The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-27 00:00:00

THE LANCASHIRE DISTRESS.

CENTRAL RELIEF FUND.

The weekly meeting of the Central Executive
Coo nitthe was held at the Town-hall, Manchester, yester-
day. The Earl of DARBY Maidad. an there were present
Lied Egerton, Colonel WiPatten, Sir ,T. H. shuttle.
worth. 31slor Leigh, Edwd- Ashworth, J. Fenton, J,
Goadair, R. H. Hutchium, J. R. Kay, Hugh muse., R.
Machwe, J Do. Platt, Worrell, and Wm. Roberts.
Yr. Mecums, the hon. secretary, having read the
minutes of the last meeting, they were confirmed.
The Hoy. Secarreur stated that the balance in the
treasurer's buds ea Saturday- on account of the general
fund was 3838481. lls. Id. ; New South Wales account,
16,9061. Om. 10d. ; subscriptions received during the week,
19,093/. eV. sd. -bales of clothing, 241. The receipts yeeter-
day morning before the meeting were :-100/. from Reed and
Powell (third subscription) ; 2001. from the Aberystwith
local ootunittee ; 551. r3a led. from North Cardigan (r
lord Lieutenant) ; and 1,0001. from the Dublin Relief
Committee.
A letter we read from Mr. Fahey, hon. Rec. of the New
00 .mi* of Painters in Water Colours, incloeing a cheque
for MI., ae the first instalment from their exhibition, and
stating that, after a careful valuation of the paintings re-
',lead, they estimated them to be worth 4,300 guineas.
This sum the committee had every hope of leathind-
A letter was read announcing the receipt of 1,250/. u a
ontribution from Auckland, New Zealand, being the first
instalment of • fund cabling in that province for the relief of
distress in Laccashire.
A latter was reed from the Governor of Bermuda, en-
due* a bill of exchange for 5001., raised in that place at a
meeting held on the 12th of December.
Special votes of thanks were passed for the various con-
trthations from abroad.
Mr. l'nsmir Gi.aDaTOXX read the following letter,
which had been addressed by the distribution com-mittee
al the District Provident Society to the Lord Mayor's
eaminittee, and stated that no answer had been received to
it beyond ,a mere scithowledgment of its receipt :
" Manchester, Jan. 2L
"My Lord,—Ass chairman of the committee for the distri-
bution of relief for illachinter and Salford, I have been re-
quested to rearmost to your lordship the inconvenience
which arises gfrom the practice of the Mansion-house com-
mittee in mating genie direct to the various local orpoi.
aldose in shoes low= without communication with this
welmmittes. It cannot, I think, have been clearly explained
to your lordship that this committee has been formed for
the express purpose of Inveatigatinu in the first instance
the claims of them local organniUMns to public confidence,
el inspectiegtheir operations from time to time, and of spoor-
Mewing smug them the grants of the central committee by
Wawa this committee is recognised se the sole medium of
eseentenicatima with the district arson iatioes of Manchester
and Salford. la the performance of these functions it is
the martini of this committee to cetiou de the amount re"
each mouth in addition to the lox 1 funds raised by
ditriet committees(which are in some ca wconsiderable),
and to apply to the mini committee .for the requisite
giant. Tee mama committee taking ioto caueideraties the
MAU granted by the Mansion-house Committee to the
local aneociatime reduce the amount of our app notion pro-
Portithally, and herein lice the itoonvemienco which we
with to remedy, and which can with difficulty bo remedied
by a systematic and confidential communication between
your lordship's committee, and that w Melt I
sepreeent, via., that while the aggregate amount received
from the Central and Mansion-house, Committees h. equal
to our estimated requirements the particular some mgotied
individual committees from the Mansioe.lionee Ftu.d am
in some came considerably is mow of our calculation, and
conseauentdy in other ewe the amount at oar dispceai is
altogether inadequate. Far hastanca, last month oar ema-
nate was 13,0001. Lill, and year lordship granted man
some of the Wands no lees Man 10,7501., which, &dieted
from the Central Oseamittee's past, left us only 2,300 f., A
sum quite isailemesei to meet the wants of these elm
mitten which heel net received anything from the Maaaisa-
boom Fund. A further evil exam, inaanioch as the ease*
,of this commilies to obtain efficiency and (as far as pessioded
uniformity of pendiest among the IMAMS local commailthen
are to a peat mdse baMealisel by the facility with while
money 111 obtained elsewbees, wheel slaieet amellibm
the very asanavala doper 1 Isabel wbi=
toessaittee seeks to mime ever the loud oo
In saying this it is nil need should add Mae iiioeW
mines alininefesin ialerferine with Me men Metes de fti
losal exemitteek ',tisk dillies matesiaiiy in didiereat seamy
sad seeks only b easeetnia that the weak is edikinelly per-
formed ; end 1 shoaki lutists eaplein that this ar
altheage arising out of the District Provident segi"4
beciadiag in its athiliele same of the meet salvage
of that society, is is Amid an indspeminat body, teemed at
the request of the central measeiteee for the purees, I
lave described, and it dem not *mil administer relief to
the poor. I trust that yeas lordship's cossesittee will feel
the importance of reomaking this meneektimi In Malin with
the grants to these towns, and either decide to make your
grants through us, as the esatzal committee has does, or at
least epee to act with as ape some common understanding
(the details of which may be arranged hereafter) to prevent '
the evils which arias from the wholly independent action of
two bodies formed for the same end. We are persuaded
that your lordship's committee have only in view a common
object with onreelver—the mast eMcient and economical
animation of the liberal funds pieced at oar dieposaL-
-- have, kn., " MAW. GLAJAIIIMIL.
" year lordship wishes, sad will send a telegram
to the dial; two of the mambas of our committee will
wait upon your womolittee on Friday."
Mr. Commiesioser FAISALL: nod the following weekly
snort
" Ileacliester, Jan. 26, 1863.—My Lords and Gentle-
mea,-1 beg to inform you that on the 17th instant there
was a &creme in the number of persons receiving parochial
relief is 27 unions of the cotton manufacturing districts, as
eacepred with the Dumber so relieved in the previous
week, of 4,907. This decrease of 4,907 is explained as
faun :—There is a decrease at Ashton-under-Lyne of 843,
at Berton-upon-Irwell of 39, at Blackburn of 1.747, at
Bolton of 143, at Burnley of 471, at Bury of 204, at
Chorley of 18, at Haslingdee of 133, at Leigh of 29, at
Mascheater 553, at Oldham el 421, at Prost.
wick of 71, at ol
Rochdale of 384, at Salford of 639, at
Stockport of 370, and at Torte:oinks of 94 ; making a
total decreer* of 6,159. But
tee is an increase
at Chorltea c 4 413, at Clither of 430, at Meal&
of 97, at Glom, a 77, at Isoceeter of 21, at Mace
of 78, at Prime's al 72, at Saddlmearth of 20. at Warring-
tea of 23, and at is
of 21 ; tasking a total imams* of
1,4 so that there ia a aot miseemes. el 4,907, and, since
the Oh nit., a total decrease of 33,583_ peepers has taken
piece. There were on the 17th a55t.130,400 persona re-
ceiving parochial relief in the 27 mimeo adverted to ; in the
corresponding week of last year 70,135 persons were so
relieved ; there is, therefore, a tames* of 169,264 per-
m= in the receipt of parochial redid, or 241.2 der cent.
The total weekly cost of outdoor relief on the 1. tb inst.
was 16,2531. 14s. 11d. ;in the correspooditg week of
US year it was 3,5131. 91. 7d. ; there is, therefore, an is-
mer* of 12,7101.55. 4d., -or 362.9 per cent The average
pm tentage of pauperism ou the population of these unions
ea the 17th iamb was 12.1; in the correeponilicg week of
bet year it was 3.5. The average amount of out-door relief
prised per wear both in kind and in money. in them
endows on tbe 17th indent, was is. 50. The amount of
mosey in the hands of the treasurers of the above onions
Mike 17th instant was 53,9311. sa. Id. I have received
tie remaining sixteen forme of queries which I Waned to the
Medical officers of the cotton manufacturing districts, and
lave now to report that in seven districts there are 18 cues
a typhus fever, not of a malignant character, and that
the remaining nine districts are free from typhus fever.
I have reasoa to believe that the following unions are now
to • position to avail themselves of the provisions of
the PAW in Aid Act, viz. Ashtemunder-Lyne, Black-
bora, Glimen, Realised., Manchester, Oldham, Prestos,
Weed, Stockport, Rochdale, and Todinorden. The re-
issue from Earoley and Bury have not yet been received.
I have the bower to be, my lords and gentlemen, your
obedient servant,
H. B. FAANIIA. Special Commissioner."
Colorci PArria, 11. P., reminded the committee that
the Rate in Aid Act would expire in March melt, and
elated that it was the with of several of the members
foe Lancashire that this committee would give its opinion
es
to the propriety of that act being renewed.
The committee were of opinion that the consideration of
the lathiest did sot come, strictly speaking, within their
provisos, and that it would be better to leave it in the
Undo of boards el guardians or the members of parliament
raidest in this denrict. The committee then proceeded to
make greats, and this concluded the business.