The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-09 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE.

Subscriptions pouredin yesterday at the Mansion-
house towards the fund now being raised there under
the auspices of the Lord Mayor and a committee of
bankers, merchants, clergymen, and other persons
of consideration in the city of London, for the relief,
as far as may be, of persons suffering from cholera,
and of the distress consequent upon the loss of heads
of families by the ravages of the disease. The fund,
it. should be stated, is applicable to all parts
of the metropolis, wherever the epidemic has appeared
or may appear, and part of it is to be expended in
preventive measures. It is also in all instances to be
dispensed through the agency of local boards and
committees, as far as practicable, with the view to
its just distribution, founded upon local knowledge
of the wants-and circumstances of each particular
district, and wholly regardless of all sectarian con-
siderations or feelings, if any such could be sup-
posed to operate in so great an emergency. Though
the movement was only commenced at the prelimi-
nary meeting held at the Mansion House on Tues..
day last, a sum far towards £3,000 has been sub-
scribed, mostly in a single day. At the Commercial
Sale Rooms alone, in Mincing-lane, a sum of £BOO
has been subscribed, of which £562 odd was paid in
yesterday by Messrs. Fischer and Prior, and the
Drapers' Company have sent a donation of £lO5.
Yesterday, at the Mansion-house alone, £693
12s. 6d. was received by the Lord Mayor, and
£132 19s. on the previous day, making upwards of
£826. The Clothworkers' Company have sent
£52 10s. ; Messrs. W. S. Shuttleworth and Co.,
£5O ; Christy and Co., £2O ; Budgett and Co., £26 ;
Johnson, Matthey, and Co., £25 ; and Mr. and
Mrs. Darling, £25.
At 2 o'clock yesterday a meeting of the Relief
Committee was held at the Mansion House, the
Lord Mayor presiding, to consider applications for
assistance, to make grants in money, according to
circumstances, and to determine the principles on
which the fund should be generally administered.
There were present, besides the Lord Mayor, Mr.
Joseph lloare, banker ; Mr. Fowler, banker ; Sir
Mordaunt Wells, the Rev. William Rogers, rector
of Bishopsgate ; the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, rector of
St. Andrew, Undershaft ; Mr. W. J. R. Cotton,
sMr. Richard B. Wade, Mr. Andrew Johnston,
Mr. 11. W. Ripley, Mr. William Needham, Dr.
Andrew Clark, and the Bishop Designate of
Nelson (the Rev. A. B. Sutter.) They first set-
tled the rules which are to govern them in the
administration of the fund—namely, that grants in
aid made by them are to be applicable exclusively to
the prevention of cholera, the relief of cholera
patients and of sufferers front the effects of the
disease, and to be dispensed through local boards
and committees, the Mansion-house Committee
reserving to themselves the power to inspect the
accounts of such local committees, with the view to
satisfy themselves as to the judicious expenditure of
the money before making another grant. Upon
this part of the subject the Rev. Mr. Blomfield took
occasion to call special public attention to the im-
portance of organising local committees -where
none as yet exist, and to hint that a local com-
mittee should be formed before a grant could be
made. Mr. Cotton, a leading membor of the Man-
sion-house Committee for the Relief of the'Lanca-
shire Distress, bore testimony to the satisfactory
manner in which a similar arrangement worked
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The parishes of Poplar and South Bromley contain
a population of about 60,000, and the deaths in
Poplar Mono for the two last weeks were 144 and