The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-25 00:00:00

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THE SUN.

LONDON, 'TUESDAY, NOV. 25, 1862.

Lord DERBY continues still indefatigably to pre-
side over the meetings of the Executive Relief
Committee at Manchester. So far, as one of the
great responsible magnates living there, in the
midst of that suffering population of Lancashire,
the ex-Premier is fulfilling his duty as a patriotic
Servant of the Crown. But—we wonder very much
'what the noble earl thinks, in the pauses of his
labours as Chairman—we wonder very much what
be thinks of—some such calculation, let us, as
the following, but just now put forth by that,
(in every sense) complete letter writer and Chris-
tian Patrician, S. G. 0., otherwise the Rev. Lord
SIDNEY GODOLPHIN OSBORNE : "Figures in a
subscription list," observes this uncompromising
writer of bold truth, "are a very fallacious gauge
of the real value, as a work of charity, of each done.-

tion. There are curates now pledged to from 10s.
to £1 a month, for three months, from salaries and
entire sources of revenue under LlOO a-year. Com-

pare this with one or two thousands down, or by
instalments from incomes of landed proprietors, of,
perhaps, from £lOO,OOO to £150,000 a-year. In
many instanced itAkse incomes in the north have
grown from a very small value to their present
prince: rtnt•roll by each generation of proprietors
finding their land increasing enormously in value
from the increase of the local manufacturing inte-
rests. Have these men done their duty yet? Let
us wait for a reply, as patiently as we can, until
after the great county meeting on the 2d of the
znotrth. What there is of wealth in Lancashire
stands now indicted by public opinion, it has to
plead, in its defence, what it has done to meet
Lancashire distress." What says Lord DERBY
to that plain speaking ? What will the ex-Pre-
mier and his fellow landed - proprietors.
there in the North, say, in answer to S. G. 0. (if
they venture to refer to his calculations in this par-
ticular at all), at the grand forthcoming assemblage
eOnvened_ in aid of the distress, for the 2d of De-
cember ?

Bringing the truth home immediately
afterwards to the apprehension of all, by a very
simple comparison, S. G. 0. continues par exemple :
--;-" My Poor rates are, as the rule, between ss. anel
64. in the potind. I accepted my preferment know-
ing that fact ; the tenantry around me took their
farms on rents calculated as liable to this amount
of poor rate ; GOD gives to me and to them each
year that produce of the earth from which my tithe,
their rent, and the wages of the labourers are paid
r
I "mend turnips ceased to grow in Dorset, the
:1:1 „hlYDQwer we have to meet, not only the 6s. rate,
1011 v'a calculated, but the rate then necessary
LO Ba •
ve our
Poor from starving, is a call on what
"17e.hav l-
e -eadstd—our business gone from us. I
hope we should do our best, but I know in such
extremity'others
would save our v7nuld come to our help; they
gm
wecouldlabourersdo no
from starving, even if they
thou
no more than we have done.'
It is a simple, but a
rastforcible, indeed, as it ap-
pears to us, an irresistible
way
of putting it. So
conclusive is it, to our appreh n'i°as an enforce-
ment at once of the necessity local efforts at re-
lief in the afflicted districts (it matters just abao-
lqtely nothing whether they be agricultural
manufacturing), and effJrts in aid
ofthose
or
oselocally
attempted. Efforts spontaneously visible
and
simul-
taneously energetic in all parts of the United King-
dom—iu parts only affected by the distress prevail-
ing at the opposite extremity of the island, only
affected by at distress, so to speak, by the influence
of a patriotic 1-ympthy. " I hrtTe no desire to
screen screws," quoth S. G. 0., when he has thus
frankly, according to his habit, said his say : adding,
" I have no wish to shield from just rebuke any
plan who deserves it." Who Will not credit his as-
sertion, in all the fullness and force of its applica-
tion ? But who, while crediting it to the very
uttermost, will not lay well to heart the words that
thereupon immediately follow, words articulated,
one might fancy (reading them), in a tone of
solemn abjuration to the country at large—" But I
earnestly pray at this moment to see Southern sym-
pat'ny Row on, unturned in its course of love by
arty argument, drawn from the hardness of heart of