week is envied by his fellow-labourers. A man who drives a team and works from six o'clock in the morning until eight at night is considered as doing fairly well if his weekly wage amounts to 30s. Puddlera, who face the blazing furnace for hours at a stretch, in some few instances make as much as £3 per week, but theie are very few works in England that are at present running at full time. Leaving the ruder form of manual labour, let us glance for a moment at the earnings of skilled artisans. A pianoforte maker who kuows every branch of his trade, can not make more than £3 a week in the best pianoforte manufactory in England. As for cabinet-making, the enormous influx of Germans into this country during the past few years has brought wages down to such an extent that unless a man is a skilled designer or maker of artistic furniture he cannot hope to make more than £2 a week.
