A movement to improve the dwellings of the poor has
been instituted in Parisi Tlie:Presse publishes a list of more than 1,100 persons of every rank and condition of life who have taken shares of from 25 to 1,000 francs whits a Society, called 'La Societe des Cites Ouvrieres," to build improved lodgitighoiikil'or the poor, not 'only. in Paris but apparently in every large city of tile republic. The capital 240,000/. It is under the patronage of
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Idllthigs will consist of a small kitchen and two bedchambers, and also of tingreivern; to'beheated'hy calarifieres, which in summer will serve the pur- e , pose of ventilators. The buildings will be of three stories, with courts and gar- denlie•s The ground-floor( will be arranged as wareroorns, shops, and workrooms. " LEietelittildieg-will be constructed to contain forty or fifty families, a lavatory, an establiehment of baths, a great hall for concourse of the lodgers and for district 1"'51aaatings,. end an asylum hall to receive the children during the necessary ab- Aeoisimce ofstheir :mothers at their avocations. The furnished rooms will be let at 6, '" itleindflitlfraaema; month; part te go in payment/or the furniture, which will , ultimately belong to the lodger.. In connexion with these edifices, it is also in- seetiladedereeeweehfieh, registries of servants and workpeople open to engagement.
' 'Lleunefetkelogginghouses is in Course of construction. • •
:am sw „rid.. lies treOction as inquisitor into the state of the poor, the Morning,. 'been induced to undertake that of ultetosidee;alac2.:Lnkid4)se
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cases of distress cited by its Metropolitan Cortespoodent hifillustntTion of his reports have naturally excited the feelings of the compassionate; sums have been sent in almost daily, and the number increases: within this week we notice sums amounting to _nearly 90L The journal gives a statement of the plan on which these contributions are administered—.
"A book is kept in which the sums received and disbursed are entered,from day to day; and, when the amount in our hands shall have been expended, a debtor and creditor account will be published in our columns.
" With respect to those subscriptions expressly limited to specified cases of dis- tress; they have been atonce-eanded over, in whole or ia part, to the individuals for whom they were intended, either by our Metropolitan Correspondent, or by Mr. Jones, the chief clerk in the dike of this journal. In some cases of several simultaneous subscriptions for the same person, we have paid the money in mode- rate instalments; and reserved a portion of the amount to meet the exigencies of the parties during the coming winter.
"As regards the sums not specially destined, the individuals relieved are care- fully selected, after the fullest inquiry, by our Metropolitan Correspondent, some- times in money, sometimes in bread, coals, flannel, and other necessaries of life. In every instance, due receipts and vouchers are taken from the parties, and a record IS kept of the particular circumstances of the ease relieved. We are satis- fied that mach real good is effected. Mr. Jones will lay the accounts before any contributor to the fund."
The Lancashire Public School Association, which has made more strenu- ous and direct endeavours than any other body to carry elementary in- struction home to the people, is about to hold a great muster of its support- ers—a conference on the 12th of December, and a meeting in the Man- chester Free-trade Hall in the eveuing. Invitations to the supporters of this truly liberal and effective plan have been widely circulated, and the occasion is likely to exhibit an unusual assemblage of public men.
Mr. Brotherton, M.P., a leading member of the Vegetarian Society, men- tions, in a letter to a friend, a fact of some interest at present-
" With regard to the cholera iu connexien with vegetarianism, I have made some inquiry, and I believe it may be asserted that not one member of the Society has been attacked, either on this or the former occasion. I am told that a Vege- tarian at Leeds, who was exposed in the very worst districts, and who visited great numbers of families where the disease prevailed, did not suffer in the least. The nonsense about the danger of eating fruit and vegetables is unworthy of notice."
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