The Leeds Mercury and The Leeds Intelligencer are newspaper sources well known to historians studying the political, labour or provincial history of nineteenth-century Britain. In 1833, the whig-liberal Mercury and the tory-radical Intelligencer clashed over parliamentary efforts to introduce new factory regulations for children, and their rivalry has been much commented on, but so far unexamined. This present study illustrates how, in their sparring over factory regulation, the Mercury and the Intelligencer used the Ten Hours Movement and parliamentary affairs as tools for both political and commercial purposes.

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利兹水星报和利兹情报员：关于“工厂账单竞赛”的报道，1833 年

The Leeds Mercury 和 The Leeds Intelligencer 是研究 19 世纪英国政治、劳工或省级历史的历史学家所熟知的报纸来源。1833 年，辉格党自由派墨丘利和保守党激进情报员就议会为儿童引入新工厂法规的努力发生了冲突，他们的竞争受到了很多评论，但迄今为止未经审查。本研究说明了在他们对工厂监管的争论中，水星和情报员如何将十小时运动和议会事务用作政治和商业目的的工具。