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London, England, 1846-12-05 00:00:00

consequence of a large number of certificates not being
issued, this meeting be adjourned until the 14th of
January.
The CHAIRMAN said, the Hon. Proprietor was bound,
he thought,; to recal the word dishonest. There was no
trick in withholding the certificates. It was found im-
possible to prepare them. Every scripholder might at
all times have had access to the transfer-book, and the
transfer being entered, he would have had the right of
voting.
A long, ano.l,:at some periods, an angry conversation
followed.

Mr. BIOME! contended that the meeting had not
power, by their Act, under the present circumstances of
the case, to sell their line to the Great Western. Their
proceedings that day,. if they determined upon so doing,
would be null and void. After arguing to this effect for
a great length of time, he announced, upon the authority
of a letter from Mr. Glyn, that the London and North
Western Company were prepared to offer them 15/. pre-
mium upon each 201. share, 51. to be paid on the passing
of the Act, 5/. in six months afterwards, and Si. on the
opening of the line. He contended that an adjournment,
while it could do no harm, Nvould afford time for every
shareholder to give his opinion upon the subject. He
supported tha amendment.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that if they were to wait for
the first 5/. until after the passing of the Act for the
amalgamation of the Birmingham and Oxford with the
North-Western, they would have to wait for a pretty
long period.
The amendment being put to the vote, it was lost by a
majority of 21 to 12 votes.
Mr. BENNETT, of Liverpool, then moved the following
amendment upon the original motion :
" That the Birmingham and Oxford line be sold to
the Great Western Railway Company on payment of
151. premium on each share of 201. Payment to be made
within six months after the completion and opening of
the line. The railway to be completed by the Ist Jan.,
1849, or the premium to be considered due, the Ist of
July, 1849. All the capital to be called up by or before
the last-named date. On the Ist of January proprietors
to decide whether they will be paid off or receive com-
pensation bearing four-and-a-half per'eent. interest, for
three, five, or seven years. In case of partial opening of
the line being required by. the Great Western Railway
Company before the Ist of January, 1849, the premium
to become due within six months after such partial open-
ing. Interest five per cent. on call, and four per cent. on
anticipated calls."
Mr. TURNER seconded the amendment, which was op-
posed by Mr. BARLOW, one of the directors of the Great
Western Company, Mr. SPOONER, and
Lord HATHERTON, who observed, that all men of busi-
ness must see that there was no intention on the part of
the North-Westeru to carry out the offer they had
made. Indeed, they knew that Parliament would not
sanction it. For his own part he was never inclined to
join the North-Western—his feeling had always been
in favour of a junction with the Great Western, and he
believed the directors had done their best to make
for them a satisfactory arrangement. He (Lord
Hatherton) might state as strong conclusive proof that
the shareholders were in favour of the sale when he
mentioned that 20,000 proxies had been lodged in favour
of it, and none against it.
The CHAIRMAN decided that the second amendment
did not come within the terms and objects of the meet-
ing, and the original resolution was then passed.
Thanks being voted to the Chairman, the meeting
broke up.

BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND
DUDLEY RAILWAY.
A meeting of the proprietors of this company was
then held, William Matthews, Esq., in the chair, when
the terms of the agreement above stated, were approved
unanimously.

AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON,
AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.
NOTTINGILAM, FRIDAY, HALF-PAST FOUR, P.M.—A
special meeting of this company was held yesterday at
Nottingham, at which the seal of the company was
agreed to, and authorised to be fixed to the register of
shareholders. The principal features of the meeting
were the statements of the negotiations with the Eastern
Counties, the North-Western, and the Midland Counties
Companies for the sale of the line, none of which were
brought to bear. The company have consequently de-
termined to execute the line themselves.

ROUEN AND HAVRE.—An engine ran the whole
length of this line, for the first time, on Sunday last,
and on the following day the employes were conveyed by
train to their respective posts. There can now, there-
fore, be no doubt that the railway, which will so much
facilitate the intercourse between this country and the
French capital, and against the opening of which so
many unforeseen occurrences have happened, will be
ready for public traffic in a few days, as previously an-
nounced.

WEXFORD AND VALENTIA.—A cull has been made by
the directors, who, it is understood, will be personally
answerable for the payment of the deposits, the expnses
of last year having swallowed up the greater part of the
money subscribed.

THE SOUTH DEVON.—ItI has been determined (says
our correspondent), at a recent meeting of the directors
of this and the associated companies, to purchase Mill-
bay Pier, belonging to Thomas Gill, Esq., the chairman
(4. the South Devon Company, for the purposes of the
Plymouth and Great Western Dock scheme. The sum
to be given for the pier is 30,0001., of which the South
Devon is to contribute, if the shareholders agree, one-
half, and the Great Western and the Bristol and Exeter
Companies 7,500/. each. This arrangement has ccca-
sioned considerable ill-feeling in the board, and on Sa-
turday last two of the directors, who reside at Ply-
mouth, William Hawker, Esq., and William Fox, Esq.,
sent in their resignations. The shareholders are at
present very much dissatisfied with the state of things
in connexion with this line. It is now confidently
stated that the line will be opened from Teignmouth to
Newton on the 22d of this month.

NEW Loco MOTIVE MEC It ATi I sm.—Yesterday a work-
ing model of a new plan of railway locomotion was ex-
hibited in Old Broad-street, with a view, as stated, to
the ae,option of means for securing the great objects at
which railway enterprise aims, namely, safety to human
life, certainty of action, and economy in construction
and working. By the new plan the carriages are pro-
posed to be built upon platforms which will glide on the
peripheries of parallel lines of wheels, mounted on
chains, stanchions, or piles—rendering rails and bridges
unnecessary. An immovable rope or chain forms a ful-
crum, against which the motive power is to be applied.
The rope or chain passes round a drum fixed on a tra-
velling platform, the drum being set in motion by a
small engine fixed on either side of it, on the platform,
underneath which ribs, or flanges, about a foot in depth,
make it difficult if not impossible for it to get off the
wheels. The line of
traction being invariably in the
middle of the road, it is contended that no probable
cause of accident can occurto disturb it, and that it will
avoid the great danger incident to railways from the
breaking of an axle, a wheel, or, a rail, or from a sharp
curve. An experimental road, of about a mile in length,
is to be constructed near the metropolis.

DEPOSITS OF PLANS FOR NEW LINES FOR

ESSEX.

Monday last was the day for depositing the plans for
the next session of Parliament. The first test of stability
and perfection was thus apped to the. new schemes, and
we find that those connected with pus county have borne
it well. Notices have been given in our paper of thirty-
three applications for new Bills; but several of these
were for confirming the lease or sale of lines for which
e
Acts ar already obtained, as in the sale of the Maldon,
Witham, and Braintree, to the Eastern Counties, and for
these it was not necessary to make any deposits. Many,
including ten of the more northern extensions of the
Eastern Counties, did not propose to interfere with
property in this county, and therefore it was not neces-
sary to make lodgments with the clerk of the peace
for the county of Essex. Of the remainder, the plans
of the following were deposited at his office at Chelms-
ford:—

1. Braintree to Halsted—The Branch from the Brain-
tree and Witham, to join the Stour Valley, at Colne
Engaine.

2.
Braintree to Halsted—A line which, we presume,
has been started to meet the objections which the in-
habitants of Halsted have to :the junction of the other
line with the Stour Valley away from the town of Comae
Engaine.

3. Ilford to Tilbury Fort and Southend, with a Branch
to Battles-bridge—ln the case of a similar Bill, with a
branch from Vange to Wickford, the plans have not
been deposited.
4. Branch from Stortford to Victoria Park.
5. Enlargement of London and Stratford stations.
6. Coal and Coasting Dock Junction.—The plan for
converting Dagenham Reach into a dock.
7. Purchase on lease of North Woolwich Railway,
East and West India Docks, &c.
8. Branch from Manningtree to Harwich.
9. Chelmsford to Norwich, with Branch to Halsted.
10. London and South Essex.—The lino from Black-
wall to Southend and the Crouch.
11. Colchester and Stour Valley Branch to Melford,
Lavenham, and Clare.
12. London and Southend.—The Branch from Hutton.
13. Ipswich and Bury Branch from Stowmarket to
Sudbury.
14. Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway
and Pier.—To join the Eastern Union at Ardleigh.
The lines for which the plans have not been deposited,
and which cannot therefore go before Parliament next
session, are those connected with the Thames Haven
scheme, the Victoria Docks and Railway, and Manning-
tree and Mistley Branch.—Chelinsford Chronicle.

DEPOSIT OF PLANS FOR TIIE WEST OF

ENGLAND.
Dorset—Bristol and Poole Harbour Railway—between
2 and 3P N. Wilts, Somerset and
Bleadon to Bland-
and Weymouth (Amend-
ment No. 2) viz., Compton to Wilton,W
ford-4 P.M. Salisbury and Yeovil—between 11 and 12
A.M. Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester—between 2 and 3
P.M. Yeovil to Exeter (Exeter Great Western)-4
o'clock, P.M. Bruton to Blandford (South Western)—
between 11 and 12 A.M. Weymouth Branch of the
Southampton and Dorchester Railway—between 11 and
12 A.M. Blandford, ditto, ditto—between 11 and 12
A.M. Portland Breakwater and Harbour of Refuge—
between 11 and 12 A.m.
Devon—Yesterday was a day of great activity with
solicitors and engineers, and other parties interested in
proposed new lines of railway. The standing orders
now require, not only that the plan; and sections and
books of reference should be deposited on or before the
last day of November with the several clerks of the
peace, but that the deposits should be made with the
parish clerks of all the parishes through which it is pro-
posed that any new railway should pass, on the same
day. All the parties who have given notice of their in-
tention to apply to Parliament for schemes connected
with this county and city, made their deposits with the
clerks of the peace in due time.
Wilts—Railway deposits of plans, &c., at the office of