... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Labour has terminated the discussion on the proposition of M. Wolowski, relative to the employment of women and children in factories. Children are not to be admitted work before the age of ten years; while up to thirteen they are not to work more than six ...

... to discuss the principle and details a bill presented to the House of Commons for the employment and education of children in factories in England. It may he asked, why we meet to discuss a measure affecting England? I answer—lt our duty and privilege ...

... Ireland before the Easter recess. FACTORY BILL. Sir J. Graham moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Factory Act. The right honourable Baronet said the material alterations which he wished to make were, that children betwixt the ages of eight and ...

... s, in regard to the working of children in factories ; and, so far as we can learn, the employed are little better satisfied than the employers with the new arrangements. The abridgment of the time during which children are employed throws a considerable ...

... their time. The inarticulate peasantry censure it with fire. The white slaves of competition-the helpless women and children in the factories —condemn it with sighs and wailing. Ahe colonial and colonizing public say that it the worst they remember, as being ...

... several children had left the works with which he was connected, where they were receiving Is 3d a week, and a sound education. These children were withdrawn their parents, and sent to beg the streets. That was one of the results the present Factory Act. ...

... engine, from 30 to 40 inches,and icquiies to joined end end, which operation is principally performed by young children employed in | factories for the purpose. The process of continually 1 joining the short pieces of carding is necessarily ut■ tended with ...