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Lord ASHLEY presented several petitions from par* ties complaining of their evidence before the Factory Committee having been misrepresented.Mr. HARDY presented a petition from a meeting whieh assembled on Monday last at Wibsey9 in Yorkshire! praying the house to pass the Ten Honrs* Factory Bill wit)) as Tittle delay as possible; and they also prayed the house not to attend to the report of the Factor j Com* tnisslonsrs, in consequence of the very objectionable manner in which they suffered the evidence to be taken before them..Mr* THOMAS POTTER said, that whatever excitement prevailed in the West Riding of Yorkshire, he hoped that the house would not be led away by any such feeling. The'hon. gentleman read extracts from a handbill Which was circulated at the public meeting referred to, and deprecated tbe inflammatory language that prevailed at that meeting, and others of a similar description in Manchester and elsewhere*After a few words from Mr. O’DWYER, the petition was ordered to lie upon tbe table.FACTORIES REGULATION BILL.Lord ASHLEY having moved the order of the day for the house to go into a committee on this bill,Lord ALTHORP rose, and said that he thought it would he rather inconsistent of the house to proceed to legislate on this subject,before the icport of the Fac.ory Commissioners was laid upon the table. He further considered that the course pursued by the nobleIdrd (Ashley) in moving that thii bill be considered by a committee of the whole house was objectionable, and he proposed, in preference to'that courad, that the bill should be referred to a select committee up si airs. He considered that the mode he suggested would rather expedite than retard the bill. (Hear, hear.) He could not but feel some apprehension as to the effect which the measure might hare on, the manufacturing interests of the country. (Hear, hear.) Instead of being a measure of humanity it would be one of irremediable mischief if, as he feared, the bill of the noble lord (AjMey) had a tendency such as he had described. (Hear, hear.) He was perfectly ready to admit that parliament ought 10 protect children of a tender age, but hq considered that the noble lord (Ashley) had carried his measure too far with regard to adults. (Hjar, hear.) He admitted the severity of working the younger children in the same way as adults ' were worked, and he considered that the legislature was bound to protect those who ecu Id not protect themselves. He was, therefore, of opinion that the noble lord ought not to extend his bill to adults, and he should suggest that all chitdie.i under 14 years of age should not work more that eight hours a day. (Hear.) He did not wish, however, to alter the existing law with regard to persons above that age. The noble lord ob» served that there ought to be some exception made with' regard to silk mills, and he considered that in any measure that miglit.be passed for ihe relief of manufacturing
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Sat, Jul 06, 1833
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