The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-12 00:00:00

I LORD RAU-NOTt ON LABOLTRERS'
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At the l'arrinDl,,o fr:•i, u!trt•
Lord Radnorsaid :
There v, r. h;• lying 10..
week, and aotee less than that • they ,ere raid accord-
ing to their services, and on no other ground whatever.
—(Hear, hear.) That he contended to be the true
principle—it was' a principle upon which men acted on
every subject, and it was the only way by which to do
the labourer justice. He mainteined that paying men
according to their services was really and truly the only
Way to make a labourer perfectly independent.—(Hear.)
In consequence of acting upon the principle of regulating
wages according to the price of corn, the indolent and
idle would be paid more than the t.ctive. industrious and
useful man.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Nor wag it to be
said that the wages of the labourer should be such as to
meet his wants. He denied that they depended on his
wants : they depended on meritorious labour. If they
depended on his wants, he wished to know who was to
fix his wants ? They must be fixed either by the em-
ployer or the man himself. It his wants were to be fixed
by the man himself, be would say, " I want a piece of
roast beef for my dinner every day • and un-
less I have this and good clothes I shall not
be satisfied." That, of course, was out of the
question. On the other band, if his watts were to be
fixed by his employer, who was the stronger man of the
two, the probability was that the labourer would be re-
duced to the lowest possible point at which man could keep
body and soul together ; and would become more like
the Irish than the English labourer. That would be the
result of paying not according to services rendered, but
according to the supposed wants of the labourer. It had
been stated that this was a most cruel, harsh, and un-
charitable mode of acting towards the labourer. Charity
was a different thing to the payment of labour. He did
not object to charity if it was not given in the shape
of wages ; if a man wish to be charitable let him, freely
give it out of his own pocket.—(Cheers.) In the opinion
that the payment of wages according to supposed wants
was most degrading to the labourer, and would reduce
him to a condition very little better than that of a slave,
he was borne out by the late Rev. Dr. Arnold, to whom
the improvement of the working classes was an
object more precious than any other in the world. Dr.
Arnold, in a letter to the editor of a Sheffield
paper, said, "The principle of making up wages
out of the poor-rates (alluding to the old practice) is,
in fact, under the mask o f kindness to the poor, one of
the most degrading systems of oppression. When they
are paid, not according to their industry and skill, but
according to their wants—when, for the same species of
labour, one man receives only one•half the weekly wages
of another, not because his work is worth less, but be-
cause he is a single man, we are so far advanced towards
a state of slavery. The slave, like one of the domestic
servants, being one of his master's property, receives,
whether the profits of his labour be small or great, as
much, and only as much, as is sufficient to support him
in tolerable condition." He wished to impress forcibly
on the minds of the farmers of England, that their prin-
cipal object ought to be to make the labourers indepen-
dent, and they could only make them independent by
giving them wages, not according to the price of corn—
not according to supposed wants—but according to the
work they had done.—(Hear.)—.Devizes Gazette.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.

FRIDAY EVENING

No coursing to-day, the snow being a foot deep in the
town. We wait until morning, expecting a change of wea-
ther; but we think there is no chance, and that the Stakes
will be divided.