The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-05 00:00:00

yr-olds and upwards, of 10 soya each, h ft, and 3 only if
declared on or before Tuesday, the 21st of October, with
100 sues added; a winner of 100 sovs after October 14 to
carry 71b ; of 200 sow., 10lb extra; and the second horse
to save his stake. The winner to pay 20 sovs towards the
expenses. On the New Course, 1 mile 3 furlongs. 56
subs, 16 of whom declared. The highest weight accepting
being under Bst 121 b, it has been raised to that, and the
others in proportion.
Mr. Morris's Balham, 4 yrs, 7st 51b . (Judd) 1
Mr. W. Goater's Aurelian, 4 yrs, Bst 51b, carried Bst 61b
Goate 2
Mr. Merry's Costa, 3 yrs, 7st (Pb (II (Covey) 3
Mr. 11. Wyatt's Ledbury, 3 yrs, 6st (J. Plum) 4
The following also ran :--Brilliant, Exchequer, Myrtle,
Nowstead, Master Bagot, Gray Hen colt, Imperatrice, My
Mary, llungerford, Leonora, Gardener, Motu Maid,
Avongrove, and Egyptian.
Betting-9 to 4 agst Balhalm, 3to 1 agst Aurelian, Bto
1 each agst Leonora, and Costa, 100 to 8 each agst Myrtle,
Exchequer, and Gardener, 100 to 7 each agst Brilliant,
Master Begot, and the Gray Hen colt, and 15 to 1 agst
Merry Maid.

Balboni set off with the lead as soon as the flart was
lowered, his immediate attendants being My Mary, Master
Bagot, Leonora, Avongrove. and the Gray Hen colt, New-
stead being last, and Exchequer last but one. The
favourite increased his lead as he went from the river
side and round the bend at the end of the course, where
Leonora took second place, Costa third, and Master Bagot
fourth. The field now began to spread, aad Balham in-
creased his lead at every stride. Master Bagot dropped
back, beaten, before he came to the last bend, and Aurelian
joined the first rank of those behind Balham, who cantered
on by himself and won, pulling up, by ten lengths. The
race for the second money was decided in favour of Aure-
lian, who beat Costa by half a length, a similar distance
separating the third and fourth. Leonora was fifth, Bril-
liant sixth, Hungerford and Avongrove seventh and
eighth. Newstead and Master Bagot were the last two,
and did not pass the chair. Costa struck a post in running,
and bruised Covey's knee, but neither horse nor rider were
seriously hurt.

The Nursery Plate Handicap of £5O, added to a sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds. The winners to
pay 5 sovs towards expenses, and if more than 10 sub-
scribers, the second to save stake. Winners after October
29 to carry 71b extra, and winners of any stake worth
. _

£2OO after that date, 101 b extra. T.Y.C., a straight half-
mile. 43 subscribers.
Mr. J. Dawson's Trumps, 7st (Wheatley) 1
Mr, 'l'. Cliff's Airedale, 7st 9lb (including 71b extra)
Fordharn) 2
Mr. Taylor's Liston (late Coup de Main), 75t.., (Ward) 3
The following also ran :—Kennett, Abernethy, Lina,
Golden Drop, Jesuista, Zara, Strawberry Hill, Xenius,
Herdsman, Don't-come-late, The Dictator, and Lufra.
Betting-9 to 4 each agst Airedale and Lufra, Bto 1
each agst Trumps and Zara, and 10 to 1 agst Don't-
come-late,

Zara made the running at a fair pace for about 300 yards,
with Airedale and Trumps next ; Trumps then went to the
front atd was not again caught, Liston running into third
place at the end of the saddling paddock. Airedale made
an effort to reach Trumps at the stand, butbeing unable to
do so, was beaten very cleverly by three-quarters of a
length, Liston finishing two lengths from her. Lufra was
a bad fourth, Zara fifth, Herdsman sixth, the Dictator
seventh, and Strawberry-hill last.
The Severn Bank Betakes of 5 sovs each, p p, with 25 added,
for horses that )have been regularly hunted; list 71b
each, winners extra. Gentlemen riders. Three miles
over the Steeplechase Course. 8 subs.
Mr. H. Lington's Willoughby, h b, aged, 12st 71b (in-
cluding 141 b extra)
The Hurdle Race, a handicap of 5 sovs each, with 40 added,
a winner of 50 sovs clear after Oct. 25 carry 71b extra.
The winner to give 5 sovs towards the expenses. Two
miles, with six flights of hurdles. 25 subs.
Mr. R. Sly na Everlasting, 4 yra, lOst 21b (B. Land, jr) 1
Mr. W. Barnet's Butterfly, 6 yrs, lOst 91b (G. 'Tolman) 2
Mr. Ward's Holderskye, 4 yrs, 9st (car. 9st 21b (Duckuer) 3
The following also ran :—Old Woman, Shropshire, Sa-
tellite, Kington, Hungerford, Wild Chieftain, Avongrove,
and Emblematic.

Betting-7 to 4 agst Shropshire, 3to 1 agst Butterfly, 7
to 1 agst Everlasting and Wild Chieftain.
Avongrove made running at a great pace, and cleared the
hurdles before the stand about a length in advance of Em-
blematic, who was second, and Shropshire third, with Hol-
derskye, Everlasting, and Butterfly next. On rounding the
railway turn Avongrove had a by lead, but bolted towat ds
the turn at the gate on the New Course, when Butterfly
went to the front, with Holderskye second and Kington
third, Old Woman and Hungerford lying next. On crossing
the flat Holderskye took up the running, and with Ever-
lasting and Butterfly in attendance, carried it on round the
bend at the extreme end of the course, where he obtained a
lead of at least a dozen lengths. As they came down the
straight run Everlasting and Butterfly gained upon llol-
derskye, who knocked down the last hurdle, and allowed
them to overhaul him ; an exciting race from that point
was won by Everlasting by a length, Holderskye losing
second place by a like distance ; Shropshire was fourth,
Satellite fifth, and Kington sixth ; nothing else near,

THE DIS7RESS IN lIIE COTTON MANU-
FACTURING DISTRICTS.

At the monthly meeting of the General Central Relief
Committee for the management of the fund for the relief of
distress in the manufacturing districts, held at Manchester,
on Monday,

Mr. COBDEN, said—Having had the honour of having his
name added to the committee, the first question ho had
to ask was what were the functions of the General Commit-
tee ; and he had been told they amounted to nothing more
than to attendance once a month to receive the report
of the Executive Committee as to the business done in
the distribution of the funds. He was going to
suggest whether the duties of the General Committee
might not be very much enlarged, and whether
the committee might not be employed usefully in increas-
ing the amount of subscriptions. He thought that all their
experience must have taught them that with the best cause
in the world in hand the success of a public subscription
depended very much on the amount of activity on the part
of those who solicited it. In order to induce them to make
a general and a national effort to raise additional funds in
this great emergency, it was only necessary to refer to one
or two facts which had been stated in the report which had
been read. It was there stated that it was estimated that
the loss of wages at present was £136,094 per week; and it
is added, " there is no doubt that the savings of the working
classes are almost exhausted." £136,094 per week repro •
sented upwards of £7,000,000 sterling per annum. So that
at that rate £7,000,000 sterling per annum was now being
deducted from the wages of labour in this district. He saw
it stated also in the report that the resources which the
Committee could at present foresee that it would possess to
relieve this amount of distress was £25,000 a month for
the next five months, which was at the rate of £300,000 per
annum ; so that they foresaw at present the means of adapt-
ing relief, was somewhat less than 5 per cent. upon the
actual amount of the loss of wages at present incurred by
the working classes of this country. He need not tell
honourable gentlemen practically acquainted with the
district that the loss of £7,000,000 in wages per annum
was a very imperfect measure of the amount of suffer-
ing. The loss which would be inflicted in this respect
on this community three or four months hence might be
taken to be £10,000,000, and this £10,000,000 loss of wages
before next spring was by no means the measure of the loss
the district would incur. For they must take into conside-
ration the loss to the capitalist—the loss on fixed machinery
and buildings. Perhaps this would not amount to so much
es the loss upon labour; but it would be a very large
amount, and, in the opinion of some people, very nearly
approaching to the loss of wages. But even this was not
all. Mr. Farnall had told them that at present the increase
of rates in the district was at the rate of £lO,OOO a week.
That would be at the rate of half a million per annum ; and,
of course, if the distress went on, this must be largely in-
creased, perhaps doubled. He had always been of opinion
that the privation which was threatening the district must
be cumulative; and it bad proved so to a degree that
very few foresaw. The means of meeting the diffi-
culty would diminish just in proportion as the diffi-
culty increased. Mr. Farnall had told them that one
third of the rateable property would fall out of existence as
it were ; and future rates would have to be levied out of the
remaining two thirds. That, however, would be by no means
the measure of their condition three months hence ; because
every additional rate forced out of existence a large amount
of rateable property, and the more they increased the rates
the more they diminished the area over which the rates
would be productive. (Hear, hear.) This view of the
case had an important bearing also upon the condition of
the shopkeeping class, as well as the millowners and man-
ufacturers who had not a large amount of floating capital.
There was no doubt that a large number of the shop •
keeping class were rapidly falling into the same condition
as those who suffered from unemployed labour. He heard,
when at Rochdale, a sorrowful example of this. A poor wo-
man who kept a shop was obliged to sell t be Sunday clothes
of her son to pay off a distraint for a poor rate; and she re-
ceived relief from the committee on returning:from paying the
rate. That was a sad, sorrowful example, and he was afraid
that it would not be a solitary one for a long time to come.
He said, then, that they must add this shopkeeping class in
their estimate of the prevailing distress ; and it was evident
that they must be so when £7,000,000 per annum was with-
drawn from wages. The consequence must present itself
to every rational mind. They then had another class, the
class of young men of superior education, usually em-
ployed in warehouses and counting-houses. A great num.
ber of those would rapidly sink to the condition in Which
they now found the operative classes. All this would add
to the distress and embarrassment of this part of the l •
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as the only legal relief to rely upon—in fact the only
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ran from ls. Oid. up to Is. 4d. and is, od must be. It
was hardly one case in which the. per week. There
allowance was 2s, per
week for each individual—he would
not call them paupers,
but distressed persons. There was one point to which he
wished to bring the attention of the committee. In
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