The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-14 00:00:00

THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.

CENTRAL RELIEF FUND.
The weekly meeting of the Central Executive
Committee w held at the Town Hall, Manchester, yes-
terday. Sir J. LT fbrudrristrogra presided.
Mr. J. W. Macular, hon. sec., reported that duriog the
mesh ending Aped 11th, 15 packages of alothiag and 509
barrels of our had been sent for distribution to the
various local committees. The total receipte of the weak
amounted to 4,1931. 18s. Bd., and for the month of March,
40, x 461. 19i. 3d. Ho stated that the balsam at the bankers
on the general acrount, was 402.7121. 4r. Bd., and on the
employment account 9,8211. U. 6d. T0tat4L2.5351. 6s. 2d.
fie further reported that that morning. a fourth remit-
tance of 1,0231. 19a. had be.. received from the Perth City
and County Committee, sad BBJ. I3s. 9d., being a further
remittance from Rangoon, per Mean. Gladstone,
sad Co.
The Hoe. EIICILITARY then reed Um following memorial,
addressed to the committee a fortnight ago :

" The memorial of the unemployed operatives in the
Ashton-ooderLyne Union to the Central Executive Relief
Committee, at Manchester, humbly showeth—That the
amount of relief granted by the local committemand
the board of guardians Lahr too low to keep them in such
health and strength as will enable them to resume work
when the present crisis is over. We believe that the pre-
*sot reduced scale of relief has, to some extent, been
brought about by the determination of the board of guar-
dians to take into Moms' all smarm of income. But
we would humbly submit that the people should not be
allowed to suffer for the want of unanimity of action be-
tween relief committee. and boards of guardians. Your
memorialists exceedingly regret that the small grants mode
to the local committees has compelled them veryarittlz
to reduce the scale of relief and to istel
pennon who are not inucediately emineeted with the cotton
masufacturee, but who neverthelem are suffering
from the calamity which has overtaken these district..
Your memorialists believe that the main purpose of their
countrymen, and the humane throngbout the world, in
coming forwardi so tiobly to their samietaooe, me to enable
them to tide over the present calamity with some degree of
comfort ; and we submit that the keeping of such a large
reserve fund in the bank militates against the flow of charity
which would otherwise be remitted to your committee by a
kind and generous public. We would therefore most
respectfully, but at the. same Um meet earnestly, urge
upon you the necessity of supplying the local relief
committee more liberally with funds.—And your memo-
rialists will ever pray."
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. Horse
Mason, the following reply was unanimously adopted and
ordered to be forwarded to the memorialists :

"The Central Executive Relief Committee have given a
careful ouideration to the memorial from the unemployed
cotton operatives of the union of Athton-under-Lyne,
signed by you. They observe that your chief com-
plaint Mates to the proceedings of the board of
guardians. The central committee are, however, ob-
viously not authorised to interpret the law which
regulates the actions of the guardians, much less to
interfere with their acts. You would therefore do well
to communicate on these subjects with the beard
of guardians or the Poor-law Board. Your belief that
their grants to local committees have been small must be
founded as some misconception, for during the month of
lien* those puts mad a large sum, independently of
all Nub raved by local efforts, or received from other cen-
tral =ms, or upended by the boards of guardians. These
several streams d relief came in aid of the never-ceasing
Low of private ability ; and the earnings of 310,030 cotton
operatives wholly or partially employed are min-
gled with these mesas of suetaiang the pouts-
tioe. The advents of the season has also plr sod
within the reach of workmen many fewer of employment
which were not available during the winter, and the
Central Executive Committee are glad to think that
your expenditure for fuel and clothing will sow be smaller
than during the more inclement months. The depth of
their sympathy with you is, we hope, ohm by the prac-
tical proofs which they have given of their &min to respond
to your manly patience by unwearied exertions on your
behalf. They have always striven that the rate of aid
should be each as would keep you In health without re-
moving the motives for those emboss which all expe-
rience proves are more effectual for the permanent well-
being of the people than any external help. They
should deeply lament to think it pourable that a day
might arrive when the mealy iedepeadeeoe of the Lan-
cashire workman might be indermised, and his suer
sad strenuous struggle with difficulties at ea mod. Yet
truth constrains them to my that it bee ben too often
reported to them that cotton 'mimeo is receipt of relief
have refused fair offers of work. They cannot, for your
own sakes, resnain • wholesome jealousy of whatever
may thus teed to weaken the springs of iadostry. Nor
I could anything mere certainly diminish the Low of those
charitable • eoetributior which have been abundant
Indic:Torsion to
uctance o the ona
reeive Lidenee felt i
ms instead on, your panes
wags ::
contributors to the urinal find have confidesses in the
way in whisk the meted executive committee have dis-
tributed these .large resoarem, or they would tot have
continued to entrust them to them. Your district
has received its full proportion of these subscrip-
tions. Uncover, you ought to remember that you are
not dome in suffering. The shopkeepers, to a great extent
deprived of their usual income, have to bear the burden
of heavy poor rates. Cottage owners, though deprived of
rents, have to pay the parochial rates. Small manufacturers
have loin everything sod become brialerept. All these
classes are thxeatesed with ruin. They therefore earnestly
mused your to aid them and you load committees in making
the beet et the greet evils which you have to suffer. Three
hide will be len is proportion as they are wet in a calm,
palest, mealy spirit, which shall wept the sacrifices and
exertions which ha,. been made Cle your behalf as • proof
of the astioad desire to shorten the crisis and to diminish
its severity se moos as poinible.—Sigued on behalf of the
Executive Committee,

' J. P. IK.'r Surrnsworra, Vioe.Chairmte.
"Joni WILLIAM Macula% Ho.. Soo."
Mr. Contivierioeer FAIINAU. presented the follow*
report :

llancheetem 13th Apra. 1863.--My Lords sad Gentle-
men, —I beg to =form youth= on the sth instant there was
a demeans in the amber at memo reeeiviag parochial
relief in the 27 arose in the entice =radiator's( districts,
is compared with the member so relieved Is the previous
week, of 4,491. This decreer of 4,491 is explored as fol-
lows :—There is a decease at Barton-apse-Inrell of 249, at
Burnley of 93, at Bury of 319, at Chorley of 549, at Chari-
ton of 748, at the Fykle of 132, at Ousting of 34, at
Baslingdee of 274, at Leigh of i 136, at lthoclesflekl
of 217, at Moncherter of 276, at Prestwich of 213,
at Rochdale of 768, at Saddleworth of 85, at Belford
of 382, at Stockport of 131, at Todmordee of 81,
at Warrington of 146, and at Wigan of 87—making
a total of 4,830; bat there is an increase at
Ashtoounder-Lyee of 10, at Bolton of 43, at Glossop of
201, and at Preston of 85—making a total Warm of 339,
so that there is • net decrease of 4,491, and gime the 4th
of December last a total decrease of 66,602 has taken
place. I have not received any returns from Clitheroe and
Oldham this week, and therefore thole unions are not in-
cluded in this repcet. There were, on the sth inst.,
205,381 persons receiving relief in the 27 unions adverted
to ; is eorreepooding week in 1861, 47,246 persons were
so relieved ; there is, therefore an Mares= of 158,135
persona in the receipt of parochial relief, or 334.7 per
mot The total oust of out-door relief on the sth hot.
was 13.3484 100 4d. •, in the aorrespoodieg week
is 1861, it was 2,2991. 18s. 4d. ; there is, there.
fore, as =crease of 11,0481. Us., or 480.4 per cent.
The average per issetage of pauperism oe the population of
these anions on the sth instant visa 104 ; Is the mere.
spoodhig week In 1861 it was 24. The average amount of
outdoor relief per heed per week, both la money end kind,
in these anion., on the sth instant, ems a. 4fd. The
amount of money io the bands of the trearrers of the
above sakes oe the sth instant was 98,7574 10s. Bd. There
are now 414,498 persons who are either receiving outdoor
mliti how the nudism, or who are maintained solely by
the local committees, within the 27 111.1001 to which this
report refers • so that 999 per 01)11i, of the population me
thus supported either by the poor rates or by charity. The
weekly oast ef maintaining these persons is 1136,8591., er
Ls. NJ. per heed per week to each recipient ndepend-
witty of the above numbers, them are 11,468 persons within
the workhouses of thee' unions, making a total of 425,956,
or 215 per cent as the population."

The followleg greats Went mode :—Leo district (6 weeks),
6001. ; Mew* (4), 1,600 f. ; littekley (4),1001. ; Meeetwater
(4), 6.0001. ; Hi.dly (3), 40). ; ?dotter's (6), 1001. ; TU.
tweeds, (4), 4601. New Male (4), 1001. ; Youngs (4), 601. ;
Salford (4).1,6001. ; Roytoe (1), 1201.
The following greats were reported from the employment
and school fend :—lroyhdee, 601. De. ; Boole, Preston,
6/. 4a. ; tlh. George's, llisecbester sal. 14e. ; Dakie6eld,
.sl7l. (nose et whisk is for evetuselsools); Tiatwistle,
lor. us. IF ; sod N. 411. 16..

THE ARCHDRACONRY OP LEHENTIIII.—The Bishop
of Peterborough ham appointed the Br. Beery Peron,
8.D., one of the hocorary rem of the cathedral, aud
rector of All &iota, Loughboloangh, to the Arehdeimoory of
Leicester. vacant by the death el the Bev. Thomas Kaye
Boner, M.A. Mr. Fieroll IMO educated at Winchester
College, was gold medallist io 1820, and on leaving obtsioed
an exhibition to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where, after
taking the degree of searroptirrie,aid third-olar le the clas-
sical tripod, be 'retorted to • fellowship; bestirred is active
duties am a errs and private tutor for 16 years, and wee in
1848 prosated by the college to the highly important living
of Lorbboreagh, where, in addition to the aealoas discharge
of the ("dray and anxious duties of a pariah priest con•
rated with se tare a population, he wee. by his writings
sad enertioaa, Brialy mstrumeatal is berg*, about great
mastery boprovantirts in the town. Mr. Pears bas also
her well krone as the author of several sermons, as well
as kerns definer at the Larry and Philosophical
Societies and Yung lisa's Christias Inetitntse fa Leicester
sad Lorkbarrogh.
CHURCH RATIN SUPTRBRDID. —At the vestry
meeting on Tuesday, the 7th Met., at the district church of
Brampton, the Bev. Dr. boos, the incumbent, in the reit,
a vote el retake we. eraninsorly awarded to the Milian
parish wordea, N,. Caner. for haw* UMW the plodp
gives by him at his election, "not to ketribse• a rare h
rata," sod for having so satidactorily sad nressofully takes
other aßraid tep• to sin
Auntthe requisite, funds Jr the purposes of
the