The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-07 00:00:00

N°. 17,874, j

IMPROVED DWELLINGS for the POOR
At the present moment, when a day of National Thanks-
giving is appointed, it cannot be out of pace to bring before the
minds of the Christian public some of the efforts which have been
made, and are still making, to remedy the deplorable evils which
endanger both the lives and the morals of the poorer classes of
society.

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The SOCIETY for the IMPROVEMENT of the CONDITION
of the LABOURING CLASSES has now been occupied for mere
than four years past with these objects :
It has built a range of Dwellings for the Industrious Classes, on
sanitary principles, at Bagnig,;e-wells, Gray's Inn-lane. Item
twenty-three families and thirty single women are accommodated.
It has repaired and rendered fit for healthy occupation four houses
In King-street and Charles-street, Drury-lane, wherein 108 working
men are accommodated.

It has built, in Gr2.,rge-street, St. Giles's, a Model Lodging House
for working men, where 104 persons of this class find a comfortable
habitation.
It has repaired and fitted up, at No. 76 , Hatton-garden, a house
for the accommodation of fifty eight females of the working classes.
It is now building. in Streatham-street, Bloomsbury, a range of
dwellings for mechanics and their families, wherein about 40 such
families will find good and healthy habitations.
At Tunbridge Wells it is aiding to raise a series of cottages fo
agricultural labourers, of which six and a lodging-house for single
men are already completed and occupied.

• Besides these various works, it is in constant correspondence with
a great number of benevolent persons in all parts of the kingdom ;
who apply for its aid in the building or Improvement of cottages, or
the setting-out of cottage allotments.
In these various works it has expended, and is expending, more
than Twenty-three Thousand Pounds. For the works now in hand
a further sum of between Three and Four Thousand Pounds is needed ;
towards which the Committee now solicits the contributions of the
benevolent.
The following are the sums already subscribed towards the house
now erecting in Streatham-street :

SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and his Royal

Highness Prince Albert
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager - - 150 0
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent - - - 100 0
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester - - 50 0
The Right Hon. Earl Spencer
Sir Joseph Copley, Bart. - - - 2d donation 110 0
The Right IlonPL&d Feyerohara . - - 100 , p
1.1.-Peto, Esq., M.F. • .' 100' 0
Rev. E. Holland - - 100 0
His Grace the Duke of Bedford - - - - 100 0
Miss Portal - -

Messrs. Barclay and Co
[Cosmos - - -

- 100 0
- 100 0

Abel Smith, Esq.

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Lord Willoughby de Eresby
AFr end, by L Sullivan, Esq.
. Total, to Jan. 1, 1849 - - - - - .46,663 3 6
Donations since received :
W. S., a Tribate for the Thanksgiving Day -XlO 0
Mrs. Blair
Mrs. Lambert Blair
The Rev. Dr. Ellerton
A Friend
R. B. Cooke, Esq.
Major Cruikshank
A., per :Nisbet
Y. T. 4 0
C. Saver, Esq.
A. Palmer, Esq.
A. H. Bradshaw, Esq.
R. C. Kidd, Esq.
W. S. Angell, Esq.
The Dowager Lady Cooper - - - - 10 0
J. E. Denison, Esq., M.P. - - - - 10 0
Rev. J. Ware
Mrs. Charles Pym
Gee. Pearce, Esq.
J. Sperling, Esq.
R. H. V. Walpole, Esq.
R. A. Hornby, Esq.
Viscount Brackley
11. B. Hickman, Esq.
Miss A. M. Cotton
Marquis of Blandford
Rev. Dr. Pacey
J. 0. Harris, Esq.
11. Unwen, Esq.
Rev. Dr. Cotton, Principal of Worcester College 5 0
John Hardy, Esq.
Mr. Hargraves
W, E. Hubbard, Esq. - - - - 5 0
Lieut.-Colonel Seymour - - - - - 5 0
Mrs. [lngham - - - - - - - 20 0
11 ajor Little 1 0
M. 0., one who has read Lord Ashley's Letter
in the " Times" of the 19th ult., as a Thank-
offering of herself and family from the late
Epidemic
Lady Murray - - - - - - - 2 2
W. Jennings, Esq. - - - - - - 10 10
R. Wilkinson, Esq. - - - - - - 5 0
J. Beaufort, Esq. - - - - - - 5 0
Hon. Meuntstuart Elphinstoie - - - 10 0
Miss Ware - . - - - - - 10 0
Edward Strachey, Esq.
Mrs. Dumaresque
Thomas L. Ward - - - - - 10 0
T. H. Bastard, Esq.
E. Gardner, Esq. - - - - - A 5
T. Twining, jun., Esq.
T. 11. Parker, Esq.
C. V.
Mrs. Bird
J J. Smith, Esq.
W. Penny, Esq. - - - - - 5 0
W. Sparkes, Esq.
( hristiatius
B. Smith, Esq.
G. Harding, Esq.
J. C. Hall, Esq.
E. B. Bastard, Esq
Mein'&rs of Rev. Dr. Curaming's Congregation 10 0
W. P Angell, Esq.
Mrs. Scheel
Miss Catherine Stuart
E. W. M. L.

Donations and annual subscriptions will be received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-la,:e ; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar,
and Co., St. James's-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs.
Strahan, Pat , and Co., Tem sle-bar ; and by Hatehards, Piccadilly ;
Seeleys, Fleet-street and Hanover-street ; and Nisbet, Berners-
street ; or by the Secretary, at the Office, 21, Exeter llall.