The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-27 00:00:00

TAILORS' TURN-OUT.

This strike, which has now lasted eighteen weeks, is appa-
rently fast approaching its termination. We understand that
270 of the turn-outs, having at length seen the folly of their
conduct, have withdrawn themselves from the Union, signed
the declaration against Trades' Unions, and returned to their
employment. Of course, they will no longer contribute to
the support of those who remain out ; and the shops being
more or less supplied in this way with men refusing to support
others in idleness out of the produce of their own industry, a
" stoppage of supplies" must, ere long, bring dissolution at
once to the turn-out and the Union. Many of the old hands,
in preference to subsisting on the scanty pittance afforded by
the fast diminishing funds of the Union, have quitted the town
in search of employment elsewhere ; many of those who re-
main have so conducted themselves, that, we believe, they will
not be re-engaged by the masters on any terms (and, for tlis
reason, they are the parties who labour hard to uphold and
prolong the turn-out) ;so that the result of this, as of all such
struggles, will be, that the majority of those who, at the outset,
threw away the means of an honest livelihood, must seek one
elsewhere, or become (with their wives and families), charge-
able to the parish, as their places will be filled by steady work-
men from neighbouring towns, who have had the good sense
to keep aloof from those banes of the working classes, Trades'
Unions. A letter, of which we subjoin a literal copy, has been
received through the Post-office, by Mr. Jones, a master tailor,
in Ducie-place. It is, no doubt, flora one of the Union jour-
neymen tailors of this town, threatening the apprentice, be-
cause he will not divulge the secrets of his master to them :
" October 20, 1834.

" Dere sir—We have rought this that you may tel your
apprentise,to prepere for is doome for we have baught too
Pistils for ,to shote him if we die next minite and we will
abeidge you with telling you whot it is for, it is for doing us
and himself an injury by keeping your secrets about the traid
such as tacking traid out, and wold not tel us about it we
just tould you, that you wold no wot we shote him for, for
he is shoure of being shote as we that is go in to do it is alive
if it is six mons to come we will do it, for we know with
way he gose and we shall mete him for we have wached him
home here bury St. Salford nothin will hindre him from it
for I see that he is better ought of the world than in while
the strick is." Manchester Guardian.

AMERICAN COTTON TWIST.-DUTY ON

RAW COTTON.

We have this week had shown to us a sample of cotton
yarn, No. 22's Water Twist, spun, as the ticket imports, by
Collett and Smith, of the Hamilton Factory, Paterson, New
Jersey, which was purchased in New York for account of a
manufacturing house in this town, and has been laid down here
at full three half-pence per pound less than it could have been
bought for in this market. The thread of the yarn is (ap-
parently owing to an inferiority in the carding,) not so even
as that of good English yarn of similar counts ; but it is quite
as strong, and appears to be made from a better quality of
cotton.

It is only fair to observe that this yarn was probably pur-
chased under the influence of the serious depression which the
recent crisis in their monetary and banking system produced
in the United States, and that the price of 22's water twist
here has of late been decidedly higher than it was for some
considerable time previously. Nevertheless, after making all
due allowances on this score, there will remain in the transac-
tion abundant ground for becoming sensible of the great
importance of a timely removal of the duty on raw cotton. It
may be observed, as a further motive to this step, that cotton
yarn imported from the United States is subject to no duty
whatever. At least the yarn we have seen, after full time for
inquiry and consideration had been taken, was passed at the
Liverpool custom-house without charge ; and as these are
times when the imposition of a tax, obviously not intended for
purposes of revenue, would be by no means popular, there
would be a difficulty in subjecting it to any.
The cotton manufacture has now attained so vast a magni-
tude that everything which concerns its well-being is of first-
rate national importance. It is the duty of Government, in
order that the means of subsistence of a very large mass of
the labouring population may not be placed in jeopardy, to
watch narrowly the earliest indications of the growth of a
successful rivalry with this branch of the national industry ;
and to give those who are engaged in it all the facilities which
it is in their power to offer, to enable them to sustain or over-
come competition in whatever quarter it may manifest itself;
and on this ground we claim, on behalf of the spinners and
manufacturers of this kingdom, the repeal of the tax on their
raw material. —Manchester Guardian.