We are not yet at the height of the distress.

It is estimated that at the present moment there are three hundred and fifty-five thousand persons engaged in the different manufactories.

Of these forty thousand only are in full work; one hundred and thirty-five thousand are at short work, and one hundred and eighty thousand are out of work altogether.

In the course of the next six weeks this number is likely to be greatly increased; and the loss of wages is not less than 137,000 pounds a week.

This, I say then, is a state of things that calls for the most active exertions of all classes of the community, who, I am happy to say, have responded to the call which has been made upon them most nobly, from the Queen down to the lowest individual in the community.