The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

Factory Acts Extension Bill.

A bill has been introduced by her Majesty's Government
for the extension of the Factory Acts to certain trades not
included in the previous acts, but in which children, young
persons, and women are employed. The trades which it
is now proposed to include within the provisions of the
Factory Act are the following :-1. The manufacture of
earthenware, except bricks and tiles, not being orna-
mental tiles. 2. The manufacture of lucifer matches. 3.
The manufacture of percussion caps. 4. The manufac-
ture of cartridges. 5. The employment or paper staining.
6. The employment of finishing, hitching, lapping, making
up, or packing any yarn, or any mixture of them, or any yarn
or cloth, or any other material or material warehouses, or
in those of finishers, or in those of makers up and
packers. 7. The employment of fustian cutters. The
following are the main provisions of the bill :—The Fac-
tory Acts shall be incorporated with this act, and shall
apply to the several manufactures and employments
mentioned in the first schedule, with the qualifications and
subject to the additions thereinafter mentioned :-1. The
term "factory" to have the same meaning as in the Factory
Acts. 2. During the first six calendar months next ensuing
the passing of this act, children of not less than 11 years of
age may be employed for the same time, and subject to the
same conditions, for and subject to which young persons
exceeding 13 years of age may be employed in pursuance of
the said Factory Acts. 3. During the first 30 calendar months
next ensuing the passing of this act, children of not less
than 12 years of age may be employed for the same time,
and subject to the same conditims, for and subject to
which young persons exceeding 13 years of age
may be employed in pursuance of the said Factory
Acts. 4. In the manufacture of lucifer matches, no child,
young person, or woman shall be allowed to take his or her
meals in any part of the factory where any manufacturing
process (except that of cutting the wood) is usually carried
on; and any child, young person, or woman who is allowed
to take his or her meals in any part of the factory in con-
travention of the said provisions shall be deemed to be em-
ployed contrary to the provisions of the Factory Acts. 5.
In the employment of fustian cutting, no child shall be al-
lowed to commence work until the attainment of the age of
l 1 years ; and any child who is allowed to commence work
in the employment of fustian cutting before the said age of 11
years shall be deemed to be employed contrary to the said
6. During the first 18 calendar months next
Fishery Acts,
ensuing the passing of this act, so much of the said Factory
Acts as provides that during any time allowed for meals no
child, young person,
or woman shall be employed or allowed
to remain in any
room in which any manufacturing process
is carried on, and that all the young persona employed in a
factory shall have the time for meals at the same period of
the day, shall not apply to the employment of paper stain
ing or to tte manufacture of earthenware.

SUDDEN DEATH OF ONE OF THE PERFORMERS AT
THE NEW ROYALTY THEATIZE.—Last night, about 10
o'clock, Mr Henry Seymour, one, of the performers at the
New Royalty Theatre, suddenly expired on the stage. It
appears that it was the deceased's first appearance at the
theatre, and while walking from the front of the stage to
the back, during the performance of the new burlesque of
the "Woman at the Wheel," he fell down in a fit. Assist-
ance was promptly rendered the deceased—Dr Rogers, of
Dean-street, being at the time in the pit of the theatre—but
it was of ne avail, the deceased having ceased to exist,
The wife of the deceased. it is stated, was in the pit at the
time, but was only made conscious of the melancholy event
by the loud cells of the audience for the " miller," the part
her husband was taking. The body of the deceased was
removed to the dead house of St Ann's to await an inquest.
MAKING BAD WoRsE.—A Parisian portrait-
painter, having painted the portrait of a lady,
a critic who had just dropped in to see what.was going on
exclaimed, "It is very nicely painted—but why did you
take such an ugly model P" "It is my mother," calmly
replied the artist. "Oh, pardon, a thousand times," from
the critic in the greatest confusion. "You aro right—l
ought to have perceived it. She resembles you com-
pletely."
SIR JOHN BOWRING has presented to the British
Museum his very fine collection of insects made during his
long residence iu the East, The collection. consists of
81,200 specimens.
Brooke House, Isle of Wight, where Garibaldi is
to be the guest of Mr. Scely, M.P. for the City of
Lincoln, is situated in the south-west of the island, not far
from Freshwater, the residence of Alfred Tennyson, the
Poet Laureate.