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China, valued above at £ 1,000,000 annually. We have seen that 19 percent. i» 
the proportion of the value of a piece of cloth which has to bear a host of incidental 
expenses, and also supply the profits of the manufacturer. That proportion of 
£ 1,000,000 is i? 190,000. From this deduct, first, the interest due on the fired 
capital employed in producing manufactures of that value. The capital sunk in the 
establishments of the associated masters of Preston is estimated at £'1,000.000, 
four-fifths of which, or .£800,000, ruay be set down as due to the China trade. 
Considering the uncertainty of trade operations, and the possibility of print urea- 
sionnl loss, 71 per cent, is a rate of interest not more than equitable on that amount 
of capital. We have therefore to deduct .{.'95,000 from .£190,000, leaving an opud 
sum, from which we have to deduct nil the other expenses mentioned above. 
which, perhaps, 4 per cent, is u moderate allowance. From .£.‘95,000 wi l>a ,r 
therefore again tu deduct .£'40,000, which leaves .£'55,000 as clear profit. Ltd d"* 
sum, instead of going wholly to capital, be divided between capital and lab**or. w t 
shall thus have £‘27,500 to divide among the work-people,— probably 17*000 in 
number,—which gives them 7jtf. per week, uot much more than 5 per cent, on 
their present amount of wages. Thus partnership Would destroy capital withent 
enriching labour, and in time render labour worthless by exhausting the fund ou 
of which alone it can be employed. 
The pecuniary results of the strike arc exhibited in the following calculations:— 
Capital sunk in iliu establishments of the associated manufacturers of 
Preston .. £1,000,00" 
Estimated trading loss to the employers...£50,000 
Loss by depreciation, interest and’ other contingencies, for 
thirty-six weeks... G7.000 
Unavoidable expenses in wages, fuel and other items, during 
the strike . 28,000 
Loss in working machinery without adequate number, and 
with inferior description of hands . 20,000 , cr ,oon 
Loss of wages to the operatives during the strike. 250 ' 00 ° 
Ix)ss of the contributors to the strike fund, whose contributions became 
nbortive by the failure of the strike : — 
Blackburn .£ 30.000 
Stockport . 10,000 
Preston . 7,000 
Ashton, Hyde, Glossop and Staleybridge . 10,500 
Over Darwen.. 4,000 
All other places and trades . 35,500 g7,000 
Estimated loss of profits to shopkeepers and innkeepers . £ll i 250 
estimated loss to carriers, railway companies, dressers, sizers, 
mechanics, and other auxiliary occupations . 10,000 $\ t iS0 
• ~ ^ ^ 
^>533,250 
Total loss to the community by the Preston strike. 
On the Reformation of Offenders. By T. 13. Lloyd Bakeb. ^ 
The author strongly recommeuded reformatories instead of prisons, nf *r 
the salutary effects of a reformatory established in the county of Gloucesi . 
Cheltenham. 
The Census of the Deaf and. Dumb in 1851. By David BoxtoH, Pn' tci l J 
of the Liverpool School for the Deaf and Dumb*- ^ 
Enumerations of the deaf and dumb have been frequently made. in . sc . , jf r flCCO aot 
pean countries, and ia the United States. The first time that any similar a 
was taken in this country was at the census of 1851. The general results ar 6 
t * ^ pai>er ** P ul,,i, hed in ejtcniu in the Journal of the Statistical Society of Lo 
June I8a5. 
