The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-09 00:00:00

LORD ALTHORP'S FACTORY BILL

The following is a summary of Lord Althorp's Bill "as
amended by the Committee." The preamble states,
" Whereas it i 3 necessary that-the hours of labour of children
and young persons employed in the mils and factories, of what-
ever description, should he regulated, inasmuch as it has become
a practice in many such mills and factories to employ a great
number of children and young persons of both sexes an un-
reasonable length of time, and late at night, and in many in-
stances all night, to the great and manifest injury of the health
and morals of such children and young persons."
Clause 1. Persons under 21 years of age not allowed to work
at night.
2. Persons under 18 not to work more than 12 hours. , •
3. Extension of hours of working in certain cases.
4. Providing for unavoidable time lost in cases of accident.
5. Loss of time from the want or excess of water in the day
time provided for. -
6. One hour and a half to be allowed for meals to persons
working twelve hours.
7. The employment of children under nine years of age pro-
hibited.
8. The employment of children under eleven, twelve, and
thirteen years of age for more than eight hours a day prohibited.
9. Children employed in any one mill less than eight hours,
not to be employed in any other mill more than the residue of
eight hours.

10. Unlawful to employ any child without a certificate.
11. Certificates to be made by a Surgeon or Physician.
FL Form of Certificate of Surgeon or Physician.
13. Certificates of age in the case of children above 13, up to
18 years of ap;e.
ff. Certificate to be countersigned by magistrates within
three mouths.
15. Inspectors to be appointed.
16. Powers and duties of Inspectors to make rules and regu-
lations for the enforcement of tilts Act,- •
17. Authority of Inspectors to appoint Mill Wardens or other
officers.
18. Children in factories to be taught reading, writing, and
arithmetic.
19. Schoolmaster's voucher required.
20. Means of providing additional schools. Parishes to be
charged with the expense.
21. Power of Inspector to disallow certificate, if education
deficient or shoolmaster incompetent.
. 22. Mill-owner liable to penalty for child remaining on the
premises.
23. Notices by Inspectors.
21. Interior walls of every mill, &c., to be limewashed.
25. An abstract of this Act, and such rules and regulations as
any Inspector may determine, shall be hung up in every mill.
26. Forgery of certificates, punishment for.
27. Parents liable to punishment for the employment of chil-
dren beyond the legal hours.
28. Agents and servants of factory owqrs to be personally
liable.
29. Justices may convict under certain cases.
30. Penalties for offences agaifist this act.
31. Penalty for obstruction of inspectors in the execution of
their duty.
32. Inspectors may order fines of not more than 20s.
33. Proceedings under this act may be had before any one
inspector or one magistrate.
3L Complaints to be preferred before the visit of the inspec-
tor. Notice of complaints to be given within six days after the
commission of any offence.
35. In case of partnerships, one name sufficient for summons,
&c.

36. Service of summons.
37. Power of Inspectors to compel witnesses to appear and
give evidence.
38. Form of conviction.
39. No appeal.
40. Penalty for offending against this Act, and disposal of
the same.
41. Authority to Inspectors to hold sittings in Sessions-house.
42. Lords of the 'treasury to determine the amount of In-
spectors' salaries.
43. Inspectors to make an annual report. Proceedings of
Inspectors required to be uniform.
41. Inspectors to apportion salary to officers.
45. Inspectors to send a list of mills in each county to the
County Treasurer. County Treasurer authorised to order the
payment of expenses in the parishes in which mills are situated.
Overseers of parishes entiLed to order payment of expenses
f►om mid-owners.
46. This Act a Public Act.

The General Steam-navigation Company's mail-packet, the
Attwood, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house at two
o'clock, p.m., 4th of August.
PUNNING REPROOP.—When Dr. Johnson visited the Uni-
versity of St. Andrew's (a place famous for vending academi-
cal honours), he took occasion to inquire of one of the professors
into the state of the funds, and being told that they were not so
affluent as many of their neighbours—" No matter," said the
Doctor dryly, "persevere in the plan you have formed, and you
will get rich by degrees."
SERIOUS JOKING.— A gentleman who marlled a lackadaisical
young lady was visited by an old friend, when the wife, after en-
larging, in an animated strain upon the pleasures of London,
retired for the night, and the friend exclaimed—Why, Jack,
your wife is not so pensive as she used to be;" to which the
other replied, with a shrug, "No, she has left that of; she is
now expensive." •

Lord Hill, accompanied by his aid-de-camp, Lieut-Colonel
Egerton, has left town on a tour of inspection to the garrisons
of Plymouth, Portsmouth, &c. His lordship was peseta at the
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former place on Saturday last, when the Mayor and Corpora-
tion presented their address to the Duchess of Kent and the
Princess Victoria, and the General Conimanding in Chief re-
viewed the troops in the presence of the royal visitors,
FANCY FAlRS.—These fails are indeed a strange fancy
charity, it seems, has no naked charms, she must be attired
in
the robes of merchandise. The frequente:s of fancy fairs have a
few guineas to spead, but not in relievirvrmisery or succouring
the distressed, but in pleasing themselves; the contrivance,
then, is to combine the gratification called pleasure with the
principal object for which the guineas are to be extracted. It
is effected by a series of przteaces; a lady of rank eaters into is
compact of this kind with the subjects she intends to work upon.
She saylookingNow I suppose I am worth looking at any where,
but more especially to that kind of parson that has few chances
of seeing a lady of fashion at her best. I will therefore dress
myself up in my most becoming style, and consent to show
myself in a stall to all those who wilt pay a certain sum to the
charity. But I must not stare like a figure in a Wass case; the
show will then be too barefaced; I must make the pretence of
having something to sell, and these somethings to sell will also
be useful in extracting gains even beyond the admission money.
Though no one wants the articles; though they are not worth a
tenth of what I shall ask for thorn, set; out of compliment to me.,
,and fur the pleasure of snaking purchases from one of-my tank,
many wit buy; and the pretence of selling will Lea most agree-
able way of exhibiting atl those advantages of air,
.and shape,
and graciousness, which I suppose myself to possess. All tins is
sheer pain to the charity, my vanity is gratified, and the curiosity
of the spectators sanstiod." Noue but a very mercantile people
surely could hit upon the expedient of playing at trade for cha-
rity; and it is still further characteristic of this most aristocra-
tical and most commercial land, that the merchandise should be
baited with rank and fashion. The cnohiriation of a love of
truck and barter with the well-known reverence for aristocracy
is particularly ingenious when considered as emblimatic of the
national character. The fancy fair is then; or to be, the
beau-ideal of John Bull; fur in one room he finds commerce.
and charity hand in hand, rank and trade, beauty and begging,
splendour expanding all her gitled wings to shield a poor object
. who could have lived a year on the mere gilding of the ,aid
wings; benevolence going about in the mask of-vanity; in short,
a grand contrivance to do goad; but in such a manner as to Le
it a bargain.—New Muntli'y Moy:zinc. .