... should have voted against it; but it must be admitted that that measure strictly applied to the hours of labour of children in factories. In answer to the question as to what his principle in respect to labour was, it was this, perfect freedom—thinking ...

... year proposed to do somethins with respeet to the quality of the education given to the children in factories. The enactments through. out the existing law of factory cducation were, he was afraid, almost illusory, for persons had been employed that were ...

... that Dimly factories were. previous to the limitation, at work for a shorter number of hours thou those author. lied by the Act of June the Bth. The regulations of the Factory Acts, as to the state of the children employed in the factories, and the ma• ...

... being such that many factories were, previous to the limitation, at work for shorter number of hours than those authore d the Act June the Bth. Toe regulitions of the Factory Acts, tbe state of the children employed in the factories, and tbe management ...

... liable penalty of 51. '' all other respects, the regulations of the Factory Acts, as to the state childron employed in the factories, and the management and conduct of tho factories themselves, according to the laws now in force, have, with hardly any ...

... by the late heavy failures in Aberdeen. In the event of the resumption of works on that railway, is it the puny children of the factories and the muckiest% half fed weavers that the contractors will be likely to employ ? It's very like& whale, or rather ...

... EMPLOYMENT or CHILDREN IN MANUFACTORIES. — The Remitter publishes a Report, addressed by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce to the King. respecting the execution of the law of the of March 1841. relative to the labour of children in mann factories. It reach ...

... containing certain important provisions regarding the education of children employed in factories. The bill is intended to apply only, at present, to children employed in factories in the manufacturing districts of England; but it has been stated that ...

... NEW FACTORY ACT. s Tue Maccresvienp Cunostorne.—We hear, on all hands, loud complaints of the injurious manner in which the silk throwsters and manufacturers of Macclesfield are affected b, the new regulations, in regard to the working of children in factories ...

... a living of any sort in Ireland, ami that they are coming over to England to see if they can find work for their children in the factories, and for themselves in any other way. Many of these poor people are most decent and respectable in their manners ...

... of the Factory Acts, and which is of course obtained by them in consequence of the facilities they have in communicating with the factory managers, to be altogether unwarranted by the factory statutes, and to subject the occupiers of factories engaged ...

... Thomas Smith examined, at my request, 1095 children employed in different factories, and he examined children of the same class, not employed in factories. The result is, that thoso not employed in factories exhibited marks of scrofula in 8 ...