The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-04 00:00:00

CENTRAL RELIEF FUND.

The weekly meeting of the Central Executive Committee
was held in the Town-hall, Manchester, on Monday, Sir J.
Kay Shuttleworth in the chair. There were also present
Lord Egerton of Tatton, Lord E. Howard, MX., Colonel
Wilson Patten, M.P., Messrs. A, H. Heywood, R. Glad-
stone, Hugh Mason, W. Roberts, G. Ashworth, S. J.
Stem, M. Ross, G. L, Ashworth, W. Rathbone, jun., H.
E. Farnall, J. J. Worrall, J, Platt, R. M'Clure, J, Fenton,
J. W. Maclure, honorary secretary, and the Mayor of Man •
cheater.

The HON. SECIRETA.RY reported that £1,146 3s lld had
been received during the past week, and that the balance in
the bank was £264,466 6s Id. One parcel of clothing, two
bags of coffee, and one bag of sugar had been received. One
bale of clothing had been sent off. He further stated that
since the receipts for last week had been made up the sum
of £245 4s Sd had been received from Edinburgh, and
£278 9s 9d from the county of Stafford. In explanation of
the comparative largeness of the receipts this week, he read
a letter from Messrs. A. Kinnaird, L. Haighe (treasurers),
and J. Fahsy (hon. secretary) of the Water Colour Pain-
ters' Lancashire Relief Fund, London, enclosing a cheque
on Ransom and Co., bankers, for a balance of £904 16s 9d
from the fund raised by the distribution of a collection of
323 pictures, in addition to £5OO previously remitted. The
collection was valued at 4,500 guineas, and the committee
regretted that the subscription had thus barely exceeded
half that amount.

Mr. Commissioner FARNALL read the following report :
" I beg to inform you that on the 24th ult. there was a
decrease in the number of persons receiving parochial re-
lief in 27 unions in the cotton manufacturing districts, a s
compared with the number so relieved in the previous week,
of 1,255. This decrease of 1,255 is explained as follows :
There is a decrease at Ashton-under-Lyne of 312,at Black-
burn
of 18, at Chorley of 7, at the Fylde of 49, at Garstang
of 11, at Glossop of 196, at Haslingden of 339, at Leigh of
Bolton of
e 35 iii,
18, at Manchester of 300, at Preston of 77, at Prestwich of
39, at Salford of 23, at Stockport of 126, at Todmorden of
80, and at Wigan of 3; making a total decrease of 1,598.
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of 44, at Clitheroe of 40, at Lancaster of 7, at Macclesfield
of 68, at Rochdale of 44, at Saddleworth of 37, and at War-
rington of 13 ; making a total increase of 343, so that there
is a net decrease of 1,255, and since the 6th of December
last, a total decrease of 142,474 has taken place. There
were, on the 14th ult., 129,509 persons receiving parochial
relief in the 27 unions adverted to ; in the corresponding
week of 1861, 47,014 persons were so relieved. There is,
therefore, an increase of 82,495 persons in the receipt of
parochial relief, or 175'5 per cent. In the corresponding
week of 1862, 210,686 persons received parochial relief.
The total weekly cost of out-door relief, on the 24th ult.,
was £8,041 Os 6d ; in the corresponding week in 1861, it
was £2,379 14s sd. There is, therefore, an increase of
£5,661 6s Id, or 238.0 per cent. In the corresponding
week of 1862 it was £13,392 12s 3d. The average percent-
age of pauperism on the population of these unions, on the
24th ult,, was G's ; in the corresponding week of 1861 it
was I 4 ; and in the corresponding week of 1862 it was 10.8
The amount of money in the hands of the treasurers of the
I above unions, on the 24th ult., was £74,136 3s 3d."
The HoN• SECRETARY read the following
resolution,
Blackburn .
il of ----,,Resolve—
d
ssed by the Town Council .
pa,
thanks of this Council be tendered to the
the cordial
Manchester Central Relief Committee for their very kind
and liberal contributions
towards the relief of the distress
although in a less
which has so long prevailed, and,
and that a copy of the resolution
still:prevails in Blackburn,
the Council."
be recorded in the tiinute3 of M
sae
and £2 8s to New
A grant of £2l was made to 0
y,
of labour.
Mills on account of the tuiperinte deuce