... It is in the same spirit that he speaks of the proposed legislation to restrict the hours of labour of Avomen and children in factories. to what he says on the subject of Scotch legislation, it is to be hoped that the Lord Advocate will be able to overtake ...

... would be introduced this session. Sir G. Grey informed Professor Fawcett that a bill regarding the employment of children in Sheffield factories would be introduced this session. Sir G. Grey, the request of Sir R. Peel, testified to the benefit derived in ...

... agitation of the factory operatives favour of Mr Mundella's Bill i 3 an evidence this, because it is plain that if the bill, its re-introduction, should pass into law, it will be positively illegal for women and children to work in factories more than nine ...

... , as bringing light strange practices in the management of factory workers—practices of a very objectionable character, and of the existence of which we daresay few people beyond the factory limits had any suspicion. The circumstances of the case, as ...

... THE REDUCTION OF HOURS IN FACTORIES. The understanding that the Royal Commission on the Employment of Women and Children will endorse the leading views laid down in Mr Mundella's Factory Bill will help hen. members and the public to have more decided ...

... ADVERTISEMENTS Edinburgh, id January 1751. WHEREAS a LINT-HOUSE belonging to the Factory of Archibald Hamilton and Company, in the Potter-, row, was broke open in the Night betwixt the 1 5 th and 16th of Ocfober laft, and a confiderable Quantity of OR ...

... ADV£RTIS E M E N T S. *! ?? The Truflees for the Children of the deccaft Mr. Archibald Akgi's. Merchanr in Edinburgh, finding it abiblutely neccnaiy, for an- f wciing the Ends ani Purpofes of the rniit committed to them hy him, immediately to call in ...

... WIDOWS, WIVFS, AND CHILDREN ?? Xi le l and Wounded British Soldiers, Sailors.and Ma- rines. in the late s xpedition to Holland. . T a COMMITTEE, held at the Free Mason's T.,vcrn, A on S.ir.irdav, the 14th r.f December, i-)t. L Right Hon. Gen. Sir WILLIAM ...

... sold privately), -^h* Valuable JUTE SPINNING MILLS aad POWER- LOOM FACTORY known aa Pleasanci Woaas. The Mills contains 7180 Spindl**, with all the ?? Preparing Machinery. The Factory contain* 155 Looms ftlarg* proportion being wide), with all the neceaaay ...

... Parliament will, sooner or lftter, pass a Nine Hours' Bill for women and children, and, as was the case when the Ten Hours' Bill became law, men employed in factories where women and children are also employed, will generally share in the benefit of the reduced ...

... women and children a good deal. Mr Bruce's definition of the extent of Governmental interferenc —viz., from a sanitary point of view— includes considerable amount, although we think it also sadly deficient, for it implies that women and children may have ...

... Verdant Works, took place in the upper flat of a large addition the Verdant Mill which is about to be employed power-loom factory. The room, including the platform and the sides and roof, were elegantly decorated with evergreens. Upwards of 500 were present ...