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HOUSE OF COMMONS, j(Concluded from our First Edition.) j jLord ASHLEY, iu continuance, said the whole 1, time of the mother was spent in working—in passing to and from the factory—and in a few : insufficient hours of rest She had no time to Perform the duties of a mother. Now he (Lord Ashley) would be very desirous to limit the mother’s absence from home to ten hours—(Hear, hear)—and to restore to these sutiering people the comforts of domestic life. It had been said that there would be little difficulty in obtaining two relays of children. In Leeds, I Manchester and Glasgow, that might be possible ; but 1 all the evidence went to show that it would be exceedingly difficult,* and one of the witnesses. Bradshaw, when questioned on the subject, said, that two relays could not be found, unless Lord Grey sent down his own grand children.—{A laugh.) But what was the way in which gentlemen proposed to get rid of the difficulty. They said, let the work-honses be ran-I sacked—let children be sent for into the distant agri- j cultural districts, where their was no employment for 1 them. What, were the manufacturers to go about searching the country, and carrying off the children a la Rum? Sir R. Feel himself said that ten hours' labour I was sufficient for adults. Mr. Horner said that Sir R. | Feel’s bill did not go far enough. And now if this plan of sending to search the country for children were not prevented, the practice described by Mr. Horner | would be renewed. Children had been sent down 1 from the workhouses of London upon contract with the j J manufacturers of Lancashire conditionally, that they I would take one idiot with every twenty sound children : and a case was rproved in the Court of King's Bench, that in the sale of a cotton-mill, gangs of chil-r dren were sold with the rest of the property.—(Hear,I hear.) The whole weight of the testimony was against the possibility of employing two sets. One witness, indeed, who he might call the government witness,I—(Hear)—had said that it was practicable j and on j being asked why he had recommended it, he admitted I that he did so merely as a mode of meeting the ontcry for legislation—(Hear, hear,)—because the half-time I would be injurious to the children and their parents,— (Cheers.) Then hou. members admitted that their I plan was injurious.—(Cheers.)I Mr. P. THOMSON—It is a choice of evils.I Lord ASHLEY—Then if it were so, why did not: I they come forward manfully and oppose the bill.— (Cheers.) He would never consent to meet one evil j with another, which was admitted on all hands to be I monstrous ?—(Cries of “ No, no.)
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