Charlestown, Mass., State Prison Extension.

Dedham, Norfolk Co., Mass., New Jail and House of Correction.

Northampton, Hampshire Co., Mass., New Jail and House of Correction.

ton.

Boston New Almshouse, on Deer Island, in Boston Harbor. Cambridge, Mass., New Almshouse.

New Haven, Conn., New Almshouse.

Buffalo, N. Y., New Almshouse.

Maine State Reform School, at Portland.

Rhode Island State Reform School, at Providence.

Connecticut State Reform School.

New Jersey State Reform School, at Kingston, near Prince

Pennsylvania Second, or Western, State Reform School, or House of Refuge.

Maryland State Reform School, or House of Refuge, in Baltimore.

District of Columbia House of Refuge, in Washington City. Ohio State Reform School.

Concord, N. H., New Jail.

Providence, R. I., State Prison and Jail Extension.

Blackwell's Island, N. Y., New Workhouse.

In regard to the progress already made in these new buildings, the following statement is submitted:

The Boston New Jail is nearly completed, and 1851 is spoken of as the time for its being first occupied.

The extension of the State Prison at Charlestown, Mass., is nearly completed, (except the alteration of the east wing of the old Prison,) and the warden expresses the hope and expectation, that the entire extension will be ready for occupancy in 1851.

The County Prison at Concord, N. H., for which a plan has been furnished, on the same general principles as the New County Prisons in Connecticut, it is expected will be finished during the present season.

The New County Prison and House of Correction, for Norfolk county, at Dedham, Mass., is finished, and occupied in

one wing, and the central building and north and east wings are in rapid progress, and it is expected that it will be finished and ready for occupancy in 1851.

The New County Prison and House of Correction for Hampshire County, Mass., has been acted upon by the commissioners, and decided in favor of its erection; a new locality has been purchased, and advertisements have been issued for erecting the building.

The extension of the State Prison at Providence, R. I., has been some time contemplated; a plan of extension has been procured and approved, in its general principles; a new keeper, from Connecticut, long tried and greatly approved, has been appointed warden, who is accustomed to conducting successfully a Prison constructed on the same general principles as the one proposed; and, although some delay has arisen, unexpectedly, in the progress of the new building, still a reasonable expectation is indulged, that in the course of one year from the present, the Rhode Island State Prison will be placed on a level, both in buildings, discipline, and productive industry, with the best class of new Penitentiaries in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

The New Workhouse, on Blackwell's Island, city of New York, for a class of subjects between those who are sent to the Penitentiary and to the Almshouse, is being erected. Plans were advertised for, of a building to accommodate six hundred persons, with power of extension to accommodate fifteen hundred. Several plans were furnished: the plan from Boston was accepted of as second and not first, a New York plan was accepted as first, and some progress has been made in laying the foundations of the latter. What the plan of building is, precisely, or when to be finished, we are not informed.

The House of Refuge, or State Reform School, for Maine, has had the attention of the commissioners, appointed last year by the government of the state. Several plans have been presented, carefully examined, and compared; one of them selected-simple, convenient, appropriate, and beautiful for the accommodation of three hundred inmates, submitted to the governor and council, and approved; advertisements have been issued for proposals to erect the building, and the proposals are to be opened on the 21st of May. It is hoped that considerable progress will be made in the building during the present season.

The House of Refuge in Connecticut having failed to be acted upon, successfully, in the legislature of 1850, by the want of a single vote in one branch, the subject will be

resumed, at the session of 1851, and the most confident expectations are entertained of success in obtaining a charter and an appropriation.

The House of Refuge in New Jersey is being built, at Kingston, three miles from the Seminaries, in Princeton; the foundations are laid, and the commissioners are proceeding to expend the amount of the first grant made by the legislature for the purpose.

The House of Refuge in Baltimore is also being built, about two and a half miles from the city, on a beautiful elevation, several hundred feet above the Chesapeake Bay, which might be truly called the Walnut, Chestnut, Cedar, and Laurel Hill.

A House of Refuge in Washington, D. C., is contemplated, and a generous offer has been made towards it, by individuals.

The Western House of Refuge for Pennsylvania has an act of incorporation from the legislature, and a grant of $20,000, on condition that responsible individuals will make subscriptions to an equal amount.

The last Report of the House of Refuge in Philadelphia notices this movement as follows:

"The House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania was incorporated at the last session of the legislature, and an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars, in aid of the institution, to be paid, when an equal sum shall be bona fide subscribed, by responsible parties."

The New Almshouse on Deer Island, in Boston harbor, for the city of Boston, is nearly completed, and partially occupied. The plan of building is an original one, and it was most providential, that it was so nearly completed as to receive the boys on the night of the 16th of April, when the temporary building, in which they were lodged, was broken to pieces and carried away, in the storm of that night, and the boys were saved from the loss of life by the resolute and persevering efforts of their teacher and Dr. Moriarty, and safely lodged in the east wing of the new building.

The New Almshouse in New Haven, Conn., is also being built, on the same plan, in many respects, as those above mentioned, and it is the expectation of the agent for building the same who is also the first selectman of the town — that the building will be ready for occupancy in the lapse of one year.

The New Almshouse in Cambridge is now occupied, and the city of Cambridge deserves credit for its liberality and intelligence in erecting such an edifice, for it has the honor of having within its borders one of the best Almshouses in the country. It is located on the road leading from the university to Lexington, about two miles from the centre of the city. It is built upon a gradual south-western upland slope, and commands a perfect view of the whole farm on which it stands, and a fine prospect of the surrounding country. It is built of stone taken from the quarry on the farm, within fifty rods of the building. This is a material of great solidity and endurance, and presents a massive, substantial, and plain appear

ance.

The edifice consists of a central building, having four circular quadrant corners, and measuring 60 feet square outside of its walls, and 4 stories in height. The first story is 9 feet 6 inches high, the second and third stories are each 10 feet high, and the fourth story is 18 feet high. The roof is hipped on all sides, and rises to meet an octagonal observatory of 16 feet square, crowned with an ornamental vane, with the cardinal points. There are three wings radiating from three of the sides of the central building. Two of the wings measure 40 feet square, and are 3 stories in height each, besides an

attic story. The first story of each wing is 9 feet 6 inches high, the second and third stories are each 10 feet high, and the attic story 9 feet high, the floors throughout being level. The third wing is 40 by 30, and is three finished stories in height, besides an attic story: the first story is 9 feet high, the second and third stories are each 10 feet high, and the attic story is 8 feet high. The roofs of all three wings have pediment ends. On the basement story, in the octagonal section, is the great kitchen, which contains a bathing room, laundry, cleansing room, furnace and fuel rooms, bakery, drying room, &c. Leading from this, on the east and west sides, are the dining rooms for the inmates. The west wing is for females, the east wing for males. The southern wing includes the keeper's house apartments, and is connected to the main building by a door in each story. On this floor, in the east and west wings, are punishment cells for refractory inmates, which can be made quite dark, or graduated to different degrees of light.

On the second story are the workshops. These are in the octagon. A partition runs directly across the centre of the building. One part is for women, and one for men.

The two main wings, extending on the right and left from the octagon, are occupied as sleeping apartments-one for