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As a Loan and Investment Company it cannot fail to show
leatisfactory results. Money may be invested to almost any
extent in first or preference mortgages, of the amplest secu •
!!tton landed property in the South African Colonies, at
es varying from G to 12 per cent, per annum, thus yield-
lug a large profit over the cost of money in England; and
as it Will be the object of the Directors to raise money on
uebentures of the Company or otherwise, to be specially
ll!applied to loans on such first mortgages, it becomes matter
easy calculation that the profits to be made by the Com-
pany in this department of its business will be highly re-
munerative.
Arrangements are in progress for the immediate corn-
bletcement of the business of the Company in all its de-
tAkrtments, and the Directors will give their especial at-
ention to the selection of efficient and well-qualified ma-
rs.
nowers will be taken in the Articles of Association for
O facorporation with this Company of existing Compa-
-8 of like object in South Africa.
As this Company is established at the urgent request of
'ulluential colonists, who are prepared to invest in the Coro-
tuaY to a considerable extent, 2,000 shares will be reserved
allotment in South Africa.
preuch provision has been made by the Directors for the
,itninary expenses as will secure the Company against
ZaYillg any sum whatever in the nature of promotion money,
46 tpd theareholders Articles of Association will contain a clause giving
Sh the power to fix, year by year, the amount
„,the Directors' remuneration.
'Jae head office of the Company will be in London, but
1:04,;11 eflices and local committees, under the control of the
,s`..lo:n Board, will be established in the chief towns of
uutia Africa.
Application for Shares to be made in the following form,
Ither to the Brokers or to the Secretary of the Company.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
'° the Directors of the South African Irrigation and In•

vestment Company (Limited),
Gentlemen,—having paid to your Bankers the sum of
the bein a deposit of £1 per Share on Shares in
v nuove Company,
I hereby request that you will allot me
Cl„t number, and I agree (according to the form prescribed
11 'he Articles of Association), to accept such shares, or any
OP number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles
aAssociation when required ; and I request that my name
Y be placed on the Register of Shareholders for the Shares
c 0 allotted,

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By order, STANFORD S. SMITH, Sec.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PAntoicEsS—ller Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PntstbtNt —Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum-
berland, 11.0., p.n.s.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Bating, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CllAlßMAig—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.H.8., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has incurred expenses amount ng to £27,260 on
various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of England,
Scotland, and Ireland.
During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution
have been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the follow-
ing Vessels :
Barque Vermont, of Llalifax, U.S. .. .. 16
Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .• .. 2
Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby , . 5
&neck Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis 3
Steam Dredge, at Newhaven 9
Schooner Adinikal Hood, of Rochester .. .. 6
Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. 5
Schooner Rose, of Lynn .. 3
Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. • . • .
Brig Elizt4 of Middlesborough • . • •
Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg ..
Brigantine Diana, of Frethikshamn
Brig Gloucester, of South Shields
Brig Lovely Nell);, of Seaham
Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford • •
Schooner Prospect, of Berwick ..
Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose
Schooner Jane Ropet, of ITiverstone
Brig Palls %of Shields ..
Ship Anti Mitchell, of Glasgow ..
Sinack John Bull, of Yarmouth ..
Schooner Catherine, of Newry
Barque Niagara, of Shields ..
A Barge of Teignmouth • • ••
Brig George and James, of London
Brig Zephyr, of Whitby
Coble Honour, of Cullercoats •
Schooner Eliza, of North Shields •
Barque Oberon, of Liverpool .
Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth
Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth
Brig Scotia, of Sunderland ..
Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole
Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .
Brig Ann, of Blyth
Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves-
sel and one of the crew) ..
Sloop Hope, of Dublin
Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth . 5
Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and
crew) • • •• • • ' • ' • ** • • 4
Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8
Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and
crew) .. • • • • • • • • • • .. 6
Smack Hereon Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved vex-
and crew) .. . • • • • • • • • • .. 3
Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew 4
Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives • •
Fishing-boats of Whitburn
Brig Arethusa, of Blyth •• •• ••
FlatSScchhoomCnnymee • •
Schooner
rvg.DaeeiwisliioaWfrafoeaf,uomrnfoParrieramorts m.abde. oo
Smack Gipsy, of Newry
Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston ~
Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .. •
Schooner William, of Liverpool .. ,
Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown
Brig Providence, of Shields ..
Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle
Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood
Barque Guyana, of Glasgow
Brig Roman Empress, of Shields ..
Brig San Spiridinne. Clalaxidc-
Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna
French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese
Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough
Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater
Ship Danube, of Belfast •• •• ••
Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover ..
Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven
Brig St. Michel, of Marans ,
Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam ..
Barque Druid, of Sunderland
Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay..
Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon •1
Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich .. 5
Brig Minerva, of Workington
Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6
Brig Sisters, of %4 hitby 9
Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm .. .. 4
Brig Jane, of North Shields .. 10
Brig Trial, of Poole .. '
Schooner Liberty, of Dublin ..
Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and
crew) • • • • • • • • • • Barque Frederick, of Dublin ..
Barge Peace, of London •• •• ••
Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .
Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. ..
Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft ..
Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen . 11
Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish
coast
Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone ..
Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk ..
Schooner Rook, of Liverpool • •
Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland
Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth
Schooner Friends, of Lynn • • • •
Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin
Brig Content, of Sunderland
Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. ,
Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda .
Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. .
Sloop William, of Liverpool ..
Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth
Portuguese Barque Cruz V. ..
Ship Annie E. Hooper. of Baltimore, U. 5...
Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester

OLMAR EVERT EVENING.

Les Freres Conrade on the Low Rope (without balancing' pole).
—Les l'etites Monstres.—The Olympic Wonders—Pas Seul
by Lord Dromedary. -Mrs. Bryan, Wieland, Woodman, &c.
—Grand Musical Entertainment of Sixty Performers. First
appearance of the celebrated Talliotts on Monday next, Bth
December.

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A RGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street,
Raymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.—
fspen every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the
elebrated Band of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal
rornet-a-Piston, M. 13OULCOURT.—The new Imperial Qua-
Talse Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'DayValse will
he played nightly.
A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above
i'stablishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.—
Admission lA.—Manager, M. Grenet.

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For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has
voted £2,458 as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It has
also granted rewards amounting to £572 for saving 562
shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak_
ing a total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during
the last two years and a half.

The number of lives saved by the Ltfe-boats of the
Society and other means, since its formation, is 12,890;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
.£lB,OOO in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-can 'ages, and Boat-houses.

The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts
now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship-
wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at
the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions
the Society has made within the past few years, it has now
One Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man-
agement, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough
needed,effien it its
cy, alharumgeanpeermmiaszneontisanntoubaelpienrpcoemtueatie.
is absolutely
!Mee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
triTbhuteioCnosi

X s. d

. annual 50 0 0
Her Majesty the Queen • • •
6 -.. 11.
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25 0 0
Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. .. don.
annual 10 0 0
CAleLrka,deyoaltonl:l,itßh.,Ap.er W.
G.
.S.later,'E q. do 100 0 0
Bankers .. ..
Coutts and Co., Messrs., 10 10 0
Erle, Lord Chief Justice • • • • • • don.
ErLeANescirs(4.. Nrillirbo., Bankers :. don. 21 0 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2adondon. 253
00 00
Lanesborough, the Earl of •• .. .. annual 50 0
Trench,
,RLeavd. Gy .HBe B. e n a
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Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of
Salford..
sßtoibrlainrtge,s,CTol..JiAr• •• 100 0 0
Henry,— ••
Martin, Sir ry Bart... .. 7th don. 10 0 0
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gAatfibEos.4, M.P.MK: CP:B .
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by ail the Bankers in the United
Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at
the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Lon-
don, W.C.

GLASGOW, Nov. 29.—Cotton—In the early part
of the week there was a rising tendency in the cotton mar-
ket, but it closes steadily at a decline of id per lb. from the
highest point. Goods and yarns—The market was brisker
in the fore part of the week, but there was no quotable
change in prices. Iron—The pig-iron market has shown
great steadiness th is week. Again considerable parcels
have been pressed for sale, but all have been absorbed with-
out materially affecting prices. The movement for ad-
vanced wages gains strength. To-day the tone of the mar-
ket has been pretty firm ; a limited business took place at
565, one month, closing steadily. Buyers at 55s 9d, prompt
cash, and 56s 6d three months; sellers asking 11d per ton
more. For shipping parcels the current quotations are :
G.m.b., No. 1,55 s 6d ; No. 3,53 s 6d ; Gartsherrie, No. 1,
57s 6d ; No. 3,54 s ; No. 1 Coltness, 57s 6d ; Calder, 56s
3d ; Glengarnock, 55s ; Forth, 54s 6d ; Kinniel, 54s 9d.
STRANDING OF A WHALE.—The Beluga, one of
the monsters of the eeep, was left on the beach by the ebb-
ing tide, on Saturday last, at Robin Hood's Bay. It is
supposed to have been dead ten or twelve days. It mea-
sured in length 17 feet, and 12 feet 10 inches in circumfer-
ence at the thickest part. The blubber was taken off by
the fishermen the following morning. The Beluga, or
white whale, is a native of the high northern latitudes, and
is one of the most beautiful and active of its race. Its
colour is pure milk white, sometimes tinged with a rose
colour, or a slight wash of yellow, and the skin is very soft,
smooth, and slippery. The flesh of this animal is eaten by
the Greenlanders and other people of the Arctic regions.
It is as red as beef, and of somewhat similar flavour. The
female produces one or two at a birth, towards which she
displays the strongest attachments—Yorkshire Gazette,

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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDMSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1862:

THE LANCAsHIBB DISLRESS.

COUNTY MEETING AT MANCHESTER.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 2.
A county meeting of the inhabitants of Lanca-
shire, convened by the Lord-Lieutenant, was held
in the Town-hall this day. Among those present
were the Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley, M.P., the
Earl of Sefton (Lord-Lieutenant), the Earl of Wil-
ton, Lord Skelmersdale, Lord Egerton of Tatton,
Lord Grey de Wilton, M.P., Lord Edward
Howard, M.P., the Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., Mr.
Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., Sir T. Hesketh, M.P.,
Mr. Bazley, M.P., Sir Robert Gerard, the Hon.
G. Cavendish, Mr,, W. J. Legh, M.P., Colonel
Gray, M.P., Sir H. de Trafford, Colonel Black-
burne, Sir J. L. Bardsley, Canon Stowell, Colonel
Munn, Sir I. K. Shuttleworth, Mr. H. B. Farnall,
C. Turner, M.P., Sir E. Armitage, Sir T. B. Birch,
the Meyors of Manchester, Preston, Warrington,
Ashton, Blackburn, and Stockport; Messrs. H.
Ashworth, S. Ashton, N. Eckersley, T. Clegg, J.
Heald, R. Ascroft, L. Heyworth, Entwistle, W. A.
F. Saunders (High Sheriff), &c.
On the motion of the High Sheriff, the Earl of
Sefton, lord-lieutenant of the county, was called to
the chair.

The LORD-LIEUTENANT briefly explained that
he had convened the meeting in consequence of a
requisition ne nan receives rrom Lb.—Gm-16v° com-
mittee of Manchester, and that its object was to ob-
tain a declaration of the intention of those who were
connected by property, or other ties, with the
county, in case the present alarming distress in the
cotton districts should continue. They had openly
given out that they were desirous of obtaining as-
sistance from all parts of the country, and in answer
to their appeal very large sums of money had been
contributed; but they had been fairly reminded in
the public prints, and by their private friends, that
more was expected from those whose landed pro-
perty, or sources of A ealth, were more particularly
connected with the distressed districts. The noble

lord called upon the Earl of Derby to move the first
resolution.

The Earl of DERBY, who was received with great
cheering, said—My Lord Sefton, my lords and gentle-
men, we are met together upon an occasion which
must call forth the most painful, and at the same
time ought to excite, and I am sure will excite, the
most kindly feelings of our human nature. We
are met to consider the best means of palliating—
would to God I could say removing—a great na-
tional calamity, the like whereof in modern times
has never been witnessed in this favoured land—a
calamity which it was impossible for those who
are the chief sufferers by it to foresee, or if they
had foreseen to take any step to avoid—a cala-
mity which though shared by the nation at
large falls more peculiarly and with the heaviest
weight on this hitherto prosperous and wealthy
district—a calamity which has converted this
teeming hive of industry into a stagnant desert of
compulsory inaction and idleness, and which has
converted that which was the source of our greatest
wealth into the deepest abyss of impoverishment—
a calamity which has impoverished the wealthy,
reduced the man of easy fortunes, brought distress
upon those who have hitherto been somewhat above

the majority of the world, owing to the exercise of
a frugal industry, and which has reduced
honest and struggling poverty to a state of abject,
humiliating destitution. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen,
it is to meet this calamity that we are met together

to-day, to add our means and assistance to those
efforts which have been so nobly made throughout
the country generally, and I am bound to say in
this county. also, as I Shall prove to you before I
have closed my remarks. (Cheers.) 1 know how
impossible it is by any figures to convey an idea of
the extent of the destitution which now prevails,
and I know how impatient large assemblies are of
any extensive use of figures at all ; but at the same
time it is impossible to lay before you the whole
state of the case without trespassing on your atten •
tion with a very few statistics which shall show
throughout this district the extent, if not the prey •
sure of the present distress. I think I shall best
give you an idea of the amount of the distress and
destitution if I do so by very shortly comparing the
state of things which existed in the districts
to which I refer in the month of September,
1861, as compared with the month of Sep-
tember, 1862, and that again, which is only about

two mouths ago, with the latest information we
have up to the 22d of last month. Now I find that
in a district comprising in round numbers 2,000,000
of inhabitants, in the fourth week of Sept., 1861,
there were 43,500 persons receiving relief; in
the fourth of Sept., 1862, there were 163,498 per-
sons; and in the short space which has elapsed since
the last week in September and the third week in
November, the number of 163,000 has increased to
259,385 persons. (Hear.) I will now compare the
amount of relief supplied by the parochial funds
during the same periods. In Sept., 1861, the amount
of relief given per week was £2,259; in Sept.,
1862, it had increased to £9,674; and in the week
ending Nov. 22 it amounted to £17,681. The prU-
portion of those receiving parochial relief to the
total population was as two and 3-10ths per cent. in
Sept., 1861; as eight and 5-10ths per cent. in Sep-
tember, 1862; and as 13 and s.loths per cent. in
Nov., 1862. (Hear.) Here, therefore, we have
more than 13 per cent. of the whole population ac-
tually at the present moment depending for sub-
sistence upon parochial relief alone. Of the 259,000
persons receiving relief there were 36,800 old and
infirm, nearly 98,000 able-bodied adults, and nearly
124,900 under the age of sixteen years. But it
would be very far from giving you an estimate of
the extent of the distress if we were to confine
our observations to those who depend for support
upon parochial relief. We have evidence from the
local committees which we have extensively em-
ployed, and whose services have been invaluable to
us, that of persons not relieved by poor rates, but
relieved by local committees, there are no fewer in
this district than 172,000, making a total of 431,395
persons out of 2,000,000, or 21 7-10ths of the whole
population—that is, more than one in every five—
who are dependent for their daily existence either
upon parochial relief or upon public charity.
(Hear.) Now, I have said that figures will not
show sufficiently the amount of distress, nor I am
happy to say, will figures show the amount of re-
lief contributed for remedying that distress. But
let us take another test, and let us examine what
has been the result, not upon the poor who are de-
pendent for their daily bread upon their daily
labour, and many of whom are upon the verge of
pauperism from day to day, but I will take as a test
what has been the effect upon the well-to-do arti-
san, upon the frugal, industrious, saving man, who
has been hitherto somewhat above the world. I
have but an imperfect test, because lam only able
to obtain the amount of deposits withdrawn from
the savings banks—the best of all possible tests if
we could carry it up to the present day—up to the
middle of June last, when the distress had hardly
begun. I find that from seven banks alone in this
comity, in six months, and those too in which the
distress had not reached its present height,. o
thing like it, there was an excess in the withdrawal
any-
thing
of deposits over the ordinary average it
withdrawal to
the amount of £71,113. (Hear, hear.) Now, re-
member that this is up to June last, when the pres•
sure had hardly begun ; and from that time it has
been found impossible to obtain from the savings
banks themselves such returns as would enable us
to present you with any further estimate of the
existing withdrawals; but that they must have been
very large must necessarily be inferred from the
great increase of distress which has taken place
since the large sum I have mentioned was with-
drawn in excess of the ordinary withdrawals. Now,
gentlemen, picture to yourselves, I beg of you, what
a state of things this single sum of £71,113 in ex-
cess of the average withdrawals from the savings

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reference to political or religious optgonsir-ldisC-
. buted with the most perfect impartiality, and in
levery locality, through the instrumentality of par-
ties in whom the neighbourhood reposed confidence.
Such has been our endeavour, and I think we have
been successful. (Cheers.) With these observa-
tions I have only earnestly to request you this day
to do your part towards the furtherance of this good
work. I have no apprehension that, if the distres
should lost for five or six months longer, the spon-
taneous efforts of individuals and public bodies,
and the contributions raised in every part of
the country, will fail short of that which is
needed for enabling the population to tide
over this deep distress, and I earnestly hope
that, if it becomes necessary ultimately to appeal to
Parliament as a last resource, the representatives of
the country will not grudge their aid. Ido hope
and beli..ve., :however, that with the usSisti.nce oft he
machinery of ine bill passed last year, and which
will come into operation after Christmas, this great
manufacturing district wILI be spared the humilia-
tion of coming before ParliamOr as a claimant or
suppliant for the bounty of the nation at large.
(The noble earl resumed his seat amid great cheer-

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banks presents—what an amount of suffering, what
an amount of disappointed hopes, and what a
prospect of future distress, this fact lays before you
for the working and industrious classes. (Hear,
hear.) Why, gentlemen, it represents the blighted
hopes of many a family. It represents the small
sum set by by honest, frugal, persevering industry,
by vears of toil and of self-denial in the
hope of its being, as it has been in
many cases before, the foundation of colost;a1
fortunes. But it also represents the gradual
decay of the hopes for his family of many
an industrious artisan. It is the first step in that
downward progress which has led to destitution and
pauperism. The first step is to withdraw the sav-
ings of honest industry, and that is represented by
the withdrawal from the savings banks. Then comes
the sacrifice of some little cherished article of furni-
ture, the cutting off of some little indulgence, the
sacrifice of that which gave to his home an addi-
tional appearance of comfort and of happiness ; the
sacrifice gradually, one by one, of the principal
articles of furniture, till at last the well-conducted,
honest, and frugal, saving workman finds himself
on a level with the idle, dissipated, and improvi-
dent—obliged to pawn the very clothes of his family
—nay, the very bedding on which they lie, to ob-
tain the simple means of subsistence from day to
day ; and encountering all that difficulty, encoun-
tering all that distress, with the noble independence
Mitch ao anything rather than depend on
public or private charity, and in his own simple
and emphatic language declaring, " Nay, but we'll
clem' first." (Hear, and cheers.) Now, gentlemen,
this leads me to observe a more gratifying point of
view—that of the noble manner, a manner beyond
all praise, in which this deep destitution has been
borne by the population of this great county. It is
not the case of ordinary labourers who find them-
selves reduced a t rifle below even their former means
of subsistence, but it is a reduction of the pecuniary
comfort and almost of the necessities of men who
have been in the habit of living, if not in luxury, at
least in the extreme of comfort. It is a reduction to
two and three shillings a week of sums which have
previously amounted to 255., 305., and 40s.—a cutting
off of all their comforts, of all their hopes of future
additional comforts or rising in life—a feeling—an
honourable, an honest, but at the same time a morbid
feeling of being indebted under these circumstances
to relief of any description or kind. I may say that
among the difficulties which have been encountered
by the local relief committees, no doubt there has
been many of those not among the most deserving
who have been clamorous for the aid held out to
them, but one of the great difficulties of the local
relief committees has been to find out struggling
and really distressed merit, and to overcome that
feeling of independence which even under such cir-
cumstances like these shrinks from being relieved
Bradloi,
even by private charity. (Hear, hear.) I know Earl
Lord Kingsdown
that eases of this kind have happened—that cases Lord Grey de Wilton ..
have occurred where it has been necessary to press 6ir T. Birch
on individual persons, themselves on the point of Messrs. Rathbone and C"
-
starvation, the necessity of accepting this relief, and The
from this place I take the opportunity of saying—
and I hope it will go far and wide—that in circum-
stances like the present, discreditable as habitual
dependence on local relief may be, it is no degrada-
tion, no possible cause of blame that any man, how- Mr. J. C. Ewan, __
ever great his industry, however high his character Mr. Anderson
or noble his feeling of self-dependence, should feel Mr. J. Heald
himself obliged to have recourse to that christian Sir '1"
charity which I am sure we are all prepared to give.
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I might here, as far as
the resolution I have to propose is concerned, close
the observations I have to make to you. The reso-
lution I have to move, indeed, is one which calls
for no extensive argument, and which, with a plain
statement of facts such as I have laid before you,
is sufficient to obtain your unanimous assent. The
resolution is—" That the manufacturing districts of
Lancashire and the adjoining county are suffering
from as extent of destitution hitherto happily un-
known, which has been borne by the working
classes with patient submission and resolution, en-
titling them to the warmest sympathy of their fel-
low-countrymen." (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, I
cannot in the first place lose the opportunity of
asking this great assembly with what feelings this
state of things should be contemplated by us who
are in happier circumstances. Let me say, with all
reverence, that it is a subject for deep national hu-
miliation, and above all for deep humiliation for
this great county. We have been accustomed for
years to look with pride and complacency upon the
enormous growth of that manufacture which has
conferred wealth on so many thousands, and which
has so largely increased the manufacturing in-
dustry and population of this country. We have
seen within the last twelve or fourteen years the
consumption of cotton in Europe extend from
50,000 to 90,000 bales a week. We have
seen the weight of cotton goods exported from this
country in the shape of yarn and manufactured
goods amount to 983,000,0001b5. in a year. We
have seen this trade constantly and rapidly extend-
ing. We have seen colossal fortunes made, and we
have been proud, and, as a county, perhaps, accus-
tomed to look down on those less fortunate dis-
tricts whose wealth and fortunes have been built on
a less secure foundation. We have reckoned on this
great manufacture as the pride of our country, and
as the best security against the possibility of war
in consequence of mutual interests between us and
the cotton produciug districts, and we have held
that in the cotton manufacture was the pride, the
strength, and the certainty of our future national
prosperity and peace. lam afraid we have looked
to this too much in the spirit of the Assyrian mo-
narch of old. We have said to ourselves, "Is not
this the great Babylon that I have built for the
house of the kingdom, by the might of my power,
and for the honour of my majesty ?" But in that
hourlin which the monarch used these words, the
word came forth, " Thy kingdom is departing from
thee," That which was his pride became his humi-
liation. That which was our pride has become our
punishment. That which was the source of our
wealth, the sure foundation on which we knelt, has
become itself the instrument of our humiliating po-
verty, which compels us to appeal to the charity of
other counties. The reed on which we leaned has
gone through the hand reposed on it, and has
pierced us to the heart. (Hear.) But we have
happier and more gratifying subjects of contempla-
tion. I have pointed to the noble conduct which
must make us proud of our countrymen in the ma-
nufacturing districts. I have pointed to the noble,
heroic submission to difficulties they could never
foresee, and privations they never expected to be
subject to—and again we have another feeling,
which the country has nobly met, and which, sure
I am, will not be disappointed, that this is an oppor-
tunity providentially given to those blessed with
wealth and fortune to show their sympathy—their
practical, active, earnest sympathy-with the suf-
bf el re
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than ever the various classes in this
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual
nity, to satisfy the wealthy that the
poor have a kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always
claim not only to their
money but their sympathy good alike. Sold in packets by
—to satisfy the poor also that the rich are not 2,280 agents.
overbearing, grinding tyrants instances
, but men, like them-lABOLICAL ACT.—One of the most distressing
s of the distress occurred at Darwen, near Black-
selves, who have a heart to feel for suffering, and burn, during last week. A young man named Frank Shan-
prompt
to use the means God has given them for ley went to the Low Hill Farm, Lower Darwen, to see tho
the relief of that suffering. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, master. Mrs. Shorrock attended the door, and told Shan-
a few words more, and I will not further trespass
ley thatnhker husband usbtand was not in the house,
to
e..lie then asked
t d
upon your attention ; but I feel myself called on, ashim, and t en
begged for something to eat. She told him she hadnothing
chairman of that executive committee, to which my to spare, to which he replied, " Has folk to starve to death?"
noble friend in the chair has paid so just a compli- This expression touched her heart, and she told him she
nservant to her W
Mont, to lay before you some answers to objections would get him a little to eat. As she was passing t© get it
which have been made, and which in other counties she saw him put his hand into his pocket and then point it
may have a tendency to check the contributions at.dhers.
heY Shei closed the door and
by h
calletdae
manservant
m
ran off, followed
which have hitherto freely flown in. Before Ido overtook him. The offender then threatened to shoot him
so allow me to say—and I can do it with more free- if he came near, but, another man coming up at the time,
dom because in its early stages I was not a member they apprehended him and conveyed him to the lockup.
of that committee—but it is mere justice to say that On Friday the prisoner was charged with the offence, and,
there never was an occasion in which greater and making no defence, he was committed for trial at the next
to shoot Mrs. Shorrock. more earnest effort was made to secure that the dis- Liverpool assizes for attempting

ing.)
Sir. R. GERARD seconded the resolution
which
was unanimously agreed to.
The Mayor of MANCHESTER then moved the fol-
lowing :—" That the expectations atfirst entertained
of an early mitigation of the present distress have
been disappointed by the constant increase of its
intensity, so that the subscriptions contributed
with the hope of alleviating a transient calamity
should now be increased to meet the aggravated
evil."
The Mayor of LIVERPOOL seconded the resolu-
tion, which was supported by Mr. A. EGERTON,
M.P., and agreed to.
Lord STANLEY, M.P., then moved :—" That while
this amount of destitution should be regarded as a
national calamity, attributable in a great measure to
events which could not have been foreseen nor
avoided, it has therefore a claim on the sympathy
and co-operation of the country at large. The
primary duty of relieving it devolves on the county
of Lancaster, whose wealth in former prosperous
times has been so largely increased by the industry
of those classes now suffering such distress."
Lord E. HOWARD seconded the resolution, which
was agreed to.
Mr. INHUME, Secretary of the Executive Com-
mittee, read the list of subscriptions collected in the
room which amounted to over £50,000, and included
the following:—
The Lord Lieutenant
Lord Derby ..
Mr. J. P. Heywood..
Lord Overstone
Mr. D. H. Jones ..

.. £2,000
.. 5,000
2,000
1,000
.. 1,060

Lord Egerton
Lord Crawford ..
John Skelmersdale
Sir J. K. Shuttleworth 1,000
Mr. Cardwell, M.P. 500
Mr. Gladstone, M.P. .. 200
The Marquis of Salisbury . • • • 200
Countess Sefton .• .. 200
Earl Bradford .. .. • • 500
Lord Kingsdown 500
Lord Grey de Wilton .. . 150
6ir T. Birch 500
Messrs. Rathbone and Co.. .. .. 2,000
The American Chamber of Commerce at
Liverpool • • .•
Colonel W. Patten ..

.. 2,000
.. 1,000
.. 400

.. 1,000
.. 1,000

Lord Stanley, M.P.. ~ 200
The Marquis of Hartington .. 1,000
Messrs. Wrigley and Sons .. 1,000
Mr. J. C. Ewart, M.P. . .. 500
Mr. Anderson . ~ ~ 500
Mr. J. Heald .. 1,000
Sir T. Hesketh .. • , .. 300
The Underwriters at Lloyd's • • .. 2,000
Colonel T. Clifton • • • • • • 400
The town of St. Helens .. 2,500
It was also stated that within the last four weeks
the amount contributed by Lancashire, including
£3,000 from Warrington, £50,000 from Manches-
ter, and £13,400 from Liverpool, amounted to
£llO,OOO.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks
to the chairman.