of a little practice, (by stealth or favour of the workman,) become qualified as footmakers. The mode of reckoning the piece-work of Glass-makers is peculiar. The "move," as it technically called, is a nominal period of six hours; and the payment is proportionate to the number of articles supposed, by fair exertion, capable of being made in that time by a set of ordinary workmen. The move being fixed at two hundred for small moulded bottles, (for one chair,) and sixty wine-glasses being also considered as the fixed number for another chair, it might be supposed that the two chairs would receive the same remuneration; but the payment would vary, although both quantities are equally a move's work. The wine-glass workman, (or gaffer,) one servitor, and foot-maker, for making the sixty wine-glasses, would receive six shillings per move, and the bottle chair only five shillings between the three men. If, in consequence of superior skill and industry, the chairs made double that quantity in the six hours, which is often the case, they would be paid double the price; and in proportion for any intermediate or lesser number, so that the men are paid proportionally to the quantity manufactured.

The workman, or gaffer, of the castor-hole chair, in full employ, may sometimes earn 3l. per week, the second, 2l. 5s., and the third about 30s. per week. Perhaps, the average earnings range from an eighth to a fourth less than these rates. The second, or cutting chair, 2l. 10s., 1l., 15s., 1l., 7s., for the three grades of men; the third, or wine-glass chair, about the same as the second; and the fourth, or phial chair, 36s., 27s., 20s.; will be the highest rates of earning. The above