Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-06-03
CONDITION OF TIE LONDON MILLIyERS.

Her Maiesty," presents appalling revelations
of human sutterings as have ever been before
made public.
II appears from the Report, that there
bou, l6 900 miIliners and dress makers IN Lon
don. They commence the business usually at
the early age of frcm Ii 10 10, and daring the
busy seasons, |. C. from April TO August, f'om
October 10 January. the Regular hours cf wuf-,
SAT .i'the principal houses arc tho acreage
eighteen hours daily! Long these hours are"
Mr.. Granger, the reporter, states, "tiey are re
ry often exceeded" Sometimes fifty of these .
girls work together in q room almost always in
/ sufficiently ventilated. The sleeping apartments
are generally oyercrowded. ln one instance, five /
siep, In q single bed, and often ten in room.
They chiefly fed, an experienced witness /
stated, cod mutton; but they subsis, mostly
on lea and bread aud butter. Stimuants Of
ten applied to keep them awake.
Miss O'Neil, Of Wilbeck ST. (who has been q
dress.maker and milliner several years, and EN-.
ployed in several of tho London houses is
in business for herseIfD states that the hours of
work IN the spring unlimited. The common
hours are from a. NJ. to 10 at night; sometimes
from A. NJ. till Il. Has herself often worked
from 6 A. NJ. till II for two three ,ogether.--
II is not at all uncommon, especially in the dress
making. to work all ghi; just n the drive Of the
season the work is occasionally continued all
night three times n week. Has worked herself
twice 10 the week all night"
Miss III. Baker says that
sOn tho occasion of the general mourning for
His Majesty William ~, Miss ii. B. worked
, wi,hou, going 10 bed, from o'clock on Thursday
, morning, till half past 10 on Sunday morning /;
. during this time witness did not sleep Of all; Of
this she is certain. In order TO keep awake, she
stood nearly the whole OF Friday night, Saturday
: and Sunday night, only sitting down for half an
hour to rest. Two other young persons dozod
occasionally in a chair. Witness, who was then,
%, was made very III by this great exertlon, and
when Sunday she went to bed, she could no,
5 sleep"
!, Miss, in the establishment, Of frs,
, rate mner, states,
. "On special occasions such az drawing rooms,
= general MORNINGS. and very frequently wedding
II orders, it s at all uncommon TO work all night
o has herself worked twenty hours out Of the TWEEN
ty-four for three months together, and this at @
time when she was suffering from illness, anc
the medical aueuuaat Tvfuonsrrutgd az uinsi tt
J, treatment she received. He wished witness Il
remain in bed at least one day longer, which tht
employer objected to, required her to &c, up, ant
dismissed the surgeon"
III The girls who work at the great mourning es
a tabllshmen.s suffer much from impaired vision
e. and often become wholly and incurably blind
= Mr.. Tyrrell, the distinguished surgeon Of tn
Ophthalmic Hospital, IN his evidence relates III
following melancholy examples of the injury 1
al vision produced by this branch of business:
id ga fair and delicate girl, about II years of age
of was brought up to witness in consequence Of 70
: tai loss Of vision. Recovery was hopeless. Sh
u immediate cause of the disease in the eye, wa
ut excessive and continual applications TO maxim
is mourning. She states that she had been compe
os led TO remain without changing her dress for
!. days and nights consecutiveiy: that during III
period she had been allowed only occasionally
fo' res, on q mattrass placed the floor, for hot
In or two time, and that her meals were place
en- by her side, cut up, tina. little time poss
:. BILE should be spent in their consumption"
He states tina. he has "ofenn seen total but
fer fha aTr1a Mr. hal NIL
emit the Oph.halmic Hospital gives similar evidenc
and in instance, succeeded in rescuing your
A. victim from total blindness (who was then con
+, = PEELED to work eighteen hours day, only,) by
=, threat OF an appeal TO the Lord Mayor, Or for
'ho her mistress TO cancel the girls indentures.
lily The portion Of the work done in making mour
in. ing which is so peculiarly hurtful the eyes,
70 the embroidery black. A court mourning
calculated TO the loss Of eyesight to lea
90 thirty of these girls.
nat "Such," is observed, 10 the AthenHurn, dis Il
re- condition Of 10000 of the inhabitants of Lonio
ch a body, moreover, so quickly mouIdering ava
;,o that during the span of ordinary life, full tS
generations have passed through the courses
W the craft and persisted 10 the service.'
low We commend this report TO the attention
ess, Mr. Dickens. lie may ioarn from il tia, the &C
di,ion of a large portion of the working class
in Great Britain is far worse than tina, of 1
slaves in this country
the
peo' COMMERCIAL PHENOMENON "A few wee
wri since five hundred bales OF brown cotton drill
the were shipped from New York TO London. I
last advices mentioned their arrival at their pla
100 Of destination. All Change was struck W
that wonder a. seeing cotton fabrics from the looms
lana America exposed for sale in the marts of
EN-. greatest manufacturing nation oil Inc world
iced American Calicoes.-It Is fac, of some inter
Are IN the history OF manufactures IN this count
~, that one house can advertise thousand differ
patterns, and open a large store with no OF
me business than TO deal 10 ,bem.-N. Y. Jour
onal Commerce.
and Lates, accounts from Naples state th,. Vesuv
ures has again beching forth large quantities of fla
.a., aud smoke.
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