The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-08 00:00:00

to barracks. Major Milward and Captain
performed the duties of majors of brigade,
ground was well kept by theßiding-house
meat and the recruits of the depot. The t.
slanted consisted of four batteriea of the H,
gade, about 900 men ; 800 of the 13th
one battery 4th Brigade, under orders for Nc
land ; two companies of Sappers ; two battalions of
Royal Marine Light Infantry, about 1,600 men ;
and the 4th battalion Military Train, likewise under
eiders for New Zealand.
The inspection of infantry at Chatham was yes-
terday brought to a termination at that garrison by
Majur.Gen. R. Rumley, the Inspector-General of
Infantry, by the inspection of the depot companies
of the Ist and 2d battalions of the 19th liegiment,
51st (King's Own) Light Infantry, 75th Regi-
ment, 81st Regiment, 91st Regiment, and the 102:1
Royal Madras Fusileers, the whole forming the
d battalion of infantry, :tad quartered at the Hut-
barracks, Brampton. On the arrival of Major-
Gen. Rurnipy in the barrack-square, where the
troops were drawn up in waiting under the com-
mand of Col. the Hon. J. J, Bourke, the depots
received him with the usual honours. The troops
having bean formed in open columns of companies,
he proceeded through thu ranks and inspected the
kits, 8-9 and accoutrements of the non-
commissioned arms, clothing, tohfaincers
and
men. This portion of the
inspection continued some time, and at its termina-
tion the troops reformed, When, under the direction
of the captains of companies, the battalion went
through the manual and platoon exercises and the
bayonet drill. Capt. G. W. Muriel and Capt, J. B.
Barker, 75th Regimenf ; Capt. H
A. Chichester,
81st Regiment; and Capt. C. E. Lennox, 102 d
Fusileers, were successively called to the front by
Major-Gen. Rumley to pat the troops through these
man ceuvres, the whole of which were exceedingly
well performed. A few battalion movements brought
the inspection to a close, and the troops having been
dismissed to their quarters, the Inspector-General
went through the huts, and inspected the various
offices, orderly rooms, and other departments of the
Hut-barracks, as well as the wing of the Brompton-
barracks, occupied by a portion of the 3d battalion.
The inspection terminated yesterday afternoon by
the usual examination of the official records, books,
and other documents relating to the battalion. In
accordance with instructions to that effect from the
Horse Guards an official report is to be made by
Major-Gen. Rumley of the state of the Soldiers' In-,
stitute, and the progress it has made since the pre-
vious inspection.
Yesterday the Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles
(Yeomanry Cavalry), under the command of Major
E. L. Pemberton, paid a visit to Chatham dockyard,
by special permission of the Admiralty, and were
shown over the several establishments and depart-
ments, and the various iron and other ships build-
ing and repairing in the various docks.

The Irish and Scotch in England.

The census of 1861 found in England (with Wales)
601,634 persons who were born in Ireland, and 169,202
who were born in Scotland. This is an increase since
the census of 1851 of 81,675 Irish, or nearly 16 per
cent., and of 39,115 Scotch, or no less than 30 per
cent. But the immigration of Irish and Scotch into
England in the ten years must have been considerably
larger than this, and, probably, somewhere about
double ; for the children born in England of Irish
and Scottish parents are in the census reckoned
among the English people, and, therefore, do not
supply the loss by death of those who were returned
in 1851 as born in Ireland or Scotland. There
must, then, have arrived here not only these addi-
tional 81,675 Irish and 39,115 Scotch immigrants,
but also others to supply the vacancies created by
death. The Irish have come to England in greater
proportion (in relation to the population of their
country) than the Scotch, but the ratios are now
becoming more equal. With regard to the distri-
bution of these immigrants, the metropolis of course
tempts more than its share. The Irish born per-
sons enumerated in all England in 1861 were
one in every 33 of the population, the Scottish
born one in 118, but in London there were 106,879
Irish born persons (a rather smaller number than
in 18M), and 35,733 Scottish born ; so that the
Irish were one in every 26, and the Scotch
one in 78 of the people of London. In
various other towns, and especially in the
manufacturing districts, the Irish settle in large
numbers. In Leeds one in every 20 persons enume-
rated at the last census was returned as having been
born in Ireland; in Manchester, one in 9 ; and in
Liverpool, nearly a fifth of the entire population.
In Bradford the proportion is one in every 17; in
Preston, one in 12 ; in Stockport, one in 9. The
women are a very large proportion of the popula-
tion in the manufacturing districts; in the districts
of Rochdale, Ashton, and Salford, and in the city of
Manchester 3 in 5 of the Irish-born inhabitants are
females. This is accounted for by the demand for
female labour. Scotch women in England are fewer
than Scotchmen; there are but about 4 women to 5
men. The inference is that Scotchmen frequently come
here singly to push their fortunes, often marrying
English wives and leaving an undue proportions of
women in Scotland. The Scotch settle largely in
the north. Ono in every 58 of the inhabitants of
Manchester at the census was returned as born in
Scotland, and one in every 25 of the inhabitants of
Liverpool; and of the 169,000 Scottish-born per-
sons in England nearly half were found in Lanca-
shire and the four counties nearest the border—
Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and
Durham. Of the 600,000 Irish-born persons in.
England more than half are in London and Lanca-
shire.

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STREET SWINDLERS AND THEIR DUPES.—It ap-
pears from the Surrey and Kent papers that a
gang cf swindlers are reaping a rich harvest in those
counties. The Surrey Standard says :—" The sale of sove-
reigns at ss. each, though faithfully recorded in our Tues-
day's paper as having occurred at Sevenoaks, did not prevent
a precisely similar scene taking place that evening at Ashford.
The crier was first sent round the town, and he announced
the very, very stale dodge that ' sovereigns would be sold at
ss. each in New-street for a wager.' A dense crowd Boon
collected there round two stylishly-dressed individual°
with a light cart and horse, one of whom stated that, il:
consequence of a dispute, the wager (which was tbeetjehe
two gentlemen of Brighton) would not be decided
until
h
next evening; but to prevent disappointment,
li
i° would
give meta
give away a little money himself.' Accordingl?:iens
mock
game commenced of selling a few articles of wfr'"
a Germandea
ed g£l 1 2wsit 61113d0 n
the money
jewellery at extravagant prices, and then rev;
'llu:fiver watch
with an extra shilling. Presently
was offered for £2, and the purchaser fe
the'butlyternsc.
anr
at ss. Of course"
closed—the watch itself being probably
the seller made a great show of doing up
/ and L 2 each
ender_ th,e delusion that
watches, and passed off a number
coin of greater value than rewardedsixpertitet
chains went off at half-
a-crown still larger number of glittering
beinig:lNVO of these were found
a-crown each, the purchasers
with them. -L
a larger sum was wrapped up
, the seller A4nvelopes, also,
sealed, were sold for a shilling'
and pl°l there Was a rush directly
to contain two-shilling
to purchase more of them, the .
each of them desiring the parties
tilt hehad disposed of the whole, and
not to open them
then he would give "' a present.' This prohi-
bition, however, was ,
Place was unheeded Probably in most cases, and
only a halfpen was found in the envelopes. After about
"'had been
thirty or for sold, the worthy pair became
aware that the
ngl getting too hot for them. Ono
of ththemaccordiY called out to the people to ' get
out of the way, as he must stop the sale for a few
minutes to allcw some goods to come up ;' and they then
drove off at a rapid I, IL pace, pursued by the yelling crowd
for some distance down the street. They must have,
reaped a rich harvest before they started." The AYtissex
Ath'ertiser has the following under the head of Hyde :
"On Wednesday last the town crier announced that 150
sovereigns would be given away at half-past seven o'clock,
in front of the Lion Inn. At the stated time a great num-
ber of the poorer class, who had just returned from hopping
with a little ready money, assembled. Two fellows made
their appearance in a cart, and commenced selling watch
chains at 2s. 6d. each, returning to each of the earlier pur-
chasers 3s. and 3s. 6d. each, gradually reducing the gratuity
to a few coppers ; the chains were of course worthless. They
now introduced watches, valueless, at £1 each, returning at
first, as before, more money than they received for each,
but soon reduced the gratuity. Will it be believed that
in these days, when every species of fraud finds its way
into public print, the vagabonds pocketed nearly £2O in
half an hour ? and when the poor dupes began
to expose the
fraud, the rascals put whip to the here „nd galloped out
of the town, leavihg the simpletons poorer, but we hope
wiser men.".

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