The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-07 00:00:00

TOBACCO MANUFACTORY AT MANILLA.

Our Manilla correspondent informs us that he has just re-
turned from a visit to the government manufacture of cigars
in that city, and observes that this manufacture is a close
government monopoly, yielding a clear revenue of above
1,000,000 Spanish dollars annually, and that it is increasing.
The tobacco, which is of the finest quality, is grown in the
northern provinces of the Phillippines, and may be increased
infinitely ; it is bought of the grower by the Manilla govern-
ment at a very remunerating price, but can only be sold to

yoqrnment 2
In the ena

,iarehouses in Manilla, 7500 women, and
000 men are employed, with a number of clerks and super-
- They are all housed and protected from the
weather as coolly and healthfully as the first merchant in
Manilla—they are paid by the number each prepares, and
therefore their industry, without coercion,is unceasing—the
work people are divided at tables, sitting ten at each—every
six tables have a female superintendent, who is responsible
to the clerk of the works for the number and quality of cigars
delivered, and who pays the sixty workers at her tables, and
has an open acconnt with the clerk. These old ladies make
large tuns by advancing money to the girls under their care,
on the security of their week's wages, at worse than Jewish
interest. The usual or average rate that a woman can earn,
in making ten,. ; -L - tit . ~,,,,
present exchange, ls. ipd • but
ci- -- -i- .e- ...motit ikeu,... a duller per diem----tit our
hand exist, and several 'many
sum of from 13' dl. to is. grades. of quickness of
hundreds of women earn the large
dered that every article Gd.
per day ; and when it is consi-
of- life here i • at a price five times
lower than in England, tkbienE, wages high. The
women beat the men in ma
faair
is
very
gars.
The foreign export cigars agreci
tablishment, and though more separate branch of the
ex-
pertes-
hands arc engaged to prepare them),t
look on (the most
cisely the same. The portion of hands the material is pre-
ernOloyed in prepar-
in, the export cigars is as 2 to 51 for
-7 , • home u
is increasing here ; the present price of 1000_ sa•se;obituteigeaxrpsoartt
the manufactory ii 71 Spanish dollars. The division qf la-
hour is perfect and systematic.
A snuff manufactory forms a part of the establishment, and
works up the tobacco which is too small for cigars. The ov-
vernment of Old Spain has recently increased its orders for
raw tobacco very largely, and plt ces the quality on the
same
footing with the best Havannah. The gross suni paid out in
wages and prime cost in this admirable institution is 1,500,000
Spanish dollars, and the net profit exceeds a million, and is
said by some to amount to 1,200,000 dollars. The boys and
girls only work from seven until twelve a.m., and from two to
six p.m., and amerrier or more industrious set it is not pOs_
sible to see; they are in separate galleries. Theartiricers
are bound under penalty of dismissal never to blunder the
nuraber of cigars in a bundle, and to distribute weight equally;
theyalever count or weigh, yet, from long practice, it is done
as quick as lightning, and always right.—Morning Herald.

intendents,

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Christmas Day evening,
as Mr. and Mrs. Shuttleworth, of Sheffield, accompanied by
a gentleman atd lady, with an infant child, were proceeding
in a four-wheeled vehicle from Calow towards Chesterfield,
on arriving at the top of Hady-hill, the horse suddenly broke
into a full gallop, and descended the hill at a furious rate.
The females, alarmed at their dangerous situation, screamed,
which caused the animal to increase its speed in spite of all
toe efforts made to prevent it. At the bottom of the hill the
vehicle came in contact with the battlements of the bridge on
the north side, with great violence, and precipitated the
adults over—the females into the river, where they must
have found a watery grave, had not the men, who fell on the
bank, and had sustained but little injury, instantly recovered
their feet and plunged into the water to rescue them. As
soon as this was done, they next became concerned for the
child, but were soon attracted to the road by its cry. The
child was discovered three or four feet from the horse's
head, and strange to say, unhurt, although it must have been
thrown, a distance of not less than seven yards. Mrs. Shut-
tleworth is very much bruised and cut about the head and
face, but is fast recovering ; the others have -sustained no
other injury than a few bruises. The carriage was literally
dashed to pieces-by the shock, but the horse is unhurt.—
Derbyshire Chroiicle.