ABSTRACT
This piece of information, taken in connection with the evidence of Thomas B rodrick, Esq., silk ma nufacturer of Macclesfield, as given on the 8th of July, 1840, before the Select Committee on Mills and Factories, of which Committee your Lordship was chairman, will throw some light upon the unhappy condition of females here.*
It will also account for the great number of factory girls who nightly walk the streets of Macclesfield; for it is very clear that, if they have not an opportunity of learning domestic duties and habits, in con sequence of the long hours of labour in factories, and if they are not allowed to remain in the mills, after having made a false step, no alternative but the workhouse remains; and few young people like to buiy themselves in such a place.
