Note 45 — Chapter I

Statisticians estimate that in 1860 the working classes of the United Kingdom received in wages four hundred million pounds; the population then being about twice what it was at the close of the last century. In order to arrive at the receipts of British Labour, the receipts of Irish Labour must be deducted from this total. The latter are proportionately much lower than the former, and could not have reached the sum of eighty million pounds. But assuming them to have reached that, and deducting eighty million pounds from four hundred million pounds, there is left for British Labour three hundred and twenty million pounds, to be divided, roughly speaking, amongst twenty million people; which for each ten millions yields a hundred and sixty million pounds.