To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,-.-Having read in your journal of yesterday ant aeiomnt ofthe proceedings betbre Sir George Farrant, at Mlarlborough.streer.office, on Saturday last, relative toa compaint of Dr. Patterson against the Steam sVaahing Company, I beg that you will do me the farour to correct some of tbe errors uto which yoDr reporter, inadvertently, no doubt, fe11. It is suated, with an air of ridicule, that I was in attenebisce at 'an early hour, and whilst other business was transacting, kept constantly asking if the Doctor was come ?" &c. I was in attendance at 12 o'clock. the tinte at which I was swn- moned to attend, and not befinre. I did DOt ask a single question re- spectiag the Doctor, nor did I know his person, aLthough he was presert within five minutes after I went in. The only questions whicl I asked were, and those of the door-keeper or some one standa ing nea me, whether the gentdeman upon the bench was Mr. Dyer, and a gen:leman standing near hnm was a magistrate? It was the Doctor himself wlho applied to have the cause brought on imme(iately; and the inquiry was thex made, if any person was in attendance from the Steam U'Wahing Company ? To which 1 re.; plied i,s the affirmative. An observationi was made,that the comarlaint would then be beard before Sir George Farrant in his prnvate office. To that obsei'vatiotm I replied by asking if the office was open to the public for the Coin- pany had nothing to conceaL. I never stated that the action of the steam disebarged all other marks as well as those of the Company; I 'stated, that attthe com- mencement of the businmess, the marks of the Company hz'iBg beeti impressed as soon as the linen wa received, and passed immediateir under the action of the stcam, were discharged; and that some of the linen first sent to the works had no lmr,tks whatever; of course when the Company's mark was discharged, none remained hy vwhich to distinguish one person's linen firom aBbother, and grcmt embarrassment was, in those cases, occasioned in assorting it I alo stated, thlat the Company, feeling and seeing this unexpect- ed effect of theiT process of 9te. ming, had now adopted the plan of permitting the linen, after being marked, to ren ain over mntgh, ts give time for the ir.k to dry and fut, and that when t hus malrked, the steam didrnot discharge it. Fish great resne~ v\.tss..,,eO__ JUNIUTS Siftfif rnipps.bndge, 412 itcham, Nov. 30 ,I?2. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMfES.