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

CENTRAL RELIEF FUND.

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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, M.P., Colonel
Wilson Patten, M.P., Messrs. A, H, Heywood, R. Glad-
stone, Hugh Mason, W. Roberts, G. Ashworth, S. J.
Stern, 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 •
chester.

The HON. SEQUETARY reported that £1,146 3s lid had
been received during the past week, and that the balance in
the bank was £264,466 6s ld. 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 8d had been received from Edinburgh, and
£278 9s 9J 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
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.
But there is an increase at Barton-upon-Irwell of 8, at
Bolton of 35, at Burnley of 21, at Bury of 26, at Chorlton
of 44, at Clitheroe of 40, at Lancaster of 7, at Macclesfield
of 63, 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 6'5 ; in the corresponding week of 1861 it
was 2.4 ; and. in the corresponding week of 1862 it was 10.8
The amount of money in the hands of the treasurers of the
above unions, on the 24th ult., was £74,136 3s 3d."
The HoN. SECRETARY read the following resolution,
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That the cordial thanks o
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and liberal contributions towards the relief of the distress
which has so long prevailed, and, although in a less degree,
Manchester Central Relief Committee for their very kind
passed by the
Council."
be recorded in the Minutes of the
A grant of £2l was made to Moseley, and £2 Ss to New
still prevails in Blackburn. and that a copy of the resolution
Mills on account of t 1 superinte dence of labour.