The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next
HALF-YEARLB ORDINARY MEETING of the London
and North-Western Railwa Company will be held at the
Euston Station, London, on FRIDAY, the 22d day of February,
1850, at Twelve o'clock precisely; and, immediately after the
transaction of the business of such Meeting, an F.xtraordivary
General Meeting of the Company will be held, at the same
place, for the special purpose of considerin the propriety of,
and determining as to, the adoption a rcise of the powers
and provisions, or some of the ich the Company may
become entitled to adopt and rcise, under the authority of
an Act of Parliament pas in the Bth and 9th year of the
reign of her present M y, chapter 42, for authorising the
proprietors of canals ecome carriers, and to exercise other
powers and privile in such act mentioned ; and for the fur-
ther purpose o onsidering, and approving or disapproving.
the underme toned bills, respectively, proposed to be intro-
duced into Parliament in the ensuing session, (drafts of which
bills will be laid before the Meeting,) viz. :
" A Bill to authorise the abandonment of part of the under-
taking of the Shropshire Uudion Railway and Canal Company,
and to alter some of the provisions of the lease thereof to the
London and North-Western Railway Company."
"A Bill to authorise the Chester and Holyhead Railway
Company to lease their undertaking to the London and North.
Western Railway Company, or to make other arrangements
relating thereto, and for other purposes."
"A Bill to authorise an alteration in the Line of the Buck-
inghamshire Railway at Oxford."

"A Bill to enable the East—Lid West India Dock and Bir-
mingham Junction Railway Company to make certain branch
railways, and to amend the Act relating to the said Company,
and to authorise the lease of the undertaking, and for other
purposes."

GEORGE CARR GLYN, Chairman.
CHAS. LAWRENCE, Deputy-Chairman
HENRY BOOTH,
CHAS. E. STEWART, }Secretaries.
Button Station, January 24, 1850.

AT a MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the
LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY, held
at the Clarendon-rooms, in Liverpool, on Monday, the 28th
day of January, 1850, at One o'clock in the,&fternoon,—,.
JOSEPH C. EWART, Esq., inythe Chair,—
A Circular convening the Meeting, a d-containing the heads of
a Bill concerning the Audit of Rail y Accounts and for other
purposes, being considered as re

If was inoveci by JAMES 1,06:E5q., seconded by Rican.
Moor:: Esq„.and iresolved,

1. That although the ay Directors have withdrawn from
any lead in the matte f the threatened Government inter-
ference in the man went of Railways (under the name of
Auditors, or nomi tors of the Auditors, of the Companies'
Accounts), this 14 eting is decidedly of 'opinion that any such
interference wo d be most inexpedient, objectionable, and
unnecessary.

2. That a-Committee be now appointed to confer with London
and North-Western Shareholders in other towns, and, if
thought fit, with Committees or bodies of Shareholders in other
Railways, with a view to the consideration of the course now
proper to be adopted by Shareholders in reference not only to
the question of audit, but to the other and equally important
questions affecting the management of the affairs of Railway
Companies which are dealt with in the Bill now before us.
3. That whilst this Meeting are not prepared at once to
approve of all the details of the Bill now submitted, yet its
general character, the extended powers it contains for a more
efficient audit, and its exclusion of all interference on the part
of Government in the affairs of the Companies, fully entitles it
to the support of the Shareholders in the London and North-
Western Railway.

4. That Messrii. Robert Benn, Thomas F. Bennett, Thomas
Bouch, Ralph Brocklebank, Henry Crossfield, Joseph Cristo-
pher Ewalt, James Harrison, Christopher Herd Jones, Hugh
Hornby, Richard Moon, Robert Mather, James Ryley, James
Stitt, and James M. Wood, (with power to add to their
number,) be a Committee for effecting the objects of this
Meeting; and that they be requested at all events, and
whatever they find to be the course proposed by Share-
holders in other undertakings, to bring under the notice
of the London and North-Western Proprietors, at the ensuing
General Meeting, not only these resolutions, but also the bill
now under review, together with any amendments of it, which
their own consideration of the whole subject in the meantime,
or their communications upon it with other parties, may
suggest; and that John Swift, Esq., be requested to assist the
Committee.
(Signed) JOSEPH C. EWART, Chairman.