The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-08 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Aug. 30

Sept. 2
Aug. 3l

Sept. 2

Aug. 30
31

Sept. 1
1
Aug. 30

Arbroath and Forfar •• • •• • •• •"•• • • .
Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • • • ' • • ' • '
Chester and Birkenhead . •• - • • • • •' • •
Dublin and Drogheda• • • • • • •' .. ' • • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown ..... • " • • • • ''
Dundee and Arbroath . • • ..... • .. • ' "•
Durham and Sunderland . • • • • • ..... ' •
Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • • • .. ••• ' •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Mr • • • • • •
Glasgow and Green0ck.............
Grand Junction . • • • • • • • • • • • ' • " " • •
Gravesend and Rochester • • • • • • • • • • • •
Great North of England • • • • • • • • • • • •
Great Western . • • • • • • • • • • • • • ' " •" •
hull and Selby • • •••• • • • • • • •
Liverpool and Manchester • • • • • • • • • •
London and Birmingham . • • • • • • • - - •
London and Blackwall • • . • • • ..... • • •
London and Brighton . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and Croydon . • • • • • • • • ......
London and Greenwich . • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and South Western. • • • • • • • •
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • • . • • •
Manchester and Birmingham• • • • • • • •
Manchester, Leeds, and Ilull Assoc—
Midland Counties. • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • •
Newcastle and -Darlington • • • • • • • • • •
Newcastle and Carlisle ..
Newcastle and .North Shields.. • . • • ••
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbel', and 0r1ean5.....• • .
Paris and Iloilo'
Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Sheffield and Manchester. • • ... • • • • • •
South Eastern . •
Tall' Yale •• • .•.
Ulster . .. . .....
Yarmouth anti Norwich . • • • . • . • • . • •
York and North Midland .• . ••• • • •

735
948
1,422

891
3,529
6,054
2,154
1,219
17,018
419

19,750

20.998
1,422
6,833
1,749

9,004
1,012

2,228
18,263

18,027
1,538
6,477
704

8,563

909
3,358
7,217
13,731
1,050
1,907

502
1,895
5,892
6,796

653
783
7,005
1,037

3,260

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM.

MANCHESTER, SA TV IL DA Y. —Me 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. Thoma-on'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 sonic further discussion as to whether the Company
was totally to refuse to amalgate with the London and Bir-
mingham Company,
Sir DAVID SaLostows moved, " That the Board of Direc-
tors :a at present constituted he instructed to renew their nego-
tiations on the part of this Company with the London and Bir-
mingham Company, on terms that are likely to be acceptable
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. 13. SMITH then proposed a dividend after the rate of
5/. per cent.
Messrs. Higgins and Evans were appointed auditors. Mr.
Waddington, the Deputy Chairman, announced his resignation
before the proceedings closed.

BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAIIIPTON, 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.
Mr. WILLIAMS, one of the deputation from the Birmingham
Canal Company, whose property is to be converted into, and
form part of, the proposed line, said it was intended to make
the line along the banks of the canal, from Birmingham to
Wolverhampton, with a line to Dudley, which would be con-
nected with the Birmingham Railway, and have the benefit,
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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, AI. 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 line 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
line 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
Worcester,
one in opposition to the Oxford, 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 thorn as much as possible, and he had no
doubt 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
Dudley, and it was the intention of those ho then represented
to come to that station, unless other and more beneficial ar-
rangements could be made.' It would be a difficult matter to
alter level', and get down the descents to Stourbridge in that
direction ; but still he 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 that
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 pre-
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 goods carried upon the most advantageous terms to the
most distant parts of
MIT the kingdom.
Mr. RD SH agent to Lord Ward, next pointed
out the advantages of the line.
Mr. B. BEST said that by means of these several lines, which
will be laid out so as to communicate and work with each other
on the same level, and which will be made with the concur-
rence of the London and Birmingham, the Great Midland, the
Trent Valley, and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Companies, and the Birmingham Canal Company, the advan-
tages of railway communication will be afforded to the im-
portant towns and !places of Dudley, Stourbridge, Kiddermin-
r,
ol d Stourport,bury:Tipton,Rowley
Walsall, Lichfield,
Regis,NV Oldhill, Netherton,
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ckHalesowen, Cradley, the Lye, Kinver, Bushell, Willenhall,
Darlaston, and Alrewast, the extensive works situate on the
banks of the Birmingham Canal in the valley of the Stour,
and on the lines of the projected railways between Dudley and
Walsall, and Wolverhampton and Pelsall. It seemed to be a
most important movement, for which they were indebted to
the Birmingham Canal Company ; and when he referred to
that body, and thought of their connexion with the district, he
felt every confidence that all their wants would be speedily
supplied in the best possible way.
The other resolutions were then moved and seconded by
Messrs. C. Hewitt, C. H. Blakewell, Joseph Bramber, H. W.
Wainw right, G. E. Griffin, and W. Wood, in favour of the
line, and carried unanimously.

WELSH MIDLAND.
The first general meeting of the proprietors of this company
was held last week at Cupar Angus ; Sir James Ramsay, of
Biudf, Bart., in the chair.