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

RAILWAY RETURNS.

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EDINBURGH, SnET. 5.
STOCK ExcnANoz.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 41. Os. 6d.—
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21. 10i.--Arbroath and Forfar,

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to%the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:

Week Last o 4
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. t
c en
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Aug. 30 Arbroath and Forfar ••••••• • • • • • • " 293 186
- Bristol and Birmingham .•••••• • • • • ' • -
735 653
29 Chester and Birkenhead .•••• • • • • ' •
948 086
28 Dublin and Drogheda •••••••• • ' " • • • •
Sept. 2 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 1,422. 1,425
Aug. 31 Dundee and Arbroath .••••••• • • • • • ' • 576 513
30 Durham and Sunderland .•• • •
30 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 3,529 2,141
31 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 6,054 4,708
30 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 2,154 1,703
30 Glasgow and Greenock• •• • ***** •• • • 1,219 1,141
30 Grand Junction ......... ...... ....• 17,018 9,166
30 Gravesend and Rochester •••••• • • • • • • 419 -
- Great North of England •••••• • • • • • • - 2,228
31 Great Western . • • •
- Hull and Selby ••• • • •••••••• • • • • • • • -
Liverpool and Manchester
30 London and Birmingham
31 London and Blackwall. ••••••• • • • • • • 1,422 1,538
30 London and Brighton. ••••••• • • • • • • • 6,833 6,477
Sept. 2 London and Croydon 1,749 704
- London and Greenwich .•••• • • • • • • • -
Aug. 30 London and South Western ......... 9,004 8,563
31 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 1,042 909
- Manchester and Birmingham - 3,358
30 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull ASSOC.. 7,629 7,217
30 Midland Counties 15,186 13,731
30 Newcastle and Darlington ••--•• • . • • 2,613 1,050
30 Newcastle and Carlisle. ••••••• •• • • •• 1,943 1,907
31 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 702 502
30 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,845 1,895
Sept. 1 Paris, Corbel, and Orleans.
1 Paris and Rouen . • ••••..•• • • • • • • 8,086 6,796
Aug. 30 Preston and Wyre ••••• • • • • • ........ 8i 7 653
30 Sheffield and Manchester •••••• • • • • • • 1,374 783
33 South Eastern..
30 TafT Vale ••••••••.•.•• • • • • • • • • • • .. 1,218 1,037
588 525
31 Yarmouth and Norwich
30 York and North Midland .•..•• • • .. 6,494 3,260

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM.
MANCHESTER, SAT URDAY. —lle proceedings of the half-
yearly meeting of this Company did not terminate until twenty
minutes after live on Friday, the express account, forwarded by
the last train, bringing the proceedings up to half-past four,
when Mr. Thomason'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 some further discussion as to whether the Company
was totally to refuse to amalgate with the London and Bir-
mingham Company,
Sir DAVID SA LOMONS moved, " That the Board of Direc-
- tors as at present constituted be instructed to renew their sego-
- tiations on the part of this Company with the London and Bir-
-, mingham Company, on terms that are likely to be acceptable
474 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. B. 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, WOLVERHAMPTON, 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
3 Wolverhampton, with a line to Dudley, which would be con-
- nected with the Birmingham Railway, and have the benefit,
in connexion with that Company, of a great station, which was
to be made in the centre of Birmingham, at the back of the
Free Grammar School, with an entrance at the bottom of
King-street, and the inhabitants of Dudley would, therefore,
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
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proposed line they would he 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 Stourpert, 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 be to get the advantage of as
central a station in Dudley as they possibly could.
Mr. R. SCOTT, M.P., said it wts 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 tbry
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
one in opposition to the Oxford, Worcester, 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 them 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 he then represented
to come to that station, unless other and more beneficial ar-
rangements could be made. It would be a difficult matter to
_ a.ter 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 goads carried upon the most advantageous terms to the
most distant parts of the kingdom.
Mr. RICHARD SMITH, agent to Lord Ward, next pointed
out the advantages of the line.
Mr. B. BEST said that by means of these several lines, which
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communicate and work with each other
on the same level, and which will be made with the concur-
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-
ster, Stourport, Walsall, Lichfield, Westbromwich, Smeth-
wick, Oldbury, Tipton, Rowley Regis, Oldhill, Netherton,
Halesowen, 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 betv;ren Dudley and
Walsall, and Wolverhampton and Pelsalt. 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 asay.
The other resolutions were then moved and seconded by
Messrs. C. Hewitt, C. H. Blakewell, Joseph Bramber, H. W.
Wainwright, 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
Banff, Bart., in the chair.