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FACTORY ACTS

... from the disclosures made, that the Factory Acts, in all their important provisions, had at these factories been utterly neglected. Youn persons wvere employed 7O. hours a week; and children, some of them very young, were also employed during these long ...

London

... BILL To 1ep'late the Labour Children dand Youn Per soes.bin the Mills and Factories of tie UIated Kiag- The principal provisions of the bill are the following - Whereas it is necessary that the hours of laboer of children and young persons, employed ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1832
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1674 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

Manufactures, Commerce, &c

... and R fair amount of business Is doing for the season. REPORTS O0 255 FAcSoRY lrSspxcroRa.- The lsalf-yenrly reports of the factory inspectors give evidence throusghoust of great activity in every branch of tranufactures except fiax-spi'.ning. Mr Horner ...

SCOTLAND

... about 11 when they got him out, In the . midst of his sufferings he cried for his children. His sis- t ter got down before he died, but they did not allow his children to go. He kept his senses to the last. His legs were not in theleast burned, but his ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1844
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 729 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

Manufactures, Commerce, &c

... wautufactures, Commerec, &c. Tari FACTOrY QUOSTIox.-We are infonrmed, on the best authority, that tire Factory Act is workiing wvell. Tihe systemt of emoplo iug young chilireen (under 13 years of age) by soelsyn, Sn that none of theor ate at work more ...

MANUFACTURES, COMMERCE, &c

... 'TaE FACTORY AcT.- -In some parts of the West Riding ! of Yorkshire, where the woollen manufacture is toleraH'y brisk, it is the practice of the masters to worl the rmjillstwelve hurs a day, as uisual-not by emplovine any of the women or children more ...

SALE OF FARM STOCK

... healthy ap- pearance of the children employed therein. The millowners found Mr Horner disposed to go about his duties in the most gentlenmanrile manner; and he took great pains to point out and explain the meaning of the Factory Regulation act.- ANECDOTE ...

Published: Thursday 08 May 1834
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

London

... Lower Tooting, Surrey. gave birth to two fine girls. These bring the number of her children to 17, which she has born in the short space of 11 years-having had nine children at four births. The mother is 29 years of age. We understand that the potteries ...

Published: Thursday 22 September 1836
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1514 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

Tse anp out last publication the following returns have been made:—In Edinburgh, on Monday, 11 cases, 5 deaths, ..

... economy, and showed how much more economical it would be to expend a comparatively trifling sum in training and educating the children of the poor than keeping them in prison at an immeasarably higher cost. The Rev. Dr M‘- Culloch moved a resolution to the ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1733 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

London

... instead of being defeated, received the royal assent. CHILDItEN, WvHEN A STRIKE trAKEs PL.ACE IN ad A FACTORY TowN.-When the strike extended to the children, as well as the adults, the parents thought it far from being the worst thing that hald happened. ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1832
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2697 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

London

... ?? 27 .- Bank of Ireland Stock ?? 194. The Queen and Prince Albert. accompanied by the Prince of Wales. the other royal children, and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, left Claremont at ten minutes past three ?? clock yesterday afternoon. The august ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1848
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1362 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

HIGH COURT OF JUSTIC

... eases on Monday occurred Pox'a Lane, Tolbooth Andrew?s Street, Elbe Street, Poplar Lane, Barth Street, Merrilees's Close, Factory The eases on Tuesday occurred Bridge Street, Broad Old Sugar House Close, Constitution Street, Lawrie Street, Brickfield Cottage ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1832
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 41910 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce