The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-06 00:00:00

week ending April 25, shows the following results as corn
pared with the last week in March :-Increase in tb
number working fall time, 33,816; increase of nura.be
Working four or five days, 1,300. Under the followra.
heads there was a decrease in the numbers stated:-
Working three days, 18,233 ; working two days or au
der, 3,174; entirely out of work, 24,954; total num
ber of opperatives, 11,295; estimated loss of wage!
£16,339; number of persons relieved by commit
tees, and also receiving relief from guardians, 18,341,
not in receipt of parochial relief, 42,662; total, 61/00'
Employed under committee, either in work or educe
tional classes, men, 2,414 ; boys under 15, 10,537; women
and girls, 7,198; children at school for whom
catraorttei
pay, 1,300; total decrease, 21,460.-The Hon. Secrets
l
stated that there were sent off last week 10 packages '9
clothing, 2 hampers of wine, and 19 barrels of fhur. TbE
total receipts for the week had been 45,787 ; and for.thi
month of April £20,531. The banker's balance Wal
£392,868. Mr. Farnall presented the following report
" I beg to inform you that on the 26th ult. there was a d?'
crease in the number of persons receiving parochial relief 10
27 unions in the cotton manufacturing districts, as gym.
pared with the number so relieved in the previous Week' of
5,373. This decrease of 5.373 is explained as follows
There is a decrease at Ashton-under-Lyne of 627, at 13itr;
ton-upon-Irwell of 21, at Blackburn of 261, at Bolton 0
252, at Burnley of 192, at Bury of 191, at Chorley of 67,
at Chorlton of 184, at Garstang of 19, at Glossop of 28, at
Lancaster of 9, at Leigh of 103, at Macclesfield of 311 at
Manchester of 1,369, at Oldham of 245, at Preston of 7329 f
at Prestwich of 32, at Rochdale of 589, at Saddleworth ()
69, at Salford of 166, at Stockport of 121, at Todmordea of
54, at Warrington of 102, and at Wigan of 38 ; Waking:
total decrease of 5,502. But there is an increase
Clitheroo of 21, at the Fylde of 51, and at Haslingdell 11;
57; making a total increase of 129, so that there is a
decrease of 5,373, and, since the 6th of December last' a
total decrease of 79,275 has taken place. There
were, 0.0
the 25th ult., 192,708 persons receiving parochial relief 111.
the 27 unions adverted to; in the corresponding Week
1861, 49,271 persons were so relieved; there is, therefor..
an increase of 143,437 persons in the receipt of paroclo
relief, or 291.1 per cent. The total weekly cost of outd°sr
relief on the 25th ult. was £12,346. 12s 5d ; in the Carr
sponding week in 1861 it was 42,390 18s 7d; there 1:
therefore, an increase of £9,955 13s 10d or 416.4 per ssli
The average per tentage of pauperism on the popalati-
mi
of these unions, on the 25th ult. was 9.7 ; in the
sponding week in 18.31 it was 2.5. The average ars°2-
t
of outdoor relief per head per week, both in money
kind, in these unions, on the 25th ult. was is 41d.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—May 5.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. Elliman, manager to WI
W. H. Smith and Sons, the well-known newsvendere
booksellers, of the Strand, waited upon the magistrate
make a statement with a view to warn the public 913111/°tof
system of fraud which was being carried on by the used
the name of that firm. It seemed that some person was
the habit of calling at the houses of members of the 0°.:;
lity and gentry who were known to be out of town, P",O
leaving a book, in some cases two, and in one install t
three, neatly made up into a parcel, and inscribed as B,Bnof
from Messrs. Smith. In each case he claimed payment
a small sum of money, the amount being marked on the 5...‘"
side. His appearance being respectable no suspieit°l2,,i;
raised, and the money was in each case handed t°„;
without hesitation. On the parcel being opened RS
ten's were found to be worthless. As an example, Ittb;
Elliman produced a parcel, which had been left at
state
house of a gentleman in Hyde-park-gardens, with a st:ne
ment that it had been ordered from Messrs. Smith Tbe
Sons, and was to be forwarded to the gentleman is
,it
country, It was marked " 15s. to pay." The money
at once paid by the housekeeper, but it afterwards aPPe"::r4
that 123 such parcel had been ordered, and upon belt
opened it was found to contain three dirty old hooka, stlip
as might be purchased for one penny each in lidits,
street. In other instances the price marked wax
6(1. In two cases it happened that the person
charge of the house, having no silver, gave the teas a —l,os
reign to get change. He went away for that purpose,
of course did not return with the change.
The magistrate—lt is elearly obtaining money under of
pretences. I will issue a warrant if there is any ehan°6
finding him.
Mr. Elliman—Our chief object is publicity—to pu-
t
public on their guard.
The magistrate—Oh, but he ought to be punished im".
hope at his next attempt he will be given in custody.

MARYLEBONE.—A lodging-house keeper, it;
Onslow, of 61, Mai ylebone.road, attended before gr.
ley to lodge a complaint against the workhouse authersio
of St. Marylebone for refusing to admit his servant.
was suffering from smallpox, into the infirmary. tlo
After some few remarks, Mr. Yardley sent Burnagef
summoning officer to the court, to request Mr. TublAiip
overseer to the parish, to attend, and on his coming
Yardley said—This man has been making an applicatisli
me about a servant of his who has the smallpox. Fie uto
I
me that you said you could not take the party in. it r.O. 1
sad case for any one to be suffering from such a couple
and not be able to be taken into the house. _ tot

Mr. Tubbs--I am sorry to say it is not the only one, 'is
just as I came here another person requested an order :o°,
me, as his son was down with the smallpox. 11% 4
from the Marylebone-road. The hospitals are all femoor
we don't know what to do. In company with the ooh
mittee appointed by our guardians, I went to lligbfo
raer
Hampstead, Hornsey, and other suburban places, f ; I
to see if we could not get some empty house or buto-
cll
which to take the cases occurring in the parish, but d"-
we mentioned the nature of our business to the agen'ta
tioil
landlords, they at once would not entertain our aliPliel:t 41
for renting their premises. In fact they closed the-seri'
once. Some steps now, as the matter assumes such 1/0,4
ous aspect, ought to be taken by the Government' tote
morning a case was brought under our notice where
ten cases in one room. 00
Mr. Yardley—The matter is now beginning to 909
rather alarming aspect. is
efi Mr. Tubbs—We have sent round to other parr irets
London to know if they will join us in erecting an
_lF'
hospital on some of the outskirts for the reception of 0
pox patients.
Mr. Yardley—Have you ",no place to hold Your
smallpox patients ?

Mr. Tubbs—Our smallpox hospital only holds four'
Mr. Yardley—No more I I don't know whether
discussion will have any beneficial effect. I 11013° u a
it ired
Here is a disease going about amongst us, and which "lots
one ought to strive to do what they could to suPPrese.
must do what you can for this patient.