The Sun. — 1855-04-20 (London, England)

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.  GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.  Yesterday, a special general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at, the Paddington Sta' bon, for the purpose of considering the provisions of the following bills now pending before Parliament : "A bill for constructing a railway from Bridport to Maiden Newton, on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, in the county cf Dorset. " A bill for extending the time for the competition of the Cornwall Railway and works, ,and for making further provisions as to the share capital of the Cornwall Railway Company, and for other purposes. "A bill for extending the powers of the Plymouth Great Western Dock Company, and for other purposes. "A bill to consolidate and amend the acts relating to the South 'Wales Railway Company and to authorise the construction of new works, and. alt ration of existing works, and for other works. "A bill for making a railway from the Oxford branch of the Great Western Railway to Abingdon. "A bill for making a railway fr-nn the Great Western Railway at Southall, in the county of Middlesex, to BrentforJ, in the same county, with docks at the lastmentioned place, and for other purposes." Lord BARRINGTON presided, in the absence of Mr. Russell, the chairman of the company, and after explaining that the meeting was the formal one required under the Wharncliffe order of the House Of Lords, observed that although the list comprised six bills, two only were in that stato of forwardness in Parliament to require the assent of the proprietors under the lords' standing orders. The two bills in reference to which resolutions would be proposed were the first and fifth which authorised the making of the lice from Bridport to Maiden Newton, and the branch to Abii.gdon. On a re-iolution in favour of the Bridport and Maiden Newton bill being put from the chair, A PROPRIETOR inquired whether there was any intention on the part of the Great Western Company to lease or rent the line when completed! The SECRETARY (Mr. Saunders) replied that these lines . were promoted by independent parties ; and he was authorised by the directors to feeute the proprietops that they had not only no intention but distinctly declined any proposition to rent or lease the lines, or to give any guarantee whatever. Tne only assist-tnee they proposed to give was to allow the Great Western carriages and engines to run on these branch lines, so as to complete the journey, way. (Hear, bear.) receiving payment for that aid in the usual Another PROPRIETOR moved an amendment, dissenting from the hill, but as it was not seconded it fell to the ground, and the resolution was put and carried nem. con.  The resolution affirming the Abingdon bill Wag then proposed and also. unanimously pasqed ; and after cumplimenting the chairman, the meeting separated.  DISCOVERY OF TEE BODY OF A MALE CHILD, 'wpm ITS HEAD CUT OFF, IN LINCOLN 's—YestenLy morning considerable sensation was created in the neigh bourbood cf Lincoln's-inn-fieldg, in consequence of the discovery of the body of a 'child with its head cut oft. It appears that as police-constable No. 30 F, and Serjeant Gentry, No. 10 F, were proceeding on their beat,, they found a bundle on the step of _a door, tied tightly up in a cloth and black apron. On examining it they were horrified to find it contained the body of a male child in a bloody cloth. They conveyed it to St. Giles's workhouse, where Mr. William Bennett, surgeon, Lascellei-place, was in immediate attendance, who found, on examination, that it had been most brutally murdered by the head beiez cut from the body. Mr. John Stone, the summoning officer, has for ,Carded the inforrnationto the coroner, but no (11%), is fixed for the inquest.