Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-08
TIE FAMINE IN ENGLAND.
A Quarter of a Million OF People
Starving.
Nh oRowrH OF THE CANINE.


We copy the following items from the late for
eign papers:
EXTENT AND GROWTH OF THE FAMINE.
The returns from the Boards of Guardians
show that for the eight weeks from November s.
the increase has been at the rate of from 5000 to
5000 per week, and the figures of the Relief
Committees. ii they were complete, would give
even more startling proof of the rapid spread of
destitntion. The effects. too. of the long con-
tinued stoppage of employmentare m king them
selves visible IN many new quarters Each weeks
restitution makes more rapid strides among those
various classes of tradesmen who, though not
counted in the number Of mill hands, live entirely
on their wages. and To- whom the withdrawal of
fl36,0O from weekly circulation means little
less than total ruin TailOrs, sh0emakers bakers,
milliners. beerhouse keepers and all such persons
whose customers mainly belong to the working
classes. are now making their appearance in large
numbers on the books both of the Guardians and
the Relief Committees
! The staenation of business in Manchester, too,
is being felt in various WAYS In many of the
warehouses, every oppOrtu lty is taken of keep
ing down expenditures Some have reduced their
staff of packers, porters. aud all employees of a
similar class in Others they have been put on half
time. and il is feared that, should there be no
speedy improvement of trade, there will be many
OF a higher class, such Us clerks. book keepers
aud warehOusemen, thrown out of employment,
and already many have had to submit to re
ducton of salary 1t is rare thing nov to see
any of the great warehouses lit up at night for
where there is nothing to do. it is better TO lock
up at dark and save the expense of gas.
| NUMBERS SUFFERING.
On October 25th there were 2OS. 62l persons
receiving parochial relief, being above four times
the number of those relieved last year. and more
by 6o, 456 than the return for the last week i'm
August last We are further told that l43 SIC
persons not in receipt of plrochal relief, were
aided by local committees. OF 360,15l opera
tives in the twenty four Unions upon which the
pa assure is greatest, but So .63s are working full
time. ll9,7l2 are ''short timers, [" and lS2 40l
are thrown ont Of employment The weekly
loss of wages is estimated ut e. &c 094 and fl36
O94 week is more than FL 900, 000 year.
Nor does this prodigous sum represent the whole
loss incurred by these districts, for the ordinary
receipt of manufacturer must be such as to
cover not only wages, but the expenses of ma
chinery, and the interest of capital sunk in build
, ings and land, besides handsome profit
Now, 10 supply the feIrful deficit of 8I36, 094
in weekly wages. the Boards of Guardians pro-
vide sum which cannot be put higher than
Eln 900, since out of their total expenditure of
El2937 in out door aud indoor relief, must be
taken the normal cost Of pauperism in average
NJ chichester dispensed about E6,200 (f25 900
, pei monthly and the Mansion House Commit
tee sent f6.500 last week. All the grants.
, therefore, from these sources, scarcely amount
to more than sixth of what these work peo-
, pie have been in the habit of earning and it is
impossible to suppose that private charity and
, local funds, already exhausted, contribute more
than fraction to redress this balance Alto
! gether. the subscriptions heretofore published
/ approximate to the sum of 8400, 600 but OF this
a very large proportion is already expended.
The General Relief Committee. IN their report
for the last week in October. say that the nu mber
of persons in receipt of parOchia relief in "a
Unions of the district, had risen to 2fS 1913, IN
> addition of As DIS during the month of October,
and further. $40 persons. not in receipt OF
parochia relief, were aided 10y local committees
! The number of operatives in the same district in
full work - now reduced to 5S, Obs, while the
4 number working short time is increased to 3
9l2. and lo2 4i0 are thrown entirely out of en-
plOyment. The loss of wages is estimated al
fl36,094 per week, and there is no doubt that
: the savings of the working classes are almost
exhausted. By the close of the first week o
, September, the reports show that the number oil
operatives entirely unemployed had risen to about
$50 600
J. STRUGGLES OF TIE OPERATIVES.
S The calamity which has oyertaken the opera
!, tives is in way due to any deficiency in thel
j own industrial character, and they know that it i
r not. AT the same time they have not been i'm
), provident in the past, and YET they have no
+ grudaed to spend the last farthing accumulatet
c Oy their providence before they would ask TO
II aid They have fought against the preSsur,
u with their strength before they woul,
b trust to any one elses strength Even nov
they bear their misery, not men stupefed
e but men who thoroughly understand th,
e causes of their sufferng-who believe perhap
J. enormously, but still believe. that England nigh
! extract the immediate evil by its roots if sh
u would but venture unwise and unjust inter
/ yenti0n in American affairs. And they elect Il
l. refrain
! THE YOUNG MEN.
:, 1t is for this class that there is most to b
: feared Admitting that the example and imfu
enee Of their elders will keep them patient TO th
end, their habits of industry must be destroye'
by this long ideness. and a lasting deterioration
: must be brought about in the whole class Their
: are now hundreds of young men in Ashton am
y other towns saunterina about the streets wit
!, their hands i'm their pockets congregating at tn
street corners, or propping mp the lamp posts; ant
: whoever will devise some scheme for occupying
: their idle hands and minds will DO great servic
= To incaShire.
7, PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS OF STARVATION.
81 Lord SYDNEY GoDoLPHIS OSBORNE writes t
the Times concerning the physical processes o
!; famine:
When famine destroys lie, it may do so unde
n two different conditions. Stoppage of all food
" such as that we have read of in the case of ia,
:, ship wrecked brings on in a short time train O
10 symptoms which quickly end in the most horribl
= Of deaths. The other condition j. that, whe
: food sufficient. if not in abundance, graduall
becomes diminished in quantity. then in quality
- passing To still another stage, where it not oni
4 Is altogether deficient in quantity. but also in tn
r. qualities necessary eac day to rebuild Nature
" waste, and thus provide for next days life. Oh
=. this stintng of physical sustenince. supervene
. mental depression causing loss OF appetite; thu
II there is indiSpostion to partake even of tina
measure Of food which. itself insufficient, is still
: necessars to keep up some existence
:, Strange To saw. at this stage of depression il
= mind and of gradual waste of body, the suffere
complains but little, if at all; there is tendenc
y, TO sleep. rest. anyhow. anywhere. yet little evi
. dence of pain. There is, however, to the skille'
:. eve, cast of cOuntenance unnstakabIe; tn
: children looked aged beyond their years; adult
"A more and speak with gait and utterance whicl
- seemed to shuu all effort
= Failing fever, famine, goes on &c run its Owl
~ well marked course. | write from what I an,
MANY Others saw, watched and noted With nj
- real complaint developed. with little real pain
= there is an increase of lassitude in the adult.
a want Of all childish energy in the Young; a spe
cies of patient, sullen. hopeless dependency mas
2 tiers the whole man. You have a trophy nov
% showing itself in many ways; the hair quits tn
- head in patches, the eye sunken; at this stag
( food fails medicine fails: care cannot rescue.