The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-21 00:00:00

they would hold themselves out as martyrs, most reluctantly
forced into further litigation, in order to obtain what the law
has declared them entitled to. What, however, are the

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? Why, that at the very time they wrote that charge,
had in their hands letters from me, on behalf of this
,anv, stating expressly, after the Court's decision. that

we did not mean to insist on the la. per lb. for packed par-
cels, (the first of the decided points,) and that we were pre-
pared to allow to them (Pickford and Co.) 6s. per ton off the
London goods, if they would tike them from us
)wn, (the second of the decided points,)—in

other words, they were told that we meant to submit to the
decision of the Court on both points (although our counsel
had advised an appeal against the whole decision.) After
such a charge, thus made, and under such circumstances.
the Directors cannot feel any surprise at the other statements,
in Messrs. Pickford's published letters; nor will either the
shareholders or the public expect them to enter upon a news-

As to forcing Messrs. Pickford into further litigation,
(and also as clearly showing what is the real cause of their
TbUSe to the Grand Junction Directors, and what the real
'nt of dispute.) I need only request attention to the fol-

'lowing recent correspondence between our Deputy ,hair-
man, Mr. Charles Lawrence, and a member of their

London, 21

way, Liverpool

!oth January, 1843.

"My Dear Sir,—As my correspondence with the Grand
Junction Railway Company (after the judgment of the Court
of Excheouer. in July last) commenced with you, as the

Chairman of that Company, I am unwilling to allow of fur-
ther litigation without once more communicating with you.
If you will read the correspondence that has take❑ place, you
will find misunderstandings and cross-purposes follow every
attempt that is made with a view to effect an amicable adjust-
ment. . .

The only satisfactory way for carrying on business over
the Grand J unction is upon toll, as over the Manchester and
Birmingham, and also the Manchester and Liverpool.
" Certainly from Mr. Moss's letters I considered the
Grand Junction Company were prepared to act upon this
principle, and if so, Pickford and Co. were ready to meet
them. The correspondence between Captain Finish aid
Pickford and Co. leaves the question in the like unsatisfactory
The vast dis- I state it was originally.

" I trust you will excuse my troubling you ; time is now
important. May I ask that you will favour me with a reply
in as short a time as may be consistent with your convenience,
as I have directed Pickford and Co. to take no hostile mea-
sures until I had communicated with N 0212

lam, my dear sir, yours, very faithfully

OS. BAXENDALE

—lt will be seen by the dales that (notwithstanding
the last few words) Messrs. Pia:lord and Co. actually wrote
the first of their scurrilous letters without waiting for Mr
Lawrence's answer to this
To this letter M
effect, that being at

then approaching gen
chester Company, he

ouch engaged ;
1,7 of the Liver

'till answer for ft

28th, he wrote the fol-

ind accordingly, on ---
lowing letter to Mr. Baxendale, which h_
the 30th or 31st, (before which time, however, his firm's
published letter of tlin 28th was written) :

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" Mos,ley-hall, Liverpool, January 2

!Bth, 18

—Pursuant to the promise

given in my last