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Rh four white-washings of Auckland poorhouse have produced the most beneficial effects, and have cost only a little trouble and the sum of eight-pence a year, I flatter myself that there will be very few poorhouses in England, which will not be frequently white-washed.—The price and quality of lime is very different in different parts of the kingdom. In London, and in some other places, it is as high as one shilling a bushel, and the lime chiefly in use is chalk lime, which does not answer so well as stone lime. The difficulty and expence, however, of obtaining the best stone lime, for this purpose, in any part of the kingdom, must be too inconsiderable to prevent its general use, if most approved of. In the neighbourhood of Manchester, a horse load of lime, which is sufficient to white-wash about a dozen cottages, costs fourteen-pence, which for each cottage would be two-pence halfpenny a year, supposing them regularly white-washed in spring and autumn. In some places the expence may be increased, perhaps as high