The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sis—Your Correspondent " A Poor Weaver," wishes
'to ascertain the average wages of a good workman for
the last ten years, in orer to find whether any or what
increase. has taken place. Now, Sir, Ido not think that
the object of the inquiry can be fulfilled without at the
the same time ascertaining the price of food, fuel, &c. &c.
at the various times of the different payments of wages.
A good workman, u cottage tenant of mine, (I give you
his name and place of residence) hearing that wages
were so much higher in Wales than in this neighbour-
hood, left his home to seek his fortune at high wages,
and was absent for several months, but at length
returned home. I asked him what wages lie
earned in Wales, he replied from 18s. to 21s. a
week. Well, said I, how is it that you are back
so soon ? He said everything was so dear that
he could do better at home with his 9s. per week and his
garden than he could do with the higher wages in Wales.
Wages will be found to be relatively high or low as the
necessaries of life are high or low. Supposing a man's
wages are 15s. per week, with this he is able to procure
a certain quantity of food. Now if this man's wages
should be raised to 205., and with that 20s. he cannot
procure an equal quantity of food, it is evident that the
lower wages are a benefit to him. I therefore suggest
that the returns of money value of wages should be ac-
coinpanied with the money value of food.
By the bye, may not the high price of food in the ma-
nufacturing districts of Wales account in some measure
for the dissatisfaction of those who were said to be earn-
ing high wages at the time of the late Chartist riots ?
Few men who can get their bellies well supplied with
food will run the risk of a halter.
Yours, &c. NO MONOPOLIST.
Ilfracombe, May 27, 1841.

The New Edition of " Binke's Peerage
and Baronetage for 1841," has just appeared ;
and for beauty of arrangement, extent of information,
and elegance of appearance, far surpasses all its prede-
cessors. "To each successive reprint, (says the author
in his preface, and to the truth of the assertion, the
excellence and correctness of the work bear ample tes-
timony), the most assiduous attention is devoted. Each
article is separately and distinctly revised, amended,
where inaccuracy is discovered, and extended by stich
new information as may be obtained from public records,
or private papers, regarded as trustworthy. The volu-
minous collections made, by the author himself for his
" History of the Commoners," and his other genealogical
works, haVe, in this respect, been found .of the
utmost value ' • those papers having in frequent instances
thrown new light upon the Peerage and Baronetage,.
by showing that many branches, still in the station of
country gentlemen only, are nevertheless the chiefs of
several ennobled and dignified families ; and further, by
enabling the author to enter more at large into colla-
teral lines and thus to enrich his pages by an accession
of names to the respectable pedigrees which had pre-
viously been entirely excluded or forgotten."
130 AR HUNT ON THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY.
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scene
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extraordinary fun and excitement took place.
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in any other library in Belgium.

• PORTUGAL.
By the Royal Tar steamer which arived at Falmouth
on Saturday from Lisbon, we hare received advices
from the Portuguese capital of the 25th inst. The
Royal Tar sailed from Gibraltar on the 20th, from
Cadiz on the 21st, from Lisbon on, the 25th, and from
9porto_und_Vigo. (MAW_ 26th. After obtaining a sup-
ply of coals at Falmouth, she proceeded to Southampton.
Passengers by the Royal Tar—Captain D. Arley, Dr. John-
son, 48th Regiment, Messrs. Gilchrist, Bill and' Son, Bernard,
Ferres, Home, Twining, Cleves, Guignier, O'Brien, B. Carr,
Aveiutoff, Laderman, Aguien, Hon: and Rev. A. Talbot and
Lady, Miss Bird, and Miss Sanders.
The Lapwing packet, Lieut. Coghlan;airived on Saturday
evening at Falmouth, with the West 'lndia mails ; the dates are
Barbadoes, Aprils ; St. Lucia, April 6 ; Martinique, April 6 ;
`Dominica, April,7 ; Guadaloupe, April 8; Antigua, April 9 ;
Montserrat, April 10 ; Nevis, 10 ; St. Kitt's, April 10 ;
Tortola, April 12; St. Thomas's, April 21 ; Porto Rico,
April 22"; and Cape Henri; April 27. The passengers are
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, son and daughter, pins M‘Glashon,
Messrs. Brown, M'Lean, Rogers, Ross, and Captain Williams.
Lieutenant Coghlan brings no intelligence respecting the
rresident steamer.

LISBON, MAY 25.—The past week has been rather barren of'
news: the public attention is now principally directed to the
~opening of the prorogued Cortes, which will take place to-
' morrow by commission.
No favourable offers having as yet been made for the pur-
chase of the new Exchequer Bills, it was decided in a Minis-
terial conference on Friday last to raise another loan of 40t)
contos de reis, 92,000/. sterling, on some of the revenue of the
'state; which is likely soon to be realised, by the assistance of
he Lisbon Bank, and Confiance Company.
The British brig of war Espoir, and Andorinha, Portuguese
war cutter, sailed from this on the evening of the 18th inst. ;
the former on a cruise to endeavour to fall in with or gain in-
telligence of the missing steam-packet President, and
the latter to convey instructions to the elmmander of
the Dons Joao I. corvette, cruising off-the Azores, to pro-
ceed on a similar mission. The Esperaup, war schooner,
destined to the Cape de Verd Island:, was in consequence
hurried off on the subsequent day, with an injunction to n ake
a circuitous passage, to keep a good look out, and to speak with
every vessel she can, in order to obtain if possible any infor-
mation of her: these praiseworthysnffers were pro-nptly made
by the President of the Council, Minister p.t...%Yar and ad
interim for Marine, Count Bomfin,.,ainha§.reodily accepted by
her Britannic Majesty's Minister,at this. court, Lord Howard
de Walden.-
A species of insubordinatiwwos manifested a few days
! since by the privates of the 28th battalion of Cacadores and
the 3d regiment of Artillery in' garrison at %rote, who are
Months in arrear of pay, making a formal tit mand of the -.arise
to their respective colupels, which, however, by the timely
raising,. by the civic. atitirrities, ej a suffstientisym to pa?- one
etore4clk,"/W4e1644-OAI ' -
r. Money coutmialia-„Ndopt* thit:Ase \vol. 'men of e natal
arsenal, who struck a sh‘rt. time anicq, are again 22 weeks in
arrear of pay. The Vesuvio stearber took to °polio on the
19th inst. a Company 9f Sapper.; and Mite-as.
The relations between Portugal ,and stipain are again ap-
, proaching an unsatisfactorT state. Ilte.pi-ohable despftith of a
Papal.nuticio to I..isbuis'llas,_it is, reported, called forth an in-
timation IrOni Senor Aguilar; the. Spanish Minister, jo the
effect that such ,a
.cireinailassee will very probably provoke a
.war between "Plgirtapil and Spain. The practical fulfilment u
the Douro convention. the appointmetit of Baton Renduffe as
Portuguese Minister- at. Madrid, wl.o has been objected to by
•
Senor Ferrer, and the course Whit Senor Aguilar purities at
Lisbon, all contribpte to produce some degree of co,,lnels and
ill-feeling.betwelen the two 'Governments.
The revenue of the Lisbon` Capons-hone and Exeise-pffice,
and-Custom-house of Oporto, forrthe,morith of April last, paid
in debentures, ex. paper Menu and coin, amounts conjointly
to 333,000,569 reis, equal to 76,312/. 12s. 7d sterling, show-
ing a tic'efeie ou the preceding month of March of
4'332/. 14s. 6d. sterling.
. . . .

A combined movement having been entered into on the 17th
inst. between, captain Mcnsonca of the constabulary force of
Evora, and Ensign Carvalho commanding a detachment of the
20th lufantry.Stat ioned at Villa Yicostt, lro eapt u re, the so called
'Brigadier silva, chief of the Gaerrillas, and his companions,
they,"on that`nlght at eight o'clOck, fell in with them;4shen
Silva and another were killed, and one severely wounied, who
has been cony cy6l to, the hospaal..
The unicipal.electioni in the
indistrict of Oporto arc con-
cluded in favour of the Septembrist party.
Exchange upon London. at thirty days' sight, f5..34t 'pence pt r
milrei.