It is a matter deeply to be regretted that certain manufacturers in the State Legislature in Albany have not imitated their more enlightened and humane contemporaries in be Massachusetts, and given their hearty support to so beneficent a measure. Instead of this, we are sorry to be informed that they are offering a factious opposition which may entirely defeat this act, and put New York in a very unfavorable position, as compared with the New England States, in her legislation to protect factory children.