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THE SUN.

ONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 1862.

The Relief movement is extending rapidly.
Every day we hear of additions to the persons,
and classes, and localities which are taking it up
with sympathising activity. At Oxford, a town
Bo little connected with manufactures, we find a
pablic meeting convened, and £5OO subscribed in
the room. At this meeting, we observe, its con-
veoers had procured the attendance of the Mayor
of 13.1ackburn—a circumstance we notice because
of its general applicability. We all feel interested
and assured by the statements of those who are
personally acquainted with the state of things
which we are caLled upon to relieve. The Gene-
ral Committee would easily supply such ambassa•
dors of charity to every important town in the
kingdom, and their representatives would give a
measure of confidence, which no speaking at second
hand could do.

Never, however, was there a case in which the
old motto of the double worth of prompt charity was
more applicable. And S. G. 0., as usual, is prompt
with his charitable pen for this purpose. Lord
LINDSAY and his father have practically begun to
cull attention to this duty of the hour; since they,
over and above a noble weekly donation, offer a
large sum to take the clothing and bedding needed
for the approaching cold weather out of pawn ; the
Mayor of Blackburn mentions that the same thing
has been done in Blackburn, a stamp being placed
on the articles, which is to prevent the pawn-
brokers from receiving the same again in pawn,
should extreme distress drive the possessors to sacri-
fice warmth to hunger. The fact which cannot
impress us all too deeply, however, is, that it is
much easier to prevent the commencement of the
fatal effects of privation than to stay them
when they have begun to operate. Hitherto
the sickness and death Las been little; but there is
unmistakeable evidence that with the exhaustion of
the savings of the operatives, the increasing time
during which persons accustomed to good living
have been reduced to a bare subsistence, and the
termination of the warm weather, we are now on the
very threshold of those miseries which we all re-
member during the Irish famine. S. G. 0., writing
from personal observation, says :—" When famtne
destroys life it may do so under two different con-
ditions. Stoppage of all food, such as that we
have read of in the case of the shipwrecked,
bring, on in a short time a train of symptoms
;which quickly end in the most horrible of deaths,
The other condition is that, when food suffi-
cienf, if not in abundance, gradually becomes di-

minished in quality, then in quantity, passing to
still another stage, where it is not only altogether
deficient in quantity, but also in the qualities neces-
sary each day to rebuild nature's waste, and thus
provide for next day's life. On this stinting of
physical sustenance supervenes mental depression,
:
ing loss of appetite ; thus there is indisposition
to
partake even of that measure of food which,
exist insufficient, is still necessary to keep up some
sirm in existence, strange to say, at this stage of depres-
sionand of gradual waste of body the
aieeComplains but little, if at all; there is ten-
dency to
of
pPai,nrest, anyhow, anywhere, yet little
evidence
eye a cast of
counte There is, however, to the skilled
their
dren look aged beyond
unmistakeable ; the chil-
years ; adults move
and speak with a gait a
to shun all effort." nd utterance which seem
This is the stage of auftri enags ia which, from all
experience, fever finds
bilitated body and depressedYmv-ictindals. The-
de -
cumb to what a healthier state of system
system
sue
the
would easily resist. But even without
ai"aae th*
experienced observer tells us what is thei '.,23urries,
though slower, result of insufficient food. "Failing
fever," he observes, " famine goes on to run its
own
,yell-marked course. I write from wh.qt I and many
others 83171, watched, and noted. With no real I
complaint developed, with little red pain, there is
an increase of lassitude in the adult, a want of all
childish energy in the youn a species of patient,
g;
masters the whole
sullen, hopeless despondency
man. You have atrophy now showing itself in many
ways ; the hair quits the head in patches, the ancles
swell, the skin is bloodless, the eye sunken ; at this
stage food fails, medicine fails, care cannot rescue.