The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-18 00:00:00

(1,;44,01JT11-EASTERN RAILWAY.
At the TWENTY-SEVENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL
and SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the
South-Eastern Railway, held, in pursuance of the Act of Incorpora-
tion, at the Bridge House Hotel, London-bridge, oa THURSDAY, the
14th day of March, 1850,
_ JAMES MAC GItEGOR, Esq., Chairman, in the chair,

The advertisement convening the ileeting wat read, and the fol-
lowing Ileso'utions were vsied :-
1. That the Common Seal c f the Company be affixed to the register
of proprietors.
The soul was affixed accordingly in the presence cf the meeting.
2. That a resister of the shareholders of the Company, with the
amount of shales or stock they indivioually hold, be made up and
published annually, and that every biter, holder be entitled to have
cue upon payment of Is.
3. That tre Repot t et" the Directors and Statement of Accounts, as
now road to this Meeting, be received and adopted, and hat the same
be printed and circulated among the propri: tors, with copies of the
report of the public auditors of the accounts, together with the report
of the engineer.
4. That a .:Ividend (less income-tax) of 9s. per share on the shares
paid ud. and of Bs. Id. per sure on the shares created on the 7th
day of November, 181 I, be now declared, and be made pay able on
the Bth day of April next.
. 5. hat John Bradshaw, Esq., be re-eected a Director cf this
Company.
6. Tl.at the lion. James Byng be re•elected a Director of this
Company.
7. That John Charles Jacke, Esq., be re-elected a Director of thil
Company.
8. That Francis Corwin smit'•, Esq., who has been elected a
Director of this Cowan: to fill a vacancy in the direction on the
resignation of :dr William Feilden, Bart., be continued a Director of
the Company.
9. That the Directors shall reduce their number to nine by ballot
among thems.lves, at a meeting to ba held within a week trom
to-day. _ . .

10. That this Meeting do stand adjourned till the 11th April, at
One o'clock P.M., for the election of auditors, and that proprietors
who intend to be candidates for the office are to give 14 days' notice
thereof to the Secretary, and that a I:st of the candidates be adver-
tired by him in the public papers.
11. That 1001. per annum be paid as the amount of salary to each
of the three auditors when elected.
12. That the No. 4 Shares rstnaining unissued on the 20th of Sep-
tember, 1849, which the Direetors were authorise i at the General
Meeting of the Proprietors held on that day to issue at interest
thereon at the rate of 41. 10s. per cent. per annum, be placed on the
same terms of issue as the new shares authorised to be issued at the
Special General Meeting of the Proprietors held on the aforesaid 20th
of September, 1849, at a guaranteed rate of interest thereon in per-
petuity of 41. l Os. per cent. per annum ; and that the holders of the
aforesaid unissued No. 4 Shares shall not be entitled to any of the'
privileges of shareholders, but to interest only at the rate of 41. 10s.
per cent, per annum.
13. That all the cla3ses of shares in the capital of the Company be

converted and cansolidated into capital stock on and after the Ist day
of May, 1850. The Old Shares, the shares commonly known as the
NO. 1 Shit'res, and the shires commonly known as the No. 2 Shares,
of the nominal value respectively of 50/. each, to be converted and
consolidated into and to form part of the capital stock of the Company,
at 30/. for each of such shares respectively, and to be designated "The

Consolidated South-Eastern Railway Stock." The shares commonly
known as the No. 3 Shares of the nominal value of 501. each, to be
converted and conso:idated into and to form part of the e Taal stock
of the company at 3')/. fbr each of such shares, and to be designated
" Tht Consolidated South-Eastern Railway No. 3 Stock." The
Th rd Share!, commonly called the No. 4 Shares, of the nominal
value of 16/. 13s. 4d. each, to be converted and consolidated into and
to form part of the capital stock of the Company at 10/. for each of
Such Third Shares, and to be designated "'the Consolidated South-
Eastern Railway No. 4 Stock." The Third 'Shares, commonly
called the No. 4 Shares, remaining unissued on the 20th of Septem-
ber, 1849, and the New Shares of 10/. each authorised to be'issued
at the Special General Meeting of the Proprietors held on the afore-
said 20th of September, 1849, guaranteed respectively interest
thereon in perpetuity at the rate of 4/. its, per cent, per annum, to
be converted and consolidated into and to form part of the capital
stock of the Company at 101. for each of such guaranteed shares re-
spectively, and to he designate:! "The Consolidated S..,uth-Eastern
Railway Stock, guaranteed 43 per cent. in perpetuity." That the
capital stock of the Company be divisible Into and transferable in
amounts of not less than 10/.
14. That the draft Bill now submitted to the Meeting, intituled
"A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to raise a
further sum of Motiey," be approved, subject to such alterations as
to Parliament shall meet.

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15. That the draft Dill now submitted to this 'Meeting, intitiiled
"A gill to ena_le the South-Eastern Rai. way Company to
tinne the Payment of Interest on Calls paid on certain Classes of
shares, and to enable the Holders of the stuns to participate in
Dividends, and to Amend the Acts relating to the said Ci mpany,"
be approved, subject to such alterations as :o Parlilment shall seem
meet.

That the Directors. be requested to conyence a Special Meeting
of the Proprietors so soon as the aforeslaid ,Bill has become law, for
the purpose of determining the perio mom or alter the 30th of
June next, from which the payment or altos', ante of interest (,n the
said shares shall discontinue, au I the same be entitled to participate
in dividends. -

15. That this Meeting do sanction, and approve the contin-
uance of the al'owance, out of capital, to the shareholders of
the Reading; Guildford, and Reigate Railway of interest at the
rate of 5/. 103. per cent. per ammin on the paid-up capital
of such Company, amounting to 61.0,, 001. from the 11th •of
August, 1849, up to the period when the lease of the Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate tßailway to this Company shall be date.%
and that on the payment by the Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Railway Company to this Company of any balance of
capital, or money raised by loan wile!: at the date of the lease
may remain In the hands of the Reading, Guildford, a.:d Reigate
Railway Company, this Company :hail by their covenant indemnify
the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company against a 1
Interest to the alumni of 41. per cent. per mann, which may at any
time ther after b. c me due in respect of the pre trit or any rerea ed
bond ot the Reading, Guildf .rd, and Reigate Railway Com-
pany for 200,0001., so long as such debt shall remain undischarged,
and ag :hist all other liabiliti sof the Reading, Guildford, and Rei-
gate Railway Company, but not including the principal of such bond
debt or any excess of interest aLove 41. per c nt. ; and that on the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company agree ng to call
up from the shareholders of that Company the remainder, amount-
ing to 200,0001., ot the entire Parliamentary capital of the Reading,
Guildford, and Wigate Railway Company, to be applied in discharge
of the bond debt of the last-mentioned Company to the like amount,
this Company sit ill agree to pay to the Reading, Guildford, and Rei-
gate Railway Company interest upon the tum ot 200,( 001., as and
when so called up and applied in discharge of such bond debt, at tile
rate cf 4/. per cent. per annum in perpetuity; and that this Com-
pany shall a,:ree to an amalgamation of the two Companies on
the terms of the Reading, Guildford, and Reizata Company
agreeing to consent to a Bill in Parliament, to be pi-emoted
by, and tit. the . expense of, - this Company, within the
s• ace of two years from the date of the lease, for an amalgama-
don of the Companies, by exchanging the shares in the Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company for Perpetual .Debentures
or Preferential Stock of this Company carrying interest at the rate
of 51. 2s. od. per cent. per annum, on the mutual agreement that
by such Bill no alteration,or change shall be proposed or consented
to be made in the now existing rates and tolls authorised by law to
be levied by the said two Companies separately in reference to
their respective lines of railway ; and that this Meeting* do approve
of the execution by th:s Company of the lease of the Ii e by the
Reading, Guddf,xd, and Reigate Railway Company, and of the
execution by this Company of a deed of covenant for carrying into
effect the above-mentioned objects, the cngrossments of which pro-
posed lease' and deed ot covenant have been submitted to this
Meeting. -

JAMES MAC GREGOR, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the chair, it was resolved unanimously,
That the cordial thanks of the Proprietors be given to the Chair-
man and Directors for their valuable services to the Company.
G. S. HERBERT, Secretary.

South-Eastern Railway Offices,
London Terminus, ➢ia ch 14, 1850.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK
RAILWAY.
_Notice Is hereby given that an EXTRAORDINARY or SPECIAL
MEETING of the York. Newcastle. and Berwick Railway Company
will be held at the De Grey Rooms, In tee city of York, on TunsnaY,
the 26th day of March next, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, when the
drafts of the following Bills will be submitted for consideration and
approval, viz. :
A Bill to amend the Great Noy th of England Railway Purchase
Act, 1846. and to enable the York, Newcastle, ant Bern ick Railway
Company to complete the purchase of the said railway.
11111 for enabling.the York. Newcastle, and Berwick Railway
Company to alter the levels of part of the Auckland br .ncli
of their railway, to cxten i the time for the purchase of land and
completion of works on part of the same branch, to enable the Com-
pany to hold shares in the West Durham Railway, and for other
purposes.
And notice is hereby further given, that at such meeting the posi-
tion of the Great North of England Purchwe Shareholders will (in
accordance n ith the request of some of hat body) be brought forward
for discussion, in order that the general body of shareholders may
pass such resolutions or come to such determination thereon as they
may think proper.

GEORGE LEEMAN, Chairman,
JOHN CLOSE, Seer_tary.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, February 23, 1850.

IHESTER end. HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
OVENIN,4 of the BRITANNIA-DREDGE for TRAFFIC.
On anti alter MONDAY, the lath instant, the Express and Mail
Tr s will pass thr, ugh the Britannia bridge.

Passengers are now conveyed, without change of carriage, from
London, Birmingham,Ac., to Holyhead.
By orler,

J. 0. 73 LAGER.

Chester, March 16, P5O.

`VATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital .Csoo,ooo. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The leading features of the Society are guaranteed of an ample
Proprietary Capital.
Moderate Rates of Premiums.

Two-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured.
Annual Division of Profits.
Half the Premium may remain as a Loan for Five Years.
Extensive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium.
Moderate extra Premium tor Residence in Tropical Climates.
N.B. The last Annual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to 65
per cent. (according to age) on the Premiums paid.
Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options.