The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-22 00:00:00

LANARKSHIRE and LOTHIANS DIRECT
RAILWAY.

Excript from the Minutes of Meeting of the Provisional Com-
mittee, held at the Royal Hotel, Glasgow, on Thursday, the 18th
inst., at One o'clock, P.M. :

" PRESENT.
The Marquis of Breadalbane
The Earl of Eglinton and Winton
The Lord Belhaven and Stenton
P. M. Stewart, Esq., M.P.
• Edward llorsman, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Campbell, Esq., of Tillichewan
Alexander Hunter, Esq., W.S.
Matthew Dick, Esq., of Welkle Ernock '
John Hamilton, Esq., of Dunfllland
John Kerr, Esq., of Shields
Christopher Saltmarsho, Esq., Middleton Lodge, Leeds
Graham Menzies, Esq., Distiller, Paisley
Wm. Gemmill, Esq., merchant, Glasgow
11. E. Crum, Esq., merchant, Glasgow
James Graham, Esq., of Ferreneze.
Upon the motion of the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl of
Eglinton was called to the chair.

" The minutes of the Meeting of the Glasgow and Monkland Direct
Railway Company of the 17th inst., containing a suggestion for an
amalgamation of the two Companies, were read.
" It was moved by Mr. HUNTER and seconded by Mr.
CAMPBELL,

" That the Glasgow and Monkland Direct Railway Company, and
the Lanarkshire and Lothians Direct Railway Company, be amalga-
mated.
" Which, having been put from the chair, was carried unanimously.
(Signed) " EGLINTON AND WINTON, Chairman."
Intimation is now made that the stock of this Company will be allo-
cated in accordance with the preceding resolution; and parties who
do not withdraw their applicatians on or before the 24th current, will
be held to acquiesce in this arrangement.
JAS. FRASER GALBRAITH, Secretary.
CAMPBELL and TENNENTS, Solicitors.
Glasgow, Sept. 18, 1845.

LANARKSHIRE and LOTHIANS
RAILWAY.
The Most Noble the Marquis of BREADALBANE, Chairman.
The Lord BELHAVEN and STENTON, Deputy Chirman.
In pursxance of the minutes of Meetings of the Proyislonal Com-
mittee of the Glasgow and Monkland Direct Railway Company, held
on the 17th inst., and of the Lanarkshire and Lothian Direct Rail-
way Company, held on the 18th inst., the capital stock of the con-
joined Company has been fixed at 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251.
each; and the allocation will take place immediately after the 24th
inst. amongst applicants for stock in these Railways, as specified in
Advertisements of this date.
By order of the Committee,
JAMES FRASER GALBRAITH, Secretary.
CAMPBELL and TENNENTS, Solicitors.
Glasgow, Sept. 18, 1845.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
3r:inches to Shrewsbury and Northwiteh. On theßroad Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Vapital 2,250,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit '2l. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge Douse
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street. Director
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pail-mall, Director of the Tean
and Dove Valley Railway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir Wm. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir. Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., _Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace,Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midland
Sir John Haneler, Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Essex, Wal-
ton, near Saffron Walden, Essex
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
• South and Midland Railway
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher, jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitchens, 11.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Samuel Kenrick, Esq., banker, Wrexham
Captain F. Chamier, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway.
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S. &c., Alderman of Lon.
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., &c.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Matthew Harrison, Esq., Chester, Director of the North and South
Wales Bank
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, FlnsburX
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London and
Middlesex
Captain Alex. Hamilton Earle, Royal .Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South and Midland's Junction
Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Tomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of London
Robert HenryLyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
.

Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Richard Growcock, Esq. Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln

Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale. Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, sq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Win. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Rail way
Wm. Stark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Bala, Esq., Gresham-street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystuith
Railway
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Abcrystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Esq., Director of the Istottingkam, Newark, and
Boston Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension Railway
IV. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert IVilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Bromptou
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds. Director of the West Riding Junction
Rail way
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South and Midland
Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., Queen-street, May Fair, Director of the Great
Britain Life Assurance-office.
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Burness, Esq., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of

the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Deiph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of

the Manchester Banking Company
Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts, Director of the
.__ _ _ .

. ,
Great Leeds and London Direct Railway
Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby and
Derby and Manchester Ra!lway
(WI h power to add to their number.)
The names of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published in a few days.

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
EbmINZED—WUliam Mull ngar Higgins, En.
PAILLMENSAIt AGENTS.