But, occasionally, these gentlemen got the worst. To secure the tithes, certain proceedings were necessary in surveying and valuing. The persons engaged in performing these duties everywhere required the protection of the military. In the beginning of September, proceedings of this kind were to be adopted in the parish of Wallstown, county Cork; the peasantry assembled to resist; they attacked the military; the latter had to fire in self-defence, and four of the peasantry were killed, and several others wounded. [Illustration: Hair dressing.] Again, a party of armed police being engaged in this duty, in a parish in Kilkenny, in the beginning of October, the police were compelled to fire, and two persons were killed. But these are enough horrors for one year. The accompanying illustrations give a dinner, two ball, and a walking dress; also some modes of hair dressing which were in vogue in this year. CHAPTER XIII. 1833. Employment of children in factories--Evidence--Passing of Factory Act--Gambling--Crockford's club--Gambling "hells"--Police case. At the opening of this year, perhaps, the principal topic of conversation was about the treatment of children in factories, and general commiseration was felt for their unhappy condition. This was principally owing to the publication of the evidence taken before the Committee on the "Factories Bill," two or three extracts from which I give, taken haphazard, and not picked out as being the worst-- "SAMUEL DOWNE called in and examined. Where do you live?--At Hunslet Carr, near Leeds. What age are you?--Twenty-nine. Have you been long acquainted with factories?--From my youth. At what time did you begin to work at one?--At about ten years of age. In whose mill did you work?--In Mr. Martin's, at Shrewsbury. What were the customary hours of labour in the mill: state, first, what were the hours when they were brisk?--When they were brisk we used generally to begin at five o'clock in the morning, and they ran on till eight at night; sometimes half-past five to eight, and sometimes nine. What time had you allowed for meals and refreshment?--The engine never stopped, except forty minutes at dinner time. Were these long hours found to be very fatiguing?--Yes. What means were taken to keep the children awake and vigilant, especially at the termination of such a day's labour as you have described?--There was generally a blow, or a box, or a tap with a strap, or sometimes with a hand. Was very considerable severity used in that mill when you were there?--Yes. Have you yourself been subjected to it?--Yes.