[To THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—You do not often deal with trade affairs, but it may be of interest to your ever-increasing readers to be told that the considerable activity in the staple trade of Lancashire experi- enced at the end of last year continues this year with unabated force. Employment in the cotton trade was never so full as at the present time; and in this connection it may be stated that thirty-five new spinning mills are going up, which will need seven thousand five hundred fresh operatives, and further, that new weaving sheds are being erected that will require not far off four thousand additional bands. This year full time is assured, and the outlook for both employers and workpeople has seldom been more encouraging. This, indeed, is a trade that is going.—I am, Sir, &c., Melbrook, Bowdon. WILLIAM TATTERSALL.
[We are delighted to publish this confirmation of the good news from Lancashire from so great an authority as Mr. Tattersall. Mr. Chamberlain indeed prophesied better than Ire knew when he told us cotton was " going."—En. Spectator.]
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