+-----------------+---------+----+----+----+-------+-------+-------+------+ | Description of |Full Time| | | | | | | | |Mills, Factories,| | | | | | | | | | &c. | (a)| (b)| (c)| (d)| (e)| (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | +-----------------+----+----+----+----+----+-------+-------+-------+------+ |Cotton Mills, | 91| 44| 10| 21| 16| 28,033| 15,060| 6,079| 6,894| |Silk Mills, | 8| 2| ...| 6| ...| 3,009| 621| 2,138| 250| |Smallware Mills, | 18| 11| 3| 3| 1| 1,937| 1,232| 601| 104| |Worsted Mills, | 2| 2| ...| ...| ...| 155| 155| ...| ...| |Dye Works, | 20| 3| ...| 17| ...| 1,675| 470| 862| 403| |Hat Manufactures,| 2| ...| 1| 1| ...| 107| 7| 49| 51| |Mechanists, | 32| 7| 10| 12| 3| 6,079| 2,777| 1,615| 1,687| ------------------+----+----+----+----+----+-------+-------+-------+------+ | Totals, | 173| 69| 24| 60| 20| 40,995| 20,322| 11,284| 9,389| +-----------------+----+----+----+----+----+-------+-------+-------+------+ Key: (a) Total No. of Mills, Works, &c. (b) No. working full time, with full complement of hands. (c) No. working full time with a portion only of hands employed. (d) Short Time. (e) Stopped. (f) Total No. of hands. (g) No. working full time. (h) No. working short time. (i) No. wholly out of employment. From this Table it appears that out of 40,995 workers employed in the factories of Manchester, 11,284 are working short time, and no less than 9,389 are _wholly out of employment_. This last class, with their families, cannot embrace less, at the lowest computation, than thirty thousand souls, who are entirely destitute. The state of matters in Glasgow is at least as bad; about half of the mills there are shut, or working short time. And this is the condition of our manufactures, we repeat, in the thirty-second year of profound peace, when we are engaged in no foreign war whatever; when, so far from being distressed for the ordinary supply of subsistence, we have just returned thanks to heaven for the finest harvest reaped in the memory of man; and when, under the combined operation of home produce and an immense foreign importation, wheat is selling for 52s. the quarter; three years after the imposing of the golden fetters which were for ever to preclude improvident speculation; and a year and a half after the adoption of the free trade principles, which were to open up new and unheard-of sources of manufacturing prosperity.