The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

FRANCE•

In an stage in the Union on the efforts making to
improve the condition of the working classes in dif-
ferent countries, we find the following :
I. recocam,end to the directors of on:
bureaux de
beinfaisanve and to the members of charitable societies,
two reports on the sanitary state of indigent persons of
sevtaral parishes of Brussels, presented to the Council-
Geseral of the llotpitala of that city, by Dr. J.
Bosch, a physician of the poor. They will see how,
by ingenious aeal, b y factitious resources, by ex-
pedients, if the word may be used, how very effica-
cious ameliorations may be introduced into the most
unhealthy and mot': indigent habitations; how we
may thus contribui o to draw despairing families
from the mos% prc found abjection. Other associa-
tions have been form, A, not to distribute alms in a new
form by giving grad 3 decent lodgings to the poor, but
to render to a class, which is, thank God, much more
numerous, that of sEo all occupiers, touching on, but not
victims of, poverty, t t service which, though not absolutely
disinterested, is thi; easier to imitate. The object of
these societies, whit :la are rapidly spreadin,, in England,
is to build houses, rid to let them at a moderate rate,

which, however, suf ;ices to procure a satisfactory profit;
and to facilitate to. the occupier the means of pur-
chasing the house in which be lives by the gradual
payment of a sum Wed to the rent. The social uti-
lity of ouch assent .tions has na need to be demonstrat-
ed. But are the .?y capable of realization? Have
they anywhere git 'en to the generous capitalists who
fumed them the economic results which they bed
a righe'. to expect? Several members of the Hygieree
Congress at Brus! Os gave very precise and very en-
couraging inform *ion on this point. M. de Sitter,
member of the et ,writable association of Gronieguen,
in Holland, stat..etl the follow facts :—ln 1845, an
association was I i)rmed in that town to build salu-
kwieue ;odginge, seed to let them at a low rate. One
hundred hcaleee 1? ere built in ten different quarters.
Each of fleets .has two windows opening on the
street, a closet, ttvo recesses for beds, a loft, and a
ehimoeyepiece. A stem of 35,600 florins (about
80000 fro was t caployed by the association. De-
,
clawing the expei use of repairs, taxes, &c., the as.o-
eimion makes an e ;Fulani profit of nearly ten florins on
each house, thou gh letting it at fifty per cent. less
thee was fernier 1y paid for horrible lodgings. The
senitaTy results o t the operation have not been less
favoneretie than the financial ones. In 1827 an
epideniy devaseet, xi the town of Geoninguen. It carried
off one person c at of every three or four in the quarters
in whicti the at i,sociation his caused houses to be built.
In 1849 the et iolera reged whin great violence in the
town. Bat th ough in the same quarters the nuaiber ef
deems on the whole was equal to what it eras in 1827,
there were only four or rive deaths in the hundred
famines (between four and five hundred persons) who
reside in the r iew houses.
Ae order Azs been transmitted by telegraph to
General do Waldner, commanding the 6th military
division at St resburg, to proceed to Spire to compli-
ment tho Kin g of Besari.a, who is now travelling in
Rhenish Bavi
B/ a recent aecision of the Minister of Marine the
French naval division in the Levant wilkbe hence-
fbrth comps( el of stesmevessele alone. Te Pandore
frigate hns be otn recalled, and Rear- A.dnairal Romain
Deerossee is to hoist his flag on board the Gomer
steam-frigre. The tyro ailing brigs, which form
part of the d.kvision, are to be replaced 'oy the Narval
stearoa.