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    that the weekly tenant pays mare in proportion than the yearly . In most articles of trade the price falls in proportion to the demand , t . e ., articles capable of an unlimited supply . A man may buy a lock at Birmingham for sixpence . If he wants a dozen he may get them at fivepence ; if a gross they wiJl come down to threepence halfpenny . The reason the single one is

    higher is , that the total labour of sale is not greater on the gross than on the single one . The market price of beef may be fourpence per lb . in the outset , but it passes through so many hands , all of whom must be paid , that it rises to eightpence . The butcher , with a small or an uncertain return , must have a large profit . He who has a large and certain return is content with a small profit . The supply of sixty families would be an object for a

    decent man , in every department , to devote his time and attention to it , and the large dealers in provisions would be anxious to secure sach a trade . I have taken families to make the calculation on , each one occupying a house ; but it does not follow that some of the houses would not be occupied by several single men . This conclusion is more than probable , and in such case the profits of the different contractors would be considerably increased by the substitution of grown persons for children .

    I do not purpose to enter into any very minute calculations as to the exact costs or savings . My leisure will not serve for it , and there are moreover abundance of interested persons more thoroughly acquainted with the different details who would do it more exactly . An approximation will be sufficient for our present purpose . The rents of the dwellings would of course vary

    with their size and embellishments , but we can take an average of the sixty-two separate buildings connected by the gallery , including the two public erections . The expensive fittings of chimney-pieces and kitchens being avoided , as well as cellars and all such appurtenances , would make up nearly for the plain furniture and the needful warming and lighting apparatus . Reduced as

    all building material now is to a comparatively small value , and the prices of labour accurately digested , I should think that , one with another , these dwellings might be completed , ready for occupancy , for about three hundred pounds each ; and allowing amply for the erection of the engine and the working gear belonging to it , the whole might be completed for about twentyfour thousand pounds . Allowing ten per cent , interest for the

    capital employed , in order to cover wear and tear—and this would he a most handsome allowance—the proprietor could afford to let these dwellings at forty pounds per annum each . But we will allow fifty . If the families were all living separate , each would be supposed to maintain a servant , whose annual expense would be from thirty-five to forty pounds . With the machinery , twenty ^ rvants would do all the work in a far more efficient manner , and the average annual expense of servants to each family would thus

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    Housebuilding and Hounekeepwg . 581

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 581, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/51/