The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-19 00:00:00

WIZ D/141/1203 IX LANCASHIRE.

MAtraunt-Rouss Comurrritit—ln the course of
yesterday Um Lord Mayor received se additiosal sem el
LOW. from Calcutta Auld LIOK from Madras. Mors leas
also a moo of 2351. reesived from the Hebei sad fonism
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Chrietchnrch parish, Blackfrlsrw, 2501. ,_• Moen mid See-
mats of the Buffalo sad Lake Hama Bidlersy, 1611. 17s. 34.;
H. Buckley, Req., liedeirs, 501. ; St. Ana's Church, High-
gate-rise (fifth collection), 641. ss. 7d. ; Si Yates
1..80w, 951. • Enloe, Beds (mooed instalment* 501. ;
Alms-box, Christ Church, North Brixton, 541. 13. 3d. ;
the Proprietor of Lloyd's Weekly Paper, from the readers,
3031. 10a. ; collected at • public meeting at the Town-ball,
Windsor, 313/. 10a. ; Lady Olivia B. Sparrow. 200/. The
total sum received during yesterday and Wednesday was
shout 9,500/. In consequence of the law not allowiag the
poor-law guardians to relieve any of the operatives bolding
• share or shares, however small is amount, in the an.
=tve stores or mills abounding in Lancashire, and the
universal refusal of the relief committees to grant
them any aid from the public fund. until they have dis-
posed of these shares, these men are in a worse potato.
even than their less frugal brethren tinder these circum-
stances, the Rev. Mr. Verity, the chairman of the East
Lancashire Central Committee, in which district co-operstion
mostly flourishes, there berr'aagg about twenty thousand
members of co-operative eoci ble. is the various towns
in East Lancashire, attended se • deputation at
the hi analog-bowie committee yesterday, with the
view of inducing that committee to lane out ar-
commendation to the local committees in coo omion with
it to relax the rule they am Dow so generally enforcing,
and not to insist upon the co-operstore welling their shame
at • ruinous sacrifice before receiving relief; and aka to
obtain a special grant for the committee in East Lancashire.
Mr. verity was accompanied by a deputation from the lige-
don Working Men's Central Committee. The deputation
were very courteously received by the Rev. Mr. Gibbs, ens
of the secretaries dthe Mamion.house Committee, who,

hay* Batumi with meth atiselise S. their statements,
regulated Ow might be put in verities, which having been
tha=geedied to lay them before the general committee
CENTRAL Ratan ]blip.—The receipts on Wed-
indeetell is L 11.523/. 17a 101, of which 3.0001. was
from (k addition to 1
,010004,pey received),
Loom from Merl of Sefton, 1 from the FYI of
Balcarres4 4001. fees St. Pancras, 1,0001. from Warrington,
and 1,000/. from Cork. The Mayor of Cork, in trans-
,
mitting a beak order for the admit, states that the meet-
iog in that (city, under his presideocy, "wee not only
one of the moat numerously sod influentially attended of
any within my remembreees as a citizen of Cork, bet it
represented alleluias, creeds sad penguin our community,
each wing with the others is the promotion of the dai-
mon object." He further states that the collection roads
at the meeting, &Mounting to 1,1201.. was the largest ever
subscribed on any one domino in that city. In a week
hence, be mays, he shall have the honour to transmit the
second instalment of 5001.. which will leave a balance to be
forwarded in a few days after. A communication from the
Mayor of Preston states that Mr. Ashcroft is not the *hair-
man of the relief committee of that town, as stated in •
paragraph in the Times oo Saturday lass, and that his letter,
appended to that paragraph, relative to the continued dead-
butiou of the funds by the London committee, was set writ-
ten in his official capacity (he is town clerk and chairman of
the board of guardians), bat only conveyed his individual
opinion. A " Manchester Merchant" (anonymous) has mat
to the committee 500 blankets, 209 pairs of goloshes, 100
mud boots, 00 cloth-hoed goloshes, and 30 dome pain of
stockings ; 300 pairs of dogs to follow.
NOTTINO-HILL •ND BAYSWATER. —Last eight, an
influential and numerously -atteoded meeting of the gentry
and residents of Notting-hill, Bs. water, and the district,
was held in the New Victoria. Hall, Archer-street, Notting-
hill ; the Very Rev. Archdessod Sinclair in the chair, sup-
ported by Mr. Hanbury, M.P., Mr. Potter, H.P. chair-
man of the Manchester Chamberof Oommeree, lion. E. .
Curzon, Mr. J. Heywood. Rev. Dr. Hassey, Revs. J. P.
Hill, J. Turner, J. Offord, and others. The rev. chair-
man, in opening the proceedings, referred in general
terms to the extent of the distress now prevailing in the
cotton district*. and earnestly urged upon the islisbitents se
the wealthy sod extensive districts of Notting-bill and
Bayswater the nodosity of exerting themselves to the utmost
during the winter in aid of their suffering feleow-oonntrymea
in Laocashire. Mr. Hanhury, M.P., then moved the fin* re..
solution sympathising with the distressed condition of fdr-
operatives in the cotton distriets, and the fortitude they
had displayed in oodeeding with the eximitig calamities. No
doubt there is great distress in Loudon, bat the, most sot
harden their hearts agaimit, or relax their bawls from giving
in behalf of Lancashire. Mr. Heywood, of Manchester,
esoooded the resolution, and read a letter from Mr. Burnell
Ourney, lately on the circuit sashes in the north, stating
that although there was so much distress in the afflUted
districts it was gratifying to find that there was no crime
ascribable to that cause. Other gentlemen present baring
spoken in favour of sobsequent resolutions for organising a
general subscription throughout the district, the proceedings
terminated with a vote of thanks to the reverend diairman.
BURY. —The returns of the relieving officers laid
before the Bury guardians on Wednesday showed that there
had been a slight decrease in the numbers relieved during
the put week. Is the Bury district 2,919 perms, had been
relieved, at a cost of 2021. 2a. Id. ; Tottington, 1,911, at a
net of 1371. fe. 3d. ; Pilkington, 1,882. at a met of 1991,111. 10d. ; Heywood. 4,536, at • cost of 266 i. 1:e. 4d. ; total,
14297 , at a oast of 7281. 18s. 6d., against 11,406,
and 7401. 55.6 d. is the previola week.