The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-21 00:00:00

MANUFACTURERS AT LEEDS.

(From a Leeds Paper.)
We have before us, while writing, a list of the
.Ininelpal manufacturing firms of Leeds, with the
number of looms they have usually employed even
under the reduced system, the number standing still,
I:" the number in motion. It would be unpleasant
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the parties concerned were we to give their names;
We Shall therefore designate them by figures, pledging
ourselves that we possess the real names, and we are
quite ready to exhibit them to such of our readers as
Stay wish to inspect them :
1%1,2. 1-27 looms, 17 standing, 10 at work.
2-30 looms, 29 employed, 2 standing.
V,. 3-20 looms, pretty full at work.
'O. 4-200 looms, all standing, but expect to start in a
fiw (Lim
NO. 5-147 looms, fully employee).
N 0.6-50 looms, 48 employed, 2 standing.
ik,
•7-250 looms, only partially employed.
''314•61-16 looms, fully employed.
9--190 looms, rather fully employed.
NO. 10--36 looms, 30 standing, only 6 employed.
.m
""). 11-130 looms, 60 standing, but 70 of those in
tootion only partly employed.
NO. 12-34 looms, and very few at work.
‘,
zu). 13-60 looms, only partially employed.
No. 14-26 looms in Leeds fully employed; others at
.„
nolbeek, state unknown.
•, No. 15-57 looms, all standing.
No. 16-51 looms partially employed ; more out of
• 1"711, state unkown.
No. 17.--47 looms, fully employed.
No• 18-59 looms, all in full work.
NO.
19-30 looms, 23 employed, 7 standing.
°' 20-70 looms, all standing.
• ,0* 21-74 looms, 24 wholly idle, and the rest only
`4.,,,t N'y at work.
22-40 looms, 7 standing, 33 pretty fully employed.
A`,,,,54 23-34 looms, all standing.
al% 24-72 looms, 18 standing still, and the remainder
only pa 25.-61
.„,110.looms, only partly at work.
26—Between 200 and 300 looms, and 20 men would
110 all their work.
No. 27—Nearly 130 looms, about one-third at work
lad those not fully.
N 0.,.. 28-37 looms, working from six in the morning
"
. ne at night, on purpose," says our informant, " to
kee„P uP a show of business, their establishment in the
en—
' ntrY not being one•tbird employed."
• We give the above statement without any reser-
aticus—it contains, we believe, not only the truth
but the whole truth. What is the result ? Leaving
(1311, of consideration the reduced scale of the este-
bushments, out of 2,240 looms, the customary num-
" in bad times, no less than 785 are idle ; and a
considerable portion of those are only partially em-
ployed, while more, it would seem, are worked " to
keep up a show of work." The small manufactu-
• . l'ets who used to keep from eight to twelve looms
going, now only employ about half their wonted
number. In Leeds alone, though confessedly suffer-
ing in 'a less degree than most other manufacturing
towns, there are many hundreds of manufacturing
operatives out of employment, and a still greater
urnber of persons, artisans and labourers of various
kinds, dependent upun commercial prosperity, either
b
• copse
or altogether out of work, and suffering, in
• nusequence all the rigours of want, many of them
• also labouring under diseases incident to a state of
extreme poverty. Our accounts from several of the
neighbouring seats of the woollen trade are even more
;uddeMeting. We have already adverted to Il
rs-
-411! there trade is dull, and wages are low. At
lax, another scene of " prosperity," according to
gut contemporary, matters wear no better aspect.

The Princess AUGUSTA, attended by her
Lady in Waiting, Miss WYNTA RD, arrivedat Brighton on
uraday morning, in her open carriage and four, front
kATß'ottiling, on a visit to Sir WILLIAst and Lady FREE-
-1.6.771.12 at their residence on the West Cliff. Her Royal
Lailuneut partook of a dejeun with Sir WILLIAM and his
-"'"Ys and afterwards left, soon after three o'clock, on her
return to Trafalgar-house, Worthing.
r The Duke of WELLINGTON left town yes-
seydeaY morning for Northamptonshire, on a tour for
Tral days. Previous to his departure, the Earl of
i`rabtsx had an interview with his Grace at the
reasuy.
Aii_he Austrian Ambassador and the Neapolitan
yes-
terday had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yes-
`uaY at the Foreign Office.
The
Archbishop of CANTERBURY left town
Yesterday for his country seat.
of The Earl of ABERDEEN entertained the Duke
RiaaNGTol,z,
Mr. Secretary and Mrs. PEEL, and a
'elect party, to dinner on Thursday, at Argyll-house.
TheWelave accounts from Naples to 31st Oct.
cro., of
previ„ Olives presents the same appearance as at the
advises,us being very feeble in Calabria and Marino,
• Bmaridudi.ing at Tar entcandlklonopoli, and a little better in
it Was good at Lucca, and the prices were falling.