The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-09 00:00:00

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274 LONDON AND BLACKWALL EXTENSION.
- Yesterday the first general meeting of the Proprietors of
- this Company was held at the London Tavern, Mr. J. N.
- _ Daniell, chairman of the Board of Directors, presidirg.
Mr. KENNELL, the secretary, read the report as follows:
_ - ' Although the shareholders in this extension line have
_ alnady, as proprietors in the main line, been made acquainted
- , with the circumstances relating to the arrangement entered
- into :with the Eastern Counties Railway Company, during
- the progress of the Bill for the Epping Railway through
the Committee of the House of Commons, it may yet
be desirable at this, the first meeting of the Company,
- briefly to recbpitulate the terms of that arrangement,
- which were as follows—viz , 4 That the of of the Bill
- should be confined to the line ' between. Stepney and the
-
_ junction with the Eastern Counties line at Old Ford. That
_ the London and Blackwell Railway Company should not
_ make any application for a lino to, or towards, Loughton.
- Chigwell, or Epping, in next year, unless the Eastern
- Counties Company declined to make any line for the aecom •
modation of those districts, and that the proposed junction
2% between the two railways being made, the Eastern counties
-
_ Company should give all facilities in their power to persons
_ wishing to travel from the stations on their lines to Fen-
- church-street in preference to Shoreditch ; all arrangements
- for facilitating such traffic being left to the adjustment, of
- Mr. Locke and Mr. Stephenson. Your Directors are satisfied
- that the arrangement thus concluded cannot tail to be pro-
_ - ductive of great convenience to the Eastern Counties and
_ North Eastern Railways, and of great additional r. venue to
- the Blackwell Railway. The usual preparations have been
- made for setting cut the line, which will be immediately clone
- by Mr. Locke, and the works will be carried on with the ut-
_ _
most vigour. It is provided by the act of incorporation, that
_ at the first ordinary meeting the Shareholders present, per-
- sonally or by proxy, may either continue in office the Directors
- appointed by the Act, or any number of them, or may elect a
new body of Directors, or Directors to supply the place of those
_
not continued in office, the Directors appointed by the Act being
: eligible as members of such new body. The following are
_ the names of the Directors appointed by the Act, viz. :-
- James Nugent Daniell, William Haigh, Joseph Bishop, John
- Bowring, George Thomas Ellison, William Edmund Ferrers,
- George Lee, Charles Edward Mangles, John Robertson, and
- Edward Routh, all of whom arc willing to serve as Directors,
- should it he the pleasure of the meeting to re-elect them to
_ that office.' "
- The CnAnntAN then said, that had longer time been given
-
- them before convening the first general meeting, as required
by the Act, the Directors would have been enabled to•g:ve
some statement as to the progress of the works. At present
: every arrangement had been made for carrying out the cx-
• tension, which could be completed, on the assurance of their
surveyor, without much extra cost, and without a third set
of rails. He would take that opportunity of intimating that
time Directors had perfect confidence in the soundness of the
proposed South Essex line, and that it would be a valuable
adjunct to the Blackwell.
v ..fhe re-election alrirectors having been seconded by Mr.
lintivEr, was carried.
The Chairman, and Messrs. Baker and Ogilvy, were ap-
pointed auditors.
The CHAIRMAN, in reply to Mr. M'Cann, said the receipts
of the Blackwell line for the last two months of the lest year
were greater than the corresponding months of the preceding,
and there was consequently no reason why the shares should
decrease in value.

EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN.
On Friday the first general meeting of the proprietors was
held at the Rival Hotel, Edinburgh, Mr. John Learmonth,
Chairman ef the Directors, in the chair. There was a very
full aCendance of shareholders.
The report, which was read by Mr. LEES, the Secretary,
commenced by describieg the ot'.position the Directors had
encountered in obtaining their Act, after which it briefly
explained the terms into which the Directors had entered
with the opposing parties. The first was with the promoters
of the Queens'erry Company. In consideration of the opposi-
tion being withdrawn, it w as agreed that this company should
not oppose the Queensferry Company's application to Parlia-
ment for powers to make their main line. And it was fur-
ther agreed that the latter company should be lit and to con-
struct the branch from Dunfl.•rmline through the Lcchgelly
coal•field to join this Company's line. The Queansferry
Company, on the other hand, were bound to abandon
their proposed branches to Eirkaldv and 3urrtisksid. The
other agreements were with Captain Erskine Wemyss, Lord
itosslyn, and the het itors of the parish of Dysart ; the trustees
of the turnpike roads in the Copar district; the trustees
of the tut-op:lie-roads in the Kirkahly district, and the
trustees of the road betwixt. Queen,ferry and Perth, called
the Great North Road. The remaining agreement is that
entered into with his Grace the Duke of Buceleuch, and
Juhn Gladstone, Esq., the proprietors of the Granton and
Burntisland-ferry, by which they bound themselves,
first, to provide increased accemmodation in the number,
power, and speed of the boats to be placed upon the ferry ;
and, second, to redece the passenger fares to a moderate
rate, and to submit, t; hen required, to the determination of
arbiters the rates to be charged for every description of
goods crossing the ferry. Considerable progress had been
made in the purchase of the land required, extending to
about eighteen miles of the line. The engineer is usirg
every exertion to complete the working plans, and the first
contract is advertised to be let on the 24th of September.
Every exertion will be made to press forward the work ; and
the Directors see no reason why the line should nut be
opened within two years from this time. In the Act to be
applied for next session of Parliament, for the branch lines
to the ferry opposite Dundee, and to St. Andrews and
Dunfermline, it is intended to include in it a branch front
the main line to the town of Leven, and along the
coast to the eastward. The Shareholders may be
already aware that measures have within the last
few weeks been taken by gentlemen unconnected
with the main line to get up a separate company for
making this branch; but it has appeared to the Directors
that the interests of the Company require that it be entirely
in their own hands, as it forms a portion of the railway
system of Fifeshires
The CHAIRMAN, after adverting to the topics contained in
the report, said the amount of deposits received had been
32,5001., which bad been raised to 33,0004 by the premium
on the unappropriated stock. The outlay amounted to
17,50e/s, which, considering the strong opposition they had
encountered, was not a large sum.
The report, on the motion of Mr. BLACKADDER, WBS
agreed to.

—lt was proposed and agreed to, on the motion of Captain
RAMSAY, R.N., and seconded by Provost Nicol., of Cupar,
that the Directors be confirmed in their office.
The Earl of LEVEN proposed, and Mr. FERNIE seconded
the appointment of auditors, and thanks were given to Mr.
Grainger, the engineer; Sir Charles Gordon and Co., law
agents; and Mr. Lees, the secretary, for their services.