The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-19 00:00:00

IMPROVED DWELLINGS FOR THE INDUS-

TRIOU . CLASSES.

Yesterday the annual meeting of the subscribers of
this Association was held et Willie's Rooms, Sir RALPH
' HOWARD, Bart., in the chair. From the eighth report of
the directors, which Was circulated in the room, it appears
that the total net receipts for the year for rents, &c.,
amounted to 2,1•58/. Its. Id. After deducting the expenses
of the ettablialiment, and bringing forward the balance in
hand from Let year, there remained 1,9261. 14s. 9d., out of
which it was proposed to pay a dividend of 3 per cent.,
which would require 1,2101 6e. fkl., and to place the balance
4161. 9s. to the guarantee fund. The report showed the
gratifying fact that, in consequence of the sanitary arrange-
ments in the society'sdwellinp, the mortality has been much
less than the ordinary average. In the Pancras Old•road
buildings, the average population is about 600, among
whom there have been, during the year, but nine deaths.
In the family dwellings in Albert-street, the population is
ghost 300, of whom only 4 have died. In the metropolitan
chambers in Albert-street for single men—out of a popu-
lation of 120 there has been but one death, and that arose
from an accident out of the chambers. These chambers
are but partially occupied; the sdvantages afforded by
them," we Quote the report, not being sufficiently ap-
preciated by the inhabitants of the district." The report
adds that while rests for half a bed in houses in the ad-
joining streets are the same (2s. 6d. per week), they are re-
sorted to in preference to these chambers, where each man
has a separate compartment and bed, and most commo-
dious living room accommodation." The chairman having
moved the adoption of the report, the Earl of Carlisle, in
seconding it, congratulated the shareholders that there was
now the prospect or moderate return for their expenditure.
By being reproductive an useful undertaking famished the
means 01 vitiating further good and useful objects, and thus
achieved • double triumph.—Mr. Charles Cochrane com-
plained that greater hops, of profit were held oat than
the facts justified, and be doubted whether it would not be
better to make the institution altogether a charitable one.—
A long discussion arose upon this point, in the course of
which it was explained, on the part of the society that
though their charter gave them power to raise 190,0001.,
they had only rallied half that amount, and that as the ex-
pense of the staff wee as great for the smaller as it would
be for the larger amount there was every reason to
suppose that when the capital was increased there
would be a larger dividend. The report having been
' adopted, the chairman moved the declaration of a dividend
of 3 per cent. The Rev. J. W. Blakealey moved that the
dividend be 2; per cent., but after an muumuu from the
chairman that the directors thought that a dividend at the
rata of 3 per cent. was justified by tho condition of the
society, he withdrew Ise amendment, and the original reso-
lution was agreed to. The Earl of Carlisle was re-elected a
director, and 8. M. Peto, Req., M.P., and Russell Scott,
Eas., were elected in place of two other directors who have
retired, after which, and the transaction of some further
routine business, the meeting separated.

DR. SOLGER ON THE POLITICS OF EUROPE.
Last evening, 1)r. Bolger delivered at the MaryLe-
bow Literary Institution, PortmanAquare, the second of a
course of four lectures on the present political system of
Europe. He observed that his first lecture had relation to
the various pretests of absolutism in Europe, maintenance
of the balance of power, preservation of the smaller states,
and the upholding of peace and order ; but he bad shown
that many dynasties had been destroyed by the
treaties of Westphalia and of Vienna, that the smaller'
states had been alwrbed into the larger ; that peace
and order had not been maintained, and that consequently
the whole system was nothing but one great imposture.
Thea came the question, whether, setting snide ell principle
of right, the moral and physical condition of the people had
been improved, and it was this question which he proposed
to answer in the present lecture. The lecturer then ad-
verted to the position of Austria, showing how the empire
was composed of many nationalities, which caused it to be
at the mercy of the other three great continental powers,
who might, by fomenting national jealousies, or pro-
moting liberalism in any one of the nations, di-
vide the empire against itself. Consequently, be-1
came the policy of Austria to make other Euro-
pean governments still more afraid of liberalism then
they otherwise would be, and its efforts were continally
directed to putting down liberalism wherever it might
show itself. He described the depressing effects of the
strict censorship of the press, the influence of the Roman
priesthood, and of the restrictions upon personal move-
ments, end contended that, to attempt to carry reforms
peacefully in Austria, after the manner of England, was
utterly futile. Austria was a mere military state, and the
people were kept under complete pupilage. The system in
Prussia, though it tended in the same direction, was dif-
ferent, and he considered more demoralising. There the
nobility—which was wry numerous, each member
of the family taking the title of nobility—formed
one vest bureaucracy, which kept the whole country
ca
n subjection; and the principle generally incul-
ted in Prima, and which had taken deep root in the
minds of the middle classes, was that the great aim of life
was to obtain a governmeutappointment or a title of honour
from government. He also touched upon the state of
France, attributing the revolution which broke out in 1848
to the corruption in that country in the time of Louis
Philippe. France had always shown herself disposed to
domineer over the ether oedema of Europe ; her ruling pas-
sim wm military ILlvey, emit he did not augur well for the
Mare liberties otFrinses se lug es that feeling pervaded
the great mass of the psivie. The lecturer was well received
by an attentive sadiron

LOSS OF THREE LIVES AT ROTITERHI THE.
Yesterday Mr. William Carter held an inquest at
the White Lioe„ Prison-stairs, Rotherhithe, on the bodies
of Mn. Lydia Whitlock, aged 25, Isabella Whitlock, aged
I year, and Mary Ann Cud's, aged 40, the three easels-
nate perms who perished through the /1.1 of • mobs,.
boat off Caine Wharf, Rotherhithe, wTay might lest.
I Mr. William Whitlock said be was a bermes la the employ
of Messrs. Langton and Boss, of ramiewortli, sod the
owner of a vessel in which he and Ide andly Used. Oa
Tuesday evening last his boat was lying of Mean. Oates
and Gleerge's wharf at Bothallithe Wthtg is ram Two
warms, a lad, his wife and child, and a hoods aimed
Ms/an Curls, ems with Idea fa the boat.
the vessel, whir was Mat 70 fest long and sera
breed.
Was heiag lades, sad whoa Mat 10 or 12 tons of
stem bad bees lowered firkin,' the yes elided ea wrest
et the tide ebbiag. She wee Mil* ap apla cheat half.
pest lea Vole& at sight, whoa ag essameed primp
other reeks of Om la. By the Ymoe hewera that they
:exea board esesething like IS ems datum. all a/ a
the beet ismal ere Melds the dash. The trete
if the aboramed sad • ma vile wider ea the
whet, wen i• be st Ma. Hie wile was IS tin
Mommy deck, eel she sea dews to save the child. The
himis and his ifirephre yam la the cabin. His wife /Tied li
sea an errs theressi omessaing, "Oh, save my child,"
sal As issislaisly ma below. The water was then
sham 11 het deep. Two atom-boats pared aim
almost at the ore moment, sae up and the
Mbar dews the river, when the water instantly
lathed ere the tide r the boat and caused it
le swamp. The beat amend to reamer its freight
=Vlwest and he bed met the least doubt from what
the pears that the swell was the
ems of the seddent. He led rhea a couple of tons more
• ilord limas the parr tweriem The stones were so
*sr that *ay Mai Ma shift by the swell of the waters.
Jobs Steimmbarry sae that be was employed at the Casa.
and evert to the email miser the boat bad been
and sitheugh sae dole heavy blocks of stone had
bee. dated Mee ft woo deposited in the beat, not the
least danger was to be saperaded, as the vessel rode
as evenly r it did berm His belief was that the
swell caused by the preing of the last steamer
made the smaller lost sink. Witasss was obliged to jump on
an adjoining vassal to save his own life. He could not tell
at what speed the steamer was piing at the time.—The
miner said that the Sat of Parlisesat the speed
at whisk the stem= shear and if they went at a
greater seas, tad an salientleek it was a question
wheelie the garden la mama veers would not
be sehrimally tormarible. The dlfeelty `the present case
ZlT!te bs es Se what vessel rued at the time, and
the rate ef speed die sir gang at. Having
semed up waserrly, shoe sesralting, returned
a verdict I. each ass Death." -

CITY 011:120PADIC HOSPITAL, HATTON-GARDEN.
—Yesterday alleasoon *quarterly mesllag of the governors
Sr the above dimity was held at the Tavern,
tamer. Mr. Gregory, 8.D., in the
rher.gllCabriZnee' havieg paised and the report
piths semiles Sr atiteid having Deem brought up,
it wos slefti that
ountphielhoest pee 771 patients had
been seder tesetsent, and thebsde at t avail-
able der liepatisete wine ; the pessaries, however,
was galialedry etteasikei In mei= 70 se Id °then, is
sow as the !tads et tie charily wadi sashe tbew. In
esedadie, the Right Me. the Lord John Russell, M.P.,
was =aim= se a vice-president; also Dr. Little, Peter
Mawr, Ise., and J. H. Parry, Rsq , barrister, with other
geothres et didleiden and Maumee.
Dana 07 A SOMOORMASTER PROM STARVATION.
—Lot Milt Mr. O. O. Die= held an inquest, at the Duke
of Chaim= Oisi:laieJese, *pm Jonathan Nicholls, a
eelieeleauSer, IL Dieweseil, whose body was a even
skill= had hisaidy a ediambemstsr, but was
latch =as te be eampslad Mar eu his livelihood
by for tradesmen, end with all him
haissitry senitiniss eel, realised akw pence a week. The
ilia =awed a leaf a week der the selgert of himself and
ad:R=who b paralysed. DuMiShiter lee twelve maths
was daily shakes dies staratisa, but still
buy= up with the of Was scene property to which
he WWI entitled. 0a Mallw morning his wife found him
dead la bed at her dia. The following day he became
1111. and, sad 111. stye= Mr. Lutheran,
11""Thelh."1"11Illsirdeselialrorateuud diaer. I
ll=
Yaw sad ago= at the parochial authorities
the imppert et domes* sad his paralysed wife
to
• sellitely leaf Of bread a week. WWI of inquiring ma
task was= sad contributing a inilisat quantity of food
ihr their supper= The oreasr ammi up, and the jury
rMsnadawlkt in aceardanie with the medical evidence,
sea aseerepsided by the taliewing addendum :—" And the
Juror impress their opinion that the applicants for relief
on
this perish ought uniformly be visited by proper °Seen
by eider oldie parochial authoritiee, immediately after the
applied= for relief, and from time to time afterwards, se
keg es they are in receipt of that relief, in order that the
extent of their wants may be ascertained."

ROYAL AUSTRALIANGOLDREFININO AND

YINING COMP4N Y.

A meeting of sluireholders in this company took
place yesterday at Radley's Hotel, Mai kiriars, fur Ow par-
pose of submitting a proposal for re-io%otiug the capital
sebseribed for the projected " Royal Australian
Gold Refining and Mining Company," under the
title of the " Royal Australian Banking sod Gold
Importing Company," and after the completion of
the company under its new title, • royal charter to he
obtained, with power to increase the capital and limit the
responsibility of the shareholders.—James Macgregor,
Beg., M.P. took the chair, and dwelt on the necessitLiel
altering the original project—first, on account of the
price that must be paid for labour ; and secondly,
great temptations to fraud that mint always prevail in gold
mining operations, and to employ their capital in the moss
legitimate and secure way. of banking, and the purchased
gold ores for importation into this country. The rapidly-in.
creasing population of New South Wales would render
the occupation of banking of itself extremely profitable,
without taking into consideration all the advantages of
gold-importing on account of the company. The chairman,
in conclusion, moved the adoption of the report. "Since
the issuing of prospectus of the above projected com-
pany the most important intelligence yet received from
Australia has arrived, bearing specially upon all investments'
of capital in that country. Fifteen hundred miles of gold-
fields have now become an official fact, the yield of which is
so certain and immense that the working man, nut being in
a position to give valid security to his employere, his ser-
vices cannot he secured excepting at wages destructive to all
profit". Your directors having bad the oppoitunity affiirded
them in the delays attendant upon the preparation and pas-
sage through the registrar'. office of the deed of settlement,
of considering these facts, feel that if thee omitted to turn
such new information to the most profitable advantage, they
should be failing in duty loth to their own and their sub-
scribers' interests: it is therefore proposed, after the most
mature consideration, and unanimously adopted by your
board, to confide our operations to that superior clam of
labour where ample security can lie obtained, by employing
the capital in the purchase of gold and gold ores, by a bank
and its branches, to be established in connexion with the gold
districts of New South Wales and Victoria, thus reducing
the oompany's operations to a practical certainty. It is
therefore proposed thet the capital sulocribed for the pro-
jected Royal Australian Gold Refining and Mining Com-
pany be re-invested under the title of " The Royal Ala.:m.-
Inm Banking arid Gold-Importing Company,' and after
the completion of the company under its new title, that •
royal charter shall be obtained, with power to increase the
capital and limit the responsibility of the shareholders. At
as early a period, therefore, as is consistent with the wile&
formalities, the chairman of the company, J. M•Grestur,
Esq., M.P., will melee the requisite application to her
Majesty's government." Mr. Apgs seconded the adoption
of the report. The Chairman said the government would
not adopt a charter for a less sum than 240,0004., nor would
they limit the responsibility te a less sum than 6h per share.
Supposing U. per share were to be called up, that would
be 60,0001., a sum ample enough to commence operations.
Mr. Greenwood asked how it would be arranged with those
who might prefer to continue in the mining and gold re-
fining I—The Chairman said he thought arrangements
could be made for those to retire who objected ; but he
should think no one would prefer mining to banking opera-
tions. Under the bank act, any nine shareholders, possess-
ing 40 shares each, could compel the directors to call is pub-
! lie ranting, and dissolve the company on 25 per cent. of the
capital being lost. This was an additional security to the
limited responsibility which would be granted by a charter.
(hear, hear.)—After some observations from Mr. Saints-
, bury and others, the report was adopted unanimously.—
The Chairman said, those who were absent, and might ob-
' ject to these proceedings, could receive their &pewits back
again. (Hear' hear.)—Mr. Stoyin moved that they should
issue 60,000 shares of 61. esch, for the purpose of getting
the charter.—The resolution for that purpose was parsed
unanimously.—The meeting then passed a vote of thanks
Ito the chairman, and adjourned.