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When the trades which generally afford constant employment,

happen in a particular place not to do so, the wages of the

workmen always rise a good deal above their ordinary proportion

to those of common labour. In London, almost all journeymen

artificers are liable to be called upon and dismissed by their

masters from day to day, and from week to week, in the same

manner as day-labourers in other places. The lowest order of

artificers, journeymen tailors, accordingly, earn their

half-a-crown a-day, though eighteen pence may be reckoned the

wages of common labour. In small towns and country villages, the

wages of journeymen tailors frequently scarce equal those of

common labour; but in London they are often many weeks without

employment, particularly during the summer.