New-York daily tribune., 1842-08-07


HOME CoLoS1zISG IN ESGLASD.-Now that all
hopes of obtaining the necessaries of life by the
ordinary methods Of industry, in Great Britain,
are at an end the English people are directing
their attention to Home Colonization. A large
association has been formed at Queenswood
daats, and Is in {; most promising condition. A
gentleman who was by no means inclined TO the
plan has visited the Queenswood Association, and
| in his report from which we make the following
extracts, speaks, will be seen, very faveraby OF
it. After describing minutely the estate on which
the colony is founded, and which is under system
of culture superior even to the best managed farms
in England, he says, dined at the general table.
The party all on an equality. To farm la
horers it must be grateful return the spirit of
old English usages, to have a comfortable, orderly,
and abundant meal Such an arrangement must
speak in an inviting language to many in these
hard times of high prices low wages, nothing to
do, and distinction of caste condition.
Speaking of the mansion house, he says, " The
kitchen Is a very large apartment, free from all in
reference by smell or otherwise with the lodging
apartments, fitted up with an excellent cooking ap-
paratus complete scale and improved plan /;
with ovens, hot hearths, boilers and every requisite
to supply heat to the school departments, and hot
water light and day the whole of the house
There are attached to the kitchen large pantries
and three rooms. railway is under the floor Tor
passing trays &c. to and from the dining rooms,
of which there are two, the one on the basement.
for ordinary purposes, and the other Immediately
above on the first foor for particular occasions, and
meetings and parties of pleasure.
Each of these rooms is forty feet by twenty
On each floor, and separated by the staircase from
the dining.rooms, are two parlors work-rooms,
measuring thirty by twenty feet each. Over these
purors and dining-rooms are sixteen large dormi-
tories or sleeping apartments. for single persons,
thirty feet by twenty each the beds surround the
apartment, and arc screened OFF by partitions,
leaving clear space in the centre sixteen feet by
thirteen in which tables and chairs are placed for
reading and writing. Each bed recess is fitted up
with chest Of drawers and chairs, and in the cor
ner of the central space are dressing table and
washing stands, with Il constant supply of hot and
cold water, and waste pipes from each basin, so
that no bringing of water, carving away slops,
will occasion any waste of time. There are also,
in another part of the mansion, convenient rooms
for married people, and two lying-in rooms. The
schoolroom with Offices for the teachers, the med
ical department. and excellent baths, are all in the
most complete order.
The Fairgrounds for children are laid out with
great taste, as is also the arena for the athletic
sports of the adult members of the community.
The large dining-room is beautifully enriched
with carved mouldings and cmbelished with ex-
qnsite fresco paintings, and the hydraulic appara-
lus is so constructed as to afford the OF ves-s
tilation in the summer season and an equal tempe
rature in the winter.
These societies are rapidly increasing in Great
Britain. Presents are made TO them from al! who
ara DESTROYS of their success, and the one we have
been describing promises remedy for many of the
evils which the English people are aborng under.
Morning Post.