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deal in regard of which retrenchment was always 

 possible, and being possible was often wise, and 

 if a landowner or farmer were thinking just now 

 of building a new house or carrying out a work 

 of reclamation of waste land upon a large 

 scale he should be inclined to advise him 

 to employ no more men than the necessity 

 of the business required, for the labour 

 market must settle down one way or other in a 

 short time. If, for instance, bread was to be at 

 famine prices, then the richest persons would 

 feel it incumbent upon them not to use more 

 bread than was absolutely necessaiy. If labour 

 is at a famine price let us reserve it as far as we 

 can for necessary use ; that was our undoubted 

 right, and if exercised it will, to a great extent, 

 break the force and lessen the violence of that 

 movement which we are all watching with vari- 

 ous feelings, some with feelings of fear, some 

 with feelings of hope, but which we cannot doubt 



must affect, in a very serious degree, our national 

 interests. They must understand in what he 

 had said to them that he was not attempting to 

 prejudice the very large question of what agri- 

 cultural wages, or any other wages, ought ulti- 

 mately to be. That was a matter the decision 

 on which did not lie under the control of any of 

 them. It depended upon the action of great 

 social and economical causes, which no indi- 

 vidual could influence ultimately in a more than 

 infinitesimal degree. But all sudden changes, 

 whether for the better or worse, were apt to press 

 unduly upon some classes. If this movement 

 was not likely to be permanent, a check ought 

 to be put upon it, if only to prevent great disap- 

 pointment in the future. If it was to be per- 

 manent, then those who were affected on all 

 sides would be none the worse for a little time 

 and leisure to look forward for the new state of 

 things they were about to encounter. 



VIENNA UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, 1873. 



HER Majesty's Commissioners for the Vienna 

 Universal Exhibition have obtained from 

 the Director-Generar of the Imperial Austrian 

 Commission, Baron von Schwarz-Senborn, an- 

 swers to a series of questions of importance to 

 exhibitors in reference to various details in con- 

 nexion with the Exhibition, of which the 

 following is a summary : — 



As it is important to assure in time the 

 engines and steam boilers intended to set in 

 motion the machines exhibited in the English 

 section of the Machinery Hall of the said 

 Exhibition, the attention of English manufac- 

 turers is called to this opportunity to exhibit 

 either fixed steam boilers, fixed steam engines, 

 or portable engines, and also steam engines and 

 steam generators for service in the i\Iachinery 

 Hall. 



Machinery and apparatus specially adapted 

 to the requirements of the Exhibition may also 

 be supplied by exhibitors, as, for instance : — 



Boilers for the production of steam for en- 

 gines. 



Steam engines for driving the main shafting 

 in the Alachinery Hall. 



Gas and water-power engines, for driving 

 single machines and groups of machines. 



Large and small pumps for waterworks and 

 fountains. 



Travelling cranes with normal gauges of 1.5 

 metre (4 ft. 1 1 in. from centre to centre) for ser- 

 vice in the Machinery Hall. 



Overhead travelling cranes with winch and 

 moving gear, with a gauge of 10.5 metres from 

 rail to rail, for the erection of heavy pieces for 

 the Machinery Hall. 



Hydraulic lifts for raising persons. 



Portable engines for the service outside the 

 Machinery EI all. 



Exhibitors supplying such machines and ap- 

 paratus intended for special service during the 

 Exhibition, will enjoy special privileges, to be 

 arranged between them and the Director- 

 General. 



If I>ritish makers lend cranes, hoists, boilers, 

 engines, &:c., for use of British exhibitors, no 

 fees will be -levied by the Imperial Austrian 

 Commission for the use of the same by British 

 exhibitors. But if British exhibitors lend such 

 machinery for the use of foreign exhibitors, 

 arrangements will be made by the Austrian 

 Director-General to indemnify British exhibitors 

 for the use of their machinery. 



The power required to set machinery and 



