American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-12-07
Labarius Glasses in Great Britain.-The sit


muc,, 81 tha pnaiic attention. in Great Britain
We gave. lev DAYS ago brief abstract of the
Repn; d lie Committee If the House Of Com
tnnn,. On he>c points az thcv related to Ireland
'tnm winch il appeared Tat redun ant population
Wis tire cause, ani emigration the remedy. OF thu
evils u that country to which their inquiries con
,ihcted them. This subject, 50 far from bein.
confined in is interes 10 the country in which The
Iisssaie Of the evil is felt. is of such general i'm
partancc to every commercial and manutacturin.
T,ennle. that We need apology for giving oul
readers whatever results We can collect of the in
gHiries now on foot in regard to it. The effect o
extended manufactures and accumulated capitals
On the condition OF the aboring classes, would bs
certain to be deprecated, ii all the positions all
sancet on the subject were true. II is sumo com
fort therefore TO fud Mr.. Nautilus agreeing with
the Committee int mentioned, that the profits oil
manufacturers do not necessarily depend on low
wages. but may even be diminished by too great a
depression OF the operative classes. Whichever
way the question may be settled. it is interesting
70 US, not only because are likely to need the
experience Of other nations. but because the pros
Tetty or decline OF England has a close connexion
with our own commercial prospects,
The inquiries as To the condition of the opera
ives in Scotland. do not show any general distress
from over population in its agricultural districts
and even in the manufacturing ones. the evil is
chiefly to be traced to tie influx of INDECENT Irish
The diversion Of these elsewhere. and some altera-
ton OF tie laws respecting poor rates and settle
meBts. will probably answer to diminish the evils
complained Of. without resort 10 emigration. The
most interesting part Of the Report Of the Com
Intee, i that, however, which relates to The con-
dit.on Of poor aborers in Great Blitan generally
The Committee remark that it IS absurd and
unjust TO the capitalist OF ever Withholding
from the laborer the wages really due to him.
Labor, like other commodities, has its maj ket value
increased or diminished BY the demand. If the
capitalist ought, as has been conendel sometimes,
to give wages beyond tie market rate, when the
la lor i o", the artZan, on the other hand. might
viii the same p opfiety be required t. take less
tlln the market rate, when labor is in demand
AM wages high. And so, if machine labor be the
cheapest, the capitalist cannot in be expect
ed to prefer manual. The demand and srpply ii
la1nr must regulate its price. therefore, as in Other
commodities and nothing is more impossible than
to regulate By law either the maximum or the min
imum Of wages.
There Is another important particular in which
labor resembles other commodities, namely, that
small excess deterorae. IT. value not merely IN
the ratio Of excess, but n much higher one and.
conversely, that the supply being less, the demand
enhances the pilce in a similar ratio. An impor-
tant conclusion result. from this that the ab.trac.
ton Of comparatively small number Of Iaborer,
I'll remedy the evils Of excess in a ratio higher
tan might at first view be expected. Mr. Nal.
i"us vas examined on these points, and currobo-
rates these conclusions.
He comedies also with tie opinion OF the Com
mlttee, that redundancy nl labor, and the pro
gresslve dlmnutlon Of wages, do not necessarily,
aud 10 all cases. promote the interests of capital
lists. General prosperity il Incompatible with the
degradation Of any particular class, especially 50
extensive one as that Of the operatives; for the
home market, which is the most important, is re.
duced ny this degradation. Wages ard profts,n
says Mr.. Nautilus, $ often rise together When
ne value OF tine commodity rises from the state OF
the supply compared With the demand, there Is
greater value to divide between the capitalist and
the laborcr" The committee add, that there i
such elut OF labor throughout the country. that
there i no hope OF remedy By the ABSORPTION oil
labor from one branch Of industry, by another,
to say nothing OF the difficulty OF thus transferring
men from one employment 10 another. As to-
trustln. 70 the evil correcting ITSELF by tile NOR
tally arising from diminished food and comfort.
this is remedy whuse cruel effect o.. the laboqinn
classes cannot be contemplated with indifference
This branch Of the Report concludes with RECON-
nending pecuniarv advance, in tile nature of a
loan, which will in a certain number of wears re,
pay itself, and add to the general prosperity Of the
empire. bait. An.
WINTER HARvEsTiNG-Itiss stated in the
Worcester and Springfield papers, that there are
large fields OF corn still standing, great quantie,
Of potatoes fast frozen in the hills, and thousands,
Of bushels Of apples in the orchards, waiting 10 Be
thsNed out before they can be gathered We no.
iiced lately the same neglect in the towns On the
Merrnack
Fields OF corn were standing, apples lay piled
up IN the orchards, and men digging their po-
'atoes SO late as last week. Why this extraord
inrts al. a 49,
men OF our country towns had other and mole inn
portant business to attend to for We saw them by
hundreds assembled at the tavern and on shoot
ing match, firing at tufkies and other game We