The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-02 00:00:00

QOUT H AUSTRALIAN BONDS.—The
FIRST HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND on the SOUTH
AUSTRALIAN BONDS becoming due on FRIDAY, the 15th
July, will be paid on that day, from Twelve to Two o'Clock, at the
Office of the Commissioners, No. 6, Melphi-terrace ; and at the
same hour on the following Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, July
16th, 18th, and 19th.

By order of the Board,
London, July 1, 1836. ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.

HAMBURG, JUNE 10, 1836.
W N approach of WEDNESDAY the 22d instant
the First Day of Drawing of the 68th HAMBURGI
GREAT LOTTERY, _ _ .

HEINEIikOTHERS, the CONTRACTORS,

request those, desirous to purchase at the first Price of 8/. to
LOSE NO TIME

in ordering by one of the Mails reaching this before the 20th instant.
To those, whose remittances of £lO, or £2O, reach them before
the 20th instant, HEINE BROTHERS will on executing the
order (and sending a -Scheme with full particulars) return £2, or
£4, (viz. Two Pounds on each Ten I'ound Note) by return
of Post. Orders for more than Two Tickets must be -declined,
there not being Tickets enough remaining unsold to allow them
to attend to orders of greater extent. Orders for less than a whole
Ticket will also not be attended to.

liiRECT to HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURG,

P. S. Orders arriving after 20th instant cannot be executed below
10/. per Ticket. Tickets warranted undrawn will sell from 22d inst.
till the establishment of a higher rate at Ten Pounds sterling. A
higher rate will follow this first rise in price very soon.

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1836.

The subject of infant labour in factories was last
night brought under the consideration of the House of
Lords by the Bishop of EXETER. The Right Rev.
Prelate presented several petitions, which must he
allowed, even by the warmest advocates of the unre-
restricted freedom of labour, to possess considerable
weight. One of these petitions—that to which we
principally allude—was from the master manufacturers
and cotton-spinners of the town and neighbourhood of
Bradford in Yorkshire, and had been adopted at a public
meeting called by advertisement. Another was from
the delegates of the workmen in the manufacturing
districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire; and a third
was from the delegates representing the workmen of
Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, and other places.
The petitioners prayed their Lordships to pass a Bill
limiting the time of labour to ten hours a day for per-
sons of 21 years of age ; and to eight hours a-day on
five days of the week, and ten on Saturday, for
all persons under 21. There may be some doubt
as to the propriety of the Legislature interfer-
ing between the employer and the employed,
when the latter has attained the age of 21, at
which age the law presumes he is able to direct
himself in all the affairs of life ; but we think
it cannot be denied that the State is in duty bound
to protect children of tender age against a system
of labour which is equally pernicious to mind and body.
The State interposes its authority to guard the pro-
perty of an infant ; but what is property, when com-
pared with health and morals, to say nothing of in-
tellectual cultivation ? Health is not only itself an
exquisite enjoyment, but it is the foundation of all
other enjoyments--that without which they cannot
exist—or can be but imperfectly relished ; and infancy
is the season on which it depends, whether or not
this inestimable blessing is to fall to the lot of the in-
dividual in after-life ?

Now it would be an insult to the uiderstanding of our
readers were we to attempt to prove that if a child of
6or 8 years of age—a being of ceaseless activity, the
developement of whose physical powers requires among
other things freedom, variety of occupation, and pure
air to breathe, be confined in crowded rooms,
of a high temperature, and kept constantly labouring
at the same employment 12 or 14 hours every day
of its life—it must be seriously, nay, irretrievably, in-
jured, by a system of treatment so directly opposed to
that which its nature demands. But we may perhaps
be asked, " will you endanger the manufacturing in-
terest by withdrawing so great a proportion of labour
from the market, and thus'enhancing the price of the
remainder ?" To this we reply, as we have done before,
that humanity and sound policy are never at variance ;
but that if, in order to carry on a successful manufac-
turing warfare against our continental rivals, it were