The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-09 00:00:00

LOW WAGES AT SYDNEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,—ln The Sun of the 17th of February there is an
article headed " Australia," in which you quote the authority
of the Sydney Herald, as to numbers—great numbers, I think
you say, who are out of employment at Sydney in Sept ember
last, and that you fancy the " landsharks are deceiving the
people by stating tradesmen's wages at lOs. per day.
1 beg to request, as a favour, you will let me know the date
of the Sydney Herald, and perhaps you would lend the pap?r
itself to me (all expenses of its carriage I will pay), in order
that I may refute the whole of its assertions from indisputable
facts.
I have no objections to your inserting this lettter in The
Sun, and my intendad letter of facts also.
Yours respectfully,
• W. OMAN.

3, Princes. street, Manchester, March 6.
[The lat eat date was the 26th of September, and probably the
statement appeared some day or two before, but we have not
the paper.]

A magnificent white swan with a black beak
vies shot by one of the Earl of Camperdown's game-
keepers on the lands of Gleneagles a few days ago. It
measures nearly seven feet in langth, and is a very fine
specimen of the swan trine. These birds rarely come so
far south, and their appearance indicates the severity of the
late storm in the northern regions. Ti.ii bird has been
seat to the Museum of Edinburgh to Le stuffed.—Dundee
Paper.
SOCIETY IN INDIA.—It is not solely because
this is one of the most agreeable works that has recently
ben published, illustrative of social ►ife in India, that it is
worthy of recommendation ; its merits are even more com-
prehensive. It i 3 the production of an English officer,
who has resided long er.ough in various parts of our
Asistic possessions to be thoroughly convt nant with the
cha-acteristics both of the natives of all ranks and those of
his fellow-countrymen, denizens with him in the same land.
He has produced a story of great interest, and an exceed-
ingly correct and pictu►efque view cf the country in which
his scenes are laid, and the persons who are made to figure
in them. The incidents are all well tol•t. But with these
merits, the work possesses great claims on the considera-
tion et the public for the extent of the information it con-
tains regarding the present state of India, the author
having in the progress of the story introduced a body of
facts conveying a lively sketch of the condition and pros.
pacts of that important portion of the British possessions.—
New Monthly.
THE NEW NOVEL " THE ENGAGEMENT."—

We are requested to state that " The Ergagement," a novel,
in 3 vols. post Bvo. is published th's day by Mr. Colburn,
of Great Marlbarough-street, and may now be had at all
the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published " The
Moceyed Mai, or the Lesson of a Life," by Horace Smith,
Esq. in 8 vol'. ; " Gresille ; or a Season in Pari.," by
Mrs. Gore, 3 vet:. ; and " Peter Prigging, the Col'ege
Scout," edited by Theodore Hook, Esq., 3 vols., with
numerous illustralons by Pbiz.

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