The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-29 00:00:00

TO m =ITO' OP TKO ITPII2IIII.

Sts.—After the denial on the part of this board
that any negotiation ever had been attired epos between
the directors of this company and the Loudon General
Omnibus Company for the disposal of the horses, omnibuses,
thc. etas Saloon Omnibus Company to them, and which
denial is here emphatically repeated ; after,
meeting.hat you
had reported the proceedings of the generalof this
company, held no longer back than Thursday last, Plod
iamb, of which 126 proprietors attended, holding in the sr
=lathmeilberthe of the shares which are issued, and at
ssiesting resolutions were passed, which have also been
Wooded to yma paper, and which reschdlow are 111110/41,1
beret" that every useful power should be
=to the directors, inaluding the power to
w 6,0201. upon debenture, the power to increase
the number of directors from 7 to 12., approving and
adopting the report end accounts thereat presented, and
• veto of Who confidence in the director:, end
of their annegement, and reprobation of the con-
duct of Mr. Thome Hawkins and other small shareholders
known to be waling in the interest of the London General
Omnibus Company • it was scarcely to be expected that
you would have given prominence in your money article to
the letter of the semetsry of our French opponents, stating
that onitain large and lnttaatlal shareholders in this com-
pany bad been to them and proposed to sell us up. You are
perfectly aware that the directors are the executive of a com-
pany, and would be the only parties capable of making such
• proposition ; sad that they have's", done so, or authorised
it to be done, they distinctly and emphatically deny. You
are aware that for it. startle( a men cea bey a share in this
company, and use his voice and his oath to serve our oppo-
nents ; and if he be unscrupulous, you are ewers that it
is not difficult for him in to pervert hots as to Seem
matter for a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy
to wind up the concerns of a limited liability company,
and until the day appointed for the hewing each company meat
endure the amount of stigma end injury which such s pro-
ceeding is calculated te produce. You cannot fall to be cog-
nisant of the fuel that this is the important swoon for
omnibus proprietors, and that the announcement bees made
is calculated to impede us in our operations of getting
shares and of • applications for our
You cannot be t either that the Loudon General
Omnibus Company are not scrupulous as to the means of
opposition they adopt—not towards us only, but all others
who run omnibuses upon the tame roads as they do. Your
own columns afford ample Illustration of that fed in our
police reports, &o. You are aware also that few only of
them an parte petitions ere wended with the result they seek
and contemplate, and you may confidebtly anticipate that
the 7th of May will annihilate this move on the part of our
Zirr; and farther, you may confidently predict that
ISCIS ease as the Saloon Grantham Company will
esercome this puny effort of the enemy, they will also
trample down all their tat-English proceedings for the time
to come.—l am, AN
F. PARKER, Chairman of the Directors of the
Saloon Omnibus Company.
156, Cheapsitr=n2B.