The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The following extract from the newspapers from New
South Wales shows the large revenue in that colony, and
the rates of wages which emigrants have received in the
last year on their arrival in the colony:—
We have the Sydney Journals to the end of June,
1841. The public attention was chiefly called to the
state of the revenue ; the official abstract was published
,on the 4th, of which the following is an analysis:—
The total amount of Ordinary Revenue £306,349
The Incidental Receipts 4,119
The Crown Land Revenue 34,065
Total revenue £651,126
For a country only fifty years old, with a population,
not much exceeding a hundred thousand souls, this is
truly a prodigious year's income. The principal heads
of the Ordinary Revenue are as follows :—.Spirits—
Duties on importation ... £131,285
on distillation .... 13,054
Licenses to Retail 14,993
to Distil 175 £

159,507
Tobacco—Duties on Importation... 38,888

Total from Spirits and Tobacco.... 198,395
Ad valorem Duty on Foreign Im-
portations 24,907
Post-office Receipts 14,191
Auction Duty 18,701
Miscellaneous 50,155

£306,349
To every 100/. composing this sum total, the respective
heads bear nearly the following proportions:—
Spirits £s2 2 0
Tobacco l2 14 0
Ad valorem 8 2 0
Auction
Post Office 4 13 0

Miscellaneous

£B3 13 0
16 7 0

£lOO 0 0
Thus the taxes on spirituous liquors are more than
one-half, and those on tobacco nearly an eighth, of the
whole revenue! Spirits and tobacco together yield
nearly four-sixths ! Truly we are a nation of drinkers
and smokers. There is yet ample scope for the philan-
thropic exertions of our Temperance Societies.
The subject of immigration occupies as much interest
in New South Wales as it does here. The following
statement from the Monitor contains some valuable
particulars
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We publish the following official document, being a
table of the rates of wages obtained by Immigrants
hired from the Immigrants' Barracks, Sydney, during
the year 1840. It is a return that we hope all Our Con-
temporaries will publish, as we think its publication. and
thorough circulation throughout Britain will most effec-
tually aid in the promotion of emigration to the colony.
The distress endured by the people of England, Ireland,
and Scotland, from want of employment, might be
averted by copious streams of emigration being opened,
and we have little doubt such will be the case ere long,
but while the people of Britain perish for lack of em-
ployment, we languish for want of labour.
The friends of the poor in Britain will do well to call
their attention to the Table of Wages we publish, and to
assure them that a great dearth of labour exists among us.
Intending Emigrants will do well to bear in mind that
so soon as they have acquired some small skill in the
pursuits in which they engage, their wages will be in-
creased, as the rates of wages we quote were obtained
by persons newly arrived, and many of whom were ut-
terly unskilled in the situations they undertook ; so soon
as they have attained expertness in their duties their
wages would be proportionably increased.
Return of the number of Emigrants who arrived in the
Colony in the year 1840 ; each trade or calling, the
average rate of wages obtained by each, and whether
with or without rations.
. YEARLY SALARY, WITH RATIONS.
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MALES-1,042 Agricultural labourers, 25/. ; 10 but-
chers, 40/. ; 16 bakers, 50/. ; 2 cooks, 35/. ; 61 domestic
servants, 30/. 18 farm overseers, 401. ;54 grooms and
coachmen, 30/..; 62 gardeners, 40/. ; 6 millers, 10/. ; 35
ploughmen, 26/. ; 108 shepherds, 271. ; 2 shopkeepers,
40/. ; 8 stockmen, 27/. ; 1 seaman, 48/.
FEMALES-19 bonnet•makers, 14/. ; 26 cooks, 20/. ;
97 dressmakers, 10/. ; 313 farm servants, 14/. ; 7 general
servants, 101. ; 517 house maids, 101. ; 17 kitchen maids,
14/. ; 28 laundresses, 10/. ; 12 ladies' maids, 20/. ; 14
milliners, 30/. ; 35 nursery Governesses, 20/. ; 138 nurse
maids, 10/,