The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-22 00:00:00

BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, AND NEWRY, BANBRIDGE, AND
BELFAST JUNCTION COMPANY.

At a meeting of the Provisional Committees of the above Compa-
nies, held in Belfast, on Monday, the 18th instant, a Protest against
the proceedings of these Committees, with reference to an amalgama-
tion of these Companies with the Great County Down Railway Com-
pany, signed by several influential Shareholders, having been read,
Resolved, " That inasmuch as the members of these Committees
now present having been advised that they have not power in point
of law to bind the proprietary bodies which they severally represent,
they feel compelled to decline proceeding fartheT towards carrying
out the amalgamation proposed by the Great County Down Railway
Company in oppositidn to the Resolutions and Protest of several
members of the Registered Provisional Committees and of extensive
Shareholders in their respective Companies, until they have taken
the opinion of a General Meeting of the Shareholders upon the sub-
feet, and that a meeting be accordingly called for that purpose with
little delay as possible."

JOHN HARRISON, Chairman•

Belfast, 18th August, 1845.

BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, AND NEWRY, BANBRIDGE, AND
BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of a Protest by several
of the Provisional Directors of, and other large Shareholders in, the
above Companies, against the proceedings of the Committees respect-
ing a proposition made to them by the Provisional Committee of the
Great County Down Railway Company for the amalgamation of
their several projects, a MEETING of the several parties who have
signed the Subscription Contract of the Belfast and County Down
Railway Company, and of those who have paid the Deposit upon the
Shares allotted to them in that Company, or in the Newry, Ban-
bridge, and Belfast Junction Railway Company, will be held at the
Office, 24, Fountain-street, Belfast, on SATURDAY, the 30th instant,
a tTwelve o'Clock Noon precisely, to take into consideration the
above-mentioned Protest, and to adopt such measures in reference
thereto as may be deemed expedient.
The votes of the Proprietors will be taken according to the number
shares held by each.
Proxies will be allowed.
THOMAS WARD, Secretary of the Belfast and County
Down Railway Company.
THOMAS M`CLELLAND, Secretary of the Newry,
Banbridge, and Belfast Junction Railway Company.
Belfast, ISth Atigits,, 1845.

IPSWICH AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S
RAILWAY COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST ORDINARY MEETING
of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the Offices
of the Company, Brook-street, IPSWICH, on FRIDAY, the 12th day
of September next, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the
general purposes of business.
And notice is hereby given, that such meeting will also be held
for the special purpose of increasing the number of Directors named
in the Act of Incouporation to the number of fifteen, and for that
purpose to elect Two Directors, and to determine the order of rota-
tion in which such increased number shall go out of office; and also
for the special purpose of authorising the Directors to apply to Par-
liament in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament
enablirr, this Company to construct a Railway to Norwich, diverging
from the Ipswirh and Bury St. Edmund's Railway at, or near
to, Stowmarket, with or without Branches therefrom ; and
also of authorising the Directors to apply to Parliament
in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament
enabling this Company to construct a Railway, in continua-
tion of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway, from Bury, to
join the Northern and Eastern Railway at or near to Cambridge,
with or without branches therefrom ; and also of authorising the
Directors, on behalf of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway
Company, to execute the necessary Parliamentary deeds for the
several purposes aforesaid, and to issue such scrip, and to adopt such
measures, and make and enter into such terms and agreements, and
take such steps in reference thereto, and in furtherance thereof, as
they may deem necessary or expedient.
Four of the Directors will, under the Act of Parliament, go out of
office at the above meeting, but being eligible for re-election, will offer
themselves accordingly.
For the convenience of Shareholders in London, it has been deter-
mined to receive scrip to be registered at No. 53, Parliament-street,
as well as at Ipswich, if the party sending it writes across each cer-
tificate his name and address, with the application for registry and
conversion, as advertised on the 2d inst.
JOIIN CHEVALLIER COBBOLD, Chairman.
By order of the Board,
JAMES F. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Brook-street, Ipswich, 20th Aug., 1845.

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