The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-14 00:00:00

MR. HINDLEY'S FACTORY BILL

Enacts that, supposing this Bill to pass this session, from the
Ist January, 1836, the hours of labour shall be eleven and a '1
half ; from Ist January, 1837, eleven hours ; from Ist January,
1838, ten hours and a half ; and after Ist January, 1839, ten
hours each day, and eight on Saturdays ;—thus limiting the
period when the operative shall obtain his wish, and at the
same time making such a gradual reduction, that the masters
will scarcely perceive the difference. Under the present law
the children hav;.! been compelled to work more than twelve
hours each day, thus evading the statute. Mr. Hindley takes
the most direct method of putting that out of the power of
either masters or parents—he stops the machinery. There is
another clause, which provides that no young persons under
ten years of age shall be admitted to a factory, unless they have.
a certificate that he or she can both read and write ; that such
child is of the ordinary strength and appearance of a child of
the age of ten years. and capable of enduring factory labour.
Inspectors are appointed to see the provisions of the Bill car-
ried into effect, and upon the outside of the factory each master
is bound to have printed upon a board placed thereon, the
number of children employed, and the number of hours they
work.

" A BILL for abolishing the Excise Incorporation in Scot-
land, and for transferring the funds of the said Incorporation
to the consolidated fund, and providing for the payment cf the
annuities to the widows and orphans of late and present mem-
bers of the Incorporation fund," has been brought in by 111 r.
Baring and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.

" A BILL to define and regulate the Expenses of Elections
of Members to serve in Parliament. for England and Wales,
and to limit the duration of the poll."
Since the summary of this Bill appeared in The Sun, the
following clause has been added in Committee:—
" And be it enacted, that if any Sheriff, Returning Officer,
Deputy or any person whatsoever shall wilfully contravene or
disobey the provisions of this Act or any of them, with respect
to any matter or thing which such Sheriff, Returning Officer,
Deputy or other person is hereby required to do, he shall for such
his offence be liable to be sued in an action of debt in any of his
Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, for the penal sum
of five hundred pounds ; and the jury before whom such action
shall be tried may find their verdict for the full sum of five
hundred pounds, or for any less sum which the said jury shall
think it just that he should pay for such his offence, and the
defendant in such action being convicted shall pay such penal
sum so awarded, with full costs of suit, to the party who may
sue for the same : Provided always, that no such action shall
be brought, except by a person being an elector, or claiming
to be an elector or a candidate, or a Member actually returned,
or other party actually aggrieved : Provided also, that the
remedy hereby given against the Returning Officer shall not
be construed to supersede any remedy or action against him
according to the law now in force."

A BILL (as amended by the Committee) to dispense with
the qualification of Members of the Commons House of Par-
liament. " Whereas a certain qualification of estate has here-
tofore been required in order to enable persons to sit in the
Commons House of Parliament ; and experience has shown
that no practical advantage has arisen from requiring any such
qualification, but that it is, on the contrary, inconvenient and
unnecessary so to do ; be it therefore enacted, by the King's
most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre-
sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
that from and after the passing of this Act no qualification of
estate shall be requisite or necessary to enable any person to
sit or vote as a Member of the Commons House of Parliament
for any county, riding, parts or division of a county, or for any
city, borough or cinque port in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland; nor shall any such person be required to
have or be seised of or entitled to any estate whatsoever ; nor
shall any candidate or person elected be required to take or
make any oath or declaration whatsoever with respect to any
such qualification or estate, or to deliver any schedule or ac-
count of or concerning the same ; any law or statute to the
contrary notwithstanding.
" And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended and al-
tered by any Act or Acts to be passed during this session of
Parliament."