The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

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=kielleee, in St. Anne-street, was earrit 41 off by the tame
malady. One of the overseers, Mr. Gray, moss
Imeemiset mu, and active in the discharge of duties,
ander the trying circumstances which have litcly taken
place, is surieusly indisposed from a febrile crack. The
sear may he mid of Mr. Stake and Mr. Lsnionby, two of
the releming slicers, and also of three of the medical gen-
tlemen esenseeted with the parish, namely, Mr. Steele (only
• hm 414” apptinted to the office), Dr. Robert Get, and Mr.
la &mak, surgeon to the workhouse. Three of the police-
mem employed as district relieving officers, have become
affintild with typhus, and are in a very dangerous state. It
is baths, probable, from the state of the town at present,
in eaninquence of the Irish famine, that this alarming cata-
logue of sickness and death may be considerably extended.
Since writing the above, we have learnt that another
police sneer, named G relives, is in a d sngeroue state, arising
from an attack of typhus fever.—Licerp,al A.Jeury.—
The local papers also report the death of Mr R.W. Darker,
perish medical auendant for the Castleton district, Rochdale.
It is supposed he caught the contagion by attending at a .
lodging.houee, in Sehoellane, where no fewer that ten pet-
eons were crowded together in one room, ill of the typhus
fever. Another surgeon in the same town has also fought
the disease in a similar manner, and lies dangerously ill. At
the Rochdale petty sesions, on Monday last, Mr. J. White-
head, relieving officer, said the fever increased every day,
and it was almost impossible to make some of the Irish peo-
ple clean themselves. On being questioned by the beach,
he said the board of guardians bad tried to take land to build
something like a fever ward at the outskirts of the town, but
they were unable to meet with a place for that purpose; how-
ever, they had procured lime and whitewash brushes.
WARWICK/MIRYY.

THE EARLY CL•ol47hiovg3a274T.—The Birmingham
Association, for the abridgment of the hems of labour, held
its annual meeting on Tuesday evening; between four and
five thousand persons were present, and the whole affair
pawed off in a very creditable meaner, notwithe:anding the
absence of many distinguished penioaages, whose preen.*
the committee had endeavoured to secure. The chair was
occupied by Mr. W. Schallsield. Letters of apology, for
non-attendance were read hem Lord Morpeth, M.P Lord
John Manesse, M.P., and from Mr. Muntz mad Mr. Spooner,
the borough INIONIben. The bat expressed his regal t" that
proem( eseppements would preveut his spending an evening
so agreeably -ee die one prege•rd ;" and Lord Jobs said,
" My eyaspiehie entirety with your mosernent, and I
trust the rtes ing will beef meek a character as to ensure a
speedy mad emplace MIMI ED your just and righteous
came." The chairman sea Mirth the object, of the move-
ment, and he painted out the baneful effects arising from the
system of keeping young mania sho or warehouses for 14 or
IS hours a day. Their object was (hps e said) tie do away with
that exoestive labour, in order that time might be allowed to
all claret to cultivate the mind—to recreate thu body—
and so to fit themselves for all the higher and NOT thicr pur-
Nam of our nature. Ho ridiculed the argument that moiety
had a right to tax young men by exec/eve hours of labour,
bet all of them should sot properly employ their leisure
hours, and he expressed his pleasure at the successful pro-
gress of the Factory Bill through parliament, for, he mid,
that law which had for its object the prevention of infant
labour from overworkin was a law of mercy end justice.
The main difficulty with which all philsath •pists bed to .
contend was that greed of wealth which was the leading
characteristic of the present time. He insisted, however,
that it was a great mistake for employers to yuppies that
their interests were bound up with the existence of the late
hour system, for that some of the largest retail houses in
London and elsewhere had acknowledged the very reverse to
be the fact, and he concluded by observing that
all who aided in the promotion of this movement would be
enforcing the rights of humanity; and maiming to further
•the improvement of the moral and social condition of a most
respectable, useful, and intelligent portion of the community.
Mr. George Dawson, M.A., mid that a " strike" on the part
of the buyers would put an lied to the late hour system: that
the mind of man could not go on without exercise; that
they must be prepared to encounter the men who mid that
by keeping the shops open late, the young men waald be
kept out of mischief. A man might as well my that he
would not pay a bill, lest the person to whom he was
indebted should get drunk. This was not a matter in which
force was to be used: men were not to be nude moral by •
force, nor religious against their will. He went on to remark,
that Masses in this country were becoming more and
more distinct; that capital and labour were completely '
opposed to each other, and that the only thing which bound A
men together now-a-days, appeared to be cash. If men r
really desired to see this abomination trodden made. foot— • r
if they would bridge over the great gulf—they cc old only ' • . •
hope to attain it by aiding to place all upon something like'
sn intellectual equality. At present, there was seemingly
no hope for the poor man in his old age ; he saw his master • .
growing richer daily, and himself poorer, and the great pro-
blem now to be solved was, and they were endeavouring to
create one of the means by which it should be solved—
"shall one man get rich without in some degree taking
others in his train ?" He lamented that there was no .
longer a hood of brotherhood existing between mu-
ter and workman ; there ought to be times and •
places where all should meet and mangle ; and he eon-
eluded his address by expressing a hope that by means
of reading-rooms, and scientific institutions and well.regat-
lated clubs all these anomalies which pressed Po heavily on
the middle and poorer classes, world soon be wiped out.
Resolutions were pawed in accordance with the above object.