The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-15 00:00:00

The Industrial Dwellings Movement.

Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of the company,
of which Mr. Alderman Waterlow is chairman, and
the object of which is the erection from time to
time, wherever suitable sites can be procured in the
metropolis, of blocks or ranges of comfortable and
commodious dwellings, and at easy rents, for arti-
sans and other working men; was held at the Man-
sion-house. There was a very numerous attendance,
the enterprise having from the first been popular,
and now still more than ever, both on philanthropic
grounds and as a safe and profitable investment for
capital. Mr. Alderman Waterlow occupied the
chair, and there were present, among others, Mr.
Goschen, M.P., Mr. Russell Gurney, M.P., Re-
corder of London, Sir Charles Fox, Mr. George
Moore, Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. Alderman Finnis,
Mr. Alderman Stone, Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-
Judge, the Hon. Auberon Herbert, Mr. Walter
Morrison, M.P., Mr. Henry Edwards, Mr. John
Holms, Mr. Travers Buxton, Mr. Hare, and Major
Menara. The report of the directors stated that
the nominal capital of the company had been in.-
creased to £250,000, and that £22,000 had been
allotted since the previous meeting. The buildings
had not been increased, butsix blocks containing 168
tenements were about to be begun at Bagnigge-
wells. Arrangements fur the acquisition of addi-
tional sites were being pressed forward, and the
directors were willing to treat with owners of lands
in populous neighbourhoods. No advance upon
loan from Public Works Commissioners had yet
been obtained, but it was expected that on the com-
pletion of arrangements by the Lords of the Trea-
sury the company's capital would be supplemented
by loans upon mortgage of its present building to
the extent of £60,000. The greater part of the
tenements at Palmerston buildings were not com-
pleted and ready for liabi:.ation until September
last, and the whole of the paid-up capital had not
been concerned in earning the revenue of the half-
, year ; but it was recommended that the usual divi-
dend at the rate of 5 per cent. should be paid out of
the balance of £1,440 standing to the credit of the
.revenue account on closing the books. The direc-
tors had to congratulate themselves and the com-
pany upon the fact that Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-
Judge ; Mr. C. J. Freake, of South Kensington ;
and Mr. Goschen, M.P.,
had joined their board, and
recommended the retiring directors, Mr. Alderman
Finnis, Mr. George Moore, and Mr. Alderman
Stone, for re-election, and also the honorary
auditor, Mr. William Turquand. The directors
express their emphatic conviction that the work in
which the company is engaged is a feasible
method of dealing with the evils arising from over-
crowded and unhealthy dwellings, and increasing
experience in,lnc;:s theta to strongly reiterate the
statements they made in the prospectus, in which
they recommended the enterprise to the notice of
the public—" not merely on the groand of its useful-
ness, but also on account of its being a safe and
profitable investment." They point out that "in a
crowded metropolis such as this good substantial
houses for the use of the most numerous class of its

inhabitants must always be in demand," and, mcre-
over, the funds of the company are invested upon
securities not subject to depreciation ; and its ope-
rations are so simple in their nature that without

, the necessity of scientific or skilled knowledge the
shareholders can easily estimate the efficiency with
which their affairs are conducted. The chairman, in
moving the adoption of the report, stated that such
was the confidence inspired by the company that
an appeal to the public for additional capital to carry
out its important objects still further had resulted in
the receipt of ill 8,000 upto ChrLttnas, and in nearly
£6,000 more since that time. Much of that would
be absorbed in the erection of six new blocks in Bag-
Digge-wtils, about to be commenced, at an estimated
cost of about £20,000. The company were about to
erect two blocks at Greenwich, which would cost
about £5,000. He wanted the public to know that the
company could go still faster, but that they must
have the capital if they are to do the work well. He
had the fullest confidence that the present Adminis-
tration would eventually carry out Mr. Childers's
Act, empowering the Government to lend money at
an easy rate of interest for the erection of dwellings
such as those built or contemplated by this com-
pany ; but the difficulty was to get the Government
to move fast enough. He referred to the difficulty.
of finding suitable sites, and to the obstacles thrown
in the way of the company, after they had arranged
with the freeholder, by small under-tenants, who
asked fabulous prices for their little ricketty tene- ,
uhmts, and he looked forward to the time when
companies like this would be invested with cornpul-
sory powers, such as belonged to railway companies;
for dealing with obstructions of that kind. The
motion for adopting the report was seconded by Mr.
Henry Edwards, the deputy chairman. Mr. Samuel
Morley expressed the growing conviction at which
they had arrived that the object they had in view of
erecting suitable buildings for the working classes,
and which they had already carried out, so far as
they hail gone, with unvarying success and sati,fac
tion, was eventually attainable on a very large scale,
and that it afforded a safe investment for capitaland
eu2
at a good interest. He begau by investing,ooo
in the undertaking, and that he had lately increased
to £5,000. He had no faith in Governments doing
a work of that kind. The application made by the
company iri August last for a loan under Mr. Chil-
ders's Act hail never yet received a definite reply.
That was the way "how not to do it." He kit con-
vinced that capitalists mightiittrivietshte
cermoneytaiu certainty of ae
undertaking of the company w
fair return. •

The report and accompanying statement of ac-
counts were then adopted. The chairman stated, in
reply to Mr. Riviugton, that the lowest rent for two
rooms in any of their blocks was 4s. 6d. a week.
Mr. Goschen, M.P., rimed a rosolution authorising
the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
for the half-year ending December last on the paid-
up capital of the company. He had joined the corn-

Pally, he said, not because he th
that he could render would be
well that the interests of the shal
well cared .forly Mr. Alderman ,
rest of the directors, but because the company was
not only a private but a great public ipterest ; and
the more people were satisfied that the scheme would
pay commercially and that is admitted of great ex-
pansion, the more easily would they solve the great
problem of how their labourers were to be accom-
modated in London. After three years' experience
the company paid 5 per cent., and that interest had
..from the beginning been scrupulously raid oat of
revenue alone. lie had gone carefuly over uhe ac-
counts, and found them most satisfactory. Ile had
no doubt that the company would advance from 5
to 6 per cent., and posibly a fraction beyond that,
and still leave a considerable margin. They ex-
pected to obtain a loan of £50,0U0 or £60,000 frau
the Government on easy terms, and the effect of. . that would be toincrease the di videndpayable among
the shateholders very considerably. Mr. Cl-oschett
then gave a graphic account of the contrast in com-
fort and in every other respect presented by the
Stanley block of buildings erected by the company
at King's-cross to the wretched dwellings occupied
by the poorer classes in the surrounding neighbour,
hood as he had witnessed himself. He trusted that
a larger amount of capital would be attracted, so
that the good work might be carried on. The re-
solution was seconded by Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-
Judge, and carried unanimously. On the motion
of Mr. Russell Gurney, Mr. Alderman Fiunis, Mr.
George Moore, and Mr. Alderman Stone, the re-
tiring directors of the company, were •re-elected.
The meeting was also addressed by Sir Charles
Fox, Mr. Alderman Finnis, the llon. Mr. Hobart,
Mr. Walter Morrison, M.P., Mr. V. Foster, and
Mr. A. J. Williams, and a very cordial vote of
thanks was passed to the chairman, directors, and
officers in recognition of their services.

Royal College of Surgeons of Eng'and.

The flunterian Oration, now bienniallpdelivered
in the large and commodioui theatre of the above
institution, was yesterday given by Professor IEI-
- F.lt.S., the senior vice-president-of the college,
before an unusually large number of the elite of the
learned professions, that of the surgical of course
predominating. The orator commenced by stating
that one of the signs by which the intellectual pro-
gress of nations might be measured was to be found in
their just appreciation of those of their countrymen,
jilst and present, who had given evidence of unusual
mental endownment. It had, however, commonly
happened that a new line of thought, or the opening
up of a new track of mental or philosophical inquiry,
had escaped the attention, or even excited the op-
position of contemporary thinkers, seeminglybecause
their minds were preoccupied in the elaboration of
ideas antecedently suggested. He then proceeded
to inquire into the reason why the appreciation of
philosophical knowledge should have been so promi-
nent a feature of one age, and so utterly lost sight
of in another, and added that necessarily the ages
of strife could not nurture philosophy, inter belly
cedunt arks, furnished the one prominent cause for
the indifference to mental culture in many epochs (
the world's history, but careful consideration would
elicit causes other than those of the sword and the
battle-field for the different capacity necessary to
the intellectual appreciation of contemporary labour
at different periods of time. He then took a rapid
but analytical review of the great men who flourished
during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and how
greatly their merits were appreciated in comparison
with those of the present day, and instanced Hun-
ter, as a marked illustration of this defective esti-
mation by contemporaries. Two suceedin g genera-
tions had, however, done much to atone for the in-

difference of his own, and added that it would be
difficult to find another instance in which so large a
weed of posthumous fame has been, as it were, ex-
tracted from the dry bones which had been be-
queathed, although the minds of the professional
men of his day appeared to have failed in measuring
the extent and depth of the great truths which he
had enunciated, or in appreciating the value of those

which he was then elaborating. The progressive
knowledge of several succeeding years appeared to
have beenn-necess try to evoke the earlitzt public at-
tempt to establish the true relation which his mar-
velous labours bore to the development of science.
The period of Hunter's most zealous labours—the

latt..T portion of the eighteenth century—was
marked by the limited application of mental ac-
tivity to the cultivation of science. The mind of

the nation appeared solely directed to the
cultivation of the high statesmanship requi-
site to contend with the grave and startling
political events of the European and the American
continents. Hunter was at this period labouring
patiently and perseveringly, but alone, with a saga-
cious and primitive simplicity. He was reading
nature's facts, as exhibited in the organised world,
with a zeal unexampled, an industry scarcely ever
surpassed, questioning her in her own language,
and, slowly understanding her tardy, and, often-

times to him, obscure responses. Mr. Hilton then
entered into the early history of Hunter, his
struggles, &c., until the latter were surmounted, and
he appeared the accomplished surgeon ; and added
that a re-perusal of Hunter's works excited his
amazement at the extent to which our surgery of the
present day was guided by his comprehensive teach-
ings. The learned orator then occupied some time
in reviewing the great works of Hunter, with which
the profession is now so well acquainted, and stated

that the museum of the College- of Surgeons con-
tained 10,000 preparations, the work of his own
hands, a striking instance how fascinated he was in
the pursuit of nature. After alluding to the want
of public recognition of the merits of our great sur-
geons, Mr. Hilton concluded by stating that popular
appreciation was matter of small account, that lack
of interest in our labours by professional contem-
poraries ;was hard to bear, that to condemn or damn
with faint praise the honest worker, without taking
eI hi u
ri
Hunter
ronly
nly proved
the facts.
high-
minded
indifference of the philosopher to the
pains to obtain an accurate knowledge of the value
of his discoverie, was still harder; that Hunter had
to endure all this, and right manfully he bore it all,
from his inner conviction that, let the world say what
c anyro produced .impressionl
dii on his it would, no dogmatism, no vague denial, no sneer,
Above all, his conscious love of truth, for truth's
oc
Novi
till d
sake,
zitikmek,
p
petty assaults of ignorance. Mr. Hilton advised his
hearers not to strive for the brittle fame of the
meteor dazzling only for a short time, to be ex-
tinguished for ever.

DANGERS OF " CHIGNONS."—We should be sorry
to say anything that would unnecessarily disturb the
peace of ladies in their compliance with the present re-
markablo fashion of wearing chignora. The custom may
seem very irrational to the male half of mankind, but this
objection would apply to many of the fashions by which
ladies consider that they adorn themselves, and so must
not count for much. A more serious objection, and one
more calculated to have weight with English ladies, has
been started, according to a correspondent of our own, by
a Russian professor, M. Lindemann. According to this
authority, 76 per cent. of the false hair used for chignons
and similar purposes in Russia is infested with a parasite
to which he has given the name of gregarine. The groga-
rinous hair, it is said, is very like other hair in appearance,
but on close inspection little dark-brown knots aro seen at
the free end of the hair, and may even bo distinguished
by the naked eye. These are gregarines. These parasites
have a most ignoble ancestry and habitation, being found
in the interior of the pediculus capitis. It is only due to
thein, however, that those statements should be verified
by -other observers before we give all the particulars of
their natural history. They are not easily destroyel They
resist the effects of drying, and even of boiling. Acids,
alkalies, ether, and other agents would kill them ; but these
would be injurious to the hair, and so cannot be used.
According to the authority quoted, in the conditionsl ofb a
ballroom the gregarines "revive, grow, and multiply by
dividing into many parts—so-called germ-globules; these
fly
hun-
dredsrefreshments— in fact, enter the interior of people
.yd
fly about the ballroom in millions, get inhaled,
specific gregarmn e-
of ways, and thus reach their
of all this
for the truth
drop on the
vnloprn on t."
;robtidotzzoetn
natural history
11 ‘be all true. In Russia
themselves is considered,
people, espe-
the hair of them is supplied
by
ydthe
poorervines and the Burlakes
c:ally peasant women of the 3lotrralde
in
it.
" When the
atnhsewnearturtl history of chignons
near the Volga, who do a, large trade
spring,
he perhaps puts a
Burlaho goes out to work in
never takes it off until he
clean shirt on, but he decidedly
"
returns home in autumn." Verily,as the professor argues,
hero is a fine chance for parasites. We must leave the
subject with ladies and naturalists. Half the awful possi-
bilities of the fashion—which
scopist to suggest—would deter men. We cannot so cor-
tainly reckon upon affecting ladies in a matter of fashion.
Mit of 11 false things, one of the most objectionable is false
hair.—The Lancet.

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