The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-28 00:00:00

THE LATE RIOTS.

STALEYBRIDGE, Friday.
There has been no renewal of the late disturb-
ances, but out of the 13 adult schools in the town
only three have as yet accepted the proposal of the
committee, that the relief should be given half in
money and half in kind, by tickets on shopkeepers.
The scholars of the central school, many of whom
are Irish, have to-day declined the proposal. This
afternoon they were invited, and attended in con-
siderable number, to meet Sir J. K. Shuttleworth
at the Town-hall, to hear an address from him on
the subject. The Mayor and Mr. Commissioner
Farnall were present. The latter took no part in

the proceedings.
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adopted for the relief of the distress in Lancashire
by contributions from all parts of the empire, and
the great exertions that had been made by all
classes with that object, especially by ladies. The
£1,000,000 or £1,200,00 that had been subscribed
would certainly not have been forthcoming, nor
probably £lOO,OOO, had it been supposed that the
working classes of Lancashire were impatient under
trials which were the fault of no class in the coun-
try, or ready, as in former times, to rise at the in-
stigation of any ignorant, selfish, or passionate agi-
tators. The relief given in the neighbourhood of
Ashton and Staleybridge had keen in excess of that
in almost any other parts of the county. It had be-
come necessary to take measures for the im-
partial apportionment of the relief funds. He be-
lieved the proposed reduction of 4d. per head in the
payment to those attending school was generally
acquiesced in. With regard to the opposition to
distribution of relief by ticket, he believed that there
was no such difficulty as had been alleged in ob-
taining change from shopkeepers for the tickets; but
whatever might be the grievances, the complainants
had not, as it behoved them to do, made in the first
place a temperate representation of them to the local
committee. The authors of the late disturbances
had done not only themselves but the working
classes of the wholo of Lancashire a deep and last-
ing injury. They had produced an impression which
would add force to the views of those who were
anxious to reduce the political power of this district,
to represent the district as of no importance to the
commonweal, but rather an element of disorder,
tumult, and danger than of strength and security.
Those who entertained the sanguine hopes that had
been expressed by the friends of the working men,
that they had hire, based upon increased intelligence
and increasing sense of public duty and respect

for property, a stabler condition of society than
existed in any other part of the empire, would re-
ceive from all sides the rebuke of scorn and disbe-
lief in consequence of those riots in Staleybridge.
The manly, patient, and intelligent conduct of the
working classes of Lancashire formed one of the
most powerful practical arguments for the exten-
sion of the electoral franchise. But now if any man
desired to find an objection to that argument he
would say, " that is a delusion, these men are for
the time being quiet, but they cannot resist the
pressure of the evil consequent upon dependence ;
let them for a few months be dependent upon the
bounty of the public, let them for a few months have
to suffer privation, and to live upon only one third
of their earnings, let them for a few months be dis-
sociated from the discipline of the mill, and the
ordinary regulations under which their life has in
times past been spent, and they are like
children, they quarrel with the first diffi-
culty they encounter ; being incapable of rea-
soning, they act with insensate passion, disturb
the peace, violate property, rob shops, disturb
and injure defenceless people, they assault the house
where a sick woman has since died, and, insensible
of the degradation of insulting a woman, they cause
loss of life by their violence and insensate animo-
sity." Sir James concluded by advising the atten-
dants at the school, on reflection, to accept the com-
promise that had been offered them by the commit-
tee. He read them the substance of the following
address from the Central Executive Committee to
the operatives of Staleybridge and their families :
" We have been entrusted with large funds for the relief
of distress, and we are distributing them with every sym-
pathy for your wants, and with every care for your welfare;
those funds cannot be claimed by any particular district, but
are to be given where we think it best, taking into considera-
tion distress, good behaviour, and local circumstances gene-
rally. We deplore the disturbances which have recently
occurred. We hope they are not shared in by a very large
number. If they are continued, we know that there are
many elsewhere who will gratefully receive all we can afford
them ; and the Boards of Guardians, the ordinary channels
of relief, arc always open to others. We, therefore, appeal
to all among you, who value our relief, to aid us in our
wish to continue it to you. We beg you, consequently, to
avoid and discourage meetings which may lead to disturb-
ances, and to assist, to the utmost of your power, the local
authorities and others, whose duty is the preservation of
order for the good of all. We deeply sympathise in your
distress ; none of us know how long it may last. We must,
therefore, be prudent in distributing that relief which the
generosity of tho public has given, but which disturbance
will cause to cease. Unless order is duly preserved, mat-
ters must pass from our hands into those of the constituted
authorities of the country,
" Signed for the Committee,
"JAMES P. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, Vice-President.
" WILLIAM MACLUILE, Honorary Secretary."
The Rev. Mr. HILTON, Roman Catholic, was ad-
en this report was des-
dressing the meeting
patched.
It is understood that a meeting of the school at-
tendants will take place to-morrow morning, to re-
consider the question.
The reference in one of the concluding passages
of Sir J. Shuttleworth's speech was to Mrs. Bate!,
the mother of the secretary of the local Relief Com-
mittee, whose house was attacked by the mob,
where the lady was lying ill, Mrs. Bates divd twig
morning.

INSANE Pooll.—On the Ist January, 1862, there
were in England and Wales (not including a few
parishes making no returns concerning their poor) 946,166
paupers chargeable to the Door-rates, and of this number
2
34,271 were insane—namely, 22,060 lunatics and 11,311
idiots ; in other word., 3'62 per sent. of the pauperism vvat
as
1.19 per cent. 14,936 were males, 19,335 females.
16,318 were in county or borough lunatics asylums, 1,193 in
thecrfidba idiots
to insanity, the lunatics being 2'43 per cent., and
registered hospitals or licensed houses, 8,603 in union or
parish workhouses, 985 in lodgings or boarded out, an 4
5.172 resided with relatives,

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THIS EVENING, EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day.
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Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Mrs. Ed-
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To conclude with DUCK HUNTING.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
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THIS EVEN LNG, March 28, to commence with an Ori2,-inal
Pketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
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THIS EVENING (f'or the Benefit of Miss A-ay Sedzwick),
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Nl's. H. Marston.
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