On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
i g tiftyfuittiliibtocH Spine , in arrow , and spirit * have vani * Had into * wMfcWg » ** wd tef tun etem&l blank from henceforward u \ our Ufeewture , Ws b % vebuteig / tf JMuses now—Mflpomeue is blotted cmt q £ . f * Uteuq ^ . " No , 4 , 4 $ , May 28 th .
The whole article is written in a masterly style . We have shown how fkr we agree and disagree with its principles . The foregoing quotation embodies our main ground of difference . We are sorry the cause of the drama should have been viewed , even in a single article , throngh such a dead-light theory in this deservedly popular and ably conducted periodical . We quietly range ourselves on the opposite side , to await the appointed time ; meanwhile let the critic look to his bond / M .
[^ greeiag entirely with the spirit of the above remonstrance , we must yet declare that we think the artiele in the ' Athenaeum' calculated to effect great goad ) inasmuch as it tends directly to show the public that sweetness and beauty- are not passion and power , and that these latter qualities are necessary to a really great tragetfj . - ^^ J
Untitled Article
Or , the interests of those vrho are not social free-agenW , a » affected by faetory legifeUtion . Thr . ee years ago , excessive excitement pervaded the public mind on the state of the factories . So strong was the feeling , that the Commissioners employed hy Government to examine into the truth of the representations which had raised it , were regarded with a considerable degree of suspicion , as though to doubt was inhuman ; and the bill which was framed on their
recommendation , was thought by numbers incomplete , and not sufficiently favourable to the interests of the operatives . Yet during the present Session a Bill has been brought forward and nearly carried without exciting any general interest , the practical operation of which would have been to reduce its efficacy very considerably , and even to nullify , to a great
extent , the principle on which it is founded ; that principle being , to protect from excessive labour those whose tender age renders them merely instruments iu the hands of their parents . There are few instances in which legislative interference is not found to be hurtful to industry - Bufe the state of the
factories at the time of the Commission in 1833 , was convincing aa to the imperative duty of such interference in belialf of children . The whole of tne evidence collected is condense ^ in the able Report of the Central Board of Commissioners on the factory question ; a Report which , from its fcinguj&r clearness , and the highl y interesting nature of iU cv * U * rUs , WPM ^ d b $ PQm $ popular reading if more gweridiy U « ow » i and would
Untitled Article
490 Tk * Factory BilL
Untitled Article
THE FACTORY BILL :
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/58/
-