The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-19 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

MANSION-lIOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE.
Yesterday at a meeting of the Working Com-
mittee held at the Mansion-house, the Lord Mayor
in the chair, Lord William Hay, M.P., Count
Strzelecki, Mr. Arthur Giles Puller, Capt. Helbert,
and Dr. Ogle, representing the committee associated
with Mrs. Gladstone, attended to ask for a grant of
money. There were present, besides the Lord
Mayor, Sir Mordaunt Wells, the Rev. F. G. Blom-
field, the Rev. William Rogers, Mr. Thomas Fowell
Buxton, Mr. Pascoe Glyn, Mr. H. W. Ripley, Dr.
Andrew Clark, Mr. Richard Hoare, and Mr. R. B.
Wade, all members of the Mansion-house com-
mittee.
The deputations stated in effect that Mrs. Glad-
stone, who was first in the field, had received appli-
cations in respect of 624 orphans, of whom 174 had
been provided for temporarily. Of these 51 were
absolute orphans, having lost both parents, 45 had
lost their fathers, 23 their mothers, and there were
also 45 convalescent patients who were being provided
with temporary relief. For purposes of temporary
relief alone Mrs. Gladstone had received £2,200, of
which £897 had been expended, and it was calculated
that £l,lOO would be required to defray the cost of
maintaining those children for the next six months,
which would leave a balance at the expiration of
that time of little more than £2OO. After that pe-
riod they would be wholly unprovided for.
In a conversation which ensued upon this applica-
tion, it was stated, chiefly by the Lord Mayor, that
with respect to the £5,000 which the Mansion-house
committee had set apart for the maintenance of the
children made orphans by cholera, 810 children had
already been returned to them by the local commit-
tees in the east of London as coming within that
category, and the Bishop of London's committee was
prepared to supplement that sum with another£s,ooo.
The whole of the Mansion-house £5,000 had been
bespoke on behalf of those 810 orphans, but now
that Mrs. Gladstone had got 119 children in a state
of orphanage something should be done for them
after the expiration of the six months. The commit-
tee had the greatest possible sympathy with Mrs.
Gladstone and with the benevolent interest she had
taken in the orphans, but their funds were now very
limited, and after they had apportioned the £5,000
they would have hut little left for any further relief
of the distress. From the first they had been and
t e for the
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ry
were still unanimously of opinion that it was not de-
sirable t nyperman ent institution
maintenancecre create
aorphans ;but towards her m
orphanage they would give £250, 'and, looking to
the fund remaining at their disposal, he thoug
ht
they had gone far enough for the present. If, h
ever, they should eventually have a surplusow-
, they
might possibly think it desirable to make Mrs. Glad-
stone another grant for purposes of temporary
relief,
having the profoundest respect and sympathy for
the work in which she was engaged, which might
be made a national one.
With that assurance the deputation took their
leave.

Before the committee separated a suggestion was
thrown out by the Lord Mayor that it might be de-
sirable, in anticipation of winter, to apply a part of
the fund in enabling some of the poorest poor in the
east of London to redeem little articles of clothing
and bedding with which they have been compelled
to part during the dire distress consequent upon the
epidemic; but practical difficulties were apprehended
in giving a satisfactory effect to the proposal, espe-
cially the possible abuse of what was intended as a
boon, and eventually it stood over for future consi-