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London, England, 1849-07-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.
It appears that one ot the proprietors of this railway is
endeavi,uring to call the attention of his brother share-
holders to the proposed lease of a portion of the London
and Portsmouth line, extending from Epsom to Leather-
head, at a rent equal to six per cent. per annum on its
cost, and in addition tberr to a premium of 20,0001 He
is of Opinion that the directors of the London and
BriAton Company should be called upon to resign their
stts at the board in consequeneo of entering into this
" extrwavant" arrange-went. He states that the agree-
ment with the Direct Portsmouth Company is described
by the secretary of the Brighton Company as a traffic
arrangement amounting practically to a proposal to give
3,00ti1. a year for the four miles ot railway between Ep-
som and Leatherhead, subject, however, to confirmatica
by the proprietors at the meeting of the company on the
25th inst., when the whole question will be stated to the
proprietors.

SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVE-
MENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE LA-
BOURING CLASSES.
On Teureday the annual meeting of this society was
held at Willis's Rooms, and was presided over by Lord
Aebley. The attendance on the occasion was very
small, not numbering more than 100 persons.
Lord ASHLEY. in opening the proceedings, expressed
his regret that from unavoidable causes the meeting of
• he society had been put off to a period of the year when
frem the heat of the weather a large assemblage could
riot be expected ; but he could assure them the so-
ciety bad nut been negligent of its duties. Arrangements
had been made for the exertion of two new model lodg-
ing-ht uses—one to hold fifty or sixty unmarried women,
in Hatton-garden; and the other, the foundations of
which had already been laid, capable of accommodating
fifty entire families. The last was to be constructed on
such a plan that there would be a distinct dwelling for
each family, which would thereby enjoy all the comforts
of domestic life. A model of the new building lay on
the table before him, being the design of Mr. Roberts,
the honorary architect of the society, a gentleman whose
labour* be warmly eulogised. The society bad still to
deplore their inability to do anything effectual in
respect to loan tioeieties and loan funds. On this sub-
ject he had to recommend the study of a lecture
delivered by Mr. Buller at Nottingham, on the sub-
ject of deterred annuities. As to the allotment
system, it was not ncessary for him to say a
word, the experiments made thereon being so complete
as to render it unneces.ary to demonstrate their useful-
ness. The main matter which the society had to cou-
sider was the present state of the dwellings of the work-
leg classes, or what he might cull their demiciliary
condition. Every day's experience convinced him
that this question lay ut the root of nine•tenths of the
michief which pre‘ail, d amidst the humbler orders
of the peeple, arid formed nitie-tenths of the obstacles
which obstructed their amelioration. It was to no
purpose that schemes for their improvement were set on
fait, or that institutions were founded to elevate their
contrition, if they weft+ left in those wretched abodes
where they now spent the greater portion of their lives.
He would state what he had seen with his own eyes, leaving
the meeting to judge what possibility of social improve-
ment there could be amidst such influences. He had seen
living in a single room, in a cellar, damp, cold, and miserable,
thirteen or fourteen persons, and as many as seven in a
bed. To what purpose was it to invite children from
these dens to their national schools and their Borough-
road and Ragged Schools, if, after receiving the bless-
ings of education during the day, they re-
turned at night to scenes of such disgusting
infamy and distress ? Amongst all the evils that
afflicted the human body, and made a recipient for
disease, there was none so prejudicial as this system of
over-crowding, and as a member of the Board of Health
he could state that cholera was principally brought
on by this system of cramming people into small ill-
ventilated dwellings. The society was not a cha-
eitab!e society. It professed to set up model build-
ings, by which the Labe uricg classes 'night be enabled
to enjoy necessary comforts, and to prove that this
was a profitable investment of capital. Nor had its
efferts been unsuccessful in this respect, although the
example it had set had not be en imitated to the extent
that its friends could wish lie bad heard that a similar
effort had been made in Paris on behalf of the working
classes, and that the Precedent of the French Republic
had subscribed for that purpose 2,0001. lii Berlin, also,
an attempt of the kind had been commenced, and in many
of the large towns throughout the kingdom the example
which the society had set was about to be followed. He
concluded by expressing his confident hope that, under
the Divine blessing, the 1 ff. .rti of ihe society would he
croened with success in the important objects which it
had in view.
'1 he SECRETARY then read the report, which entered
into a d, rsie d statement of the society's operations
.4uring the year, and of the progress which it had made.
It bore testimony to the beneficial effect produced upon
ell who had bec-me inmates of the model lodging-
houses, and showed the extent to which the society's ex-
amp'e had been followed at home and abroad.
'lle Rev. E. BICKERSTETH na,ved that the report be
adopted.
Viscount CASTLEREAGH seconded the motion, and in
doing so expressed his strong desire to see similar so-
cieties established in Ireland. There was, he said, every
anxiety on the part of Irish proirietors to do what they
could to ameliorate the condition of the people, but
and. r the present circumstances of that unfortunate
country improvement must necessarily be very slow in
its progress.
Toe PROVOST of Worcrster College, Oxford, moved
the second resolution, and in doing so adverted parti-
cularly to the necessity which existed of improving the
cottage,* of labourers in the country, and by the allot-
ment syst, m and otherwise of ameliorating their present
wretched condition. The resolutasu i'Vas•••••
" 1 hat the present most defective state of the theca-
lines of the lebeuring classes is one of the chief ob•
stades to their moral Au d soi•ial amelioration; conse-
quently, that this society is called upon by considers-
!ons affecting not only ito, health and physical comfort,
but also the teghs st and best interests of those classes, to
persevere in its i ffirs s for the improvement of their do-
miciliery condition, and desire s tit the same time to ac-
knowleoge with unfeigned thankailness to Almighty
God the measure of success which has hitherto attended
its operatiens in ;hat depat Merit."
Dr, SOUTIIWOOD Satins secor.dcd the motion, and in
Ling so said that he had no conception of the true
place which the ohjtcts contemplated by the society
held amongst those to which the wise and good were
bound to dedicate their lives, until he went himself and
inspected the condition of the abodes of the labouring
classes. He alwa) a believed that the state of their resi-
dences exercised a merel is well as physical and intellec-
tual iilluence upon the in, but of the exti nt of that influence
he had no knowlee ge until he hLd seen the e fleets pro-
duet d by the it le moval from the dens of filth and miss ry
in which they had previously lived, and placed in habi-
tations which it wits nu abuse, of the term to call houseg.
Atter a r• sidenee of a few months there was a complete
change in their character and appearance—a change
which was not confined to their bodily health, but ex-
tended to their intehectual and moral condition. Ho
illustrated !his by several inferesing cases. Referring
to the Metropolitan Building Asseciation. a kindred
society, to the care of which 800 people had been
intrusted during the past year, he stated that the average
mortality among that Number was not more than one-
half ce chat it was in the metropolis generally; and that
out uf 500 children, the greater number under the age of
five years, when the constitution was most exposed to
the influences of bad atmospheres, the mortality had been
eight times less than the average, arid, as com-
pared with four of the moat unhealthy dis•
tricts, ten times less. No case of typhus fever or
of cholera had occurred. These facts were most enctai-
mime., * because they showed that the society
i was moving
in the right direction, and that however mportant it
might be tee elevate the intellectual and morel condition
Of tfie working classes, it was necessary to commence by
relieving them from the physical evils which surrounded
them.
Mr. NEWDEGATE and Viscount BRACELET moved and
seconded the foilowitig restilution,w haat was agreed tot—
.* That this meeting decidedly approves of the efforts
made by the society to improve the dwellings of the
labouring classes by ereetit g buildings as models suit-
able for a town pepulatiott, and by circulating plans of
cottages adapted for eoun ry leeboure rs; also of its con-
mated exertions to diast.nauate the advantages of the
field garden or allotment system."
The procee dings terminated with the usual vote of
thanks to the Chairman.

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ACCIDENT TO JOHN LIACK IiNZIE, ESQ., NESS
!JOUSE.—An accident cf a serious nature occurred, we
are sorry to say, at Beau, on ThUrsday night last,rm
ii to
Mr. Mackei.zie, Ness lions;'. He was returningfo
Ord in a gig-, driven by -1 mareoy. - The are is a
ag
trouble-
some animal, but went along well cnough until passing
up a narrow street
through Bauley, she r.t nip
control the animal, and
or lane leading to stables w
visit. • The driver was unthteoci
of
the
tt,eiclehto t thi
arnvS alcusiomed to
gig caught the
in making a sharp turn,
utch•keer'zie was thrown out with
curb atone, and Mr.
atiti
immediately raised and CO_ngreat violence. IleA
Arras Motel. where every attention
con-
veyed to the Lovaijr.
Cormack was soon in attendance,,
was paid to lain.
foundthat no bones wi re broken, although
i
when jt wa
Mr. Illackerizie wu • a very severely shaken and internally
bruised. Hu was conveyed home the same night, and
has bince
• been confined to bed, but is slowly recovering.
The driver was thrown out, but he alightud on his feet,
and escaped uninjured.—/averness Courier.
APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE..--The
preliminaries of a mairiwonnil alliance have been settled
batten the lion. William Cavendish, only son of the
lion. Charles C. Cay.ridn.h, M.l'., arid Lady Catherine
Cavendbh, and Miss Georgimn Caroline Liscelles, eldest
daughter of the Right lion. V\ ili!ana S. and Lady Caro.
lineLiseelles.

THE KING AND THE COUNTESS.—The above novel
is published this day by Mr. Collium, and may be had
at ail the libraries. Also just published-2: Lady Lister
Ka),'s new work, "British Dorms and Foreign WAn-
derurgs," two vols. 3. Captain Marryat's new novel.
" Valerie," two vuls. 4. Mr. Di:raeli s "Coningsby,"
cheap standard edition, 6s. hound. 5. " Adventures .of
a Greek Lady, the adopted daughter of the late Queen
Caroline," two vols. 6. Mrs. Trollepa's7.
" The Lottery of Marriage," three vols.
ham; or, The Y,iunger other," three vols. 8. "Lady
njileßwstocrakeldivnegyll,
Alice; or, 'The New Una," three vols. Oleo
" The Fortunes of Woman," a novel, three vole.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic far
the week ending July 7, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 1.8921.
3s. 6d.; parcels, .57/. 13s. 2d.; goods and cattle, 136/.
15s 83. • steam boats, 1811. 16s. Od.--Tow. 2,2681 Bs.
4d., exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Gilmer com-
pany. and payment for couveyrtuce of
Mr. O'Connell intends, it is said, to try his swell
at the Irish by, Wragnciag with ne=t term

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