chester, and other such places, is doubtless owing to the salutary regime which they have so happily established! nay-they are reformers also, and that not by accident, but upon system; and as the prevention of evil is better than the cure of it, they guard against all disorders in their work-people, by confining them in mills, for fourteen or fifteen hours a day, to the extinction of all possible opportunity either for mischief, liberty, knowledge, or fresh air! What a contrast do such inhuman doctrines and practices present to the scene of comfort and happiness displayed at New Lanark, by a population engaged in precisely the same pursuits; and at one period nearly reduced to an equal state of wretchedness, but happily redeemed from it by the exertions of one benevolent and enlightened individual! Thread Manufacture Sandwich Islanders.......................... 156 Time of Edward the Sixth.. 143 Sartain, James .............. 156 Turkish Exactions 115 Spider Thread 88 90 109 London: D. Cartwright, Printer, Bartholomew Close. |