The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-19 00:00:00

POOR LAW BOARD REPORT.

The annual report of the Poor Law Board states that the
expenditure for the relief of the poor in England and Wales
in the year ending at Lady-day, 1861, was £5,778,943, equal
to a rate of ss. 9d. per head on the population, being 3a.
more per head than in 1860. But in 1834 it was no leel
than Bs. 9.1 d. per head; in 1837 it had fallen to ss. 5d., and
h s ever since ranged between that sum and nearly 7s.
(in 1848). This is the expenditure for relief of the poor;
salaries of officers, and all expenses connected with relief;
but the poor rate is for a much larger amount, including
the year 1860-61 as much as £1,925,210 for county, borough;
and police rate, and comprising other charges unconnected
with poor rel ef, bringing the total up to £8,395,211, o'r
which £330,548 was contributed by the Trea,mry, and the
rest had to be raised by the rate. The net annual value of
the rateable property in 1841 was £62,540,030, and in 1856
it had grown to £71,840,271; in this last year it was ascer•
tamed that the gross estimated rental was £86,077,676'
Returning now to poor law affairs proper, we learn that the
number in receipt of relief at one time, taking the mean e',,
the numbers on the Ist of July, 1862, and the Ist of .I'3'l';
1861, was 883,921 in the year 1860-1, being 4.4 per cent. 0:
the population. In 1849 the number was 1,088,659, but It
has since been gradually decreasing ; 1861, however, show
an advance upon 1860 from 463 per cent. to 44. Of adult
ablebodied paupers (chiefly women) the number was 145,7 i ,6
16.5 per cent. of all the persons relieved; in 1849 the 11.1°,
ber was 228,823, a fifth of the whole pauperism. The del
crease since 1849 in the average number of paupers of fa
classes is 18.8 per cent., and 36.3 as regards able-bod, f
paupers. Some further particulars are given for the Ist °ll
January in the present year in regarl to all England, 'cif' t
the exception of some unions containing together about
250,000 persons, from which returns have not been o'
tained—viz , the number of paupers in receipt of relief was
945,269, being an increase of 53,401 over the previous 10t
of January ; 167,535 of these were adult able-bodied Per;
sons, an increase of 17,009; the number of vagrants
2,830, an increase of 889 ; the insane, 34,183, an increase 0
nearly 1,300. The number of insane paupers on the Ist of
Jan., 1861 (not including these unions with their 250,000
population), was 32,910; 23,587 were lunatics, 9,337 idiots,
14,413 males, 18,507 females. They were placed thus
17,373 in county or borough asylums, 889 in regist red bO-
- or licensed houses, 8,543 in workhouses, 758 in lodr
ings or boarded out, 5,357 residing with relatives. The
average daily number of children attending workhouse, Be°
parate and district schools in the half-year ending Lad?'''.
day, 1861, was 33,476, of whom only 2,752 were in distil°
schools; the sum of £31,188 was paid out of the Parliarne.r;
tnry grant towards the teachers' salariea in the year.
regard to the distress in the naanufactu- ing districts the
returns show that, comparing the number of paupers it
November last and in April of this year, it had risen in ths
brief space from 1.9 per cent. on the population to 441!
Burnley, in Rochdale from 2 3 to 4.9, in Ashton-under
Lyne from 1.4 to 5, in Stockport from 1.9 to 5.4, in BiseP
burn from 2.8 to 84, iu Preston from 3.7 to 10.6. t",,,,
entire half-year ending at Lady-day last the weekly avere%
number of paupers in the chief cotton manufacturing (116,,
tricts increased 47'6 per cent.—from 55,703 in 1861
82,215 in 1862. The cost of relief in the half-year increase
from £114,467 to £151,319, or 32'2 per cent. The Poor La o.
Board express their admiration of the spirit of independeuea
which has been shown by many of the working-classest e/le
of the fortitude and patience with which they have b°r%
the privations under which they have unfortunately beep
so long suffering.

POOR RELIEF IN THE DISTRESSED DISTRICTS/
The number of paupers relieved in the distressed unions Ot
Lancashire awl Cheshire during the four weeks of
last were as follows :—First week, 130,547 ; second, 138,31
third, 145,069 ; fourth, 151,163. The numbers re jel,
since the first waa of January have gone on steadilY ,e
creasing from 78,241 to 151,163 in the last week of Atigtl3
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 11th instarit
contains an official notice (under the same date), wilie
announces that his Excellency the Governor has beer,.
pleased to appoint Henry Felix J. Recano, Esq., of the
Middle Temple, London, Barrister at-Law, to act as Judgi
of the Supreme Court of thbraliar, cluri g the absence
Sir James Cochrane, Kt.—the Colonial Secretary (S. r tee;
ling) adding, that the new Judge, pro teen, of the Suprc°
Court of Gibraltar had that day been duly sworn into
office.

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an opera party from Her Majesty's Theatre, which noel,:
bers amongst it Mdlle. Titiens, Madame Lemaire, &c.,
Signor Giuglini as tenor, and other artists of well kno‘'
reputation to make the representations complete. The cell'
text season will commence with a series of
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qui rive as regards his successor, Among the Conservaticii
party the names of Disraeli, Stirling of Keir, and Lox
Glencorse are spoken of favourably. For Disraeli there
has has been for many years a very strong party; but to Ile
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nariles of the first two will likely be submitted to the nested
ciation when it meets in November. It is also reFfora
that a section of the Liberal Club have written to Pbut
Palmerston, requesting permission to nominate Wilt'
that his assent has been withheld.
TEE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—On the prap,
ciple of "better late than never," a deaf and dumb tavta,
who calls himself the "White Knight," writes to the tit of
missioners from Scotland, offering for exhibition a 11
shoes in which he h.s walked 3,000 miles, and
neverthele,s still in excellent repair. He claims great to
ginality in their construction, but will not underto
send them unless the commissioners guarantee All
pews, by steam and rail,