18 JUNE 1864, Page 3

On Tuesday morning the Factory Act Extension Bill, which limits

the age of children employed, regulates the sanitary condi- tions under which they are employed, and extends to the Potteries the half-time system for children so successfully adopted already in the worsted manufactories, was read a second time without a divi- sion. Lord Ingestre, however, gave notice of his intention to op- pose the introduction of the half-time system into the Potteries,— that is, of his desire to defeat the most useful part of the measure.