The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUB3DAY, MARCH 18.

of food is in England • time-

honoured prsetios. It is as old, at list, as ths tiros

of eIIAUCLR, who makes his Hat of the Tabard twit
the Cook of London with theeffects his dishes produced
upon the stomachs of pilgrims. The first sanitary in-
spector on record is Sir Joke Pastel: " There is
lime in this sack." Nevertheless, we cannot bring our-
selves to participate to the full extent in the Waite-
ration panic that has been raging for the last year
or two. Were one-half of what we are told true, the
Mortality Bills would weer a very different aspect
from what they do. Still, thereon be no doubt that
sad tricks are played, and that too by some whose
position in life would entitle to to expose better things
of them. But what is to be done?
Of the multitudes who eagerly read the evi-
dence of adulteration scarcely one has an answer
to give when asked what is to be done. It is a matter
of course that inspection and inspeotorship should
be proposed. As commissions, with barristers of six
or ten years' standing, were the prescribed remedy
for all grievances under Whig Governments twenty
years ago, so now are inspectors the one
idea of professing Reformers, in Parliament and
Government ceoes. But inspectors sppointed
to pry into grievances sad watch over the
administration of laws are becoming more un-
popular every day, after having always been
made to feel that their function was not an accepta-
ble one to anybody. We happen to have bad a good
deal of evidence passing under our eyes of late of the
views of the working clause on this matter; and we
find them asking a question which seems to as very
reasonable : Why, if the object is to get abuses pried
into and brought to light, are gentlemen salaried to
do a sort of work which seems to belong naturally to
the police?—the polio. having a keener ssent for tricks
than any other order of social protectors an be ex-
peeted to have : and, if the function of inspectors is to
see that certain special laws are duly observed, the
existence of such a function speaks ill for the laws in
question. Every good law, sound and natural in its
origin, works of itself; that is to say, society is in its
favour, and it is is fact an utterance of the general
will. In Use cue of such a law, the Mos of inspector
would be • sinecure; and where the oEse of is•

specter is not a sinecure, the public may be pretty
sure that there is something 'lastly in the constitu-
tion of the creator. which Deeds such protection ;
and the official is thoroughly aware that throughout
his beat nobody is glad to me him, and most people
regard him as an intruder when he cannot be charged
with befog a spy. The fact is, the working classes
of this country are becoming more and more dimon-
tented with the interference threat upon them under
the names and with the incase wpm of prates-
tio. I and it is within oar own knowledge that many of.
them say that in a little while the working Eiglish:
man, who used to be considered a man moss men,
will be unable to do a single thing without somebody
to help him, es if he wen a child among nursemaids.
Between one sort of supervision and another, be finds
hireseU never left in pews He sun take eon, be
thinks, of his life and limbs, of his health, of his
wars, of his basin's' and his defile on week-days,
and of his soul and his holidays. Sundays. While he
wants to pt rid of some of the azisUng impede.
and protection, it is not likely that be will
went to the establishmest of mate in a new
direction. The name sad the idea are unwelcome to
him, however true it may be that the inspector of
dregs or food will not isterfau with him dinetly,
and however decidedly he may be of *pinion
that something Rust be done to pat an and to
the prevalent adulteration of food sad drugs. The
constant reply of the sturdy 11 wetly a is that In old
times men could take we of themselves and that
they could do so still, if Governsest had sot its
Sager in every pis

If farther asked how he would deal with the
difleulty of the day, sad get pure breed and bra,
sad salt and mustard, and pore ensdieine foe a ehild
whops very life may depend co the goadamsof the drug
prescribed, he might possibly be at a less ter an answer.
Bet it appears, by evidence of great interest and
importance oared to the Parliamentary Committee
on As Adulteration of Food, that the working
dames have taken their case into their owe head' to
an sweat which will surprise, and mast reface,
many who are anxiously turning over the uses-
flow Vs their minds. It appears, in het, that the
"woekies,• to the number of teas of thousands, have
been mewing themselves against the evils of adults-
reties of food for somas years—from the time whoa
the misehief began to make a noise.

To go back a little farther than the dates given to
the Committee, it appears that parchseen snag the
poorer clams have been esersieng the arardaem
moat likely to be Lead moss buyers who lay oat
their cm nosey—that nosey being baldly earned.
They found that then were two methods snag
others by whist they were anted. One was by
the byline' of "Wolin articles; and the other by
adelteration of the goods. The system of "Lading
articles" (whisk w brg to say has so somezios with
joarealissa) is this :—That some comma sort of goods
that everybody uses sad know, the value of, is sold
very cheap, in order to give f charmer of diapason
to the shop, while the value is taken at is the &tr-
ine/ of articles less familiar to customers. Thus
saga: sold at a loos will carry off with it dear
tea sad ease sad spites; sad calico mold at
a lam will tarry off deer shawls sad staffs.
Under the other method of cheating, the buyers
bead their bread small fa properties to the weight s
their pepper and mustard did not glow end sang t
the Ns me net fragrant, and the sugar was not duly
sweet. They got at some of the mysticism of alms
sad rice lour, of starch sad potatoes. et des-leaves
glue, and paint. Henn the restudy land by the
sufferers, from place to plan, ad bon tine to tins,
for the last tea years; the remedy whisk will iodise
ea headalent tradesmen the fitting retribution of
the be. of their hominess, if they do set compete
with attain of their asighboure in heasety, as they
have competed with others is asepses& This re-
medy I. amply clubbing for the purpose of obtaining
ankles of the beet quality. The Oonaitns ea the
Adulteration of Food were told by the meager of
the Pe opWs Flour-mill at Leas, that the society
was established in 1847, for the porpoise of °Noising
pure leer. The quantity of wheat 'resod is
400 quarters per week, sad 20,000 perms
are supplied with it. And on what term? At
• rate so advantageous that the mat sada.
aim adulterator cannot aster into the sompstities.
Each proprietor holds • genes share or less; and es
this 6 per cent. interest is paid. The prat assesing,

aotwithstandiag the cheap prise of the Boar, has
given the members a bonne imemiderably exceeding
is its man total the amount of their amiss. There
are several other associations of the earns kind at
Leeds and in the other manufaisturing towns of
Yorkshire and other counties, and the members sew
gratulate themselves on having the pure produce of
the wheat when samples of breed taken from the
counters of Leeds bakers show a very high rate of
adulteration. Another witness, the bookkeeper of a
cora-mill moiety at Rochdale, gave much the ease
account of the mill scheme, and added tome informa-
tion about the stores established by the working men
at Rochdale, for the purpose of supplying the mem-
bers with all common articles of food at coat rises,
with the mere addition of the expenses of manage-
meat. The number of these stores is now very con-
siderable in the manufacturing districts of England
and Scotland. They may be numbered by sexes,
and who can wonder when food and medicines can
be had pare, and clothing genuine, and all cheap
In one place such a society has distributed several
thousand pounds of surplus, and elsewhere the meta-
bore save, in the pan:these of food which will nourish
and clothing which will wear, the wherewithal to pay
their rent.

There will always be lazy housekeepers in all
classes who will desire sod expect to get everything
of the beat for the asking ; to have immaculate
bread from every baker's counter, sad the purest
groceries in fall meaner* without troubling themselves
to smell, taste, or weigh. These will expect Govern-
meat to take oars of their interests for them, and "see
that it is all right." But we would not have Hammes
come down to lift our wheels out of every rut ; and the
" waifs* of the flour-mill and store enterprises have
shown us that sensible people can protect themselves
better than any Government can protest them. If
tradesmen do not wish to see their business trans-
ferred to the heads of agents of societies, and their
shops shut op by so-operative stores, they must look
to the quality of their goods, and fiod some escape
foe themselves from the difficulties they complain of
in dealing honestly. If "the people" who set up
stores and open mills can get pare groceries and boy
and sell sound wheat without admixture, so may
others. The stir and alarm must bring about a re-
form. The roamed will always find a way. Mean-
time, it is &remarkable and cheering fact that in many
quarters, and among a great multitude of the people
most nearly interested, there has bees an organised
and successful resistance to the adulteratiss of food
for many years past. The people will do their temple-
d= for themselves. Their neighbours are potently
able to me that the adulteration is not done by retail
badman ; and the wholesale dealers must give the
retailers saleable goods. In tie long run, the best
articles command the market, and the cheat goes to
the wall. If oar " worlds." have found the means of
driving the cheat to the wall. honesty in we to prevail.
Our working men have discussed and demonstrated
how adulteration of food is to be °hooked: it le by
helping yourself, without the intervention of lawyers
or paid investors.

At mix o'clock on the morning of the 20th of
March, 1811, Paris was awakened by the cannon of
the Ineslidos arinouncing the birth of the first-born
of the Great Mcrorsox. It had been arranged that
twenty gone should proclaim the birth of a prisons—
& hundred and one gang the birth of a print's. After
the echo of the twentieth had ceased there was, we
are told, a pause. Mete expectation waited. Bet
when the twentyfint pronounced the birth of a
Bing of Rome—an heir to the Throne—the wok-
nation of the thronging citizens overwhelmed
the thunders of the artillery. It seemed as if that
mighty Phantom Ship—the French Empire—
had at length Ist go her anchor, and that the kiar
dem of the Canino subaltern had at length web-
' limbed its foundation among the anoint Powers of
the liarthrForty-dve years Wm, in the suss month
sad about the same day of the month, the nephew of
that great man has punted le the world the like
1 embus* if not swim leggier ampites, assuredly
midge eirmametimass ter/ illibeemL To both the birth-
d4 Kon Imperialists sussed to mark the fall meri-
dian of their ;key. Preis that mesidian, indeed, the
First EMPEROR'-nailed to his setting. Let as for
bear anticipating for the Third EXPER.OI a similar
fate.

On that miserable 20th of Mirth, 1811, the Im-
perial coageror saw making is his career bat glary
to look leek ups sad glory to anticipate. The
Speak& door, es he willed it, had indeed begun to
prey open his vitals; bat as yet he knew net he was
amortaL At all events, it was He who had era crushed
the hydra of Enolatioe, bad re-created Frames oat of
sham—had poured over Europe kis coriqueririg
Seeds—sad sash stesedve wave bad swept away •
kingdom. Italy was sow the appanage of Frans
Prussia was subdued, Oensay was humbled—nay,
the very partner of the Imperial throes, the nether
of the sew-ben Prises, lad been compered at the
gates of Visas. Fortune could do ao more for her
most favourite shad. And yet she had doe, too
math. Mare/ago sad Austerlitz were to be balanced
by the retinal hes Ilessow and Leipsie. Within
two gen tines 460,000 fighting men, who bad
raided with multitudinous joy their great Commander
on the plains of Oradea, had evaporated, like the
host of Ssus•casus--end Russia had bar revenge.
Within tour yeses the same insatiaWe stagiest*, was
ease mots overthrows, and the visitations armies of
Bands sad of the Allies were massed in his capital.
Sew dillwast the Kara of 1866 f The nephew of
the Eels of St. Bekaa—the prissier of Ragland—
Is indeed Emperor of Franey, the any of hie tinele's
most relentless foe. Too sagacious to indulge in
dreams d tiossest, be has accepted a son pastel
destiny. Oa the plea el protesting sedge mad pro-
piety, he has unquestionably protested than with too
earn a hand. Bat if he has felled to keep faith with
his own subjects, he has at least kept bleb with
Europe. He has recognised with the eye of •
statesman the perils to which Europe was exposed
by the Amigos of Xenia; has clothed his arms
with glory on the heights of Sebastopol ;
sad, within two Teen, bee not only asgaired
for himself a pies among the oldest Euro-
pean Manarebs, but, is majesties with hie
Allies, has area cassraised the stiffamired (as to
solicit pas militia the walls of Pads. The pitie-
s& who used to isater with his phi-beaded sae
tress his lodging is Eisgatrest, St. James's, and
even here his trashes for Queen VICTORIA in
1848, has maimed a mighty seems ; but amorally
sot greater than that of his nada. Therefore let
him take heed. Let him act think that the rejigs-
tap of the people es this sepias eves( betakes
any obsolete maddens is their Sovereign. Public
stalassaticas derive their chief sinonity treat the
flame provost whisk the event over which the
people rejoice prognootieates. It wee the blind hope of
France that the birth of a Slag of Roma would
soothe the ambitions peados of the goat *engages,
sad had him to devote his seismal pales to the
sivilialag triumphs of pease. They indulged the
vain hope that depopulated Erna would at length
enjoy an boar of repose; that the order of Nature
would be teetered, aid that, instead of grandfathers
enesseding grandmas, grandmas would sewed their
grandfathers. But the infatuated Earns could so
ism dawn the times. "The nation is with map"