The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-14 00:00:00

THE LANCASHIRE RELIEF FUND.

The committee of the above fund met yesterday
at the Mansion-house. The Lord Mayor took the
chair, and the following gentlemen were present :---
Mr. Cotton, Mr. Morley, Mr. Lycett, Mr, Barber,
Mr. Armitage, Mr. Howse, and Mr. Dilberaigne.
Mr. Gibbs reported that he received grateful thanks
for and receipts of the twelve grants forwarded las t
week, and he also reported that he had received a
satisfactory reply from the parish of All Souls,
Manchester, and had accordingly forwarded the
£25 as directed by the committee. Of the total
contributions
£4,725 had been already forwarded to
different townships where the distress was most
prevalent. An application was read from the
honorary secretary of the local relief committee for
the townships of Enfield, Oakenshaw, Great Har-
wood, Rishton, and Huncoat, comprising a consi-
derable population. There were 1,176 wholly out
of employ, and 1,460 were only employed from two,
three, or four days during the week. An applica-
tion from the clergymat. of Birch, near Middleton,
was received, stating teat the population of his
parish were almost entirely of the poorer class, and
out of a population of 1,500, for whom he applied,
600 were wholly unemployed, and the residue were
employed half or quarter time. An application
was likewise received from Walton-le-Dale, which
comprises a population of about 5,250, 400 of whom
are entirely out of employ, besides a large number
of handloom weavers also wholly unemployed, and
about 1,000 were working short time.
The Rev. J. C. Kershaw writes a very earnest
appeal on behalf of the above parish, and states
that his parishioners and friends had placed at his
disposal the sum of £270, by which he had been
enabled for a time to give away 5,000 quarts of soup
twice a week to those who had large families or
most in need. He had also been able to give away
1,400 tickets for bread, flour, meal, 8:c. ; and,
further, to show tho local efforts that had been
made, he stated that a number of men had been
employed, at the rate of two days per week, at
ls. 6d. per day, in clearing land for the erection of
new schools. The fund was now exhausted, how-
ever, and he applied for some assistance from the
committee of the fund. An application was also
received from Harpurhey and Collyhurst, comprising
a population of 3,000, one-third of which were
wholly out of employ, and a third only partially
employed. These applications were severally con-
sidered by the committee, and it was resolved that
the following sums should be forwarded forthwith :
—To the local committee of Enfield, &c., £100;
Birch, £75 ; Walton. le-Dale, £75 ; Harpurhey and
Collyhurst, £lOO. The committee, in consideration
of the continued distress in Hyde and Dukinfield,
resolved to send a further sum of £lOO to each of
those places. An application was received on behalf
of the parish of St. Thomas's Red Bank, Manchester,
and Mr. Gibbs was desired to write for further
statistics, and in the event of receiving a satisfac-
tory reply to forward a cheque for £lOO, making
a total sum of £650 granted since yesterday.

CLOSING MEETING OF THE SOCIAL

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

The proceedings of the Association were brought
to a close at the evening meeting in Burlington-
house, over which Lord Brougham presided. The
Secretary read the report of the Coancil, giving a
general review of the papers and discussions in
each of the sections, and expressing thanks to the
various societies and official persons who had given
assistance to the Association during the course of
the meeting. In respect bath of the number and
importance of the papers communicated, and of the
large attendance of members, the present meeting
is pronounced to have been brilliantly successful.
The Association has received invitations for next
year from Newcastle-on-Tyne, between which it
remains for the Council to choose. The noble Pre-
sident, in moving the adoption of the report, ob-
served that there had been an addition to the roll
of members of a hundred more than at the Glas-
gow gathering, although there was on that occasion
a considerable increase ; and that, owing to the
extra expenses which had this y ear been incurred,
there was a deficit, to the liquidation of which he
trusted the friends of the society would promptly
contribute, Mr. H. Roberts, F.S.A., seconded the
motion, which was unanimously agreed to. A vote
of thanks to Lord Brougham, as president, was
passed, on the motion of M. Gamier Pages, seconded
by Mr. Forsyth, Q.C., withacclamation, the whole
assembly rising to do honour to it. Hearty thanks
were also voted to the other officials, and, above all,
to Mr. Hastings, the hon. secretary, upon whom the
burden of the arrangements has mainly devolved,
and who, as Lord Brougham observed, has dis-
charged his onerous duties wiih the greatest energy,
judgment, and temper.