The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-19 00:00:00

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'OHM BROGDZNS GOLD BROOCH CHAINS.

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will sake hie septirases, essported by Was EMS= sod the
whale et the Mooted by Mr. I. /Goghs/ow;
the OXFOSDIVIIMM.

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mord entertainment sot:whom the sod Aniseed artlehia. and
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AGRICULTURAL HALL.
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Load= yaws to be ties tea N
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tromps ever yet bare-
dwell Wm lasYmod. Dooms apes *my mamabli 1 o'clock-
Perfammumma commeadag at bat-bast 7. Coattail mameadou
at Novelties.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL,
great and=ipstans. A Grand 311Mork aid Eon-
ida an 10111OAND8 od the t ALABZIAN
MOUN=tintroduclog norm& of en at an tins.
aid the whole of the magnidosat dad of ones and Pones :
the spectscle being laberspereed with esealrtchnnee. feats od
aria% enshats, brMan tniener, ne., ale. Tenni- {sap one
• the smenatan eatsreel

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL.
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1 SATURDAY& at I o'clock. reeameocior
at hall-paeLatitArra wader test years d admitted ball price
to all party of the let Wing, except the
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gratis Ur Whistle at the micas charities to the day exhitAtiolts.
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KAMM AND DONE TOL Amy& Nan% las* Neck-
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Co A DAY AFT= VW WEDDING.

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LYCRUM.
TIM IeMUM MY WIYICS orr. Mr. Widdbomb.
RIM ILA& Mews. Yachter, Ryder. Fitzpatrick. Charlie, Ray-
mond, Mclntyre. Moreland, Collett, CUtford Ilssa C. laclarcq.
—And BLUI-YACk.I) IMPU6TuRS. Mr. N iddloomb.

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tune Erman. LITTLE BUSY BEE : or, the Old lady et
Threadneedleotrect. Mesdames S. Lane, W. Craulord. aa4 M.
Jacobs ; Mr. O. Ingwood. Ftret.rete i'automtmlata —AM TOM
WOIOL-OLILLS OV LONDON...Commence at half-psettt

HIGH WATER. AT LONDOS-BRIDGR.
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toakinicoW Morning, 7h. 2m.....Atinnonos, ME. Ma.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19.

WE are now within three weeks of the opening
of the Session ; and the London season is about to
begin. It is a good sign for the class to whom the
London season is a yearly purgatory that anxious
inquiries are made, publicly and privately, as to what
will be done about the poor dressmakers, after an
agitation of four or five years in their favour.
After so much stir, are more of them to be blinded
by nightwork in a glare of gas at hours when they
ought to be asleep ? more of them suffocated by
the foul air of overcrowded workrooms I more
of them driven into nervous fever by stimu-

biting food, and drams of strong green
tea and porter, administered to keep them awake?
more of them cursed with liver complaints, the
inevitable consequence of an unrelieved sedentary
occupation, bad air, and unwholesome food t
People are asking what has become of the London
Dresamalting Limited Liability Company, of which
we heard so much last May as the best promise
yet afforded for the relief of the workwomen's
health and their employers' affairs. If the project
yet exists in a hopeful state, we must soon hear
how it proposes to work during the coming season.
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. .
If we are left in the dark about it, the question ,
will be whose fault it is that so well-considered ,
and promising a scheme has advanced no further
than issuing a circular nine months ago.
Whose fault is it, in fact, that little or nothing
has been done in a matter involving so much of life
or death, health or disease, comfort or misery,
as the dressmaking and millinery system of the
West-sod of London? Are the customers, or the
employers, or the women themselves answerable
for the difficulties put in the way of kindly-
hearted persons who wish well to them all I It
does not appear that anybody desires to favour
one of these parties at the expense of the others.
What do they themselves say of their respective
wishes and embarrassments IP We may know more
of this then we did even • year ago, from recent
disclosures caused by the inquiries of public
opinion ; and if the public chooses, it may learn
all that can be told, for it is impossible that while
new classes of workers are being brought under
the operation of the Factory Acts, the much-tried
class of dressmakers and milliners should be over-
looked or neglected. If young people in pottery
works are no longer to be worked night and day, in
spite of all the efforts of all respectable firms ; if
the makers of limiter-matches are not henceforth

to be poisoned, nor young paper-stainers to he
fevered, nor fustian-pickers to be rendered de-
formed by bad conditions of work and workrooms,
the young women who are subjected to all these
evils in West-end workrooms will not be over'
looked. In the cases under the Factory Acts the
mischiefs are incidental to the respective occupa-
tions, and mitigation is, for the most part, all that
can be accomplished at present ; whereas there is
certainly nothing in the making of gowns, mantles,
caps, and bonnets which need blind, stifle, or kill li
anybody. These mischiefs are altogether gratui-
tous ; and we ought not now, after so many yeas.
of talk and professed pity, to have to ask whose
fault it is. Yet this is the question still.
What say the workwomen 1 They say they must
live, and by their needle. They mutt begin
humbly, and rise according to their capability ;
and they cannot go about, picking and choosing,
among the West-end workrooms, but be thankful
for a place where they may reckon on constant
employment and means of living for six months
together. They did not make the
.system ; and