The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-10 00:00:00

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 18

rrO be LET, the NEW BRIGHTON' HOTEL, with or
A without the Ferry.
Also, OFFICES and a CELLAR, in Atherton Buildings.
DITTO, in Exchange-street; -
The HOUSE, No. 3, Yorlc:terrace, Everton. May be
entered upon immediately.
Apply to Mr. ATHERTON, Atherton's Buildings, Dale-
street, Liverpool, or New Brighton.
(One concern.)

TO THE CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTORS OF THE I
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

GENTLEMEN,
fiN the 7th July, 1842, the Court of Exchequer decided
kJ that we had a right to send our small Parcels, packed in
Hampers, over your Line, at a sum greater than the ordinary
rates by the lowest assignable amount‘, and that we were not
to pay more tor our Goods, betweedLiverpool and Camden
Town, than Messrs. Chaplin and Horne.
Early in November, judgment/9/as signed against you, and
you paid for our Taxed Costs aline nearly £7OO.
The effect on your business may be seen from the fact,
that the moment the Manchester and Birmingham Company
adopted the open system, the whole of the Manchester and
London trade returned to the direct route, after having been
almost entirely taken out of your hands by the public from
the day when you excluded Carriers, because you could serve
the public so much better yourselves.
Since November you have carried on a long and somewhat
desultory correspondence with us, professedly with the view
of coming to some satisfactory arrangement, on the princi-
ples determined by law ; and you conclude at last by the offer
to us, in London, of a little more than half what you pay
Messrs. Chaplin and Horne ; —in Birmingham, of a sum which
you must know is absurd ;—and in Liverpool, of some yet
unspecified amount, which, you intimate, MAY turn out to
be—NOTHING.

Is this common justice or common honesty ? Is it fair to
your own shareholders, after two years of litigation, in which
you were completely defeated, to incur the necessary conse-
quences of refusal to obey law, clearly laid down and clearly
acquiesced in ?

Is it just or honest towards us to conclude a correspon-
dence full of amicable professions, with an offer so manifestly
preposterous ?

It is true, indeed, that if ever you can estal9ish your long
coveted monopoly, you will be able to rate,.
please, and may amply repay ycurs.f,lvvl the it Irls
you to aftaini t. The law; however, has now made this im-
possible, and self-preservation will compel us, at any cost, to
give effect to the law.

Judging by the analogy of Manchester, the immediate con-
sequence of a protracted contest must be most injurious to
your Line, as well as to ourselves ; and whether the latter
consideration is sufficiently important to outweigh the former,
is a point upon which, if fairly stated, you and your share-
holders would probably be at issue.
We, meanwhile, have no alternative. We repeat our
earnest desire to be allowed the use of your Line. We
protest against the injustice with which you see fit to treat
us, and we are quite satisfied to abide the issue, in whatever
manner it may ultimately come to be tried.
We are, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servants,
PICKFORD and Co.

London, January 28, 1843,