... iTO THE4 WOIfK(U e CLASSES. MY VERY DEAR FItnNDS, I had not intended to say more to you this weeh than merely to tell you that I had not time to say a word; however, I feel so thoroughly happy just now (eleven o'clock Thursday night)that I cannot restrain mv thoughts. I never, in truth, was so happy in all my life, and I'D tell you why. After a very fagging week, I went to Ilerringsgate to.day ...

... ADDRESS OF TIIF SOCIAL FRIENDS' SOCIETY. Anxious to unite, in the bonds of brotherhood, t the friends of the Rational System, and of human I emancipation generally, we have formed a society, t entitled The Social iriends' Society, for the pur- pose of applying the principles established by Robert Owen to social and personal improvement; and of co-operating for the purpose of ultimately ...

... I1metropatItat aitteuigetre. RISE IN THEr PRex or BenAn.-On Saturday last a bread was raked in price generally throughout. the metropolis, the advance being one halfperiny per loaf of 41b. On Monday the price was again advanced one d half'penny more, ualking the charge by the cliecasP bakers from 9d. to O9 .l for a loaf of 41h., the full price i halkers charginz for what is termed the best ...

... I TO LORD JO(IN RUSSELL, FIRST LORD OF| I THTE TREASURY, &c., &c. I I do- d, oy My LoRn,-An old proverb adviseth that pearls e an east before swine were so much wealth misappro- priated, and so it appears that experience, which says bostoweth wisdom upon most men, has lavished its im. Iavours upon your lordship without extracting front plied you the smallest mark of repentance for past ...

... ?? I ?? - - - - - - A youth was prosecuted and fined the other day, at Aberdeen for baving posted a newspaper, with a written paperthereilln. Paley sayn,- No one isaable to produce a cbarae-- ter from heaven, or has any better title to a par- tieular-poasegslon than his neighbhur. Some of the Irish papers, after regretting theat their space is inadequate to- individualize the deaths I by ...

... publit fflietios. IRISaI CoNFHDEHrArsO.-On Sunday evening a very I respectable meetine ot Confederates, took place- at Cartwright's Coffee-house, Red-cross-street, City. . Mr Dwaine was called to the chair, and explained the objects of the body. They wished every man to, Ienjoy full freedom of speech, and to do aaway with that ?? feeling that kept alive petty I jealousies and unmeaninc ...

... ALARMING DISTRESS iN MANCIJESTEa. ering MEETINGS OF THE, UNEMPLOYED. lows, let to A public nmeeting of the unemployed took place 'in iking '1'hursday, March 4, ia Stevenison's-squttre. Mr. WV. !stab- DhaON syas calledto the chair. and said, perhatps there were litas been no period since 1820 when the factory ope- place ratives were sniferieg so much as at present. I itious believe, that out of ...

... The great event of the week is the triumphant passing of the Ten Hours' Bill in committee. There were grounds for apprehension that the Ten Hours' clause would be thrown out, as many of the mem. bers who supported the second reading expressed their determination to stop at a limitation of eleven hours, and the Premier himself expressed his desire that the reduction should rest at that point. ...

... bartiot Walls clipanp. ex- MESSRS. CLARK AND DOYLE'S TOUR. ; Int Lilun.-Or Tuesday evening, the 9th instant, t a numerous and highly respectable meeting was held ll)in the Town Hall, for the purposeof hearing addresses Site from Messrs. Clark and Doyle, directors of the Lf National Land Company, upon the land, its capabi- d iof lities, and the means of obtaining it, as laid down by t the ...

... Gnurral Enttiligrurt. IJuan GAsoIsiETR.-The Corporttion of Man- chester are preparing to erect another huge gasomne- torto hold 200,000 cubic feet, and if made on the telescope plAn, it will contain 400,000 cubic feet of gas. 1% was only a short timie ago (1846) that a si- milar addition to the present enormous establish. ment was ronde. What the entire of the works will be in a few years ...

... ebarti-e't flitelitgellre. To .Li ik1AitTISTS OF T11 .IEMPIRE. Whatsoever thly hand fiodeth to do, do It quickly., Solomon. I Brethren,-The aphorism contained in my text has been once more forcibly impressed upon my mind by the circumstances attendant upon the recent motion in the House of Commons, by our unchange- able and unflinching adiocate, Mr. Duneombe, for the repeal of the rate ...

... We take thefollowing sketches from the Washing- i ton National Era:- 'l CALEB CUSHING.-Since my last date, the propo- l sition of Caleb Cushing in the Legislature, to commit the State of Massachusetts to the support of thoe Mexican invasion, has been rewarded by the choice a of that gentleman as colonel of the new regiment. s Of his peculiar qualifications for such a post, no one can doubt. ...