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

MIXTURE OF THE PEOPLE.

The following table shows the number of Irish, Scotch,
English, and foreigners dispersed through the different
parts of the empire at the date of the last census :
Irish resident in England and Wales
" " Scotland ..
" " the Channel Islands .... 3,531

Total Irish absentees

419,256

Scotch resident in England and Wales 103,238
VP 4t Ireland
" " The channel 151and5......

Total Scotch absentees .

112,922

English and Welsh resident in Scotland 37.796
Pr 17 1? 17 Ireland ....

11 "
111 "
Channellslands.. 18,00 G

Total English absentees

Foreigners resident in
nd
Englandefa and Wales 39,244
4,471
If " " Scotland
,t ~ " Channel Islands 2.760

Total Foreign Absentees .......... 49,251

Irish resident in London and Suburbs ..
Scotch resident in ditto

73.133
25,658

Foreigners resident in ditto
Irish in Liverpool . 49,639
" Glasgow 44,345
" Manche-ter and Salford....
In no other town in England or Scotland does the
number of exceed:6,ooo.

DISCOVERY OF A LONG-CONCEALED MURDERER.—
Considerable sensation was produced in Chester, on Sa-
turday week, by the arrival of two police officers, one
from Parnell, in Warwickshire, and the other from Al-
cester, in search of a man named James Crawley, of Par-
nell, charged with the wilful murder of Wm. Tilsley, also
of that place, so far back as Christmas Day, 1842. The
two officers named, accompanied by two of the Chester -
police, went to the Castle and Falcon public-house, and
found the prisoner seated, with a glass of ale before him.
Onbeinginforrnedof thecharge, he exclaimed" I admit it !"
and subsequently, while being handcuffed, he added, " I
am a dead man." He was immediately taken before the
magistrates, and 36 sovereigns and a double-barrelled
pistol were found upon him. The weapon was not loaded,
but a paper containing a number of balls, and a flask of
powder, were found in one of his pockets. It appeared
that the prisoner had formerly resided with his parents at
Parnell; but, in consequence of his violent conduct, his
father had forbidden him the house, at the same time pro-
viding for him a small cottage in the neighbourhood, and
allowing him £1 per week and a horse to ride on. Not-
withstanding this arrangement, however, the father hav-
ing still reason to dread some fatal act of violence on the
part of his son, had one of his farm-servants, named Tils-
ley, sworn in as a special constable for his (the father's)
protection ; and on r hristrnas Day, 1842, the family and
a party of friends having just taken their seats at the din-
ner-table, the prisoner's mother suddenly started up, and
said to her husband," For God's sake, go upstairs, there's
James coming across the field with his gun to shoot some
of us." The old man accordingly hurried from the apart-
ment, and the prisorkpr, who had been seen by his mother
through the window advancing in the way she described.
went round to the back of the house, and thrust the muz-
zle of his double-barrelled gun through a pane of glass.
In the meantime Tilsley went out to expostulate with the
prisoner, who, on seeing him, retreated a few paces, ex-
claiming, "It's you; is it ?" and at the same instant fired
at the unfortunate man, and shot him dead upon the spot.
He then shouldered the gun, and was heard to say as he
walked away, " I've another charge for somebody else."
No one ventured to stop him. Ile went home, saddled
his horse, rode to Tring, and there left his horse at an
inn, took the train, but stopped at the first station, where
he bought a pair of spectacles to disguise his person, and
was heard of no more until a few days since. He has, it
appears, been in the United States in the interim, but has
resided ever since March last in Chester. A woman with
whom he has recently cohabited in a fit of jealousy be-
trayed him. The prisoner, after having been duly cau-
tioned, signed the following declaration r—" I have to say
I am guilty of what I should do again to-morrow. I did
shoot the man in open day. I think I did my duty." He
was ordered to be taken to Warwick, where be will un-
dergo further examination.
In our columns a few weeks since, the attention of the
community was called to the subject of the want of mar.
ket "and other accommodations in Toxteth-park, whose
population is now upwards of 50,000. We learn, with
pleasure, that our fellow citizens have taken up the subject
in earnest, and in the meanwhile we perceive that provision
shops are erecting in that great thoroughfare, Park-road,
which will shortly be completed and ready for tenants.—
See advertisement.

In consequence of the lateness of the hour at which the
train arrived, we were compelled to work off our town
subscribers' copies without our usual town edition.

FOREIGN POPULATION OF THE UNITED

STATES.

(F; cm 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 ...... .. P 21,433
1831 50,254
1832
1833 21,752
1834
1835 ........ 12,527
1836
1837
1838 3,266 13,059
1839
1840 ...
1841 28,086

Total .... 321,807

Average.. 26,800
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 wa5...... 321.807
Into the United State5......

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 be safely calcu-
lated that full 40,000 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 bow much
does it become Americans to look vigilantly to the welfare
of their own.

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.

EDUCATION AND CRIME.—In a late charge to the
grand jury of York, Mr. Justice Coleridge, in referring
to the concurrent increase of crime and education; uttered
the following sentiments, which do honour to the bench,
and might instruct some of our anythingarian nobility and
prelates, if ignorance, hedged up by political advantage
and self-conceit, can ever be instructed :—" One of the
great engines," said he, " which had always been looked
to for the reduction of crime, was the spread of education.
Education had no doubt spread very largely throughout
the whole of England ; and it could not be denied that
the number of persons who were unable to read and write
had much diminished. In 1837, the proportion was
nearly thirty-six per cent. ; it was now reduced to about
thirty-one per cent. When they found, however, in tl e
face of the great increase of education of some kind, that
crime went on steadily to increase, it undoubtedly gave
rise to some misgivings with regard to the effective nature
of the remedy. Far was it from him to cast any doubt
upon the certainty of education in the end to produce a
gond effect. It led them to this important consideration
—Whether the education that had yet been given had
been entirely of the right sort? Whether, though it might
be desirable to spread a knowledge of reading and writing
amongst the common people, they did not mistake the
meaning of education who rested their idea of its efficiency
simply on an acquaintance with those branches ? There
was another thing which should be Made the basis, and
not the basis only-, but the superstructure also, of the
system of education ; and that was a practical, vital, and
entire diffusion of the principles of religious truth into
the hearts of the people. For that reason it had often
occurred, that instead of the prison returns containing
accounts of the capabilities of the inmates to read and
write, and so on, it would be well that the chaplain of the
gaol should be instructed to examine the prisoners as to
the amount of their religious knowledge ; and then it
would be seen what such an education as that would effect
amongst those who had the misfortune to become the in-
mates of gaols."
A BEAR.—" Were you ever hugged by a bear ? "
" Well, I wasn't ever hugged ; but once I was much
closer to one than ever I wish to be again."—" Oh ! when
was that? Do, pray tell us," said Emma.—" It was
when I was young, that one day I sounded a tree in the
forest with my axe, and I was certain that there was a
bear in it ; but the animal did not show itself, so I climbed
up the tree to examine the hole at the top, and see if the
bear was- at home; if so, I was determined to have him
out. Wel, Miss, I was on the top of the hollow trunk,
and was just putting my head into the hole, when, all of a
sudden, the edge of the tree on which I knelt gave way,
like so much tinder, and down I went into the hollow;
luckily for me I did not go down head foremost, or there
I should have remained until this time, for the bole in the
middle of the tree, as I found, was too narrow for me to
have turned in, and there I must have stuck. As it was,
I came down with the dust and crumbles smothering me
almost, till I came right on the top of the bear, who lay
at the bottom ; and I fell with such force that I doubled
his head down, so that he could not lay hold of me with
his teeth, which would not have been pleasant ; indeed,
the bear was quite as much, if not more astonished than
myself, and there he lay beneath me very quiet till I could
recover a little. Then I thought of getting out, as you
may suppose, fast enough, and the hollow of the tree,
providentially, was not so wide but that I could work up
again with my back to one side and my knees to the other.
By this means I gradually got up again to the hole that
I fell in at, and I perched myself across the timber to
fetch my breath. I had not been there much more than
a quarter of a minute, and I intended to have remained
much longer, when I perceived all of a sudden the bear's
head within a foot of me; he had climbed up after me,
and I saw he was very angry, so in a moment I threw
myself off my perch, and down I went to the ground at
the foot of the tree, a matter of near twenty feet, even
faster than I went down inside of it. I was severely
shaken with the fall, but no bones were broken ; in fact.
I was more frightened than hurt : I lay quite still for a
little while, when the growl of the bear put me in mind
of him; I jumped on my legs, and round that he was
coming down the tree after me, and was within six feet
of the ground. There was no time to lose; I caught np
my rifle and had just time to put it to his ear and se'tle
him, as he,was placing his fore-foot on the ground."—
" What a narrow escape !"—" Well, perhaps it, was; but
there's no saying, Miss, which beats till the fight is over."
—Captain Marryat.

THE CHURCH'S DECISION AS TO THE OFFERTORY.—
What is the evidence which the church offers me as to the
observance of the weekly offertory ? I find the sovereign
of the realm, the temporal head of the church, acting, of
course, under the primate, recognized a disuse of this ser-
vice. A few years after this I find the primate himself
composing a form of prayer in which this service is alto-
gether omitted. • After a short interval I find a bishop
(and that bishop Bishop Andrews) in the solemn duty of
consecrating a chapel, (and this, be it remembered, is one
of the recognised festivals,) using this service only as a
portion of the Eucharistic service. This, too, is succeeded
by an important alteration in the prayer for the church
militant, made by the two houses of convocation, and
sanctioned by the parliament, 1661; confirming Bishop
Andrews's practide. Again, in 1712 I find a form of prayer
proposed by the bishops in convocation to the other dig-
nitaries and representatives of the clergy. I find that form
diseussed and approved by the lower house; and thus ob-
taining the sanction of both houses of convocation ; not
only confirming, but carrying on the practice of those pre•
vious authorities. And in addition to this, I find a tenour
.of high authorities down to the prevent time, encouraging
in their writings, and confirming by their practice, those
changes which are in strict accordance with the statute
law of the land; and which have been made, as I trust I
have shown, to meet the changes of its requirements. If
this be not the voice of the church, whither shall I go to
hear it? May I not, at least, require that an authority
equal to that of 1712—the whole convocation of bishops,
dignitaries, and representatives of the clergy—should au-
thoritatively deliver their judgments in effecting so great
a change in the practice of the church ? I repeat that this
consideration does press most heavily upon me. But this
does not appear to be the only obstacle to a revival of the
weekly offertory. I speak with great submission and with
great reverence for the authorities who may differ from
me ; but I am certainly of opinion that the church, as an
integral,part of the state, has no power to revive the offer-
tory as a provision and maintenance for the poor : assu-
ming that these portions of the rubric will bear the inter-
pretation which the advocates for the revival affix to them,
and that the rubric itself has the force of an act of parlia-
ment. Without again referring to any prior statutes, I
submit that the 4th and sth William IV., cap. 76, repeals,
or rather annuls, its operation. By clause 15 it is enacted
that from and after the passing of this act the adminis-
tration of relief to the poor throughout England and
Wales, according to the existing laws, or such laws as
shall be in force at the time being, shall be subject to the
direction and control of the said commissioners. The
alms offered at the celebration of the holy commu-
nion (and God forbid that they should he suspended) are
valuable, inasmuch as they enable the minister, in cases
of sickness, and other emergencies, to supply a few com-
forts to his poor parishioners. They are, as I have before
observed, subtsidiary to, but not superseding the legal pro-
vision for them. But if you revive the weekly offertory,
in its original intention, you create an imperintn itn-
prio, the legality of which no one, I presume, is prepared
to defend.

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
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The Stock of SPIRITS can with confidence be recom-
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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 ......
Fine Old Cognac 2B 0 7 0
Henessey's very old, first quality . 3O 0 7 6
Ditto pale Champagne
Finest Schiedam Hollands 2B 0 7 0
BRITISH SPIRITS.
Superior London and Bristol Gin lO 0 2 6
Choice Liqueur, very delicate ll 0 2 9
Old Tom, for mixing....
British Brandy l2 0 3 0
Burgundy, ditto pale and brown, highly
recommended 18 0 4 6

Old Irish and Scotch Whiskey.... lOs and 12s 0 2 6 3s

Very old Jameson's .
Old Scotch Malt Campbeltown l4 6 3 9

Finest ditto Islay ..... .....

.10 0 4 0

The genuine F:trintoch, Glenlevit, Blad-
nock, and small still very old Whiskey,

for Toddy...

17 0 4 6

WINES IN WOOD.

Good Port .. .......
Superior Ditto .......
Best Ditto..
Rare, stout, rich, fruity, and very old Ditto
of high character ..
Good stout Sherry . : . .10 0 2 6
Superior Ditto ...
Curious rare old Sherry
Ditto Amontillado. l4 0 3 6
Finest pale Ditto ....
Best white Cape 8 0 2 0
Ditto Pontac ....
WINE IN BOTTLE. Doz.
Stout Port
Superior Ditto
Fine Old Crusted
Superior Ditto, five years old
Finest Ditto, ten years in bottle. . .
Good Stout Sherry
Excellent Dinner Ditto
Superior Ditto. London particular 36s.
Splendid Pale Ditto, nutty flavour..
Finest Ditto Paxare1e....
Good White Cape.. . .
Bronte, choicest Brand .... .. 2 !.. .„.. 21s.

Madeira, Champagne, Claret, Hock, Moselle, and every
description of FRENCH and GERMAN WINES,
equally cheap.
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2 Bottles best Gin, 2 Ditto Rum, 2 Ditto
French Brandy, 2 Ditto Malt Whiskey, 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 3 3 0
Hampers, ss.—full charge returned on receipt of empty
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