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rou,t, without such industrial improvements, submit to pay hither
prices for food, consequent upon numbers having to be supported in
idleness out of the general stuck. That the tendency of the means
adopted by the Patriotic Society is to effect these Improvements, is
beyond all question, and it solicits the investigation of the intelli•
gent community, the principles involved, not being matters of indif-
ference, but lying at the very foundation of national prosperity and
safety.
OBJECTS.

I. To improve the husbandry of the crofters by the introduction of
better methods of cultivation.
11. promote the field garden system ;to improva the cottages
and gardens of the peasantry, and the residences of the labouring
classes in towns, as regards comfort, cleanliness, and sanitary regu-
lations.
111. To promote the introduction of Agricultural Edueation into
elementary schools, and to seek the establishment of self-supporting
agricultural schools, were needed.
IV. To give gratuitous information to parties desirous of emi-
grating.
V. To promote the extension of the fisheries and the safety and
welfare of those employed in them.
Yl. To promote the establishment of District Loan Funds for as-
sisting the industrious under temporary difficulties.
VII. To seek the cultivation of provideat and industrious habits
among the lower classes.
MEANS.
I. The formation of Local and District Auxiliary Associations.
11. The publication in the Society's Industrial Magazine of infor-
mation re4ecting the actual position and difficulties of the lower
classes, and of suggestions and facts demonstrating the various
means of improving their circumstances.
Il I. The publication of occasional hand sheets, in English and in
Gaelic, containing advice suited to the circumstances of the various
clasle.s whose improvement is desired.
MEMIIERSIIIP.

An annual subscription of 55., or a donation of one pound, con-
stitutes a member of the General Committee. An annual subscrip-
tion of 21s. entitles Subscribers to the Society's publications at cost
price. Members of local societies are entitled to vote at meetings of
the parent Society.
HONORARY SECRETARY,
J. MAcEENztE, Esq , M.D., Inverness.
TREASURE It,
W. CAMPBELL, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh.
SECRETARY,
Mr. C. BOND, Edinburgh.
" THE INDUSTRIAL MAGAZINE" of the Society is published
monthly, in addition to which, hand sheets in English and Gaelic,
on Croft and Garden Cultivation ; and Facts about District and
Household Cleanliness, m:..y be obtained at the office of the Society,
and of the publishers, 51`Lachlan, Stewart, and Co., Edinburgh;
Messrs. Bigg, 53, Parliament-street, London ; and M'Leod, Argyle-
street, G lasgow.

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her Majesty tha Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, a

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MR. JAMES'S N •:W NOVEL.
On the 12th, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo .
SIR THEODORE BROU'GLITON;
Or, LAUREL WATER.
By O. P. IL JAMES, Esq.
Author of " The Convict," " Russell," &C.
London: Btnitlt, Elder, Luna Co., 65, Cornkill.

MODEL LODGING-HOUSE for FAMILIES.
Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labour-
ing Classes.
Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN, and
her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER.
PRESIDENT—MS Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, K.G., &c.
VICE-PaESIDENTS.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
The Duke of Manchester.
The Marquis of Northampton.
The Marquis of Bristol.
The Earl of Erne.
The Earl of llarrowby.
The Earl of Veralam.
The Earl of Elton.
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The Earl of Effingham.
The Lord John Russell, M.P.
The Viscount Barrington, M.P.
The Viscount Morpeth, M.P.
The Lord Ashley, %I.P.
The Viscount Ebrington, M.P.
Lord Henry Cholmondeley.
Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.
The Bishop of London.
The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
Tile Bishop of Norwich.
The Right. Hon. Lord Kenyon.
The Right Hon. Lord Calthorpe.
The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh.
The Lord Skelmersdale.
The Right Hon. Lord Leigh.
The Lord Teignmeuth.
The Hon. Henry Ashley.
The lion. W. F. Cowper, M.P.
Capt. the Hon. D. Pelham, R.N.
Sir William T. Pole, Bart.
Sir Brooke W. Bridges, Bart,
Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart.
S:r Thom aa Baring, Bart.
Sir Arthur de Capel Brooke, Bart.
Sir Thomas Blointield, Bart.
Sir John Dean Paul, Bart.
Sir W. Edward Parry, G.C.B.
B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P.
J. W. Childers, Esq., M.P.
J. H. 11. Foley, Esq , M.P.
W. A. Mackinnon, Esq., M.P.
W. Miles, Esq., M.P.
R. Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., M.P.
John C. Colquhoun, Esq., M.P... .
John Hardy, ltsq.
COMMITTEE.
Tile Lord ASHLEY, 31. P., Chairman.
And Twenty-four Clergymen and Gentlemen.
The Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labour-
ing Classes having met with entire success In three different efforts to
provide better dwelliegs fur the labouring poor, is now desirous of
commencing a new attempt, of, it may be hoped, a still more impor-
ant character. -
Its past operations have been as follows :-
1. A range of cottages, on a site, where cottages only were admit-
sible, called Model Buildings; in Bagnigge-wells. These are now oc-
cupied by married couples and aged females, whose rents are paid
weekly, with great thankfulness for the cheap and wholesome lodg-
ings provided.
2. Three houses repaired and thrown into one, in Charles-street,
Drury-lane, wherein clean and proper accommodation is found for 80
working men.
3. The Model Lodging-house, for single men, built expressly ibr
the Society, in George-street, St. Giles's. In this house 104 single
into are provided with separate sleeping apartments, and every other
desirable accommodation, at the oharge of 4d. per night.
All these establishments are full, the rents are regularly paid, and
the inmates are very thankful for the advantages they receiv.i. Tile
number of persons now tenanting the Society's houses is 320, while
in various parts of the country their allotment tenants are 556.
These three undertakings, therefore, while, they return a fair and
adequate rental for the capital laid out, are producing important be-
nefits to the working classes, and are compelling improvement
in
lodging-houses g•eneraly.
But there is a very numerous and important class, for whose be-
nefit great efferts ought to be made. The mechanics and other la-
bourers, occupied in the heart of the metropolis, and having wives
and families, who are compelled to dwell in localities where employ-
ment is to be found, surely demand some consideration.
The Committee desire forthwith to make an earnest attempt to
meet the wants of this interesting and important class of persons.
They at present have in view two sites, in the very centre of the me-
tropolis, either of which would admirably answer the purpose.
They are endeavouring to gain possession of one of them, but it will
be necessary, in order to their effecting this object in a proper and
sufficient manner, that they shorld first raise a sum of 5,0001 or
6,0001., which will obviously be required to erect any building of such
extent as to to serve as a model for future undertakings. Hence a
public appeal must be made, since the whole of the Sociecy's funds
have been exhausted in the completion of the three works above enu-
merated.
The Committee believe that with the Christian public of this coun-
try no further plea need be used than that of the duty and impor-
tance of benefiting the poor, especially with respect to their dwellings.
Still it cannot be out of place to remark, that while measures for the
improvement of the health of the metropolis are urged on every side,
there can be ne measure so effectual for this purpose as that of ex-
changing the wretched abodes, into which the poor are now too often
crowded, for well-planned, well-drained, and properly ventilated ha-
bitations. The Committee believe that this can be done even at a
lower rate of charge for rent than that which the labourer is now
often forced to pay, and they entreat the affluent and the charitable
to give them the means of still further demonstrating this important
fact by actual experiment. It cannot be toe often repeated, that
while our poor are forced, as at present, to crowe together, all ages
d sexes in the same sleeping apartment. the preservation of either
health or morals is rendered all but an impossibility.
The Lord Iladdo £2s 0 0
Rev. H. G. Watkins
J. J. Hensley, Esq.
Sir Jos. Copley, Bart. •
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S. R. Sitwell, Esq.
H. Barnett, Esq. 5 0 0
0. M. Ridley, Esq.
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Miss Scott . .
11. Sykes, Esq
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Sir Richard Sutton, Bart. . • . ..
MM. C. . •_ . • . . . 10 0 0
Mrs. Dumaresq
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Rev. Dr. Bliss
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The Earl Dartmouth
William Gregson, Esq. • • • • 10 0 0
B. P. Garland, Esq. . . . . 5 0
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E. Pigou, Esq. 5 0 0

The Bishop of London • • . . 20 0 0
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J. W. Farer, Esq. . . . . 10 0 0
W. J. Ferrer, Esq. . • . 50 0
It. Hopkinson, Esq, . . . . . 10 0 0
R. Perry, Esq ..... .
J. 0. Harris, Esq. . • . . 2O 0 0
P. Cazenove, Esq. . . . . 55 0
The Lord Stanley 20 0 0
Mrs. Eldon . . . . .
Miss Portal
Earl of Barn:why
Anonymous, per Messrs. Hoare .
W. Davison, Esq. . • . .
A. Mackenzie, Esq. . . . .
W. J. Denison. Esq., M.P. . .
The Earl of Verulam
Sir J. C. Hippesley, Bart. . . .
F. Gibson, Esq.
The Lord Viscount Downs . •
The Lady Dynevor . , . . • 10 0 0
R. Wilkinson, Esq. • . . .
John Watson, Esq lO 10 0
Messrs. Barclay and Co.
Sir R. T. Wigram, Bart. • • • • 10 0 0
Lord Dudley Stuart • • .
Misses Jeffrey
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Edw. Penrilyn, Esq.
bliss Scott . .
A Lady, per Hatchards • • . • 20 0
W. A. I{ew, Esq.
W. F. G. Farmer, Esq. • • •
N. Heathcote, Esq 2 0 0
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J. H. Phillips, Esq
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Rev. J. Ware
Ditto
Mr. and Miss Copeland . • .
W. Peek, Esq.
Lord Blantyre
H. Treacher, Esq.
G., per Messrs. Hatchards . .
Rev. Dr. Eller:on
Lady C. Fitzroy
C. Sayer, Esq.
W. Beckford, Esq.
W. Harding, Esq.
J. Jackson, Esq.
Mrs. E. Dcverell
H. B. Hickman, Esq. . . .
R. Aldridge, Esq. . . • .
John Baring, Esq.
The Lord Radstock . . . .
Right Hon. Earl BrownloW . . •10 0 0
C. Cochrane, Esq. • • • • • 55 0
Captain Cuttle . • . . • • 5 0 0
Mrs. M'Brtde . . • • • • 50 0
Captain the Hen. Pelham . • . . 5 0 0
Mrs. Hughman • . • • . • 5 0 0
N. S. Thompson, Esq. • • • • 5 5 0
Sir H. Martin, Bart. . . • . . 3 0 0
W. Dugmore, Esq. . . • • . 50 0
J. Phelps, Esq ..... .
Higford Burr, Esq 5 0 0
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C. F. V. X. . . . . . .
Hon. 511,,s Vernon . • . . . 20 0
R. E., per Messrs. Williams and Co. . . 5 0 0
P. B. Duncan, Esq lO 0 0
20 0 0
Rev. F. Bevan
Mr. Justice Erie . . . .
Lady Erie
Right lion. Lord Crowo . . .
Admiral Sir George Munday, Bart. .
W. W. Martin, Esq. . . .
Mrs. Hough • . . . .
Major APFarlane . . . .
C. W. W. ......
William Peek, Esq., . . .
M. N. S. ......
It. A. Slaney, Esq. . . . .

Donations for the proposed " Model Lodging-house for Families"
win be received at the banking-house of Messrs. Williams, Deacon
and Co. ; Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co. ; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar
and Co. ; and Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; also by Messrs. Hatchards,
Piccadilly ; Messrs. Seeley, Fleet-street, and Hanover-street ; and
Messrs. Nisbet, Berners-street ; or by the Secretary, 21, Exeter-hall.

pU BL I C ANNOUNCEMENT
From the " Hull Advertiser of FCIDAT, /Miami 24, 1848.
We have this week to announce an entire change in the Proprie-
torship of the " Hull Advertiser." Mr. William Bettison, the last
of a spirited Reform Proprietary, dating from the era of the Re-
form Bill, ceased to have any pecuniary interest in this Journal
from the first day of March instant. This event, utmally.so important in
the social and political life of a community, involves in the future
conducting of this Paper no change of persons; no modification of
political principles; ne fresh combination of party associations.
The late Proprietor had nothing more at heart than that the " Hull
Advertiser " should always be found the faithful and fearless advo-
cate of liberal opinicns; and the hands to which he has entrusted it
have never penned a sentence which a Fox, a Grea , a Hominy, a
Mackintosh, or a Cobden could have objected to as favouring mono-
poly in trade, inhumanity in law, bigotry in religion, or corruption
in Parliament. Ile who was the Editor for the last sax years, and
who, during the whole of that time, was guided In his treatment of
all public questions by the free mid undisputed exercise of his own
unfettered judgment, is stil Editor, and one of the two Proprietors
to whom the Paper now belongs. The other has for some years
conducted the pecuniary business of the office, and will continue to
confine himself to what the Chancellor of the Exchequer would call
" the Ways and Means " department—an important one in a news-
paper office as well as in a Royal Cabinet. To the general reader,
therefore, there will be little at first betides the imprint to remind
him of a change which has been forced on the late proprietor by
the necessity of extending his regular trade as a brewer. The most
satisfactory way of placing this before the public will be to quote
the following letter from Mr. Bettison to the Editor:—
"
18. Charlotte-street, Hull, March 21, 1843.
"My Dear Sir,—lt will gratify a very natural degree of public
curiosity, and relieve me from more personal questionings than I
have time to attend to, if you can make it convenient to announce
this week that I am no longer proprietor of the ' Hull Advertiser,'
and that the sole proprietorship of the paper is now vested in your-
self and Mr. Marling.
" When, many years ago, I became one of several proprietors,
and in 1844, the sole proprietor of the Hull Advertiser,' I made tlf,
my mind never to part with it, unless to some one as strongly devo-
ted to the support of true Reform principles as I was myself. The
management of newspaper property was far from being as congenial
to my habits as the business of a brewer, which I inherited from my
father ; but I looked upon the Advertiser' as a public trust, which
I felt bound only to deliver to one capable of carrying -out the ob-
jects for which it was first purchased for the Reform party. For six
years you have been its uncontrolled, irresponsible Editor. By the
fearless and able exercise of your talents and your industry, you
have obtained for it a larger circulation, and a more commanding
influence than it ever possessed before ; and such is my unbounded
confidence in your personal and political integrity, that I believe
that I cannot perform a greater service to the Liberal cause than by
committing the chief organ of the Liberal party in the East Riding
of Yorkshire permanently to your management and direction. You
have made the paper a good property, and one with which I should
be very loath now to part, but that there is a necessity for very
greatly extending my brewing business. Illy son Samuel, as you
know, Ms-become my partner in that iinsiness, and it requires that
all our emerges should be employed in carrying It on with spirit.
This is sewage of :competition, in which to do one thing well is enough
for one establishment.
" In Mr. Marling yon have a-trustworthy col'eague, and a safe
man of business. During his management of the affairs of the Ad-
vertiser office he possessed, and proveit himself deserving of pos-
sessing, all my confidence. You know his worth, and how to appre-
ciate it at its true value.
" And now, my dear Sir, in severing my connexion as proprietor
with the' Hull Advertiser,' it is my earnest wish, as it is that of
all my family, that the friendly and affectionate intercourse which
has subsisted between us, without an hour's Interruption, since the
day of your first appearance in Hull, may be continued on the old
footing. You can hardly represent yourself as less free from all poli-
tical influence, on my part, than you ever were. Let us then retain
Ike old intimacy so gratifying to us all. Yourself and Mr. Marling
have the sincerest wishes of my heart for your joint success in an
undertaking, in which it would be hard to find two men mere compe-
tent for ttrir respective parts. Indeed, I know that your labours
must be crowned with success, if merit meets with its due reward.
"I am; my. ear Sir,
"Yours very affectionately.
" WILLIAM BETTISON.

" E. F. Collins, Esq."
This letter is all that we could wish—all that the public can rea-
sonably desire in the way of explana.lon of a change, which will not
be felt either in the political tone or in the general management of
the "Hull Advertiser." The new Proprietors have few professions
to make, and are content to rest their success on the extent and flde-
lity of their endeavours to deserve it. One promise the editor may
make to the prop's. The " Hull Advertiser" will never, under his
management, be the tool of any party, or the organ of any clique or
faction --political or religious. It will never be found supporting
corrupt and ambitious men at the expense of great and enlightened
principles ; nor attocking the foundations of law and order to court
an ephemeral popularity. Not that we wish the shadow of doubt to
be felt as to our political principles. We are Liberals In the most
general interpretation of that term. We are the advocates of Free-
Trade—Church Reform—Law Reform—the supporters of an ex-
tended Electoral Franchise—of the abolition of the Navigation-
Laws—the University Tests—the mockery of Official Swearing—
Capital Punishments—and for the substitution of Peace for Military
principles in the "goNernment and control of all the nations of the
earth. We are strongly in favour of a system of National Educa-
tion, and look upon the schoolmaster as the great regenerator of our
social system.
It will be our peculiar study and our greatest pleasure to co-ope-
rate with every movement having for its object the improvement of
the social and physical condition of the people among whom this
journal more especially circulates. Local reforms are, after all, the
things which should chiefly occupy the constant attention of a pro-
vincial press. And here we hope to be well supported by our con-
temporaries of every shape of opinion. We have no jealousy of rival
newspapers, and do not propose to ourselves the employment of any
means to diminish their profits, or curtail their circulation. We can
speak of the success which has attended our own labours without
directly or indirectly implying a want of success on the part of our
contemporaries. The great mission of a free press is not (ulna by
the traduction of rival journals, or the vituperative railings and
counter-railings of the organs of adverse opinions. The press, as a
great intellectual institution, owes a respect to itself Inconsistent
with those coarse bickcrings which are never popular but in a semi-
barbarous state of society.
We trust to be pardoned for observing that henceforth all our in-
terests are mixed up with the prosperity of Hull. In assuming the
proprietorship of this paper, we have aimed as much at making our
residence in Yorkshire a permanent one, as in obtaining an organ
wherewith to effect some social and political good in our generation.
We are happy to say that it would require no increase of our present
circulation to make the engagement upon which 'a e have entered a
profitable one. To stand still would be to obtain a remunerative
share of success. But, with the blessing of God, we are not destined
to enter upon what, hi this ever-advancing world, should be con-
sidered as a retrograde course. We have arrangements in contem-
plation, which, when completed, will place us in an advanced posi-
tion as regards our most enterprising provincial contemporaries.
Wherever lurking genius is to be found, it will be our, peculiar care
to draw it forth, and to enrich the world with its. hidden treasures.
There is a great abundance of unemployed intellectual
wealth in Hull, for which we hope some day to find profitable in-
vestment. There is also a vast amount of moral and social evil to
be remedied, not entirely beyond the reach of newspaper influence.
In the way of sanitary reform there is more to be done than would
suffice to constitute the twelve labours of Hercules. With these
views, and with an earnest determination to do all in our power to
redress the real grievances of every
class and party of our fellow-
townsmen, we enter upon _the more extended sphere of our public
duties. We ask from all extensive support, and generous sympathy
and encouragement.

The " null Advertiser" is most extensively circulated in Hull, the
East Riding of Yorkshire, and North Lincolnshire, and is therefore
an excellent Advertising Medium for professional gentlemen, agrl-
culturis's, auctioneers, commercial agents, kc.
It it published for the proprietors, Edward Francis Collins and
N.B.—l'osting Bills, Hand Bills, Circulars,
John Marling, early every Friday morning, at the office, 26, Low-
gate, Hull, where all communications, orders for papers, advertise-
ments, &c., are respectfully requested to be sent.
and every description
of Printing, executed With the greatest neatness and dispatch.