The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-24 00:00:00

THE DISTRESS IN LLNOASHIRE.

TSB CENTRAL RELIEF FWD.

The weekly meeting of the Central Executive
' Committee was held at the Town-hall, Manchester, yeater.
day. Sir J. K. itacrusworra, Hart, presided.
Mr. Meeirree, the hoe. secretary, reported that 35 hale'
of clothing, 26 barrels of provides', and are hampers of
wine had beau soot off dunag the pest week, sad that the
total reoa of roomy die* the week had bees 7,1034
3s. 108. Balsam at the bank, 429,7771. 2a. 48. The
Dyllt. that rooming includeddLOOM- (24th Rimmed) front
• 1006. (fourth monthly subscription), from the
Mir6eld Belief Committee ; 1006. (eireood instalmeat), Mn.
the Ebbw Vale Works, Newport; and 4001. from the panel
of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Mr. Commkeikeer FAIX•11. read the following report :
" Manchester, March 23, 1863.—My Loeb sad Gentlemen,
I beg to inform you that on the 14th listaat there was a
decree's in the number of persons reoeivisgparoe ial relief
in 27 unions in the ocitton manutseturieg dtst.icte as corn.
pared with the number so relieved in the previous week, of
3,31 L This decrease of 3,311 is explained as follows :
Them I • decrease at Berton-upon-Irwell of 2, at Burnley of
Q~l6am of 158, atChorben of 335, at Olitheme dlB, at
et 11, at Glomiop of 12, at Lancerter of 9, at Leigh
of 64, at MaordesfieW of 16, at Manchester of 4013, at
Oldham of 1,311, at Fruiter al 148, at Prestwich e(110, at
Rochdale of 164, at Redford of 110, at Todrearden et 126,
at Weather. et 40, and at Wigan of 28, making a total
demos° of 3,962. But there is as hareem at Ashton-
eader-Lyne of 114, at Blackburn el 164. at Bolton of 11, at
the Fylik of 109, atHealingdea at 6, at Saddleworth of 134,
and at Stockport of 104, makkag Metal karease of 641, so
that there is a net &cream o( 4311; and ism the 6th of
December last a total dieresis of 61,68(1 has takes place.
The amount of mosey is the hands etas treasurers of
the above moms, oe the 14th inetare, was 161,1001. Ile. lid.
In accordance with my prairies to you at our =
on Monde last, I now give you • report en the
porition of the township of Stelybadge, ia the miss of
halitoo-wider-Lyne,, and in doing so I cannot avoid ea.
preening the mortification I experience at the °ethical' of
wailers violence that has occurred there. I visited Stay
-
bridge yesterday, and also on Saturday, when I conlimed
with the relief committee ; out as I understood that adept-
tatiou Darn that committee desires an interview with yyeeaa
today, I refrain from making say further obwvNies
on the deplorable subject to widish I have bete% ajlzies;
dell
excepting to express my fervent hope that the
people of Englaod will Dot wooled" thet the portion of the
workpsople of Stalybridge which has been misled repeeneat
the one:sties, of the cotton dietricts. The population of
Stalybridge is 26,370, of whom 50 per cent. am either is the
receipt of parochial relief, or are maintained by the Mat
committee. The overseers of the township report that
the net rateable value in 1861 was 21,5.11/. ; that
the number of legally excused payment
of rates for the year sailed with Lady-dity,
1861. was 2 ; amount so excused, 4s. 6d. ; that the
number ot peaces legally messed resent of rates fee
the three quarters ended with 1882, was 6 •
amount so excused, W. 9s. 9d. ; that the total amount of
poor-rates actually raised far the year ended I'4 Lady-day,
1861, was 1,1051., or le. Oid. in the pound on the net rate-
able value ; that the total amount of poor-rates actually
raised for the three quartets coded Christmas, 1862, was
2,277 L, being at the rate of 2a 10d, per antrum in the pound
on the net rateable mine ; that the total amount of poor.
rate' remaining uncollected for the year ended with
Larly-day, 1861, was 3/. Bs. ; ditto foe the three quarters
ended with eh:affiliate, 1862, 41. 19a. 9d. The ebbed mar
maim report the total number of operatives to be
11,521, of whom 6,341 are wholly unemployed, 602
are fully employed, and 4,678 are workiog short time ; that
the guardians of the poor ere relieving weekly 7,066
whose average relief per bead per week is la. 3d. ; that
of these 7,065 persona, the relief committee aid 5,145, who
have thereby as average income of 2s. 7d. a week. The
committee also report that they aid 6,062 persons who are
not relieved by the guardians, and these persona have an
average imam of 2s. 40. The committee now report
their expenditure I. relief to be 9661. per week. The "urn
totally subscribed, and promised, atStalybridp, ii 6,6606., or
6e. 2(<l. in the pound on the net rateable value of the town-
ship. The committee have received from the Lord Mayor's
Fund, from the Manchester Coated Committee, and from
other sources not local, 28,0741., or a sum equal tali. fle. Id.
in the pound on the net namable value of the toweehip.
" H. B. Famthza, Speetal Coninimions."
Mr. FAIUILLL stated that he bed attended a meeting at
Blackburn, oocsisting of a deputation from the board of
guardians and the relief committee, and he was happy to
ay that it was unanimously resolved that the whole of the
al./e bodied men should be employed upon the system
adopted at Padiham. He regarded the question of
manual employment at Blackburn as settled. Oa Thursday
next he should attend a similar meeting at Stockport, at
which the same subject would be discussed.
The following grants were reported (rein the Employment
end School Feed :—Breedbottem, 32/. ; Rochdale, 3101.;
Craig Valley, 20/. ; Bralhery. 206. ; Oldham, 4341. ; Her
Hebdim Bridge, 271 10s.
The grants made for general relief were as follows :
Tockholimi, 401.; Middleton (3),1006. ; Rippooden Chapelry
of Cabbie (4), 100/. ; Osweldwiethe (4), 11101. ; Stalybridge
(1). 600/. ; Wllington (4), 20/. ; heammonden (4), 30f. ;
Prestos (4), 4,0091. ; Biackbern (4), 3,0001. ; Padtham (4),
mot. ; Form (4), 251. ; Whiteaeld sod Unaworth (6), 504 ;
Charley (5), 2001. ; Salford (2), 1,0001.
In making the grant to Stalybridge the committee de-
cided that an intimation to the following effect should be
made to the district committee of that place :—" That whilst
deeply lamenting the late disturbances, the Cestral Exe-
cutive Committee entirely approved of the Modica in the
scale of relief, and the dianibutios of that relief by ticket—
a plan calculated to prevent the irregularities which have
been complained of, and which must be for the obvious
advantage of the families of the recipients of relief."

THE MANSION•HOU3E COMMITTEE AND THE
STALYBRUDGE RIOTS.
. .

Yesterday an urg---est appeal was the Mansion.
hone, committee by a wnttee oommtmicatwo from the
Rev. W. Worth Hoare, the Rev. Thomaa Flood, and the
lies. William Ball, clergymen in Stalybridge, that they
would take into immediate comideration a memorial for-
warded to them some data ago, and signed by about 1,370
of the unemployed operatives in that town, complaining of
a reduction in the rate of relief to 2s. 5d., and more espe-
cially that they were to receive it, not in money, as hereto-
fore, but by tickets oo shopkeepers. The memorialists also
declare that the 2s. sd. would be utterly insufficient for
them to subsist upon, sod that great numbers of single
persons will thus he left without the means of paying
either rent or lodgings, and left without home or shelter.
The men strongly objected to be paid by ticket. because
they were able to spend mousy advantageously, and it
looked ma if they were not fit to be trusted with it, which
wounded their self. respect.
A special meeting of the Mansion-house committee has
been scummed to take the came into consideration. Mean-
' while Stalybridge is not the ally place from which a
remonstrance has come as to the reduction of the male of
relief by the local relief committees. A petition, signed by
about 1,600 of the inhabitant' of Dukinfield, has also been
addressed to the Mausim.hoomi committee. They state
that the relief hitherto granted by the local relief com-
mittee has been inadequate to sustain them in health and
strength ; and they beg the immediate and earnest attention
of the eorninittee to the fact that the local relief committee
has within the last few days adopted a still loser scale of
relief, which, if adhered to, the memorialists wonder will
be attended with the worst oossequenoni.
The inhabitants of Calcutta, including many of the native
population, have nobly requited the sympathy shown by
England on the occasion of the ladle& famine. Yesterday
the Lord Mayor received from them, through the Bengal
Chamber of Commerm there, a further contribution of
5,0001., making, with previous remittances, the munificent
sum of 35,0001. From Victoria, Vancouver's lakuid, through
Mr. Thom, Harris, the mayor, 1,0001. has been reosivod as
a Mst instalment ; 4751. 15s. 10d. ; Luna, Callao,
and Arequipa, 3-15/. 4n 7d., making, with ;swims remit-
mimes, 1,3474 odd, by the Hoe; W. B. Jemioghem. bee
Majesty's Cbar,7'. d'Affairee at Peru ; Hobart Town. 2001.,
ice addition to WY. previously sent; Hamilton, Canada
West, a further ooetributios of 711. ; Mr. Robert Kellett,
editor of the Times of India, 1001. ; Penang, a further sum
of 30f. 19a. 611. ; Amsterdam, by the Rev. W. Jamieson,
her Majesty'e consular chaplain, MU. 17a. 11d. ; Tomato,
by Mr. W. B. Phipps, treasurer, 6001., making 4.5004 ; 84.
Ann's perish, Jamesca, 501. ; Boulague-eur-Rer. lat. its. led.;
Croydon, by Mr. Charles Chatfield, treasurer, 1001..
making
1,5001. ; parish of St. Ames, Llambases, Mt. 7s. Idnitha
Means. W. Brands and Boom 1001.

Mdlle. Carlotta Patti, a eisterof the Patti, arrived
et Liverpool on Baeda77 night from the Coiled States, in
the steamer Africa. Mdlle. Carlotta has for aurae time
beet the leading vitalist is tate United States. Her voice is
described as •• the highest soprano ever knows, nacho.' I.
G sharp in alt, and her 'Emit ere said to be ohiedy pro-
duced in the octave from 0 to G." Her erect' ton M said to
be el tramsliwary, and her little ementially ILlua
LIMIT® LIABILITY IN PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.—
The bill now befog* the Home of Commons for eiteeding
limited liability to private partnership. °mood the sites-
lion of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
After coosiderabLe dimossion, the chamber weed to • re-
solution ie favour of the priuciples of the bill, the details of
which will be shortly &moldered.
&arra Kartatxtrrox Mt SEEM.—During the week
midis( Mare It 21, the visitors have beim si follows :—Oa
Mosiiiiiy, Tuesday, and Bogard!! tfree days), open from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.. 8.582 ;oo Wednesday. Thnreday. and
Friday (stadium' dove, admission to the public Lid.), open
from 10 a.m. tall b p.m.. 1,211; total, 9,71 g) ; from the
opening of the Museum, 3.728,006.
CRYSTAL PALACZ.-0111 SHILLING DAT.—MON.
DAY, Hawn Admiedess ea payment. 848; Ake* by
wawa tickets, 1101 ; total, 4662.