An Address on the Necessity, Uses, and Advantages of Affording to the Labouring Classes, the Means of Acquiring General, Scientific, Moral, and ... on the 12th, and Again on the 19th and

Excerpt from An Address on the Necessity, Uses, and Advantages of Affording to the Labouring Classes, the Means of Acquiring General, Scientific, Moral, and Political Knowledge For want of success, various causes may be assigned. Jealousy, (well offinterfe'rence by labourers, of non-labourers. Jealousy Of labourers by each other. Ftoo numerous an' acting body, the'committee at first consisting of no less than thirty-three members. Perhaps; that the expectations formed of the advantages to be derived the Institution, where-not found to answer. Last, not least, the depression Of~the times,~ which made the-sparing of a. Tri?e, in many cases, a hardship, in very many, an impossibility.