216. Review of the Practical Tourist. 
rear England | France. 
Wages of a common day laborer,| Cents. | Cents. 
_.perday,about - -  - 73 | 37 to 40 
Do. with steady employment, 60 | 35 
Carpenter, So SS 
Mason GSR Gg ERPS Be 
Mule spinners in cotton mills, - | 103 | 75 
0. in woollen mills, 
do, in woollen mills, - - 92 
Maid servants in private families, per 
week, peed sia: Gealosgg 100 . 133 
and f best, eo 
MENS cca ces ac 1 AAG 150 167 
+ So, 6 ia aia mains aa 100 117 
Children, piecers in mills, for mules 
and billeys, eegs a S 14 20 ~=30 
Overlooker of carding rooms, - | 135 108 150 
Slubbers of woollen roving, 97 80 100 
Experienced workmen to attend | 
shearing machines and gig mills : age 
... for woolens, t . - 82 80. 117) 
Firemen for steam engines, 91. 100 125, 
Price of coals for steam engines, 
per ton, (1827) ~  - “= | 220* j7o0¢ ~— |700t 106 
Wheat (per bushel of 60 Ibs.) 179 {117 96 49 
~The cupidity of English manufacturers requiring more hours of 
Jabor from their workmen and especially from children than humanity 
could sanction, attracted the attention of Parliament, and induced it, 
in 1831, to establish the following hours of labor in mills for manu- 
facturing silk, cotton, wool, flax, &c. a 
- “No person under twenty one years of age, shall be allowed to 
work in the night—that is, between half past eight o’clock in the 
evening, and half past five A.M. ti sisi 
~ “No person; under the age of eighteen years, shall be employed 
more than twelve hours per day, and nine hours on Saturday, {= 
cepting in fulling mills and in finishing woolen cloths,) equal to sixty 
nine hours per week, j Bale? 
..* Manchester. t Ieee t New York. §_ Pittsburgh. ; 
