STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER OF MILLS NEWLY-BUILT OR ENLARGED DURING THE YEAR 1835-6, IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER: May, 1836.

The power here stated is incomplete, several factories being yet unfinished. Of the total number of mills given above, five of the cotton and one of the woollen have merely been enlarged: all the rest are new. The actual power of the cotton mills varies slightly from the "available" amount, which is 2,007.

The next official Table shews the number of powerlooms employed by manufacturers in the parish:

County of Lancaster. Calico. Fustians Smallwares. Woollen Silk.

In addition to these, Mr. Trimmer and Mr. Bates return the following from their respective superintendencies::

The following document, published under the authority of the Statistical Society in Manchester, may form an useful addition to the preceding:

RESULTS OF AN INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF THE WORKING CLASSES OF MANCHESTER, IN 1834;

By an Agent employed by the Manchester Statistical Society to visit the dwellings and ascertain the condition of the population in Police District No. 2, and in the first subdivision of District No. 1

The population of this portion of the town is (according to the census of 1831) 42,135 or 8932 families. It is a district inhabited more than any other in the town by the working classes, and by those of the poorest description. It was on that account determined to commence the investigation in this quarter. The Agent having been refused admittance into some houses, and the occupiers of others being absent and their dwellings closed, his report only extends to 4102 families, but which number comprises all the labouring population within this district into whose houses he obtained access. The report on the condition of the dwellings must be considered merely as the general impression of the Agent, an intelligent Irishman, who was himself a hand-loom weaver, and

who, in this classification, has been principally guided by the appearance of cleanliness or otherwise in the dwellings. All the other tables are stated from the answers given by the parties themselves.

Welsh...

35

Roman Catholics..

............ 1473

Scotch

30

Dissenters..

591

Foreigners...

6

Professing no religion...

17