... twelve hours.-7. The employment of children tinder nine years of ago proltibittal.-S. The employment of children under eleven, twelve. and thirteen years of age fpr more than eight hours a-tiny prohibited.-9. Children employed in any one mill less than ...

... accompanied the second reading of the Factory Bill on Monday last: | •• They talked much of humanity in this city ; but were there not to be found here those who were worse used than those employed in the factories? Amongst the milliners and dress*makers ...

... be read under the sanction of the respective clergy of the children ; that it be allowed to the National, Sunday, and other Schools, to give certificates to children to be employed factories, if found efficient, &c. &c. Sir J. Graham although lie was ...

... state of children. Lord Althorp said case for inquiry had been shewn. He doubted some statements, and wished to know the effect of the labour on the mortality of children. He feared the bill might altogether prevent the employment of children ; would not ...

... should not hate served the fifteen year*, required Act 48, ...

... not have served the fifteen years required by Act 48, Heo. 111. Mr Sadler’s bill for regulating the hours of labour children in factories, is to apply to Scodand as well as England. Mr Sadler affirms that no part of the country stands in greater want l ...

... Spirit of the Press. THE FACTORY BILL. ( Fro'ti the E.c tminer.J The bill for restricting industry in factories has been vigorously opposed by • M. Gibson, Sir James Graham, Sir Robert' Peel, War l, and Mr Escott, speeches which quite exhaust the argument ...

... voting in favour, ard 111? against it. Air Fyler, after describing t!-: pernicious system of employing a number of children to labour in factories, in consequence of which they were afterward thrown on the parish, obtained leave to bring in abill to do away ...

... cruelty of the masters of factories to the children employed by them it to be ascribed altogether to the tax on bread. Colonel Torreits harMg presented a petition from Bolton against the overworking of children in factories, Mr Fryer, the member for ...

... thirty to forty incite., and requires to be koned end to end. which opus. flop is /mine:pally performed by young children employed in factories far the purpose. The process of continually joining the short pieces of carding= is neces.arily attended with ...

... parents and children, in facories, that in a given time there are 527 children born, and 33 deceased out of each 100 born. Whilst of 100 families, of which neith.r parents nor children are employed in factories, 517 children are born, and ...

... that the legislation limits the labour of children and women in factories, also to the same extent restricts that ot the male adults, the machinery cannot worked without the former. Lest the women and children should be overtasked the men are thus deprived ...