HL Deb 25 June 1875 vol 225 c547
LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY

, (in the absence of Lord Hampton), in moving that the Bill be now read the third time, said, that great disappointment had been felt at the striking out of Clause 4 of the Bill, extending protection to the age of 13, and at the inconsistency with which the Bill, as it now stood, treated children under 13 as adult women, able to take care of themselves, while the Education Act treated them as children to be kept at school.

Motion agreed to.

Bill read a third time, and passed.