1832.] 



Death of M. Jacquemont. 



573 



an inferior quality of workmanship. 6th. The improved means by which the same 

 effect ivas produced by diminished labour. 



In order to afford the means of estimating the influence of these several causes, 

 the following table is subjoined : — 



Average Price of 



Gold per oz 



Value of currency per \ 

 cent / 



Price of 3 per cent. 1 

 consols / 



Wheat, per quarter. 



English pig iron a 

 Birmingham. . . 



English bar iron at do. . 



Swedish bar iron in 

 London, excluding 

 duty of from £± to 

 £6 10*. per ton 



Hard-ware manufac- 

 tured 



?} 



Anvils per cwt 



Locks for doors, 6-inch, 



Iron wire, No. 6 



Brass wire 



1812 



L 

 4 



79 5 3 



59| 



5 



10 



16 10 



100 



s. d 

 25 



per doz. 



bund, 

 lb. 



1818 



£ s. d 

 4 



97 6 10 



78 i 

 4 1 

 6 7 

 10 10 



17 10 



on an 



s. 

 20 

 38 

 16 



1 



1824 



£ s. d 

 3 17 6$ 



100 



93f 

 2 1 

 10 

 10 



14 



average 



s. 

 20 

 32 

 13 



1 



1828 



£ s. 

 3 17 



100 



86 

 3 11 10 

 5 10 

 7 15 



14 



reduced 



s. 



16 



15 



9 



1 



1330 



1832 



£ s. d- 

 3 17 9| 



100 



8H 



3 14 6 



4 10 

 6 



13 15 



to 



13 



13 

 7 

 



£ 

 3 1710$ 



100 



82£ 



2 19 3 



») 

 5 



13 2 

 40 



d. 





 6 





 9 



The most influential of these causes has undoubtedly been the invention of cheap- 

 er modes of manufacturing. The extent to which this can be carried, and yet a 

 profit be realized at the reduced prices, is truly astonishing, as the following fact 

 which rests on good authority, will prove. Twenty years since a brass knob for the 

 locks of doors was made at Birmingham, the price, at the time being 13*. Ad. per 

 dozen. The same article is now manufactured, having the same weight of metal, 

 and an equal or in fact a slightly superior finish, at 1*. 9|rf. per dozen. One cir- 

 cumstance which has produced this economy in the manufacture is, that the lathe 

 on which these knobs are finished is now turned by a steam engine ; so that the 

 workman, relieved from that labour, can make them twenty times as fast as he 

 did formerly. — Babbage's Economy oj Manufactures. 



Death of M. Jacquemont. 



We regret to learn from the newspapers, that Monsieur Victor Jacquemont, the 

 distinguished Naturalist, who was travelling through India on the part of the Aca- 

 d£mie of Paris, died at Bombay on the 7th instant. He commenced his tour 

 through India at Calcutta in 1829 5 he proceeded through the Jungle Mehals to 

 Benares ; thence to Rewah and Bundelkhand ;and through the Doab to the Hills ; 

 whence, after obtaining permission, through the intervention of the Governor Ge- 

 neral, from Maharaja Ranjit Sinli, he pursued his journey into Kashmir, and even 

 penetrated a short distance within the limits of the Chinese territory. He returned 

 across the continent to Bombay, where a lingering affection of the liver, brought 

 on by constant exposure to severities of climate, put a period to his existence. 

 Mon. Jacquemont had never communicated the results of his researches to any one 

 of his many friends in India, but we know that he had been most actively employ- 

 ed, and we shall look anxiously for an account of all he has done, in the French 

 scientific journals. 



