The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-09-19 00:00:00

°DOER THE FIRST.

"Me end my oollsegues have resolved that the Prinee
of Wales 'bell never osoeod the thzooe of these reelms."
—oData at Leicester.
"Ito and my colleagues have resolved"—
An awful resolution I
And bath our globe at peace revolved,
Pending that resolution?
Anil shall that globe upin is poles
Kcci, normally revolving,
With Odger avd his colleagued souls
itexo.ving and resolving?
Resolving throne. to three-legged stools—
The leis loom in their sockets—
And sceptres into three-foot rules.
In workmen's truusers'-pockets
And churches into ado., o'orswayed
By loternationa/ pouters;e
And statesmen into scrub., ill-paid
By Comtiat out-and-outerik
Resolving cloquenos to hum-
Bug brisk as It Is bora ;
FA:011010y to rule of thumb,
S.. it Po hard and hornY
111-dory to old almanuks,
Experience to blunder,
Taxes to loads for rich men's backs,
And property to plunder!
And when them) nteolutions all,
Thanks to mob-taw ami rough rage,
Shall thlger on the throes instal
By universal suffr me,
Then we shall see what we shedl see—
A new Millennial Britain,
Whore the have-noughts have-xlls shall be,
With easy chairs to sit in

When food, auto sweet, shall riming from earth,
Heady-made shaq grow raiment.
When worlitheies wants, and not work*s worth,
Shall settle labour', payment:
When capital to be but cursed
Shall feel quite complimented,
And rich men's lIMAIIS shall be disburied
To make poor men contented.

But stsy--suppose ere all this comes
By blessed res
Old Emiglaud, bent to. save her crumbs,

Try CIMINO of resolution.
And without bi.lding earth revolve
'tlainst laws of gravitation,
Odger and all his dreams resolve
To amoke—thelr true formatfon I

THE WORKSHOPS REGULATION ACT.

The duty of enforcing the provisions of the Work-
shops Reputation Act being now laid upon the factory
Inspectors, '.ho will be sure to attend to It, a summary
of the leading features of the measure may be useful,
affecting as it does a large section of the c immunity,
and likely to be attoodel with important results.
The Act, it may be premised, extends the operation
of the Factory statutes of previous year to all deem
except agricultural labourers, weikrn,m in mines, and
persons ngage liu ordinary retail shoie ; audit applies
to private ilweliings and to single families, as well as
to recognised Oboes of business.
A " workshop" is defined to mean any room or plies
whatever, whether in the open air or under Dover, In
which any hatinicralt is carried on by any child young
pes,on or woman, and whether for wages or not.
The tern, " child" is applied to children under the
age of 13, the term "young "person' to those between
13 end 18, and the titan "woman" to females aged 18
I and upwards. It will be necessary to bear these defini•
Mons in mini an we proceed.
With respect to "children," those under the age of
eight are positively prohibited from working at all,
while those from 8 to 13 are to be employed for not
more than Mx end a half hours on any one day. The
earliest hour at which their work may commence is
fixed at six o'clock, from which time they may be em•
ployed till half-past twelve. Or they may work in the
, aft, rueon, provided that their hours of labour are com-
pleted by eight o'clock at night, But they are not to
work both before noon and after noon on any one day.
The intention of Yarliemeat in filing this rule is to
, induce masters to employ two seta of youthful workers,
;an to get the tensile of the children into school
either in the moining or afternoon. each child
will be compelled to attend school for tau hours
• week, it being further enacted that no child shall ,
attend school, to make up these ten hours, longer than
three hours at • stretch, nor an a Sunday, nor before
eight o'clock in the morning, nor after six o'clock in the
evening. Absence from school Is to be excused on the
teacher certifying that it arrises from sickness or other
unavoidable ream, or when there Is no school within a
mile of the child's residence or workshop. Subject to
those exemptions, • muster will be required to see
that the children really attend by obtaining a certificate
from the teacher, and failure on his part to comply with
the law will subject him to a penalty of not more than
£3. Moreover, parents failing to cause • child to attend
school for the stipulated period weekly will be liable to
a penalty of 20s. for each atone°. Children are not to
be employed on Sunday, nor after two o'clock on
Saturday, exeopt, as regards the latter day, in rases
where not more than five persons are employed in the
same establishment, and where such employment con-
sists In making articles to be sold by retail on the
preiniaes, or in repairing similar articles.
With rUferenoo to women and "young persona," the
provisions respecting Sun lay and the ,etardey half-
holiday •pedy e ivally to them, with a farther exception
in the case of those who have not worked more than
eight hours or any day in the week. Women and
" young person' are not to be employed for more than
twelve hours in any one day, and those hours must be
between five in the morning and nine at night, and
must include an hour and • half for meals. In • few
exceptional cases (such as those of Jewish employers
whose workshops are closed until sunset on Saturday)
these regulations may be relaxed.
Finally, the Act provides penalties for disobedience
to the foregoing requirements. Tee occupier of a work-
shop in whio'i any child, young person, or woman is
employed °notary to the Act is liable to • penalty of
not more than £3; and • parent, or other person hay-
iog control over or deriving a direct benefit from the
labor'', of such child, young person, or woman, will be
liable to a penalty not exceeding 20s, unless he can
prove that he did not connive at • breach of the
law. . . _

The Act as we have before said, is to be carried out
by the lo.pectot aof Factories; and all who have work-
shop* wid do well to coaforro to the law if they would
avoid the peoalties attaehing to it. non.abaerTanos.

Her Majesty's ship Racer, sailing by Hyde pier,
drifted on to • shoal and was stranded till high tide
A great event took plane Wedneaday in the history
of railway enterprise. The first train passed through
the Mont Canis tunnel, performing the distance in forty
minutes.
The Pope, with an eye to favours to COMS, is reported
by the Pails papers to have sent tiongratulationi to M.
Tutors on his alavation to the Presidency of the French
Republic.
Kaorrr Potag.--ciuppose • man owns a skiff; he
fasten. the skiff ti the shore with crop. made of straw;
along oodles • sow ; cow gets into the host; turns
around and eats the rope; the skiff thus let loose, with
the cow on board, starts down stream. and on its
paasage is upset ; the cow is drowned. Now, has the
man that owns Vie cow get to pay for the boat,or the
man that owns the boat gst to pay for the sow?
Caine is Fasucc.—A murder has j tut been committed
at Foamy+, in France. on a man named Bac, a mason,
52 years of age. His wife, 22, had formed an improper
acquaintance with a farmer of the neighbourhood called
Werni6, 24, and they purposed being married. In
order to facilitate their project she introduced him into
the house, and lie strangled the husband while as lamp.
They then removed the body to a stable, where they
suspended it with • cord round the neck, to induce a
suspicion of suicide. Both were immediately arrested,
and the woman has since made a full confesaion.
.STATIOSS or Hen HA.111117.11 NAV r.—(From the Navy
List for septerober).—The Hippopotamus. On In ice'
berg; the Armadillo, on Goodwin Saudi ; the Argonaut,
on Table Rock; this Castor and Pollux, on Melits ; the
Thunderer, on Issnils End ; the iweitiOgUilltabint on
Cape Clear ; the Indomitable, on Bal.pie Island; the
Inexhaustible, on the Kyles of But.; the Wombat, on
Staten ',laud ; the Bison, on the Note Light • the
Mammoth, lirakeu ; the Megatberium, on Ildirpte
Pier; the Visigoth, on the Isle of Serpents; the
Astrolabe, on an elot ; the Ark, on Ararat. —PIOICA.
HOLLOWAY'S OLSTIMINT LSD PILLS are the best,
chespat. and the most pupularillremolles: at all mesons,
under all circumstances they- they may be need with platy and
with the cerutinty of doing good. Eruption.. rustles, and all
dtecriptions of akin diseases. some, ulcerations, and burn. are
at once benetted and ultimately cured oy these healing, eooth.
lug, and purifying mediamente. The OinUnent rubbed opal
the abdomen cheeks ad tendency tu Irritation in the bowels,
and averts diarrhota and other disorders of the Intestines s 3
preadult during the aummer and fruit masons. Heat lumps,
blotches, pimples, inflammations of the skin, muses it pains,
neuralgic affections, and enlarged glands can be effectually
overcome by using Jiolloway's remedies eamordlN to the InalitM•
Um's" accompanying every packet.

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