The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-07 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY,

The following abstract of a Parliamentary document,
►ssued in the last Session, shows the aggregate constituency
of Great Britain :

ND WALES (coUNTIEs.)
Freehold ; including freeholders of inheritance,
freeholders for life or lives, pew-renters, rent-
chargers, rectorial and vicarial tithes, or other
freehold qualification
Copyhold and customary : including tenants by
copy of court roll, tenant by custom of the
manor, tenants in ancient demesne..
Leasehold for period of years or for lives....
Occupying tenants at a rent of £5O per annum
Trustees and mortgagees in actual receipt of the
rents and profits .
Offices : including all ecclesiastical and parochial
appointments, as holders of benefices, &c., or-
ganists, parish-clerks, sextons, &e
Joint qualifications, including all

ENGLA

334,453

26,459

29,172
115,991

who are register-

ed for more than one qualification
Total number on the register
Increase since 1839-40

BOROUGHS

Ten pound householders
Freemen : including burgesses, freemen, livery-
men, and any other similar qualification, whether
_ _

7,727
518,187
22,461

250,074

DUTY ON DRIED FRUITS.-A good deal of uncertainty
6,318 having prevailed as to the proper rate of duty chargeable
8792 on pears, figs, and other fruit in a state of preservation,
3;630 the Board of Trade, in April, 1836, gave it as their opi-
nion, that " fruits preserved by sugar are liable to the
duty as succades, unless otherwise charged with duty'
54 name." The opinion thus expressed has ever
acted upon upon by the Customs, until this year, when they
16,441 deviated from the course prescribed, and charged the
338,351 succade duty in every instance where sugar appeared to
8,225 have been used for the preservation of the fruit. The
question having now been brought under the considers-
-18,126 tion of the Treasury, their lordships have expressed their
2,679 concurrence in the view taken by the Customs, that where
sugar has been employed in the preservation, the succade
duty should prevail, even where the fruit is otherwise
23,853 charged with duty by name. The hardship appears to be,
650 that although no fresh legislative enactment has taken
place, this decision affects the cases under consideration,
1,175 thus having an immediate, instead of a prospective, effect.
SRIPPING.-A parliamentary return states that the
507 number of sailing vessels registered at-the ports of Great
Britain and Ireland, &c., on the 31st of December last,
2,087 was in England, under 50 tons, 6,155, and 10,672 above
48,820 that tonnage. The steam-vessels numbered in England on
1,314 that day 337 under 50 tons, and 309 above that tonnage.
At the ports of Scotland the sailing-vessels registered
12,012 were, under 50 tons, 1,534, and above that tonnage 2,215;
of steam.vessels, 31 under 50 tons, and 97 above. At the
22,663 ports of Ireland there were registered 957 vessels under
259 50 tons. and 964 above; of steam-vessels, only 5
497 under 50 tons, and 76 above that tonnage. It appears,
that the vessels entered and cleared coastwise at the seve-
-1,988 ral ports of the united kingdom, in the year ending the
36,424 31st of December last, were, inwards 98,295 sailing-yes-
-694 sels, and outwards 108,105 ;of steam-vessels, inwards
9294, and outwards 8,992. In Scotland the vessels in-
TOTAL NUMBER OF ELECTORS IN GREAT BRITAIN wards numbered 19,053 in the year, and outwards 19,788;
AND IRELAND, IN 1842-3. of steam-vessels 2,688 inwards, and 2,989 outwards. In
Counties. Boroughs. Total. the same period there were entered and cleared to and
... 518,187 338,351 856,538 from the colonies 5,293 British vessels from the ports of
48,820 36,424 85,244 England inwards, and 5,671 outwards, and of 43 inwards,.
and 36 outwards. At the ports of Scotland, 566 British
374,775 941,782 vessels inwards, and 738 outwards, and of foreign vessels,
50,312 117,448 only 2 outwards. At the ports of Ireland 518 British
vessels inwards, and 362 outwards ; of steam-ve,ssels,.
425,017 1,059,230 British, 344 inwards, and 357 outwards. There were
built and registered in the year 1813, 653 sailing-ves-
sels and 45 steamers ; and there were sold, wrecked, and
THERE'S NO KNOWING WHAT A MAN MAY broken, 778 vessels-.

obtained by servitute or otherwise.
Freeholders or burgage tenants in tbecase of county,

cities, and towns.
Scot and lot voters.
Potwallers

Offices : including corporate or otherappointments,
as portreeves, holders of benefices, &c., organ-
ists, parish-clerks, sextons. &c
Jointqualifications, including all who are registered
for more than one qualification
Total number on the register
Increase since 1839

SCOTLAND (COUNTTES)

Proprietors, sole or joint
Life-renters, sole or joint

Leaseholders, including sole or joint occupants
tenants paying a gross sum of £3OO, or any other
similar qualification
Husband in right of wife
Offices : including parochial-minister, school-

masters, Sce
Joint qualifications, including all who are regis-
tered for more than one qualification.
Numbers mho have been transferred from the old

roll of freeholders to the new,
Total number on the register ..
Increase since 1839

BURGHS, &C,

Proprietors, sole or joint
Occupiers, sole or joint, including tenants at an
annual rent of £lO
Life-renters, sole or joint
Husband in right of wife
Joint qualification, including all who are registered
for more than one qualification
Total number of electors on the register
Increase since 1839.

England and Wales,
Scotland....

567,007
67,136

Total for Great Britain
Ireland
Total for the United King--
d0m......

COME TO

Lce been

PEERAGE .STATISTICS.—The total number of baronet

now amounts to 897, of whom 37 are in the church. Tin
(From Me Dublin Earning Mail.)
The witty Prebendary of St. Paul's once predicted that total number of peers is sGl,—town, 2 peers of the blood
the time would come when Lord Henry Petty and Mr.
royal, 27 dukes, 37 marquises, 212 earls, 60 viscounts:
and 226 barons. No new peerage has been created since
Whitbread would be the loudest reverberatory of the cry Sir Robert Peel's accession, and the only elevations have
of No Popery in the land. Lord Henry Petty has not
been those of Baron Hill to a viscounty, and o'
yet caught up the echo ; but he will, no doubt, shortly do Baron Ellenberough to an earldom. One eldest eon.
so, as the primary cry has proceeded from a quarter in
tile:
reverberating harmony with the Noble Marquis. " There's
of a peer, Lord Stanley, has been called to
cc
no knowing ' what a man may come to must be M upper house during his father's lifetime, and plas
r. .'
O'Connell's exclamation when be finds the heir of that In his fathers barony. Of the whole number m
, 26 are minors
gs, viz., t Mruises of Bath
Viceroy " more beloved than Nortnanby"—tha hope of
Drogheda, Hastin s, and Lothiahe n ; the a
Earls of Anncsley, .
the Noble House of Fortescue—giving vent to such semi- Carrick, Coventry, Darnley, Durham, Granard, Hope
ments as the following t— toun, Kintore, Munster, Pomfret, and Rothes ; Viscounts
"It is unnecessary to remind you of the fearful height Bangor, Clifden, and Powerscourt ; and Barons Dufferi,:
to which the evils consequent on this general laxity on
and Claneboye, Garvagh, Grey of Groby, Henley, Lang
the part of the people, and of assumption on the part of
ford, Massey, Mancaster, and Ribblesdale. Baron Mount
the clergy, had reached before the time of the blessed
sandford has nearly completed' his 89th year : Baron Bet -
Reformation : it is sufficient to say that, in the wanton
ners. is 82 ; Earl Grey, is nearly 81 ; the Earl of Harrow -
excess of priestly pride which was characteristic of the
by, 82; the Marquis of Huntly, is in his 84th year ;
worst age of the papacy, the Pope had blasphemously
the Earl of Macclesfield, 82; the Earl of Mornington, in
adopted the title of God's vicegerent on earth ; and went
his 82 Year ; and Baron Plunket, in his 81st. The Arch-
so far as to suffer himself to be addressed as ' Our Lord '
bishop of Canterbury is in his 80th year ; the Archbishop
God the Pope.' The great work which .Luther com-
of York in his 88th ; and the Bishop of Bath and Well:
menced and carried on on the Continent, and Wycliffe,
is in his 84th year. There are 48 peers in the army—tit.•
Cranmer, Latimer, and their associates, introduced into 5 dukes, 5 marquises, 18 earls, 5 viscounts, and 15 baron: 1
this country, here terminated in the establishment of the while there:are only 16 in the navy—viz., 1 duke, 7 earle
principles of the Reformation. Soon after this great 1 viscount, and 7 barons ; and the following 15 are ie
event the sad tendency of human nature began again to holy orders—the Earls of Abergavenny and Guildford
betray itself. In the time of Charles I. Archbishop Viscounts Downe, Hereford, Mountmorres, and Sit.
Laud and the dominant party in the establishment in- mouth ; and Barons Aston, Bayning, Berners, Berwick
clined back to the doctrines and practices of the unre- Decies, De Saumarez, Fitzgerald and Vesey, HartlanC
formed church ; and crossings, vestments, genufluxicns, and Rodney. The House of Peers at the present m..
forms, and ceremonies, were extensively introduced into
went consists of 436 members. Twelve peerages are no-
our ritual, and rendered the ground of persecution and
held by ladies.
intolerance."
Thus spake Lord Ebrington at an anti-surplice meet- SEASONABLE FRSTIVITIES.—The gaiety that reign
, ing, held at South Molton a few days since, and thus he supreme at this festive season, when friends and love.
I made plain to the meanest capasity, the sense in which assemble at the social board, or whirl in the giddy niav
his noble father, more quietly, but less firmly repudiated of the dance, induces both sexes to be more than usual:
obsolete us iges and ordinances as being "revived by par- desirous of shining in personal attraction, and to devote
ties in the Church, whom I trust it is not speaking un- greater share of attention to the toilet. It is, at this pa.
, charitably to describe as approaching much nearer in ticular season, that the virtues and singularly happy pr,
their views to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of perties of those auxiliaries of personal beauty, RowLAND
Rome, than to the standard which I have been taught to KALYDOR, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, and Roy.
consider as orthodox. I say, gentlemen, (continued the LAND'S ODONTO, shine pre-eminent in their powe;
noble Earl) trifling as the question of the surplice ie, while the white and swan-like neck, the rich luxuritu
considered abstractedly, yet viewed in the light in which tress, and the pearly set of teeth form admirable trophi-
I have now put it, and in which many with sufficient rea- of their inestimable qualities ! The august patrons,
son regard it, ceases to be trifling, and becomes worthy of conceded by our gracious Queen, and the several Soy
serious notice." reigns of Europe, together with the beauties which ado.
Let us add our /need of approbation to the loud cheers the circles of princely and regal magnificence; and
with which those sentiments were received, and let us confirmation by experience of the infallible
further express to Earl Fortescue our humble but sincere these creative renovating specifics, have charactertz
thanks for his expression of the following concise but them with perfection, and given them a celebrity nap
pregnant testimony to the ministers of the pure religion railed. They have proved the theme of the poet ; th. .
of Protestant England ;—" All that you desire (said his are celebrated in the periodical literature of the vale.*
lordship)—all that I desire in this business is, that things civilized world ; the lays of Byron, and the voice of t'
be left quietly as they were. I believe that there has been universal press, have proclaimed the incompar-'
no period in the history of the church, in which its minis- , toes of the " Oil Macassar," and of its accompanyters as a body, either in this or any other diocese, were I preparations.

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