The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-11 00:00:00

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Ti ► Ent interest us all in the resist state
of the manufacturing altbieM is in eimerwimg, has
sympathising spirit, bow the hungering werltpeepis
and their embarrassed employees are getting through
the unexpected hardships of the time. The nerd
intont is in witneesiag the clear ecidence that the
hardship is least pressing where the employes and
employed andenteed one mother's ems, se veil

as .their owe, sad meet their cones on-
!octane it the beet spirit In Leon el'', union
the operatives We, had frequent bitter experishee of
hard reasons, and lon learned so ne good lemons
from them, affairs are brightening already. Ms out-
spoken, honest Lancashire men have certainly, to a
great extent, appreciated the difficulties of the bill-
ow oen amidst the prevalent sosreity et unary, re-
striction of credit, and depreciation at inorelbstnred

stocks. Many of them Intro swam that. Est a year
post, sofas of the richest men is Emir community
haw* experienced great dilieulty in obtaining namely
to pay their way with ; so that it is a common saying
that nobody at Manchester is the batter for Ile
Exhibition, except the inn and lodging-house

karma, lb. milliners themselves briog no exception,

eft amount of the impossibility of getting their bill
paid. A financial trims, happening in the midst of

inch a state of thinp, mast necessarily plunge
the euployers in such difficulties that they
had no possible mesas of paying the fall
wagea of happier times; sod their rasa were

elser-sighted enough to understand this, and te yield
be the necessity without fancying it a eased eppree-
aim, The employing close, again, seem to have
awe whatever could be done by consideration and
Sank kindness to lessen the suffering of the anent-
played and both classes have their reward already in
the prospect of better times. The lists of the mills
in the most prosperous ports of I.4lloolalin show
Isrge proportion that are now manta" fall time, and
kw that are stopped altogether, while of these rue-
ningshort time remise ramming full work fremwesk
to week. If it had bet been the established habitat
the operative class, as it is that of the daises show
them, to provide for bad times ea fora part of every
men's lot, there would have been no doubt about
their ability to weather this squall. They
may see that where any number of them-
selves have, like the overlookers of the Preston
fsetories, established a fund on a sound basis, for aid
in bed times, the members get through without the
losses and trouble of mind which attend a reduction
to pauperism. With the hope sod belief that the
worst is already over in the districts of the ootton
manufacture, we congratulate the sufferers on their
exemption from the strifes and discontents which
cruelly aggravate seasons of trial; and we con-
fidently trust that growing experience will cause a
more effectual preparation to be made, during pros-
perous times, for such changes as every branch of
industry mast always be li►ble to. If the employers
were in the habit of spending all they bad and all
they got, there would be no resource whatever for
their people in critical season.; end while the
working clears spend all they have and all they get,
there will be nothing between them and starvation
in bed times but the charity of men wiser than them-
selves. It is a great comfort to perceive that this is NO
far understood as that a considerable amount of saving
has enabled the superior members of the clam to get
through, on this occasion, without degradation; and
the spectacle is so striking a one, and so gratifying,
that every interval of prosperity will, we trust, be
used by more and more as a preparation for future
adversity.

It is a melancholy sight, after this, to see any con-
siderable number of operatives so ignorant as to let
as if it was in the ensployers' choice what to pay their
people. We fear &treat is not the only place when
those who ought to know better are refusing short
time and reduced wager, when the real choice is be-
tween shoot time and no work at all. The case of
the sewed-muslin workers and muslin weavers in
Ireland is not nearly so hard as that of the cotton
and woollen operatives in England, because the
women, who for the moat part do the /*wed-muslin
work and much of the weaving, are generally in a
family where the men have another sort of
employment. For a loos time after the Irish
famine and fever, the maintenance of the
working climes in that country depended on
the women to an unparalleled degree. Before
capital bad flowed in, and the land was taken in
hand by competent wee, tensof thouvandsof labourers
were idle, or earning sixpence or less per day,
while the women were the chief breadwinners, in
the manufactories distrieta, and by making lane,
sewing muslin., knitting, and doing both fine works
and Geld labour; but there hes loss been an end of
that; sad any may win really wishes to work has
for years been able to earn better wages than were
ever known in Ireland before. There may be sera
reduction in agricultural wages just now, thr the
prices of agricultural produce Intro fallen sawsliaw
ably ; but this, again, is in favour of the
log population. Yet it appears that,• ibea
cheapness of provisions renders the radisedl wog's"
in Belfast fully aqua to wing they were ajtin best
times at ski, time so a good masynnearets and
others who refses rash redaction, and 'wilt boon.
sentiently throws dot of work in mid-winter, mhos
they think bribe of it. We hope they will think better
of it ; for their neighbours will sot syropathle with
them under mifferier so perversely incurred. Bread
is down one-fourth, and pork more still and other
articles in proportion; so that reduced wages might
carry them tt rough bett. r than they ever got thrust&
the old winters. Nothing but extreme ignorance