The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-06 00:00:00

linue to Lave employment in One tracle of Cotton

Spinning.
That of 4719 persons who begin their labours
in a Cotton Mill at all ages under 25, only 1108
who arrive at `them- 25th year ar•e found at such
employment.
That of 44(36 persons who begin their labours
in a Cotton Mill at all ages under 20, only 1573
who arrive at their 20th year contiuue to be en-
gaged in the business.
Surely when such facts as these come to be re-
flected on, and it is considered that they are de-
duced front the statements of the Master-Spin-
ners themselves, it can be no question with any
sensible or huMane person, whether some Legis-
lative confront is not wanted for a systent of
labour, which subjects to the operation of its
exm bit ant hours Children so extremely young,
whose numbers ar•e even now immense, and, front
the growing extent of the trade, must be con-
tinually on the increase.
The opponents of the Bill, it is presumed, can-
not justly complaio of these statements, as the
grounds On whicn they are formed were furnished
by themselves, and taken from Factories of their
own selection, Had the friends of the Bill select-
ed Factories of a less high character, the results
might probably have been still more favourable to
the cause they have espoused. But-even adu►rt-
ting that the Returns from the nine Factories
selected by the blaster-Spinners present a Lair
specimen of the state of the Cotton Mills in .Man-
rhester generally, still, even a cursory review of
the preceding results will, it is presumed, excite
in every mind reflections and comparisons of no
ordinary cast. The question instantly arises,
what must be the fate of a. great majority of the
children brought up in Cotton Mills:? for it is
most evident that Only a small proportion of those
who do not die very young can be continued in
the b►rsirress when they are grown up. The dif-
ficulty of their obtaining any miser employment
is well known ; and might, indeed, have been pre-
sumed from merely reflecting, that their consti-
tutions are generally enfeebled, that they have
been habituated to no other business, and are, for
the most part, in all otl►er respects, extremely
ignorant. Neither can it be said that they base
any reasonable hope of obtaining, 6r, if ob-
tained, of holding, for any length of time,
those advantageous situations in the Facto-
ries occupied by grown-up people ; as it is
natural to conctode, from all that has been
stated, that for the most part they become
incapable of undertaking these offices in the Fac-
tories, to which they would otherwige, front their
proficiency, Lie most eligible, but which, for the
greater part, are supplied by adults,: who come
there with all the disadvantage of being sirangers
to the business, and whose chief recommendation
is (what the others have unhappily lusty, a re-
quisite suffi'ci'ency of bodily power. Even of 422
individuals whocommenee their labours in a Cot-
ton Mill, at all ages., front 20 to 34 (and therein
with every possible advantage on the score of
strength), only 180 who attain to the age of 40
coatinue such employment, and 3l only who ar-
rive at their 50th year It is left to the opponents
of ►he Bill to explain, if they call, what actually
becomes of the rest. Until such explanation is
satisfactorily given, all that can be fairly inferred
is, that- they must either go to an early grave, or•
have such worn-out constitutions as to become a-
burden on the public, or else betake theinselves
to some new business at a lime of lite %viten steep
a change will scarcely ever be voluntary, and can
only he resorted to under circumstances of the
grereest privation to the individual, and such as
are barely adequate to preserve him from present
starvation.,

From all that has been advanced, we think the
inference is undeniable, that the Cotton Factory
system, as nt present conducted, is destructive
even to adults, who do not engage in the busi-
ness till they are 20 years old or more: how
ruinous, then, must it be in its effects to young
children, who have no strength to oppose to its
fatal operation 1.,

LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

{The Tiniest}

Our Private Correspondence from Paris con-
, firms the opinions which have already prevailed
respecting tl►e determination of the Ministry to
put down the assailants of the Election Law.
One writer says that new Peers would be cre-
ated.on or before last Thursday. Another states,
that a Royal Ordinance, adding 54 Members to
the Upper Chamber, had been actually signed on
the 2.811) ult.and would speedily make its appear-
ance. The measure of dissolving the Chamber of
Deputies seems to have been abandoned : a post
or two must enable us to judge more p6sitively as
to the truth of all these rumours.

A letter from Madrid contradicts the rumour of
General Elio having been disgraced by the Spa-
nish Governmeot, which is said, on the other
hand, to have loaded him with honours ;
nand himself acknowledging to this General, that
lie has been twice indebted to him for Isis Crown.
Eighty, many of them. di,tingnisbed
by rank and services, had been seized at Valencia
when the post came away ; and the number liable
to arrest throughout Spain, flout -a supposed
connection with the same plot, amounted to the
alarming number of 4700 persons.

[Morning Chronicle.]'

DUELLING.—A letter from Paris, dated Feb.
25, says :—" The fury of duels increases every
clay ; twelve Officers of the Guards du Corps,
and twelve of the Garde Royale, were to have
fought, on the lath, twenty-four at Buonaparte's
Half-pay Officers.—Luckily for the former they
were put under arrest."

The statements which have appeared in most
of the public prints, that Mrs. Garrick is at this
time in the 106th year o►` her age, is not the fact.
Mademoiselle Violetti, no►, Mrs. Garrick, was
married to our inimitable Roscius in the mouth of
July, 1749, when she was about 24, consequently
her age does not exceed 94 years.--(Mid 1