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rope; but in 1808, the ion from America was of the year. In this manufacture, a considerable num- Statistics. 
tripled ; and in 1811 it was agai ed. For some ber of women and children were employed; and it 
time after we began to trade with Buenos Ayres, hides 8 Me oe adiee teen) ee 
were the principal remittance in return for the goods in Norwich and other hg hy aa 
sent out. The of raw hides from , Ireland sewing soles to the list shoes made by the French 
and the West I has continued, regres _ Leather slippers, are made in great quan- 
skins, ty 
tion of tanned 
2E 
i 
ia 
thesehtincnt of Eurdpet eS ee 
con tof in time sometimes 
from the East Indies. 
According to the opinion of ' the leather manufacturers, 
examined "before the Committee, the leather tanned 
within the limits of the chief office in London, bears 
about the enamine Carn of oli: She, lesser 
tanned in. and Wales. Proceeding on this sup- 
position, we have, from the return of leather tanned 
Vrithin the limits’ of chief office between the 5th 
the 
January 1812 and 5th, Jan 1818, calculated the 
tity of all the leather tanned within that time in 
England and Wales, as fallow. r 
Hides tanned in E ngland. 
and Wales, number 8,851,352 weight 89,829,080 
Goat's skins tanned in do. "363,32 4 dozen, 
Roans tanned in do. , - 273,800 800 do. 
Pieces of goat and deer skins 396,836 weight 334,744 
Ibe. 
icularly the middle of the Peace, 
Ay Berkshire, at Wantage inthis, county one 
of the 
SE ee ee elt os toed kt are 
used for blacksmiths aprons.. But "y far the 
tanperios aro in Bevmapnevey fan titans 
nufacture of what is called Morocco 
entirely confined to this mea The Phas! ge 
for this purpose are pene * in Me. 
palace argent Ga ops att ut they are of 
an inferior quality. The capital for the tan- 
ning business is very considerable, since, besides what 
is laid out in buildings, &c. there must be weaned » 
Ww t 
er now 
eee adele to the rapid man- 
ner in which cattle are fattened. 
The principal leather manufacture, is, of course, that 
of shoes, either for home , or for exporta- 
tion ; and the counties in which sl are on the 
largest scale, are N and Staffordshire. 
In the former ,N and more particu- 
larly Wellingboron 1 and pen ace in Staffordshire, 
the rp es town and Newcastle-under-Lyne are the 
places ; in most of which, the 
Feather ie del delivered out y the master manufacturers to 
the small makers. Shoes are also made at Nantwich, 
and Sandbach in Cheshire, by the small 
makers, and sent to the London ware-houses. . While 
, the demand for shoes for the army was 
om caeaiaeeabe <r I: ards 
contractor su upw 
oe eens Pee. annually whe plyins Eyaeet 
entirely Prtthomoteahin cet Staffordshire. In 
pat lh was one house which employed 1000 
workmen, and made about L.75,000 worth in the course 
Goal oly 10h aro cn engennee at a = 
It is impossible to conjecture the probable quantit 
of leather sed in ie iy 4 ys fe Head Wagener Giieeaptier: 4 
in this coun e 
throw some Nett on th on this subject. The "pis 
consumption of leather for one pair of a 
coach harness, is about 10 ; for a common ike ge 
ing saddle and bridle, about Slbs.; for cart 
about the same quantity ; for boots, Gib 
ing shoes, 71bs, ; for dress shoes, 8i lbs ; for. 
shoes, 7} Ibs. ; and for soldiers shoes, 8}1bs. 
.. Shoes are principally exported to "East Indies, 
Batavia, the West , and Canada; while we tra- 
ded with the United States, a great quantity of women’s 
shoes were sent thither, and, many were, e- 
ployed + in binding § them. 
dies are m ade in. almost every town,. but Sher- Saddle. 
borne and Lyn are particularly remarkable for this 
manufacture ; Fics rh rook tore as well as in London, 
for exportation. The hog-skins which, when tanned, 
are used for the seat of the saddle, are principally im- 
ported from Russia. We shall afterwards have occasion 
to notice this manufacture, when we come to treat of 
the manufactures in the hardware line about Binning 
ham: + 
Clan ical ase at Woodstock, Of Glove: 
cester, where the manufacture is : ' bY 
em nearly 500 women, besides men and eturn 
are about L.100,000 ; Stourbridge, gy Hreird York, 
Swindon in Wiltshire, Yeovil in Somersetshire, 
ham, &e. foe tgs 
most employed in this trade ; pee 
‘by mills at Darli 
Frappe, ogee ken Soe inal Value of th 
its bar pense it is impossible dy glo with any de- 
accuracy, it must 
aged article of shoes alone, the i soe 
must be great; if we suppose that it costs each indiyi- 
pact to above L.5,000,000.. The value. 
articles made of leather, such as harness, x 
and what is consumed in coaches, must, at 
the same sum ; so that, on a moderate 
at value of this eae may be rived yea at 
10,000,000 ; es e value we 
at the usual perm as equal pe aap 
value of the manufactured bw “this hie, will give’ us 
L.3,333,333, leaving L.6,666,667. ‘As in many branches 
of this manufacture, especially in the most extensive, 
the shoe trade, there is little outlay of capital, except 
for the purchase of the raw material, pager a 
mecstlR, at ram of 16,905,007 wil be nesey ‘be 
amount of manufacturing it; this, 
L.1,000,000, and the pi Ps ny divi were 
probable average amount of the annual | s of the 
who work at this manufacture,) give.us 
about 227,000 as the number of persons in 
the leather manuficture, 
In treating of the mines of England, we incidentally yfanus 
anes 2 Se sie a ee aie 
was brought into the si of what is called pig and bar 
ture of iros 
