The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-09 00:00:00

[Stamped. id. Additional.)

LANCASHIRE DISTRESS.

THE CENTRAL RELIEF FUND.

A meeting d the central executive committee was
held yesterday afternoon in the Manchester Town-halL There
were present—the Earl of DIRBT (in the chair), Sir J. P.
K. Shuttleworth, Lord Egerton of Tatton, Major Egerton
Leigh Mr. Commissioner Paull, Mr. W. Ranabowe, .111 D,
Mr. 6. Rose, Mr. J. R. Kay, Mr. S. J. Stern, Mr. J. Wonak
Mr. . Meson, Mr. T. Ashton, Mr. W. Roberta, the Mayor of
Itoeheale, Mr. J. Felton, Mr. R. Madura, Mr. J. Platt, Mr.
it. Gladstone, Mr. R. Hutehinoon, Mr. A. H. Heywood
(treasurer), end Mr. J. W. Manure, hon. secretary.
The HON. SECILITARY reported that the bedews in the
tank was 209,7231., including 80,0t91. received last week.
A much larger amount had also been promised by those re-
sident in the country. In order to simplify the advertise.
manta, all amounts would in future be acknowledged, when
PIA in a daily advertisement in the Times and Manchester
papers, and the total amount actually received would thus
be clearly shown. Sums received as instalments of large
subscriptions would be stated to be so. The number of
bales of clothing sent off during the week wu 891.
The correspondence read at the meeting included the
following :

" Liverpool, 7th Dec., 1862.
" My Lord,—As it may bee gratification to your lordship
to know (before going to Manchester to•morrow) the pro-
gress of our Liverpool collection, I take the liberty of
sending 'a line just to say that the subscription list up to
last night amounted to 66,7921. 15a. 6d. This does not
bads& any fund ccatributed by the
_ward " Amocistioes

111.1111MINIMMIF V1110•11MW.• Mil/MINI,11•11101••=rmig. • ••••••••mmme
only just aosomeooad their labours. From four out of the
sixteen wards into which the town is divided, 1 have already
received 1,305/. Is., which, if added to the amount of the
subscription list, would raise it to 68,098/. ON. 6d.
" I have very little doubt but that we shall be able to
make it 75,0001. before the month closes.—l have the
honour to be, my lord, your lordship's humble and obedient
servant, • HOBSST HUTCHISON.
" The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, K.G.
" P.R. lam sorry that attendance upon the grand jury
will prevent my going over to Manchester to-morrow."
Two applications were read from trades societies (pro.
aiding for relief of members during sickness as well as a
superannuation and burial fund) whose funds were approach-
ing exhaustion. It was resolved to inform the memorialist'
that as the central executive committee are precluded from
malcinggrants excepttoefficiently organised relief committees
theyare desirous to suggest that perionebekaging to legally
constituted benefit societies, whose funds threaten to become
exhausted by the burthens thrown on them during the cot-
ton famine, have enhanced their claim for relief by all pre.
vious acts of frugality and prudence, and that when the
allowance derived from such societies becomes insufficient
it should be raised to the settled scale of relief.

It was resolved to publish Lord Derby's speech in a cheap
form for general circulation, and to append Mr. Faruall's
report on the towns of Aebton, Stockport, and Blackburn.

Mr. Commissioner FARNALL said—You will remember
that last month a public meeting was held in the city of
Cork, when a handsome subscription was raised to aid the
distressed operatives of the cotton manufacturing district.
I now beg to bring under your consideration a very kind
and considerate suggestion which was thou made by Lord
Fermoy, the lord-lieutenant of the county, to the effect that
a contribution of potatoes from Ireland generally would
probably be most acoep able to the Lancashire workpeople.
I have now, therefore, to move that a letter be addressed
by this com;mittee to Lord Fermoy, informing him that his
benevolent views are appreciated by the committee, and
assuring him that if he cam arrange that this tribute should
be put in exportable condition, free on bard at Cork, he
would be conferring a great benefit on the distressed opera-
tives, and that the committee hope that the steamboat corn.
pules will fill up any unoccupied space with goods free of
freight. _ _ .

Mr. W. ItATHBONZ seconded the motion, which was
adorted-
Mr. FARNALL read the following report :
" To the Central Executive Relief Committee.

" Manchester, Dec. 7, 1862.—My Lords and Gentlemen,
—A reference to my tabular report for the week ended the
29th ult., on 27 onions in the cotton manufacturing dis-
tricts, will show you that there is an innerse in the number
of persons receiving parochial relief, u compared with the
number so relieved in the previous week, of 5,584 persons.
There were on the 29th ult. 268,969 persons receiving paro-
chial relief in the unions adverted to ; in the corresponding
week of last year 56,442 persons were so relieved ; there is,
therefore, an increase of 212,527 persons in the receipt of
parochial relief, or 376'5 per cent. The total
weekly cost of out-door relief, on the 29th ult.,
was 18,5441. 71. 4d. ; in the corresponding week of last year
it was 2,7671. Be. sd. ; there is, therefore, an biome,
of 15,7761. 18s. Ild., or 570'2 per cent. The average per-
centage of pauperism on the population of these unions on
the 29th ultimo was 13'6 ; in the corresponding week of
hat year it was 2-8. The average amount of outdoor relief
per head per week, both in kind and in money, in these
unions, on the 29th ult., was Is. sjd. ; the lowest was
Is. Id., and the highest Is. at Stockport. Of
the 266,969 pennons receiving parochial relief on the
29th ultimo 12,579 were indoor paupers. Daring the
last eight weeks the average weekly talauce in the
hands of the treasurers of the 27 unions adverted
to was 60,3661. 4a. 6d., and the average weekly ex-
penditure in outdoor relief alone for the same period was
13,7241. 2a 4d. In my report, dated the Ist instant. I
showed you the amount in the pound on the net rateable
value (after deducting 25 per cent.) of twelve of the most
distressed unions, which would be required to meet the cost
of outdoor relief and in-maintenance for a year, based on
their weekly expenditure. It has been suggested to me
that it might perhaps be of service to show you also the
amount in the pound on the net rateable value of the awe
unions (without deducting 25 per cent.) require for the mime
purposes and time, and based on the expenditure of the cor-
responding week in 1861. I told you that the amount in
the pound now required in—

s. d. s. d.
Ash toa -under-Lyse is ll last year it was 0 7
Blackburn
Burnley
Bury
Glow')
Ha slingden 9 3 ~ „ 0 6
Manchester (township).
Oldham
I
Preston
- -, I 1 99

Rochdale 0

Stockport
Todmorden 6 4 ~ „ U 11

I have received returns from 81 local committees, formed
for the distribution of charitable aid in the cotton manufac-
turing districts, and I am enabled to state that they are now
aiding 188,405 persona, who are not receiving parochial
relief from the guardians of the poor, and that the weekly
expenditure of the 81 committees ts 13,1571. 6s. 4d. The
total number of persona, therefore, included in this report,
who are either receiving parochial relief or are aided by the
local committees of charity, is 457.374, or 23.0 per cent on
the populations of the union adverted to in this report. The
present total weekly expenditure by the guardians in out-
relief, and by the 81 local committees of charity is
37,7011. 13e. 8d or ls. 80. per cent to each recipient.-1
am, my lords and gentlemen, your obedient serraut,
. . _

" H. B. FARNALL, Special Commissioner."

The following grants were made. (The figures in pares-
themes show the number of weeks over which a grant ex-
tends.) Shawforth (4), 175/. ; Oswaldtwistle (3), 1501. ;
Castleton Moor or Blnepita (4), 601. • Newton Moor (4),
2001. ; Nonlen (4), 601. • Church (4), 'l5O/. for clothing
Crompton (4), 35/IL ; Rochdale (4). 2,0004 ; Livesey (3), ;
Hollinwood (2), 1001. • ' Oldham (4), 1,5001. ; Hyde
(4), 1,000/. ; Chorlsy (4). 4501. ; Ribchrater (3), 601. ;
Staleybridge (4), 1,5001. ; Ashton-under-Lyne (4), 2,0001. ;
Openshaw (4), 1501., sad 1501. for clothing ; Chadder.
ton (4), 4001., sad 30W. for clothing ; Withwell (4),
100/.., sod 1001. for clothing ; Freckleton (3), 201., and 81.
for clothing ; Whitfield and IJosworth (5), 2.501., sod 1001.
for clothing ; Breightmet, near Bolton, 1001. ; Whitworth
and Facit (4), 350/. ; Bamberbridge (3), 2201. • Failswarth
14), 4001., and 50/. for clothing ; Atherton, 15d1. ; Walton-
's-Dale (1), 300/., and 1001. for clothing; Tottington (5),
1301. ; Bamsbottom, 1501. for clothing • Hunt, 3001. for
clothing ; Bury, 1,5001. for clothing ; lia;schester, Salford,
Hulme, and Arderick, 4,000/., and 5,0001. for clothing.

The grant of 2,0004 from Edinburgh for sewing school,
WY voted as follows :—Blackburn, 250/. ; Preston, 250/. ;
Wigan, 1001 ; Stockport, 2001. ; Ashton, 150/. • Staley-
bridge, 1001. ; Rochdale, 150/. ; Burnley, 1001 ; Man-
chester. 5001. ; Dukinfield, 101. ; Padiham, 25! ; Heywood,
; Hyde, 501.
The following grants were made from the New Sontb
Wales fund :—Darwen, 461. 10c (for school pence); St.
James's. Itochdale,l 151. for a sewing school) ; Failsworth,
151. (ditto) ; Toilmorden, 101. (ditto) ; Hashogden, 20/.
(ditto) ; St. Thomas's Schools, Newton-heath. 201. (for
schools for youth and adults), and 51. 12c (for school
pence). These grants were all for periods of three months.

MANSION-HOUSE Com surrzn —The subscriptions
in aid of the fund for the relief of the diatremed operatives
io Lancashire and Cheshire received in the course of yes-
terday amounted to more than 5,0001., a great portion of
which was made up from church collections in the different
parishes of the metropolis. A further sum of 1,0001. was
received from Calcutta, making a total remittance of 4,0001.
Another sum of 1,0004 was received, being the result of a
house-to-holm collection in the pariah of Clapham. The
proprietor of Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper seat a further
subscription of 3211. 14e. 3d. ; the London Chartered Bank
of Australia, 1001. • Farms Anne. Lady Londonderry, her
labourers and dm:bestirs, 1941. 10a. Id. ; Captain J. A.
Barker, 521. lON.

MILE-IND OLD TOWN.—IAIIt night, a meeting of
the inhabitant ratepayers of the hamlet of Mile•end Old

ITWOPENCE

Town was held in the Lege Vestry-hall, Bancruft-road, for
the purpose of sdo ting measurefor raising a fund towards
•
the relief of the operatives in Laeashire. The
Bee. Itiehard Lee, the rector, took the chair. The meeting
wee addressed by Mr. Spencer Charringtoo, the brewer, the
Rae. J. Kennedy, Mr. William Newton, the key. W.
Hardie, sad others, and resolutions expressing sympathy
with the sufferers, and appcintiog a committee to receive
subscriptions, were adopted. The sum of 1001. from Messrs.
Charrington was aniongirt the donations announced.
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Bt.nexecrior.—During the peat week the relieving
of6oeis of the union applied 11,,4361. Sc. 7d. to the relief of
13,573 persons, of whom 9,836 were described se able-
bodied. Of the 73,573 persona relieved last week, 18,454
belonged to the district of Blackburn, 2,224 to the Oswald-
twistle district, and 2,890 to the district of Over Dareen.
The chief constables return made up to Friday shown that
16,601 were still out of work, and 4,706 working short
ftters. time. Yesterday (Monday) morning the mill of Mr. Joseph
Bolton, Nova Bootie, was to resume operations at the
rate of five days per week. This will be a great assistance
to the operatives of that district. The manufacturers
believe that they will shortly be all enabled to run their
mills from three to four days per week. A sick kitchen,
oouneoted with the established church, has been opened
at the Town-hall ; and the infirmary, which is now
complete, is to be evened as a general sick k dollen.—
A deputation from the owners of cottage property in Black-
burn waited on the Blackburn guardians on Saturday with
a memorial in favour of obtaining a loan of 50,0001. from
the consolidated fund. The deputation sod the memorial
showed that the owners of cottage property were heavily
premed in this orlida, and unable to pay the rates; they
keel
ertentaleriLM"lbraireiseM of tine bawd
intimated that the guardians would • them time to pay
the rates, if that was all they dastrod ; they could not grant
them exemption, however ; and with this communication
the interview closed.

Bovrott.—Mr. Harris, superintendent of police,
has published another statement showing the audition
of the great bulk of the labouring ukases in regard to
employment. There ere in the borough 156 estalgiah-
manta, oonsisting of 75 cotton mills, 36 foundries, 6 bleach
works, 2 coal mines, and 37 miscellaneous works. Of
these 26 are working full time, with the usual number of
hands, viz., 12 cotton mills, 7 foundries, 1 coal mine, and
6 miscellaneous ; 50 are working full time, with • reduced
number of hands; 58 are working short time, viz., 3.3
cotton mills, 12 foundries, 6 bleachworks, 1 coal mine,
and 6 miscellaneous; and 22 are closed. In these
establishments there are usually employed 23,734 hands.
At present, however, there are only 9,841 fully employed,
and 7.079 partially employed, whilst 0,814 are entirely out
of work. The number of cams relieved by the guardians
last week was 8,200, the amount granted being 580 f. 2a. 4d.,
the average relief per head varying in the different districts
from Is. 61d. to 11. 3d. per had. Prom a statement laid
before the Bolton guardians by Mr. Cooper. the assistant
clerk, it appears that the relief granted, including earoinp,
amounts to 2s. 9id. per head. The Poor Protection Society
relieved, lug week, 2,488 families. at • cost of 4071. 7s.

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PILESTON. —The Relief Committee of Preston in
their report Issued on Saturday state that during the put
week they have relieved 10,107 camas, including 39,416 per-
son., at a wet, so far as regards provisions, of 1,249/. 17s. sd.
These figures show an increase over the previous week of
720 aura, 1,289 persons, and 1851. to led. is the expenditure.
Large quantities of clothing continue to curiae from all
quarters. The relief committee have decided to give one
third of their relief in tickets, which the recipients can ex-
change for food at any of the shops is the town. At the
sewing
i schools, established by the guardians, there are DOW
1,200 femalesn attendance. At the educational school
there are 1,50 youths and men in attendance. A school for
educational pun poses has just been opened for the distressed
overlookers and managers, on whose behalf a very handsome
sum of money has been subscribed. The fever continues to
decrees., and the health, of the town generally appears to be
improving.