The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-26 00:00:00

BLACKBURN.

The great decrease of employment in the cotton manufac-
tories during the past fortnight is now being sorely felt.
During last Thursday and Friday no fewer than 300 appli-
cations were made to the Relief Committee by persons
whose families numbered 1,600 souls. The ablebodied in
90 cases, chiefly heads of families, were put to outdoor
work on private contracts, and the rest had general relief
administered to them. In this way the number of persons
employed by the Labour Committee and the corporation on
private contracts and on public works under the now Act
has been augmented to nearly 1,200, little more than one-
third of whom are engaged by the corporation. The great
bulk are employed on private contracts and in improve•
ments in the parks by the Labour Committee, the funds of
which aro provided by the Relief Committee and the Board
of Guardians. The great depression of trade has been felt
throughout the union, and considerably increased the
demands upon the public rates. In the Blackburn relief
district there has been an increase of 595 recipients of
parochical relief during last week, 4,956 persons having
been relieved with £2644s 6d, against 4,361 persons with
£221 15s in the preceding week. In the anion the entire
number of persona to whom parochial relief was administered
was 6.768 at a cost of £371 2s 4d, against 6,236 persons with
£324 2s in the past week, and 9,951 persons, with £617
9a 4d, in the corresponding week of 1863. Of those re-
lieved, 1,022 belonging to the Oawaldtwisle district received

£65 is 7d, and 790 belonging to the Darwen district re-
ceived £4l 16s 3d. Taken collectively, it will be observed
that last week the increase of recipients of relief in the
Blackburn district only was quite 2,000 persons, or con-
siderably more than the increase of the previous month.
It is also to be deplored that the condition of the cotton-

trade renders it almost certain that a large decrease of work
will ensue this week in this district, especially in the weav-
ing departments of the extensive cotton manufactories of
Blackburn and the surrounding manufacturing townships.

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