To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,-l feel considerable regret at the necessity of my noticing the letter of a correspondent in your paper of this dav, under the signa- thre of " G. H.", because I consider that writer has improperly and indecorouslv obtruded upon public attention what does not concern the public_the prvate mercantile afLairs of an individual, Ile copies a paragraph from your paper of thc preceding day, relative to the present state of the iron trade, which paragraph he states applies to me, and then proceeds to show that it does not so apply, and that I ought to have contradictet! it. -I must here obterve, thiat owing to a particular circumstance I did not see Vle Times newspaper of Friday, nor did I hear of the paragrapli but had the casc been otherwise, and I had both rcad the paragraph and heard of it, I should not have deemedi any contradiction necessary, because my name was not mentioned, and the statement altogether was evidently erroneous. I will only add, that your correspondtent has nmisrepre. sented the advance that hls been made in the price of iron dluring the last twelve months, as well as the nature and extent of my con- nexion with the iron-works of South Wales. I believe it will not be deried that the iron trade has experienced as great if not a greater de- gree of depression since the peace than any branch of the mnanufac- turing interest of the country; and although the long-loeked-for changelhas but recently taken effect, the condition of the immense population employed in the iron-works has been materially benefitted by a liberal advance of wages to every description of workmen. I am. Sir. vour mnost hrlipnt - - ____ - Will. THOMIPSON. Upper Thames-strect, Oct. 23. TO THE EDITOR OF TIE TIMES.