6 JANUARY 1849, page 16

Railway Gratuities.

OF all helpless creatures "the Public" is the most impotent. Poor Public can do nothing for itself: it cannot assert public rights, but depends for that office upon Mr. Wakley,......

• Topics Of The Day.

THE QUEST OF THE TRUE BUDGET. JUDGIAG by such signs as can come before the public in the re- cess, we incline to hope that the discussion of" finaticiel reform " will take much......

The Flaws Of The Factory System.

THE embarrassments for the legislator which are presented by the actual state of the factory question can be distinctly traced to a redundancy of interference by law—to the......