The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY _ imparm

LYS AND EARL= PAYMINT
OF WAGES.

Last night a densely crowded meeting in aid of
these important object, was hald le Bzeter•hall, the Barl of
811AITZSIORT in the chair.

His Lordship, in opening the proceedings, observed that
the present movement was an offshoot of the early closing
one, which he had been informed had made the streets of
London in the evening dark and dismal, but which he was
aware had brought joy and light to thousands of families.
Legislation was not contemplated by them for the removal of
the obstacles in their path on the present iratesioa—publie
opinion they believed would be more applicable for that
purpose. A difference existed between wbolessle and retail
Detainees, and though they might not immediately be able to
procure the advantages of their objects for all lvanchu of ,
trade, that wee ao reason why they should not f,r some.
the early chains had operated in the manufastra-
log distr,cia, he was aware, with ramirable results. The
hours procured by legislative interposition had bees the
means of spreading among working men a vast amount of
education ; and so far from trade having bun injured by it,
production his been largely increased by the added energy
and buoyancy of he workers. The tiros • working clunk"
should not be confined to those who used great muscular
'lentos ,
_• the lawyers' clerks, for example, were dr. artfully
overtasked--some of them never basing a Sunday even,
and nobody needed manumission more. The tendency of
the age too was to increase labour, as la that almirable in-
stitut.oa the penes po,t. in which it is existed that ere
long we shall here a delis, ry every hoar. We should take
precautio, a against what was so strain' to the country
I bringing mischief to any body of her sons. As to the early
payment of wager, the noble chairman istrodeced the case
of a poor woman who, he under.trad, sued 2s. a week by
her husband's payment on Friday night instead of Saturday.
Such an arrangement would also remove the temptations to
Sunday trading.
The Lord Bishop of OXVORD, in movieg the first resolu-
tion—. That it is of vital national importance to he,. a
good feeling between cepitsl and labour, and that such
would be greatly promoted by employers giving of portunity
to the employed for moral improvement and heaitAul re-
m ation"—otwerved that labour was a blessing, so far as God
bad ordained it, but not as greed demanded it. The objects
now sought would be chiefly saleable for the young mem, of
whom there were 150,000 in th . greet city at tabonoos
daily, and eftee nightly toil. We had it. blessieg of Huns
in favour of the movement, f r did mot the Scripture soy,
"If use saeseber suffered, all suffered with it."
The resolution was seconded by Sir 8. bloarox Pato,
Bart., who adduced a business experience tit 30 years to
f.voer of the opinion that the workinz man would use the
boons desired with good fuel's to himself and the comma-
aiiy. The speaker said he had been through life immensely
assisted in business by self-cultivated men, and we should
afford toe opportunity to the labourer for self-ede cation.
In the public weeks with. which he was connected labour'
was le ft off at 4 o'citck on Saturdays, and with the beet
effects.

The nest resolution, rue-gutsier the aduanteges of
selecting Seturd..y es prehrable f the bell-bAluay
prooneed by Mr. Uoundell Palmer, M.P., and was seconded
by Mr. C. Cowan U P.
After emus farther observations from whir speakers, the
meeting broke up with a vote cf thanks ts the noble
chairman.