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- - RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
- MANCHESTER AND BIRNIINGHAM.
MANCHESTER, SATURDAY.—The proceedings of the half-
_
_ yearly meeting of this Company did not terminate until twenty
- minutes after five on Friday, the express account, forwarded by
- the last train, bringing the proceedings up to half-past four,
when Mr. Thomason's amendment, for no amalgamation with
the London and Birmingham, was carried amid cheers and
clamour. Thereafter Messrs. Wadkin, of Dukinfield ; Raw-
- son, of Manchester ; and Thomas Thomason, of Bolton, were
- re-elected Directors.
- After some further discussion as to whether the Company
was totally to refuse to amalgate with the London and Bir-
-
mingham Company,
_ Sir Davin Satomows moved, " That the Board of Direc-
- tors as at present constituted be instructed to renew their nego-
- tiations on the part of this Company with the London and Bir-
-A mingham Company, on terms that are likely to be acceptable
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3% to the Proprietary, and to take the opportunity of calling a
_ special meeting at an early day to report the result."
The motion having been seconded, passed amidst loud cheers.
Mr. J. B. SMITH then proposed a dividend after the rate of
U. per cent.
Messrs. Higgins and Evans were appointed auditors. Mr.
Waddington, the Deputy Chairman, announced his resignation
before the proceedings closed.

- BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, STOUR AND
TRENT VALLIES, AND MIDLAND.
A meeting of iron and coal-masters and merchants of
Dudley was held in that town on Friday, to consider the pro-
- priety of supporting this line, Mr. Thomas Lester in the chair.
Air. WILLIAMS, one of the deputation f.onk the Birmingham
Canal Company, whose property is to be converted into, and
form part of, the proposed line, said it was intended to make
4y. the line along the banks of the canal, from Birmingham to
3 Wolverhampton, with a line to Dudley, which would be con-
- nected with the Birmingham Railway, and have the benefit,
in connexion with that Company, of a great station, which was
to be made in the centre of Birmingham, at the back of the
Free Grammar School, with an entrance at the bottom of
King-street, and the inhabitants of Dudley would, therefore,
have the advantage of one of the best stations in England.
--
Nothing could be more convenient for the inhabitants,
taking it in connexion with the central station which
they intend to erect at Wolverhampton. By the
proposed line they would be enabled to carry their
goods to Hull, Liverpool, and all the outports of the
kingdom. They would also be enabled, in taking the lower
ground, to get on by Stourport, and onwards till they became
connected with Welsh railways, which would take them into
the heart of Wales. Indeed, the projectors of the undertaking
flattered themselves that such a line had never been offered to
to the town and neighbourhood. The project, when carried
out, would serve all the great interests of the mining districts.
Their next consideration should he to get the advantage of as
central a station in Dudley as they possibly could.
Mr. R. SCOTT M.P., said it was intended by the company
to make a line along the straight course of the Birmingham
Canal from the heart of Birmingham to the heart of Wolver-
hampton. Dudley was situated upon such an eminence that
it was difficult to bring a canal to serve the town in the
manner they could desire, and it would also be very difficult to
bring a railway into the town • but it would be the object of
the promoters of the intended fine to bring the station as near
the town as possible, and thereby facilitate as much as they
could the traffic of the place. It was first intended that this
hoe should join the Tring line, but as that project was not suc-
-
cessful, they now intended to run into the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton line. The proposed new line was not
one in opposition to the Oxford, Worcester, and Woverhamp-
- ton line, but it was intended to work with it, and give and
receive all the traffic they could to that company. They were
anxious to work with them as much as possible, and he had no
claubt they would do so to their mutual interest. They were
well aware of the place where it was intended to erect the
station of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line in
Du.iley, and it was the intention of those he then represented
to come to that station, unless other and more beneficial ar-
rangements could be made. It would be a difficult matter to
a.ter level-,•and get down the descents to Stourbridge in that
direction ; but still ke thought it not impossible to furnish the
town of Dudley with a better station than that provided by the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company. If tht
could be done, he was sure the Company he represented would
be most anxious to give them a better station than any which
had as yet been proposed. The great advantage of the pra-
- posed new line of railway would be found in its immediate
connexion with the Birmingham Canal. By that connexion,
the manufacturers of that district would be enabled to have
their goads carried upon tke most advantageous terms to the
mo-t distant parts of the kingdom.
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were indebted to
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that body, and thought of their connexion with the district, its
_ felt. every confidence that all their wants would be speedily
supplied in the best possible way,
The other resolutions were then moved arid seconded by
Messrs, C. Hewitt, C. H. Blakewell, Joseph Bramber, H. W.
Wainwright, G. E. Griffin, and W. Wood, in favour of the
line, and carried unanimously.

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WEISE' MIDLAND.
The first general meeting of the proprietors of this compatty
4/. Os. 6d.--- was held last week at Cupar Angus Sir Junes Ramsay, of
and Forfar Banff. Bart. in the chair,
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