130 
REPORT—1854. 
If we compare the tables laid before the Statistical Section with a map of Russia, 
we shall see the distribution of the different members of these diflerent groups 
over the governments; and find,— 
a. That the Ugrians lie north and west; 
b. The Turks south aud east; the 
c. Sarmatians west—the Slavonians being south rather than north, the Lilnuaiuau 
north rather than south. 
The Ugrian populations, at present, are central, but in the southern parts discon¬ 
tinuous in their area, and separated from each other—fragmentary so to say. I* 11 ' 
hypothesis in respect to the original character of the Turk, Sarmatian, and Ugrum 
areas, and the history of the encroachments, runquests. migrations, and m- 
placements by which it has since been modified, is that, with a Ugrian population 
in the centre, the Turks moved from south and east to north and West, and ^arinn- 
tians from west to cast; the effect of these movements being to break up inW 
fragments the Ugrian area, one which, upon evidence too lengthy for exhibition, an 
reasonably be extended as far west as the Dnieper, and as far south as the nc g * 
bourhood of the Black Sea. _ 
On the Early Ethnology of Britain. By T. Wright, M.A., F.S.A. 
On some Remains of an Early People in the South-eastern Corner of 
Yorkshire. By T. Wright, M.A., F.S.A . 
STATISTICS. 
On the Causes and 
Henry Ashworth 
of Commerce. 
Consequences of the Preston Strike, 1853 to 185 £ 
th, P.S.S., Vice-President of the Manchester Cham 
The Preston strike of operative cotton-spinners and weavers began August 
and lasted till the beginning of Mav 1854, a period of thirty-eight wccK3_ t 
originated in a demand preferred bv the work-people for an advance of lup ' of 
°J“. 1 rates > ° f was ° s tbeu being paid in the town. It was alleged in I P , tll . r 
this demand, that the rates of wages in Preston were generally lower thar> ® .. 
towns, and that the employers, when compelled to reduce the wages of tliei _ 
people m 1847, hod given a promise to raise them on the arrival of “ Wi . n , 
The masters, on the other hand, usserted that the rates of wages in I w . 
all thmgs considered, equal to those paid in other towns ; that no anicb P )U 
een given ; and that n considerable advance bail already taken p mllS tcn. 
wages paid in 1847. Notwithstanding these objections on the part of 
the demands of the work-people were generally conceded, only four fir® 8 
refus.ng at the time the strike began. * nn lrffa n)C, 
In these circumstances, the immediate cause of the strike, or, as ^toon, ^ 
the lock-out, was the inaubordination of the work-people- E | !tnD « 
concession, they grew more exacting and imperious in their demands, { ^ 
became a necessity of self-defence. In several establishments the . 
employer was at on end ; he had no power cither to dismiss or retain 
the dictation of the men in matters vitally affecting his interests, and .Purrs' 
t ?, hl ® °* n jurisdict ion, was supreme. To meet these evils, the ^ 
nr' Wh,ch had n <* ‘'een in active operation for several 
rem n 1n P ^ilT*o[ :0 , WU9 i,<8Ued tl,at thc “iUs would be closed on a g'nwi* 
remain closed till the work-people were prepared tu resume employ®® the 
£ e „ 8 “ d friendly spirit. fn OcSbir. moSt of the hands 
spinning and weaving establishments in the town, amounting to a 
out of employ; they were organized and drilled bv leaders from, 1 0 , the 
plan, extending throughout the whole of Lancashire, and embracing ®“ n - 
