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Since be no soul that's eer been found,
He knows he's held Ii detestation
By all the 1osal Of the nation.
Then let him seek among the dead
Some place to aide his guilty head
Or let him to he rebels ay
And bide their fate tG live or die.
We leave him. now, to wing his hight.
And give his name to oblivzons aaEa a2,EtE E,ar.nn,
Chicago, Dec q, 1862. !
Half a Year of Distress in Lnn-
cashTre-lts Incidents and Its |
Peri1M-
The latest Manchester papers aud Lord Dar-
byss speech at the 1ate county meeting in that
city give us the authentic record Of the effects
Of six months Of cotton famine in Lancashire.
The sum Of the evidence is that twentJ-one
and seven -tenths per cent. Of the whole popu-
latiou of that district-more than one in every
five persons-are dependent for existence upon
| parochial relief or public charity.
When the fau1ine actually began to pinch,
in the early part Of last summer, the opera
tiyes commenced Withdrawing their funds
| from the Lancashire saVings-ba1ls, and in this
I manner put off the evil day; but as the season
| advanced, and mill after mill stopped, this
/ temporary relief failed, and with the e1pendi-
| ture Of the last Of their savings come the real
| distres=es Of the people. Then they began to
| sell their furniture, and when that resource
failed they pawned their clothes. The last
struggle having been made, they came upon
| the parish, or were the recipients Of the pub
| lie charity provided By the national subscrip-
ton The total amount Of this subscription,
! up to tic LIST Of December, Was fire hundred
| and forty thousand pounds. The American
contributions, amounting to $780, 900, had not
been received when the record was made up,
and is not Included in the sum total Added
to the British contributions, this amount
swela the aggregate Of the relief fund to too
millions eight 1ussdaed and teee'aty thousand 6oz
| las.
Lord Derby took occasion in his speech to
define the proportion Of relief which it is In
tended to distribute among the sufferers. He
said:
I think there is some Misrepresentation
when We speak Of the sum Of two ebillings Il
week. If an, body supposes that two shil1ings
week is the maximum to each individual he
will be greatly mistaken. Two shillings q
head per weeks the sum we cndeaVored to
arrive at as the average receipt ef every man
qnently man and his wife with family Of
| three Or four small children would receive,
not two shillingg, but ten shillings ortwelve
bhillings from the fund--an amount not far
ehort Of that which in prosperous times an
honest and industrious laborer in other parts
Of the country would obtain for the mainte-
nance Of his family. I am not in the least
afraid that if We had fixed the amount at fou,
sl,inings OF fye shillings per head, such is the
liberality Of the country, we should have had
sufficient means Of doing so.
THE BRITISH CONTRIBUTIONS.
T.. L H. K11o !,
large contributions have come, Lord Derby
said:
All classes Of the community, I am happy
to say, have responded to the call which has
been made upon them most nobly, from ths
! | Queen down to the lowest individual in tht
! | community. [Checrs.] At the commence
ment Of the distress the Queen, with he
92,oD. ICheersl The first act Of His Roya
. Highness the Prince Of Wales, upon attaining
his majority, Was to write from Rome and t.
request that his name should be put down 70
&1,0O0. ICheers:l And to go to the othe
end of the scale received Two days age
from Lord shafteEbury, donation Of FL 40
J.. from some thousands Of working men, read
e ers of particular periodical which he meI
"a tiohed the British Workman. ICheeFs. 7
that SUD Lord ShaftesburJ stated many thor
. sands Of persons had subscribed, and it en-
| braced contributions even from the brtgad
- Of shoe black boys. {Cheers.1 On the pal
Of all classes there has been the greatest lii
era1ity displayed; and I should be unjust
the working men, should be unjust to tt
Il poor in every district, if did not say that
- proportion to their means they have contri
ntel more than their share. fCheers.l
no case hardly which has come to my know
edge has there been any grudglng, and
many cases know that poor persons ha'
contributed more than common praden
would have dictated
GROWTH OF TEE COTTON AASuFAcrURE.
s, The following al1usion to the growth Of t
cotton manufacture in Lancashire is a1 int
esting part Of Lord Derby's speech:
cannot lose the opportunity Of asking Il
J, great assembly with what feelings this state
things should be contemplated by us who a
ion in happier circumstances. Let me say, vi
Fe' all reverence, that it is subject for deep I
tional humiliation, and, above all, for de-
ds humiliation fer this great country, We b.
g." and complacency Oh the enormous growth
teF teFf that manufacture which has conferred veal
on so many thousands, and which has
k5o, largely increased the manufacturing pop1
.n ! ton and industry Of this great country. 7
'''' have seen within the last twelve or fourte
nee years the consumption Of cotton in Euro
from 50, Goo to $1,000 bales week; We Ia
seen the weight Of cotton goods export
from this country in the shape of yarn .
manufactured goods amount to no l.
um We have seen this trade constantly 8
all rapidly extending; we have seen colos
r. fortunes made; we have been proud, and q
s. country perhaps accustomed to look down
tas those less fortunate districts whose wea
full and fortunes have been bui1t On a less sec
H.. tiss foundation; We have reckoned on this 81
'sEs manufacture as the pride of the country, s
the best security against the possibility
war 10 consequence OF the mutual interest
est- | tween rs and the cotton producing intere'
We have held that in the cotton manufact
was the pride, the strength and the certai
Of our future national prosperity and pes
oses. | TCheers. Rm afraid we have looked o.
III. ,a;s this too much in the spirit Of the Assyl
'1''' that have built for the house OF the h
= @ honor x IF my najestys1'' But IN the hon
a'' which that monarch used these words
.esa 81 words came forth "The kingdom is depa, e
Ib.fs his humiliation that which was our pride
become our humiliation and our puntahm
[Cheere.] That which Was the source OF
= wealth, the sure foundation on which
built, has become itself the instrument O
humiliatinK poverty, which compela US te
able eedd Ieed @ on xhich We lesnt has gone through
haf hand which reposed on it, and has pierce
'is aos to tile heart. loud applanse.]
WHAT MILL OWNERS HAvA DONE
ct. It's interesting to know thst many oi
-C mill owners although themselves great
.Ns ss ferers By the fhIlure # the cotton supl
have sacrificed their personal Interests
oe. lieve the sufferings Of their Eorkpe'
A Thus, Lord Derby cites the cases OF one
! aud owner who employs 555 girls In sewing
!. = a. G. days week, paying them Sd day; sends
enty-si1 youths from thirteen to fifteen
rest ss2 .5n1fs ahore f,fseen Ave dav. a wae
Mar school, paying them from ID. to Sd pei
A1iT. aecofdanG 10 age. Another establish
:. gives It's hands three days wages-about
faaet. aveek: and still another provides FIR =
. 1,70o hands. A great deal Of private q
exists-one firm having spent FL 400 In