The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-21 00:00:00

POPULATION

castle-on

North Shields

Maiditone
Herefii'rd .

18,610

14,016
18,389
13,570
12,867
13,396
12,628
10,793
12,745
10,583

24,732
16,018
15,595

22,942
15,382
15,351
13,649
15,086
11,240
14,981

Boston

10,373
10,709

77,496
34,680
29,612

Kidderminste

27,798
13,061

11,236
12,438
12,411

23,223
13,694
11,393
12,240

60,577
13,379
38,641
29,971

25,644
16,554

s Lynn

13,370
28,242

18,896

In the above

table we have given the population of many
ns in England and Wales in 1811, 1821,
Our readers will perceive that the return

r gives a very great increase, and in many
able decrease, in several towns, of a some-
sracter. For instance, the population of

as, according to the official abstract pub-
r, 15,582 ; and in the census of 1841 it is
75. Again, the population of Liverpool in
1; it is now 223,054. In Ashton-under-
-831, 33,597 ; in 1841, 130,381. We give
ve find them recorded in the government
!d by the authority of parliament. This
of population is the result of a new divi-
h.es and townships into districts, termed
registrar's districts," and accordingly the
above as resident in the various towns are
:hin the district under the surveilance of
ent registrar," and termed his division.
last enumeration of the people was made,
existed. An entirely new arrangement

,ted to b,

s 155,17

uments

or the pan:
iperintendent

31, when the

been adopted this year in obtaining the
h no strict comparison can be instituted
ation of these towns in 1831 and 1841, in
c partition of the country into " superin-
' districts," we still think it better to give

nowledge of the extent of the population
be useful to those resident in the cities

i. Many of the towns, however, are dis-
s, and include no neighbouring parishes.
perceived the population has increased,
. „

)PULATION

OF ENGLAND AND WALES, FOR
HE LAST 130 YEARS.

Population

Per Cent.
Decrease

5,134,516

5,066,337

Increase

5,345,351

5,687,993
5,129,705
6,039,684
6,478,730

7,814,827
8,540,738

),187,176

11,957,555
13,840,751

MANUFACTURE OF FICTITIOUS FREEMEN,

(From the Morning Herald)

Lord Mayor O'Connell is prostituting the powers of his
Icial position to the same jobbing propensities as have
aracterised the career of his whole life. His doings in the
Igle matter of deciding claims of franchise qualification
lly prove this. In two sittings of his court he is stated by
e editor of the Dublin Evening Packet " to have admitted
e hundred and forty claimants to the freedom of the cor-
ration, not TWENTY of whom, probably, had any real title
it." Is this a slight matter? Does the indiscriminate
mission of claimants from the lowest ranks of small Irish

esinen and working mechanics threaten no mischief to
political tranquillity, if not of the country, yet, at least,
!apital ? Or are we to be told that O'Connell has no
1 objects in this unseemly and insulting career of
" not ecores but crowds of new freemen ?
ther increase his enormous faction, nor
still inordinate influence ? And are even his
)litical views (to say nothing of those he secretly
such as to make the fact of that increase matter of
Ince or even of indifference to the empire at large?
very mode in which he presides in his court of
ition-pitchforkery is as insulting to the parliament
:t has virtually placed him there, and to the United
which returned that parliament, as it is disgraceful

I they r

;nself. Ile does not deem it necessary to affect an in-
)11 of complying with the spirit or the letter of the act
He roundly admits his doubt that A. B. has
aim : but then it is his " lordship's " wish
He appears to have no scruple in announ-

,g," says the Dublin: Evening Mail, " that his decisions,
many instances, are at variance with law and justice; but
justifies this acknowledgment with the declaration ' that,
ng a great admirer of the extension of the franchise, he
st admit the claimant, leaving the parties to the Court of
Bench for their remedy.' " Take a few of these
—these mature decisions—these municipal
—these impartial judgments ;—so grave, so careful,
1 befitting the chief magistrate of a metropolis, and one
most popular pleaders in its courts of " LAW" !
Admit you (Monahan), and leave the case to an
to the Court of Queen's Bench, as I am an advocate

litied answers-

the frai
Did he

sit there to " advocate the franchise," or to de-
under the obligations of his oath of office, and in
st discharge of his magisterial duty, who were and
: not ENTITLED by law, to the best of his know-
end belief, to that franchise?)
his is just the question I wish to raise. Solomon
Is being a freeman by birth, I think the claimant"
,ad married Rounds' granddaughter) " has every right
freedom. I will raise the question in this case."
will admit you Large), though your case is one as
Lth a reasonable doubt might be raised."
J. A. I-Inniplirevs—a case of clear, absolute failure of
—" I must admit this man. The certificate appears

another claim—by right of servitude—claimant had
1 part of his time to one master ; part to another; has
tures in both cases; the remainder of his appre,ntice-
o several other masters. Admitted!

I admit you (Black) on the same grounds
ell were admitted—by birth. If it be ob-
e argued in the Court of Queen's Bench."
Asks the Standard, and we concur in the
) general law for the punishment of such gross
)rity ? We think that it amounts to a misde-
common law at all events."
) is to pay for these " centuries " of issues to be

lessrs. R

it can II