The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

THE DISTRESS IN LANO4SHIRE.

The Central Executive Relief Committee at
Manchester held a roasting yesterday, the Karl of ELLIa
fiat in the chair. Amongst the noblemen ain4dAteispr...dlterscli
tirr.„,:d, Sir J. Ka. •Shuttleworth wen Lard Egerton of,
Tatra Wilson Patten,
retturerr=mralivut;ii MThre,.d thLhidwoagir of Maa-
William
I Roberts, N. Eckereley, AL Rom, S. J. Stern, G. L. Ash-
worth, J. R. Hutchinson, William Risthbous, jco., H. B.
Fainall, A. H. Heywood, J. Worrell, and J. Ptebinsan Kay.
The draft of a circular addressed by the committee to
boards of guardians waa discussed and approved. The draft
of a letter to the various local relief committees, suggesting
the best plan for eilleiently working the several districts, was
also read, and after 110010 dismission it was resolved that it
should be printed and placed in the heads of the executive
committee for further consideration next week. The Mayor
of Manoheeter laid on the table a telegram he bad received
from Victoria (Australia) announcing that the nun of
6,501/1. had been subscribed in that colony for the relief of
the distress in Lancashire.
The bora secretary was requested to write as early as the
name end address of the correspondent am be ascertained,
to aoknowledse the communication, and to enema the
grateful acknowledgments of the committee for the liberal
anbeeription, and their gratification at this proof of the
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sproMil from the Rama estate& primate of Aahton
tead relative to the ormatitutios of the new local re-
lid committee of that town. A letter from the town
clerk of Manchater was read, stating that on the 2nd inst.
a numerous meeting of the officers and employes of the
corporation was held, and the following resolution pared :
"That this meeting, deeply sympathising with the dis-
taste now prevailing, and being of opinion that all persons
ought, to the extent of their abilities, to sasist in its allevi-
stun, determine to contribute weekly in aid of the fund for
the rebel of ,the distress in the manufacturing districts."
The town clerk further said that the resolution had since)
been geserallyapproved, and that the members of the police
force, the men in the employe( the gas committee, the scaven-
gere, and lamplighters, and in fact the whole of the working
men in every department of the corporation,had agreed to oon-
tribute weekly. The first weekly contribution amounts to
221. 6s. The town-clerk concluded by hoping that weekly
contributions will be given by the employes in every ware-
house and workshop in the city and elsewhere, as penny and
halfpenny subecriptious on a large seals would amount to a
considerable sum weekly, and would be missed by none.
The hoc. secretary read • letter from Mr. Gibbs. t e boo.
secretary of the Lord Mayor's fund, in which be called the
attention of the Manchester executive to an expression used
by the Mayor of Manchester to the effect that the Loodor.
committee had been egregiously imposed upon. The hon.
secretary stated that in reply to the letter he informed Mr.
Gibbs that the Manchester committee could only be respon-
sible for its resolutions, and that at meetings where repro-
mutatives of the press attended the remarks of
any gentleman might be taken down, for which
the committee could not be responsible. The boo. secre-
tary, in his letter, went on to say to Mr. Gibbs that the in-
formation on which the Mayoral Manchester's remarks were
founded was obtained from private sources, and he was not
inclined to withdraw any portion of what he had said ; also
that the committee were acquainted with one case where the
Lord Mayor's committee had made • grant which could
hardly be justified. Finally, the bon. secretary had furnished
Mr. Gibbs with • list of places to which the Lord Mayor's
committee had forwarded 3,0001. up to the end of August,
and to which the Manchester committee had refused aid on
account of the smallness of the local subscriptions as com-
pared with the wealth of the district, or from there being
no satisfactory mesas of distributing the money when for-
warded. The hon. secretary read • letter from the secretary
of the 84. Pancras perish Relief Committee, stating that an
effort was about to be made there, and that the funds would
be forwarded for distribution through the medium of the
Manchester Ceotral Committee. A subscription of 301. bad
been received from a benefit performance at the Queen's
Theatre, Manchester.
Grata were made of 1001. to Dukinfield, 3501. to Wigan,
2501. to Oldham, and 301. to Heaton Money. The grant to
Oldham was accompanied with an intimation that the com-
mittee would desire to bring under the immediate and most
serious consideration of the local relief committee the im-
portance of organising forms of work suited to the age,
strength, sex, and capacity of the recipients of relief. In
making the grant to Heaton Mersey the com-
mittee called attention to the sin illness of the rote
of relief given by the guardians at that place.
A grant to Hurst was postponed, with an intimation that
there would be a personal commturieation as to the amal-
gamation of the two local committees existing there. Grants
to Ribchester,Bbuttleworth, and Ramsbottom were also poet-
pond, on the ground of there being no local subscriptions.
An analysis of the accounts of 24 unions usually engaged
in the cotton trade was laid before the committee by Mr.
Fantail, in which the increase of pauperism and the increase
in outdoor relief were distinctly stated. It would appear
from this analysis that in those unions there was an in-
crease of 98,111 recipients of relief as compared with the
corresponding week bud year ; and that the amount of out
relief in those unions per week now amounted to
7,9221. Se. lid., whereas it amounted only to 2,1601. 16e. Bd.
in the corresponding week of last year. It wu further
stated that in twelve of the principal townships in the
cotton district the local relief committees were aiding close
upon 100,000 persons.

The Preston relief committee, in their report
issued on Saturday, state that during the week which
ended on that day they distributed 56,4921 b. of bread, and
11,528 quarts of imp and coffee to the poor. The number
of CUM was 5,803, the number of persona relieved 24,064,
end the expenditure 4741. Be. In comparison with the
previous week these figures show the following increase
cases, 168 ; persons, 568 ; and expenditure, 191. 18a. If the
distress continues to inCTOSSIN another appeal for aid will soon
have to be made by the relief committee.

The following is the variation in the amount of
pauperism in the undermentioned union., on a com-
parison of the fourth with the third week
of August. The total number of paupers in the
third week of August in the section of unions
marked c was 116,720 ; in the section 6, 28,250; and in the
section 4 26,120 :—a. Fourteen unions have mom: Ashton-
under-Lyne, 1,190 ; Birmingham, 50 ; Blackburn, 620 ;
Bolton, 120 ; Burnley, 290 ; Bury, 390 ; Chorley, 50;
Chorltco, 270 ; Macclesfield, 110 ; Manchester, 470 ;
Oldham, 80 ; Preston, 400 ; Rochdale, WO ; Wigan, 80.
Total, 4,670.—b. Eight unions are, in respect to the amount
of pauperism, the same as in the previous week : Coventry,
Eccleshall, Bierlow, Hulingden (no return this week),
Leeds, Salford, Stockport (no return this week), Stoke-upon-
Trent, and Warrington. —e. Three unions have leas: Li-
verpool, 110 paupers; Nottingham, 40; Sheffield, 70.
Total, VD.
A large increase of destitution has taken place in
the Blackburoe district since our last wake. About 15,000
persons are out of employment in the town alone, while
' • large number are out of work in the perishes of
the union. Allowing the small average of 'we persons for
one unemployed, there is a population of 30,000 living on
charity. The returns of the relieving officers p'esented to
the guardians at their weekly meeting last Saturday show
that no fewer than 14,997 persons have been relieved in the
union during the past week with 812 f. 14a. 6d., against
14,457 pemous with 786/. 14s. 7d. in the preceding week,
and 2,403 persons with 1281. 4s. ftd. in the corresponding
week of last year. During the week 30,200 lb. of bread sod
28,3201 b. of oatmeal have been given by the relief com-
mittee, against 27,9921 b. of bread and 27,8871 b. of
oatmeal in the preceding week. The relief food now
amounts to 7,7401. 10e. Bd., exclusive of 6001. contributed
for the employment of operatives on the Infirmary
grounds.