The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-14 00:00:00

EVE NJ NG, NOVEMBER' rl4. 1845.

calling to mind, too. the fact that in the draught of the Act
of Parliament, submitted to the Proprietors of the Bristol
and Exeter Railway, at their meeting in last, a
clause bad been introduced, the effect of which was to
give a right of pre-emption to the Great Western Rail
way. Company, and looking, lastly, at the terms of the late
provisional agreement, so justly rejected by the almost unani-
mous vote of a verylarge and influential meetingof the share-
holders of the Bristol and Exeter Railway on the 7th inst.,
this meeting cannot but consider the close connexion which
has hitherto existed between the Directors of the two Com-
panic:. and the employment-by. the Bristol and Exeter Rail-
way dompany of the same engineer and other officers as the
Great Western Railway Company, to have given an unclip
influence on the side, and in favour of the latter Company,
and to have been highly detrimental to the interests of the
former ; and that this meeting now contemplating the pre-
sent situation of the two companies, and deeming it to be ab-
solutely essential, whether it be ultimately determined by tilt
Bristol and Exeter Company to sell or to work on its owr
account its railway, in order that the interests of the Share-
holders in that railway may be freely and justly considered
and dealt with, that their Directors should be in a positio:
as unconnected with and free from the control, counsels, and
influence of the Directors of the Great Western
Company, and their officers as possible, and should hay*
a separate staff of officers of their own, do most respect-
fully request the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railwa:‘
Company forthwith to dismiss from their councils all officer
in any way connected with, or interested in, or under the in-
fluence of, the Great Western Railway Company, and to cal
in as the engineer of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com-
pany, either Mr. Stephenson or Mr. Locke, or some other
disinterested eminent engineer, and to request such engineer
immediately to survey their railway, and to report as earl:,
as possible to a general, or special general meeting of the
Shareholders, upon its present condition and traffic, and fu
turn prospects, and whether any, and what steps should be
taken by the Directors for the advancement or protection of
the interests of the Company, either by forming branches or
opposing the projects of other companies in Parliament ; or
otherwise, as he may deem expedient.—That a deputation,
consisting of the following gentlemen, viz., Mr. Stone, Mr.
Daniel, Mr. Buckley, and Mr. Lucas, be requested to wait
upon the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com
pany, and lay before them the foregoing resolution."
The resolution having been seconded, the meeting wac
addressed by several gentlemen. In the course of the dis-
cussion, Mr. Bedon, who bad been a Director, observed that
he knew that the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter Com
pany were acting under Great Western influence. When
he was on the Directory be had opposed the lease, and had
done so honestly, but because he had done so it had been
intimated to him that he must retire from the Directory.
He was in ill health when he received this intimatior
from the secretary. Still his blood boiled, and if he had
published the facts then in his possession he felt assured that
their Directors must have gone out passive as they were.—
(Hear, hear.) He had been down the line yesterday.
with a view of ascertaining the state of their traffic, and had
asked the officials if the traffic was increasing, and the uni-
form answer he had received was, that it was increasing
amazingly—indeed, so fast Was it increasing that they were
not able to transact the business, and that the Great Wes-
tern Company did not give them trucks enough. or they
could at this moment do half as much business again.
The resolution was then put, and carried with two dis-
sentients ; as also were resolutions appointing a committee
for general purposes and to act with local committees, &c.,
and to obtain subscriptions.
Thanks were then given to the Chairman, and the meeting
separated.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—British and Irish
Union, 314—Chester and Birkenhead, Half Shares, 2414—
Derby and Crewe, s%—Edinburgh and Perth, s—Grand
Junction, Quarter Shares, 47—London and Birmingham,
321. Shares, 42—Manchester and Birmingham Continuation,
I37—South-Eastern and Dover, 36.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 13.
STocK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Exten-
sion, 3%—Cambridge and Lincoln, 81s. 6d.—Dudley, Iron
Bridge, and Shrewsbury, 23/4—Eastern Counties, 2014—East
Lancashire, No. 1, 18%—Glasgow and Dumfries, 2':;8—Goole.
Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 378—Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 834 c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 13—Lei-
cester and Bedford, 1 15-16—London and Manchester (Rem.).
2%—London and York, 4%—Manchester and Birmingham
70—Manchester and Southampton, 314—North Staffordshire,
s%—North Western, 33%—Nottingham and Boston, 27i
Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 3%—Oxford, Worces-
ter, and Wolverhampton, 17—Sheffield and Lincoln Junc-
tion, 3%—Sheffield and Manchester Quarters, No. 3, 6
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6—South-Eastern and
Dover, 35—Trent Valley, 15%.

SHEFFIELD, Nov. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Midland, Sheffield,
and Rotherham, 35—London and York, 4/. 113.—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 51. 14s.—Notting:
ham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 3—North Staffordshire, 5'4
—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, WA—Wakefield and Ham-
gate, 2IA

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BRISTOL, Nov. 13.
STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter,
New, 7%—Midland, New, 18%—Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham, 3—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 444.

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LEEDS, Nov. 13. -
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Croydon.
20—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10% p.—Midland,
New, 1914—Leeds and Bradford, 42—Ditto, Extensions, 384
—Leeds and Dewsbury, 18 c. n.—North British, New, 4%
—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 38—Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth, 41A—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, Ws
West Riding Union, 7—Grand Union, 7s. p.—Lanceshireand
North Yorkshire, 4s. p.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 2s. 6d.
dis.—Leeds and York, par—Leicester and Birmingham, 10s.
p.—Leicester and Bedford, 10s. p.—Manchester, Buxton.
Matlock, and Midland, 3 p.—North-Western, 3%—Notting-
ham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 3—South Midlands, 3% p.—
Waliefield and Harrogate, 16s. p.—York and Carlisle, 31. 4s.
HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and York,
4%—Grand Union, I%—Huddersfield, Halifax, and Brad-
ford Union, 8/. 17s. 6d.—Hull and Holyhead, Bs.--Leicester
and Birmingham, Bs. 6d. p.—North and South Junction. 2
6d.—Nottingham and Boston, 12s. 6d. p.—North Western,
3%—Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, i%.
HULL, Nov. 13.
&oar EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Brigh-
ton, GOA—Aberdeen 7—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 14—
North British, Half Shares, 3/. 18s. 6d.—Ditto, Dalkeith,
57—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 1/. 16s. 9d.—Derby and
Gainsborough, 1,4—Hull and Barnsl7iJunetion, 275. 6d.—
London and Birmingham Extension, 1 —London and York,
4%—Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grant am, 2%.

YORK, Nov. 13.
STOCK EZCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 20—
Ditto, New, 6% p.—Newcastle and Darlington, 56—Ditto
(Brandling), 45%—York and North Midland, Ex-
tension, 2:,l,(x—Newcastle and Berwick, 123/4—North Bri-
tish New Carlisle Branch, 3—London and York, 4%—
Cambridge and Lincoln, 4—Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir-
mingham and Leicester, VA—Derby and Gainsborough, 13/4
—Grand Union, 13/4Great Grimsby, Louth, &c., 3s.
Leicester and Bedford, I%—Welsh Midland, 21%.
GLASGOW, Nov. 12.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bathgate,
60s.—Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 525. 6d.—British and
Irish Union, 73s.—Caledonian, 91,x—Caledonian Extension,
34—Caledonian and Direct Northern, 55s.—East Lothian
Central, 60s.—East Indian Railway, 475. 6d.—Edinburgh,
Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 22s.—Forth and Clyde Junction,
575. 6d.—Glasgow General Terminus, 12—Glasgow and
Greenock, 201,x—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 41.95.
—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 575. 6d.—Glasgow, Partick,
and Dumbarton, VA—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 655.
Lanark and Lothians, 3%—Perth and Inverness, 465.
Perth and Crieff, 60s.—Scottish Central, 15'4—Scottish
Southern, 50s.—Scottish South Midland Juncton, 475. 6d.
—Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction 445. 6d.—Sla-
mannan and Bo'ness, s—Stirling and Dunfermline, 535.6 d.—
Strathern Junction, 655.