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APPENDIX TO PART II.

BANKRUPTCIES IN THE COTTON TRADE.

It is curious to observe the mishaps which have occurred in the cotton trade since its foundation. Looking to the Gazettes, the first bankrupt described as a "cotton-spinner" appears in the year 1786. The subsequent numbers in each year shew that, great as is the capital embarked and immense the number of factories, the business is not always a flourishing one. An indefatigable friend of the Author has compiled for him the following paper:

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This, of course, is not inclusive of the private compromises effected with creditors, of which the number is great. Another item of loss of capital in the cotton trade-and it is an important one-arises from the destruction by fire. Within the memory of the gentleman who furnished the above table, not less than forty factories in Manchester and the district have been burnt down.

CONTINENTAL FAIRS.

In the days of its infancy, the cotton trade of Manchester was greatly dependent on the Chester and Wrexham fairs, which are now only known as boyish holidays. The continental fairs have assumed the importance which formerly attached to those in England, and it is therefore material to know the dates of their occurrence. They are here subjoined :

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In May and June there are no fairs, and by consequence the Manchester, Rochdale, Leeds, Bradford and other principal markets are flat and dull during the whole of May and a part of June. Great anxiety used to be felt as to the goodness or badness of the Chester and Wrexham fair markets; and the same anxiety, heightened of course in proportion to the increased extent of the trade, now attaches to the German fairs.

N.B. Goods intended for one of the above fairs ought to be forwarded from Manchester at least four weeks prior to the fair.

PART III.

CHAPTER I.

The following particulars of the population of Manchester and its environs, are derived from the returns published by order of Government, from tables drawn out by Mr. Rickman, and from other authentic sources.

TABLE SHEWING THE RAPID INCREASE OF THE POPULATION OF
THIS PARISH SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT
CENTURY, AND THE ANNUAL VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY IN
IN EACH TOWNSHIP, AS ASSESSED FOR THE PROPERTY
IN 1815:-

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POPULATION OF THE TOWNSHIPS CONSTITUTING THE PARISH OF MANCHESTER IN 1831, THEIR OCCUPATIONS, THE NUMBER OF INHABITED AND UNINHABITED HOUSES, &c.:

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717 19475 21311 40786 567 2561 2963 5524

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435

219

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the hundreds of Salford and West Derby, in Manchester and Liverpool," not less than *A "large portion" of these are indirectly employed in commerce and trade: "in

50,000 out of 60,000,"

The returns state that the township of Manchester contains about 12,000 men engaged in the cotton and silk manufactures; Salford, 3,500, including many makers of machinery; Pendleton, 850; Chorlton-upon-Medlock, 1,900; Heaton Norris, 1,100; and other townships of the parish about 4,000 colleetively; Oldham, 4,000, and Crompton in that parish, 4,200; Great and Little Bolton, 6,100; Bury, 1,600; Tottington, 1,500; Spotland and Castleton, (Rochdale parish) 2,000; Middleton township, 1,100 collectively. In addition to these there are 18,000 persons employed in the numerous manufacturing townships of the populous Hundred of Salford. The manufacture of woollens is said to be "comparatively unimportant;" the number of men employed in worsted mills, and as fullers, makers of baize, blankets and flannels being about 2,700, chiefly at Newchurch, in Whalley parish, in Rochdale, and at Bury. In Chorltop-upon-Medlock there are 1,900 workers in iron and brass (in foundries and so forth); there are 550 men employed as hatters in several of the adjoining townships-300 at Oldham.

RECAPITULATION OF THE FOURTEEN DISTRICTS IN THE TOWNSHIP OF MANCHESTER: May 28th., 1821.

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RECAPITULATION OF THE FOURTEEN DISTRICTS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MANCHESTER: 1831.

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2,466

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232

306

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420

470 1 14

295

175

1,269 1,475

2,744

791

51 291

183

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570 170

1,823 2,063

3,886

877

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130

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3,007 3 44

2,011 992

6,465 7,170 13,635

3,365

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1,119 426

3,445 3,824 7,269

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1,056 369

3.205 3,629 6,834

1,695

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22,445 30,384 53 968 30

23,067 7,287 67,845 74,181 142,026 35,655 13 63 11,797 14,308 2,002

5,991

1,255

235 110 2,978

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