The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-24 00:00:00

spinning yarn.-- Miltaapun yam, about -twenty years ago,
could not he made finer than fifteen cuts to the pound ;
but within that time it has been raised to near fifty, and
very considerable advaims in the fineness of mill-spun yarn
is still further expected.
In rd commending the establishing of the spinning mill,
your Committee do not apprehend any injury to the hand
!b. Every thing that tends to improve sad cheapen
the manufacture, will increase the demand for it ; and,
therefore, instead of fearing any want of etnplo; went for
them, an increased consumption of their yarn is rather to
Le larked for • and the more so, if greens for the bleaching
of yarn shall ntablisbed.
With respect to the business of weaving, your Commit-
tee are of opinion, that it is new carried on inure benefi-
cially in England and Scotland fur the weaver than in Ire-
land, who is generally the owner of the cloth be makes„,
tooszly. . performing all those previous processes in his own
imperfect way, each of which would be better executed if
made a separate business in itself, and carried on with
better nu aids and more intelligence than the weaver is found
to posses. It will, however, be the duty of the Linen
'Board, so long as the present system lasts, to assist the
weaver by procuring information for him upon every im-
provement adopted in Great Britain, such as inudels of the
newest fly shuttles, and most approved looms, with which
he ought to be made. familiar.
Your Committee do not, however, recommend the weav-
ing business in Ireland to be assimilated to the better
sy,tem of Great Britain by any interference of the Legis-
lature which never should concern itself, except when it
was absolutely necessary, with the internal management of
any manufacture. This system has already began in the
Notth, and it is chiefly through that intelligent portion of
the country that we can hope to establish any great im-
provement of this kind. A very well informed witness,
who carried on the linen trade in Scotland, says " The
beet sheeting that I have ever seen made in Ireland, is
made by a manufacturer who employs a number of
weavers, and which cloth never came to the brown market,
but was soil directly to the bleachers." This is by no
means a single case; as there are extensive manufacturers
who buy and give out the yarn to weavers to be woven
Into cloth, and have become a numerous class of persons in
. the floral ; and the more they increase, the move it will be
for the benefit of Ireland. The weaver, who works fur
another, must save all that time which he now construes
in going to and returning from market ; and all those fluc-
tuations in the price of linen, which now fall upon himself,
would in that case fall upon the person who employed him.
Thus the situation of the working weavers would be im-
proved without necessitating any change in their numbers,
or in their dispersed residences throughout the country
parts of Ireland, or any alteration in their local comforts in
anv way whatsoever.
Your Committee have endeavoured thus shortly to offer
their views of the present state of the linen manufacture,
which is ,(such essential importance to Ireland, together
with their suggestions for its improvement ; and beg leave
'to state, that the continuation of a superintending autho-
rity to regulate its concerns, so long as they shall be affected
by legal provisions, is, in the opinion of your Committee,
necessary, as well as to make judicious appropriation of
the annual grant of Parliament, still usefully voted for the
encouragement and advancement of the state of the manu-
facture of Ireland.
June 21, 1824.