506 
COTTON TRADE AT GLASGOW. 
In the government Parish Register 
Abstract,” ordered by the House of 
Commons to be printed, on 2nd April, 
1833, it is shown, in Vol. iii. p 496, 
that the rate of mortality in the metro- 
polis, on an average of years from 1811 
to 1821, was one in 39.7 persons ; and 
the same official document show that 
on an average, from 1821 to 1831, the 
rate of mortality was one in 39-8 per- 
sons. 
In the kingdom of the Netherlands, 
where the registers are as correctly kept 
as any in Europe population, 6,166,854; 
deaths, 158,800, viz. males, 81,742 ; fe- 
males. 77,058. Rate of mortality, one 
in 38 82-lOOth persons. Births, 207,388 
viz. males, 106,481 ; females, 100,907 ; 
there is one birth in 29 7‘l-10CM;h per- 
sons. 
Births in Glasgow, 6,868; population, 
202,426 - there is one birth in 29 47- 
100th persons. The marriages being 
1,919, there is one marriage for 105 
4-lOOth persons. The births being 
6-861, and marriages l,9l9, there are 
3 57-lOOth births to each marriage. 
The number of families being 41,965, 
there are 4 82-lOOth persons to each 
family. 
Cholera . — From tables, kept by Dr. 
Cleland and Dr. Corkendale, it appears, 
that there were three eruptions of cho- 
lera, marked by the reduced number 
of cases. Each eruption had a period 
of increase, and also of gradual de- 
crease. In the first eruption, persons 
poorly fed, of irregular habits, and 
dwelling in the crowded ill-aired parts 
of the city, were chiefly affected. The 
second eruption was more severe ; the 
attacks were more spread over the 
town, and many healthy persons, and 
in easy circumstances, fell victims to 
the disease. The last eruption was 
milder than the second, but still sur- 
passed the first, both in the number of 
cases, and in the healthy and good 
condition of many of the sufferers. 
The total number of cases 6208, is 
about one for every 32^ of the popula- 
tion. The total number of the deaths, 
3,005, is about one for every 67i 
of the population. The progress of 
the disease was such, as to have 
seized one victim for about every six^ 
and to have occasioned one death for 
about every thirteen, families. 
Glasgow in 1699. — According to the 
report of the Municipal Corporation 
Commission in 1835, there were in the 
year 1699, 15 ships belonging to Glas- 
gow. The foreign trade amounted to 
the sum of 20, 500/. Scots — that the 
merchants retailed 20 tons of French 
wine ; 20 butts of sack ; 12 butts of 
brandy yearly, and 1000 bolls of malt 
monthly. That by the decay of trade 
500 houses were uninhabited, and that 
the rent of those inhabited had fallen 
nearly a third. That the best houses 
did not exceed the rent of lOOZ. Scots, 
and the worst 4?. Scots, except some 
taverns. It appears from an official do- 
cument, that at that period the city of 
Glasgow, now the first in point of popu- 
lation and mercantile enterprise in Scot- 
land, was ranked only as the fifth, and 
that the proportion of every lOQ/. of 
taxation was, for Edinburgh, 38/. 25. 
8c/. — Dundee, 9/. 105. 8c/. — Perth, 7/. , 
125. — Aberdeen, *Jl. 45. — Glasgow, 2/. | 
135. 8c/. 
Cotton Trade. — The manufacture of | 
linens, lawns, cambrics, and other arti- ' 
cles of similar fabric, was introduced ' 
into Glasgow about the year 1 and ‘ 
continued to be the staple manufacture I 
till they were succeeded by muslins. On ' 
the 2 1st of July, 1834, Mr. Leonard Hor- ; 
ner, one of the Parliamentary Factory j 
Commissioners, reported to Parliament, | 
“ That in Scotland there are 134 cotton j 
mills ; that, with the exception of some i 
large establishments at Aberdeen, and 
one at Stanley, near Perth, the cotton 
manufacture is almost entirely confined l 
to Glasgow and the country immediately j 
adjoining to a distance of about 25 miles ' 
radius, and all these country mills, even I 
including the great work at Stanley, are ' 
connected with Glasgow, trade. In Lan- ■ 
arkshire (in which Glasgow is situated) ' 
there are 74 cotton factories ; in Renfrew- ' 
shire, 41 ; Dumbartonshire, 4 ; Bute- 
shire, 2; Argyleshire, 1; Perthshire, 1. 
In the six counties there are 123 cotton 
mills, nearly 100* of which belong to 
Glasgow.’ 
Power Looms — have increased greatly 
of late years — some idea may be obtained 
of the extent of their use in Glasgow | 
when it is known that in 1831 four hou- 
ses employed 3040 looms. These looms, 
on an average, weave fourteen yards 
each per day. Allowing each loom to 
work 300 days in a year, these four com- 
panies would throw off 10,101,000 yards 
of cloth, which, at the average price of i 
44c/. per yard, is 189,393/. 155. per 
