The last report mentioned the despatch of a letter to the Manchester Chamber, urging more careful preparation of musters of Cotton Goods, especially T-cloths, which bad been found to be frequently of a quality superior to the goods which they represented. The Chamber's letter was very carefully worded, to avoid the appearance of accusation of intentional irregularity. It was manifestly for the poof exporters thatthe complaints, which become general, should be made known to them for their own protection, as well as for the interests of merchants in' China; and the Committee were therefore somewhat surprised at receiving in reply an indignant repu-lation of what was regarded as a reflection upon the shippers, and expressing regret that so sweeping a charge should have been made without the names of the parties implicated being given. The Committee replied that it was Without the province of the Chamber to bring individual cases to the notice of the Manchester Chamber, but that it had been
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