The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN POPULATION OF THE UNITED

STATES.

(From the New York Express.)

We have no tables at hand to show the number of emi-
grants that have reached our shores for the years 1842,
3, and 4 ; but we are well assured that they will exceed
that of any former year. The following is a correct table
of the number of persons that have arrived from the
United Kingdom of Great Britain at Canada and the
United States, to say nothing of the vast number of
German and cther emigrants from the Continent :
Canada. United States.
1829
1830 28,000
1831
1832
1833 21,752
1834
1835 12,527
1836
1837 21,901 34,000
1838
1839 7,439 24,376
1840 22,234 41,500
1841

Total .... 321,807 .. 347,632

Average..

26,800

28,700

It is well known that a very large portion of the emi-
grants that reach Canada pass directly into the United
States. The average number that reached the United
States direct from Britain, for 12 years prior to 1841, was
nearly 29,000 a-year ; since that period the number has
greatly increased. Indeed, the number that reached this
port alone, from all foreign countries, has been for a sin-
gle year over 80,000.
For 12 years, ending in 1841, the emigration
from Great Britain into Canada was 321.807
Into the United States... ...... .

Total..
If the number arriving in this country from Great Bri-
tain alone averages 28,700, it is but a moderate estimate
to suppose that the whole emigration, from all countries,
exceeds 50,000 per annum. As it is well known that a
small proportion only are females, it may he safely calcu-
lated that full -10,000 are males. From this exhibit some
little estimate can be made of the immense foreign vote
in this country. If we take but 20,000 persons naturalised
per annum throughout the United States, and calculate
only 15 years, it would make the foreign vote in this
country 300,000. There is every probability that the
majority of the popular vote at the Presidential election
will not reach 20,000. It therefore requires no ghost to
rise up to acquaint us that the destinies of this mighty
nation have been entirely in the hands of the foreign po-
pulation. How much, then, does it become that popula-
tion to lose their own nationality in ours, and how much
does it become Americans to look vigilantly to the welfare
of their own.

DRIED AND PRESERVED FRUlTS.—Questions are fre-
quently arising as to the various descriptions of dried and
preserved fruits imported into this country, those simply
dried without any application of sugar or saccharine being
liable to a duty of 275. 6d. the cwt., and those preserved
in or with sugar to 6d. per lb., as " succades, or confec
tionary, including all fruits and vegetables preserved with
sugar." Some plums were recently imported into Liver-
pool, which were entered merely as " dried plums," for
the low duty ; but the officers detained them for the duty
of 6d. per pound, they being of opinion that they had been
immersed in saccharine matter before being packed. The
matter was referred to the practical London officers, who
have decided that a portion of sugar, though small, had
been used, and that, therefore, they are liable to the high
duty. The use of the smallest quantity of sugar involves
this duty, and there is no appeal against it.
It is not generally known, that a robin redbreast is not
permitted to live longer than four years. At that age, he
is attacked by the younger birds, and killed. Though at
other times the most pugnacious of birds, he dies unre-
sisting:y.

THE FAMILY WINE AND SPIRIT
ESTABLISHMENT,
8 and 10, MANCHESTER-STREET,
LIVERPOOL.

JAMES LANE, on submitting his LIST of PRICES,
most respectfully desires to impress on the minds of
the Public, that he is fully determined on supplying such
articles as will bear the most fastidious inspection; and,
from his knowleoge of the fruitful districts on the banks
of the Douro, likewise with those farms most celebrated
for producing the richest WINES, to obtain which causes
the liveliest competition in the various foreign markets,
combined with a continual correspondence maintained
with the principal agents in the ports of Oporto, Jerez,
Cadiz, and Bordeaux, by which the most esteemed Wines
are secured for his special import, enables him with confi-
dence to solicit the favours of the community at large.
The Stock of SPIRITS can with confidence be recom-
mended, as possessing the qualities of age, flavour, and
strength, being pure and unadulterated.
CASH PRICES OF FOREIGN SPIRITS.
GALL. QRS.
s. d. s. d.
Old vatted Demerara Rum .
Superior Old Jamaica l3 0 3 4
Finest Ditto first marks..
French Brandy .. ..26 0 6 8
Fine Old Cognac .28 0 7 0
Henessey's very old, first quality .
Ditto pale Champagne
Finest Schiedam Hollands
BRITISH SPIRITS.
Superior London and Bristol Gin
Choice Liqueur, very delicate ll 0 2 9
Old Tom, for mixing. 12 0 3 0
British Brandy ....
Burgundy, ditto pale and brown, highly
recommended
Old Irish and Scotch Whiskey.... lOs and 12s 0 2 6 3s
Very old Jameson's ..
Old Scotch Malt Campbeltown
Finest ditto Islay lO 0 4 0
The genuine Farintoch, Glerdevit, Blad-
nock. and small still very old Whiskey,
for Toddy ........
WINES IN WOOD.

Good Port .. lO 0 2 6
Superior Ditto ..
Best Ditto l4 0 3 6
Rare, stout, rich, fruity, and very old Ditto
of high character
Good stout Sherry..
Superior Ditto
Curious rare old Sherry
Ditto Amontillad0....
Finest pale Ditto ... .
Best white Cape 8 0 2 0
Ditto Pontac
WINE IN BOTTLE Doz.
Stout Port
Superior Ditto 3os.
Fine Old Crusted
Superior Ditto, five years 01d.....
Finest Ditto, ten years in bottle
Good Stout Sherry 24s.
Excellent Dinner Ditto....
Superior Ditto, London particular....
Splendid Pale Ditto, nutty flavour 42s.
Finest Ditto Paxarele..... ...
Good White Cape l6s.
Bronte, choicest Brand
Madeira, Champagne, Claret, Hock, Moselle, and every
description of FRENCH and GERMAN WINES,
equally cheap.
J. L., for the convenience of parties residing at a dis-
tance, has constantly on hand, ready packed, ONE-
DOZEN HAMPERS, containing as follows :-
2 Bottles best Gin, 2 Ditto Rum, 2 Ditto •
French Brandy, 2 Ditto Malt Whis.key, 2
Ditto Old Port, 2 Ditto Best Sherry. for £2 0 0
DlTTO—with the addition of 2 Bottles Cham-

pagne, 2 Ditto Claret, 2 Ditto Hock .
Hampers, ss.—full charge returned on receipt of empty
packages. All orders executed with despatch.
CO" Please to observe the WHOLESALE DEPART.
MENT is No. 10, MANCHESTER-STREET.