The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

MACHINERY versus MANUAL LABOUR.
Nobody can doubt that every invention that performs the
labour usually supplied by men is for the moment injurious to the
labourers it displaces, but in the long run it leads to the employment
of a larger number. Every improvement temporarily injures a class.
The railroads deprived thousands of coachmen, guards, and horse-
kepeers of employment, but there are now more drivers, conductors,
and horse-keepers than ever there were in the good old times of four-
horse coaches, while there has been tens of thonsands of labourers
employed in forming the railroads, and nearly as many permanently
station-masters, and clerks, to say no-
employed as porters, police,
thing ofihe engineers employed constantly in making engines, and
afterwards driving them ; in short, it must be borne in mind that all
the millions expended on railroads was spent in labour. The very
ironstone in the bowels of the earth, was worthless until raised by
labour, converted into iron by labour, formed into rail, ant wheels,
and carriage springs by labour, and all in our own country. Look at
the mills and machinery employed in making cloth. The effect was
to make cloth better and cheaper than when it was all done by hand,
and this very improvement in cloth caused thousands to be employed
in making it up. Step into the gigantic establishment of E. MOSES
and SON, and youwill see more good clothes than you would expect'
all London contained. Consider the hundreds that are constantly
employed by that firm alone, and its vast importance will at once
be apparent. By adopting a system of buying largely, by means of
a large capital, and keeping hundreds of the best hands constantly
employed, they have accomplished one of the most important changes
that was ever known. Adopting besides all this a plan of
taking small profits, they have placed every man in a position to
command, however limited his income, good clothing appropriate
to his situation, while the higher classes may, by paying cash, save
nearly half of the amount winch they used to be charged for ordi-
nary dress, and the more extravagant they are the more they save,
whether it be in their own dress or that of their livery servants.
The officers in the army, navy, and civil service can save forty per
cent. in their outfits, and be better served ; in fact; every article of
dress, from the -most costly to the most economical, is equally
cheap at the price charged, and their warehouses are at this moment
heavily stocked with every variety of summer fashion, adapted for
all classes, while the facilities they possess enable them to measure
and make up any quantity of clothes in an incredibly short time.
A handsome Almanac, for the year 18M, can be had gratis, on'
application.
The new edition of "Everybody's Book, containing a full report
of the late important trial, may be had gratis, on application, or by
'otter, post free. .

E. MOSES and SON have no connexion with any other house in
or out of London, except the following :
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 598, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. . .

Bradford "Yorkshire" Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boet and Shoe-
makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and.Genticmen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset Sa-
turday, when business is rearmed till Twelve o'clock.
Ici l'on parle Francaise. Qui si parla Italian°.
Hier spricht man Deutsch. Aqui se habla Espanol.