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London, England, 1845-12-27 00:00:00

L°Npi Jlc and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY

The foll NOTICE.
Bates for
" -owing Reductions in the Fares of Passengers, and the Parcels,will tak between London, B rmingham, and Liverpool,
4 place, on the let of January, 1846 :

LONDON TO LIVERPOOL.
Fares of Passengers.
rExpress and Select Trains .............. . from 475. to 455.
331 Ot'aer Trains, First Class....
bo• Second Class .. "
From LONDON to BIRMINGHAM the Raductioiis will be

Fares of Passengers.
13y Express and Select Trains, First Class.: ...• from 275. to 255.
Mix.d Fast ditto ditto .. •• • • from 235. to 20s.
Ditto ditto Second Class from I7s. to 14s.
The Fares for Intermediate Distances will be Reduced in pro-
portion.

The Rates for small Parcels, not exceeding 12Ibs. weight, will be
reduced between London and Liverpool, from 2s. 6d. to 2s. ; and be-
tween London and Birmingham, from Is. 6d. up, and is. 3d. down,
to Is. each way.

By oriFer, R. CREED, Secretary.
Office, Eustoultrttion, Dec. 24, 1845.

EEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY

COMPANY.
:Notice iS hereby given, that a Meeting of Shareholders of
this Company, will take place at the City of London Tavern,
Bishops ate-street, on AIONDAT, the sth of January, 1846, at One
o'clock precisely, to lay before the Proprietors the terms of the
amalgamation which has been agreed to with the Yorkshire and
Glasgow Union Railway Company, and the general state of this
Company. By order of the Committee of Management,

C. LOCOCK WEBB, Secretary,
Grescharn-rooms, Basinghalt-street.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
DEPOSIT ON EASTERN COUNTIES YORK EXTENSION

The Directors be to SHARES..
g give notice, that having ample funds of the
e_ornPany at their disposal, it is their intention to pay the necessary
rarliamentary Deposits On the Capital to be subscribed for the Ex-
tension Line from Cambridge to York, and the other undertakings to
be Promoted`by the Company, in the ensuing session of Parliament ;
and that, instead of a Deposit of 21. per Share being required as
formerly announced, a deposit of Ten Shillings per Share only will
have to be paid under the allotment letters to be issued. If Acts of
Parliament be not obtained, the deposit of ten shillings will be re-
turned without deduction.

GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Oakes, Shoreditch Station, Dec. 23, 1845.

GRAND UNION RAILWAY.
ISSUE OF SPALDING AND BRANDON JUNCTION
/AMWAY SHARES.
_ Notice is bereby given, that the Shareholders of the Grand Union
• Railway who are desirous of taking shares in the Spalding and Bran-
don Junction line, are required to send in the original scrip for re-
gistry
The scrip must be accompanied by a letter, signed by the owner
With his name in full, his occupation, and residence, stating the quan-
tity of scrip, and the respective numbers sent in for registry, together
With the name of a party in London to whom reference may be made
as to responsibility, otherwise it cannot be received. A receipt will
be given for the scrip deposited, and at the expiration of two days (if
the holder be considered sufficiently responsible by the Directors) it
Will be returned, together with a letter of allotment for the Spalding
and Brandon Junction Railway shares. The allotment will be in
the proportion of one share for every five of the Grand Union Rail-
way scrip. Application must be made on or before the day above-
bamed, otherwise no claim for the Spalding and Brandon Junction
shares will be recognised.
The deposits will be payable at the several Bankers specified on
the Letter of Allotment, on or before the 15th of January, and the
Deeds will lie for signature as under, when theßankers' receipts may
be exchanged for Scrip Certificates.
London—At the Company's Offices, 78, Cornhill, and at the Offices
.
the Norfolk Railway Company, Guildhall-buildings, from the sth
1.6 20th January, 1846, inclusive, between the hours of Ten and Five
o'clock.
Nottingham—At the Offices of the Grand Union' Railway Com-
-14019, St. Peter's. square, Friday, 16th January, 1846.
Leeds—At the White Horse, Saturday, 17th January, 1846.
Manchester-At the Albion Hotel, Monday, 19th January, 1846.
Liverpool—At the Angel Hotel, Tuesday, 20th January, 1546.
Asit is understood that Parliament will meet on the 22d January,
' the time for payment of Deposits and execution of the Deeds can on
,110 account be extended. The Plans, Sections, and Books of Refe-
rence were deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks
of the Peace on Saturday, the 29th November, and all necessary
lirrooirements have been made for obtaining an Act in the ensuing
Session of Parliament.
By order,
78, Cornhill, Dec. 24, 1845

ALFRED BEESTON, Secretary.

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.
Copy of a Letter addressed to George Hudson, Esq., M.P.,
Chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway.
• London and York Railway,
• Office, 7, Lothbury, Dec. 16, 1845.
181r,—The Directors of this Board have taken into consideration
Your Letter of the 3d instant, wherein on behalf of the Eastern
Counties Railway, you make the following proposition, viz:—
"That the Shareholders of the London and York Company shall be
.14teigaznated with those of the Eastern Counties Company, and
have appropriated to them 2,000,0001. of Eastern Counties stock, in
shares of 201. each, and that a deputation from each Board shall
meet and determine upon all other matters,"
and have requested me to forward to you the following reply :
Your proposition virtually suggests, that we should disregard the
?hours of the Committee on Group X. (which in the last session of
parliament sat for mere than eighty days), and throw overboard their
t!Pori, carried by a majority of three to one, in favour of the merits
°f our scheme (see the printed resolutions) in preference to the lines
recenamended by the Board of Trade ;—lines nearly identical with
Your newly re-proposed Eastern Counties Extensions,—that report
Vito being confirmed in the House of Commons by 79 to 19, and pass-
big the third reading without any division.
You offer to our shareholders in exchange for their Bill,
fwo millions of stock in the Eastern Counties Railway (which
has hitherto paid less than two per cent.), and which two
millions as being, in your own view, of greater value than
the lave millions of our own. It must, however, be remarked,
that the incorporation of this 2,000,0001. of stock with that of
the Eastern Counties depends upon the assent of Parliament to your
extension schemes from Cambridge to York, which were last sum-
...t,!er brought befor, distinctl, and
ere is, therefore,e nothe security Commons at thand thisthere allotment yof stocknegatived would
ever be legallsed.—So much for the bearing of your proposition on the
Pecuniary interests of our shareholders:
'.4:11 in e public you propose a scheme repudiated by a Select Coin-
-111 1845, a scheme avoiding nearly every town that aura would
and longer than ours from twelve te fifteen miles, leavingY te
olstrict bordering on the Great North-road from London toYork
Without railway accommodation.
would b
We therefore
e a unanimously feel that an acceptance of your offer
gross breach of faith with the public and the oliginal
subscribers, and an abandonment of our pledges to the landowners
and inhabitants of the towns through which our line is intended to
Assam', who have embarked considerable capital in the undertaking.
Your attention cannot have been seriously directed to the eleventh
section of the report of the Committee on Group X, for there the
mauls of our scheme are minutely contrasted with yours, and the
weference decidedly given to ours, in the following terms
Lord Courtenay reported from the Select Committee on the
eye the
of Railways, That—A Report from the Board of Trade
eya the subject of railway commanicatien between London and
th;nt having been referred to' them by the House, the Committee
it right te state that they have not adopted the recommends-
Val Which it contains, while they concur with the Board of Trade in
scheme
expressed In that Report, That the London and York
on the whole presents a larger and more compre-
.,ensive system of communication ;' they have been led by the evi-
dence adduced in support respectively by the two schemes to a dlr.
rerent conclusion from that at which the Board of Trade has arrived.
'laving had the opportunity of examining the estimates of the cost
c'r construction more thoroughly than it can have been practicable
4tr„tbc Board of Trade to have done, and having been led to a dif-
eo,;;l„t conclusion upon that point, they have decided, upon a full
to Tr combination of te idence, on preferring the London and York line
11)11 atof lines reconunendesl by that Board, for the
,P°1111? among other reasons :
...__lst.—Because it affords the best through communication between
don and York, by a new trunk line half-way between the London
S~Brtningbam and the Northern and Eastern lines, thus accom-
, "mating a larger district otherwise unprovided with north and'south
• coutin
unication, and giving a fresh exit from, and entrance into, the
—..otropell,
" 2dly.—Because it places a large number of market towns on the
Through line, giving them in addition good 'communication with each
Alli
3dly.—Because it affords to the public a better security that the
name of railway communication which it seeks to effect will con-
.aue to be under one management, and to be independent of other
great lines of railway.
._" 4thly —Because they consider that though in the first instance the
eletne of the Board of Trade may be more cheaply executed than
;":5 cOrnpeting one, it would not supply the accommodation which the
ants of the country, through which the line propose to run, de-
mend, and, that the adoption of that scheme would probably
eventually involve a greater outlay than that required for the exe-
, Millen of the London and York scheme."
. Will you permit me to ask what satisfactory reasons for accepting
four offer I could give in the House of Commons to those Members
who undertook the laborious investigation of the merits of railway
!themes, and selected ours from among the various projects as the
best new line between London and York? How could it be expected
that Committees would, in future, work as they have done, If their
botirs are liable to be thrown to the winds, and their reports
athough confirmed by the House, become subject to barter or sale for
Titock, in a scheme which a Committee had previously discarded ?
Can you believe that the House would consent to be so trifled with,
r Permit a Bill rejected in 1645 to pass in 1846, in lieu of that which
ad been preferred in 1845 ?
What defensible statement could we make for so entire an
abandonment of our scheme, when no change has taken place in any
its circumstances ?
You. have upon various occasions endeavoured to decry our line,
' _Your success in railways has obtained for your opinion con-
eiderable influence ; but Parliament and the public must surely see
that this proposal to our sharholders to give up their Bill and to
lake stock in your newly adopted line, is only a bold effort on
Your part to raise the value of the Eastern Counties Stock, and
48 Chairman of the Midlands, to get rid of a rival.
Again let me ask why in your new position of Chairman to the
Eastern Counties you should be so jealous of a line passing through
4 exttordshire and Bedfordshire, while you proclaim that the Eastern
Counties Railway, with its present lines and branches, may be made
Pay ten per;cent—that portion of the kingdom lying upon and
east of the London and Cambridge line, forming a district quite as
'extensive as the one proposed for the London and York?
• Why should you wish to compel passengers to go even twelve
' tiles round by Cambridge, while that town will certainly have its
Plilvray to the east, west, north, and south ? Why then endeavour
To prevent Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire from having similar ad-
Vantages
You surely cannot have calculated upon our giving your proposal
,lifavourable consideration, and you will therefore not be surprised to
iearn that my colleagues tuutnimeusly decline to discuss with you so
unreasonable a proposition as that set forth in your letter of the 3d,
Involving as it does a total abandonment of our whole scheme.
You are doubtless aware that in order to avail ourselves of the
YeaOlutions of the two Houses respecting Railway Bills carried up to
certain point in last session, it is necessary that the Bill and its
clauses should not be varied in the most minute particular. Our
b
~."°ard, therefore, think it better at once to state to you, that we can
.0 more enter into any arrangement to change or give up a portion
5 our line, as sanctioned by the House of Commons last summer,
than we can consent to abandon the whole.
We shall ask leave to proceed with our Bill as rapidly as the
'OllOB of the House will permit, having without any further call
ample funds in hand to meet all expenses. As required by the
standing orders, our new share deed is in the course of signature by
a most extensive body of shareholders, notwithstanding the efforts
%ale to alarm them, more than nine-tenths of the scrip having
Within the short interval since the 12th instant been sent in for
exchange.
Public opinion Is decidedly in favour of a new line between London
and York, independent of existing interests and management. We,
Therefore, confidently expect that the merits of our scheme, which
Obtained far us a verdict in the Commons, will be equally appre-
ciated by a Committee of the Lords.
The interests of so large a body of shareholders being involved, it
tat light I should add we feel bound to make public this communica-
on.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
(Signed) WM. ASTELL,
Chairman of the London and York Railway.
'Po George Hudson, Esq., M.P. Chairman of the
Eastern Counties Railway.
SILVER TEA SERVICES.
B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing
• Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of
ngland, submit the prices of the fbllowing SILVER TE A and
COFFEESERVICES. The Cottage Pattern is plain, standing on
Zell feet, the Tea and Coffee Pot with a flower ornament on the lids.
the Ring's Pattern is richly embussed with Sowers and scrolls. The
shape of either is new and elegant•
Cottage Pattern. King's Pattern.
Strong
Silver Tea Pot.. £l2 0 0 Strong Silver Tea Pot. £l2 0 0
Ditto
Sugar Fasin.... 616 ( Ditto Sugar Basin.... 710 0
Mao Milk Ewer. . 4lO C Ditto Cream Ewer.... 510 0
Ditto Coffee Pot. .. 15 0 C Ditto Coffee Pot ••• . • • 15 0 0
Complete £3B -6 fi• Complete •••• • • • • £4O 0 0
A Ira •
riety of upwards of Fifty Tea and Coffee Services may be seen
lithe Show-rooms, where may be selected every article of Silver
requisite for the sideboard or plate chest.
Pamphlets of Prices, illustrated with sketches of the various art f.
s'e!, gratis, and forwarded, postage free, to any part of the kingdom.
A. B.
d. Savory and Sons, 14, CornhW, London, opposite the Bank of
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