§ MR. TENNANTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, having regard to the desirability of extending the provisions of the "Factories Act, 1874," to other than textile manufactures, and to the promise given by Her Majesty's Government for inquiry into the subject during the present Session, it is the intention of the Government to ask the sanction of this House to the appointment of a Select Committee, or to advise Her Majesty to issue a Royal Commission, or what other course they propose to take in the matter?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, it was the intention of the Government to issue a Commission to inquire how the Factories Act might best be extended to manufactures other than textile, and also into the health and education of young persons employed in them.