The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-26 00:00:00

THE FACTORY ACT AT WOOLWICH.

There are many questions waiting to be asked when
Parliament meets, and there is one which no doubt will be
put without delay, and the answer to which will be heard
with no small interest. It is confidently stated that the
provisions of the Factory Act are openly set at defiance at
the Royal Laboratory in Woolwich Arsenal. Under this
Act it is unlawful to employ children in any establishment
for more than six hours and a half in the twenty-four
hours composin the day. Yet, if rumour speaks
correctly, nearly 1,000 children are employed at the Royal
Laboratory for thirteen, fourteen, and even fifteen hours
consecutively. It is hardly credible that one
public department should thus violate the law, and that
another public department whose duty it is to put such
law into operation should permit its violation in this dis-
graceful manner. We trust that no time will be lost
when the session commences, of, indeed, it ever does com-
mence. in making a strict inquiry into the truth of this
allegation.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE
IN LONDON.

Early on Saturday morning a coach painter, named
Gregory, who lived near Primrose Hill, cut his wife's
throat with a razor as she lay in bed, and then inflicted a
similar wound on himself. It is thought that the man will
die, but that the woman may recover. Jealousy is the
cause of the crime, the man having been taunted by his
fellow-workmen with insinuations as to his wife's unfaith-
fulness.

The Telegraph's correspondent at Bordeaux, says :
" I understand that Remington, the great American rifle-
maker, is about to establish a line of steamers from
Southampton to this place in order to deliver more
quickly the supplies of the Government in the way of
arms, ammunition, &c. I believe that this enterprising
firm will, for many weeks to come, land in France twenty
thousand rifles every ten days, with about three hundred
rounds of ammunition for each weapon. Six weeks hence
France will have a million of men armed with breech-
loaders of one sort or another, and a month later she will
have a million and a half of breech-loading rifles in
rese, ve.

A NEW TORPEDo.—Experiments were made on
Friday in the Mrdway, near Gillingham, below Chatham
Dockyard, with a new torpedo, in the presence of the
Royal Engineer Committee and the officers of Royal
Engineers, at the School of Military Engineering. The
experiments were made from the Volta, a vessel specially
devoted to carrying out experiments with torpedoes. The
party of officers were conveyed from the Dockyard to the
vessel.

GAZETTE NOTICES.—The London Gazette an-
nounces that the Queen has been pleased to confer the
following honours in the most distinguished Order of
'St. Michael and St. George :--Knights Commanders—
Lieutenant General James Lindsay and Colonel Walseley.
Companions Colonel Fielden, Lieutenant Colonel
M`Neill, Lieuteant Colonel Bolton, Matthew Bell
Irvine ; Lieutenant Colonel Jarvis, Lieutenant Colonel
Cassault, Major M`Leod, in the service of the Dominion
of Canada.
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