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TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD

dhoadnotf
-
_____
A LSTILUGH the Directors of this undertakiee.
11 intend, after. the experience which they have
i
correspondence with Messrs. Pick rd and Co., to he dragged °
into further correspondence w., them, they are anyru
(since their attention has bee ailed to Messrs. Pickfo' 71's
two published letters, of the 'th ultimo and 7th instant,
and particularly the latter, in which their Chairman, 'lllr'
Moss, is personally attacked) to adopt, and, as a body' to
identify themselves with, the whole of his Item: ks, made at
the general meeting of the proprietors on the 31st ultimo
and to disabuse the public mind of the impression probably'
created by the statements put forth by Messrs. Pickford and
Co.
With reference to Messrs. Pickford's allusion to " a long
and somewhat desultory correspondence," all that the Di-
rectors need now say is, that they neither originated nor
sought the continuance of it; but, on the contrary, in order
to stop it, I offered, at the outset, a personal meeting, at
which to come at once to a clear understanding, which offer
was not accepted.
In Messrs. Pickford's published letters, the questions
which were decided in the aetious brought by them against
this Company are altogether misstated ; those questions
having really been only,—First, Whether Id. per lb. was a
reasonable price for the conveyance of small parcels packed
together by Messrs. Pickford, so as to evade the usual
charge per parcel, (they all the while charging per parcel to
the public ;)—and, Secondly, Whether this Company, whilst
charging 655. per ton for the carriage of goods from Liverpool
to London, including delivery in London, could charge the
same sum to Messrs. Pickford, if they were willite.: to fetch
away their goods from the Railway terminus at Camden
Town ; or, in other words, whether this Company might do
what carriers always have done, viz., fix one aterage charge,
(and, in this case, a lower than had ever before been made,)
including both carriage and delivery.
These being the questions, all that the Court decided was,—
First, That Id. per ib. was too much ; 'but.they, at the same
time, decided that Mewssarss.eqPniackllyfourdLsuactlivainam
btiol, hive;_a
Dd.tlsieier.
small parcels, when packed, carried at the fame rate as ordi-
narylam' could not lawfully !twice the gross
but tenet separate their charge into
ccohanrgd l
yg,ooThof goods
tsi.tahpebe bulk, was
ton,
two sums,—the one to apply to goods carried .to and deli-
vered by them at the Railway terminus at
.Camden Town,
and the other to goods carried there, and thence delivered by
them ELSENVIIERE.
But Messrs. Pickford say that this Company set at defiance
and refuse to obey the law, (meaning this decision ;) and
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
facts ? Why, that at the very time they wrote that charge,
they had in their bands letters from me, on behalf of this
Company, stating expressly, after the Court's decision, that
we did not mean to insist on the Id. 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.) 65. per ton off the
655. rate on London goods, if they would take them from us
at Camden Town, (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
bad 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 upoja a news-
paper warfare with these parties.
As to forcing Messrs. Pickford into further litigation,
abuse
eatl
osotre Geleraaenlydsjhuanu;
tiniognwh
Directors,at is the real cause cwahuaste of their
therealir
point of dispute,) I need only request attention to the fol-
lowing recent correspondence between our Deputy Chair-
man, Mr. Charles Lawrence, and a member of their

firm :--
"To C. Lawrence, Esq., Grand Junction-Railway, Liverpool.
" London, 20th January, 1843.
"My Dear Sir,—As my correspondence with the Grand
Junction Railway Company (after the judgment of the Court
of Exchequer, 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 taken 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 Junction 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 Huish aid
Pickford and Co. leaves the question in the like unsatisfactory
state it was originally.
" I trust you wilt 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 1 have directed Pickford and Co. to take no hostile mea-
sures until I had communicated with pots;
"I am, my dear sir, yours, very faithfully,
(Signed) " JOS. BAXENDALE."
N.B.—lt will be seen by the dates that (notwithstanding
the last few words) Messrs. Pickford and Co. actually wrote
the first of their scurrilous letters without waiting for Mr.

Lawrence's answer to this.
To this letter Mr. Lawrence replied on the 22d, to the
effect, that being at that time much engaged about the then
then approaching general meeting of the Liverpool and Man-
chester Company, be must postpone his full answer for a
day or two; and accordingly, on the 28th, he wrote the fol-
lowing letter to Mr. Baxendale, which he would receive on
the 30th or 31st, (before which time, however, his firm's
published letter of the 28th was written) :--

" Joseph Baxe-nate, Esq.
" Mossley-hall, Liverpool, January 28th, MM.
" My dear Sir,—Pursuant to the promise given in my last
letter, I have read the recent correspondence between your
House and the Manager of the Grand Junction.
" Without stopping to remark ou the tone of several of the
letters to Captain'Huish, further than to express my feeling
that you would have deprecated it had you been consulted.
I must say it could not be collected from those letters what
was the ultimate object of your House; yours, however, to
me is definite and intelligible, and it would, the'refore, be
waste of time discussing the former.
" It is due to you that I should with equal plainness give
you my opinion, that the Grand Junction will never adopt
the system of the London and Birmingham and the Man-
chester and Birmingham Companies, which would, proeli-
eally :peaking, give up bang carriers. But, if the adoption
of the plan in practice on the Liverpool and Manchester line ;
if the making to your House the same allowances off their
published rates which they make to their other customers
(in respect of delivery to or from any station) would satisfy
you, I can assure you of the perfect willingness of the Grand
Junction Company to make them, as also of their desire to
deal with you on, at least, as liberal terms as with any other

customer.
" I will only add that I deprecate, most sincerely, law. If
considered
E NC
anythingE
but offensive. or indicative of a disposition to injure or ' '
our people are acting illegally in anything, and you will let
Eb
e 8 LA
me know in what respect, I pledge myself that the Board
will at once set it right.
~I am, dear Sir. yours, very truly,
To this letter, which surelyC H
must Alt L
quar-
rel with Messrs. Pickford, or to be otherwise
than " just"
and " honest," Mr. Lawrence has not, nor has any other
gentleman, received any answer whatever unless, , • . indeed,
the two letters addressed to " the Merchants and Trade of
Liverpool" are to be considered the answer.
Mr. Lawrence certainly gave no hope
of the Company's
withdrawing from the carrying business, and only proffered
as the rest of
to give Messrs. Pickford the same advantages
the public. These are the real Pointsof offence.
It the Company would wholly give
doubt Messrs. Pickford would use the up
that business, no
Grand Junction line
sa Meg as it suited them; that is
to ray, till they could
thereby induce the Directors of the competing
Canals to reduce still further their Railway and
Tolls to the Carriers. I
say only till then ; and in proof of tl • iis, the case of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Line, referred to by Messrs. Pick-
lthoug
ford, is directly in point ; for, '
" adopted the open systein,'' yet, M
route,"a and to send them
Messrs. Pickford continuedh that Comp
any
to keep their goods off that " direct
by the Leeds Company's circuitous
ter and Birmingham Company's route until the Nanches-
rates became lower than the
latter Company s. On both these lines " the open system"
had been adopted ; and yet Messrs.
from the one to the other (irre Pickford turned about
spe
just as the one or the other wctire of directness of route)
temptation of lower rates, their
induced to offer them the
iny, moreover, all the while the r charge to the public remain-
ing.
Under all the circumstance
do not consider it prudent, circumstances the Grand Junction Directors
their constituents, thus to with reference to the interests of
Pickford, in order to
the
them in the power of Messrs.
temporary addition to the attainment of (at best) only a
with a probable future loss amount of their goods business,
consider that it would b of a larger amount; they do not
system, especially whilst e wise to abandon their present
u
of traffic, nder it there is a continual in-
creasecompetition, besides notwithstanding that they have a railway
that o
side of them. f two direct Canals, one on each
And with reference
only mention (and '• to the interests of the public, I need
First, that I have m these are by no means rare instances).
now before me, in
wantr delivery-notes of Messrs. Pickford
and 75. per cwt. for ch they have very lately charged 6s.
for which our charge goods between, London and Liverpool.
Secondly. that, arge would only have been 3s. 6d. and ss. ;
public by Messarss a nerarrule, the charge per mile to the
Pickford and the other carriers over all
those Railways on. t h
cch• the Companies themselves are not
carriers, are very
not quite, much higher, and in some cases nearly, if
double the chargemile d
per made, by the Grand
Junction Company, as carriers, over theirs; and, Lastly,
that the Company receive no complaints from "the Mer-
chants and Trade of Liverpool," who, doubtless, remember
the -very much higher prices they had to pay for the carriage
of their goods before the Company entered on the business.
Messrs. Pickford say that they at present cause the low
rates on the Railway. The Directors altogether deny this;
nor is it possible to conceive what means they have or can
have of influencing this or any other Railway Company's
charge (especilly as they usually take care to makßailway
much
higher chargesa themselves.) The charges of all
s will be regulated and controlled,
Companies are and always
primarily, by their Acts of Parliament and by public opinion,
and, next, by the competition of other modes of conveyance
(whether Railways or Canals); and the carrier's charges to
the public will, in all ordionry circumstances, be at least the
Railway Company's charge to him. with the addition of his
"the middleman
to
and just the amount of
own profit as
ibis profit (whatever he chooses ,!‘" make it) are the public
obviously damnified by his being interposed between them
and the Railway Company.
Indeed, tbe above comparison of the actual present state
of things would appear to show plainly, and quite unanswer-
• evitable result to the public of interposing
" middle men" (who must, also, he paid) between them and
the Railway Companies, who, let it be remembered, are i of
may autbonzed by their Acts to be carriers, hut actually and
of necessity perform and must continue to perform all the
services of ' the carrier", except as to the items of collecti ni,.
delivery, and sheeting, and who, therefore, are " the car •
riers", Whatever they may call themselves or be called by
others. There can be no more reason why the Company
should withdraw from the goods business in favour of Messrs:
Pickford, than for their also withdrawing from the passenger
bugans, which was formerly conducted by Mr. Brethertcn
and other coach proprietors. and handing it over to them
The Grand Junction Directors leave this matter, without
afteorf:iitnveerppt,,,ott?,.tltioe
wdrointsliori
Messrs.
a E'
"
tVioVrercilhants and
have. ap-
pealed, ,souri..K them that not only are Messre
free to use the Grend Junction Railway, but that— Pickford
is tam, doing so every deg, and that the Co they are
are identically the same to them Company's charges
as to any other
member of the public. earlier or

am, Sir, your obedient servant,
MARK HUISH, Secretary.
Crand /mat ioi) Railway Office, Liverpool,l7 th Feb.,1843

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