The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-29 00:00:00

CALAMITOUS RESULTS OF THE

TURN-OUT.
(From the Stockport Chronicle.)
Now that the whole of the -turn-out operatives
have returned to work, it may not be amiss to put on
record the probable amount of loss which this borough
has sustained by the strike., It will furnish matter for
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mend of " a fair day's wages for a fair day's work,"
without any regard to the state of the markets for the
produce of their labour, and the existence of oppres-
sive and grinding monopolists, which are fast ruining
every branch of manufacturing industry.
All history does not, perhaps, record a similar in-
stance of a cessation of labour so extensive, simulta-
neous, and protracted as this turn-out ; certainly not
where so much manufacturing capital and inanimate
power, as well as human labour. was rendered unpro-
ductive. Earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, pes-
tilence, and the ravages of war, have razed cities, and
desolated whole provinces; but we doubt if so much
injury was ever before self-inflicted in the same space
of time, by and upon a similar population as that
which this populous and important section of the
kingdom has sustained.
We are not enabled to give exactly the precise
number of different descriptions of hands in this bo-
rough, who for the space of full five weeks performed
no labour, and received no wages ; but we can state
pretty confidently, that those employed in the cotton
manufactories alone, all of whom were out, receive
at present rates about 9,0001. per week ; so that the
direct loss, in this respect, is about 45,0001. But in our
population of about 50,000 souls, something like a
thousand families constitute the distributive class—as
corn-dealers, bakers, grocers, drapers, butchers, pub-
lime, milkmen,; &c. &c. ; and about the same num-
ber the various trades which are carried on in all our
town communities, as shoemakers, tailors, joiners,
smiths, brewers, carters, porters, &c. &c., and the loss
to these, from the stoppage of the whole staple trade
of the town, cannot have been less than than 3,000/.
per week, or, in the whole, 15,0001. And if the ma-
nufacturers are making only very torifl profits, con-
sidering their large capitals, they uinstg have lost in
the aggregate not less than 30,0001. more. Thus
the whole loss. of the borough may be said to be
somewhere about 75,000/. !
To impress more forcibly upon minds of every
order of intellect the proper estimate of the real mag-
nitude of this tremendous loss, we give below the fol-
lowing lots of different commodities, any one of which
might have been purchased with 75,0001.:—
Thirty-six thousand sacks of flour, a quantity suf-
ficient for this town for six months ; 375,000 loads of
potatoes (at present prices) plenty for the same for
five years ; 3,000,000 pecks of apples, or 25,000,000
quarts of plums, at last Friday's prices ; 1,125,000
gallons of beer, at ls. 4d. per gallon ; 150,000 tons of
coals ; 150,000 men's hats • 300,000 pairs of shoes of
all sizes, 1,000,000 pairs of hose, at ls. 6d. per pair ;
or would have given 71. 10s. worth of clothing, bed-
, ing, and furniture, to every family in
the borough ; or
it would have paid the whole rental of the town for one
year ; or the whole poor and other rates for three
years ; or have maintained the police establishment
for two generations. It would have supported all the
Sunday schools of the borough for a
whole generation,
or have given a day school education to the whole of
its youth for ten years. It would have erected a ma-
nufactory equal to any in the borough ;
.or five work-
houses equal to that on Shawheath ; or have bought
and laid out, in the vicinity of the town, a pleasure-
park or promenade of several hundred acres, for the
use of the inhabitants for ever.
1 The above enumeration of the different commodir
ties which might have been purchased, things done,
1 or objects accomplished by the 75,000/. which the
borough has apparently directly lost, places that loss
in a very prominent pm:lint of view ;
but whether it is
on trade
so much actual dead loss is not so easy to determine,
because we cannot yet -form an opinioalloyi far still
further reductiona of the profits of capital' and the
wages of labour in the cott
may in future be
prevented by so extensive a 'cessation Of production.
The lessening of the consumption of cotton wool to
the amount, perhaps, of 16,000,0001b5., at a time
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1010 reaundant capital was seeking it as a temporary
speculative investment, and the non-production to a
corresponding amount of cloth, when stocks were
heavy and prices low, must have a serious effect upon
ths.general market, greatly to the advantage of the
Whble capital and labour engaged in the cotton manu-
facture, however those manufacturers and their ope-
ratives, who have been involved in the struggle, may
have suffered up to the present moment, or may
the trade:
Ultimately suffer, as compared with the remainder of
in additio to the above is the expense entailed
upon the country (including the boroughs) by the
measures rendered necessary for the security of pro-
pPrtp and the maintenance of public tranquillity.
It would got be difficult to prove that the inhabi-
tiluts of Stockport have, by means of high-priced
manufac-
toriespro-
and short time, and non-payment of rental,
been defrauded since 1836 of above a million of money
i and profits, closed Ydtliiiel fedodrur :Id
Corn-laws.
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Tmr-
THE :N-iW DEO Oil
ton was ,Senior Wrangler In the yjeat)lB66., tind
Was as P
..,ripman With the s6cottd
Wrangler, Prdessor'ehfistie. rreVitinq
pointment as Dean of Peterborough in 1836 (havirigc
stieceedecl Dr. Monk, the present Bishop of Glouces-
tbr ind 136'40)4.1)v Turtis was Fellow and Tutor
Of St. datharino ittilithid In_ inT he succeeded Dr.
Kaye, Bishop of LinCeln; Regius Proeessor of Di-
JitiO Yeatd Ott One namO hien,
tioned as likely to be that of §tl664§toti,
the, Rev: John Graham, D.D., Master of Christ's
billeg;ei and Cliaplain tq his Royal Highness Prince
Al belt:— ennibiide IfitskAier:
CdninaDt'§ XElv" Ig6Niliut Mioliiiikt FOR oC-
thriusing editor of thd Neiv 1V ofltltly
I'OlW, are read to
see, even more liberal than mual iii his
this month. The first being a humorous poem, ni ttti
style ,of George Colman,, entitled " More Hullah-
balOOr itopottli7 epigram" On a late
Ctiill6 Z;.11OW in Sinithfie,d; a t ird pOefiletilltd" The
Season'," a prose jest with the title of "nerse anti
FOOL;" hnd ari 61cOlent ppaper iii ct Qljtspeare.i'
rierge, Bfilith his shait
Author's Omnibus," besides contributing a cleVef
poem called "The Sun's Eclipse," and Mrs. Trollope
proceeds Witli tlr hjiarritiby irt _America" with in-
creased efebit , it itdditititi, v 4, tin d,- tilt. iifitetesting
story by Miss Youatti with the titte ‘i
of Louvain another PArrative Balled "'lire
' Chrste -a6tri tt:i.erii6t of
" Peter Priggins " and a startling chaptei Mint I
Reminiscences of Medical Student entitled "A Con-
fession':' rqading there •is even more
than t 4 tielial 1 10,yfi RlanOlard affording
one capital .specimencogrritilg tt ilel4sfi3 iblfgiif
every bridy has seen;" atid he fpurid 1
the title. Chntribtftinpg to P4lliioable.lrottlia-
lary," it Sonie AMnitit af Ma6iBnibk
" Philomelophagy," and " Settlements and Settlea:"
LORD LYNEDOCII.----
lire are glad to notice the gal-
lant and veteran Lord Lynedoch—who hurried from
the Continent on learning the contemplated Royal
visit to Scotland, but who WAS unfortunately prevented
from paying his respects personally to her Majesty by
a sudden attack of indisposition—driving through the
town the other day, looking hale and hearty, and ap-
parently quite recovered from the illness that denied
to him the pleasure of welcoming the Sovereign in
the manner that his Lordship so anxiously desired.
Although more than ninety winters have passed over
Lord Lynedoch, the spirit that shone so bravely out
in " the gallant Graham," in the stirring years of his
military life, has defied the assaults of age, and is
strong andfr,sh (its ever.—Perth paper.;