The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-20 00:00:00

NORTHERN RAILWAYS.

NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY.
A general meeting of the proprietors in this Company was
held immediately on the conclusion of the special meeting of
the York and North Midland Company at the Station, York.
Mr. Hudson, Chairman of the Company, presiding at the
request of the chairman, Mr. Close, the secretary of the com-
pany, read the advertisement calling the meeting, who stated
the object to be to lay before the meeting a " Bill for making
a railway from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Berwick-upon-
Tweed, with branches therefrom, to be called the Newcastle
and Berwick Railway," and also the draft of another Bill,
intituled " a Bill for enabling the Newcastle and Darlington
Junction Company to purchase the Brandling Junction
Railway, and to enable the said company to make certain
branch railway stations and works, and for other purposes.
The Chairman then entered into a statement of the com-
parative merits of the locomotive and atmospheric prin-
ciples. The latter, he thought, would not be sufficient to
carry the traffic on the proposed line between Newcastle and
Berwick. Even Mr. Samuda and Mr. Branel admitted that
only forty tons could be carried at a time. He submitted to
the meeting a resolution in accordance with these views,
which was unanimously carried. After explaining, in an-
swer to a shareholder, that the Brandling Junction shares
would be placed on the same footing with respect to the
Newcastle and Darlington, as the Leeds and Selby were with
respect to the. York and North Midland, the Chairman pro
ceeded to notice some slight opposition on the part of three
shareholders, who held amongst them some thirty or forty
shares, and then put the resolution approving of the Bill,
which was carried unanimeusly.
A vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman and
the Directors, the meeting separated.

YORE AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of this Company was held at
the Railway station, in York, on Saturday last, for the pur-
pose of considering the drafts of a series of Bills before Par-
liament, and now submitted for the approval of the Share-
holders, agreeably with the provisions of the standing orders
of the House of Lords.

The attendance of Shareholders was very numerous.
George Hudson, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Direc-
tors presided. •
The CHAIRMAN entered into a statement regarding the dis-
putes between this Company and the Great North of England
Company. He presented four Bills to the meeting con-
nected with the line, which had all to be considered. The
first was a Bill for enabling the York and North Midland
Railway Company to alter the line of the York and Scar-
borough Railway near the city of York. The second, a Bill
for enabling the York and North Midland Railway Company
to make a railway from the line of the Leech; and Selby
Railway to Goole. The third, a Bill for enabling the York
and York and North Midland Railway Company to make a
branch railway from the line of the York and North Mid-
land Railway to Harrogate. And the fourth, a Bill for en-
abling the York and North Midland Railway Company to
make a branch railway from the lice of the York and Scar-
borough Railway, in the township of Semler, to Bridlington.
The CHAIRMAN then submitted the following resolutions :
"That this meeting approves of the formation of a branch
railway from the York and Scarborough Railway to Pock-
lington, Market NS eightoh, and Beverley ; and also to
Brough, or such other point on the Hull line as may be
deemed expedient ; and that the Directors of this Company
be authorised to cause the necessary surveys and estimates to
be made."
" That the Directors be empowered, and this meeting doth
hereby authorise them to borrow, under the powers and pro-
visions of the several Acts of Parliament relating to this
Company, such sum or sums of money as they may find
necessary for the completion of the works thereby authorised
to be made."

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN then referred to the leasing of the Selby
and Hull line by this Company, which he thought would be
worked with great economy and facility. The trains to
Hull would be facilitated by at least half an hour, and at.-
rangeinents generally were in progress to benefit that port.
The meeting then separated.