§ Mr. Grotesaid, that in moving for the returns of which he had given notice he would not enter into the general factory question, but he would only call the attention of the noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department to some few points. The Factory Act had now been passed for five years, and there had, therefore, been full time for the provisions of that act to have been brought into operation. He believed that much good had been already done, although there were many places in which the children even now received no education at all; and when they read the reports of the commissioners it was impossible to fail coming to the conclusion that the intentions of the Legislature as to the education of the children had been but very imperfectly carried out. The report of the commissioners, especially of Mr. Horner, who had paid most attention to the subject, clearly established the fact, that of the very imperfect and unequal education of the factory children in various 1311 parts of each district. The subject of factory legislation had come before the House on various occasions, but nothing had been done as to the manner in which the intentions of the Legislature on this most important part of that question had been carried out. He believed that in some districts those intentions had been fully executed, through a generous and enlightened philanthropy on the part of the factors; and one part of his motion went to make known what had already been done, and he hoped that by this means much would be done through-out the whole of the districts, because it must be obvious to the House that what had been done in some districts might, by means of proper provisions and due exertions, be accomplished throughout the whole. Moreover, if through any defect in the law it could not be carried into full effect, the inspectors must know what difficulty stood in the way; and the House would naturally look to them for full and authenticated information, if they were called upon to legislate in a future Session and they would be better able to enter upon the question in a future Session if they were in possession of the information which by these returns he required from the inspectors. As there was no objection to his return, he would not detain the House further, but would conclude by moving "That each of the four factory inspectors do report separately, at the period of his quarterly general report, on the effects of the educational provisions of the Factory Act, as exemplified in not less than twelve of the schools situated in his district, in which these provisions have been observed in the most efficient manner and that the four factory inspectors do make a joint report as to any modification of the existing educational provisions of the Factory Act, which may appear to them desirable."—Motion agreed to.