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I as it stood, was in exact conformity with the recommen-
dations of th© Select Committee. The_ effect of the
clause would be to render the employment of four chil-
dren necessary where three were now employed ; but as
ra countervailing advantage, the age at which children
might be employed was reduced from nine to eight years
of age. The provisions of the following clause, which
allowed children of thirteen to work on alternate days
for ten hours, had been introduced at the recommenda-

tion of parties connected with the woollen manufacture,
and employing water power. They were meant to meet
the case whena a supply of children was scanty.
Mr. C. WOOD supported the clause as it originally
stood. The advantages of the relay system were very
great, and he had been informed by manufacturers who
had adopted the relay system, that they felt no inconve-
nience in obtaining relays. The plan afforded the chil-
dren an additional hour a day for attendance at school.
Mr. ALDAM said that the effect of the clause would
be to make manufacturers concentrate themselves in
large towns.
The clause was agreed to after some further discussion.
Clause 31 was then proposed, and after a few words
from Mr. HINDLEY and Mr. COLLETT, was agreed
to.

Clause 32 was then proposed.
Viscount EBRINGTON opposed it. He was not
satisfied with the arrangements with respect to adult
labour, and he should, therefore, move the expunging of
the clause.

Mr. HUME would vote against the clause, consider-
ing that it offered a premium to prostitution under the
disguise of morality.
Mr. F. MAULE objected to the clause, but trusted the
Noble Lord would not divide upon it.
Mr. HINDLEY objected to the clause.
Lord EBRING TON said his only object was to re-
cord his vote against the clause. He was in the hands
of the Committee whether he should divide or not.
After some short discussion,
Mr. III;ME said he was determined to divide the
Committee upon the clause.
Stran.gers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
Committee divided, when there appeared—

For the clause..

161

Against it 22
Majority in favour of the clause 139
The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses up to 36 were agreed to with a few verbal
amendments.

On clause 37 being proposed,
Lord J. MANNERS moved the amendment of which
he had given notice, that the words " Good Friday and
Ascension Day," be substituted for the words " Good
Friday," as a .day to be observed by a cessation of labour.
The day he proposed to add was peculiarly fitted, by the
time of the year at which it occurred, for the amuse•
went and recreation of the working-people. 'With every
anxiety to promote the views of the Noble Lord the

Member fur Dorsetshire, he thought it would be to the
advantage of the working-clasQs that they should have
one clear day ; though their hours of labour might be
limited, yet they could not have much time for recrea-
tion. He, therefore, moved the insertion of the words as
an amendment.

Mr. COLLETT would have no objection to the day as
a day of amusement, but as it was a mixing up religious
observances with that relaxation, he should oppose it.
Mr. WARBURTON said if a holiday was required,
they had better take the Queen's Birth-day than one
that was no longer celebrated as a festival even in their
own church.—(oh, oh.) At all events it was not cele-
brated by him.—(Laughter.)
Sir J. GRAHAM said the present clause was only in-
tended to give effect to the existing law. He was not
prepared to enter into the discussion of the day, nor
could he support the amendment.
Mr. M. PHILIPS said if the working people were
desirous of a holiday, they had only to represent it to
their employers, and they would obtain it.
The question was then put, and the CHAIRMAN de-
clared that the Noes had it, but a division was de-
manded, and the numbers were—

For the amendment
Against it ll5
M: thr t -89

_ajority against le amendment.--
Clause 38 was agreed to. On clause 39 being put,
Mr. HAWES moved the following proviso:—Pro•
vided always, that if an inspector, on his personal exa.
mination, or on the report of a sub-inspector, shall be of
opinion that any schoolmaster who grants certificates of
the school attendance •of children employed in a fac-
tory, is unfit to instruct children by reason of his in-
capacity to teach them to read and write, from his gross
ignorance, or from his not having the books and ma-
terials necessary to teach reading and writing, or
because of his immoral conduct, or of his continued neglect
to fill up and sign the certificates of school attendance
required by this Act, the inspector or sub-inspector of the
district may annul any certificate granted by such dis-
qualified schoolmaster, by a notice in writing addressed
to the occupier of the factory in which the children
named in the certificate are employed, or his principal
agent, setting forth the grounds on which he deems
such schoolmaster to be unfit ; and after the date of

such notice, no certificate of school attendance granted
by such schoolmaster shall be valid for the purposes of
this Act, unless with the consent in writing
of the inspector of the district ; but no in-
spector shall annul any such certificate unless
in the aforesaid notice he shall name some other

school, situated within two miles of the factory where
the children named in the certificate are employed. '
Provided, also, that any schoolmaster whose certificate
shall have been annulled, or the occupier of the factory
in which the children named in the said certificate are
employed, on behalf of the schoolmaster, may appeal to
the Secretary of State against such decision of the
inspector, and the Secretary of State may, if he
think fit, rescind such decision. Provided also, that
every inspector shall, in his annual report to the Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department, state the
instances (if any) in which he shall have had occasion to
annul any such certificate, together with the reasons
which he has in each case assigned for so doing.
The proviso was agreed to, and the clause passed.
Clauses from 40 to 44, inclusive, were agreed to, with
a few Terbal amendments.
On clause 45, which related to costs, being proposed,

Mr. GRANGER objected to the power proposed to
be given by the clause of seizing all goods found on the
premises. He thought that the onus of proving that the
goods belonged to the party subject to the seizure should
lie with the party levying the distress.
After a desultory conversation, in which Mr.
Aglionby, Mr. Stuart Wortley, and several other Hoe.
Members took part,
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the Com-
mittee divided, when the numbers were,

For the clause 77
For the amendment 22
Majority

Clauses up to 64. inclusive, were agreed to with some
verbal amendments.

Clauses 65, 66, 67, and 68, were then agreed to.
Clause 69 was then proposed, and, after a short dis•
cussion agreed to, as were also clauses 70, 71, and 72.
The remaining clauses were then agreed to withou
discussion.

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The House then resumed, and the Chairman reported
progress.
The Gold and Silver Wares Bill went through Com-
mittee.
The House then went into Committee of Ways and
Means, when the 2d,',3d, and sth resolutions relative, to
the alterations of duties proposed in the Budget, were
agreed to, and the House resumed.
The House then adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock.

On Tuesday morning last this town was thrown
into a state of consternation by its being reported that
James Thompson, Esq., the late chief constable, had
died suddenly at Harrogate on the previous day. On
making inquiry we found that the report was too true.
It appears that Mr. Thompson, who had been a few
days at Harrogate, had retired, on the Monday
evening, to rest before the family with whom he was
staying; immediately after getting to bed, it is said he
was seized with illness, and got up and dressed himself,
and requested a friend who was at Harrogate with
him to be sent for. His friend arrived only just before
life was extinct. Mr. Thompson was much respected in
the town by men of all parties. It is somewhat singular
that the late Mr. Hartley called at our office with the
information of the death of Mr. Rishworth, the banker;
in a very short time we had to announce Mr. Hartley's
decease, Mr. Thompson being one of the first to inform
us of it, little expecting that we should so soon have to
chronicle him in our obituary. How true that in the
midst of life we are in death."— Wakefield Journal.
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