The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-28 00:00:00

4,019,667 4,155,606
Total population

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In 1821, the population was
In 1831, it was
In 1841, it was

6,801,827
7,767,401
8,175,273

Increase between 1821 and 1831
Increase between 1831 and-1841
" From this it appears that the increase during the 10 years
up to 1841 was 556,702 less than it had been in the 10 years
preceding. This extremely reduced rate of increase is s very
remarkable and extraordinary fact. It is evident that during
the last 10 years there has been a very decided check to the
progress of poptilation in Ireland. The increase in England
during the 10 years from 1831 to 1811 was 2,004,794, which
was more than 1-17th upon the population of 1831. The
increase in Ireland during the same 10 years was 407,872,
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FATAL CONFLICT.—On Monday last, a meeting was held
at Clones for the purpose of forwarding the interests of re-
peal. About 15,000 persons were present. The Protestant
party, to the number of about 3,000, also assembled, apart
from the former body, in order to show to the English public
that the Protestants of the North have not joined the priests.
Resolutions proposed by the principal inhabitants of the
district were then passed at the meeting of Protestants, and
the repeal meeting shortly broke up. Soon after a riot took
place at the grave-yard, into which a body of Repealers had
thrown themselves, and attacked a body of Protestants, who
were passing through Abbey-lane, with stones, which were
provided in heaps for the purpose. The Protestants now got
the worst of it, as the Repealers resorted to stones, with
which they pelted their opponents without mercy. Here
much serious injury was done on both sides, and in a few
minutes the apothecaries' shops were filled with bleeding
patients. One unfortunate man, named M'Caffrev, a shoe-
maker, was stabbed in the belly, or rather had his bowels
ripped up with a knife; the poor wretch fell, and was tram-
pled over by the combatants. Two of the Protestant party
had their skulls fractured, and several were severely wounded.
M'Caffrey was carried into a house, and received the prompt
aid of Dr. Thompson, who most humanely accompanied
Mr. Smith, a magistrate, to the house in which he was laid.
The wound was incised, and about six inches in length, in-
clining upwards obliquely towards the hip joint from the
abdomen, and was such as would be inflicted by a butcher's
or shoemaker's knife first thrust into the abdomen and then
forced upwards. Several of the intestines were severed in
the transit of the blade, and death must ensue. He died
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soon after. This fray over, the town was left in possession
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TILE LONDON ART UNION.—The annual meeting of this
society was held on Tuesday. The report stated that the
subscriptions for the year amounted to £12,338. Touching
the legality of the Art-Union of London, the report said,
" no one will venture to say it infringes, in any degree, the
spirit of the laws passed ' to protect the unwary against
fraudulent schemes of gambling, set on foot by interested
persons'—of laws wisely interposed between artful adven-
turers, who had unjustly and fraudulently gotten to them-
selves great sums of money' (such are the words of the act,
12th Geo. II.) • and unwary victims, who, by yielding to the
temptations offered, had been ' the utter ruin and impover-
ishment of their families.' As regards the letter of the laws,
the question has been set at rest by those well qualified to
give au opinion." The report further stated, that " last
year 269 pictures and one piece of sculpture (a list of which
was printed) were purchased at the cost of £10,036 95.,
being £1,136 9s. more than the amount apportioned for that
purpose by the society. In the whole, it is supposed that
nearly 100,000 persons visited the rooms. The amount set
apart, after payment of the necessary expenses and sufficient
reservation for the preparation of engravings and medals,
was £B,OOO, and would be allotted as follows :—Fifty works
of art, value £lO each ; thirty of £l5 ; forty of £2O ; twenty
eight of 1:25 ; twenty-three of £3O ; eighteen of .£4O; twelve
of £5O; ten of £6O; eight of £7O; six of £80; five of
£100; two of £150; two of £200; one of £300; and one of
£4OO. To these were added twenty bronzes of Sir Richard
Westmacott's Nymph and Child, and thirty medals of
Chantrey, making in the whole 286 works of fine art. To
save time, the medals were allotted to the first thirty names
di awn consecutively at the close of the distribution.
IMPORTANT CASE.—An information laid by the officers
of Customs against William Darling Hay, of Newcastle, was
heard last week by the Mayor. The information was laid
under the 5 and 6 Victoria, c. 92, entitled "An Act to per-
mit, until the 31st of August, 1845, wheat to be delivered
from the warehouse, or any vessel, duty free, upon the
previous deposit of flour or biscuit." By this act the officers
of customs having charge of any warehouse in which wheat
may be warehoused are empowered to deliver any quantity
of wheat, duty free, upon the previous deposit of flour or
biscuit; that is, for every 961 b. of kiln-dried wheat, or 1001 b.
of wheat that is not kiln dried, there shall be substituted not
less than 961 b. of fine flour, or 681 b. of captain's biscuit, or
801 b. of navy biscuit, or 1181 b. of common ship biscuit, and
so in proportion for a less quantity. The biscuit or flour so
deposited is not allowed to be taken out again for home con-
sumption, but may be exported, or used for ships' stores.
The act provides. that if any parcel or package tendered to
be so deposited, and purporting to contain such flour, shall
thereupon or thereafter be found to contain flour other than
the best wheat flour, or purporting to contain biscuit of any
of the several qualities beforementioned, shall coutain biscuit
of inferior quality, or be found to contain any other article
than ship biscuit, every such package shall be forfeited, and
a penalty of 5/. may be recovered for every quarter of wheat
for which the same was intended to be substituted. In
regard to the defendant, Mr. flay, it appeared that in Janu-
ary last he had tendered a certain quantity of biscuit to be
deposited under the act, and asked for the delivery from the
warehouse of a given number of quarters of wheat duty free.
He had previously, since An gust, when the act came into
operation, availed himself of its provisions, and the quality
of his biscuits had never been called in question. But some
of the biscuits, which had been sent to London for ships'
stores, having been seized in the Thames as inferior, the
Board of Customs issued strict injunctions to the officers
here to be more particular as to the quality of the article
deposited with them in future. When Mr. Hay gave the
proper notice in January fur obtaining wheat in exchange
for biscuit deposited, the article tendered was carefully
examined by the officers, and the quality of the biscuit was
compared with certain samples sent down by the Board of
Customs. The officers considered both the Captain's biscuit
Ind the navy biscuit inferior, and reported the circumstance
o the Board, who ordered the present prosecution. The
tontradictory nature of the evidence caused considerable
loubt on the minds of the magistrates, and the defendant
,eing entitled to the benefit of that doubt, the bench decided
.1 his favour, thus acquiting him of the charges brought
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figams him.