. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments. SCOTLAND In IRELAND 1000 125 29 27,049 3,200 604 7,343£2,480380 10,203£ 185,03131,099 4,695 Total in the United Kingdom 1,154 30,853 220,825 The above returns are avowedly incomplete asregards the districts of Mr. Rickards and Mr. Sa
. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments. SCOTLAND In IRELAND 1000 125 29 27,049 3,200 604 7,343£2,480380 10,203£ 185,03131,099 4,695 Total in the United Kingdom 1,154 30,853 220,825 The above returns are avowedly incomplete asregards the districts of Mr. Rickards and Mr. the former, I learn from the Inspector that he is con-vinced he has not yet received an account of all themills; and it will be seen that, owing to the incomplete-ness of the returns from the mills known to the Inspec-tors, several of the numbers have been supplied by esti-mate. In Mr. Saunderss statement, several mills inwhich cotton is worked are omitted, from the causesassigned. In Mr. Horners statement, at least one mill(in the north of Yorkshire) is omitted. We shall pro-bably not err on the side of excess, if we take the opera-tives in the cotton mills of England and Wales (insteadof 185,031) at 200,000, those of Scotland at 32,000,and those of Ireland at 5,000;—total 237,000. Thesemills are moved by power about equal to that of 44,000. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 395 horses, of which 33,000 horse-power is that of steam-engines, and 11,000 is that of water-wheels. It must be remarked, that this result, obtained for thegreatest part from actual returns, corresponds veryclosely with Mr. Stanways calculation, after deductingthe supposed excess in his estimate of the number ofpower-loom weavers. His estimate, reduced on thisaccount, would make the number of mill operativesin England 195,585. The near approximation ofthe numbers justifies confidence in their generalaccuracy. The following table shews the increase in the numberof mills in the townships of Manchester a
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