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the company shut him out and made an exclusive 



arrangement with the other two houses ; and this 

 he considered a monopoly, and the ruin of his trade, 

 as the company would not allow him to send his 

 coaches, or the coaches that came up from Leeds, 

 Scotland, and Carlisle, nearly the .whole of which 

 trade was in his hands, to their station at Euston. 

 The proprietors wished the coaches on coming up to 

 branch off at Northampton to the station at Denbigh 

 Hall, and the people Sherman was working with per- 

 suaded him to apply to the Eailway Company for 

 permission to send the trade to the station at Euston 

 Square, to work it out at Denbigh Hall to North- 

 ampton ; but they would not allow him to do it, and 

 thus his trade passed into other hands. The pro- 

 prietors at Charing Cross and Lad Lane, Chaplin and 

 Home, alone having the privilege of working to the 

 station and back, Sherman's trade was forced into 

 their hands, the only reason given to him being that 

 he did not apply soon enough, or something to that 

 effect. 



Mr. Glyn, Sherman'' said, asked him to make some 

 propositions, so he made several, and offered to 

 send certain coaches ; but they made excuses for 

 not adopting his suggestions, and at last he found 

 they had made an exclusive arrangement with Messrs. 

 Home and Chaplin. The company would not allow 



