The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1871-09-19 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE WORKSHOPS REGULATION ACT.  The duty of enforcing the provisions of the Workshops Reputation Act being now laid upon the factory Inspectors, '.ho will be sure to attend to It, a summary of the leading features of the measure may be useful, affecting as it does a large section of the c immunity, and likely to be attoodel with important results. The Act, it may be premised, extends the operation of the Factory statutes of previous year to all deem except agricultural labourers, weikrn,m in mines, and persons ngage liu ordinary retail shoie ; audit applies to private ilweliings and to single families, as well as to recognised Oboes of business. A " workshop" is defined to mean any room or plies whatever, whether in the open air or under Dover, In which any hatinicralt is carried on by any child young pes,on or woman, and whether for wages or not. The tern, " child" is applied to children under the age of 13, the term "young "person' to those between 13 end 18, and the titan "woman" to females aged 18 I and upwards. It will be necessary to bear these defini• Mons in mini an we proceed. With respect to "children," those under the age of eight are positively prohibited from working at all, while those from 8 to 13 are to be employed for not more than Mx end a half hours on any one day. The earliest hour at which their work may commence is fixed at six o'clock, from which time they may be em• ployed till half-past twelve. Or they may work in the , aft, rueon, provided that their hours of labour are completed by eight o'clock at night, But they are not to work both before noon and after noon on any one day. The intention of Yarliemeat in filing this rule is to , induce masters to employ two seta of youthful workers, ;an to get the tensile of the children into school either in the moining or afternoon. each child will be compelled to attend school for tau hours • week, it being further enacted that no child shall , attend school, to make up these ten hours, longer than three hours at • stretch, nor an a Sunday, nor before eight o'clock in the morning, nor after six o'clock in the evening. Absence from school Is to be excused on the teacher certifying that it arrises from sickness or other unavoidable ream, or when there Is no school within a mile of the child's residence or workshop. Subject to those exemptions, • muster will be required to see that the children really attend by obtaining a certificate from the teacher, and failure on his part to comply with the law will subject him to a penalty of not more than £3. Moreover, parents failing to cause • child to attend school for the stipulated period weekly will be liable to a penalty of 20s. for each atone°. Children are not to be employed on Sunday, nor after two o'clock on Saturday, exeopt, as regards the latter day, in rases where not more than five persons are employed in the same establishment, and where such employment consists In making articles to be sold by retail on the preiniaes, or in repairing similar articles. With rUferenoo to women and "young persona," the provisions respecting Sun lay and the ,etardey halfholiday •pedy e ivally to them, with a farther exception in the case of those who have not worked more than eight hours or any day in the week. Women and " young person' are not to be employed for more than twelve hours in any one day, and those hours must be between five in the morning and nine at night, and must include an hour and • half for meals. In • few exceptional cases (such as those of Jewish employers whose workshops are closed until sunset on Saturday) these regulations may be relaxed. Finally, the Act provides penalties for disobedience to the foregoing requirements. Tee occupier of a workshop in whio'i any child, young person, or woman is employed °notary to the Act is liable to • penalty of not more than £3; and • parent, or other person hayiog control over or deriving a direct benefit from the labor'', of such child, young person, or woman, will be liable to a penalty not exceeding 20s, unless he can prove that he did not connive at • breach of the law. . . _  The Act as we have before said, is to be carried out by the lo.pectot aof Factories; and all who have workshop* wid do well to coaforro to the law if they would avoid the peoalties attaehing to it. non.abaerTanos.  Her Majesty's ship Racer, sailing by Hyde pier, drifted on to • shoal and was stranded till high tide A great event took plane Wedneaday in the history of railway enterprise. The first train passed through the Mont Canis tunnel, performing the distance in forty minutes. The Pope, with an eye to favours to COMS, is reported by the Pails papers to have sent tiongratulationi to M. Tutors on his alavation to the Presidency of the French Republic. Kaorrr Potag.--ciuppose • man owns a skiff; he fasten. the skiff ti the shore with crop. made of straw; along oodles • sow ; cow gets into the host; turns around and eats the rope; the skiff thus let loose, with the cow on board, starts down stream. and on its paasage is upset ; the cow is drowned. Now, has the man that owns Vie cow get to pay for the boat,or the man that owns the boat gst to pay for the sow? Caine is Fasucc.—A murder has j tut been committed at Foamy+, in France. on a man named Bac, a mason, 52 years of age. His wife, 22, had formed an improper acquaintance with a farmer of the neighbourhood called Werni6, 24, and they purposed being married. In order to facilitate their project she introduced him into the house, and lie strangled the husband while as lamp. They then removed the body to a stable, where they suspended it with • cord round the neck, to induce a suspicion of suicide. Both were immediately arrested, and the woman has since made a full confesaion. .STATIOSS or Hen HA.111117.11 NAV r.—(From the Navy List for septerober).—The Hippopotamus. On In ice' berg; the Armadillo, on Goodwin Saudi ; the Argonaut, on Table Rock; this Castor and Pollux, on Melits ; the Thunderer, on Issnils End ; the iweitiOgUilltabint on Cape Clear ; the Indomitable, on Bal.pie Island; the Inexhaustible, on the Kyles of But.; the Wombat, on Staten ',laud ; the Bison, on the Note Light • the Mammoth, lirakeu ; the Megatberium, on Ildirpte Pier; the Visigoth, on the Isle of Serpents; the Astrolabe, on an elot ; the Ark, on Ararat. —