The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-04 00:00:00

DWELLINGS ERICTED BY MISS BWIDETT
COUTTS IN BETNNAL-GREZN.

Thane buildings stand upon a freehold site,
beeeded by Charks-strest and Chides-row, is the south-
east ids of Hackney-road. They are undertaken for the
purpose of providing oomfortable dwellingsdwellingsfor the poorest
of the classes in their neighbourhood, at rests
suited to their means. They °ordain dwelling, of one, two,
and three rooms, furnished with cooking appandirs, cup-
boards, he. lavatories and baths are provided on each
Boor; club-rooms, wash-houses, sod large drying places,
occupy the topmost story. The buildings are Ave stories
high ; they are substantially built of the plainest and least
expeasive materials. The living rooms amain 13 feat by
10 test 6 inches, the bedrooms average 13 feet by 8 feet 3
inches, the dab-rooms avenge 34 feet by 15 feet, and the
wash-houses 32 feet by 8 feet 6 inches ; Ql the rooms are 8
feet high, except the club-rooms„ which are 11 feet high.
The tenements are situated on either side of an internal
corridor, divided in the middle of its length by an open arm,
which sonnies the roar portion of the buildings into two
wings. Each wing contains an open stone staircase,
which gives access to the corridors, and ensures • constant
supply of fresh air to the tenements. Adjoining each glair-
ode are two sculleries, one for the use of the men, the ether
for the women. Their arrangement is the same, and both
contain two latrines, lavatory, with washing ben ~ a bath,
shut, waste, tic., dd a plentiful supply of water train
deter= in the attic. In the centre of each daimon • dud
shaft is provided, with • receiver in each corridor. The
shaft communicates with • large duet-bin in the basement,
to which a separate external access is provided. A resident
superintendent keep the accounts, and acts es • general
manager, and • porter attends to the cleanlinen of the stair-
OWN. corridors, and lamps. The rents, which are paid in I
advance, are collected every week, and not more than one
week's sinus is allowed. As Mies Coulter' object in un-
dertaking so large a work was to provide homes for the very
poorest of the industrious classes, it was considered desir-
able to Sc the rents at • rate low enough to ensure the'
dwellings being taken by these classes, and yet sufficiently
high to yield • net return of about :t per cent. upon the
cost. It is right that this should be generally known. Ex-
perience proves that if a better class of tenant had been
admissible, • much higher per oentage than this might have
been obtained. The tenements which consist of three moms
each yield sa. and 4s. per week, according to their size ;
Mom of two rooms realise 3a. 6d. per week ; and those of
on room (occupied by widows and persons without children)
rearms 2s. 6d., or 2a. per week, acoording to their size. With
these mots • net return of 3 per cent. is obtained. The
buildings are always full ; there are more applicants for
residence than can lie accommodated. The tenants; are most
orderly in their endue', and regular in the payment of their
rent, and the general remit of this good work,as far as it
has proceeded, may be regarded as highly satisfactory.
Other buildings of the same description are in course of
erection ; when the whole are completed they will accom-
modate at least 175 families. The architect of the work is
Mr. H. A. Habana*.

ANCIENT OILDDL OP Fozzerims.—On Saturday
evening the members ol Court Franklin (of this order)
celebrated their eighth anniversary by a dinner, at Ander-
too's Hotel, Fleet-street; F. G. Nelson, Fan., the actuary,
in the chair ; Mr. H. Foster H.C.H., filling the
vice-chair. In proposing the taunt—" The Ancient Order
of Foresters," the chairman entered at great length into
the statistics of friendly societies, throwing out many
valuable hints for their financial improvement. Mr. Shaw-
cross, the permanent secretary of the order, responded to
the toast, expressing his thanks to the chairman for the
valuable lecture he had given them. About seventy mem-
bers of the court were present, including Dr. Hensley, the
surgeon of the court, and the evening passed off in a
highly satisfactory meaner. The members of Court Franklin
are compositors and °then wainasted with the printing pro-
fession—about 120 in number. _

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CHAPLAINS AT THE Golle-FIELDS.—The corer
'pendent of the Union, writing from Sydney, states that
the withdrawal of any government allowance from the
chaplains oa the gold•fields renders it very difficult to main-
tain the ordinances of religion amongst such a wandering
careless set of men as the gold diggers generally are.
Signor Francesco di Giovine, a woll-kuown
Italian poet, residing at Naples, having dedicated a new
poem, " Rome, Ancient and Future, to Garibaldi, re-
ceived the other day the following letter from the illustrious
general :--" Caprers, Feb. 26, 1861. Sir,--1 have received
the gift of your historical poem, ' The Battle of Legume,'
a noble deed which the sons of breve ancestors were very
late, nut through coy fault of their own, in imitating. I
thank you for having dramatically set forth so fine an
example before their eyes. Yon have thus fulfilled the
duty of a good citizen. lam equally obliged to you for the
dedication which you offer me of your little poem. ' Rome,
Ancient and Future.' That country, like the sun, irradi-
ates ancient, the source of modern, civilisation. From
that town will emanate other days, after the evil genius
of darkness, hypocrisy. and imposture has been driven
away.—Yours, G. GARIBALDI."
A JEWISH OUTBREAK AT Pawn.—A letter from
View& says On the night of Feb. 25th there was a
great disturbance in the Theresienstadt suburb, inhabited
almost entirely by Jews ; the crowd poured till midnight
into the &emir's-game, where there are eating.houees and
cafie in great numbers. Towards midnight a band of young
Jews, excited by drink, paraded that street, booting and
yelling and insulting the police, whom they at length began
to pelt. The police in vain requested them to disperse ;
the hooting only increased, upon which one of the soldiers
fired, and wounded a waiter at a cafe, in the right arm.
The man was removed to the hospital. The exasperated
crowd then marched round the church of Theresienstadt.
setting up revolutionary cries, to provoke the authorities.
These provocations proving ineffectual, the Jews dispersed
with loud imprecations.