The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.
A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
on Saturday at the Euston station ; Mr. R. MOOS
in the chair.

Mr. S. Reay, the secretary, having read tbo
notice convening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to deal
with was a bill to enable the company to construct
a railway from the Stockport, Disley, and I'VhaleY"
bridge Railway, at the Chapel-en.lc-Frith station+
to Sheffield, and for other purposes. When the
importance of such a place as Sheffield was consi"
dered, they would agree with him that the directoro
could not allow the North 'Western system to be longer
disconnected with that district, and it appeared that
Parliament was of the same opinion, for a bill ena-
bling them to conn ect the London and North-Western
system direct with Sheffield had passed the Houo°
of Commons. (Hear, hear.) He was happy, lic4l:
ever, to say that circumstances had occurred whi°'
by means of conciliation with the Manchester!
Sheffield, and Lincoln Railway Company, would
save the London and North-Western Company tb°,
expense of further procedure with that bill and 49'
constructing the contemplated line it had proposed'
(Hear.) He was happy to say that an agreement
had been come to with the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln Company, and the deed had been dull
signed and executed that morning, by which the
London and North-Western Company and the Man;
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Companies bad
agreed that the North-Western should have all the
advantages through the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln line which this new bill and the railway NO'
to be constructed under it would give to thew'
(Hear.) The London and North-Western Corn"
pany were to make their own arrangements for Ma'
nagement, work their own trains with their oWS
staff, and make their own rates. Such being the
case, and the directors of the Sheffield company
having met them in the conciliatory and in the fair
and honourable spirit they had done, there was 11°
longer any necessity for entailing on the proprietary
the expense of constructing the propotbd new line ;
and the proposal he had, therefore, to submit sv3°,
for the sanction of the proprietary to the withdraW3'
of the bill. (Hear.) He and those who acted with
him, as well as the directors of the Sheffield Cool;
pany, had come to the conclusion that they caul('
not live by living on each other, and therefore tbel
had come to the very wise and amicable deterirdo3-
tion to which he had referred. The chairman thea
moved that the bill for constructing the line b°
withdrawn.
Mr. WESTHEAD, the deputy chairman, seconded
the motion.
Mr. PARKER congratulated the directors of betll
companies on the new policy which he hoped would
be adopted in future by them and other railwal
companies.

Mr. WATKIN, M.P., the chairman of the Mali:,
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, expressed b'
gratification that peace had been restored, and h°
had no doubt that both companies would work 110-
moniously in developing the traffic to and fr°o
Sheffield. They were all greatly indebted to Mr.
Smith, the chairman of the North-Western audit
committee, for his able exertions in bringing about
an amicable arrangement between the two cony
panies.
The resolution withdrawing the bill was then CO"
ried unanimously.
A bill authorising the company to make a One'
tion line of three or four miles in length, for con°
netting the London and North- Western and 1%1311,-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways Av3',
also agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN then submitted a bill to ex.-ad
the time for the completion of the railway Of tTo
Dundalk and Greenoro Company, and to en3b
that company to construct new railways at Dull;
dalk, and to complete certain joint works. Thera
was a clause in the bill to enable the London 811
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North-Western Railway Company to subscou
£130,000 towards the construction of those rail
The bill, after some discussion, was approved' t
The next was a bill for conferring on the GI.
Western Railway Company further powers in
lation to their own undertaking and the undertatl.
ings of other companies, which was also approved.
A bill to enable the North London Railway Cel11(i
pally to widen further portions of their railway, WI
for granting various additional powers to the Lefl:
don and North-Western Railway Company in e°d,
nection therewith, was agreed to, and the proceed
ings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chair
man and directors.

THE TEA TRADE, April 15.—The deliveries it:,
London made up for the week were 1,509,2071 b., being
ox,
increaw 29, 1;171b. as compared with the Pl:eVi9l.l4