January 1848

In Halifax (England) Mr. Crossley employs in his carpet mills fifteen hundred operatives.

I TRACE, then, the peculiarities of English man- ners to their working climate ; their dense popu- lation ; the presence of an aristocracy or model class for manners and speech ; their diet, gen- erous and orderly taken ; and their force of constitution. Their manners betray real inde- pendence, and they are studiously inoffensive. They are castles compared with our men. . . . An American feels like some invalid in their company.