COTTUS

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A genus of spiny finned fishes; so called on account of the large size of the head. It includes two British species, viz. the Falherlasher (Cottus bubalis,) and the Sea Scorpion (Coitus scorpio); both of which are dreaded by fishermen on account of the painful and dangerous wounds which they inflict by means of the spines with which the gill-covers are armed. * Mr. Stanway, from the Returns of the mill owners, ascertained that 67,819 mill operatives in England received 141,6: 5/. 5s. 7 3-id. as wages for a month of four weeks: at the same rate. 237,000 mill operatives, the number in the United Kingdom, would earn 6,434,453/. per year. But as wages in Scotland are 10 percent, and in Ireland 15 or 53 per Cent, lower than in England, and as two weeks' wages in the year ought to be deducted for holidays, the amount of wages paid will be about 6,044,0007. t In my estimate of the number of weavers I have not reckoned the winders, draw-boys, . who a ist them, and who must amount to a mat many you sands; but, in the supposed average of their wages, I include those earned by the a istants of ttie weavers as well as by the weavers themselves. The sum of 7s. per week for the gro wages of all hand-loom weavers is, I am convinced, a fair estimate. The calculation is for 50 weeks in the year. * The wages paid to the women and children employed in embroidery, flgftnding, 'ace. must be extremely low. Air. Felkin estimates the whole value of the lace manufactured In England at 1,850,650/.; deduct the cost of the yarn, 635.000'. and there remains the sum of 1,215.- i;3C; of which, probably, 1,000,0LW. consists of wages to the workpenp'e.f| Th.2 quantity stated by Burns in the Commercial Glance. ] I " adopt this sum from Mr. MCulloch, thinking it a moderate 294 [s. 308]