Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-07-01
THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL.

M City IN the old world SO 81 s.ly connected with
America both in locality and business alons as Liver
pool and none parakos largely Of American enterprise
and prosperity. Indeed its recet of progress scarce
" finds paiallel even shores. It's popula
ation in 1871 2S6 iSGn 1916 il was 36l 2e; and
At the present time is estimated 10 be nearly 400 900
No port in the entire world London excepted pos
sesSes 50 large foreign tonnage. The vessels that clear
ed UPWARDS in 1873, % 133, and their tonnage was
3O59 ll0 tous yielding revenue, in the shape Of Gus
toms duties, TO the amou Of nearly three and halt mil
lions pounds. The twenty two docks of the harbnr
which Of unequaled maGulicence cover an area oil
Us acres and Constructed of about thirteen
millions serng. Eighteen thousand persons nain tn,
livelihood by loading and disrharalng vessels aud work
ing on the quays. No one can visit Liverpool and sur
Wy II uobc RIVER swamng aud is Immense docks rack
I'd with vs5 Is tom every aaonlts quay and wbary",
increasingly rnmhlnG with AIDED cats aud wagonsii-
odcd and free warehouses seven or eight stories hiah
gugod with produce aud mcichandZ1-ils sIed; alive
with moving crowds and ever resonant with the hum Of
busincss--and.s splendid public aud private cdiccs
sng in every direction 10 adorn the lhout al
Mining aud hnnGrng the industry aud energy that could
make such Tyre ola yllago that hardly had a uano
two hundred years ano.
But although Liverpool has grown with The er,vth
and thrvcn with the trl of the New World stlll the
very fact oi lis being closely connected with Us has
inflicted upon II mluy very serious BURDENS aud evils
1t is not only the gtea, mart Of trans autic commerce
but The great rcu, Zvous Of trans Atlantic emigration
1t IS hence afflicted with an excessive alien population
and an aim st lnsnfIahc amount Of pauperlsm Il is
the Grta inlet OF Ireland and nearly half OF its lna
ans, rs is said are either Irish Of Irish extraction
An uneeasng stream Of wfotehedncss, which no powe
OF art can avert Is daily poured in from the ncighbonr
isle. One must needs go through The streets and lanes
OF Liverpool, and survey, as the writer has done The
em1claod, sln'i, unmligated misery that everywhere
presents itSr, t, adequately realize the price which that
City is paying for its commercial advantages.
Full halt the Of the Liverol work house the
admissions into which amount to eight OF nine thousand
annually, is due u the influx Of the distressed
Irish. BESIDES there i, The cost Of out door relief which
was last year extended to rs 900 lish the cos, Of san
itary arrangements which the presence of numbers
Of ln-h, living in extreme slualor, disease and misery
entail upon the city; the expense Of vagrans tramp5 aud
casual poor the distress occasoncd 10 The regular labor
CTS Ivy the comp ttlon OF overwhelming Numbers ot oi-
grams wiling work for shilling, or even sixpence
days largely increased amount Of police and criminal
expenditure and lastly the expense of pa sing over to
the nearest Irish port the thousands who congrceate in
Liverpool from all parts Of the Kingdom ir the CA pres,
pupse of being sent home again at The public cApcu
During the two years prior tn last January, 700 600
fvcd IN Liverpool from iceland at least ninety hun
drcdhs of whom were deck passengers and were either
cm9rans, cattle obhers or panpefs. Ten thousand
annually sent back 10 LELAND at the charge Of the city
II has become regular practice among portion OF the
poorer class of Irish women married well as unnar-
Rcd to leave Ireland and come to Liverpool for the sole
purp SC of being carried though cllbcd. without ex-
pcns'. Poor as they may be- they raise The means
10 do this. since The deck fare OF many Dublin steamers Is
only six pence Ignorant they may be, they have
sense enough know that the charitable Enalsh will
mol abandon them to the piilcs5 elements during so try
ing period They very Of finding comfortable
quarters at the poor house. The parish has allerna
tive bat 10 receive them and after the recovery Of the
mother, is clad enough to get rid OF both mother and child
by sending both home al it, own expense.
The people of Liverpool obliged 10 submit 10 all
of these burdens, but they bear with almost fal woqht
upon The middle CLASSES, who form the great majority OF