Note A — APPENDIX V.

Mr. Gladstone in speaking on monopolies (about the date to which we allude) observed;—“Then we come to the printer’s monopoly—a powerful combination, which has for its first principle that no woman shall be employed, for reasons obvious enough—viz., because women are admirably suited for that trade, having a niceness of finger which would enable them to handle type better than men; they are, however, excluded by the printers’ combination.”