your printed notice of the 13th
instant, I beg to acquaint you that I am the Holder of the Scrip Cer-
tificates in the aloove Company, of which I subjoin the particulars.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Christian and surname, at full length.. • .....
Address .... • • ...... • • • •
Addition • •
For one share For flve shares
each. each
No. No.

For ten shares
each.

lIROt'S HIRE UNION RAILWAY AND
CANAL COMPANY.
. . . . .

Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL OENERAL MEETING
of the HOLDERS of SCRIP or BANKERS' RECEIPTS for
SCRIP, in respect of the undertakings proposed to be carried into
effect under the Bills below-mcntioned, will be held at the Lion
Hotel, Shrewsbury, on FRIDAY, the 22d day of May, 1846, at
Eleven o'clock, for the purpose of submitting to their approval
copies of the following Bills, viz. :
A Bill for making a railway from Shrewsbury to Stafford, with a
branch to Stone, and for other purposes.
A Bill for making a railway from the Chester and Crewe branch of
the Grand Junction Railway at Calvaley, to Wolverhampton, and for
other purposes connected therewith.
A Bill for making a railway from Newtown, in the county of
Montgomery, to Crewe, in the county of Chester, with branches, and
for other purposes connected therewith.
The Chair will be taken by the Earl of POWIS, K.G., at Eleven
o'clock.

N.B. Each Shareholder attending at the meeting will be required
to produce his or her Scrip or Bankers' Receipt for Scrip ; and for the
purpose of duly recording the votes, forms will be prepared, in which
each party will be required to enter his or her name and address, the
number of Scrip, and t he designating numbers thereof, to which
forms the Scrip must be appended.
The requisite ;form of voting-paper may be had on application at
the Company's Offices, 9, Great George-street, Westminster.
London, May I, 1846. WILLIAM COWAN, Secretary.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

GROUT' I.

The following are the Bills composed In this group :
London and York Railway—Direct Northern Railway (London to
York)—Shcffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway—Doncaster,
Wakefield; and Leeds Railway—Eastern Counties Railway (Lincoln
to Milford)—Eastern Counties Railways (Cambridge to Lincoln)—
Eastern Counties Ra lway (March and Lincoln Extension) —Cam-
bridge and Lincoln Extension, &c., Railway—Midland Railways
(Swinton and Lincoln)—Manchester and Lincoln Union Rail-
way and Chesterfield and Gainsborough Canal—Manchester,
Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway—Axhohne, Gains-
borough, Goole, and York and North Midland Junction Railway—
Lynn and Ely Railway (Extension to Spalding)—Wisbeach, St. Ives,
and Cambridge Junction Railway—York and North Midland Rail-
way (Widening and Enlargement)—Eastern Counties Railway
(Hertford and Huntingdon)—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension
Railway—Ely and Huntingdon Railway (Bedford Etenslon.)
The greatest interest was manifested in the proceedings by the
crowds of persons surrounding the avenues to the Committee-room.
Soon after eleven o'clock, the Committee, which was formed of the

following noblemen, took their seats : —The Earl of Lovelace (chair-
man), Viscount Vivian, the Earl of Bandon, the Marquis of Camden,
and Lord Morley.
The following Counsel appeared for the
DIRECT NORTHERN.

Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., Mr. Webster, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Laing ; for the
EASTERN COUNTIES,

Mr. Austen, Q.C., Mr. Talbot, Q.C., Mr. Hildyard, Q.C., Mr. Sergean
Jones, and Mr. Hope; for the
LONDON AND YORK,
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Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, Mr. Paget, Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, Mr.
Adams, and Mr. Dennison.
Upon our entering the room, we were most disagreeably surprised

to find that not the slightest accommodation was provided for the
press. This, however, was very 803 n remedied, for after
an application to the Noble Chairman, a communication
was made to James Pnlman, Esq., Deputy Usher of the Black Rod,
who most promptly and courteously remedied the motnentary in-
convenience,we were subjected to, and for which we tender him our
most grateful acknowledgement of the favour conferred upon us, for
without such kindness we should not have been able to hear one
word of the arguments in the most interesting of all the railway
inquiries of this or any other session of Parliament.
The several petitions for and against the various schemes com-
prised In the group having been put itt,
Mr. Ilmnyeark, Q.C., rose to address the Committee on behalf of
the

MIDLAND YORK, AND NORTH-MIDLAND ENLAROEMET.
The Learned Counsel said he appeared for this line of railway, the
necessity for which was so great that he might confidently state to
their Lordships it would be made whether or net the London and
York Railway passed. It was to be a line of 14 miles in length, and
was clearly for the enlargement and convenience of an existing line,
and therefore perfectly independent of any rival line.
Mr. Sergeant WRASGIIAM would object to the course adopted by his
Learned Friend. It was clearly a competing line, and the London
and York line had precedence before their Lordships.

The Noble CHAIRMAN intimated the readiness of the Committee to
hear the case for the

LONDON AND YORK.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGIUM, in opening the case for the London and
York, begged their Lordships not to weigh the importance of this
matter by any speech which he would make on the present occasion.
But to judge of the facts which would be brought before them in
evidence. He need not remind their Lordships of the great advance-
ment that had lately been made in the railway world. The present
circuitous route to York had forced the present line upon the public,
arid the great increase of traffic had also rendered such a company
imperatively necessary. A short time since a project was sat on foot
to obtain a direct communication between London and York, and the
result of this proposition was the trunk line from London to
York now under their Lordships' consideration. He would remind
their Lordships of the course of the proposed railway. It went as
near as possible to the whole line of the old north road, and goes
close by those towns which had risen on its side. It keeps to this
course as far as Peterborough, and there takes a turn through the
fertile districts of Lincoln. From thence the mighty line proceeds
through the manufacturing districts, and at York effects a junction
with the great lines of the North of England, and forming a direct
means of communication with Scotland itself. It was the object of
the promoters to give that access not only by a direct route, but by
a route entirely under one management. A second great object of
the promoters was to give a railway communication through the rich
and fertile districts of Lincoln, which is at present altogether unpro-
vided for. It is, without comparison, the most fertile district of
England. Its markets are London, the South of England, and all the
manufacturing districts in the north. This project had been carried
out by means of that portion of the line called the "Loop." It was
not only their objeet to connect the markets for the disposal of their
produce, but also to receive supplies from thence. The West Riding of
Yorkshire is not only a manufacturing country, but also a large mineral
field, whence the inhabitants of England, south of that port, would
derive an unlimited supply of coals. The loop to which ho referred,
by passing along the banks of the River Witham, placed them in
direct communication with all parts of the North of England. The
arrangement for the purchase of the River Witham Navigation had
received the sanction of the Standing Orders' Committee. With re-
ference to the district through which the line traversed, it was of the
most fertile nature, and would lie between the line traversed by the
Eastern Counties line, and its branches, and the London andßirm-
ingham and Midland branches. The district belonging to thisgail-
way, and totally unprovided for, contains a populationof7
souls. The area of the district is 4,43 G square miloes,.
The total o r 2',839,000
acres. This county was a purely agricultural one.
annual imports into this district of coals,
(imanufacturedtheexports
of age-
goods, and
groceries, amounted to 3,800,0001.,
inof roundtlo
these
cultural produce amounts to 6,700,000/ making
numbers, 10,500,0001. ; the present cost o f atotal
conveyance
this carry would effect a
articles amounts to the large sum of 1,100,0001. per annum. By the
construction of this railway the prise
annum.ot•
The present charge
saving to this district of 608,000/. p
of passenger traffic was 400,0001., i,e-rhile the same number of pas-
sengers are carried by this railwayoo for 188,0001., effecting a saving al-
together in the items of goods I
not be Worth while to waste tine .ot the Committee by enunie-
e his
passengers
of 820,000/. It would
t