[11] Including buildings £87,000; for poor alone.
[12] Dr Strang's Report, 1851.
[13] Modern System of Low-priced Goods, p. 2, 3.
[14] Alton Locke, vol. i. p. 149-50.
[15] It was ascertained, from an accurate return obtained by the Magistrates of Glasgow, that the number of persons who arrived at that city by the Clyde, or the Ayrshire railway, in four months preceding 10th April 1848, was 42,860.
[16] Parliamentary Return, 1851.
[17] The following Returns from three seaports alone—London, Liverpool, and Dublin—in 1849 and 1850, will show how rapidly this ruinous process is going on:—
| 1849. | 1850. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. London— | Ships. | Tons. | Ships. | Tons. |
| British, | 6,917 | 1,444,311 | 6,497 | 1,376,233 |
| Foreign, | 3,040 | 443,923 | 3,413 | 527,174 |
| II. Liverpool— | ||||
| British, | ||||
| Foreign, | 56,500 | 124,800 | ||
| III. Dublin— | ||||
| British, | 351 | 63,263 | 279 | 44,146 |
| Foreign, | 125 | 27,774 | 183 | 39,250 |
| Decrease of British. | Increase of Foreign. | |||
| Ships. | Tons. | Ships. | Tons. | |
| I. London, | 420 | 78,078 | 373 | 83,251 |
| II. Liverpool, | 78,300 | |||
| III. Dublin, | 72 | 19,117 | 58 | 11,476 |
| Total, | 173,027 | |||
[18] Including the police committals, much more numerous than those for trial.
[19] "At present the native consumption of cotton in India is estimated at from 1,000,000,000 lb. to 3,000,000,000 lb. annually; while the export to Great Britain is only 60,000,000 lb., and to all the world only 150,000,000 lb. In this state of things, the rough production that suits the home market will, of course, only be carried on; while, if sufficient means of conveyance existed to render the cotton that is now grown in the interior, at 1¼d. per lb., remunerative for export, increased care in its preparation would be manifested, as was the case in the United States, just in proportion to the increased reward that would result. In developing these views, Mr Chapman undertakes to demonstrate, by well-arranged facts and tables, that the export of cotton from India to England has risen exactly as the difficulties or expense of its transmission have been diminished; and also that costs and impediments still remain which are sufficient to account for the smallness of the quantity we continue to receive."—Times, Jan. 1851.