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For four weeks, the quartern loaf in London was as high as is. BRITISH CORN-LAWS. 157 The agricultural districts were again disturbed by riots, and the allowance system, introduced as a mode of relieving the distress of the poorest class, was becoming firmly estab- lished. They must otherwise have actually perished ; and even the classes above them would have shared the same fate, but for the rise of wages and the contributions of parishes, and the aids afforded by friends and by private charit...y. All these artificial modes of adjustment were miserable expedients, and necessarily fell far short of placing those whom it was designed to benefit in the condition of comfort which they enjoyed when the price of food was low from the effects of abundance. The money wages of the agricultural laborer, in order to have been equal to those which he received in the rdgn of George II. , should have risen to about SOs. Per week. Arthur Young gives a list of articles which, when the laborer was paid 5s.
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