Star.
London, England, 1819-09-07 00:00:00

THE FUND€

InICE OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock shut
3 per Cent. Reduced shut
3 per Cent: Consols 711 71
3/1 per Cent. SO2-4 per Cent. shut
per Cent. Navy 104 ii
Bank Long Annuities shut
• Imperial S per Cent. Anns. 71
3 per Cent. 1751 701
Exchequer Bills (V.) 2 1 9 dis.
Omnium 331 pre.
Cons. for Acct. 71101.

We received accounts yesterday from Nottingham
and the neighbouring district, which a pressure of
other matters obliged us to keep back till to-day, but
which deserve particular attention. At length peo-
ple are beginning more and more to open their eyes
to the impolicy, injustice, and folly, of raising money
*by assessments, in the name of Poors' Rates, but ac-
tually for the purpose of paying the wages of work-
men, the profits from whose labours go, exclusively,
into the pockets of their Masters. We have long la-
boured to enlighten the 'public mind in this topic,
and to tear up by the roots that specious sophistry
by which the foolish and avaricious would have it
believed that they have a right to take a man's la-
bour at half its value—measuring that value too,
by the low scale of bare sustenance, on the pretext
that labour should be lrji to find its owls level.—
In fact their invariable aim has been to reduce its
price below its natural level; and in this they would-
have persevered till they had absorbed the whole capi-
tal of the country, had pair's not been employed to
remove the veil, and open mens' minds to their true
interests. In many parishes means are now pursued
to bring this system of iniquity to a terminatiori. It
is self evident, that the lowest equilibrium which can
be obtained between labour and remuneration, is

nutriment equal to the teorkman's sustenance put into
the scale against his labour; for, laying aside all the
petty jargon of pseudo-economists, food is the pri-
mum mobile of all products. Reduce this, and the
quantity of work must necessarily be reduced. A
horse cannot travel all day, and day after day, on a
quantity of corn sufficient only for half a day's sup-
port—no, not if yoirlash him to death. You know
this very well ! You only ask, that other people may
find corn for yodr horse. They have been fools
enough to do this too long ; but at length,—won2er-
ful discovery ! they have found out, that, as you get
the profit, or pleasure of the ride, you should find the
pmender ; and they are determined, that in future
you shall :--unless you can find out some process by
which a half-peck loaf shall go as far as a whole peck !
From the accounts to which we are now adverting,
our Readers will see with pleasure, that many of the
most respectable Master Manufacturers in Notting-

ham, actuated, we would fain trust, by an awakened
sense of what is just and equitable, rather than by
any mere desire of yielding to the general feeling on
the subject, have signified their acquiescence in that
Statement of Prices for which the workmen, sanc-
tioned by the Parochial Authorities, have been so
firmly, but peaceably insisting. The Duke of Naw-
CASTLE, the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Not-
tingham, has been personally very assiduous in en-
deavouring to bring the whole of the Masters to fol-
low the same line of conduct; and although his Grace
has been obliged to leave Nottingham with the regret
of having only partially succeeded in his laudable
purpose, nothing can be more certain than its ulti-
mate, nay, speedy accomplishment. The Parochial
Authorities, the Landholders, the Inhabitants at
large, have only to continue in the wise and discreet
course which they have adopted, of supporting the
workmen in their just demands, and the Masters
must either fall in with the terms required, or aban-
don the trade altogether ; when, doubtless, other per-
sons will be found, better disposed and quite as able,
to do it justice.