The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-15 00:00:00

'THE SUN,

LONDON and NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAY.

AMENDMENT of ACTS, CREATION of NEW SHARES 'for
PAYM ENT ofDEBT, EXTENSION from CHESTER to BIRKEN-
HEAD and BRANCHES. •
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that APPLICATION is intended
to be made to PARLIAMENT in the next session for an ACT to
alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or to repeal all or some of the powers
and provisions of the several Acrs of Parliament, or some of them
following, relating to the London and North-Western Rail-
way Company ; that is to say: An Act passed in the session of
Parliament held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present
Majesty, intituled an " Act to consolidate the London and Birming-
ham Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham Railways,''
and the several other Acts distinguished in the Queen's printer's co-
pies of the local and personal Acta, as Bth and 9th Vic., cap. 156 ;
9th and 10th Vic., caps. 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233,
244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396 ; and 10th
and 11th Vic., caps. 73, 107, 114, 118, 121, 132, 139, 159, 178, 188,
228, 236, 270, 271, 278, and 294; and Ilth and 12th Tic., caps. 60
and 130; 12th and 13th Vie., cap. 74 ; 13th and 14th Vic., cap. 36 ;
and 14th and 15th Vic., caps. 24 and 94.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to enable the London
and North-Western Railway Company to extinguish their deben-
ture debt, or some part thereof; and for that purpose to create new
shares, and to guarantee in respect of the shares to be so created an
irredeemable preferential interest or dividend not exceeding 3M, per
centum per annum.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company to extend the line of their
railway from Chester to or near to Birkenhead, and for that purpose
to make and maintain the railways hereinafter mentioned with all
proper works and conveniences connected therewith ; that is to say:
Firstly, a railway commencing by a junction with the Chester and.
Birkenhead line of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion Railway, within the limits of the general station at Chester, in
the parish of St. Oswald, in the county of the city of Chester, at or
near the point at which the main line of the Chester and Holy-
head Railway diverges, passing thence, in, through, or into
the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other
places following, or some of them; that is to say, St. Oswald in the
county of the city of Chester, and St. Oswald, the Bache, the Holy
and Undivided Trinity, Blacon-cum-Crabhall, Blazon-cum-Crab-
wall, Crabwall, St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Mollington .Banastre, Little
Mollington, Backford, Molltngton Tarrant, Great Moilington, Lea,
Shotwick, Shotwick-park, Great SaughaP, Little Saughall, Ca-
penhurst, Woodbank, Paddington, Burton, Neston, Ledsham,
Willaston, Eastbam, Little Sutton, Chiller Thornton, Hooton,
Baby, Great Neston, Little Neston, Hargrave, Thornton Hough,
Thornton Mayes, Poulton Lancelot, Poulton-cum-Spittle, Spital,
Bebington, Bebbington, Bromborrow, Bromborough, Brombrow,
Brimstage, Storeton, Stourten, Woodchurch, Thingwall, Thingwell,
Barnston, Prenton, Landican, Oxton, Noctorum, Upton, Over-
Church, Bidstone, Bidston-cum-Ford, Wallasey, Wallasea, Liscard,
and Poulton-cam-Se,acombe, all in the county of Chester, and termi-
nating on the shore of the river Mersey, on the north
side of Wallasey Pool, adjoining certain land intended
to be reclaimed from the river Mersey, vested in
the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests,
land revenues, works, and Landings usually denominated
the North Reserve , situate in the township of Poulton-cum-
Ceacombe, in the parish of Wallasey and the county of Chester.
Secondly-A Branch Raiway, with all proper works and con-
veniences diverging oat of the first-mentioned intended railway, to
the warehouses of the Birkenhead Deck Company at Birkenhead ;
and which said branch railway will cowmen e by a
junction with the said first-mentioned intended railway in
Bidston Moss, otherwise called Bidston Marsh, belonging to
Bober Tyner, Esquire, in the township of Bidston, other-
wise called Bidstoa-eum-Ford, in the parish of Bidston,
in the county of Chester, passing thence in, through,
or into the several parishes, townships, and extra parochial places
following, or some of them; that is to say-Wallasey, Bidston,
Bidston-cum-Ford, Claughton-cum-Grange, Claughton, and Birken-
head, all in the county of Chester, and terminating at or near
the warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company, situated on
the south side of Wallasey Pool, in the parish, township, chapelry,
or place of Birkenhead, in the county of Chester. Thirdly-A
branch railway, with all proper works and conveniences, from
the said first mentioned intended railway to Birkenhead Ferry,
commencing by a junction with the first-mentioned intended rail-
way, in or near a certain field or close of land belonging to John
Winder Lyon Winder, Esquire, and occupied by Thomas Johnson,
in the township of Prenton and perish of Woodchurch, in the county
of Chester, passing thence in, through, or into the several parishes
townships, and extra-parochial and other places following.
or some of them, that is to say: Bebbington, Storeton,
Woodchurch, Prenton, Oxton, laughton-cum-Grange, Claugh-
ton, Bidston, Tranmere, and Birkenhead, all in the county
of Chester, and terminating at or- near the Birkenhead Ferry,
in the parish, township, ehapelry, or place of Birkenhead, in the
said county of Chester. Fourthly-A short branch railway, or
curve, to connect the first-mentioned intended railway with the
railway authorised by the " Parkgate Railway Act, 1847" (10th and
11th Vic., cap. 187), at or near the point where the said first-de-
scribed railway will intersect the road from Parkgate to Bebbington,
which short branch railway, or curve, will be situated wholly within
the township of Thornton Hough, otherwise called Thornton Mayes,
and parish of Neston, in the county of Chester.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the said
London and North-Western Railway Company to purchase lands
and buildings by compulsion or agreement for the purposes of the
said intended railways and the works connected therewith, and to
levy tolls, rates, and duties in respect thereof, and to grant exemp-
tions front the payment of suck tolls, rates, and duties.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take power to
stop up, alter, or divert, temporarily or permanently, all turnpike or
other roads and highways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, reservoirs,
rivers, streams, brooks, pipes, waters, and watercourses, within the
aforesaid parishes, townships, and places, which it may be necessary
to stop up, alter, or divert, by reason of the construction of the said
intended railways and works, or any of them, and to vary or extin-
guish all existing rights or privileges in any manner connected with
the lauds and buildings prupt.sed to be purchased or taken for the
purposes of the said railways and works, or which would in any
manner impede or interfere with the objects aforesaid, and to confer
other rights and privileges.
And notice is hereby further given that a published map and
plans and . sections describing the lines and levels of the said
proposed railways respectively, and .a the lands to be taken for
the purposes thereof; together with a book of reference to such plans,
and a copy of this notice, as published in the " Loudon Gazette,"
will be deposited, before the 30th day of November, 1851, with the
I clerk of the peace of the county and city of Chester, at his
office in the city of Chester, and with the clerk of the
peace of the county of Chester, at his office in the said city of
Chester; and that copies of so much of the said plans, sections, and
book of reference as reiate to the several parishes and extra parochial
places in or through which the said intended railways are proposed to
be made, together with a copy of this notice, as published in the
" London Gazette," will be deposited, before the said Oth day of
November, as follows (that is to say)-in the case of parishes, with
the parish clerks of such parishes respectively, at their respective
places of abode; and in the case of the parish, township, chapelry,
or place of Birkenhead, with the clerk of the parochial church called
or known by the name of St. Mary, in Birkenhead, at his place of
abode; and in the case of any extra-parochial place, with the parish
clerk of some parish adjoining thereto, at his place of abode.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1851.
SAUUEL CAREER,
S WU' l' and WAGS:EAFF, SolicitorS.