The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-18 00:00:00

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WAGES OF TRADESM EN. MECHANICS, MYR
ARTIFICERS.

The following Resolutions *ete entered Into bry the
Court, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace,
held at Northallerton, in the North Itiiliag of the County
of York, on the 14th of October, 1822. Their object,
as will be seen, is to reduce the price of labour. It is,
beyond all doubt, reasonable that there should be some
reduction in price; bet we conceive the proposed:scale
to he too/ow. Let the (heat Officers of State, whose
salaries were advanced in times of high prices, set Me
example, and then it will be followed, but it is rather too
much for the Court, while the fees of their officers, and
the expenses of their proceedings, remain at the same
rate, to call for a further reduction from the trades-
men's prices, and the wages of the poor man, by which
they would be rendered still more incapable of obtain-
ing justice:—
"Resolved unanimously, That it is the opinion of
this Court, that the present high prices paid to trades-
men, mechanics, innkeepers, and others, is unwarranted
by the low price at which provisions may be purchased.
"That as the rate of wages, &c. was founded, and
has always advanced, with every material advance with
the price of corn and other agricultural produce, so a
reduction in the former, proportionate to the reduction
in the latter, ought to be made.
" That with a view towards equLlising the price of
labour and the retail price of provisions, with the whole
sale purchase of the saute, the Court has, throughout
the public department of the Riti:ag, ordered a material
reduction to be made.

" The price now paid to artificers and labourers is as
follows :

I'er Ii cad per day.
S. D.

Per head per day.

Master Bricklayer .. 3
Journeyman ditto . . 2 6
Master Carpenter . . 3 0
Journoeyman ditto . 2 6

$. D.
Master Whitesmith . 3 0
Journeyman ditto . 2 6
Master Stonemason 3 U
Journeyman ditto . 2 6
1 Common Labourer . 1 6
'ended the same line of con-

And they strongly recomi
duct to he generally adopted
" The Court feel their attention particularly directed
to the reduction of the taxes upon leather and !mit,
which have been so reduced specially for the purpose of
benefiting the public, and assisting the agricultural in-
terest, and as bask and hides, malt and hops, are to be
pnrchasedat co6oerably reduced prices, the community
have a right trreceive a corresponding abatement in
the price of leather and malt liquors, and the Court
will use every exertion in their power to see that the
intention of the Legislature in this respect Is not frus-
trated.—By the Court,
"W3l. WAILES,
" Deputy Clerk of the Peace."
(Nottingham Review.)

Monday next is the birth day of Earl St. Vincent, who
sill then enter upon his 89th year. His Lordship is now
enjoying his utiutn cunt dignstute at his seat in Essex,
where a select number of very old friends are invited to
assemble on that day.
CAMBRIDGE. JAN. 16.—Mr. W. J. Bankes, M.P., has
presented to that University library several valuable
books, recently printed at Milan and Venice, among
which are the classical works edited by Angelo Maio,
the learned librarian of the Natican ; the (Arc nicht of
Emblem. by Aucber ; Ciakciak's Italian, Armenian, and
Turkish Dictionary; and Aucher's Armenian and Eng-
lish Grammar. Mo►t of these rare and curious works
are on fine paper, and are rendered more valuable from
the limited number of copies which were printed, in
some instances only twenty having been struck off.

When first the art of printing was di covered, one side
only of a page was made use of—the expedient of im-
pressing the other was not yet found out. Specimens of
these early printed books are in his Majesty's am, Lord
Spencer's libraries. Afterwardsehey thought of pass-
ing the blank sides, which made them appear like one
leaf. It is singular that the Romans, who had stereo-
types, or printing immovable types, with which they
stamped their pottery, should have failed to apply the
invention to their literary works.
The following specimen of epistolary and orthogra-
phical knowledge (or rather ignorance) is a copy ver-
batim !iterating, of a letter sent by a farmer near
Kingebridge, a short time since, addressed to a Vestry
Meeting. Had the writer's head done justice to his
heart, his epistle must have equalled any of Cicero's :
the ignorance displayed by the one, is overbalanced
ten-fold by the feeling of humanity which proceeds
from the other. We give publicity to it more from •
desire to expose the inhumanity of those who could keep
the poor man, when soliciting that pittance, which ne-
cessity had driven him to ask, and which the laws of his
country had bestowed on him as his right, perhaps
scantily covered—exposed to the inclemency of the
season, and then, instead of attending to his demand,
put him off with—co,ne again on Sunday:—
' To The Minister and Churchwardens and Oversees
of the Parish of Diptford and to home it may Consarne
in the Hundred of Stanbrough. Genteltnen All ways
at our Vestery Meting Our Poor Stand Outeside of Our
Vestery Dore in the were And Cold —Teen the are cold
in and wheu the Have Laid theare Complaint—Goe
along—floe alonge you shall heare a Sunday But I
myself and some others are fore Relivo of them theare at
Oance, but still the Crie is Uoe alonge you shall hears a
Suuday —But Gentlemen I hope this not Two much—
Intruding I Should wish for the Poor te Come Throe the
Vestery an Stope in th the Church Until! the Coald and
then Releve them Imeagtly New Gentlemen if your
worship will Be as kind to ottley in Power me I would
Humbley think your °nee.

" as witness my hand,
" Jimmie too."
Arrowsmith's trigonometrical servey of this connty,
made in 1816, state. the square statute miles to be 1532 ;
the rental, taken from the Property Tax returned for the
year ending April, 1811, was 904,6151.; the annual
value of each square mile, as computed from the " rent
and tithe collecting," and the average of England and
IVales in 1811, being 17s. 2d. per acre, was at that time
6921. The resident population of Essex, in 1822, was
299,424. Norfolk, from the same source, is stated to
contain at the same periods, 2092 miles, rental 931,8421.
annual value of one mile 5091. population 844,3681.
Kent 1537 miles, rental 868,1881. value of one mile 6511.
population 426,016. Suffolk 1512 miles, rental 694,0781.
annual value of one mile 5371.. population 270,542.
Cambridge, 858 miles, rental 433,2151. annual value of
one mile 5711. population 121,909. Hertforshire 729
miles, rental 312,3501. annual value of one mile 7541.
population 129,714. Middlesex 282 miles, rental 349.
142, annual value of one mile 13251, population 1,444
531. The total number of miles in England 50,535.
The rental 27,890.3541.papu1ati0n 11,260.555.—(Chelms-
ford Chronicle.)
A primary school on the plan of mutual instruction,
bad been established at Boulogne-sur-51er in 1819, tinder
the auspices of t'se Sub-Prefect, M. Herman, at present
Prefect of Landes. All the Magistrates and function.
aries, without exception, the servants of Hovernment,
and the most opulent inhabitants of the town, to the
number of 144, contributed by subscription to defray
the expense of establishing this schnol,and of supporting
it. This school, which bas recently received an aug
mentation of 200 scholars, has jest been suppressed by
a decision of the University, which, however. It is
hoped, w;11 be repealed. at least, if it is not the result of
a retrogade movement in the method of teaching, which
't is difficult to suppose.—(French paper.)