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mint, without such industrial improvements, submit to pay hither
prices for food, consequent upon numbers having, to be supported in
idlem ss out of the general stock. That the tendency of the means
adopted by the Patriotic Society is to effect these improvements, is
beyon I all question, and it sollcits the Investigation o:' the intelli-
gent community, the principles involved. mot 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.
II promote the field garden system ;to improve 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 scnools, were needed.
IT. To give gratuitous information to parties desirous of eini-
grathr,!.
V. To promote the extension of the fisheries and the safety and
welfare of those employed in them.
VI. To promote the establishment of District Loan Funds for as-
sisting the industrious under temporary difficulties.
VII. To seek the cultivation of provident 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 respecting the actual position and difficulties of the lower
classes, and of suggestions and facts demonstrating the various
means of improving their circumstances.
111. The publication of occasional hand sheets, in English and in
Gaelic, containing advice suited to the circumstances of the various
classes whose improvement is desired.
AIEMLIERSHIP.
An annual subscription of 55., or a donation of one pound, con-
stitutes a member of the General 'on-mince. Au annual subscrip-
tion of lis. c-titles 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. MACKENZIE, Esq , M.D., Inverness.
TREASURER,
W. CAMPBELL, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh.
SECR ETARY,
Mr. C. BOND, Edinburgh.
" THE INDUSTRIAL MAGAZINE" of the Society is published
moat` ly, in addition to which, hand sheets in English and Gaelic,
on Croft and Garden Cultivation; and Facts about District and
household Cleanliness, may be obtained at the office of the Society,
and of the publishers, M'Lachlan, Stewart, and Co., Edinburgh ;
Messrs. Bigg, 53, Parliament-street, London ; and M'Leod, Argyle-
street, Glasgow.
DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS.
tier Majesty th,3 Queen and his Royal highness Prince Albert, a
Dmation of 100/.
An Annual Subscription of Is., or a Donation of U., constitutes
a Member of General Committee.
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Abercromby, Sir R., Bart., of Forglca _ft 0 0
Aberdeen, Bight Hon. Earl . . 20 0 0 • •
Alison, Alex., Esq., of l'itcon . 210 0 •
Alison, Dr., Edinburgh . • .. 11 0
Alison. A., Esq., Sheriff of Lanarkshire '
Anderson, Lady, Edinburgh . . 0 0 ..
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Bafilie, H. J., Esq., M.P. for Inverness-shire .. 1 0 0
Bell, John, Esq., London . . . . 1 0 0 ..
Itlgg, James, Esq., London • • • .. 1 1 0
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Campbell, Mrs. W. •• 6 5 0
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Fortes, Charles, Esq., of Asloun . . 5 0 0 1 1 0
Forbes, Rev. J., Gaelic Missionary, Edin. • 1 0 0 • •
Forbes, Alex., Esq., Inverness . . . • • 0 10 0
Findlay, John, Esq., ii:asterhill, Glasgow . 5 0 8 • •
Fairborn, J., Governor, Heriot's Hospital . -• 0 5 0
(PIM, H. M., Esq., Royal Hotel, Edinburgh .. 1 1 0
Gillis, Right Rev. Bishop . . . . I 1 0
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Grey, Rev. Dr. Ilerry, Edinburgh . . 1 0 0 1 0 0
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Mule, Richard, Esq., M.D. . . . 1 0 0 ••
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Malcomson, James, Esq., London . . 5 5 0 5 5 0
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Matheson, A., Esq , of Ardross . . . 10 .1 0
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MODEL LODGING-HOUSE for FAMILIES.
Society fur the Improvement of the Condition of the Labour-
ing ci,sses.
Uuder the Patronage of her Most gracious Majecty the QUEER, And

her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER.
Royal litglinc,s Prince ALBERT, K.G., &o.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
The Duke of Manchester.
The ‘I arquis of Northampton.
The 31ariptis of Bristol.
The Earl of Erne.
The Earl of llarrowby.
The Earl of Verelam.
The Earl of El !on.
The Earl of Effingham.
The Lord John Russell, M.P.
The Viscount Barrington. M.P.
The Viscount Morpeth, M.P.
The Lord Ashley, M.P.
The Viscount Ehrington, M.P.
Lord henry Cholruondeley.
Lod Robert Grosvenor, M.P.
The Bishop of London.
The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
The Bishop of Norwich.
The Right. Hon. Lord Kenyon.
The flight lion. Lord Calthorpe.
The flight Hon. Lord Rayleigh. -
The Lord Skelmersdale.
The Right Hon. Lord Leigh.
The Lord Teignmouth.
The lien. henry Ashley.
The lion. W. F. Cowper, M.P.
Capt. the lion. D. Pelham, R.N.
Sir William T. Pole, Bart.
Sir Ittooke W. Bridges, Bart,
Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart.
Sir Thweas Baring, Bart.
Sir Arthur de Capel Brooke, Bart.
Sir Thomas BlomMeld, 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. li. H. Foley, Esq , M.P.
W. A. Mackinnon, Esq., M.P.
IV. Miles, Esq., M.P.
R. Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., M.P.
John C. Colquheun, Esq., M.P.
John Hardy, Esq.
COMMITTHE.
The Lord ASHLEY, M.P., Chairman.
And Tw-nty-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 dwellings for the labouring poor, is now desirous of
commencing a new attempt, of, it nay be hoped, a still more inmor-
ant character.
Its past operations have been as follows :-
1. A range of cottages, on a site where cottages only were admis-
sible, called Model Buildings, in Itagnigge•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 for
the Society, in George-street, St. Giles's. In this house 104 single
men are provided with separate sleeping apartments, and every other
desirable accommodation, at the charge of 4d. per night.
All these establishments are full, the rents are regularls paid, and
the inmates are very thankful for t. a advantages they receive. The
number of persons nosy tenanting the Society's houses is 320, while
in various parts of the coantry their allotment tenants are 556.
These throe 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 generally.
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 Minn!, 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 endeavoering to gain possession of one of them, but it will
be necessary, in order to their effecting this object In a proper and
Auflielent manner, that they shothi first raise a sum of 5,0001 or
6,000/., 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 ot 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 her 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 pny, and they entreat the affluent and the charitable
t.) give them the means of still further demonstrating this important
fact by aetual experiment. It cannot be too often repeated, that
while our poor are forced, as at present, to crowd together, all ages
d health sex
or es in the game sleeping apartment, the preservation of either
morals is rendered all but an impossibility.
The Lord Haddo . • . . £25 0 0
5 0 0
Rev. H. G. Watkins • • • • •
5 0
J. J. Hensley, Esq
10 0 0
Sir Jos. Copley, Bart. . .
2 0 0
J. F
S. It. Sitwell, Esq.
5 0 0
H. Barnett, Esq.
0. M. Ridley, Esq.
2 0 0
Miss Scott
H. Sykes, Esq.
Sir Richard Sutton, Bart. . . • • 10 0 0
. 10 0 0
Mrs. Dumaresq
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Rev. Dr. Bliss ..... 2 0 0
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P. It.
The Earl Dartmouth
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William Gregson, Esq. . . . • 0
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E. P. Garland, Esq.
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E. Pigott, Esq. . • • . .
The Bishop of London . . . • 20 0 0
Mich. Faraday, Esq. . . . • . 5 0 0
J. W. Parer, Esq. . . . 10 0 0
W. J. Ferrer, Esq. . • . . 5 0 0
It. Hopkinson, Esq
R. Perry, Esq. . • • . . . 5 0 0
J. 0. Harris, Esq. . . . . . 0 0
P. Cazenove, Esq. . . • . 5 5 0
The Lord Stanley • . • 20 0 0
Mrs. Elsden . . . . . • 20 0 0
Miss Portal
Earl of Ilitrrowby . . . . • 10 (5 0
Anonymous, per Messrs. Hoare 50 0 0
W. Davison, Esq. • • . 10 10 0
A. Mackenzie, Esq. . • . . . 10 0 9
W. J. Denison. Esq., M.P. . .
The Earl of Verulam lO 0 0
Sir J. C. Ilippesley, Bart. . • .
F. Gibson, Esq.
10 0 0
The Lord Viscount Dovrne • . -
The Lady Dynevor . , • . • 10 0
It. Wilkinson, Esq. • • . . . 5 0 0
John Watson, Esq.
Messrs. Barcisy and Co.
Sir It. T. Wigram, Bart.
Lord Dudley Stuart . • .
Misses Jeffrey • • . • • • 2 0 0
5 0 9
Edw. Penrhyn, Esq. . • • • •
5 0 0
Miss Scott . • • • • • •
A Lady, per liatchards • • • • 2 0 0
W. A. Hew, Esq. . . • • • 5 0 0
W. F. G. Farmer, Esq. • • • • 5
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N. Ileathcote. Esq. • • . • . 2 0
J. H. Phillips, Esq. . . . . . 0 0
M. L. H. ..... . . 5 0 0
Re,. J. Ware . . 10 0 0
Ditto ..... . . . 10 0 0
Mr. and Miss Copeland . • . . 2 0 9
W. Peek, Esq. . . . . . • 10 10 0
Lord Blantyre . . . . . . 1 0 0
11. Trencher, Esq. • . • • . 2 0 0
G., per Messrs. Hatchards • . . 10 0 0
Rev. Dr. Eller:on • . . 30 0 0
Lady C. Fitzroy • . • . 2 0 0
C. Sayer, Esq. . • • • • • 3 0 0
W. Becktord, Esq. • • . • . 3 0 0
W. Harding, Esq. . . . • . 2 0 0
J. Jackson, Esq. . . . . 5 0 0
Mrs. E. Deverell . . . . . 5 0 0
H. B. Hickman, Esq. 5 0 0
R. Aldridge, Esq. . • . . .5 0 0
John Baring, Esq. • • • • . 20 0 0
The Lord Radstock . . . . . 10 0 0
Right Hon. Earl Brownlow . . . 10 0 0
C. Cochrane, Seq. . . • • . 5 5 0
Captain Cuttle 5 0 0
Mrs. 111`Bride
Captain the Hon. Pelham . • .
Mrs. Hughinan . • • . .
N. S. Thompson, Esq. . . . • 5 5 0 1
Sir H. Martin, Bart. 3 0 0
5 0 0
W. Dugmore, Esq.
5 0 0
J. Phelps, Esq.
Higford Burr, Esq. . . . . 0 0
C. F. V. X.
lion. Mi,s Vernon
H. E., per Messrs. Williams and Co. .
P. It. Duncan, Esq.
20 0 0
Rev. F. Bevan
Mr. Justice Erle
Lady Erie . . • . . . 5 0 0
Right Hon. Lord Crowe . • . . 10 0 0
Admiral Sir George Munday, Bart. . . 10 0 0
W. W. Martin, Esq. • . . . 3 0 0
Mrs. Dough 0 0
2 2 0
Major aPlarlane
C. W. W ..... . . . 10 0 0
William Peek, Esq., jun 3 0 0
M. N. S. . • • . . . . 2 0 0
H. A. Slaney, Esq. . • . . . 5 S 0
Donations for the propseed " Model Lodging•house for Families"
will he received at the banking-house of Messrs. Williams, Deacon
and Co. ; Messrs. Straiten, Paul, and Co ; Messrs. lierriee, Farquhar
and Co. ; and Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; also by Messrs. Hatchards,
Piccadilly ; Messrs. Seeley, Fleet-street, awl Hanover-street ; and
Messrs. Nisbet, Berners-street ; or by the Secretary, 21, Exeter-hall.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
From the " Hull Advertiser" of FRIDAY, MARCH 11' 1845,
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, usually's° linportant 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 ; no fresh combination of party associations.
The late Proprietor had nothing more at heart than that the " Hull
Advertiser " should always Ise found the faithful and fearless advo-
cate of liberal opinions; and the hands to which he has entrusted it
have never penned a sentence which a Fox, a Grey, a Romilly, a
Mazkintosh, or a Cobden could have objected to as favouring mono-
poly In trade, inhumanity in law, bigotry in religion, or corruption
in Parliament. Be who was the Editor for the last six years, and
who, during. the whole of that time, was guided is his treatment of
all public questions by the free and undisputed exercise of his own
unfettered judgment, is st1:1 Editor, and one of the two Proprietors
t ) wh en the Paper now belongs. The other has for acme yet.
conducted the pecuniary bushiest of the office, and will continue to
confine himself to what the Chancellor of the Exchequer would call
" the Ways and Means " department—ac important one in 4 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 ;timed on the late Proprietor by
the necessity of extending his regular trade as s brewer. The most
satisfactory way of placing this before the puitlic will be to quote
the following letter front Mr. Betti-oft to the Editor:
" 18, Charlotte-street, Hull, March 21,
.I.BiB.
"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 ' Ilull Advertiser,
and that the sole proprietorship of the paper Is now vested In your-
self and Mr. Marling.
" when, many years ace, I became one of several proprietors,
and in 1844, the sole proprietor of the
Hull Advertiser, I made up
iny 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 busine^s of a brewer, wh"ch I inherited ft ,m my
father ; but I looked upon the ' Advertiser' as a public trust, which
felt bound only to deliver to one capable of carrying out the
party. For six
ob-
jects for which it was first purchased for the Reform '
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 shame 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. My son Samuel, as you
know, has become my partner in that business, and It requires that
all our energies should be employed in carrying it on with spirit.
This Is an age of competition, in which to do one thing well is enough
for one establishment.
" In Mr. Marling you have a trustworthy colleague, and a safe
man of business. During his management of the affairs of the Ad-
vertiser ethos he possessed, and proved 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 earliest 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 llull, may be continued on the •Id
foothig. You can hardly represent yourself as less free from all poli-
tical influence, on my part, than you ever were. Let us than retain
the old intimacy so gratifying to us all. ]'ourself 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 more compe-
tent for their respective parts. Indeed, I know that your labours
must be erowned with success, if merit meets with its due reward.
"I ant, my dear Sir,
Tours very affectionately,
" WILLIAM ItETTISO.N.

" 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. ion of a ehange, 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 thei- success on the extent and Ade-
lity of their endeavours to deserve it. One promise the editor may
make to the people. Tke " 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 wil, never be found supporting
corrupt and ambitions men at the expense of great and enlightened
principles ; nor att-eking the foundations of law and order to court
an ephemeral popularity. Not that we wish the shadow of doubt to
the Navigation-
Laws Swearing—
filcial
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 en-
tre,
anmdes Electoralthe u nes ty
iV F rar cihel:te—os
Tests--o—the
then
Capital Punishments—and for the substitution of Peace for Military
principles in the 'government and control of all the nations of the
earth. We are strongly in favour of a system of National Educe
,oachkoelrlytioonf
tion. and look upon the schoolmaster as the great regenerator of our
social system.
It will be our peculiar study and our grcalest 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 ehisfly 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 cart of our
contemporaries. The great mission of a free press is not fulfilled 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 bickerings 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
circitiation to make the engagement upon which we have entered a
profitable one. To stand still would be to obtain a remunerative
share of success. But, with the blessing of God, we aro not destined
to enter upon what, in 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 Mum!, 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 dar 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 snore to be done than would
suffice to constitute the twelve labour* of Hercules. With these
views, and with an earnest determination to do all in our power to
redress the real grievan es of every class and party of our fellow-
townsmen, we enter upon the more extended sphere et' our public
duties. We ask from all extens ve support, and generous sympathy
and encouragement.

The " Hull Advertiser" is most extensively circulated iii Bull, the
East Riding of Yorkshire, and North Lincolnshire, and is
an excellent Advertising Medium for professional gentlemen, agri-
eulturisls, auctioneers, conatnerelal agents, &c.
It It published for the proprietors, Edward Francis Collins and
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 he sent.
deieriptiou
of Printing, executed with the greatest neatness, and therefore
N.lt.—Posting Hills, lland Bills, Circulars and every
dispatch.