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THE BRITANNIA. BRIDGE.
A NEW WONDER OF THE WORLD.
The following description of this stupendous work is
given by a correspondent of the Manchester Examiner :
The Menai Strait is an arm of the sea, separating
the island county of Anglesea from Carnarvonshire on
the mainland of Wales. It is fourteen miles long, vary•
ing from 200 yards to two miles in width. An impetu-
ous tide sweeps through it, which, at one time, with
the mid water and under water rocks, rendered its na-
vigation exceedingly dangerous. The worst of the
rocky dangers have been removed, and vessels of the
largest size may now pass Carnarvon Bay, on the south
of Anglesea, to Bangor Bay, on the north, without sail-
ing round Anglesea, should the stormy weather or con-
trary winds at Holyhead render the passage of the Menai
Strait preferable.
The necessity of a passage across the Strait was, ori-
givally, to connect the island and the mainland; and
while that was all, the passage was by ferry boats upon
the water. Ultimately the harbour of Holyhead. on the
extreme west of Anglesea, the nearest point to Ireland,
was decided upon as the English landing place. Roads
were made from England through Wales, and a bridge,
unequalled in beauty and magnificence, suspended by
ponderous chains, on lofty piers, was thrown across the
Strait, at a narrow point about two miles from Bangor.
In process of time it was deemed expedient to super-
sede the turnpike roads leading to Holyhead by a rail-
way. At first it was proposed to use the suspension
bridge for the railway trains, by having stations at each
end, at which the locomotive engines would be detached,
and between which a stationary engine would draw the
trains. The bridge was declared capable of sustaining
a weight of 2,600 tons, of which 1,094 tons were its
own weight; thus giving a surphis strenth of 150 tons.
If the bridge was covered with loaded railway carriages
over all its length, and on each of its roadways (it is
divided into two, with a spacious pathway between),
the weight of the carriages would have been 265 tons.
leaving still surplus strength of 621 tons. But other
objections to its use for railway trains arose, chief of
which was its undulatory motion.
- One would suppose that the wind would cause it it to
swing to and fro, rather than to heave up and down in
undulations. But it has hardly any sideway or swing-
ing motion. Nor had it now as much of the undulatory
motion as it once had. Mr. Fisher, the resident engi-
neer, told me that be had known it heave six feet above
and deflect six feet below the level in gales of wind. It
has been improved by adding weight to the roadway,
and tension rods between the chains, so as to prevent
that extreme motion which in gales of wind ran along it
like a heaving wave from end to end, tearing up the
flooring which formed the paths and waggon tracks.
Still, it is undulatory. I stood on it in a gale, and felt it
heaving beneath me as a ship he ives when a billow
passes underneath. This being a characteristic insepa-
rable from its construction, it was resolved that a new
bridge should be erected for the use of the railway on a
new principle. The inventive genius of Robert Stephen-
son declared•that this new bridge should be two iron
tubes, or railway tunnnels made of iron plates, laid
parallel to each other, on piers built on the rocks be-
aeath.
If we suppose ourselves stationed in a boat in the
middle of the Menai Strait, a few hundred yards distant
from the new bridge on the south side, and suppose it
finished, we shall see a wonder of the world of this kind;
first, there is the middle pier rising out of the water
founded on the Britannia rock, from which the bridge
takes its name. This rock can be seen at low water.
The breadth of this pier is 62 feet by 53 feet and a quar-
ter of an inch. The blocks of stone are seven and eight
feet long by three and four feet in breadth and deepness,
and they rise, stone upon stone, until the pier is two
hundred and thirty feet high.
At the distance of four hundred and sixty feet on each
side of this centre pier there rise, near to the water's
edge, two other piers of the same gigantic breadth and
height; while on each side of these two piers, at this dis-
tance of two hundred and fifty feet, there rise two walls.
Continuing outwards, the wall on our right hand, on the
Carnarvon shore, does not extend its ponderous bulk far
back, for the land is high and bold, and the railway
comes along its elevated brow and at once lays hold of
the bridge. But on our left hand, which is the Anglesea
shore, the wall is the forehead and end of a mighty em-
bankment, on which the railway is raised to the level of
the bridge.
There, then, are the four spaces before us, across
which, in the iron tubes the railway is laid, namely, two
spaces on each side of the centre pier of 460 feet each—
(let the reader measure 460 feet on a street or on a
road, and he will wonder at the vastness of this struc-
ture); aid two more spaces of 250 feet respectively, aft
each end. The tubes are eight in number, each of them
30 feet on the exterior side, and 27 feet high in the in-
terior. Each is 14 feet wide, and they are laid in couples
parallel to each other. Taking ourselves in our boat
underneath the bridge, and looking up, glancing from
the Carnarvon side of the Strait, we see two tubes, ra-
ther, we should say, masses of iron, for they do not
seem to be tubes, lying side by side from the wall al-
ready named across the space of 250 feet. They have
each a hold upon the stone work, several feet at each
end, and they rest upon moveable rollers and balls made
of gun metal, the hardest known; those rollers and balls
resting on beds of metal, and moving outwards or in-
wards as the massive tubes or iron expand with heat or
contract with cold.
Next we see two others of the same height and width,
viz., thirty feet high and fourteen feet wide, lying side
by side across the next space of 460 feet, and resting on
the masonry as the others. Thirdly, we see two more
lying side by side across a space of 460 feet; and lastly,
two crossing the space of 250 feet. In the whole, with
the breadth of the piers and the landward buildings, the
length of the bridge is one-third of a mile.
In height the three piers are as already said, 230 feet.
But they are seventy feet higher than the tubes. These
are so masssive that their actual elevation above the
water seems less than it really is; and so dead and in-
elegant to the eye that it was necessary to raise the
piers seventy feet above them, to give a show of ele-
gance to the structure. Measuring from low water mark
to the bottom of the tubes, the height is 130 feet, the
tubes being thirty feet on the side, and the piers seventy
feet above their upper surface. As ornaments to the
two walls which rise upon each shore, are four lions,
two at each end of the bridge. The lions contain about
8,000 cubic feet of stone. They lie couched, and yet
the height of each is twelve feet; the greatest breadth
across the body is nine feet; the length twenty-five feet;
the breadth of each paw two feet four inches.
As we are now so high as to see the lions in detail,
we may look into the interior of the iron tubes. They
are made of plates of iron of various thicknesses,
rivetted together. The iron increases in thickness as
we proceed towards the centre. We now see that the
roofs of the tubes are formed of cells, and also the floors.

side bide have been placed hetteath: the stage on which
one of the great masses of iron has been built. The stage
is removed, and the tube of 1,300.t0ns rests upon the
barges. They are towed out upon the water with their
monster freight, are brought round, and drawn forward
until they and it campy
the apace between two of the
piers. They are moored andinade fast there. The out-
side width of the tube being. fourteen feet, there is a
grocire in each of the piers wider than that ; and at the
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bottom of the piers stones have been left out to admit
the ends of the tubes into the grooves. Those groves
extend upwards as high as the iron is to be elevated,
namely, one hundred and thirty feet. At a height con-
siderably above that, within an archway which is in
each pier, an hydraulic press of great power is stationed.
A chain of remarkable construction, which we cannot
now stop to examine and talk shout, extends downward
from the hydraulic press, and is- fastened to the end
of the tube. The press is put to work, and it has the
power of lifting the mass of iron six feet. This we
see, looking only at one pier and at one end of the
tube. But a second press and chain are employed
simultaneously with
this at the other end. When
they have raised the large thing six feet, iron
girders of great strength are placed underneath it,
across the groove, the ends ~of the girders rest-
ing on the stone work of the pier which
abuts on each side of the groves, These being placed,
the press stops and allows its iron burthen to rest on
them, and the chains are slackened. While slackened, a
line, or section of each chain, measuring six feet, is
removed. Each is again fastened to its load; the presses
are again at work, and the tube is-raised six feet higher.
Again girders (or bearers) are laid across the grooves;
again the gigantic wonder of the world rests in its
upwards progress; and again the chains are shortened
by six feet each; and again and again the press goes to
wot k.

And now this ariel tunnel is high enough—its bottom
being 130 feet above the water. The iron bearer, which
is never to be removed, and which has upon its upper
surface the rollers and balls of nuttal already named, is
placed underneath sada ertfle, press allows the
obedient monster Co sink into its place; and there it is
more solidly at rest than any one will be in his bed to-
night who has been witness to this day's mighty enter-
prise.

Tomorrow and the next to-morrow, and the next
again, and so forth, the others will be raised, and laid in
their places, never to be shaken by gales of wind or
deflected by railway burthen. Their own preponderous
weight will keep them immoveable ; the augmentation
of burthen will only strengthen them--at least we are
told so.

MOZART'S « NOZZE DI FIGARO.

The following interesting details respecting this work
are extracted from Mr. Holmes's " Life of Mozart :"
" From a letter of Leopold Mozart to his daughter,
, dated Novtmber 11, 1785, we learn that the composer
was already engaged in preparation for his opera, Le
.Nozze di Figaro, but they were only preparations, as
other engagements intervened, and the actual score was
not commenced until the April following. The all-en-
grossing subject of Mozart's thoughts during the spring
of the year was Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera likewise
undertaken at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph.
This work, which has maintained its place on the stage
and in the drawing-room for nearly sixty years in con-
tinuation, is justly considered, for its extraordinary
sone of the most won-
comedy of Beau-
the wealth of melody, the variety of its style,
an d
libretto,
adapted
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marchais, seems to bare satisfied Mozart, and
the subject seems to have possessed unusual charms
for him, if we may judge by the rate at which he worked.
The whole opera was written in the course of April.
The marvellous finale of the second act, consisting of six
grand pieces, occupied him for two nights and a day,
during which he wrote without intermission. In the
course of the second night he was seized with an illness
which compelled him to stop; but there remained only a
few pages of the last piece to instrument. During the
month of May, the composer was occupied in teaching
the singers and superintending the rehearsals. It is re-
markable that the experienced friends of Mozart trembled
for the reception of this opera; and the father (Leopold),
who well knew the musical politics of Vienna, and the
state of parties there, writes to his daughter, April 1786,
in these doubtful terms:—The first stage of rehearsal
will take place on the 28th. It will be fortunate if the
opera succeeds, for I know that there are immensely
strong intrigues against it; Salieri and all his tribe will
move heaven and earth to put it down. Dussek lately
said to me, " that the reason of your brother's having
such strong cabals against him, is the high estimation
which he has gained by his uncommon talent and skill."
Salieri and Righini, being at this time ready
with operas, were both competitors with Mozart for pre-
ference ; and the contest between the composers was so
warm, that the Emperor was obliged to interpose; apt,
he decided for Figaro. Some eagerness of rivalry rpri
to have been pardonable on an occasion which is i•en-
dered memorable by the unequalled talent of the singers,
and the extraordinary congress of composers assemled
at Vienna.

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Rarely, if ever, has it happened to a musician to sub-
mit his composition to such an ordeal as Mozart did
Figaro, and few have been the instances in dramatic
annals in which men of such renown as Haydn, Mozart,
Gluck, Paisiello, Storace, Salieri, Righini, Anfossi, &c.,
have been collected together under one roof to witness
the first performance of an opera, and it is no impro-
bable surmise that they were on this occasion. The
erethLe e?Pe' n theas a
lively
re-
hearsals went off favourably. Kelly, who claims to have
sung " Crudel P
of
it
had
fallen fresh from the
first rehearsal. " I remember Mozart was on the
, g with i
v composer, just
account
a s
stage, with his crimson pelisse and gold laced cocked
hat, giving the time of the music to the or-
chestra. Figaro's song, " Xon piu andrai, farfallone
amoroso," Benucci gave with the greatest animation and
power of voice. I was standing close to Mozart, who,
sotto voce, was repeating, " Bravo, bravo, Benucci;" and
when Benucci came to the fine passage, " Cherubino, ells
vittoria, alla gloria militar," which he gave out with
stentorian lungs, the effect was electricity itself, for the
whole of the performers on the stage and those in the
orchestra, as if actuated by one feeling of delight, voci-
ferated " Bravo, bravo, maestro! Viva, viva, grande
Mozart!" Those in the orchestra I thought would never
have ceased applauding, by beating the bows of violins
against the music desk. The little man acknowledged,
by repeated obeisances, his thanks for the distinguished
mark of enthusiastic applause bestowed upon him. "But
on the first night of the performance there was a cabal
among the singers, which obliged Mozart to go, between
the first and second acts, -to the box of the Emperor,
where he pointed out, in great agitation, the danger his
music was incurring. The refractory performers
were brought back to their duty by... Royal inter-
ference. For an account of the opera during the second
and third nights, we must extract a sentence from a let-
ter of the composer's father, dated May 18,1786:—"At the
second representation at Vienna, there were five, and
at the third seven pieces encored, and among them a
little duet, which was sung three times.' These en-
cores, which seem indicative of the growing popularity
of the opera, were, notwithstanding, of transient effect,
and the balance of parties was decidedly adverse to
Mozart. It is well ascertained, that the profits of the
third representation, which were to reward his labour,
proved so inconsiderable as in no degree to ameliorate
his circumstances, and so discouraged was he with the
reception of Figaro, that he resolved never more to
produce an opera at Vienna. This resolution he in-
deed waived, through change of circumstances and mo-
tives of private benevolence; but his dissatisfaction with
the musical taste of Vienna is well knovvn. Among the
performers who sustained the original cast of characters
in Figaro, Mozart could certainly reckon upon some
friends. According to his memorandum on this opera,
they consisted of the following female singers :—Sto-
race, Laschi, Mandini, Bassani, and Nanina ; the men
were Benucci, Mandini, Oehely, and Bassani.
What the lyric drama gained by this opera in ele-
gance of melody, in models of love
certed music and varied finales, we are well able to
determine. While all the popular melodies of the comic
operas coeval with Figaro (tunesthewere regularly
whichstreet
transferred from the theatre to
has
faded,
icians) are
lost, not a note of that composition and when
reproduced, it still finds as many enthusiastic admirers
as a comedy of ShaksPeare. The.
.combination of play-
predominates in it, imparts
fulness and grace which
Figaro, accordin
• g to some critics, a more. decided Mo-
v other of his
zartian character than an, works. Every
it
one may certainly find it! something to please. The
musician, for instance, listens with
delight to the bass of
admirable
the first duet, or to the . instrumentation of the
song in which the page z's trying on the cap. What
P. wealth
of beauty in places comparativelymusicunnoticed.delightful with a laugh, may
fine both in the duet in which Susanna describes the
behaviour of the Count when her
.bridegroom is gone
on his travels. The,
p
deprecatory interjections of poor
Figaro, " Susanna, pian, piau,' call u the mostpleasant
recollections. It were endless to pursue this opera
through all its materials for pleasure. The favourite
•of the composer was the sestetto,
piece " Riconosci in
o ' Le None di Figaro "
questo aropless • .
itsis the third
• • piece which composer
dramatic piehad produced by
desire of the Emperor Joseph • Throughout the re-
mainder of the year in which Figaro was, produced,
to have been full of a plan of
Mozart appears settling
in
England.

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gold
the present existence, health, and position to this oh;
"oUlcl be de„-2 niattims he would ineuleate—t3 do unto others as. s
on the unte—te live after nature's laws—and to keep. al,
,erwoo,i-„nY Bide of th way." The above works ma be had of
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Tuorninfr,.°M the author (who may be conferred (with pe. rsonalayli
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Those cells are formed of iron plates set on edge, the
cell.; of the roof being within a fraction of one foot nine
inches square, and those of the floor being one foot nine
inches wide, and two feet three inches deep. The rails
on which the trains run are laid on those cells of the
floor. The flat bottom, the two upright sides, and the
flat roof of each tube are formed of plates, the thinnest of
which is a quarter of an inch, and the thickest twelve-
sixteenths of an inch, but the number of them laid to-
gether and the internal joining cannot be yet explained.
The weight of each of the four long tubes will be about
1,300 tons ; the weight of each of the four short ones
about 600 tons. In the whole there will be at least
7,600 tons of iron used. No contracting estimate of the
expense of the iron
part of the work has been made, as
the work may cost more or less, according to circum-
stances. The masonry was contracted for by B. J.
Nowell and Co. at 130,0001 ; but, from alterations in the
plans, it will cost (suppose no farther alterations be
made) 200,0001. They expect to finish the masonry by
August, 1848. It will contain one million and a half of
cubic feet of stone.

When I was there in May fifty vessels, of sixty or
seventy tons each, were employed in conveying the
stones to the works; the red sandstone, of which the in-
side courses are built, from Runcorn—the blue limestone,
of which the outside courses are built, from the sea
shores of Anglesea. The quarries en the Anglesea
shores opened for this work extended over twenty miles.
In the whole there were 1,300 men employed, 600 of
them at the bridge, the fortnightly wages of the latter
amounted to 1,3001. 3,000 cubic feet of timber had been
used at that time for stages and scaffolding. Two steam
engines were at work on each shore, and a third was
being erected on the Britannia Rock, in the centre of the
Strait, to hoist the stones, grind mortar, saw timber, and
perform other heavy work. On each shore there was a
limekiln, the chips of the limestone falling from the
irons of the hewers being burned into lime; and the
chips of the red sandstone being ground to powder to
make mortar with the lime. There were seventeen
gauntries with travelling crabs on each for moving the
blocks of stone. Railways diverged and converged, on
which trucks run along; and every heavy weight in the
building of this wonderful structure was moved as if men
were gods, who only willed that huge blocks should take
motion, and they took it.
The building of the iron tubes had not then begun ;
but the stages upon which they are to be built are
erected, extending along the Carnarvon shore about a
quarter of a mile. The plates of iron aro in prepara-
tion at different places in England and Scotland, and
they will be conveyed separately to Wales, and put to-
gether on these stages. The tubes will then be con-
veyed from the shore and elevated to their places in this
way. We
shall imagine ourselves present while the
mighty thing is in process of being done ; each of them
requiring only about six or eight hours to be removed
efre vatiom t.he
on stage upon the shore, and raised to its lofty
l.

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THE WEATuEE.—In the early part of the week a
considerable quanateitqyueoefur,apininfgeall:ka, nidiaslaistelatthues grain to
some extent. Very warm weather has now succeeded ;
yr.aMs large as an orange and perfectly souna,
and will, doubtless, repair the little injury done by the
rain. From all quarters the moat favourable reports aro
SUICIDE IN JERSEY.—On Friday morning, about
potato, received.
n
ten o'clock, Captain Thomas Calder, of the Royal Navy,
who resided in the parish of St. Lawrence, blew out his
brains with a pistol. An inquest was held on his body
in the evening, and a verdict returned, " Died by his
nearly
own hand, whilst in a state of temporary derangement."
FRENCH FLOUR. —The following arrivals of flour
have taken place in one day from France, viz. :—The
Lord Glenelg, from Havre, 2,102 barrels ; the Laurel,
from Havre, 1,301 barrels ; and the Lively, from Bor-
deaux, 2,000 barrels of the article, the produce of France.
The latest arrivals have also included some supplies of
grain from Nantes and other parts of France.

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Is in ies floor physicians and surgeons of great eminence, which
Ilatur„"t important consideration to those wh. , from the peculiar
Of their infirmities, are obliged to seek medical assistance
Itutn44rallgers. The subject is treated altogether in
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er
and by its perusal the unfortunate victim of vicious habits
dIId
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rw!atY and effectual manner.—United Service Gazette.
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Imagine, then, the day. Is it not a scene worth liv-
ing for ? We are on the shore of Carnarvon, looking
tier°, s the rapid tide now flowing, to the high shores of
Anglesea. A mile below, on the wooded slope, is the
beautiful residence of the Marquis of Anglesea ; and
on the hill nearly opposite to us, overlooking the great
woik of this great day, is ,the column erected to com-
memorate the Marquis and Waterloo, the column hav-
ing the familiar name of " Lord Anglesea's Leg," he
having got this column on the Anglesea bills because he
lost a leg on the plains of Belgium. May Stephenson
achieve a triumph in art this day, as undovbred as was
the triumph of war of Wellington and Anglesea on that
day ! How glorious for him and for England if he
does ! But why
say if He will triumph. He risks
nothing here ; he has reduced everything to certainty.
The tide is now favourable. A line of barges lying

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PAWNING LINEN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES.
Sir,—Your well known readiness at all times to ad,
vacate the cause of the industrious poor induces me draw your attention to a practice, so fraught with mot evil to the employed, as well as certain risk to em'
ployers, that, should you incline to notice it in you/
journal, and comment upon it in your usual able manner,
I think much good might accrue from it.
I allude to the case of laundresses, and the system t;
raising money on the linen entrusted to them, induced"
it is alleged, from the want of certainty with which they
receive payment from persons employing them.
This fact was brought under my knowledge in al
following manner:—
Having for some time been dissatisfied with the irre.
gularity with which our linen was returned from ths,
person who undertakes my family's washing, and an-
noyed by the detention of various articles (not unfree
quently for several weeks together), the cause was mom
thoroughly investigated, and on application being made
at a pawnbroker's in the vicinity of the washerwoman
the lost linen was found there amongst numerous other

articles of table linen, sheets, gentlemen's fine shirts
silk handkerchiefs, &c., many of which were recognise4
as belonging to other parties known to the personmakin
the inquiry, and marked with the owner's names in full.
A remark of the pawnbroker's, on some surprise being
expressed was, " This is no single case, for not one
washerwoman only, but hundreds adopt the same plan;"
and from what has since come to my knowledge it ap-
pears that it really is a frequent practice with laun-
dresses though I believe more particularly in the
neighbourhood of London. In the case in question I
fully believe nothing dishonest was intended, the washer-
woman did not attempt to deny the fact, though ex-
pressing regret at being obliged to have recourse to the
plan ; still she appeared surprised at any impropriety
being attached to it, having learnedfrom
her the system
her former mistress ; other laundressesihin the neigh-
bourhood did the same, and she was
theer turn teach,
ing it to her own assistants. But when the
an
assured me that many of the ladies for whompsohner washed
often only paid their bills monthly or quarterly (very few
wetkly or regulariy)„,and put the question, how was it
possible for her, witlioi)t capital, to provide herself even
with the necesary articles for carrying on her business,
and support a little family entirely dependent upon her
earnings, without some such loan? I could but feel she
had been placed in difficulty, and that such cases should
be made public, as well as brought before individuals
who may also be thus inconsiderately placing in diffi-
culty and temptation those whose dependence for sub-
sistence is on the labour of their hands.
I am respectfully yours,
THE MISTRESS OF A FAMILY.
•
sTAVIce-vr TILEKVOTZO-1111:LLS.
The larger portion of the works of the Hull Flax and
Cotton Company are stopped, and have been so since
Monday week, owing to a strike of the hands. The fol-
lowing is a copy of the placard distributed by the fac-
tory people on Wednesday :—" Strike of the Strippers,
Grinders, and Scutching men of the Hull Cotton Mills.
Apppeal to the Public.—The above strike took place on
Monday last, July sth, 1847, on account of our wages
being reduced from I ls. a week to 10s. id. which, from
the great price of provisions, &c., it is impossible to
exist upon, we are therefore compelled to appeal to a ge-
nerous public to assist us in endeavouring to reptes s op-
pression and maintain our rights.—Hull, July 6th,
1847."—This strike is the first which has taken place
since the opening of these works, and is attributable to
the following circumstances:—On Thursday, the Ist
instant, the inspector of factories in this district caused
to be delivered to the manager of the company's mills a
copy of the new Act of Parliament for regulating the
hours of labour in factories, prohibiting the employment
of the operatives more than eleven hours per day. Ac-
companying the Act was a circular calling the attention
of the proprietors and managers of the mills to its pro-
visions. Notice was immediately given to all the work
people, who were at the same time informed that a re-
duction would be made in the wages of those working
by time, proportioned to the decreased period of labour.
Their answer was that they would require the same
wages as before, to which the manager replied that it
would not be given ; and that they might take a week
to consider the subject. The whole of the time-hands
stood out ; and their absence from the works compelled
the cessation from labour of some others whose opera-
tions depended upon those of the time-hands. The
total number of unemployed were thus about 1,500. In
some other departments of labour in which the parties
are paid by piece, the operations are being continued as
before. In Hull the reduction is in exact proportion to
the reduction of time, viz., one in 12, or 8i per cent.
The Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company have informed
their operatives that they have resolved to bear part of
the loss with them, that is to say—the loss of interest,
consequent upon the unemployment of their capital dur-
ing one• twelfth part of the time which it has hitherto
been worked, or equal to one month in every year.—
Hull Advertiser.

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