21 NOVEMBER 1863, Page 3

We regret to perceive that the approach of winter is

already telling in Lancashire. The return for the first week of November shows an increase of some 500 in the amount of pauperism. It seems clear that the number of applications will increase very rapidly, and already the Central Committee has called the atten- tion of the local committees to extra precautions against the seve- rity of the season. They report that they and the Guardians have expended altogether on the famine 1,9-79,3631., out of which -sum 535,898/. was obtained from "strictly local subscriptions," independent of the large sums spent in private charity. They have a balance still of nearly 400,000/. in hand, but subscriptions are still required.