... CHILDREN IN FACTORIES. A bill has been brought in by Mr Fox Maule and Mr Shiel, for regulating the employment of children and young persons in factories.” The following are the principal clauses :—Former acts are repealed. Children under ...

... pave notice that early next month he should move bring in Dill, appointing inspectors and guardians to pro en the children employed factories. Justice called upon the House consider the subject. He moved that the IU port be printed. ...

... on Friday week. On the motion of Air Sadler, leave was given to bring in a Bill to regulate the hours of labour of children in factories Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 3d February. ...

... P. Thomson, a copy of the supplementary report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the employment of children in the factories was ordered. , Mr Lenard moved for the return of the number or persons sentenced death, and executed in the year ...

... leave to bring in a bill for the relief of the poor of Ireland; and a bill for regulating the hours of labour for children in factories ; and a bill lor the the relief of the manufacturing poor. ...

... THE FACTORY ACT, The Factory Act provides, that for the protection of the health and interests of the rising generation, persons under 18 years cf age shall be allowed to work a mill or factory in the night at all, and the night is dellneu the time that ...

... gave notice, that th, ir mills should only work three days the week, which appear■. ridiculous, that the very children employed in factories laughed at it. It asserted that our average wages amount 30s. or 40s. per week —it evident that this stab was ...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer restricting the period of labour for children in factories. Lord Althorp proposed that there should be interruption with the labour of adults ; bat that children under fourteen years of age should not be suffered to work more ...

... for the whole population some restriction on the excesses voluntary toil, like that which the factory bill attempts to secure for the children in factories; should endeavour, by some institution like the Sabbath, to protect those who have other masters ...

... of the sub-committees has decided to submit to the Assembly three bills, relating respectively to the employment of children in factories, to the foundation of agricultural colonies for juvenile offenders, and to apprenticeships. The committee of inquiry ...

... British empire. THE FACTORIES. [From the Record.] rejoice to think that the attention of the country now fully roused to the oppression which has so long been practised upon the children employed in our factories. The Keport of the Factories' Regulation Inquiry ...

... James Graham was again interrogated as to the I educational clauses of the factories bilk He explained their ob- I i«ct bo follows ;-By the existing Isw children in factories I- ire compelled bo educated in some degree between the ages of nine and thirteen ...