The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-07 00:00:00

MIDLAND.

An adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com-
pany was held yesterday in the Derby Station ; Mr.
W. H. Hutchinson presided. _

The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to submit
was a bill for granting to the Great Northern Rail-
way Company running powers over a portion of the
Newton and Compstall Branch Railway of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
Company, and for authorising the said two com-
panies and the Midland Railway Company to exe-
cute certain works, and for authorising the Great
Northern Railway Company and the Midland Rail-
way Company to become joint owners with the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
Company, of that company's Godley and Woodley
Branch Railway, and for transferring to the said
three companies the powers of the Chester and West
Cheshire Junction Railway Company. The Mid-
land Company's share of the capital for this pro-
posed purchase was £90,000, with power to borrow
£30,000.

Mr. BEALE having read the marginal notes,
A formal resolution approving the bill was carried
unanimously.

The CHAIRITXX said theandnext was a bill for autho-
rising the Tottenham Hampstead Junction
Railway Company to raise further and for
making provision with respect tor sale, or
araolenaseyes:
amalgamation of the undertaking. This
commenced at Hampstead by a junction railway
with the
Midland Company's new line from Bedford to Lon-
don, and terminated near Tottenham, on the Great
Eastern Railway. By an agreement with the Great
Eastern Company the Midland Company was ac-
corded running powers from Tottenham to the Vic-
toria Docks, on the river Thames. They had also
running powers over the London and Blackwall
Railway, and were to have the use of the new sta-
tion in Bishopsgate-street, the Midland allowing the
Great Eastern to use the station in Euston-road as
their western terminus. The bill authorized the
creation of £lOO,OOO, one-third of which was, to be
supplied by the Midland
Company.
A. motion approving the bill was adopted.
The following bills
for authorizing the
were also approved :—A bill
Junction Railway ec Chester and West Cheshire
their railway at euerpany to make extensions of
to Neston respectively, , and to the river Dee and
—a bill to confer further, and to raise further moneys
He
and London. and North-Western
upon the Hemel
way Company ; a bill to authorize
Rail-
way
Railway Company to extend the Newport
to the Northampton and Peterborough their railway
London and North-Western, to the Lei
ll
cester line of the
Hitchin line of the Midland, and to the and
authorized
Bedford and Not thampton Railway.
The meeting was then adjourned until Tuesday
next.

DEVON AND CORNWALL.
A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
yesterday, at the offices, Westminster-chambers ;
Mr. T. C. Hamlyn in the chair.
The Solicitor read the heads of the following bills:
A bill for authorising the London and South Western
Raiiway to make and maintain the Brentford curve
and the Kew-bridge curve, and other works, and for
authorising arrangements between them and other
companies, and for the increase of their capital; and
a bill for authorising the Central. Cornwall Railway
Company to run- over divers railways, and for
authorising arrangements between them and other
railway companies.
The CSAIRIIAN then moved resolutions approving

the bills, which were carried, and the proceedings
terminated.

CRANNOCK CHASE AND WOLVEUITADIPTON.
A Wharncliffe meeting of this coin' any was held
yesterday at the offices, Great Geor2,,, -street, 'West-
minster, for the purpose of considering a bill to
enable the company to extend their railway to fled-
nesforcl and to the South Staffordshire Railway.
The bill was approved, and the proceedings ter-
minated.