The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

DESTIIU7ION 1N GLASGOTV.

Three months ago we considered it our duty to
draw the attention of the public to the sad condition
Of the operatives in Glasgow connected with the
cotton-spinning and weaving trade ; then, from
statistics we published, it was shown that the dis-
tress amongst the cotton factory operatives, although
pressing most heavily upon those of Lancashire,
was not confined to them, but that in this city and
neighbourhood sufferings of a very poignant nature
being endured. The statement we published on the
18th of August showed that there were 4,417 per-
sons totally out of work, 4,118 working half-time,
1,664 working two-third time, 1,628 working three-
quarter time, and 4,380 fully employed. Soon after
that statement was published the Lord Provost
called a meeting, and an influential committee was
appointed to collect subscriptions and relieve the
necessitous. That it was appointed not an hour
too soon has been shown ever since its ap-
pointment; and this fact will be made more ap-
parent from a survey of the statistics col-
lected during the present week. The executive
relief committee, since their appointment on the 2d
of September, have given weekly assistance to
between 1,800 and 2,000 individuals. One day this
week a member of the committee had himself no
fewer than between forty and fifty applications for
schedules. Of course all of those who have got re-
lief are now on the list, as from various causes a
number have dropped off or been struck out, The
paucity in the number of applications for relief,
when compared with those who are actually un-
employed, is accounted for by the fact, which has
been proved by the domiciliary visits of the sub-
committees of relief, that applications are never
made until sheer want compels them. The quiet
suffering that has thus been endured is beyond re-
cital. The executive relief committee are fully
aware of the whole circumstances of the sad case,
and are doing all they can to cope with its exigen-
cies. They were invested with full powers from the
general committee appointed at the public meeting
in September, and accordingly at once set about
organising means for the collection of subscriptions
and the distribution of relief. Although they
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by no means out of funds yet, still undoucbomteiiny
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LARGE SHIPMENT AT LIVERFCOL OF WAR MA-
TERIAL FOR TILE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT.—AI9OUt
with goods packed in cases,and
eight days ago, a fine screw steamer, the Nicolai 1., Capt.
Flenley, quietly slipped out of the Huskisso Dock, uhere
steamedshe
up been
no
loadingthe:_- loyn e , whe r e she 1a y for sumoeAhtetlriamsnteatmhee
en-
veloped in the dense November fogs. she was ostensiblybound for St. Thomas, in thecrelpirtest Indies
Nicolai I. (which had more than once changed
and engaged in short Baltic
our,
before, in
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dense
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material on board, and is now far ,ofwbweraer,
at least, she is not likely top be captured, being a vessel of
up
lay in the Huskisson Dock huerrinbgoi itheee weretime
severelythe
eld.
first-rate sailing powers.
by hydraulic power, in order to ascertain what pressure
they could bear, and the result was satisfactory, so that in
all probability •
she will get safely to Charleston, whither
she is bound. The N, '
icolai I. has been c'uarteredby awell-
known Liverpool merchant, whose stock of war materials
and resources is said to be second to none in the Xingdoni.
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