The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-18 00:00:00

AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

A meeting of manufacturers was held on Monday
week, with the magistrates, regarding the prospects of
trade and the probable continuation of the depression.
At that conference a great many subjects were talked
over, relating to the cause of the depression and its
probable issue. It was stated by a manufacturer, that
one cause of the depression was, that plain cloth, which
is at present brought into town for shawl printing in
large quantities from Caine in England, can be got
woven there for about the half that is paid in Paisley—
the rate being, for a piece of cloth sixty six inches
wide and thirty yards long, with twenty-four to
twenty-six shots on the glass, 6s. 6d. per piece in
Caine, while for the same piece, 12s. would have to
be paid to the weaver in Paisley, and with this ad-

ditional advantage in farcur of the English manufac
turer, that his cloth was woven from coops, while the
Paisley maker would have to pay 4s. additional for pirn
winding, making his total payment for labour 165.,
against 6s. 6d. by his rival. It was stated by the repre-
sentatives of two other manufacturing houses on the
other hand, that they make their cloth in Paisley
entirely, and that they can do so, with a handsome
profit on their outlay, and have their gocds cheaper
than any English maker can produce them. The
result of the meeting was the calling of a
more extended one of the business classes on Fri•
day, to enter: into a subscription for affording temporary
relief in the mean time. That meeting accordingly
took place in the County Hall ; and, after a very feeling
statement of the destitute condition of a great many,
which was given by the Provost, who presided, and sup-
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menced on the spot, and a handsome sum put down.
The general impression amongst the gentlemen in trade
at the meeting of Monday seemed to be, that the greater
part out of work will be taken up by the end of this
month or the beginning of next, and, so far as we can
learn, this has been so much confirmed, that a number
of webs have been given out during the week to those
ho were out of employment.—Glasgow Post.

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a waking subject. The girl's countenance, however, did
not undergo the slightest change, and no indication of
s:.tisibility was given. She slept on after the operation
was concluded, and when awakened in a few minutes,
did not seem to be for some time aware that the tooth
had been extracted.—Northern Warder.
CHEAP OMNIBUSES IN MANCHESTRIL—We are
likely to have omnibuses established in Manchester on
the penny a mile system, which has been found to
answer in London. This is to be effected by means of a
company with a capital of 250,000!. We cannot doubt
that the scheme will answer; it is one that has never yet
had any approach to a trial, with the exception that low
fares have been found to pay well on many lines of road
out of Manchester, in cases where with-high fares the
parties could do little more than pay the expenses. The
adoption of a good plan of intersection, together with
frequent accommodation, will, we are persuaded, show
the speculation to be a higfily successful one.—Courier.
HIGH PRICE OF HORSES.—The continual increase
of the means of railway transit does not appear to affect
the value of horses, if we may judge from the prices
which have been obtained in the neighbourhood of Salis-
bury for useful cattle. In the market place, last ;week,
the cart-horses taken off the Salisbury and Bishopstoke
railway works were sold by auction at from 301. tc
4.21. each.

FALLACY OF THE REPROACH OP SCIOLISM.—It
is vain for the arrogance of learning to condemn the
people to ignorance by reprobating superficial know-
ledge. The people cannot be profound, but the truths
which regulate the moral and political relations of man,
are at no great distance from the surface. The great
works in which discoveries are contained cannot be read
by the people ; but their substance passes through!.
variet3 of minute and circuitous channels to the shot
and the hamlet. The
i converson of these works of un-
productive splendour into latent and unobserved activity
resembles the process of nature in the external world.
The expanse of a noble lake—the course of a majestic
river, imposes on the imagination, by every impressior
of dignity and sublimity ; but it is the moisture that in-
sensibly arises from them which, gradually
with the soil, nourishes all the luxuriancy of vegetatior.
and adorns the surface of the earth.—Sir James Mackin
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