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14 a . to 16 s . ; bricklayers , 17 s . ; bullock-drivers , 8 s . 4 d . ; carpenters , 14 s . to 16 s . ; cabinet-makers , 14 s . to 15 s . ; carriage-makers , 16 s . to 17 s . ; coopers , 10 s . to 12 s . ; engineers , 12 s . to 20 s . ; ironfounders , 12 s . to 18 s . ; masons , 16 s . to 17 s . ; millers , 10 s . to 12 s . ; miners , 6 s . to 8 s . ; painters , &c , 10 s . to 12 s . ; plasterers , 17 s . ; saddlers , 10 s . to 12 s . ; shoemakers , 8 s . to 10 s . ; shoeing smiths , 17 s . ; tanners , 10 s . to 12 s . ; watchmakers , 15 s . to 20 s . ; wheelwrights , 16 s . to 18 s . Piece work : Brickmakers , 25 s . per 1000 ; sawyers , 15 s . to 20 s . per 100 ; tailoxs , Is . per hour ; wheat thrashers , Is . per bushel ; day labourers , 8 s . to 10 s . "
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South Australia was once thought a more hopeful colony than Victoria . The gold discoveries have made the latter what it now is , but the former is profiting nevertheless . Late accounts state : — " South Australia is now being benefited by the gold discoveries , for her produce in the shape of flour , hay , &c , has opened up an extensive trade "with Victoria ; and if in Victoria gold can he dug , here some of the finest grain is grown for the use of the digger . For some tune past trade has been sluggish , partly from apprehension as to the solvency of some Melbourne merchants , and also from the great and unusual dryness of the season , no Tain scarcely having fallen for nearly nine months ; the consequence has been that seed has been sown two or three times o-ver , without any beneficial result , and if abundant rain does not soon fall , scarcity will be felt .
" The Government still continue to receive large sums frora their weekly land sales , and dispense those sums with prudence . There is a railroad in progress to the port . A senate house is nearly finished , besides other public works , all tending to improve Adelaide . A verylarge sum is annually voted to promote emigration , but it is found that , in spite of the large number of emigrants sent out from England , the price of labour is not reduced . Many persons take advantage of the emigration fund to come out to Adelaide , and they go off to the gold-fields as soon as possible .
" So much is a prolific field of gold thought necessary to relieve the colony from its present sluggishness , that a fund is being collected to the amount of 10 , 000 ? . to promote so desirable a discovery . Gold in small quantities has been already found at Echunga , about twentynine miles from Adelaide . It is the general opinion that plenty of gold could be found in that country if a proper search were made . Land rules high in Adelaide , and acre blocks , that once sold for 12 s ., have since produced 6 O 00 t "
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ELECTIONS . "Wigan . —Mr . Acton , the Liberal candidate , has been returned for this borough by a majority of five over Mr . Powell , the Conservative . FitOME . ' —The canvass in this borough is going on actively ; Mr . Donald Nicholl , ex-Sheriff of London , having entered the field on the Liberal interest , to oppose Lord Dungarvon , the nominee of the Earl of Cork . Limerick . —There is a vacancy in the representation of this borough by the sudden death of Mr . Robert Potter . Serjeant O'Brien , Mr . \ V . H . Barrington , Mr . tie Courcy O'Grady , Alderman Watson , the Mayor of Limerick , and Mr . John Reynolds , are all spoken of as candidates .
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THE IRISH TENANT LEAGUE . It appears that the recent conference at Dublin has not been without results . The Nation has a manifesto in these terms : — The Conference declares that no Tenant Right Bill , conformable to the Resolutions of the Conference of 1852 and 1853 , was introduced in the last Session of Parliament—and that thereby a great injury has been done to the tenant cause . Another Conference is to bo hold bofore the meeting of Parliament in order to decide upon the members to whom the charge of the question js to bo entrusted next Session . Meantime tho sense of the country is to bo taken at a aeries of county meetings .
Tho meaning of this course plainly ja , tho removal of the charge of the bill from Mr . Sergeant Shoe ' s hands . We are very sorry that tho necessity for such n course has Arisen . But wo thlnlc no impartial friend of tho cause -can have watched certain recent proceedings of tho learned sergeant without coming to the same conclusion that tho Council have at last pressed . Tho Recess will not bo idly spent by the League . A aeries of county mootinga , such aa began tho agitation four years ago , is proposed—tho first to bo hold in Kilkenny . Lot tho farmers understand that thoir own jipathy has damaged tho question quite as much as tUo misunderstanding with reference to its management , which this Conference hna at last terminated—and bo prepared to do their part in making it march .
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Leader Office , Saturday , October 7 . The following telegraphic despatches have been received : — Marseilles , Friday . Under date of Constantinople , 27 th ult ., we learn that the Russians have sunk eight of their Iine-ofbattle suip 3 at the entrance of the port of Sebastopo ) . The Allies are at the walls of Sebastopol . After the defeat on the Alma , the Russians regained their fortifications without making a halt . The following officers are among the killed : —
7 th Regiment . —Captains Hare and Monck . 19 th . —Lieutenant Warulawj Ensign Stockwell . 23 rd . —Colonel Chester j Captains Sir W . Young , Evans , Wynn , Conolly ; Lieutenants Kudclifle , Anstruther , Butler , and Applewhaite . 33 rd . —Lieutenants Montagu and Worthington . 55 th . —Major Rose ; Captain Sch . aw-. 95 th . —Cuptnin Eddington ; Lieutenant Eddington ( brothers ); Captain Dowdallj Lieutenants Polbill , Kmgsley , Bruybrookc . Royal Artilksry .-i-Captain JDew ; Lieutenant Waled tun .
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Paris , Friday . The following despatch has been received hero , dated Marseilles , Friday : — " Sebastopol was to have been invested on tho 27 th . " The second lino of defence was carried , and the place entirely surrounded , " Tho Russians are shut up in Sobasfcopol , which wftB to have been attacked by sea and land .
"At tho battle of tho Alma , 3 O 0 O prisoners wore taken . " Tho struggle waa fierce . " Tho Zouavea , tirailleurs , and Scotch Fusiliers , greatly distinguished themselves . " Tho French lost MOO killed and wounded . Tho loss of tho KnglbU amounts to iiOOl ) . " LSunornl Thonuissou i * better . " TUo Albatross , Montczuinu , anil Wolga havo brought the wounded to Constantinople .
" The Russians have sunk four vessels at the entrance of the port of Sebastopol , to obstruct the entrance . " 12 , 000 stand of arms , destined forSchamyl , have been sent . Mustapha Pacha , commander of tlie army at Batoum , accompanies this convoy . " Constantinople was illuminated in honour of the battle of the Alma . " ¦ The cavalry has arrived in the Crimea from Varna . "
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From Odessa , reports are stated to have been received by Greek houses in the City yesterday , to the effect that G-enerals Osten-Sacken and Liiders had entered the Crimea at the head of 40 battalions , besides the garrison of Odessa , 20 , 000 strong . It is added that the inhabitants of Odessa have given a pledge that they will burn the place , should it be attacked , rather than allow it to fall into the hands of the Allies .
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Friday ' s Mbniteur says : — ' " The establishment of our army to the south of Sabastopol , and . the taking possession of the port of Balaclava withia a few days after the landing of the Allied troops in the Kalauiita Bay is not an unforeseen operation . The safe harbour of Balaclava had long fixed the attention of the generals in chief , but it was not wished to effect a landing theje in the first instance , on account of its topographical situation , too narrow to admit of a large amount of troops being landed at once . " In reconnoitring the coasts , which was done immediately before the landing by Lord Raglan , accompanied by the French and English generals of the engineers , they again came as far as Balaclava , and it was again perceived clearly , that this port offered great advantages as a basis for operations . The report of General Bizot , of the engineers , dated September 18 , guarantees oui assertion .
" Thus the occupation of this town on the morning of the 28 th by the Allied troops is a fact of the highest importance for the ensuing military operations . The armies have secured their communication with the fleets > magazines and ambulances will be thoroughly established there ; a road convenient and sure , practicable for every kind of vehicle , runs from Balaclava to Sebastopol . We are therefore now certain that our armies are solidly established in the Crimea . " The military operations that have brought about this important result reflect the highest honour on the generals in chief " , several engagements havo taken place , and victory has remained true to our standards . Our columns have been able to cross in succession several rivers , to turn the gulf of Sevastopol , to enter the mountainous region in order to reach Balaclava , aud Prince Mcnschikoflf , with tho ruins of tho Russian army , is driven back to a distance . "
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DISASTER AT GATESHEAD . A firm broke out on Friday , at Gutcsheud , in a worsted manufactory , and reached a warehouse containing vast quantities of sulphur , nitre , und seven tons of gunpowder , which blew up , scattering destruction around . A number of persons were killed , and wounded ; among others , many of a detachment of tho Twenty-sixth Kegimout ( Oamoroniuna ) , who wor « stationed in a building close by tho warehouse . Tho flro wus still raging nt eight o ' clock on Friday night . Twenty bodied hud been dug out of tho ruins , and 200 persona taken to tho infirmary ; a groat many othora are missing . More than fifty places , of business , and many thouuund quartern of corn , had been destroyed . Tho I 033 of property w already oittimatod at a million .
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" I do not consider myself anything but a person under the influence of the infirmities of humanity , " was the deprecatory remark made last week by Mr . John Maegregor at Glasgow , apparently under the quite mistaken impression that his constituents were about to fall down and worship him . There was , however , no manifestation of such spirit—indeed quite the contrary ; yet the expectation was not altogether unreasonable , for he has sacrificed much , if not all , for them , and if they do not believe in and respect him , who shall ? Never did a member , or at least a member with any position to lose , give up so much to the silliest clamours and lowest bigotries of his constituents—office , reputation , perhaps self-respect—and all for nothing . There waa
only one piece of dirt that he would not swallow- ^ his soul or stomach rose in rebellion against the drivel about u Scottish right . " Last Thursday , he even went so far as to tell a Glasgow " public meeting" that the thing , was very absurd ; but though he largely qualified this bit of truth with some of their own nonsense , they virtually forced him . on his knees , and held him by the nose till he swallowed the whole of the deleterious compound . We do not say that it was the people of Glasgow that perpetrated this cruelty and folly , but only the busy-bodies ¦ who falsely so call themselves , and whom Mr . John Maegregor acknowledges and obeys . Since Pistol ate his leek there has been nothing , so pitiable—nor even then , for the consolation of " swearing , " of course was not permitted .
A " Correspondent" is equally unsparing : — I presume that Mr . Maegregor ' s address to his constituents in . the Merchants' Hall , on Thursday week , "was a piece of formality meant to atone for his want of attendance , in the House of Commons during the past session , to the interests of Glasgow and of Scotland . "When the electors of this city supported that gentleman at the last general election , it was altogether on public grounds , and not in any degree from personal attachment or
admiration , a single hearing of pur honourable member being quite sufficient to show that if supported at all , it must be from principle , and not from anything fascinating about either his intellect or his eloquence . A more exquisite compound of egotism and imbecility could not well be conceived than the piece of rigmarole to which I listened ; and did I take Mr . Maegregor as an average specimen of our senators , it would add tenfold force to the satire of the philosopher about the little wisdom with which the world is governed .
MR . JOHN MACGRKQOR AT GLASGOW . Tun " account of his stewardship" given by Mr . J . Macgrcgor to his constituents , could hardly have been satisfactory to tho honourable member at tho time , judging from the accounts in the local pruioro . Hut it seoma that they hnvo not yet done with ) ihu . Tlie Glasgow Sentinel epcaka thus editorially-: —
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Accounts have been received from Constantinople , dated the 27 th ult ,, stating that the loss of the Russians at the battle of the Alma amounted to 8000 , and that the enemy had retired into Sebastopol . It is added that the Russians had sunk some of their ships-of-the-line at the entrance into the port of Sebastopol , in order to prevent an attack from the allied fleets .
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Tub Inoian Pumas and Sik Cuakuos Wooi > . — Tho Malia-rajah Duloon Singh , Prince of Lahore , ban been on a visit to tho President of the Board 0 * ' Control , mul was lionised at Doncastor last week . Hio Highness , who was attired in Eastern coutumo and mounted on a splendid Arab charger , after a brief Htay Jit tho Uoyal Hotel was introduced to tho bench of niagi » t . rntoi ) ftt tho petty scfwionuJHt the Guildhiill , whero ho remained boiik * time witnessing tho administration of justice . Hit * Iliglmow was alm > introduced to tho board of guardians , and wns nulMoquontly conducted through tho markiM and principal thoroughfares of tho town . Tho object- of tho Princu appeared to bo to maUohimwoll ' acquainted with tho inatlUitioiiH , manners and euatomn of our country ? and ho paid marked attention to all ho nav .
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944 THE LEADE R . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 7, 1854, page 944, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2059/page/8/
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