The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-26 00:00:00

ABBEVILLE, MAY 20.—( Extract of a Letter.)--There are
several manufactories here, at which the workmen get from
Ito 3 francs per day. Were they to work like Englishmen,
they would earn twice as much. Now, when-you consider that '
bread, which with the Frenchmen is indeed the staff of life, is'
at only 1 franc 10 cents the 4 killogrammes (fli lbs. English)
for the best, and 75 cents (about 7d.) for the worst, making
for the first 3i sous per pound,•and for the other you will not
be surprised. Few persons here eat the best bread. The other
is black enough, but it is sweet, and does not seem to disagree
with the people. The price of wheat in this market is 10f. 50c.
(shout 13s; 6d.) for a-measure equal to 3i English bushels, but
this is of the first quality. .Oats, of the first quality, are at about
28ssous (14d.) the English bushel. The low price of oats is to be
accounted for by the circumstance of their being but little used
for the food of horses here. There-is a common sort of bread
made for horses, which is given to them when they labour-hard ;
and their food at other times is chiefly straw, hey, and bran.
Oats are used in the proportion of about one-third of their use in
England. The clergy at Abbeville and in its neighbourhood
take extraordinary interest in your Catholic Question. This
arises, perhaps, from their having educated several young Eng.,
lish Catholics, and thus formed connections with England. The
1 clergy of Abbeville are represented to be the best creatures pos.
*sible.- They are miserably paid ; some of them have only 301.
a-year, few more than 60t., and yet they_contrive to exercise
charity. It is in France as it is in Englandthe rich gifts of the
church are in the hands of a few, but here there are none very
rich ; the supporters of it labour almost for nothing. There is a
story, current here -that the clergy have signed a round-robin
against the pastoral letter of the Archbishop of Rouen ; nothing
is more likely, for certainly very few act upon it. There are
few persons passing through here for the Coronation ; on the
contrary, the number of persons who arrive from Calais and
Boulogne is not half so great as that from Paris. The dili-
gences from Paris are filled with passengers ; those to it are
nearly empty. I imagine that something of interest is going
on between the two capitals, for there is a constant passage of
couriers. Our Abbeville politician 4 say that the Duke of An-
gouleme intendeto visit England soon after the Coronation. I
believe this is talked of also in Paris. lle is very popular here,
and the King just as unpopular.

ATTACK ny 'THE NATIVES OF NEW SOLITE' WALES.
new South Wales Paper givei 'the following account of
another attack by the natives :—" We have just been cre-
dibly informed, that on the morning of the 21st December,
about twenty aboriginal blacks approached 'the house and
stock-yard of Mr. James Hobbs, situated about fifteen
miles east of .York Plains, at which place it will be recol!.
lected a large tribe of natives made their appearance some
few weeks ago, and that after some resistance had been made by
firing upon them, they killed one of Mr. IlObbs's stock-keepers.
Upon the present occasion it seems, that as soon as the natives
appeared in sight, they were instantly driven back ; on which
another party advanced in an opposite direction, and coorda
Which was no sooner heard than it was answered by at least 130
more of the same tribe, who, armed with spears and waddies, and
attended by nearly fifty fine kangaroo dogs, surrounded the
house. Mr: Hobbs 's two servants, each having a musket,
defended themselves for five hours, in the • best manner
they could, • from the spears at,ittlin.sotuol„nrhes. were throfin
At them, until at last the blacks pressed furiously on, and
, poor fellows (though
after much
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more than five miles) escaped to Garth's . hut. Qn
a they ventured to
the folloiving.return home, when they
.that All their clothes, provisions; bedding, and' utensils,
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flia"dnbdeen taken away.

The pilot balloon, sent up by Messrs. GREEN,
previous to. their ascension from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on the
11th instant, fell at Red Chesters, near Kirkwelpington, about
25 miles from Newcastle, on a bank side, and rolled into a brook,
where it was burst, by the country people pelting it with stones.