7 APRIL 1860, Page 2

A deputation to Mr. Milner Gibson recalls attention to the

frauds of trade. The system of uttering false marks and false labels has grown to a height which does not say much for mer- cantile and manufacturing morality. Reels of cotton, marked as containing 100 yards, are found to contain only 45, and parcels of jacconot, warranted to be 24 yards in length, are really only 18. These abominable frauds, and others coming within the same category, are a robbery of the retailer and the consumer ; and Government is asked to support a measure, making it misdemeanour to rob and cheat all in the way of business.