The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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sum of motley which the Canadian government have
agreed to grant, is a sufficient proof that they view the
undertaking as one which will have a very beneficial effect
upon the trade of the colony.
From these considerations and many more that might
be urged, I hope the London, Liverpool, and North-
American Screw Saeam Shipping Company will obtain
their charter, and thus prevent the whole of the Canadiar

GREAT NORTHERN V. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORK-
SHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.—In the Vice-Chancellor's
Court, on Wednesday, there was a motion for an injunc-
tion to restrain the defendants from preventing or inter-
fering with the plaintiffs in carrying passengers or goods
or running trains over the defendants' railway from the
junction thereof with the plaintiffs' railway near Askern to
Wakefield, and from the same junction to Methley, and in
using the defendants' stations at Wakefield, Pontefract,
and other places in the same manner and on the same
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALBION. terms in which they had been accustomed to do under
SIR,—My attention has been drawn to a leader in the certain agreements bearing date respectively the Ist of
Liverpool Chronicle of to-day, on the quostion so much May, 1847, and the 24th of March, 1851, and to restrain
Aiscussed at present, namely, the charter to the Liverpool, the defendants from bringing any action to recover from
3ndon, and North American Screw Steam-ship Coin- the plaintiffs a moiety of £81,192 in respect of the outlay
-y. by the defendants upon their stations at Wakefield and
fter my statement to the editor of)he Liverpool Times, Knottingley until the defendants should concede to the
3 his remarks of last Thursday, I did not expect plaintiffs the right to use the defendants' railway in the
ditor of any of the other Liverpool journals would manner and on the terms mentioned in the agreement of
nave ionowed in the same strain, and am satisfied that you, the Ist May, 1847. The former part of the motion was
at least, will be no party to the circulation of such unfair granted, but that which related to the moiety of the sum
" articles." of £81,192 was refused.
However much we may differ on the question generally, ASSAULT ON BOARD THE Joux KNox.—The action of
namely, whether charters ought or ougbt not to be given Carraghan v. Davison for an assault by the late master of
to the ocean steam companies, I feel assured you will not the John Knox on the steward was tried in the Court of
lend your columns to unfair statements as to the objects Queen's Bench, on Saturday, before Lord Campbell and
which the above company hnve in view, unless such are a special jury. In September, 1851, the John Knox sailed
inserted as advertisements. When I refer you to the for Geelong, on arriving at which the crew deserted the
statement in soy letter to the Mercury, and add that, ship and went to the diggings. A fresh crew was obtained,
independently of the five steamers to be employed in the , and a man named Pickan was engaged as mate. The ship
Canadian service, which are to sail from Liverpool, every then sailed on the return voyage, and on the Bth of
alternate departure of the New York steamers will also August arrived at St. Helena, where the defendant went
in Liverpool ashore. There had :been quarrels between the plaintiff
et and Pickan. and aeuffiinzs had occurred between them.

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Instead of being a disadvantage, and ereatin
equal competition" to the shipping trade of this country,
it will, in my opinion, be a feeder and a nursery to the
navigation of that noble and mighty river, the St. Law-

rence.—l am yours, &c.
AN OLD TRADER TO THE CANADA
Liverpool, 131 h Dec. 1852.

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