The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND

The internal agitation of Switzerland, proceeding from
the collision of the Liberal and Jesuitical parties in the
cantons, continues. The seat of the Federal Legislature
and Executive being. now established, by the usual rota-
tion, in the canton of Berne, where the Liberal party is
predominant, the representatives of the northern powers,
to check any manifestation which might favour the Libe-
rals, addressed to the Vorort a threatening note, which
has provoked a strong and dignified reply. The execu-
tive council of Berne has protested against all foreign in-
tervention in the internal affairs of the country, and has
declared, as far as regards these, it acknowledges no au-
thority save that of the confederate cantons. Meanwhile
a system of terrible re-action seems to be menaced in
Friburg. L' Union Suisse, a journal of that city, in the
interest of the Jesuitical party, loudly demands a system
of persecution Against the Protestant Liberals. " The
Government," it says, " has been in too much haste to
dismount she scaffolds ; some of them must be re-con-
structed to hang the chiefs of the revolution, and to con-
sign them and their adherents to infamy."

The French government has prohibited the exportation
of pulse and potatoes during the next six months.
The Queen of Spain has conferred upon her chief phy-
sician, Don Pedro Castello, the singular title of Marquis
of Health (de la Salad.)
Mr. Henry Edward F. Young, for many years Govern-
ment Secretary in British Guiana, has been promoted to
tie Governorship of the Eastern district of the Cape of
Good Hope.
Official news has been received in Berlin, that, by an
Imperial mandate, Poland has ceased to exist, and that
it is incorporated in the Russian empire. Consternation
and mourning prevail in Warsaw in consequence.

HAYTI.—The new constitution is partly monarchical
and partly republican—it was partly the work of France.
The President is elected for life ; the Legislature for nine
years ; the Catholic religion the religion of the country,
and no white man to become a citizen, hold office, or own
real estate.—New York Sun.

HoNoun AND MERIT.—The Queen of Spain has con-
ferred the star of Charles 111 upon her music-master !
She also honoured Monsieur Bonet, her hairdresser, with
the cross of the same distinguished order ! Not long ago
Louis Phillipe sent the cross of the Legian of Honour to
M. Felix Vouillon, a man milliner to the Queen, in
Princes-street, Hanover-square ! _ _ _

Commercial letters have been received from Bahia of
the 15th of December. A very large quantity of sugar,
considering the period of the season, had been forwarded
from the plantations, upwards of 10,000 cases being then
in the warehouses. Ignorant, of course, of what is now
passing in Europe, there were no buyers in the market.
A very different tale will be told on the receipt of intelli-
gence to the present date.
Fribourg, the most Catholic, except Lucerne, of all the
Cantons, but isolated by situation from its -confederates,
and linked to the Protestant dependency of Morat, has
been the scene of another outbreak of asnless and tur-
bulent Radicalism. The attempt, however, proved a fai-
lure : the Fribourg villagers rose en masse in support of
the Government, and the insurgents were discomfited after
a faint attempt at resistance.
FIRST ELECTRIC TELEGRAP II IN CANADA.-About
12 o'clock on the 19 December, says the
betweenTorontoToronto Globe,
the b
oe,
the telegraph commenced its operations
and Hamilton. The communication was open to all
without payment, and many messages were sent from
both ends of the line. One gentleman was informed that
his bill was due at Hamilton, and many complimentary
communications moved to and fro with lightning speed.
The office was filled with crowds attracted by the novelty
of the proceedings.

POPULATION OF GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL, AND

MANCHESTER IN 1841

The Manchester Guardian has, at the request of a cor-
respondent, furnished some interesting statistics on this
point, deduced from the parliamentary census and other
sources, correcting some errors that have appeared in the
columns of some of our contemporaries. The corres-
pondent alluded to had given the numbers as stated by
two papers, namely--

Glasgow. Liverpool. M'nchster.
Liverpool Mercury. 274,324 .. 282,656 .. 240,367
Scottish Reformers' Gazette. . 274,533 .. 264,298 .. 296,183
The difference between the two statements here given the
Guardian explains as shaving arisen from mistake. The
Mercury erred in omitting 209 persons of Glasgow, who
live not in Lanarkshire, but Renfrewshire, which makes
up the difference between that and the Scotch paper.
The Mercury is right as regards the population of the
municipal• borough of Liverpool, and the Scotch paper
errs by including 1060 persons in that part of West Derby
which is in the hundred of West Derby. The writer of
the article points out other errors in the Scottish paper as
regards Manchester, and gives the full particulars from
the official returns of 1841, of which the following is an
abstract:

Glasgow and its large suburbs contained together (in
June, 1841,) 274,533.
Liverpool, (with an area of 5300 acres,) including Tox-
teth-park, Everton, Kirkdale, and part of West Derby,
had, at the same date, a population of 286,487—n0w pro-
bably 300,000 at least. . .

Manchester, including all the immediate places or
townships, covering an area of 6070 acres, had a popula-
tion of 353,390.
The following is therefore nearly the correct state-
ment :

Population in the year 1841 of.
Glasgow. Liverpool. Manchester
Municipal Borough 120,183 .. 286,487 .. 242,983
Parliamentary Borough 255,650 .. 282,656 .. 2,40,367
With Suburbs. - 274,533 .. 294,651 .. 308,893

It folloWs, says the Guardian, from these and other
statistics that of the three populous places under notice,
in 1841, Glasgow was the least populous municipal borough,
the second parliamentary borough in population, and had
the smallest aggregate population of the three. Liver-
pool was the most populous municipal borough, the most
populous parliamentary borough, but only ie second
place in point of aggregate population. Manchester was
the second municipal borough in point of population, t
least populous parliamentary borough, but it had the
largest aggregate population in 184 L