To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir.-Perhaps the utility of a u eres% is in no instaneC mre apparent, than in the mneans i t affords of tinmaking continued fraue and observing in your paper of yesterday a letter coescerni. mock. auctions of fiurniture, induces me to mention another eptc-7 of frautd in that line, not less extensively carried on; and which is the more dangerous as sanctioned bv the authority of respectable names& The practice I have to complain of (as having, been a sufrer) is thbt of turning every real and bonafid& auction into a partiaUv mock on% by the introduction of lots of which aU the auctior,eer knowm is, that he is to knock them down. and to erecive a certain sum for so doing. This iR a growingenil, and calls loudly for remedy, as equaldy- detrimental to tbe public and to the indlvidutl whose property is professed to be put up to auction; for if the fith whic:s tbe pubLc are in the habit of giying to the respectability of names anuexed to the catalogue be once destroyed, this mode of disposition of pro. perty, heretofore considered the most fair and open, wiU behcome the most fraudulent or the most destructive. It may be well for those whoere buslnens and bread it is to att-nd these salgc, and buy uLp the good articles, and puf off their e=wn rubbish, to cry out t'a e,- emrptor ! But the public should be pro. tected from being inveigled into an auction-room to have their pocket picked, or be hustled between a smooth-tongued auctionrer and eL knot of Jew brokers. Let those whe would purchase books in that way look to this ! Yours, H. ->u THE EDIToR OF THE TIWLES.