_Calico-Printing._--This employs a vast number of children of both sexes, who have to mix and grind the colors for the adult work-people, and are commonly called _teerers_. They begin to work, according to the Report, sometimes before five years of age, often between five and six, and generally before nine. The usual hours of labor are twelve, including meal-time; but as the children generally work the same time as the adults, "it is by no means uncommon in all the districts for _children of five or six years old to be kept at work fourteen and even sixteen hours consecutively_."--(Second Report, p. 59.) In many instances, however, it will be seen that even these hours are shamefully exceeded, during a press of work. "352. Thomas Sidbread, block-printer, after taking a child who had already been at work all day to assist him as a teerer through the night, says--'We began to work between eight and nine o'clock on the Wednesday night; but the boy had been sweeping the shop from Wednesday morning. You will scarcely believe it, but it is true--I never left the shop till six o'clock on the Saturday morning; and I had never stopped working all that time, excepting for an hour or two, and that boy with me all the time. I was knocked up, and the boy was almost insensible.' "353. Henry Richardson, block-printer, states--'At four o'clock I began to work, and worked all that day, all the next night, and until ten the following day. I had only one teerer dining that time, and I dare say he would be about twelve years old. I had to shout to him towards the second night, as he got sleepy. I had one of my own children, about ten years old, who was a teerer. He worked with me at Messrs. Wilson & Crichton's, at Blakely. We began to work together about two or three in the morning, and left off at four or five in the afternoon.' Night-work, too, with all its evil consequences, is very common in this trade;--and of the general state of education among the block-printers in Lancashire, the Commissioners thus speak, (p. 172.) "The evidence collected by Mr. Kennedy in the Lancashire district, tends to show that the children employed in this occupation are excluded from the opportunities of education; that this necessarily contributes to the growth of an ignorant and vicious population; that the facility of obtaining early employment for children in print-fields empties the day-schools; that parents without hesitation sacrifice the future welfare of their children through life for the immediate advantage or gratification obtained by the additional pittance derived from the child's earnings, and that they imagine, or pretend, that they do not neglect their children's education if they send them to Sunday-schools."