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Bvw«/ wmu.tji wh uvuuw uii or iae oinert. iHm.yr. Hawkins declared that in the manufacturing dii .compared wiA mhe^s, there was an alarm)*,' 4xtenC ef intemperance, HnproWdeq.ee, and diuipstion • and that this arose from the mane hours in which th» f»ere employed, and which drove them to the drinking pirits as a means of producing a stimulus, which should pomentarily excite them, as it were, out of their e. .auction. He (Lord Ashley) would say, take the two 4»ils, the one represented by the nobte lord, as consequent hpon foreign competition, if the number of Lbour hour* f ere reduced ; and the more enormous evil which did and would continue to arise out of a daily exhauuion whichbrought about intemperance and dissipation, (Hear.) HeJen referred the right lion, gentleman opposite to one of his own commissioners, whose opinions he declaied to b3 borne out by tb.t of so many eminent medicil practitioners i and be cheerfully referred the noble lord, also V ?he'f.™e authorities. The noble lord had seriou.lv ini duired if it was hu (Lord Ashley's) object to limit the hours of adults ? He would not say that it was directly his object to do so; but he should be inclined tp extend his views hereafter to adults also, if it sfere only to promote a return of the wovking classes—of those in factories he meant—to do-meatic hab ts and domestic comforts. (He#r, hear,) 1 be views which he had taken noon this question wereSrecttely thoie of Br. Hawklns. The noble Ioid (Alihotp) ust perceive that hit own commitaion told very strongly •gainst him. Dr# Hawkins suited that the present factory ^ys;em had the very wont influence upon female health snd comfort; she bad no time to acquire a knowledge of domett c doges i she was generally 12 house at a tima VQ.n home, and obliged to leave her infant confined while ■be was abseut; and Indeed it appeared thait In some in-stances mothers gave their infanta opium, c* to compose them to sleep and to keep tfccm quiet. That gentleman said that to a factory labourer his home was in fact no homqtp iilm, and all this he traced to the present system of labour. As to tbs limitation of the labour of adults, the nobleh«i( Ashley) admitted that felt his bill would have that indirect effect, but the noble lord opposite was wrong in arguing that it would have the effect of throwing many’persons out of employment; that was the same argument that was used ogainst Sir Robert Peel's bill, sod t is prophecy was never fulfilled. Ip proposing a limitation to eight hours, the noble lord (Althqrp) must have ic red on the report of the coitinpssioners, hot there was no evidence in the body of the report that justified such a limitation, A Mr. Sutl^rUnd,!t was true, had given fcia opinion that it was practicable to get twpsetsof hands, 9ut in that be was contradicted toy other evidence. Thetvtiiiinm'mnt t/% ahnw rhaf S» tmnwafftlt;«nkU 4.
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London Guardian and Public Ledger
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Jul 19, 1833
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