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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2772, 5 January 1872, Page 2

IT WOULD NOT SUIT US HERE. We clip the following from the Saturday Review In Holland the wages of a skilled artisan in the larger towns seldom exceed sixteen shillings a week; in the country they are much less, He rarely tastes meat. Hi,s Breakfast is a sandwich of bread and better—a thin slice of black bread between two thicker'‘pieces of brown broad—with a cup of coffee. Hp djneg off a ipSss of vegetables soaked ip dripping, pj? perhaps a bit of fish, followed by a pup of tpa. His working day consists of twelve hours. At Hamburg an iron shipbuilder of the first-class earns eighteen shillings a week, working ten hours a day ; other craftsmen work eleven hours a day for a similar sum. In Prussia 2s*6d a day is a comparatively high wage, and the average is rather under than over 2s. Throughout nearly the whole of Prussia, journeymen and apprentices work regularly in the summer from five o'clock in the morning till late at night, with half an hour or an hour for dinner. The Belgian workman subsists mainly on bread and lard, green or dry vegetables, fresh or salted pork. If in flourishing circumstances, he has meat twice a week. Very many have for their entire subsistence npt}p]}g but potatoes, with a little grejjlSe, brown or bread, ffjftpp bad, apdfpr their druijk a fynetpre 61 phickf ory. Wages iu Switzerland are pearly 40 per cp:itlow< p thap ip Epglapd, ppd working prep liye op brepd apd eppgse jpd ypgetables with mept seldom mpfp thpn ppco 3, weekFloods have occurred in North China, creating a famine. Two millions of people will suffer.