The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-14 00:00:00

SYDNEY LABOUR REPORT.

The following highly interesting and important state-
ment is furnished in the Sydney papers by Oliver Staines,
who gives his address as British aid Foreign Labour
Market, three doors below Berald office, Lower George-
street, Sydney :
There is still no report to furnish of any Government
emigrant ships having arrived, notwithstanding it is now
about six weeks since the last immigrants from Great
Britain were reported. Several vessels are, however,
fully due, and may be expected daily. In the mean-
time, the demand for able-bodied farm-labourers (both
married and single) continues to increase, whilst the
supply of good and suitable hands, without young child-
ren, is becoming more and more scarce. The same may
be said of good and efficient domestic servants ; gener-
ally speaking, there is much difficulty to prevail upon
the latter class to go far into the country districts ; and
this influence has been strongly evinced during the last
few months. This unwillingness arises no doubt from
mistaken views and groundless fears, which a few weeks'
trial would soon dispel, and the present rate of wages for
the country parts cannot fail to satisfy any reasonable
persons, whether they be oki or new hands, and the temp-
tations to squander their earnings are much less they
they are about town.

TOWN WAGES.
Bookbinders, according to competency, per week, from
2/. 10s. to 4/.
Printing work, per week, 31. to 31. 6s.
Compositors on the " stab," 41.
Herald, morning paper-Long primer, briever, and
nonpareil-equali9ed to is 6d. per 1000, and ls. 7d. per
hour overtime. The Empire's rates are about the same.
At these rates men can earn, according to competency,
per week, from 4/. 109. to 71.
Painters, per day, 109. to Ps.
Plumbers, per day, 12s. to 15s.
Carpenters, per day, 10s. to 139.
Coopers, per day, 12s. to 14s.
Joiners, per day, 11s. to 14s.
Plasterers, per day, 13s.
Plasterers' labourers, per day, 9s.
Bricklayers, per day, 12s. to 14s.
Bricklayers' labourers, per day, 10s. to 13s.
Mas ms, per day, 14s. to 15s.
Masons' labourers, per day, 9a. to IGe.
Quarrymen, per day, 14s. to 15s.
Blacksmiths, per day, 8s to 13s.
Carters, per d Bs. to 10s.
Male servants, per annum, 301. to 401.
Cooks, 401. to 501. per annum, and found.
Grooms, 401. to 501. per annum, and fund.
Gardeners, 35/. to 45/. par annum, and found.
General female servants, 201. to 261, per annum, and
found.
Cooks, 231. to 301. per annum, and found.
Laundresses, 261. to 301. per annum, and found.
Housemaids, 201. to 213!. per annum, and found.
Nursemaids, 201. to 251 per annum, and found.
COUNTRY WAGES.
Tho rations are-Flour Sibs. to 121bs. ; meat, 101133. to
14Ibs. ; sugar, 2lbs. ; tea, ilb. weekly.
Farm labourers, 301. to 401. per annum, with rations.
Ditto, married couples, 431.. to 601. per annum, with ra-
tions.
Hutkeepers, 20/. to 251, per annum, with rations.
Shepherds, 23/. to 301. per annum, with rations.
Stockmen, 401. to 501. per annum, with rations.
Bullock drivers, 401. to 501. per annum, with rations.
(If without board, 1/. per week more.)
SEAMEN'S WAGES.
Coasting, Si. per month.
England, 51. 59. per month.
Groat Britain, by way of India and China, 5/. per
month.
New Zealand, 5/. per month.
India and China and back, 41. 15s. per month.
Valparaiso and back, 41. 15s. per month.
Steamers' seamen, 6/. per month.
Ditto firemen, 121. per month.
Ditto trimmers, 91. per mouth.
Whalers, A.S., 120th lay.
Ditto, 0.5., 140th to 160th lay.

Farm servants continue in active demand, and engage-
ments have been freely entered into with those willing
to accept reasonable wages. There hav,: been no arrivals
of immigrants during the week ; and wages may there-
fore be quoted as follows :
COUNTRY WAGES (WITII RATIONS.)
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Farm labourers, 301. to 401.
German ditto, 301. to 351.
Bullock drivers, 351. to 451.
English shepherds, 2S/. to 301.
Italian and German shepherds, 27/. to 20/.
Stockmen, 301. to 40/.
Hutkeepers, 201. to 25/.
Married couples, 401. to 501.
German ditto, 401 to 45/.
Milkmen, 301. to 401.
Garden labourers, per week, found, 15s. to 18s.
Rough carpenters, per annum, SC/. to 701.
Butchers, per week, 1/. 10s. to 21.
Blacksmiths, per week, not found, 21. 10s. to 4/.
Sawyers, per 100, not found, 14s. to 16s.
Briekmakers. per 1,000 ditto, 11. 15s. to 2/.
Surveyors' men, 301. to 351.
TOWN RATES (LIVING IN THE HOUSE.)
Female cooks, 251. to 301.
Laundresses, 251. to 301.
Useful general female servants, 20/. to 241.
Ffousernaids, 201. to 24/.
Nursemaids, 20/. to 22/.
Labourers (in town) per day, Os. to Os.
Male servants (town) per annum, 30/. to 40/.

THE NL W LORD WYCOMBE.

The Earl of Shelburne, whose summons to the House
of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe, of Chipping
Wycombe, we recorded on Saturday, is the only surviv•
ing son of the present Marquis of Lansdowne, and
grandson of the first Marqui-, whose name is so inti•
mately connected with the early history of the reign of
George 111., as having succeeded to the leadership of
the great coalition after the death of the Marquis of
Rockingham, in 1782. His lordship, who became heir
presumptive to the Lansdowne title en the death of his
elder br ether, the late Earl of Kerry, in 1336, Wll9 re-
turned for the family borough of Calne in 1837, and has
continued to represent it since that; time. He held the
post of a Lord of the Treasury from 1847 to 1848, and
has never taken any active part in the debates in
the House of Commons. His wife, a daughter of the
Count de Flahault, by the Baroness Keith and Nairne,
is a near relative of the Emperor of the French.
With the exception of Lord Enfield, the Earl of Shel-
burne is at present the only eldest son of a peer who
has been summoned to the Upper House in his
father's lifetime. Among those who have thus
anticipated their peerages within tho last few years are
the present Dukes of Bedford and Leeds, the late Duke
of Norfolk, the present Marquises of Ailesbury, Donegal,
and Anglesey, the Earls of Lonedale and Derby, and
the late Earl of Bessborough. In almost every case,
however, except that of Lord Anglesey, the tenure of
the eldest son thus "summoned" from the Lower to the
Upper House has been but brief, the parties having suc-
ceeded to the higher title in the majority of instances
within four or five years of their elevation. The plan,
however, operate) usefully, as recruiting the House of
Lords with g menhy a species of "life peerage,
without making any permanent audition to its numbers.

THE AMERICAN MAILS„.•-•LIVERPOOL, July 12.—The
British and North American mail steam-ship Persia,
Ju .kins c9mmander, ,ailed hence for New York this
afternoon with a fuil cargo and 205 passengers, nearly
all adults, besides the usual mails.
CRYSTAL PALACE. —SEVEN SHILLING AND SIXPENNY
DAY, Saturday, July 12.—Admissions on payment,
3,423 ; ditto, by season tickets, 7,201 ; total viEitou,
10,72 i.