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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
so little connected with manufactures, we find a
public meeting convened, and £5OO subscribed in
the room. At this meeting, we observe, its con-
veners hail procured the attendance of the Mayor
of Blackburn—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 Con2mittee 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

call attentimi 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 tOD 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 has been little; but there is
unmistakeable evidence that with the exhaustion of
the smings 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 fanztra
destroys life it may do so under two different

ditions. Stoppage of all food, such as that we
have read of in the case of the shipwrecked,

brings on in a short time a train of symptoms
which quickly end irt the mc,st horrible of deaths.
The other condition is that, when food suffi-
cient, 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,
causing loss of appetite ; thus there is indisposition

to Partake even of that measure of food which,
itself •
insufficient, is still necessary to keep up some
°)Elatonce.
Strange to say, at this stage of deP res-
' °in mind and of gradual waste of body the
suffer" "ornplai
to
oee ns but little, if at all ; there is ten-
dencyih.lax; rest, anyhow,
anywhere, yet little
evidence of
of
coulLuZlaiere is, however, to the skilled
eye a cast
aged
boyance unmistakeable ; the chil-
dren look
their years; adults move
and speak with g, gait and utterance which seem
to shun all effort:'
This is the stage of suffering
which, from all
experience, fever finds its easy in
state
bilitated body and depressed 'victims' The de-
bilitated readily suc-
cumb to what a healthier at
would easily resist. But eves withoft diseaBe,this
the system
I
experienced observer tells us what is
the sure,
though slower, result of insufficient food.
fever,"he observes, "famine goes on to run its
well marked course, I write from what I and nry:
others saw, watched, and noted. With no real\-y
complaint developed, with little reil pain, there is
an increase of lassitude in the adult, a want of all
gy in the young; a species of patient,
childish ener
masters the whole
sullen, hopeless despondency
man. You have atrophy now showing itself in many
ways; the hair quits the head in patches, the uncles
swell, the skin is bloodless', the eye sunken ;
at this
stage food fails, medicine fails, care ,onnot rescue.

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