The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-01 00:00:00

PROGRAM/ 13_0F DEVON AND EXETER

RAClMlL—WiDanciaa. --
Tex Comm Cu,, a pine el piste vain MI sew., by suls-
eripties et 10 as saisb, 51$, the rumples is seems ; 3-yr-
olds, 7st 101 b ; foe, Ad ; Ire, ilia, awl sae& 9st 71b ; mares
sad radio allowed lb ; senses warms sates ; sUariusess.
Two rho sad a bait. (lb subs.)
Alls LP
Ilogswood Alis 3 Look Byre 3 Golden Dust.... 3
Yawl Orme.... 4 Toluroo 4 Cochucs
Deets,* WS 110 be 1101Ipton Court.. 3 Bucolic 3
said)
Ir. Aube, Qaiebs, Mr. R. B. Gerd, Mr. T. W. North-
more, Mr. T. Carew, Mr. Ran, sad Captall A. Cosier are
subscribers, bat did sot mum

_, —....
Na 111AXII2AD ktrazze of 15 atom each, 5 ft, with 100
added if three hones Kart, for Syr-olds ; eolta, Set 101Ie;
Elmo, fies lib ; Whoa Led other ellosaseee. Thew:vier-
tem of • mile. (2.1 subs). —Belderdeeb (31b). Outlaw,
Rappel t3lb),l)e (hey (21b). Ely, e by Orlande—Lady Pal:
nerstixee dam, Weveaey, dulette CAW, Boats, Oben.,
Lifebnoy, f by Etauaterer—Beetweinie (31b), e by Seueterer
ra
—ll.bbn Kati. (31b), a by Newraineter—Plueli, Bengali,
Mewed (310), Blue Bell (31b), liensetioe (31b), bank Walser
B), Awl& (Jib), Policy (.lib), Faith (31b), Vienna (3414,
ila, f by Veagesace—Queree Christine plb) (paid), The
Hama (31b) (1404
Naft &lea:alio
The ali:et kl.ats (Headlamp) of 6 soca each, 2 ft, '
to so to the food, with 100 added. fee 2. ewe. obte ; whi-
msies extra Thretwireariere of • nee. (13 NAL)
st lb d lb
Terbeee, by De Ihyter.. 8 7 2
lleseeile•
(hake
7 e
Stanley
Math.
mask Welton
Overt
7 111 ales 7 0
Talkie 7 111 Oboes 6 10
Heber 7 5 left ill Veep
of 6 10
Twit DM! AND Emelt CLUB .92AX1M (Readies?) 5
SOVII. each, 3 ft, with 80 •dded, foe all ewe; whitens attn.
Thzeiequerten of • mile. (4 subs.)
e
Ate at in Aet lb
To Fool
Lahr 3 8 0 llermsed ll 7 6
sandhog 3 7 7 Heber 2 6 0
Beaserelae 3 7 7 libellous
A tiwizrirrawss (Handicap) of 8 sows. es* 2 ft, with 25
added ; wiauers extra, Halt a mile.
A Swisrwraxze of 3 aors. oak with 25 addled ; solliwg
and other allowances. One wile.

Houma Anamin.--Sonverniae, Agatha, Prisons Wound,
Golden Desk Toon% Heber, Marne, LAdy di Vera,
Ceobuoa, Victoria Crew Hengist, Kennett, Ring, Icons,
Haistbampton, Minton, 11 ountasn Doe, Faith, Brown Betty.
Barranid, Duda, llosatiseinut tllly. Verbena, 'task Walton.
Outlaw, Priem, Tim Dictator. tierbitoo Hill, Rapp'.
Itlicabus, (Amapa's*, Pretty Horselireaker, Gardener, and
Mysterious.

PROGRAMME OF DERBY SUMMER
MBBTOick—WevilisDar.
MB TRIAL &PAW .4 5 one. sack, with 30 added ; weight
f 914ror ag
oue,
s oath
Am toilmg allowances ; not to be sold, to awry
. mile.

Aps
Daiwalate Stone-SA Lana Letland .. lading (Ma
) ..
nettJackaon) lbw Clown ;not to Allacbetk
•Mt to be sol.r, t be sold, 2 Dawdle
CITAMPTIILD STARE& of SD movs. added to • sweep
Nan dno% orb, b tet /yr 3-yvolds ; colts, 84 10th ;

fillies and gielimp,det nb ; penalties enalallowanan. Three-
quarters eta mile. (15 anba)—Antemette, Mucbetb, FAO-
ranee, Mint Goldbill, e by Wild Dayrell—Agra, I by Noun-
/Ma Dew— ANN Loden Ignatius, Oseetter, QUI Fuller,
Villerimmiaa Grassland, Faaeonberg, Foreteller, 11l Stock-
well—Lady Swim
Tan TZADiaxases Pia (Handicap) of 100 soya, added
to a awcopatakes at 15 soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 oaly if
detliend • asses extra. One mile and • Ulf. (42 sub..,
27 deelaied.) Massesextra.
Age at lb AP st I
Dletater (Inc 71b es) 4 9 9 Consternatlon
Oldnanster
Flirtation
Balham
Doncaster (lac illb es) 6 7 9 /Lineman
Conundrum
My Mary 4 7 0 Jack's ADM
Tiktr
GRAND atm PL•ra (Handicap) a 50 eon. ; for all
ages ; imam extra. Half • mile.
I 0
Age et 1
Mill Jells a &Ada 5 6
Tarn= Age A
I 0
• 7 6
7 Antipodes Penerenimes
3 6
2 5 1
Le 011•40
Lord of the Mame .. • 11 Ltttle Savage 9 5 1
Walloon 6 II Toook Not 2 5 1
1 David Aim 6 8 Foretellor
Flexmore
Comae 6 0 haws 2 6
Cutler
Gipsy Old
blaribaldi
Airedale
um $ 2 Charnd Wanes .. draws
Key of the Gate .. - 9 Paddy if .... drawn
Tea Nom= Pun (Handicap) cat ID maw, added to a
swomienikee of 5 ee. each, 2 ft to tb fanda3s2, 21rokb i
arts.
winners ar Three-quarters of • mile. Wm.)
at lb st lb
The Clown 8 10 Gambetne
_ ... - .. _ d 610
- ..

7 10 Basotian
=Last ..... .... 7 II Cutaway
Redcap. 7 7 position
Littis Sams 7 I Maclmbeth
=lazy 7 7 Dermot Maas
7 0 Rothschild ....
Nana 7 0 Rosa
I Posetsdler

1147-hrerd the Coodheice It Wee Agee..
Duchene el Kul
Si! Oreehlend

law Short...—.

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paid

Tza Dasinerr &maw et 30 son., added to a sweepstakes
of 5 wpm eea6 ; weight for egg with selling allowance•
About throaquarters of a mils.

11117118 DAY.

Tem Bairn 9r4Ers ri2lZin. each, 10 ft, for 2-yr.
olds ; Golfe, list 106 ; lilies, llet Tlb ; win extra ; mooed
to save his stake. Half a mile, Mrsight.—Oormlwe, Pato-
tattooer, Lliumolleo, Veterinarian. Tomfoolery.
Tim Cantswoirra SWIMS illeadkao) a 50 eons., added
to a sweepstakes of 10 novo 'soh, h ft, and 3 only if declared ;
ransom extra ; mood to save hie stake. Ooe mile. (24
rate., 9 declared.) The highest weight accepting being
7st 121 b, it has been raiard to Set 121 b, ead the oaken in
PrwPoriam
us 10 Aire dlb
Daseaske 8 8 12 Dr. ant= 2
Kauko 4 I I I by
fionmasell
Dounybresit
Mild Desk 4 7 7 Warhorse
Inockramir 4 7 8 Make
lades
Dail O'Crimmil .... a 2 4 plirtdea .

TIE H• 111101010. SLUM of 40 eon., added to • swoop-
stokes of 5 eon. mob, for 2-yr-olds ; oohs, Bst 101 b ; thins
sad piggy Bot me ; ornate, in ; idlowascoo. About
half a Li., straight. (20 oubo.)—Tbo Oloors. Conway,
Him of Clubs, Dawdle, e by Wild Dayton -Aim Pyrrha,
Elotoor, Garotter, Old Palln The Beam Tomb Not,
Yaws for Mown*. Boni of ponitorb, To:ofoolory, Per-
minim, Ono bury, Illotber amok Cnor do Rigolbottio,
asid Gosobotiod. _ _

II; liousesas' Pure (Reading) of 50 son., added to
a sweepstakes of 5 son. each, for all ages ; airmen extra.
T.Y.C. &trance 1 en. each, to go to the race laud.
Ms Dointimarow Pure (Ilsodscap) of 50 son., added to
a sweepstakes of 5 son. 41041. 2 ft to the faad, for all ages ;
snood to man his stake ; wiaaers extra. About three-
quartin a a sails.
y(35l whs.)
a II
lb l
Tad Ibsen ll Rai Are i l
Bbdblll
YT Mary 4 0 141010 Po I
Doncaster
lacks • 13 Reperan 3
Walloon 6 20 Medals a
rippler
Wank LlUy a lleranns a
Plesmore
David Ann I =lie $
Reindeer
et Deb 3
Polynesia
Certificate 4 Peneversaw 3 2
Villa
P4/17/1 4 13 lams Ilerbw3 2
=".l 3 12 OW Puller I
4 11 libellous .. Poi
Wee

JOE Rugs

kitideßfal Gruen.

(TROY • COMBPONDINT.)

June last the Ashford News, and others of the
Kent localespece, contained an ascount d o*ts
1141117 occurrences which had disturbed the penes, sad pro.
domed great excitement in the quiet liW. villages of Bil-

[Merton-rd Boaaingtoo, in &Missy Marsh. A house in
one of them was reported to be haunted, " the furniture of
which" it we. said " has jumped about the room. in the
met unaccountable manner, aril it has dashed itself to
pions against the walls. The crockery ware has danced
about the place like puppets Meg upon wires, sad
after performing some extraordinary evolutions, has sprung
witk a sadden jerk up to the coiling, sad destroyed its use-
fulness for ever. Pails of water have gown about the house
like soap bubbles is a high wised. TM flour crock, without
soy visible muse, we. broken to pieces, and the Boar scat-
tered in all directiom Boot, and shoes galloped out of one
ram into another, as though they were looking for some OM
to put then on and wear them. Bedroom ware has walked
down the stain step by step. The beds that woes made in
the morning ready to receive their ocoupante at night were
found loft before that time turned topsy-turvy, with the
Meek and Muskets tangled together like a colt's mane after
it is mid to have been ridden by witches. A book put
away at the very top of the house came rumbling and tum-
bling down the staircase, and on reaching the bottom, with
a sudden boned, dared the hitches, flying straight through
the already sashed window iato the garden. Absurd as
this story may appear a great many persons give credence to
the whole of it, and also to a great deal move than is here
stated. One thing is quite certain, there are the broken
things, but by whceerigency they were destroyed at present
is may known to the destroyer.' The South Easier,' Meanie
of June 23rd adds to the above that this marvellous story
" has induced numbers from Hythe and other places cook-
gems to repair to the mime, some of whom are satisfied with
ea exterior view of lM house; and the fright with which it
is viewed by the sedulous is really amusing, and yet pitiful
to Titoism"

The following is the result of the penemal feguiries I have
made oe the spot into these circumsteasa ; my stay at the
MS side having given me the opportunity of • day's excur-
sion (August =) into the neighbourhood :
The witless@ of Bilaingtou and Booningtra lie midway
betimes the Smooth statioc of the Etrattli.Emtere main Elsa
sad the Hem-street ststiou of the Ashford end Hastings
braneb. Bileiesters is the site of • lofty monameet,
is the obelisk form, erected by the reformers of
Lot Kest, In 1835, to the memory of Sir Wil-
liam Richard Gamy ; a medal loadaserk to • stranger
rashly veatering to leam;the high read mad try a sheet wet
emcee the lowed meadows. The home alluded to is at
the extreme sad of the edjoiniag perish of Bennington, sad
is • double one-story cottage, brick sal timber built, about
RIO yards from • small lea of the better sort called the
Royal Oak. This cottage has long been oompied by the
female of two laboarieg men, Gates and Lackhuret, whose
humble eempatioa te hie his been last of shepherds, or
"lookers," as shepherds are milled hers. Gates at ow
time bad been well to do ia the world, baring somesheep of
his own ; bat he bad become chargeable to the parish, and
regains' medical attendee" he bad been ordered into the
union workhouse, where he subsequently died. The occur-
more in gasetica, or whatever formed the foundation of the
reports, comniesced before hie death and soon after his
removal.

Tlll Ks=we PLLTI el 25 sera., added too sweepstakes
el ssess. se& ; weight fir so, with selling allowaeces.
Three-querten eta vile.
Thu Few BUCK limns.
Aga at lAAxe 81
4 11 0 Flower, of 84144 y. Vl2
1 10 10 Golden Drop, by
1 10 7
lag= 3 9 7
ladybird 6 10 7

Ostler

The subdues of the facto,! prosaically told, is that for
several days in sucomaioe, beginning oa the Bettuday and
ceding ou the Tuesday or Wednesday, and chiefly whoa no
one waa or the premises (or known to be so) but woman and
&Urea, Anne noises were heard in the house ; some'
those ia or. men, sometimes is smiths, ; after which fund-
tare wee foand thrown dowa or displaced, bed clothes In
ocishuios„ articles of yeasts' apparel, with bowls, pails,
he., kind about, and glees and mockery teokee, principally
the window panes (ahem in frost sad some at the bask),
and five or six lugs earthenware milk jars, the hvgmenta
of,which and of other dem& are lying in the yard.
These thiags always hemmed in the daytime; some.
times in the preens* of seared neighbours ; nothing ow-
! warred at night; •adthe annoyanees were oontined to the
side of the house in which Gates had lived, mid which was
still occupied by his wife and moo. The wife (him Gates
as she is celled here, the %esti& pesemah7 ignoring among
themselves the use of the word mistress), at old woman
of 75, very feeble, walking with difficulty on crutches,
unable to mount the stairs without smistaoce, and de.
pendent in smaller matters ups the services of • little
maid-otall-work, Ann Smith, • girl of 14.
Isouiriag what had bees seta whoa the different articles
mo►d were in actual motion, 1 was informed that when
the Bible Sew down the stairs (the proper place of which
wee on the bed-room drawers), it struck as it passed one
of the Luddism's children, • girl of eleven, with sufficient
violates to have • black mark or her shoulder. The girl
lusself, coaling forward, pulled up her slier. to show me
where the mark had bone, sod her word might be taken
he It ; but there was nothing to prowe that the Bible had
not bees thrown at her free the stair-bead. The two
families, living in the cottage, have their own separat, front
and back doors, but the rune staircase is common to both ;
and the rooms thus oommuaiati•g internally, offer great
facilities for the unobserved Ingram and epees of soy' stirs
penult playing a mischievous trick. We have to sit up,
however, another theory to explain some parts of the en-
deem

ILre. Lockheed was standing in the yard by the paling
when the serthatware crock was brakes, and the sour it
cvatened mattered. She saw (se abs says) Ann Smith
carrying the crock and setting it down by the kitchen door,
when the erock seemed saddealy jerked out of her hands,
mid the Sear "steamed up" to the ceiling in • sett of
ebbed, Asa Smith at the same time cryiog oat, mad taming
pale with fright

Mrs. Luiskinret (a striking contrast to her neighbour) is
• Lae specimen of a strung hardworking woman in rigatoni
health : although the mother of nine children living, mostly
• up bud miLtheir own .hands, without counting those
ohs has lost, more than she could remember ; and she stood
h•PiOre met with her area iskimbo, denouoeing with! an
swgaeos hich Ghidstone might envy, the absurdity sad

lunatics ul theganapasioua Was hart Imo dirtitted aiahasn
An 8. —I was sot the pnn to tall her that she was
Itweaacioni cs "saying thythiag, that was sot." Nothing
wow,. yersuali4 Mrs. Lualinurat that what was done was

not toe work of on evil epttkt ; and she regretted she we;
'Re satalar, for sibs "had hand my there was a certain
chapter in. the Bible which, if properly read, nu evil
awns could stead." Whale 'bytes it wedge did eat
know, and unhappily I could not inform her.
Lackburet, then busload, oasis the fields at the time, and
laughed at • what•twaer toldibint of "the, goings 011" It
Lunar in his abseoce, butibecame so grave sod frightened as
the,resti on his return. The excitement incressiag,
new rector of Bileingtoa and Booningt,a, the Rev. 1i
Oarnaron, came, mw the broke. things, was shown the dis-
turbed beds, had them remade, looked the door, and went
away with the key in his pocket, returning at ten, when
he found everything so be had left it. Another girl has
replaced Ann Smith, and sines she left, and Gstas died,
there has been no renewal of the disturbance. ; bat a subse-
quent investigation through the polio. bee failed to bring
them home to their author.

I have noted these particulars because although it is
" beleft" by the magistrates, as I wee told at the Bilsington
National school, that the noises heard and miachief perpe-
trated originated in natural muses, there is now sufficient
evidence that we are not yet conversant with all the
natural muses which may be ommected with similar biota,
some of which reminded me of the supposed magnetic in-
fluences of Aogelique Cottia, to whack the atteutios of
Arno wee drawn, in 1844 and others of the tossing about
of bed-room furniture pereedlog the death of General
Won, mentioned in "The Diary of an Austrian Secretary
of Legation.' mast], published. Moreover, if we are to
object with some writers to Mr. Hume, that the
manifestatioss of his alleged powers have bean confined
shirty to the higher Teske, we mum sot blow hot and cold
with the seine breath, mod refuse the testimony of the 4mor,
when offered, to analogous effects. If ignorant and super-
: stitiotia, we have io the Romney Marsh poolentry the ad-
vantage of witomees who had never heard of •• spirit rap-
pings, and are cartaisly nose of them reader. of the
ISpinisal Magazine. We know absolutely nothing of the
source sad astute of our vital powers, autti while it is per-
fectly brae we shall not clear up the mystery in which they
are tavelved by referring everything new and strange
to the suposetural, it is aqui], certain that we shall sever
*Mead our ksowledge by generabsing sad dismissing eoe
set of effects as those of "involuntary motion" (which ex-
plains nothing). and getting rid of others which we do not
understand by the too easy method of attributing them to
imposters. Wits. some Meads of kr. Black were Met
shows the buoyancy of a bladder inflated with hydrogen gas,
thorylbad to be takes isle a room above the laboratory of the
chemise, to be enoviscod that there was so bole fa the floor
through which the bladder might not have besot draws up
to the ceiling by a fire tead. There wee, however, so
floe thread, aad there was siothiag is the bladder distio.
pisbabki by the friss& of Dr. Black hymn common
We mow ad mat pees as " things invisible" that may pis
ael as Molest ,as
Nhy *on ail be Wen?

TEM EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVEN-MG, SEI TIMBER. 1, 1863.

tit.

SHERIFFS' COI/RT.—Amapa 31.
(Before Fred. Gibbons, Em.)
tetnewoon o. vas Loaning GUMMI, inginnva mown.
This was an arnica by a cab.owaer sad driver spinet the
Leaden Goiters' Omnibus Company for driving with violence
against and damaging the plaintiff's cab.
Mr. died, We barriatsr. proved that in the omath of Jail
last he took the ash in angetioa at the South-Western Rail.
w•y Btatioa. when, creole( Waterloo-bridge, on the id t
=value to the kerbotooe, the omnibus driver, who was
in the opposite direction, drew from behind a large
van, in attempting to part which he ran violently against,
nearly ovezewsing the nib, which result was only hiadered
by the wheels of the cab being dere up to the pavymest,
couch Immo than ordinarily elevated as Waterloo-bridge.
Isother gentleman was called: who swore that there were
two feet, at least, between the cab and the pmerosat.
His Honour, however, said be wondered the owe satisfac-
torily proved, and gave judgment for the plaintiff.
Mr. lewis appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Beard on be-
half of the company.
CLAYTON V. GODDINGIL—BILIZAIDS.
This was an action to mover 131. ed. for curtain genies
of billiards! plaintiff being an hotel harmer, sad defendant
a commercial traveller.
Ris Honour—l think you are out of court, Mr. Clayton,
rrtlagiun.
otiptortiff—f own
Plaintiff— air?
His Honour—100 say "games of billiards," and I am sot
ants that it is a lawful game.
Plaintiff—We are obliged to have aliases, and I believe
it has been laid down that a licensed victualler can recover
far his tables, but I have sot brought the book with me.
His Honour called for the Act of Parliament, 8 sad 9
Vim., but it wee not in court, and it was suggested that
plaintiff could recover for the use at the table.
His Honour—Bat be tulle It "gams of billiards," and
I hold that it is an unlawful woe.
Plaintiff—The point was settled in this court some time
ago, and then I recovered a verdict.
Kr. Buchanan—l was in that rasa and the sabjeet matter
was of a very differeat kind. That scam was for the hire
of a table by • marker.
His Honour—Yes, that is another thing altogether.
Plaintiff—Bat we are required to take out a lionise for
billiards, and it would be Mad if we cannot recover.
His Honour—lt is a game of skill sad Mame, end may
be celled gambling ; but defendant does sot appear. How
long would he have the tables before 19s. tid. would be
dm
Plaintiff—Oh, 12s. 6d. meld be run off is two bowls.
His Hasour—Well,w defendant ts not here yea will to
cover far the use of the tables. but Ido not think that
billiards I. a nodal peas.
Verdict for the plaintiff.

.1881Z.E INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRClllT.—Czoirpow, Almon 31.
(Be[on Mr. Bann Clanton mad • Commas Jury.)

sannaos a LAWSON.

This was an action to recover damages for • breach of pro-
mise of marriage.
Serjeast Shoe and Mr. Ribton were for the plaintiff ;
ale&t Parry for the defendant.
action was disposed of an Saturday. The parties
were in aa humble ppoouutioo of his—the plaintiff being the
daughter of • shsemaloer, and they resided at the east mid of
the awe. It•ppeered that the lady wee Wirers of age, and
the defendant was her senior by about ID years, so that
there wee scabies very romantic in the affair. The promise
of megrims was contained in • letter, or rather the post-
script to • letter, writtes by the defendant, in which he
told the plaintiff that be had got • situatioa tar her. la the
postscript be said," he bad forgot to tell her that the situa-
tion he bad got for her was to be his wife ;" and the learned
set** who appeared for the plaintiff, mid he had he.
vanish bra it stated that ladies were is the habit of put-
ting the most important portico of their correepondence in
the postscript, but in this one the gestlernan hod undoubt-
edly dose so.
lierjeut Parry, in his address to the jury, urged that the
plaintiff had really sustained no damage by not bevies •
mast so much older than herself for • husband, and his
observations were chiefly with • view to reduce the amount
of damages.
The jury returned • verdict for the plaintiff, with 501.
damages.
The business of this protracted anise waa brought to •
°occlusion this afternoms, having isanipied molly four
weeks since the opening of theoseeniesiee. The cams, how-
ever, with very few ea centime, were of the most trumpery
character, and some idea ini this may be formed from the
fact that, in twenty-three tenses that were tried, the whole
amount recovered was 1231. If a very large number of the
cellar had not bens either withdrawn or settled, the semis.
would Dave lasted another fortaight.

THE DISTRESS IN La_VCASIIIRE.

CENTRAL. BELIEF FUND.

The weekly meeting of the Central Executive
Committee was bald in the Manchester Town-hall )ester.
day, the Fort of MOW presiding ; sod there were also
prevent—Lord Fortes of tton, Lord & Howard, M.Y.,
Major Egerton Leigh, Mr. H. B. Farnall (oomaiieseower),
Mr. W. Huteltiece, Mr. G. L. Ashworth, lb. M. Roes, Mr.
Jae. Worrell, Mr. Hugh Masao, Mr. J. S. Stem, Mr. A. H.
He wood., Mr. IL H. Hutchinson, Mr. J. W. Maclure, Mr.
J. , Mr. Jeeb. Penton, the Mayor of Manchester
Mr. Itawlinson also attended.
Mr. MACLUIII/, the bon. seareter7, reported that the
balance in the bank wee 307,2971. 15e. 6d., and Mkt
!atOa. 9d. had been received during the week. No
g had been revived or sent 08.
Mr. Fanners read the following report: _

" Manchester, 81st August, 1863.
"My lords and gentlemen,-1 beg to inform you that,
ea the 22ed bleb, there wee a decrease of the slumber of
moons receiving parechial relief is 27 maces is the cotton
manufacturing districts, ea compared with the number so
relieved in the previous week, of 1,251. This decrease of
1,251 is explaioed as follows: There is • decrease at "abbe-
uoder•Lyne of 300, at Barton-upoe.lrwell of last Black-
, burn of 100, at the Yylde of 6, at Oustaag of at lbw
chaster of 576, at Prestwich of 51, at Boob of 702,
at Saddleworth of 87, at Salford of 360, at Stockport
of S at Todmorden of 5, at Warrington of 10, and
at Wigan of 12 ; making • total decrease of 1,124 i.
Bet there ran imagism at Bolton of 72., at Burnley
of 112, at Bury of 9d,maatcssz of 6, at Chariton of
52, at Glossop of 35, at n of 122, at Lauder
at 8, at Leigh of 9, at of 27, at Oldham of 105,
and at Preston of 26, making • total menses ef 672 ; so
that there is a bet decrease of 1,251, and Uwe the 6th of
December het • total &mesas of 127,003 bee token place.
There were, as the 22nd bid, 144,980 maces receiving
parochial relief in the 27 unions adverted to ; is the earns-
=Tweek of 1861 46,277 persoos ware MO relieved.
s, therefore, an increase of 98,703 pumas in the
sessipt of parochial redid, or 2131 per seat. In the car-
responding week in 1862, 134.738 peewees received par°.
Ghia relief. The total weekly wet of outdoor relief on the
226 d instant was 6,9001, Bs. 4d. ; in the etersonooding
week of 1861 it wag 2,2661. 10s. 3d. ' • there is, therefore,
an isineue of 6,6461. 18s. led., or 20416 per rent. In the
norreepoading week of 1862 it was 7,6311. 8a 2d. The
average per agate's of pauperism ca the population of
them Uli0•11 cm the 92ad argent was 7.3 ; I. the agerspoed.
ing week of 1861 it was 2.4, and in the corresponding week
is 1802 it was 6.7. The account of mosey in the bends of
the tremarers of the above unions, on the Zdad instals% was
90.1261. 19s. 2d. 1 annex a table to this report, showing
the asenbare of old sad infirm proems, the number ei able-
bodied males, the bunks' of able-bodied females, aid the
number of children who were receiving parochial relief, en
the 22nd instant, in sash of the unites adverted to; the
total number of each clam bring 100 old and 'Alm per.
soot, 16,691 able-bodied make, 30,344 able-bodied females"
and 63,966 children under 16 years of age. The last,
returns made by the committees of charity in the cocks
manafacteriag districts show that they were maintainieg
78,980 persons who were not receiving parochial
relief. On the 22cd instant, the number of able-bodied
adults sad children ia rueipt, of parochial relief es/1110,M
and of that number, 150 per cent. were males, 280 per
coat. were fameles, sad 5711 per cent. were ohildrea.
Presuming that the committees of charity do not
for old and infirm persons, and that the
1.
78,990 persons whom they do maintain reprereat
the same proportioo of dame as the pauper
there us 11,847 ahls.bodied males, 22,117 able-
bodied females, and 45,016 children &prudent on charity.
In the swept*, therefore, there are 28,438 able-bodied
males, 52,441 able-bodied females, and 106,981
under 16 years of age, who aro now maintained either
out of tb• rates or by charity, together with 34,100 old
and infirm perms, who are &loudest on the poor retie,
making a total of 222,960 persons.-1 am, my lords sad
gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" H. B. Passau, Special Commissiour."
ILr. GOODLII, during a discussion ou the application of
the Public Works Act, mid the experience in Preston was
that the operation of the act would be isterfered with by
the comparative gout:ease of skilled labour, which would
be rushed to a lame extent for the execution of works
already acestemplated there, and if this could not be ob-
tained there would be • difficulty in employ* the full
amount of unskilled labour which might otherwise be made
use of._ _

Major Eoistrox LIME thought that the number of Un-
skilled workmen out of employ would probably locreses as
winter approached.
Mr. Goorcux rid he could *sprees no opinion upon that
biot. He referred nacre especially to the scarcity of
ricklayers and stesenomoos, es proved by practical expe-
rience. _ _ _

111r7Itawtraitos said this diSculty was perhaps not to
be regretted, as it might lead ultimately to highly bese-
ficial by inducing the several local authorities to
select, a, first experiments, thaw warts which wadi
employ the largest amount of unskilled letionr. Marry
applications had already been made for mosey to exeente
works involving large outlays upon skilled labour, sad is
some cases they were for objects which probably the
public might think should not have bees asactioned. He
wee sot sorry, therefore, on account ci the fact nientiosed
by Mr. Goodair. Although the poor•law board did not
wish to be too rigid on this point, it was certainly axpested
that the authorities would mint works which would absorb
the greatest number of Unskilled laboviren. In reply to
the noble chairman, Mr. Bewlieson, added that a west.
derable portion of the money asked for was to be plied
to the erection of public buildings. Re also steard -that
the whole of the applications which bad been soot ia to
the poor law board, up to the date of his kat caillaisl re-
, poet, amounted to 169,7291., sad applications had since
bees made for 529,0001., making a total of 608,729&, or
very nearly half the sem seactioesd by parliament. It
should be remembered, however, that most of the large
towns were included in this statement. The Mayor of
Manchester had informed him that the corporation of
Manchester contemplated asking for a much greater sum
than he mentioned Last week (100,0001.)
The CiAIIYAN said the mayor bad stated to him that
nearly 200,0001. would probably be required for Mea-
-1 chaster. - _

Amor% the smote subsequently made were 1,5001. to
Glossop, 1,5001. to Manchester, 7501. to &Word, 4501. to
Aabtoo-noder•Lyne, 4501. to Stalybridge, 2001. to balite-
field, 1001. to Tintwietle, 1201. to Broadbottom and Charles-
worth, 601. to Leyland, 801. to llottramln-Loi gdendale,
50/. to Newahurch-m•Romendale, and other smaller sums,
making a total of 5,400/.
Thu concluded the business.