[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOP.:] have read the remarks
in the last number of your valuable publication on the paper in the Quarterly Review upon the " Pro- letariat" of Great Britain, in which I observe that what yon
speak of as a possibility in the future, viz., the housing this class through the agency of the State, is an accomplished fact.
The 29th Vic., c. 28, is an "Act to enable the Public Works' Loan Commissioners to make advances towards the Erection of Dwellings for the Labouring Classes," to any such local or other authority, or body, or proprietor as therein mentioned, viz. :— 1. To any board authorized to carry into execution the Labouring 'Classes' Lodging-Houses' Act, 1851. 2. To any local or other authority invested with powers of town or local government and rating under any public, general, or any local Act. 3. To any local authority acting under the Nuisances' Removal Act, 1855, or any Acts amending the same. 4. To any railway, dock, or harbour company, or any other company established for the purposes of this Act, or for trading or manufacturing purposes. 5. To any private person entitled to any land in fee- simple, or for any term of years absolute, whereof 50 years shall remain unexpired. Under this Act this Association, and also the Improved Industrial Dwellings' Company, Limited, have already -obtained considerable advances, and both companies will, I have no doubt, obtain more, to carry out greatly extended operations 'now in progress. The advances are made at 4 per cent., repayable
in forty years.—I am, Sir, &c., CHARLES GATLIFF.
8 Finsbury Circus, E.C., Tan. 24.
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