The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-21 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans -
Northern •.. 9lO .. 908 75
New ditto B3O ..,
Lyons and Mediterrautean BBl 25 .. 882 50
Genova 487 50 ~ 490
Southern
Westetn 577 50 .. 578 75
Eastern
Sardinian 397 50 .. 396 25
Austrian
Lombard ..

VROYGS TitlilCll CRY FOR REDRESS.

"We only wish," writes the editor of a leading
London periodical, "that every meiber of the
House of Commons could study the following before
the second reading of Mr. Crook's Bill fur the Pm-
trction of Women and Children employed in Bleach
Works, &c.:—

Ann Simpson (fourteen years old), Elizabeth Hil-
ton (fifteen), Sarah lligson (sixteen).—'. We came
to work last Friday morning at half-past six (at
ltidgway Bridson's bleach-works, Bolton). Wo
worked all Friday night till half past five on Satur-
day morning (23 hours). We did not sic( pany time in
the night, except on Saturday morning at half-past
five we laid down on the hooking box, and slept. till
a little after seven' (less than two hours' sleep—and
with th• clothes still on—after twenty-three hours'
work); ' then we went to breakfast far half-an- hour,
and then came and worked till ten minutes past
eleven.'—(Report of the Commissioner appointed to
inquire how far it. may be advisable to extend the
Provisions of the Acts for the better Regulation of
Mills and Factories to Bleaching Works, p 25, No.
236.)

William Crompton—' am seventeen. I have
been four years and a half' (that is, since he was
twelve years and a half old) in the dressing shop.
We go on till different hours, sometimes early,
sometiases late. I worked once three days and
three nights' (he is only ono, remember, among
multitudes—children as well as adult►—who t.il
in the same wad•) ;" and not long since, I
began work on Friday morning at four, and worked
till five on Saturday night (thirty-seven hours) I
mostly slept at meal-times, and only stopped one
hour for meals ; the rest I ate while I was working.'
—ibid., p. 26, No. 246.
Elizabeth Edge.—l am fourteen years of age. I
have worked here (at Mr. Seddea's, Breightmot
Bleachworks) four years. Three months since
I worked two nights and two days. 1 slept four
hours the first morning, and not at all the next
night. I have very often worked till twelve."—
Ibid., p. 49, No. 491.

Amelia Wood (fifteen next July)—" I have been
at this work about three years. We oftenost begin at
live or six in the morning, and oftenest leave off itt 11
or 12. • • Sometimes we do not leave oft till
three or four in the morning. My fingers are often
very bad ; the cloth wears them through."—lbid.,
No. 158.

Samuel Price, examined :
Mr. Butt—flow did you awaken them (alluding
to the little children of Mr. Ainsworth's establish-
ment near Bolton, when they fell asleep " stand-
ing at their work ") ?—Many a time by shouting,
and at other times getting a board and rapping it
on the table, making a loud report that used to
startle them, and I could keep them awake then for
an hour, or more than that, perhaps, by frightening
tbem.—lbid., pp. 88, 89, Nos. 1849, 1862.

Sureley all this is very terrible. But read on—
ight Mather—' I am foreman of the clamping►-
room. I have four lassies working nailer me,
* * In summer 1 have seen the room 130 deg.; in
winter it is generally about 80 to 100 deg. We
have come at six a.m. and worked till nine p.m: all
last week. * There are four
rooms, and when they are all agate, there are 16
nmales at work in them. In the other drying-
place there arc five boys ; they work very often 16,
17, and 18 hours to the day, The heat is very great
in that room, from 100 to 150 deg., and that is under
the mark.'—lnid., p. 25, Nos. 241-243.
[Take thoughtful notice of this heat—' from 100
to 150 deg., and that is under the mark In a
subsequent examination witness stated, concerning
the ages of the bays, that one was ten, another
eleven, and one thirteen'—working, bear in mind,
sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen hours to the day,'
in a temperature exceeding by some 20 or 30 deg.
the general temperature of an Indian summer r]-
1/opley's Letter to the Men and if omen of the
United Kingdoni. Houlston and Wright, Londun.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—
Last evening the opera and popular pantomime of
" Puss in Boots" was honoured by the presence of
her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa and his
Royal highness Prince Arthur, attended by Lady
Caroline Barrington, Madame Hocede, Colonel
Liddell, and Major Elphinstone.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.—The perfo:mance at this
theatre last evening was honoured with the pre-
sence of her Majesty and the Prince Consort, the
Countess of Dysart, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Camoys,
Lcrd Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Col. the Hon. D.
de Ros.

OPPOSITION TO THE BUDGET IN FALMOVTII.
The inhabitants of this borough have unanimously
adopted a petition to the licuse of Commons in re-
probation of the treAty with France, more particu-
larly for its total avoidance of reciprocity for the
British mercantil3 marine. Tnc additional income
ts,x is felt to bo an unbearable goad. Every house
iroprietor here, having small tenements, it is bu-
lieved will adopt a petition on this point.
Loss OF AN INIORANT SHIP.—An account
reached Havre on Saturday that the American ship
, near Cher-
bourg, Captain Shannon, which left that port three
days before with 73 emigrants, and a crew of 14
men and 3 officers (including the captain), had
deplorable
been wrecked on the coast of Barfieur,
bourg, and that everybody on board had perished
. EOPGE'S IN
except two persons. No details of this
disaster arc, however, given.
THE-
Sir.r)et9ore the Consistory--
the EATsiTi.EAL..WßloosUieSrßalpOpreSalri:d
charges made against
Court to-day to anisiNrvyearn
him by the Rev.
was made to the articles thing. As no opposition
case will be heard b '2 , ey were admitted. The
time. y viva voce
,evidence in a short

The Rev. T. Richardson has been elect( d lecturer
of St. George's
-in-the-East in succession to Mr. If.
Allen. The votes were—for Mr. Richardson, 17 ;
for Mr. Courtenay, i ; and for Mr. Eastman, 4.
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