The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN CORN AND WAGES.

With the returns this week of the rate of subsistence
on the Continent, compared with Great Britain, which
do not fall off in interest, is combined score curious infor-
mation respecting the ra+e of wages, which, instead of
falling, according to the principle heretofore laid down,
wish the decline in price of the necessaries of life, is found
to have increased materially, thus doubling the benefit to
the industrious classes. _ _

The highest price of wheaten flour of the first quality at
Paris is 46f. the 159 kilogrammes, which answers to 295.
the English sack of 2801 h. ; and the highest price of
wheaten flour in London is 509. the sack. Hence it fol-
lows that flour is 72 2-sths per cent. dearer in London
than at Paris, and that with the sum of 2/. 10s. a man
may buy 48316. of fine flour at Paris, whereas with the
same sum he cars buy only 23016. in London.
The price of wheaten bread of the fist quality at Paris
is 11 sous per 4116. French weight, which is less than
44d. for the loaf of 41b. English weight. The following
is the state of things in other parts of France :-
At Nantes the price of wheat varies from 22f. 50c. to
25f. per II- hectolitre, which is front 345. 4d. to 38s. 20.
the English quarter of 8 bushels imperial measure. At
Arras the price of wheat is from 101. to 131. 50c. the
hectolitre, which is from 225. 11d. to 30s. 1 Id. the
quarter of 8 bushels imperial measure. At Cognac the
mean price of wheat is 14f. 41c. the hectolitre, which
equals 335. 3d. the English quarter of S bushels imperial
measure. At Lavaur the price of wheat is from 151. 50c.
to 161. the hectolitre, which is from 355. 6J. to 365. 81.
the English quarter of S bushels imperial measure. At
flaguenau the price of wheat is from 13f. to 15f. the hec-
tolitre, which is from 295. 9,1. to 345. 4d. the English
quarter of 8 bushels imperial measure. At Sables d'Olonne
the price of wheat is from 320 f. to 325 f. per 20 hecto-
litres, which is front 365. 3d. to 365. 10d. the English
quarter of 8 bushels imperial measure. At Chartres the
price of wheat of the first quality is 15f. 25c. the hecto-
litre, which equals 345. 10d. the English quarter of
bushels imperial measure.
The following are the prices of wheat at Toulouse:-
Superior qualities, 15f. to 16f.; fine quality, 14f. ; mid-
dling quality, 13l'. 50c. ; which gives a mean price of
14f. 621 c. per hectolitre, and which equals 335. 6d. the
English quarter of 8 bushels imperial measure.
At Peronne the prices of wheat are as follows :-First
quality, 13f. 25c. ; second quality, 121. 75c. ; third
quality, Ilf., which gives a mean price of 121. 33 1-3 c.
the hectolisre ; and which auswers to 28s: 3d. the Eng-
lish quarter of eight bushels imperial measure. At
Cambray the price of wheat is from 101. 20c. to 131. 50c.
the hectolitre, which is from 235. 4d. to 30s. 11d. the
English quarter of S bushels imperial measure. The
price of wheaten flour of the first quality is 25'. 50c. the
101 kilogrammes, which answers to 255. 3d. the English
sack of 2801 b., and the price of flour in London being
50s. the sack, it follows that flour is 98 per cent. dearer in
London than at Cambray.
At Soisscins the following are the prices of wheat:-
First quality, 187 f. to 192 f. ; second quality, 180 f. to
185 f. ; third quality, 172 f. to 1761. per IS hectolitres,
which gives a mean price of 182 f., and which equals
235. 2d. the English quarter of eight bushels imperial
measure. The price of flour of the first quality is from
351. to 3'7f. per 159 kilogrammes, which is front 225. 6d.
to 235. 4d. the English sack of 2801 b. The price of
fine wheaten bread is If. Sc. per 5 kilogrammes, which
is less than 3iti. for the loaf of 41b. English weight.
The highest price of flour at Soissons being 235. 41.,
and the highest price in London being 50s. the sack, it
follows that flour is 114* per cent. dearer in London
than at Soissons, and that with the sum of 21. 10s. a
man may buy 6001 b. of flour at Soissons, whereas with
the sante sum he can only buy 2804). in London. Ac-
, cording to a proces-verbal drawn up at Soissons, by order
of the French Government, the wheat of that district of
the harvest of 1833 weighs as follows :-Frst quality,
79 kilogrammes; second quality, 77 kilogrammes; third
quality, 75 kilogrammes the hectolitre, which answers
respectively to 63 1-516., 61 1-51 b., and 6016. the Eng-
lish bushel imperial measure. The mean weight is 77
kilogrammes the hectolitre, which answers to 61 3-51b.the
English bushel imperial measure.
The price of wheaten bread of the first quality at Dun-
kirk is 11 soils per 41b. French weight, which is leas than
441. for the loaf o 41b. English weight. The price of bread
of the second quality is 8 sous per lb. French weight,
which is less than 31d. tor the loaf of 41b. English
weight. The wheaten bread of the first quality at Dun-
kirk as well as at Paris, and generally throughout France,
is much superi,r to the best wheaten bread in London.
T•, price of butcher's meat at Durik;ik-that is, of
beef, mutton, and veal all round, is 11 sous per
French weight, which is less than &id. per lb. English
weight. The price of pork is 9 sous per lb. French
weighr, which is less than 4d. per lb. English weight.
All is of excellent quality.
It deserves to be often and deep'y considered, that
while, since the harvest of 1832, the prices of corn in
France have been gradually the money wages of
labour have been as gradually rising, and are now, on the
average, higher than it: the United Kingdom ; and of
course taking into consideration the lower prices of food,
and generally of the necessaries find conveniences of lie,
that the real wages of labor: in France are very consider.
j ably higher than in the United Kingdom.
The same observation respecting wa;es applies to
England and Scotland, though not to the satne extent.
In 1830 the average price of wheat was 649. 3t12 ; in
1831 it was 665. 6d. ; ia 1832 it was 595. 4d. ; in 1833
it way 535., and not.v it is 495. ; and yet, while corn teas
I.llen, it is certain that the money wages of le.h,ur in the
manufacturing districts of England and Scotland have
risen, and if the same advance has not taken place in the
wages of agricultural labour, this is to be accounted for by
the operation of the corn 'Akre.

REV. EDWARD IRVING.—For two Sundays
past, the Rev. Mr. Irving has been holding forth to the
congregation of Mr. Tait, in Carrubber's Close ; and dur-
ing the week days also, we are told, he has been employed
in the same exercise. He promulgates that be has been
commissioned in a vision from the Lord to come down to
this city, which is lying so deep in wickedness, that, with
the exception of the church of the Angel of the'Lord
(Mr, Tait) there is nothing but the semblance of a church
in it. The ministers of Edinburgh, he says, are like the
hireling who flyeth irom the sheep when the wolf cometh.
They are hirelings who care not for the flock—who flee
hi-cause they are hirelings—and who, when the good shep-
herd appeareth, immediately conspire among themselves
whereby they might destroy him. The church of Edin-
burgh is, in his opinion, the synagogue of Satan—Baby,
lon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of
the earth—but the " true church (namely, Mr. Tait's) is
destined to be " the door of the sheep," and by it " if any
man enter he shall go in and out and find pasture." We
may state also, that while Mr. Irving preaches from the
Precentor's desk, Mr. Tait presides in the pulpit, and ge-
nerally makes a few remarks at the conclusion of the ad-
dresses of the other gentleman.