The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-26 00:00:00

THE COTTON FAMINE.

The following is the variation in the amount of
pauperism in the undermentioned unions, on a com-
parison of the third with the second week of the
present month. The total number of paupers in the
second week of July in the section of unions marked
(a) was 67,025 ; in the section (b) 25,042 ; and in
the section (c), 49,423 :
(a) Eleven unions have more :
Pau
Ashton-under-Lyne. 350pers.
Birmingham
Burnley .........
Bury
Chorlton
Haslingdeo
Manchester 450
.(b) Eight unions are, in respect of the amount of pau-
perism, the same as in the previous week :—Bolton, Co-
ventry, Ecclesall, Bierlow, Macclesfield, Sheffield, Stoke-
upon.Ttrent, Warrington, and Wigan.
(c) Six unions havae less :

Paupers.
Oldham
Rochdale
Salford 230
Stockport.. l3O

Total 2240

Paupers. Paupers.
Blackburn
Chorley
.. 30 Preston .. 9O
Leeds
-
Liverpool
FREDERICK PURDY,
Statistical Department, Poor-law Board

July 25.

Yesterday his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt
sent to the Lord Mayor, by Nubar Bey, the princely
donation of £l,OOO towards the fund for the relief
of the distress in Lancashire and Cheshire. The
London Relief Committee held a meeting at the
Mansion-house yesterday. The total sum sent to
the Lord Mayor up to the time of the committee
meeting, including the gift of the Viceroy, was re-
ported by Mr. Pickering, the cashier, to be £19,258
10s. odd, of which £12,700 had been remitted from
week to week, during the last three months, to the
local relief committees for distribution by them in
about 40 towns, suburban districts, and villages, in
which the distress appeared to be most prevalent.
Yesterday, after two hours of careful and anxious
consideration of letters and reports addressed to the
Lord Mayor during the past week by the chairman
lof the local relief committees, principally clergmen
and other leading inhabitants, describing the pro-
gress and character of the distress as it presents
itself to their own observation, the committee re-
solved upon sending a further sum of £2,850, divided
into 25 grants—viz., to St. George's, Oidham-road,
£150; All Souls, Ancoats, £100; St. Peter's, Old-
ham-road, £100; Hyde, £250; Dukinfield, £250;
Livesey, £100; Whitton, £.100; Chorley, £5O;
Miles-Platting, £5O; Royton, Oldham, £5O; Mot-
tram, £5O; Millbrook, Manchester, £5O; Billing-
ton, £5O ; Tintwistle, £100; Stockport, £250 ;
Staleybridge, £250; Ashton-under-Lyne, £250;
afield, &c., £lOO ; St. Barnabas, Oldham-road,
£100; St. Catherine Newton, Manchester, £5O;
Blakeley, £5O; St. Philips, Manchester, £100; St.
Thomas's, ditto, £5O ; Middleton, £lOO ; and Bax-
enden,
£5O. These sums will, as heretofore, be
distributed by the various relief committees in the
several places, acting upon their own local personal
knowledge of the wants of the communities among
whom they live ; and they make, with the money
previously remitted from the Mansion•house to the
distressed region, to be expended iu timely relief,
an aggregate sum amounting to £15,550 down to,
last evening. It will be grateful to the public, who
have given of their abundance and are still giving
to this work of humanity, to know that the letters
which are daily addressed to the Lord Mayor
acknowledging grants by the committee, express
the most fervent gratitude for the timely assistance
which has thus been afforded in mitigating the dis-
tress of the famine-stricken people.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday an
accident, attended by fatal consequences, occurred, about
two miles below Spetchley station of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham Railway, when a man named Stowell was killed,
and another named Hemming received a severe wound of
the scalp, but is in a fair way of recovery. It appears
that they were labourers on the line, and that after dinner
they laid down near the rails, where they fell asleep. The
goods train coming up at the time went over the head of
Stowell, completely smashing it, and wounding Hemming
on the scalp.