122 IMPROVEMENT OF LABOURING 



as is invariably the case, the interests of the 

 whole are sacrificed. We are busy building 

 for grandees, while two thirds of our people 

 are beggars ! 2d. It would inspire a different 

 and more elevated feeling among the working 

 classes themselves for the quality of their 

 lodgings, and in a great measure place the 

 better-disposed of them beyond the influence of 

 the grosser characters. 3d. It would reduce 

 the value of old buildings, prove a salutary 

 check to worthless characters offering long 

 rents for them, in the hopes of being able to 

 sublet to lodgers, and render the removal of all 

 those abominable nests more easily accom- 

 plished. 



The household accommodation of the work- 

 man can never be separated from his wages. 

 Inferior quality, especially bad ventilation, low 

 wages, and little work performed daily, are 

 three things inseparably connected together. 

 Any master who has studied the value of the 

 work performed by a labourer, both as to 

 quantity and quality, will readily admit that 

 5s. per week falls infinitely short of existing 

 differences among them, occasioned not by 

 a lazy disposition or unhealthy constitution 



