The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-20 00:00:00

COTTON MANUFACTURES.

. ,
. Tlia following particulars- relative to the ex.
tent c‘f the cotton manufactures of this country, are extracted
from the second volume, just published, of :` Mr. BAINES'S
History and Directory of Lancashire." The estimate of the
total annual amount of cotton goods manufactured, nearly agrees.
with the one which we have made. though on different data, and
it will be seen accords also with 4ficial returns. _

It is impossible to ascertain wtth precision the actual amount
of any of the great manufactures of the kingdom ; but of cot-
ton it may be safely asserted that the value is from 30 to 40
millions of pounds sterling per annum. The average annual
amount of cotton-wool imported during the last seven years was
14.5,000,0001 b., from which deduct 15 millions for export's, and
19 millions for cotton-wool used at home, in an unmanufactured
state, 120 millions remain. Taking the price of this wool at
Is. per lb., and the increase of value by manufacture at live
times the cost of the raw material, the amount will stand thus :
120,000,0001 b. of cotton at Is. per lb. £6,000,009
Increased value by manufacture - 30,000,000
Gross amount —--36,000,000
Average value of cotton manufactures exported 16,560,379

Home consumption £19,439,621
This result is not very dissitnilar to the statement made by
the President of the Board of Trade in the House of Commons,
on the Bth of March, 1824, when the cheers of the !louse so
cordially hailed the annunciation that the annual value of
cotton goods manufactured had risen to the incredible amount
of 33,337,0001.
Every part of the cotton trade, from the importation of the
raw material to its completion by the weaver, the bleacher, the
dyer, and the calico printer, is carried on in this town and
parish, but the branch for which Manchester is distinguished
is the spinning. In this department of the trade there are at
present (Aug. 1825) 104 spinning factories in the townships of
Manchester, Chorlton-row, Ard wick, Salford, Pendleton, and
Hulme, worked by 110 steam-engines, of the aggregate power
of 3,598 horse,:. In the year 1787, the number of spinning fac-
tories in the county of Lancaster amounted only to 42, and those
were in general of a magnitude very inferior to the mills which
at present exist in this place.
From a calculation made in 1817 by Mr. John Kennedy,
one of the most considerable cotton.spinners in Manchester, it
appears that the number cf persons then employed in the spin-
ning of cotton in this country was 110,763, that the aid they
derived from steam was equal to the power of 20,7613 horses :
and that the.number of spindles in motion was 6,645,033. By
this immense process '3,937,500,000 hanks of cotton yarn were
produced yearly, taking the average at 40 hanks to the pound;
and the quantity of coal consumed in their production is stated
at 5,006 iis.

Mr. Kennedy's statement for the year 1817 :
Raw cotton converted into yarn in
• the United Kingdom -
Loss in spinning estimated atl i•oz.
. .2
per pound - - -. , (0,312,500
Quantity of yarn produced . __._:_...99,637,5001b.
Number of hanks, taking the average at 40
'par lb. - - - - -
Number of spindles employed, each spindle
being supported to produce two banks per
-day, at 300 working days in the year 6,845,833
Number of persons employed in spinning, . . .
supposing each to produce 120 banks per '
- day - - .. - - , 110,7113
Horse power employed equal in number to 20,768
Four ounces and a tudf of coal estimated to produce one hank
of No. 40 : and .11;Wb. of coal per day, equal to one-horse
power. ,

ilo,ooo,opoth.

3,0:37,500,0001b.

The increase of manufactures since 1817 has been consider-
able, certainly not lees than 20 per cent., as will appear from
the increased averi:ge annual quantity of cotton wool imported.
About four-fifths of the whole amount of the cotton trade of
the kingdoM centries in the county of Lancaster; and it is cal_
ciliated that the capital employed in Lancashire in this trade
alone, in builditig and machinery,
.amounts to 8,000,0001.
Steam, it has been already observed, is now applied to a consi-
derable extent in the weaving as well as in the spinning; and
We have ascertained, that there are at present (July, 1825) in
the parish of Manchester alone, upwards of 20,000 steam-
looms in motion. In the first volume of this work, quoting
from Mr. Guest's book on •4 'l'he C9tton Manufactures," the
number of steam or power looms in Great Britain were esti-
mated at 10,000: that ehtitnate was even too low, and the
probability is, that there are now in England and Scotland
not fewer than 40,000 power looms employed in the weaving of
cotton alone, 8,000 of which are in Scotland.

r' BOBBIN LAC 1-7.--I t affords us great pleasure io
have it in our power to state that the Bobbin-lace-manufactory,
we mentioned some time ago as being in contemplation, ha►
been established in this town (Newcastle.) It has not been com-
menced precisely on the fioting at first proposed, as the parishes
of St. John, St. Andrew, and all Saints, have been unaccount-
ably prejudiced against the project. Indeed, they would not suffer
the children in their respective poor houses to be engaged in the
manufactory,- unless the principal would enter into certain se-
curities, which he thought proper to decline. They applied, we
understand, to other lace manufacturers, respecting the project
and its atrhor, and the answer to such an application was what
might have been reasonably anticipated—to discourage an an-
dertakini, decidedly against their own inta,:sts. The gentle-
man, MI Blanchard, who originally proposed the measure,
we are happy to hear, determined• to accomplish it notwith-
standing this opposition. He was supported by the parish of
St. Nicholas, which has intrusted bins with children on the
terms he proposed—namely, that he should receive a premium
of 7s. with each, for instructi.Pg them the first six months in
the business. At the expiration- of that period they are to be
paid wages according to what they can earn, and they have
constantly a portion of the clay set apart for their education,
which is provided for them free of expence. In consequence
of the disappointment Mr. Blanchard has experienced from the
other parL4lies, lie is under the necessity of engaging children
where he can. The establishment, wiiich is in Stowell-street,
is necessarily at present, therefore, only on a small scale, but
it is a beginning, and when the obvious advantages it offers
are considered, we hope it will be increased, anti that this will
be the commencement of manufactories that may be of the
greatest importance to tho commercial prosperity of Newcastle.
—(Tyne Mercury.) _

A school bap been established at the. New
York Navy-yard, for the purpose of instructing seamen in the
service of the United States, in the manner of rigging a ship.—
The old steam-ship Robert Fulton has been purchased for the
Purpose, and her engine taken out altogether. Sailors when
first employed are put on hoard, when competent masters de-
cide whether they are qualified as seamen. If unacquainted
with the diUrent duties, they are to receive the necessary in-
struction,
and to' be kept at work in making, arranging, and
taking down the different parts'of the rigging, until wanted for
service on board some of the vessels of the navy. Every month
the/Jo/ton is to present the appearance of a full-rigged ship, and
again that of a dismasted one.

SUDDEN DEATII.—On Monday
evening, be.
tween the hours of nine and ten o'clock,
as a middle-aged
woman, named Mildred Marriott, a laundress, reAding in Can-
terbisry-place, Lambeth, was going to fetch a pint of porter for
her supper, from the Cock and Bottle public-house in the
neighbourhood; she was observed by a little girl to stagger and
vomit, and in a few momenta she fell clown within a tow paces
of the public.house. The girl thought that the poor woman
was intoxicated, but on examining the spot she perceived a
vast quantity of blond, and being greatly alarmed she ran to
acquaint Mr. Taylor, the landlord of the public-house, of the
circumstance. He instantly went to the poor creature's assist-
ance. In the mean time a young woman had arrived, and will
her assistance they raised the laundress, but it being dark they
could not distinguish, her features until a light was brought,
when the young woman cried out in an agoniz.d tone of voice,
"Oh ! it is my poor mother !" The landlord then called
some persons to aid him in carrying the laundress home. Th,
blood flowed very much from the mouth, she having broke a
blood vessel, and a very short time afterwards, on being placed
upon a bed she breathed her last.