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

RAIL WA I INTELLIGENCE.

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, presiding.
Mr. KENNEL', the secretary, read the report as follows :
"Although the shareholders in this extension line have
already, 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 recapitulate the terms of that arrangement,
which were as follows—viz , "That the object 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 line to, or towards, Loughton,
Chigwell, or Epping, in next year, unless the Eastern
Counties Company declined to make any line for the accom-
modation of those districts, and that the proposed junction
between the two railways being made, the Eastern Counties
Company should give all facilities in their power to persons
wishing to travel front 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 fail to be pro-
ductive of great convenience to the Eastern Counties and
North Eastern Railways, and of great additional revenue to
the Blackwall Railway. The usual preparations have been
made for setting out the line, which will be immediately done
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 Ferrets,
George Lee, Charles Edward Mangles, John Robertson, and
Edward Routh, all of whom are willing to serve as Directors,
should it the pleasure of the meeting to re-elect them to
that office.'"

The CHAIRMAN then said, that lied longer time been given
them before convening the first general meeting, A 3 required
by the Act, the Directors would have been enabled to give
some statement as to the progress of the works. At present
every arrangement had been made for carrying out the ex-
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
the Directors had perfect confidence in the soundness of the
proposed South Essex line, and that it would be a valuable
adjunct to the Blackwall.

'file re-election of biiectors having been seconded by Mr.
:ARVEY, was carried.

The Chairman, and Mears. 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 last year
Ivere 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 Royal Hotel, Edinburgh, Mr. John Learmonth,
Chairman of the Directors, in the chair. There was a very
full attendance of shareholders.
The report, which was read by Mr. LEES, the Secretary,
commenced by describing the opposition 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 Queensferry Company. In considerationof the opposi-
tion being withdrawn, it was 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 bound to con-
struct the branch from Dunfermline through the Lochgelly
coal-field to join this Company's line. The Queensferry
Company, on the other hand, were bound to abandon
their proposed branches to Kirkaldy and Burntisland. The
other agreements were with Captain Erskine Wemyss, Lord
Rosslyn, and the heritors of the parish of Dysart ; the trustees
of the turnpike-roads in the Cupar district ; the trustees
of the turnpike-roads in the Kirkaldy district, and the
trustees of the road betwixt Queensferry and Perth, called
the Great North Road. The remaining agreement is that
entered into with his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, and
John Gladstone, Esq., the proprietors of the Granton and
Burntisland-ferry, by which they bound themselves,
first, to provide increased accommodation 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, when 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 using
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 not 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 from
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 Fifeshire.

-•The CHAIRMAN, after adverting to the topics contained in
the report, said the amount of deposits received had been
32,50(1, which had been raised to 33,000/. by the premium
on the unappropriated stock. The outlay amounted to
17,50(1, which, considering the strong opposition they bad
encountered, was not a large sum.
The report, on the motion of Mr. BLAcirAnnEn,
agreed to.
It was proposed and agreed to, on the motion of Captain
RAMSAY, R.N., and seconded by Provost Nicol., of Cupar,
that the Directmrs be confirmed in their office.

The Earl of LEVEN proposed, and Mr. FultmE 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.