The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-30 00:00:00

working classes will bear examination. To the
questions— •

" Do you mean that the wages received by those people for
one day or two days in the week are sufficient to sup-
port them for the remainder of the week ?—There are
many trades who do not go to work till Friday morning;
in some of those trades, two or three days is all they work,
because they have piece-work.
" What trades are those?—Shoemakers and tailors in
particular."

The above answers were returned ; and who-
ever may have given the evidence (we should
_not have said a word respecting it, had not the
Committee placed the most implicit reliance
upon it), it is not too much to say that it is a
downright fabrication from beginning to end—
without any semblance of truth, and with the
grossest marks of ignorance or falsehood. In
the name of all the working classes in the me-•
tropolis, we protest againgt this statement as ut-,
terly untrue. There is no class of them,
whether tailors or shoemakers, who can
afford to " play Hell and Tommy" during
~five days of the week, and who only require
to work during two in order to maintain them-
selves. On the contrary - (and we consider our-
selves, from no indifferent experience, better
judges of the fact than any witness who came
before the Committee), it. will be found that the
working classes, generally speaking, work nomi-
nally during six days in the week, but in reality,
by means of extra hours—that is to say, four-
teen or sixteen per day—actually seven, and that
.for the whole of this toil they do not, on the
best.and most favourable average which could be
' struck, earn more than thirty shillings per week !
Is this too much for even a single man to, sup-
port himself upon with any sort of decency and
comfort ?—and if be happens to have a family,
what is the amount which he can afford to spend
on,the famous blue ruin which the " intelligent
officer" examined by the Committee said could
be purchased at threepence per quartern ? But
it would.he foolish to pursue this subject further.
The Committee having no knowledge of the
*subject into which it was appointed to inquire,
his been grossly imposed upon ; it has reported
according to the evidence, and the Report is, in
consequence, exceedingly fallacious.—Morning
Advertiser.

An Evening Ministerial Paper, which an-
nounced, a few days ago, that the Government
were about to adopt strong measures against the
Irish, now says that " we do-hope no measures
will be necessary ; that the great fact, officially
stated, of the improved state of the trade, manu-
factures, and revenue of Ireland, will produce a
conviction, an the part of the Irish people, that
the pacification and welfare of Ireland depend,
in the first instance, more upon themselves than
the Government." Our contemporary might
hive added, and in the second instance, too, and,
every instance to the end of the chapter. A
overnment can do little for a people who are
determined to do nothing for themselves. But
truly this conduct of our contemporary presents
as amusing a specinien of see-saw work as we
ever recollect to have witnessed. One day troops
must be sent to quell a rebellion which. had
broken out, and new legislative measures must
be adopted to put down the demagogues : the
next day we have a whining paragraph, hoping
that nothing of the sort will be necessary. Our
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contemporaryis rejoiced at the improved state
of the country, and intimates that industry can
only produce its desired results during peaceable
times. So we say; lAA we should like to know
how it happens (seeing Ireland has been in so
disturbed a state, according to our contempo-
rary's showing) that " the present year has
been marked by a revival of agriculture and ma-
nufacturing industry, an excitement of trade, and
a consequent increase of Revenue ?" The best
answer, however, to all the stories about the in-
surrectionary state of Ireland has been furnished
by the Dublin Evening Post. it consists of
extracts from the charges of the different Judges
to the Irish Grand Juries. They.are • all pretty
much alike ; that is, they give the lie direct to
the assertions of the London Papers. We shall
give one specimen from the charge of Judge,
Vandaleur. His Lordship said that "he felt
great satisfaction in being enabled to congratu,
late the Grand Jury on the tranquil state of the
country. It was gratifying to see no charge
of an insurrectionary nature." These observa-
tions were made at Fermanagh, which is in the
North of Ireland, and consequently the scene of
the alleged rebellion. It is useless, however, to
adduce farther proofs of the falsity of the asser-
tions of our contemporaries, as they themselves
are sensible of their error, if indeed they
ever believed their own statements.—Morning
Herald.

A detailed account was received yesterday, o
the revolt in Madeira against Don Miguel, or
rather as it may he more properly designated,
the stand made in Madeira in favour of Don
PedrO. It will be rather a curious circumstance
if these islands should remain with Brazil, and
Portugal be torn from it. For the moment, and
perhaps for a long time, Madeira is free from
all danger of a visit from the power of the
usurper. Unhappily, like the territories over
which, for their misfortune, he at present
reigns, Madeira has its priests, and they,
?is in duty bound, have taken the side of
the. tyrant ; on the call of their bishop,
as it is said, but the call of their own disposi-
tion, to lord over the community, would, we
fancy, be its more correct description. They
denounced the Governor and the friends of Don
:Pedro as heretics, a term Which is happily so.
indefinite, and' so comprehensive, that it
can rarely be misapplied. Six hundred of
the country people rose at the command.
.of the Bishop and the Priests ; they were
met by the stout. old Go`vernor Valdez with
two hundred soldiere, and in an instant routed
and put to flight, with the loss of eleven pri-
soners, thirteen wounded, and nice, or as some
more merciful accounts say, four killed. The
insurgents appear to have had a bog in their
rear, or at the least the Priests had, for, not-
withstanding every search for them, none of
those reverend rebels had been found when the'
accounts, which came' down to the 3d instant,
left the island. We -hope that by the date of
the next letters the search will have proved more
successful. If the Governor be as prudent as he
is brave, ho will do well to put these "stirrers up
1 of the people" out of the island as speedily as
possible. There is a vessel used by the Dutch—
a dogger we believe it is called—that is admir-
ably adapted for such transportation. It sails al-
ways before the wind, and C4ll S4ll no other course,
if Gen. Valdez can fall in with any such in the
harbours of the island, lie has only to stow the
good Fathers in the hold, with a due allowance
of hogs and wine, brace the yards athwart, and
lash the helm midships, they will be sure to
reach some land or other in the course of the
year. The English in Madeira, who are nume-
rous, were called on by the Governor to assist
him, but they determined, it is said, to reniain
neutral. 'We cannot say we altogether approve