The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.

Thy Carl of 411AFTESBUI:1 moved that on humble
addre« be nr,euted to her Mii;easy, praying her Majesty to
gee li, elons that an Murry be made into the
employment of Adder and young penione in
trite. and manufactures net already regulated by law.
Tor mble earl then referred to the general duties of the
comnimminer. appointed to inquire into the state of the
11.13nfavtureA of the country, and stated that their report
slowed that in Many trades in this country children between
*so ages of three end four were employed, while in others
Om' were bonen the age. rd four and five, and that in
awe, they' were regularly employed between the ages of
seven and eight. Mire the report was made to parliament
in 1844 the hours of labour in real mines, print works, and
bleach works of the country hail been regulated by acts of
parliament, and in the present merit.° lace works
Lid also been brought within the asme regulation. There
were yet to be dealt with, lira, copper, lead, and
Woe mines, metal wares, eartheble.:re and -glees manufac-
tures, pillow lace, hosiery, papermak,eg and staining, hand.
frame winding and warping, tobae,o r. anufactures, Lucifer
matchers abirtmaking, embroidery, rope and twine making,
fustian dressing sad cutting. leather Our mating. brick-
making, Week lead works, and *trend others. Alter re- I
!erring to the evidence collected by the commissioner, the
noble earl said if thew lordships look through it they
would find a state of things eluting in many of these era-
'former which they would acutely believe could ezist in
any part of the civilise.] world, and be believed it was in-
finitely worse than it was in the s:ave states of America.
}IQ belies eil that many things had be• n done of late years to
improve the state of the working cbuses of the country ;
but nothing bid had a greater effect in that respect
than measures by parliament shortening the hours of labour
le factories. The noble red, who spoke in no low a tor
throughout his speech that he aAs nearly inaudible in the
gallery. concluded by moving the address of which be had
gives sow.
Lord ST.iNIIN of ALDKRLEY sail the goveniment
would buy„ no objection to the inquiry being made as isdi-
rated hr the no:.le sari. In itatien that he once opposed
legislative interferers, with the hours of labour, he was
free Cua f est that he had reason to be satisfied with the
results of list interference, for there could be DO doubt
that a groat benefit had been experienced by those of the
working classes whose labours had been regnlatedby parlia-
ment He believed that every good feeling existed towards the
government arceept the working people of the country
generally. la regard to any interference by whereat
with young people employed in many if the wor6 referred
to by the no earl, be thought it would be quite hewer.
ble to pees a meseute which mould have the same benefi-
cial effect r bed taken place in the cones an silk mills of
the country. But is sans of these empheynoent• no doubt
a similar improvement would take pines- if the legislature
were to take the MOW up and pees an act for the purpose.
Lord moNTrAous maid white be resmpieed the kiedli-
mess of heart wire Wand the nobeenrl to call the rtes.
tin of their keiebtp le this subject, sad while he also
hem bit owe ezpertsns was reedy to bear testimony to the
pal results which had Awed from the legislation of let*
j~ssmmnnin fern] to the eliertershm of the hours of labour to
ten eeiea be believed it wend not be found possible to biter.
axe with mealy at the Haden and mannintare ronstioned
by the sold eat. He amend thet if they attempted to
Ischiste foe some of thins trades they would injure the
principle which had hen so beneficially applied to other
trade.

iitrautiou was Hien put soul &grata to.
THE REGISTRY OFFICE IN DUBLEN.

Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY sail that since he gm
an answer to the quastion of the noble marrmis the
lrar-
quis of tianricarde) ia referrers to the registry of deeds in
Ireland, he had received a communication to the effect that
it Irma the intrados of tie government to institute
into the MAW without any delay, and he hoped it
'would mesh in bringing about great improvements in the
systato. (Rem, hear.)