The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-08 00:00:00

NOTICE.

In consequence of the frequent impositions of a most un-
warrantable
nature Odd; are practised, we beg leave
to inform our readers and the pUblic generally that Iwo
notice of any birth, marriage, or death will be inserted
in this journal which is not duly and properly authen. ,
Heated by the parties interested, .or .by those, to whom, ,
they can refer. The party bringing or sending such
notices must either be personally known to the publish- -
er or they must bring or send some • person who it-
No written notices unauthenticated will be attended
• to.

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FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1836.

The bilk of mortality for the parish of Liverpool and
its vicinity, which were published on Tuesday last, exhi- --
bit some facts which claim the attention of those who are. • •-:
perpetually boasting of the numerical power and influ-
ence of the dissenters anti the Roman catholics. We
find that during the year which ended on Easter Monday
the number of births and baptisms in the established
churches of Liverpool amount to 6392, of Roman catho-
lics 2572, of independents 140, and of baptists only 76.
Jews, quakers, and unitarians cannot he ranked under
the head of baptisms; but the births amongst these peo- '
ple are rated at, for Jews 23, quakers 20, unitarians only
16. We leave out the births of • the Scottish church, and
of the Wesleyan methodiSts, inasmuch as we have a clear
right to consider them as belonging to tl:e national
church. On the whole there are of births and baptisms.
in the church, and amongst the protestant dissenters,
9,408, and of Roman catholics 2,572.

A foolish Roman catholic barrister (we forget hito•
name) amused the public some short time ago with some
ingenious calculations on the subject of population. He
inferred, from the number of baptisms in the popish cha-
pels, that the Roman catholic population of Liverpjol
amounted to upwards of 70,000. It was a very absurd ,
theory founded upon false premises. Its fallacy is proved.
by the accurate returns now placed in our hands when
tried by the arithmetical rule of three. If 2,572 birth,
give a population of 70,000, what will 9,409 give ? The , •
answer is about 250,000. But this is much beyond the
whole population of the parish and the vicinity under the
bills of mortality. In the year 1831 it was 201,000; but,
for the sake of argument, let us assume it now to be ,;
216,000. Let us try this also by the rule of three. 1' ; • ".:"
the whole births, say 12,000, give a population of 216,000
what will 9,400 and 2,500 births give respectively ? The
answer is, that the former (the protestants).give a popu-
lation of 169,000, and the latter (the Roman eetholiv)
45,000.

This we belie-ve is as near the mark, leaving fractions'
out of the question, as it is possible to bring it to by
figures, upon the data of the nameless barrister befor e
alluded to. Granting all the births which the Roman •
catholics claim, they do not prove a population in Liver-
pool much exceeding 45,000 souls. But we have other .
facts to adduce, which show that these numbers are much
overrated. It is a well known fact, which the parish .•
books establish, that. not more than two out of every five
births registered in Liverpool as Roman catholic children
properly oelong to Liverpool, orcan be taken to belong to
its population. The wives of an immense number of the
pauper emigrants of Ireland come hereto be confined, and
are supported under the exigencies of the moment ,at thu
expense of the parish. The Ladies' Charity of this Warm
provides munificently for these destitute and helptessio-
- and during the period of their confinement they re-
ceive so many shillings a week from the parish until
they are in a state to be removed, which, in the propor-
tion we have mentioned, they invariably are. This fact .
is so well established, and the disgraceful cirOutnces
attending this system of vagrancy and paupertstn,,ard
found to be so repulsive to the feelings of Irishmot re-
sident in Liverpool, that it is with great difficulty that y
any natite of the country, of fair means, will consent tos':ti
be placed upon the vestry. Ireland in this rt4eStis
frightful tax upon the inhabita.nts of Li,..erpps,Vor,Thrtcl
blustering patriots cannot bear to be confrot4Oritii;tbe!
poor wretches whom tlo profess to'regardAtti who
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