The Central Relief Committei of the eaten districts have published,
a table of the gradual decline in the pauperism pro- duced by the cotton. famine. It is exceedingly satisfitetorse as it proves that the recut apparont relapses were merely matters of account. The improvement has been steady throughout the year, the 456,786 persons relieved in January having sunk to 205,261 relieved in August. The increase of wages, paid in the cotton trade within the same-period has been 55,000/. a week, and the Central Committee think that next year there will be at all events "a moderate improve- ment on the present increased hours of labour." There will, of -course, nevertheless, be very great and burdensome distress this winter, but the official admission that the Committee sees 3and is in itself most cheering. The main object now is to tide the people over the winter in full heart and strength— a process which the long continuance of want will not make much easier.
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