Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-09-16
FOREIGN -ifFIlRS.
LsCR Ed GlE0 DISTRESS IA TIE ENGLISH Navy
FI"TGEfSy; DISTRICTS.
TwEETT-THrrE THOUSAND PAPERS IN PRESTO;
4 ]. q f

Inc LOuuOI - lllncS Las U5rn Hcf1inS a
special correspondent iIitv the nauufac,u ring
ulstricts tn ascertain the truth ia reear, to
tic suffering sId priyatlon there, growing out
of f stoppAge Of trade, consequent upon the
American war; the loss Of the cotton supply,
&c. His first report appeared in the
Times" Of The o.iii ult. From him NE learn
that
"In Preston alaae there ere 90 900 persons
receiving parGchiai ami charitable relief. The
population is only $4,000, SO that more than
one-fourtlI are steered to the lips in misery.
la sddI!on to the % 1000, there aro thousands
endei.v6ring to 5ubsist on hsll-wagcs, or less
than on halt. Half time docs not lnply half.
pay, for the use Of Surat cotton renders it i'm
possible i,r the hands TO eern tneir custom
AIRY wages. The amount lost 10 the nrer,,-
tiyes by the failure of employment is Caicl,.
lated 1T sl3,00U week. The slight COM
pensaliou to the suffering amounts to little
more than FL, 600 a week; so that, in point
Of TACT, < is made TO do the duty nf Sl2.-
In oue court, says the reporter, [ found
poor woman with three children, whose
husband had three days parish work and
al extra relief Of S., in all t.. week for the
live.
"!All their furniture Nag gons but table
and two chairs, sni htl i've Slept in one bed,
which re: placed III \ dark hGlo with not
ray Of light Ending its way into it--uch as
wr should hardly Ihi'.k too good tn store
coala in. All their ;ir.hes had been nawn-d,
and most Utterly Vi al do ha pour woman
lament good baci, suit of her hustnnd
which Was lin" for lns. ard " hlrh they
could never LvE"3 10 "IetscTu. - Auo.i
family Of six people, ia the same court had
&c live OIL 81. 2 week, thar Is, l.. -. per
week, or 2sd. T. day for each. SIN another
HOUSE," no SAYS II saw n aiyht which will
re nri.,re my ryra Tor many day to
coIht."
ut "-as little low slo,-n-fl1ored ro1Tn, its
only furniture table. Il atooi ana & he,i.-
On thu bed was etrttchcd or iect. could
not toll whether it was man or woman,
worn to The boro--a very skeleton, il fIct,
her body covered with putrid sore-, Kim
no, A Tag On her-lIterally unkad hat %, tie
coarse sheet which was spread over ho-.--
The bed on which she lay was n rough brown
sarking stuffed with hsndful of stray. Sne
had lam there don't know how long her
husband had lain there before her and died on
the same bed.
She va; the mother t.: Two firi", factory
operators, who earned or were relieved
VII. n few shillings-l forget Low
,narT. Tor I own was too tn'ich schncl:rd At
what ! Saw to listen TO tigItea. Even among
a Suinr.s hat better class" he continue, Tho
Suffering is hardly less e::treInr, ard rad vrre
the tales tu which [ had 10 listen Of the grad |
ual descent from comfort to utter 1esLHulion.
In ono little house, Euddied all together, was
d fauily Of eleven, all Of which had been |
t ,Tc!ty-eirht weeks out 81 york, and Tor iiF !
teen VI these theS mad existed on something |
less than Is. per head.
The Relief Committee il-d just raised their |
piltaucc to les. for the eleven. Before ,ha |
bad times the family earnings had been about !
f3 l5s., AID they had mad To part with |
nearly al their furniture. \ man, lis wife,
three daughters and tyo sons had only Que
bed among theIu. and only dirty blanket
and Il dirty quilt, one to DC under and the
other over them. Of course the children si-pt |
on the bare boards. The reporter illustrates
the condition Of a rather Superior class as fol
lowS:-
But perhaps the strongest illustrations of
The distress actually chsrgrGhic on the pre-
sent crisis are the Cases of respectable men
Tho have hitherto kept themselves i'll COLI
fort and endearored to provide for old age
and in6rmity. Thern was no difficulty in
finding plenty Of these. AT one house visi-
ted young couple, not long married, who
between them had earned over 80 week.
They had both boea out OF work for No,Dc
time, and when their savings were exhausted
they had at Inst applied to The parish, Their
present income vas exactly S.. Cd. freek,
out Of which their rent vas IS. ID, leaving
them IS. Q. week for subsistonco. Another
Young couple had q. = week from the Relief
Committee; but, living with their parents,
they had no rent to pay. In the next house
there were tour growu-up people living, whose
united incomes mounted ~ 9s out of -hich
hey had to pay 2. REM.
Little further on | came on FIJI ovcrscer with
. family of five children, lis aallrY had hs4n
39s. a week, and though Sp had been out Of
Scri more than u twelrtnonth, be had nun
,ged to struggle on until about fortnight
lgo, when, all his resources being exhausted,
&c had been compelled to apply for relief, and
gnS now resolving, from one source or an
,Lber, about IS. week. Au old woman and
,wo daughters, both Of them over twenty-ore
TearB Of age-ons employed bHlf time, the
,thpr receiving relief-hRd among them 4s.
5,t. n week.
\ highly respectable rced-hook maker
whose wife. cried bitterly as she told me he:
tory-is earning, with the aid Of one of her
rows, Is. week, which has IT, keep four OF
hem, by dredging stones from the bed Of the
ver. They had pawncd all their clothes and
much OF their furniture before Supplying to tic
Relief ronEiitIee.
The average aulount dcriTej from charity.
he parish md hali-time, when distributed
monyst hi Tho cisinants, amodnts coly TO
4 Cd head per week. Asny, OF course,
re living for less. The IL. I'd. is not given
money, the Relief Committee distributing
heir bounty in bread, soup aud coffee
The cotton question is discussed by the
.ondon Daily News in Responding spirit It
avs:
"Thc supply OF American cotton is rapidly
securing extinguished, and those experts
ave consequently risen during tho past week
20 less than Id. 10 sd. per pound. For the III
urr American cotton, A. be'ns quite a"iancy
rticle, wllI command 'f.lncy" prics-ln-
eed, Just such 4 price As tho limtte number
If holders may choose to demand tor IT,
ccordingly al interesting revolution Is
Ak;nE place in the manufacture. American
otton passes out Of consumption, and the
mall quantity remaining will be husbsnded
nd USED only 10 those fine srtcies which are
Iorn by the weather classes Of society.
THE cotton of Surat-the description now
hiedy entering into consumP,ion-cannot DO
Torked into the finer sor.s Of yarns and
GODS; before it will become available for
hem its quality must be greatly improved
t Is very suitable, however, to coarse fabrics,