The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER ?9.

Ws have very recently had a few pregnant
Illustrations of the canine appetite he place by
which our younger scions of noble families are at
present affected. No appointment is too big
for their swallow ; none so insignificant as to
be deemed unworthy of their picking up.
Within a few weeks we have had a Mu:
GRATE pitchfoeked over the heads of abler and
more experienced plebeians into the govern-
ment of Nova Scotia; a TOWNSHESD condescending
to accept of a Stamp Distributenhip in Manchester ;
and • Totixiiiritx stooping to pocket the
emoluments of a County Courts Tressarership is
the Metropolis. Hakes* Saturnia retina the
good old times are coming back when Sir
ROBERT W•LPOLE and his colleague. provided for
their children by quartering them on the Govern-
ment offices. As soon as India ie handed over to
the tat:Eve. Government, it will be invaded by
horde. of the hungry descendants and dependents of
the aristocracy. Parliament will interpose no Mr
to their nomination. The members of the Lower
House will continue to be elected as now, because
they are advocates of the Ballot and extended
suffrage, or supporters of the agricultural
interest and the Church, or promoters of
this railway or that line of ocean steamers,
as upholders of the Vestry interest or the Poor Law
Heard, as the case may be. No constituency will
ask what they think about the affairs of India. And
the consequence will be that our representative. will
Indemnity themselves fee the independent votes they
give on home politics, by their venal subserviency
on all matters regarding India. Competitive exami-
nations will interpose so bar to nepotism and jobbery
in Indian appointments. The Indian army is about
to be handed over to the Horse-Guarde—the

broad hint about the study of Hindostanee in s
recent "order of the day," shows that. Now the
purchase of Commissions is not yet abolished in the
Qt. ZEN'S army, and the influential Mr. 8t.t.1-4, and
the still more influential Times, are open-mouthed
in their advocacy of its continuance. Again,
an influential section of the Church and
the Aristocracy are availing themselves of the deep
interest felt by the Church in Indian Missions to
raise a cry of awe Bishops for India. They indulge
in the pleasing hallucination that India can be
Christianised by the simple process of duvting snug
Bishops, Prebends, and Rural Deans over it as Prom a
flour-dredger. Ministers will be nothing loth to yield
to inch a cry, as compliance with it will nsocesarily
increase the patronage of the Crown. Then es to the
Civil appointments; there is a wide field tee the
irresponsible exercise of patronage in the " Unco-
-0 Tenanted Civil Service,"a branch which must Doan-
wily increase in numbers and emoluments from
year to year. Here will be a splendid field for any
Governor-General who has a taste for patronising;
and those who are conversant with the history of
British India can recollect at least one occaaioa
whin a newly appointed Governor-General was so-

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companted by an agent appointed by the great vu's
aediton to receive the portion of his salary set
apart for there. The unconditional transfer of the e&
ministration of India to the Miniaters of the Crown
—the abolition of every check or control over them
except the merely Petulant surveillance of Parlia-
ment—will inevitably lead to unlimited jobbing, to
Increased expense and diminished efficacy in the
government of India.
That Lord P•IJIBIL440,1 is folly aware of this is
evident from the pains he has taken to steal a march
upon Parliament Lod the public with his India BiU.
Though ha M Al t..,TT intimated in the Iloyal Speech,
at the opening of the Stolen, that Parliament was
to be called upon to legislate for India, not the
slightest indication of the details of the legislation
contemplated bee been allowed by the Pater lilt to
escape. He will leave Parliament end the public
no time to form • deliberate opinion on the
merits or demerits of hie 01.11111111.

WnArtsca may be designed and done in
regard to the fatting of soldiers' families. there
can be no doubt se to the duty of helping them
through the crisis now. Those Rho from bad
health, or having their hands full of young chil-
dren, cannot earn, mast be fed and clothed in the
readiest way that can be found ; but wherever it is
possible to enable the women to earn, it i• supremely
desirable that this should be done. to answer to
the question, how ? several examples from the ma-
aufacturirg districts might be cited, where hun-
dreds of women suddenly thrown out of work
would have no other choice but between the work-
house and wont, but for the intelligent and rational
benevolence of their neighbours. One scheme in
particular we have in view. For obvious reasons we
shall not name the place, which has quite enough
to do in warding off its own threatening pauperism.
SufEce it that it is a manufacturing town, when
women are largely employed, end where the fac-
tories have recently been stopped, as in other
places. The Mena offered the free nee of
• 'radon, public building, where several hundreds
of women could be comfortably accommodated
se seopetreiree. Ladies who have chosen on the
Committee that they know what they have under-
taken. attend—a few each day. The women are
divided into companies or classes, each of which is
superintended by an overlooker, hired at Be. par

week. The regulate cutters-out, bookkeeper, and
general superintendent, are hired; and the work
gas, cm in a banner-like way. The industrious
earn as much as la. per week. The work is from
nine till six, with an hour's interval far dinner at
their own homes. As the mills closed, more and
more were taken on ; and se the mills re-open, those
who can will return to their ordinary employment. A
very few weeks mare, it is hoped, will close the con-
cern, by the return of all the women to work. Mean-
while, they have passed their days in sufficient
warmth, cleanliness, and comfort ; they have
earned • maintenance, scanty, but sufficient
for a few weeks ; and not a few have im-
proved themselves is needlework, to a degree
which will be a great saving to them for life. There
are pleasant incidents in the case—the singing of
companies of the women over their work ; the occa-
sional readings offesed by ladies who have voice
enough for a whole class, &c.; bat those circum-
stances are non-essential. The essential question is,
what is the work that they do? Is it of a kind
which the professional sempetreseas have a fair claim
to? or does it not interfere with them ? It appears
not to interfere, and no doubt the regular semp-
strews, who rarely earn Se. a week, would be
admitted, if unemployed, and have their share.
Linen, cotton, and flannel garments are mad*, and
sheets and other house linen. Housekeepers give
orders, and buy at the sale room; and it is • good
opportunity for persons who have laid by a
little money to supply themselves with good
clothing, ready-made, at a very 'amenable
cost. The plan is se weU received by
tin unemployed women that many more apply than
ma be received. As a temporary measure, devised
te meet a special occasion, it seems to answer well,
Waring nobody, and only requiring as much self-
sacrifice on any hand as amounts to • moderate spe-
cial charity. It would not do for a permanence, of
coarse ; bat it would be a comfort to think of whole
groups of soldiers' wives, and the six hundred Bel-
fat women who are on the parish, and the maims-
choly companies of unemployed women whe, me
begging from door to dam in Carlisle, as thus
housed, warmed, employed, kept out of danger and
off the rates, till that improvement in the times
mews which the most sagacious men of business
em to expect the molt confidently.

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