The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL IN 1841 AND IN 1851

The population of Liverpool, as shown by the census of
1841, was as follows :
Liverpool Parish....,
Everton, Kirkdale, Toxteth-park, and West 1
71,174
Derby ..

189,242

Total population of borough
The census of this year shows the following results ;
Liverpool Parish, males
„ females
Out Townships

Total population of borough
Being an increase, in round numbers, of 123,900 souls, or
nearly 50 per cent. If we were to take into account the
population spread over the adjacent places of Walton,
Aintree, Wavertree, Woolton, Aigburth, &c., and those
located on the Cheshire side of the river, the increase
would be still more considerable.

In commercial facilities we have more than kept pace
with the increase of our population. We possess now
200 acres of dock space, of which above one-half are of
new creation. The revenue of our Dock Estate, which
was, in 1841, £175,506, was last year £211,743, notwith-
standing the rates were reduced in 1844 and in 1848, on
the latter occasion by about 40 per cent. The amount
paid by .Liverpool to the customs has also increased
largely, although the duties upon some of the most impor-
tant of our imports have either been repealed, or greatly
reduced. The improvements effected since 1841 in the
architecture, the streets, and the sanitary condition of the
town, afford also conclusive evidence of our rapid progress.

Several new manufactories and spinning mills are at
present being erected at Blackburn, and all the subsidiary
trades are active and prosperous.
On Saturday, the steam-ship Niagara, Captain Leitch,
left the Mersey, for New York direct, with the usual
mails for the United States and British provinces, and
upwards of 70 passengers. The day was rather unfavour-
able, but she proceeded to sea punctually, without casualty
of any kind.
SUB-MARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY:—A company,
under the above title, has just been formed for the pur-
pose of constructing a line of telegraphic intercourse con-
necting Great Britain with France, under the concession
obtained by Joseph Brett, from the French government,
at the end of last year. The grand features of the under-
taking are the ultimate establishment of an universal
and instantaneous communication throughout the whole
of Europe ; and the advantages it will afford to India and
America for the conveyance of the above news brought
by the India mail, which, on its arrival at Trieste or Mar-
seilles, may be delivered, printed in Roman type, simul-
taneously at Paris and London—and at Liverpool, in
readiness for the departure of the American mail. The
several departments of the English government have ex-
pressed their approbation of the undertaking.
ECCLESIASTICAL MUSIC.—The Rev. Richard Wall,
the esteemed incumbent of St. Anne's Church, Birken-
head, has delivered, in the school room connected with the
church, two of a series of lectures on church music, with
a view to induce the congregation to join more generally
in the musical services of his church. The lectures have
been most interesting and instructive, and were very ably
illustrated by the excellent amateur choir which has long
and efficiently conducted the music of St. Anne's Church,
and certainly in very few places is that important and
beautiful portion of divine worship carried on with better
taste or effect than in this well arranged building. Much
credit is, we understand, due for this desirable result to
T. W. Goold, Esq., who, ever since the opening of the
church, has devoted much valuable time and pains-taking
attention to promote this object, and in accomplishing
which he has displayed a higher order of musical know-
ledge and taste than is frequently found even among pro.
fe-sional ranks. The congregations of many other
churches would do well to imitate this praiseworthy effort.

THE LAST MOMENTS OF MR. SHEIL.-Mr. Sheil was
in his bedroom, and had just finished dressing for church,
when he told Mrs. Sheil he felt a spasm in his stomach,
fainted, and lay upon the bed. He recovered, and took
some colchicum, which he had generally at hand, fainted
again, recovered, and took a little brandy and opium. He
fainted a third time, and expired in the arms of Mrs.
Sheil. He was 62 years of age. He often expressed his
wonder that O'Connell should have turned towards Italy
in his decline. They died both in the month of May, and
both away from their native land, and in that Italy to
whose Spiritual Ruler they had both laboured to subjugate
their country.

CASE OF STARVATION IN BRISTOL.—The party now
in custody on a charge of having nearly starved their
daughter to death (Robert Carpenter and Louisa, his wife)
were brought up before the magistrates on Friday for fur-
ther examination. The statement made by Christina
Carpenter on a former occasion led to the belief that she
had been most cruelly used by her father and stepmother;
but from the evidence of Susan Petherham, a lodger in
the house where the prisoners resided, it appeared that
the whole family were in a state of starvation, and that,
as far as their means went, the girl had fared as well as
her parents and brothers. Mr. Ayre, who conducted the
case against the accused, withdrew from the prosecution ;
and the magistrates having pointed out to Carpenter and
his wife that they would have escaped much public odium
if they had applied for parochial aid, ordered them t the
discharged.
NATION AL SOCIETY.—On Friday the annual examina-
tion of the children of the Central School, Sanctuary,
Westminster, took place before the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, the Bishops of Oxford and Bangor, and a very
large number of the friends of the society. Amongst
those present were—the Rev. Lord John Thynne, the
Rev. Lord Bayning, the Rev. D. Coleridge, &c. His
grace having offered up prayer, the Venerable Archdeacon
Allen, one of the inspectors of schools, proceeded, in a
manner displaying great kindness, tact, and ability, with
the examination of a large class of girls and another of
boys. Each class read a chapter of the New Testament,
and were catechised upon its meaning as well as upon the
doctrines, teaching, and formularies of the church. In
addition to this, they solved several arithmetical problems,
went through a lesson of parsing, and wrote various im-
promptu sketches of scripture character, English history,
and geography. It may be doubted if many of the spec-
tators would have passed through an ordeal so miscella-
neous and of such a character, in so creditable a manner
as did most of these children. The last subject was music,
in which the pupils acquitted themselves admirably.

. .
A NOVEL MODE OF SPARROW SHOOTING.-1411St Sa-
turday afternoon two men of colour, apparently Hindoos,
and exceedingly well attired, were observed " killing time"
by amusing themselves in " killing sparrows," which acts
they achieved in the following singular manner :—Having
taken up their position in Cumberland Haymarket, near
the Regent's Park, where the above birds are pretty nu-
merous, they waited until the game settled on some spot
within the reach of their projectile range, when, by apply-
ing a bamboo cane to their mouths, they dismissed a shot
at the object of their ain., which, in five instances out of
six, was sure to be attended with fatal effects. The pellets
they made use of for the above purpose consisted of hard
clay, resembling greatly boys' marbles; and it was truly
astonishing to notice with what accuracy and precision
these expert fowlers struck the birds at which they levelled
their deadly tubes. When within fifteen paces of the
object their aim proved unerring, and during the short
interval of time they continued to exercise their sportive
pursuit they managed to secure nearly two dozen spar-
rows, which they consigned to a small basket, and walked
out of the market, apparently highly gratified with the
result of their remunerative adventure. _ _ _

.L.XTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—One day last
week, as a gentleman was returning from Leasingham
with a horse and gig, the property of Mr. Anderson, of
the Masons' Arms Inn, Lincoln, the mare by accident
fell on her side, and broke one of the shafts. In de-
scending the steep and dangerous hill known as Cross
Cliff Hill, the broken shaft chafed against the side of the
animal, irritating her, and causing her to kick and plunge.
Eventually, when about half way down the hill, the ani-
mal again fell to the ground, and, while the gentleman
made the best of his way to get assistance, she got up,
and at a slashing pace started for home. The toll bar at
the entrance of Lincoln being closed, the mare dashed at
it, and, wonderful to relate, she broke through six bars,
which made an opening through which she contrived to
drag the vehicle, and galloped without any further hin-
drance or accident, until she arrived at the turn in
Guildhall-street, where her owner resided, and which is
more than a mile through the city from the toll-bar.
The animal, however, turned the corner too stoutly, and
again fell, overthrowing the gig ; and, en assistance being
rendered, it was discovered that, although the gig had
sustained some damage, the mare had received but trifling
injury.—Local Paper.
MORE DISTRESS.—On Friday evening, a very large
meeting of the framework-knitters of Nottingham took
place in that town—the Rev. J. W. Brooks, vicar, in the
chair—to make known their distressed condition. Two
thousand persons were present. In the drawers' bainch
there are 250 men out of employ ment, by which 1000 per-
sons are destitute of the common necessaries of life, In
the " cut up" branch, more than 500 were out of work.
Of the silk glove hands, 200 are totally unemployed, and
the remaining 300 are only partially engaged. In the
counties of Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester, said
one of the speakers, " there are at least 3,000 glove-
' makers, of whom not more than 200 had any-
thing like full employment. Perhaps 500 or 600 ave-
raged from ss. to 7s. per week ; and there were hund-
reds more who were barely getting from 2s. to 3s. and 4s.
a week. In the village of Bulwell (near Nottingham),
there were 600 glove hands, about 80 of whom did not
get anything like 6s. per week. In the three counties
there were nearly 50,000 framework knitters—i.e., men
employed in frames, besides those dependent upon them,
such as stitchers, seamers, and winders.
whatOf use
was cheap bread without the means of obtaining it."
ROME'S FREEDOM.—We desire to call the attention of
our readers to the various illustrations which the intelli-
gence of this week contains, of the species of freedom
and toleration
where
ti
s whichin
n thethe accords
the
regardcommu-
nions,ther
which it shows for the principle " civil and religious
liberty," so loudly invoked by its champions in this
country. The Spanish Concordat excludes from the
soil of Spain every religion but Popery, and admits
of no instruction, public or private, but that upon which
the Priest has set his fiat. At Florence a nobleman is
cast into a common gaol, along with the most depraved of
felons, for the offence of reading, and, it seems, assisting
others to read, the word of God in the vulgar tongue. And
at Rome a young man is condemned to the galleys for
twenty years for having endeavoured to prevent one of his
ellow-citizens from smoking, the non-consumption of the
cigars, of which the Government has a monopoly, being
the only means of giving expression to public opinion
which is left to the happy Romans under the benign rule
of pio Nono and the Sacred College. And this system,
which bears such fruits of "civil and religious liberty,"
the Popish members, and those blind bats, the Radicals,
are attempting to introduce amongst us, under the pre-
posterous plea of respect for freedom of action and
opinion.

June 10. 1851._

EXPRESS NEWS•

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

LONDON, MONDAY NIGIIT
had entered.
to four o'clock 52,186 personS
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for mo
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that
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aa
dv ebreeecne
ev e da•
deavouriug to obtain particulars of accounts for those
branches of the revenue belonging to the bondholder&
up to the 31st December last, but without success.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has assumed the officg
of Finance Minister, and submitted his plan of ways and
means. 4'51,000 have been received for dividend.

INDIA.
The Ganges steamer has arrived importaro Silet
and much interrupted by native holidays.
brings papers of April 23rd. The p market vvag flat
and some:
what easier in the bazaar. The total loss of the Garage!
Company's Inland Steamer Patna, with a cargo valuedste
about two lacs of rupees, has created a little alarm in t 1
market. Iron was in fair demand. In Exchange e,
months sight credit bills, at 2s. to 28s. Document draft'
2ks. to 2as. Freights receded shortly of er last mail Pi:
to 15s. but have within the last few days nearly recovereft
the fall. Nothing doing in Indigo. Sugar active at wet
maintained rates, till within the last few days when big''
rates of freights led from 3 to 4 annas, reduced offer?'
which had been possibly accepted for low. Saltpetre in
general request and decline of 2 to 4 annas, had affected,;
medium and lower qualities. Raw Silk in demand, I°
good and superior, and previous terms well supported.

MADRID, 3RD JUNE.—The Government intend to
apply to the Cortes for the immediate levy of 25,000 men
on account of the events in Portugal. There are repo?s
of some military reactionary movements in Portue„i
but they seem of an unimportant character. The Spar
foreign minister is very anxious for an intervention.
TURKEY.—The Russian troops had completely. 001.
ated Danubian Provinces. Osmar Pacha had take.
Bibaes in Bosiva, by storm, after 14 days' bombardment'
SHIPPING DISASTERS, LISBON 4.—The Georgia, fr°,.t.
Pasinao for the Clyde, was burnt at sea May 30, in
39,
ded
her here
long. e Imo.e n Master e an.
n. d
Tmhaeteb
apicked
rukpe
dan, wit ahn.s,
was burned on the 16th of May, 150 miles S.W. 0. t 0
Western islands ; crew and passengers saved.

TATTERSALL'S, YESTERDAY' st
GOODWOOD CUP.-4 to 1 agst Essedarius ;10to 1 ag
War Horse and Young Antidoria.
ST. LEGER.-7 to 2 agst Aphrodite ; 7 to 1 agst
naSURREYndez ; 10 to 1 agst Misserima.
AND MIDDLESEX STAKES.-4 to 1 asst
dallah and Gladiole.
DERBY.-14 to 1 agst Brother to Elthiron ;28to 1 at
Home-brewed ; 30 to 1 agst Vortex and Daniel O'ltatir.

LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS.—YssTERDitf•
CLOSING PRICES. 99k
Consols Account, 97/ 8A• Three and Quarter per Cents,,o
; Bank Stock, 2114 12 • Exchequer Bills, 53 6.—Foreign
quiet ,• closing good : dexicans, 34/ 5 • Spanish Actives, xv
Do. Threes, 404 #; Passives, 5/ 64.--Railway Shares: Lon
Stock, 1224 3; Ditto Quarters, 3/ 4 p.m.; Midland Stock a
Ditto Halves, 171 4 dis.; North Staffordshire, 84 74 dis.; lero
Eastern, 234 ; Caledonians, 13 4 ; Ditto Pref., 6* ;Ea
Counties, 614; East Lancashire, 14/ 15 ; Great Northern, 44;
; Great Western, 334 4; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 531,01;
Ditto Fifths, 8 74 dis. ' • York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 192;2i;
Ditto Extension, 54 4/ : York and North Midland, 2%. Ea
Ditto Pref., 14 1 dis. ; London, Brighton, and South Coils',
64 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 14 15.
English Funds steady at quotations, with little doing. .„ dal
way shares farther declined, although this being buying-1,4"„i0P
from last account. Stock found scarce, but no husinesSuv
Weather unfavourable. Market closes at its lowest.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—SATURDAY. rite
There is a moderate show of English Wheat at our Ma Jest
to-day, and sales are restricted, but the prices of MondeYnottl
are fully supported. Foreign at quite former terms.
English and French Flour are in moderate demand, at the r^ At
of
full terms.
Oats last.
advanced Barley,Gd.Beans,per
quarter. and P eas
In
are inquired' Seedsn
doing. All other articles are without variation weft"
naming

English White Wheat
„ Red „

ARRIVALS
Qrs.
2800 ....
203 ....
1448 ....
4530 ....
3411 ....

English Wheat,
„ Barley
„ Oats
„ Malt
„ Flour
„ Peas..

3462::
100 1:

Foreign

„- Beans
Irish Wheat,
„ Oats .
„ Malt..,

20' SECOND REPORT.
English Wheat is firmer. Closing at an advance tAis. d
per quarter. Good Foreign Is. per qr. dearer. BeB""rateg.
Peas fid. per qr. higher. Flour is steady, at 'ale
Canary Seeds against the seller.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—YEsTERDqu t fe!!,
Sugar : Several buyers of Foreign for exportatien,„ond
sellers at previous terms. For refined the home d` hag
rather better, and brown lumps 47s.—Coffee : The qC ceyloo
ceased, and rather more doing. Good ordinary Native n gott
38s.—Tea: The home dealers are cautious; ordinary ,
Ms.—Cochineal sells more freely at rather better prICOOI
The Indigo market is dull, and sales are lower.—The Co
market inactive, but prices not cheaper.

TALLOW RETURNS.
itlg fitt
The stock is 36,250 casks against 25,956 last year, -ex were
increase of 10,294 casks this year. The deliveries last. Wee _of
1,144 casks, against 725 casks last year, being an
419 casks. IncreaSe

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY'
The supply of Beasts is moderate, and the trade is dull nidlsef
prices of last Friday. In Lambs the trade is less than 0. „
market day. British Calves are in demand, but With "d
P
the
vance on late prices. The supply of Sheep is large e
trade is active at Friday's rates. Beasts 3,832, .-11 e
Lambs 28,890, Calves 237, Pigs 139, Scotch Beasts 240. to itl•
2s. 2d. to 3s. 6d., Mutton 3s. to 3s. 10d Veal 2S. sd'
Pork 3s. to 3s. Bd.

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The Court visited her Majesty's Theatre on SAW:JP
The accounts from Ireland of the crops are ta
satisfactory. tt
The Lords of the Treasury have issued a general °lid
sanctioning the future admission into this countd
free of plate publicly presented to parties abroad•
ens ill:
Lord Westmeath has procured for the Governoa2o l''
formation that Cleopatra's Needle, presented in Torgo'
George IV. by the Pacha of Egypt, has not bell,' JO
ten. Some mechanical difficulties, however, st"
its transfer to England. a e 1 ,4g
THE LATE HARWICH ELECTION.—The sec
~-
tion for the borough of Harwich, it appears, is net against
by undisputed, for on Friday evening a petition dOOO
the return of Mr. Crawford was presented to the
401
of Commons. 0 the . op,
The King of Prussia was to leave Potsdam e he bit A
for Hanover, to be present at the celebration of !Ils Wel
day of Ernest Agustus. Several other Soverapake et
expected—the Grand Duke of Russia, the Olect°
Mecklenburg, the Duke of Brunswick, and 1-- (
of Hesse. -ac au Her Majesty's visit to the City of London tow-ic 041
lhawHoohnamuogrrroesaidssptaepsn
the splendid entertainment provided by the C'" st, tr.; f
rities has been postponed at her Majesty's reque_er del'
the 2nd to the 9th July, in consequence of the fotnagr,
being the anniversary of the death of the late Sir P's" .
Peel.
tosettr carrying the weight railr';
t tii°
NOVEL WAGER.—A wager, to carry 100th weigh ton
wasno not themade le a lastalflae,trvi,ge
andueke
d, betweenby tWilliamh e
esiti ;fete
e:0:tiob:.:
ftnd walking upwards of Sil trOli
superior strength of Swe..teion"
named
succumbed
dmacerefieeudmeminutes,b Harris,e d imbiber.
t o a
tt eAeae
Bristol Mirror. toterd
Bishop Whittingham, of Maryland, has 11.esis141
against the letter addressed by Dr. Chase, theLP"iab),4,`"o
Bishop, to the Archbishop of Canterbury.on t" en off:lC
of the jubilee of the Society for the Propagatl°je""ttn
Gospel, mainly on the ground of the reference oa, Po
to the connexion of the English Church with tbessej
The New York Churchman contains a letter adc.lir ratio(
Bishop Chase to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1,11,400,1!4
this protest, in which the Bishop disclaims all iOO6O-
speaking on behalf of the Episcopate of the '''' tiol
Church.
na rortf;111
DREADFUL EXPLOSION.—On Friday --ea, ~• .„10 .
boiler of a small steam-engine erected *."l,ll.lietit
it 10
Colliery, at King's Wood, Gloucester, burstrLitlf Tien
explosion, by which three persons were iusnore tidal
and seven others dangerously scalded. Five 0 pr°- and
also seriously injured. A new engine had beebarS"A
to take the place of the one which has thus.,o9t,eittlrt
Friday was the last day on which the old onee;iooo,os '
been used. The men were, in fact, actuallYc,f'ooo%o
brickwork from the old boiler at the very
ref exploded. with eist 0
THE CUMBERLAND FISHING CASE."'" 1 the II -4j,
to this case, which has been so often before :0j0050.0t04-
fviiatdhual
landowner
nlttdhhoeewl
anglingnau esntrd
adjournment,
;rot
occupier,
trates, the Cunaberland Pacquet states that oP' in a. 'tort
been obtained by Mr. Milner and Mr. Hassel s°l4l that
crnrconduumi
pot
iegem
xi :
ma
hasefresh
caehnwl
egagottacie-:.:0ort
righter
vgbobeef,;,,,i,oli,
ennacvieno employeddowi
so ;so that, the question being now dispose 00 A
inquiry and consideration, anglers need not bgovoi
apprehension of further prosecution under the
if they have proper leave.

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