Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-05-28

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1t requires a little analysis and little lOca
and technical knowledge, 10 see the full meaning
Of this table II viii be observed that only
about one-fourth OF the entire number OF opera
tives are in receipt of their usual earnings, anC
that about one seventh are earning no wages a
all The average time worked, including those
working full time and those who are entirely
UNEMPLOYED, is about three days and half, in
stead of six Now the usual average earnings o
factory hands, man, weman and child, range
from ten TO twelve shillings week; and as
wages have been rapidly rising during the last
few years, the average, especially in towns will
not be far short of the latter sum
! II appears, then, that $4,000 operatives (nttL
hands at0as) are earning i've shiLlings per week
less than usual or, in other words, that tS7 >
500 have been abstracted from the weekly in
comes land not much less, therefore, from the
weekly expendituTe) Of one class only IN the
cotton districts Now unless we suppose hab-
i1s Of frugality and saving far greater and more
! general than we have any reason 10 believe, we
have before US an Approximate picture at least Of
the privation that mast exist where the great
! body OF the operatives have only tl2U,00O TO
! i've upon instead of E2O0,C 0,C0O-and where this
disastrous reduction has been going on for months.
! The poor law guardians may hear little of dis
! tIess and nothing OF starvation, but under such
circumstances we know that distress and star
walton must exist. and be as widely spread as
they are silently and bravely borne"
THE FAMINE IN IRELAND.
Ia the House Of Commons, on the 2d Of DAY
! Mr.. Mcguire, in rising to call attention TO the
fact that several deaths from starvation had Oc-
CURED recently in Ireland, said that the House
| felt deep sympathy with the people Of Lanca-
shire, and he should be glad it the government
would take some steps to relieve those who, in
that country, were suffering, not from the dis
pensatiOns of Providence, bat from the evil pas
siOns of man There was now ia Ireland
stale Of things which should command the sym
pathy Of every man who had a heart to feel for
human distress. Since he had last brought for
ward this subject his conviction was confirmed
that the distress was wide spread, and was Ger
tain 10 increase every day tor the next three or
four months The Rev. Mr.. Pender-
gast, parish priest OF Newport il the county of
Mayo, said in that district there had been a com
plete failure OF the food Of the people, and that
under the pressure of the calamity, unless the
government InteTfeTed, the result must be star
vation, as no amount of local charity could cope
with the distress.
Resolutions were agT ed to at meeting of
the clergy of the doanery OF WestbOuTne, stat
ing that description of the distress Of the peo
pie could give an adequate idea OF the sad re-
suit and that, as ministers of God and daily
witnesses of scenes Of heaTtTending misery, they
were constrained to urge the immediate applica-
| ton of effective measures of relief. The last
resolution was in these terms: 50 That the false
representations of government officials, who
studiOusly eDdeavOT 10 conceal from the gaze of
the civilized world the real state of the country,
| are equally inhuman and unchristian, and de-
serve tie unqualified censure of every enlight-
ened man" Whether those expressions were
| justified or not, he was convinced that they
were the prevailing sentiments of majority Of
the Irish people. In the Belfast Nel0s he found
report of a meeting Of PrOtes ant clergymen
who testified to the distress which prevailed there
The parish priest Of Moycullen, in the county of
Galway, in a letter dated the Both of April said
| that hunger starvation and death would De
the unhappy lot of many unless they werc re-
lieved
! Mr. Murphy, of Bantry, narrated the case of
the father of eight children, whose wife and chill
dren were refused relief because he would not 90
! with them to the workhouse, and abandon the
hope of independence which rested upon his cul-
tivation of small plot The writer added that
there were hundreds of similar cases in that
neighborhood
| The honorable gentleman read list OF deaths
from want and exposure since the Goth Of Novem-
Der, 1861, at Ennis, Galway, Athlone, Enniskil-
len, and other places He could 90 through
much longer list of cases, but he believed he had
read something like forty cases of deaths from
starvation, in more than twenty of which in
quests had been held That was a serious state
Of things. 1t might be said that Catholic clergy
To ulro tod
but these people would not have died if they
could have helped it. Surely if was not credita-
bic to the government that such cases should
have been recorded.
If similar cases could have been recorded as
occurring under the King of Naples, the Duke
of Modena or the Pope of Rome, it would have
| been said that the government was NAL admins
tered, because it afforded no protection to human
| life By the eud Of the present month there
would be no employment for agriculturists in
! Ireland For two terrible months gaunt famine
would stare the people in the face. it was the
| duty of the gov rnment, as the guardian Of the
lives of the people and of the prosperity Of the
country, not to persist IN denying that there was
distress bat to take some active measures 10 re-
! lieve it. No doubt the government would do
| something for the suffering operatives in Ian
cashire Every Irish member W uld 90 along
with them in doing 1t, but he trusted they would
not altogether neglect Ireland The Irish peo-
| pie did not ask for aims; they loaHted cork, and
| the government might prov de them with it.
THE SUFFERING IN ENGLAND.
In the House OF Commons, on the 9th mst
Mr.. Algernon Egerton drew attention to the pre-
vailiDg distress in Lancashire owing to the cot
ton crisis
Mr. Villiers said that the government was
painfully alive 10 the necessities of the case aud
he had felt it his duty 10 warn his colleagues that
if the war in the United States was prolonged
great amount of distress in the manufacturing
districts might be expected He had also issued
a circular to the boards of guardians, urging
them to take measures to be provided for such an
emergency. The answers which ,he received
were most confident, and he was satisfied rom
the tone Of the general majority of them that
they felt themselves prepared to meet any emer-
gency by the ordinary processes. de did not
wish TO misesd, or, by undertaking the amount
of distress, to encourge fallacious hopes for the
future but during the last weeks of April the
distress had decreased, but 1t might be owing to
accidental and special causes. In conclusion,
he pointed out the necessity of a firm and Judi
cious but liberal and humane administration of
the poor law, and assured the House that the
poor law board would do all in its power TO give
advice and assistance to the local authorities to
meet the distress, which he was afraid would
continue and become more severe.
Mr.. Bright thought that government assist
sncs would b come necessary He did not