The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-20 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Sixo' Clock.
RICHMOND RACES (THIS DAY).
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
The Easby Stakes.

Exact ...
Comfit ...

The Hat Stakes.

Farmers' Boy ...
Child of the Mist

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Handicap.

Little Davie
Lindrick

The Triennial Stakes.
Comfit walked over.

FRANCE.

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an article in the Union on the efforts making to
:rat tte condition of the working classes in dif-
ferent countee?, we find the following :
We recommend to the directors of our bureaux de
beinfaisance and to the members of charitable societies,
two reports on the sanitary state of indigent persons of
several parishes of Brussels, presented to the Council-
General of the Hospitals of that city, by Dr. J.
Bosch, a physician of the poor. They will see how,
by ingenious zeal, by factitious resources, by ex-
pedients, if the word may be used, how very effica-
cious ameliorations may ba introduced into the most
unhealthy and most indigent habitationlii how we
may thus contribute to draw despairing families
from the most profound abjection. Other associa-
tiona Lave been formed, not to distribute alms in a new
form, by giving gratis deoent.ledgings to the poor, but
to render to a class which ts, thank God, much more
numerous, that of small occupiers, touching on, but not
'Cictims of poverty, a service
which, though not absolutely
disinterested, is the easier to imitate. The object of
these societies, which are rapidly spreading in England,
is to build houses, and to let them at a moderate rate,
which, however, suffices to procure a satisfactory profit;
and to facilitate to
i the occupier the means of pur-
chasing the house n which he lives by the gradual
payment of a sum added to the rent. The social uti-
lity of such associations has no need to be demonstrat-
ed. But are they capable of roalization? Have
they any where given to the generous capitalists who
formed them the economic results which they had
a right to expect? Several members of the Hygienic
Congress at Brussels gave very precise and very en-
couraging information on this point. M. de Sitter,
member of the charitable association of Groninguen,
in Holland, stated the following facts :—ln 1845, an
association was formed in that town to build salu-
brious lodgings, and to let them at a low rate. One
hundred houses were built, in ton different quarters.
Each of them has two windows opening on the
street, a closet, two recesses for beds, a loft, and a
chimney-piece. A sum of 35,600 florins (about
80,0001 r.) was empleled by the association. De-
ducting the expense of repairs, taxes, &c., the asso-
ciation makes an annual profit of nearly ten florins on
each house, thongs letting it at fifty per cent. less
than was formerly paid for horrible lodgings. The
sanitary results of the operation have not been less
favourable them the financial ones. In 1827 an
epidemy devas..ated the town of Groninguen. It carried
off one person, out of every three or four in the quarters
in which the association has caused houses to be built.
In 1849 thei cholera raged wiif great violence in the
town. Bv.t though in the same quarters the number of
deaths or. the whole was equal to what it was in 1827,
there were only four or live deaths in the hundred
families (between four and five hundred persons) who
reside in the new houses.

AR order has been transmitted by telegraph to
Geueral de Waldner, commanding the 6th military
division at Strasburg, to proceed to Spire to compli-
rient the King of Bavaria, who is now travelling in
Rhenish Bavaria.

By a recent decision of the Minister of Marine the
French naval division in the Levant will be hence-
forth composed of steam-vessels alone. The Pandore
frigate has been recalled, and Rear-Admiral Romain
Desfosses is to hoist his flag on board the Gomer
steam-frigate. The two sailing brigs, which form
part of the division, are to be replaced by the Narval
steamer.