The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

TILE LIVERPOOL ALMON'S VINDICATION OF TILE
FACTMLERS.—A. correspondent of the Liverpool Albion,
who signs himself " A Merchant," complains of the " vul-
garity of style and inaccuracy of statements" in an article
upon the abuses of the manufacturing system in our last pub-
lication, and takes upon himself to defend the practice of
jentiny manufactured goods, as one which " defrauds no
one," and which *4 has existed as long as calico printing it-
self." In reply to this pseudo ".Merchant," we shall only
say that, with respect to one part of the offence which he
brings against us, we have never been solicitous to adapt our
style to the model which is likely to be pleasing to gentlemea
of his calibre, and that, with respect to the " inaccuracies"
in question, it would have been easy to have pointed them
out. With respect to the practice of tenting printed calicoes
being one of " old standing," we are afraid that the Albion's
correspondent is not " A Merchant of old standing," or he
would have known that the practice in question was not per-
mitted until the abolition of the duty on printed calicoes by
Earl Grey's administration. Even now it is deprecated by
every respectable calico printer, and if the Albion's corres-
pondent can prove it to be a salutary one, or oue even con-
sistent with common sense, he will show himself a greater
philosopher 'than we take him to be. His argument, that
" fent shops have been the means of introducing clever men
to better things," is about the best thing of the kind we have
seen for some time, although the example given, we must
state, from some little knowledp of tile " first printers in
Manchester, is apocryphal. Our " Mentor" says, that if
we " could have shewn that the calico printers, by tenting,
reduce pieces to 26 yards, and sell the goods for 28 yards, we
might have had something to waste our powder and shot
upon." Possibly so ; but then we never had any notion that
such was the fact. We did state—(how could we show it?)
—that, in consequence of such fenting, printed and other
goods were exported short of measure; and if our Mentor
be " a Merehant," receiving consignments for foreign mar-
kets, he may satisfy himself by examining the lengths in any
average number of packages which come through his hands.
The gentleman in question is a very Green Merchant, or no
Merchant at all, or he would have been aware of this fact,
which, to use the words of the old song, " nobody can deny
We would recommend, in conclusion, to wur " Merchant"
(without any reflection upon his real appellation,) the motto
" Ne SUTOR," &c., which the editor of the Albion, who has
of late become amazingly enamoured of Latin, will, we have
no doubt, be happy to translate for him.
COMMITMENT.—A girl, named Margaret Jones, was yes-
terday charged at the Police-court with robbing her benefac-
tor of several articles of wearing apparel. Ann Stanley, wife
of George Stanley, car-owner, hridport-street, said that on
Friday morning she met the prisoner in Whitechapel; she
was a stranger to her, and began to cry, saying she had no-
where to lodge. Witness took her to her house, where she
had remained till that morning. When witness got up, about
eight o'clock, the prisoner had gone, and she also missed
from the house her bonnet, a dress, a shawl, a cap, a pair of
shoes, a basket, &c. The articles were safe on the previous
night. She afterwards saw the prisoner in London.-road,
and pointed her out to police-officer Guy. She (prisoner)
had witness's bonnet, gown, and shawl upon her p
found a.
duplicate for the shoes, which it was proved she had pledged
the same morning with Mr. Sorton fur a shilling. The arti-
stes were identified, and the prisoner was committed for trial.