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London, England, 1857-01-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 90.

IT seems • strange thin that 1$ these days of
unlimited esammitatice there is ma Immix( what
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the wages of egrietiteral labourers are. Onemeets
with people who pretend to know ; bet they contra-
diet one another in all directions. Emit probably
wake of his awn neighbourhood t and we are this
led to suspect a wide variation ia the 4i sent
quarters of the kingdom- a mach wider variation
than thine woad be ff labours", of des elm had
saw el knowing the condition flea wider Qs
theme of &day ernetiees, or the me IM al our
towns. As it its Wildijistualy law NM alma the
rainbow& kluilleillellllll b he MOW*
sad he lbw* de elestfia awns
thigbkatrerllnliaaeda lasi 'we* Ike
saimplipell swathes With said. mei lb
riZneail slier SNOW proud wipe
klwarsos in MOM die eight or is di&
Ikea a week: whereas it Ile *me lino lbw are
bread dieldsti Ili thoeliarldmsliamiselfllayland
where as >r lakana of mow quillkalleas ham
lees than Modinglis item slillilegtingue. It k tree
that whose@ amid rate is Ile lidkot of throe
or a highs/ dili Owe me ilia= he wet days
whoa waelharywasals snit yowl t Klslip see
village or em side •Mkoseser, a ilmalribeessla
the .with wadi net, ea a game wok
aagageti lad Ohm twelve shake ea
a cottage, sr Ilenbein without, long and sheet ism
wet sad dry waxer. Now, if it is tree that
wages for the min' work sea anywhere in the Mgr
den se little le eight ehilliugo without a Wipe er
Gear advantages, there is Kllltidati very lam
which hapreval knowledge wadissi sight la
awauketuring districts, every WY* per Wok sr
pa added or taken at in say yin b karre•
by smirk, over all the whinge& wino the ems
busbass gess forward. I. Ike Rieke districts,
every change of terms between tbe mime and the
owners is mode known or a feet of palls Wowed.
Bet in the case at agriealtme, if a ,edam know
Celle his wen that in the wares reeds dry
would get only eight or nine sllddlep• he wt
sena to be supposed to be sap to prima
his people leaving him. As tat Or pot Islisura
Wiltshire or Donetsbire, ee whseaser @ tow
wages arc, they an boo Um teM dot
there are places in Easing wiww they ad&
get doable pay foe the emus wet/ wit
they
the *stacks of the stew:
weal baldly stay veliosew soh 'The epaelkalk•
that wall In We& abet ly dm poldkity,-17 a
make possuipiksit Ike•
et Airieuilsie
—would tie as kaelreMbliski. Mae wall
be an rad te the &id sad requidle•
that, at the pealiriimpaskina • bully
should kr* as lie • • wash I sad, if &a
eolith caueley amen we (as wo Wine*"
an) in ny4 that they awed allbrd to pay sore,
they from scam of their oent soder
how it b flat My can not any albrd to pay nem
bat would consider it bad economy to give so little. ,
Thou mach we have been taught by farming ex-
perience in Ireland. When the fumes there really
believed that sixpence a day was as mash or they
could afford to give, the Untie wren pow a ere
for them as for their isbeurwa They oil *air
men idle : and it wee trig that they lbw than:
selves down on their legs as ma as Ask an-
ployer's back was tamed. flay wen krafpy, to het,
and could not get thank a pryer dayl week. Now
that wages in 'reboil haverias lealpliessapme and
even two shilling • day, the hams UM Abed steel
pay. They are surprised to we bow wash flak
laborers as do when well fed, eheerful, sad an-
friable. There con be no doubt that • similar
change would take sore in say part at the asemetry
where wages are now eight shillings, and when a
due equalisation would bring them up to twelve.
Meantime, while the foram is so richer (for ho
highly pars as mach as the week is worth), hew do
the labourers exist?

It be by ell erbe barer mist e
" citteleet"—thet le. or reitiekt—lelmers a
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lace,liat they an really a krweelsow et ma than
the war-paid. They are net assubied isle $ tall
sok ismisposet i sad, la a genera way,
ow so mild with bad beer tee eh*
Ilia begged her. It is a bequest opeetaels
Is • amid of rural lassakts, to see haggard women
bsedisig the pahlie.hasse early in the 'morning, to
pt Ildr bubmis Mowed, having been tell at

brck-op tlee that the peer Mow were act am
bona. Dragged beer open a week *is&
stretched them vadat the bre; la a Op
Medical mea tea diadems paled about Chi
of aeon and the death by its sermed by.

raythod of taking Wage frau hanger. No !Miami
=a ma doubt whether a well-ted labourer at gi-
bes shillinp a week is or is not worth wee to an
employer than two poor aldirell eir the lower sort
at ailikt
Nat, it is said, the

I are not all

of this degraded sort. Bone who are even family
men, with other mouths to hod, see arong and brisk,
at least to such a degree as to cans no pity for being
half-nerved. This is tree ; and a menial proportion
emelt Gres may be amounted he in more ways than
ems. One of the strangest passim in connexion with
ogrionlaral life is (am every nail clergyman, eqnre,
and perish allow will ecafirm), that the outgoings
of the more reoperate labourer are considerably
larger than his incomings. His credit at the shop
has limits, of worse. Debt will account for only •
small part of the difference. How can it be P The
geseekesper con often throw some light upon it.
Just now, he may have a good deal to my upon it,
for it is the poaching season as we is. by sees
paragraph about affrays and commitments almost
every day. Oams preserving is no longer the hobby
of nanny gentlemen that it once was; and their
chugs of mind in some districts about hares, and the
' consequent liberty given to kill them, have done
something to mitigate the operation of the game laws;
but the wont miechieh that remain are to be found
exactly where they might reasonably be looked for—
where the country labourer is required to support wife
and children on nine shillings a week, with lbread dear,
and meat out of reach. Len week a striking inci-
dent occurred which will be told all over Europe',
and Asserios, exciting usealation wherever it is
heard eL The &impose and American Telegraph
Company lost portion. of copper wire repeatedly, in
the nurse of laying down their wires between Lee-
dom sad Dour; and on Thursday last communica-
tion with the Continent was eat off for several hours.
A labourer bad helped himself with the wire to
oaks mares for game. While waiting for a due
.publisation of the statistics of or agriculture, per-
haps the London pulteren and the Gauntry game-
keepers and railway edictal' might teU u something
of the ware and condition of rural labourers in
various parts of England.

There are no doubt other reasons why some few of
the peasantry fare so mach better than the gene-
rality on the same wages. It makes a difference of
some shillings a week, or a good deal of strength,
whether or not a man menial a woman who can
cook. We observe in American newspapers an elo-
quent complaint of the want of good housewives in
working men's dwellings there. Waste, discomfort,
dysperie at home, or loose habits abroad, are the
coneequences lamented in the American ease, where
working men lose their digestive powers over hard
steak or fat salt pork three times a day. With us
the caw is different, and the grievance still more
serious, as existence itself is involved. We will not
undertake to say that any working man who has a
home to mime can be suffeiently fed and clothed
on eight or nine shillings • week; but dire is
a vast difference in his case, according to
the qualifications of his wife. If her idea
of feeding the household is cutting off a die of
breed when a child cries for it, and when Mr Ms-
band cams home to dinner, with no variation but
potatoes badly boiled, or a bit of hard cheese, the
man mast lose his strength or take to unlawful
mesas to keep it up. If the wife knows the virtue
of fire in actually incensing the nutritive qualities ,
of flow, potatoes, and meat—if, especially, she knows
how to make • good stew out of materials which,
otherwise eaten, would laser a man hungry—aho
does indeed lift her husband out of the lowest dam
of labourers. Still, she cannot make her bricks
without straw, nor feed her household daily on the
stone soap of the Arabian fable. The labourer ought
to have better wages, by being qualified to earn
them ; and when we look at the established rate in
some parts of the country, we do not hesitate to say
he will have them. Meantime, we ask again :—ls it
really true that the English agricultural labourer may
be fairly spoken of as earning " eight or nine 'hillier
a week r The agricultural statistics that we ask for
would, in the first instance, answer this question,
—would next establish something like an equality of
rural wages throughout the kingdom—would be a
boon to the least proem:ems ceder of farmers, by
showing them what their labourers might and
should do for them—and woad increase the general
productiveness of the country, while improving the
condition and comforts of every man who now
handles the soil feebly and lazily because he is not
paid enough to keep up his heart and hope.

RAJPOOTANA STATES —We have been requested
to state that the declaration in the Calcutta Morally
Chrunick, and other Indian paLsrt(eopied also into
some of the London journals , to the effect that
ceders have 'one out from the of Directors of
the East India Company to " annex " the Rajpootana
States on the Srst convenient opportunity, is wholly
destitute of truth. The pretended despatch of
July 11, 1836," is entirely fabulous, and no
despatch to the above or any similar effect has ever
been even contemplated. In feet, the of the
home authorities in respect to the pri •tieaof
Rajpootana has been, and is, of a diametrically oppo-
site character.

unox OF FINSBURY.

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tartber proespliare, the meeting sesdested.

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wrildia le de threde.weeher Sawa, taeew kw. it
they garden lelledisime id& tere le their
=aecel Mr. dr eleinme, bee emwered le the
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rear et the Mee. alio, ad aims la Ike Irma le Myr
id dr retro ea dr der cf pew Celli Wardle, •
earth et Mr. Itegealle, b eillve eravessie fa•dr Idler,
end 11r. aidelme • teshawr the memo, tale Desk et
WAWA bee ben &mu hew Mr. Fahey, the Aro as-
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