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

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 re turned
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 1851), 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 ono 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 Scotchnaen ; 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 proportion of
women in Scotland. The Scotch settle largely in
the north. One 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 of 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 thateveningat Ashford.
The crier was first sent round the town, and ho announced
the very, very stale dodge that ' sovereigns would be seletat
ss. each in New-street for a wager.' A dense crowd soon
collected there round two stylishly-dressed individual,.
with a light cart and horse, one of whom stated that, 10
consequence of a dispute, the wager (which was between
two gentlemen of Brighton) would not be decided until:/c/
next evening; but to prevent disappointment, h°
`evsua.i
give away a little money himself.' Accordingly
game commenced of selling a few articles of worth/ '
money
*.ngth°
jewellery at extravagant prices, and then returfe
ever watch
with an extra shilling. Presently a Germanll 12s Gd en.
tf,eisaucva £2 each, but fio
was offered for £2, and the purchaser four Of sg. Of course
closed—the watch itself being probably ele!:ro.s.„,with
, other
1 wsrded the buyers
tbe..-esmock
dor the delusion that
the seller made a groat show of doing
(Lem. Envelopes, also,
watches, and passed off a number at
coin of greater value than sixpencahartes went off at half:
dtlieLsiveereewf tahse:eru7here found
A still larger number of glittering', c
a-crown each, the purchasers
l'e.sineglleu:
a larger sum was wrapped tip :
directly
sealed, were sold for a shilling' .._
thead disposed of t desiring the parties
to contain two-shilling Piecl;h' o
gice.Re:eheeded probably eint.'
to purchase more of
he whole, and
not to open them tietine), of them ' a pees
This prohi-
bition, he would
however, g.::,, found in the ~ -n most cases, and
bition,
envelopes. After about
only a halfpcnnyt-tte been sold,
thirty or forty the worthy pair became
gett.
'lag too hot for them. One
of them accordinglyas called out to the people to 'get
out of the "ay, he LeUst stop the sale for a few
to allGw some
aware that the 1?
getting
minutes goods to come up ;' and they then
drove off et a rapid
pace, pursued by the yelling crowd
for%onie distance down the street. They must have
reaped
.1, rich harvest before they started." The
re'essex
Wart/se e has the following
under the head of llyde :
eOn Wednesday last the town crier announced that 150
sovereigns
their e 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 jest returned from bopping
with a little ready money, assembled. Two fellows made
appearance in a cart, and cammenepd sellintr watch
®Min;, at 2s. 6d. each, returning to each of the earlier 'lir-
chasers 3s. and 3s. Cd. each, gradually reducing the gratuity
to a few coppers ; the chains were of course worthless. They
now introduced watch, s, valueless, at :el each, returning at
fits:-, as before, more money than they received for eaeb,
but soon reduced the gratuity. Will it be believed that
in these days, when every species of fraud finds its %wxy
into public print, the vagabonds pocketed nearly £2O in
half an hour 2 and when the poor dupes began to expose the
fraud, the rascals put whip to the horse and galloped out
hope
wiser the town, leaving the simpletons poorer, but we
wiser men,".

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