The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

TO THE RATEPAYERS OF LIVERPOOL.

THE PAROCHIAL WATER COMMITTEE, ap-
pointed by the late Special General Vestry to adopt mea-
sures for putting a stop to the costly project of water supply,
known by the name of the Pike Scheme, beg to apprise the
Ratepayers at large, that, hitherto, although all diligence has
been used, preliminary proceedings only have been taken, and
that no one conclusive step has been definitely agreed upon.
And they feel it to be their duty, further and emphatically to
declare their conviction, that the question whether any arrange-
ment can be effected at all for staying the scheme, and thereby
protecting the Rate-payers from an enormous expenditure, and
from still more serious liabilities, will entirely depend upon the
election of decided opponents of the scheme, as members of the
Town Council, on the Ist November next.
Signed in and on behalf of the Committee, in pursuance of
an unanimous resolution.

RICIIARD HARBORD,
Churchwarden of Ltverpool,
CHAIRMAN.

Parish Offices, October 22, 1849.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.

TO G. W. CRAM, ESQ., CHAIRMAN OF THE COM-

MITTEE OF INVESTIGATION.

IR,—I had just finished the perusal of Mr.
Braithwaite Poole's Report to the Directors of the London
and Northwestern Rail., ay on Coal Traffic, recently published,
when my attention was drawn to a letter published in the
London Times of the 19th instant, and addressed "to the
shareholders of the Caledonian Railway Company," on the
subject of rates of carriage by that and various other lines.
The discrepancy between the rates charged on the various
railways is very extraordinary, and makes one wonder if there
be no rule to guide directors in the adoption of (paying) rates,
or if the shareholders are left to the mercy of goods' managers,
without any recognized data to guide them. I fear there is too
much of this, in so far, at least, as regards the unfortunate
"Caledonian," for it seems truly to be carrying on a traffic "at
unprecedentedly low rates." How stands the fact? The
usual and regular charge for coals (and other mineral traffic)
brought in the coal pronrietors own wagons by the various rail-
ways in this neighbourhood, for the bare mileage and locomo-
tive power, is ONE PENNY PER TON PER MILE. Mr. Poole
says, pp. 10, 11, "The dues charged by the company have been
REDUCED, ad interim, from 2d. to Id. per ton per mile. This
charge is for haulage in owner's wagon and toll only." And
further, p. 12, "The directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company charge as under for (coals) any distance :

Not exceeding 50 miles in sender's wagons Id. per ton per mile.

„ -50 ~ railway ,-, lid: , 2
Exceeding 50 „ sender's „ Rd. SO
' 50 , railway „ id.
besides wharfage, 3d.' and Bd. per ton, according to circum-
stances.”

These rates, be it observed, are exclusive of th 3 various other
charges incidental to the trade, such as "wharfage, tunnel-
dues, rent, weighing, porterage, demurrage," &c., enumerated
in report, p. 17.

It appears from the rates quoted in the published statement
appended to the Shareholders' letter, that merchandise is being
carried along the Caledonian, in conjunction with the London
and Northwestern, (the goods traffic of both which lines is well
known to be under the management of Mr. Poole,) at the rate
of about THREE FARTHINGS PER TON PER MILE. And
this, mark, includes use of trucks, tarpaulings, porterage,
warehouse accommodation, with all the expenses of machi-
nery, engine-power, &c., at the several stations, besides the
necessary staff of sub-managers, book-keepers, clerks, with
books and stationery, risks of accident, damages, loss of
goods, bad debts, and possibly, in some cases, a cartage to the
agent at either end. Allowance for all such charges and risks
must be made off this three farthings per ton per mile before
any profit can be calculated on.

No one should be better able to calculate the cost of goods'
traffic than Mr. B. Poole; but I confess myself utterly at a
loss to understand how it is that the Caledonian and the other
railways acting along with that company can afford to convey
merchandise, providing trucks, and meeting the various con-
sequent expenses, already referred to, at a rate twenty-five per
cent. under what is charged for the mere "haulage and toll on
coals conveyed in owner's wagons."
Hoping that the Committee of Investigation will inquire into
this most unsatisfactory state of matters in the traffic depart-
ment, and anxiously waiting your report,
I am, yours respectfully.
A LIVERPOOL SHAREHOLDER.

N. 8.—1 find by the Caledonian Railway Company's Act, 8
and 9 Vic., cap. clxii., sec 53, that the company are authorised
to make the following charges for the conveyance of goods :
" For dung, compost, and all sorts of manure, lime, lime-
stone, and undressed materials for the repair of public roads
or highways, per ton per mile, twopence.
" For coals, coke, culm, charcoal, and cinders, stones for
building, pitching, and paving, bricks, tiles, slates, clay, and
ironstone and iron ore, pig-iron, bar-iron, rod-iron, hoop-iron,
and other similar descriptions of wrought-iron and iron cast-
ings not manufactured into utensils or other articles of mer-
chandise, per ton per mile, twopence halfpenny.

" For sugar, grain, corn, flour, hides, dyewoods, earthenware,
timber, staves,. and deals, metals, (except iron,) nails, anvils,
vices, and chains, per ton per mile, threepence.
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"For cotton and other wools, drugs, manufactured goods,
and other wares, merchandise, fish, articles, matters, and
things, per ton per mile, fourpence."
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(Query.—Would it not be advisable to fix MINIMUM rates
for the puotection of shareholders, thereby insuring that what-
ever traffie is done will be at a profit ?)

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