The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-13 00:00:00

THE EIGHTEEN HOURS MOVEMENT.

Just when the building operatives choose starva-
tion, rather than work ten horns a-day, en old, but real
Finance, makes itself hard again from the stifling alma-
of the bakery. The masons and carpenters may urge
th= have nothing to do with the rights of bakers; but
V they we. to take practical facts Into consideration, in the
plane of men abstraetfons, they might discover the natio, at
working Mattoon ezpe. ly to be enabled to help bakers
In =nth= their time reduced below eighteen. Then is no
action or fancy about the bakers' case. Unlike the builders,
who work in companies, and pass the merry joke from scaffold
to rafters ta the fresh air, the bakers work underground, in
the slam of fermentation, breathing carbonic
acid, end the burnt sir from pa-lights and ovens, with
little to cheer them, and for an unreasonable sad ruinous
number of hours. Cu there be any action about it,
when atalisthe prove that the life of a journeyman baker is
the least valuable of any member of the community ? Why,
to see an aged working baker is as rare a sight as a youth-
ful general deficient of royal blood. If the operative kidders
rest on their right. ea woridsg raw, the taken at once
claim their sympathy as working men, and those who hold
to the faintest faith in.community of rights and privi-
=Naught to coneentrate their fords for the aid of the
theirowneallithandunreasonableabstractions
the whilielilfralke • nun round the streets at any hour in the
=orate= before daylight, sad you shell discover when the
bikers are situated by the glimmer of light that creeps from
a chink la Sae pavemeat, sad, If you stoop down and
watch, you will see the bare arms of pate-faced men
bus In the ketch that is to supply • thoosend
au when day hes feisty a= in. What sort of a teak
t P The mind= is painful sad humiliating, that the
staff of life is • weapon of death to those who prepare it for
as, sad we have allowed this wrong to continua to the did-
nation of one of the moat metal =uses of the toiling com-
munity, without say one public effort ever being made to
obtain justice for the working baker. Stewing In the steam
of the bakery by night, their frames are well prepared to take
cetera, phthisis, bronchitis, and a hundred other forme of
pulmonary disease, by exposure to the damps and frosts of
winter, and thie is one raison why taken take the wont
places in the tables of life expectancy. Add to that the ex-
cessive toil, and the terrible stretch of from twelve to
eighteen hours out of every twenty-four, and the best hours
eel Sunday consumed in =king other people's &tams, and
these need be no mystery as to the =totality among bakers.
Who can believe this to be necessary? Surely 00 one who
has thought on the subject for five minutes together. It
ought, therefore, to be remedied, and the while have a duty
to perform in seeing that It is remedied. The work of the
worV meat be done; but It should not be done by any un-
reasoned*, tax ea =mut endurance ; no man's life should be
shortened by the irk of contributing to the supply of our
daily ascemity. This Is a crying grievance, and in the face
of gook a clue the sine boars movement becomes sickening,
sad we wan= but may to the waking builders—take your
tee hours teak thankfully, and if you hare money to spend
fa vindication of the rights of tabour, need it in rendering
eminence to the overworked bakers.—City Asu.

PROJECTED RAILWAY IN RENT.—Ths subject of
a branch railway to Hawkburst, Kent, is under swims con-
eideretion. A competent ourrevor has viewed the oeuetry,
and reports that • line ma be made et • moderate expense, if
the landowners are commuting parties. The project is •
branch from Etchinghawatation to the west of Highgate,
near High-street, or to the reed of Highgate, near Pipeden,
having in view in each case a continuation to Crattbrook,
and probably thence to Staplehurat. A starting point would
then be gives to Tadao:lan. through Benenden and Retract-
den, and a direct line would be established from Hastings
and the Routh Corot lice to the South Eastern at or neer
Siaphintrat, and which at no distant nom may, by filling up
the blank from Etchinghou to Uckfield, become • direct
island government line from Portsmouth to Dover.—Dour
Berme.
fiEDDITCR RAILWAY.—This lice was inspected on
Fri lay bY Capt.in Gallon, of the Baud of Trade. After •
careful ezamboation of the various works the impactor ex-
hie entire approval of them, more particalsrly of the
Ctragies and viaduct into the town, which are of • vary sub-
marine' character, and saacticned the opening for truffle on
the 19th inst. Mr. J. B. Burke, the englieer of the line,
together with Mr. Newcombe. the general manager, and
several of the °Mows of the Midland Company, by whom
the line is to be worked, accompanied the inspector. and
pointed out the leading features of the undertaking. There
is to been entombs to Cheltenham on the opening day, to
which the shareholders and their Mend. use invited.

IMISCUE OF A SHIP 8 CREW.—WICK, SEPT.
The crew of the Kontreee, schooner, which had shipped
cargo of herrioge In this harbour, wero mowed by the new
lifeboat on Toed., last. The vessel was out in the bay on
Monday, when it lowa to blow strongly from the north-
east. She was versed to Proceed to sea. Her crow did not
consider it Dv:emery to do so, but chose to ride out all night.
On Tuesday morning, the gale motioning, they botked •
signal of distrese, when the lifeboat, stationed at the Salmon
Rock, was immediately prepturd and put to sea,
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manse& there being fifteen of the crew, with Capt. Tare.
R.N. at the helm. The mew of the schooner, to the num-
ber of awn with the master, we taken off, and the boat
safely retuned to shore. In doing so, some heavy sea.
struck the lifeboat In rapid succeation, placing her for a
short thus in great peril. She, howevor, behaved admirably,
the se*f'acting valves relieving her of the heavy seas that
broke into her ; and she ultimately succeeded in entering the
harbour, amidst the cheering el hundreds of spectators who
had congregated as the quays. The weather having mode-
rated, and the mew having been again pot on board, the
vessel proceeded on her voyage. This valuable lifeboat ie on
the plan of shoes adopted by the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution, and was liberally provided, thoroughly equipped,
• fee Wick, by the British Fishery Society.

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