20 JULY 1867, Page 2

The Emperor of the French has this week done one

of those acts which induce French workmen to pardon or even appreciate his re'gime. He had built 48 houses, at a cost of 20,0001., as model houses for the poor, and has now presented them a free gift to a co-operative society of working men for the construction of cheap -dwellings. The money is nothing, but the Emperor's good-will smooths half the difficulties in the way of the society.