Some relief was obtained by the passing of the Act 10 & 11 Vic. c. 33, “to amend the Laws relating to the Removal of Poor Persons from England and Scotland;” and 4,583 paupers who had become chargeable to the Liverpool parochial funds, or who applied to be removed, were sent back to their own districts in Ireland, at a cost of 1,322ℓ., between the 19th July, when the Act came into operation, and the 31st October. Previously to this, there was very little crime among these poor people, not even in petty thefts; but it soon appeared that they preferred being sent to prison to being sent back to Ireland. In the year ending 30th September, 1846, 398 natives of Ireland were committed to the borough prison at Liverpool for begging, pilfering about the docks, &c. In the year ending 30th September, 1847, 888 were so committed. In the month of October 1846, 80 were committed; in the same month of 1847, 142. This pauper immigration passed inland to all the large towns of this island, as far as London and Edinburgh; and the following statement of the number of Roman Catholic clergymen who died of the Irish fever caught in attending the sick since March 1847, may be taken as an index of the relative pressure[54]:-- _Lancashire._ Rev. Peter Nightingale, resident priest of St. Anthony’s, Great Homer Street, Liverpool. William Parker, senior resident priest of St. Patrick’s, Park Lane, Liverpool. Richard Grayston, resident priest of St. Patrick’s, Park Lane, Liverpool. James Haggar, resident priest of St. Patrick’s, Park Lane, Liverpool. Thomas Kelly, D.D., resident priest of St. Joseph’s, Grosvenor Street, Liverpool. John F. Whitaker, removed from Manchester to succeed Dr. Kelly at St. Joseph’s, where he died. J. F. Appleton, D.D., senior resident priest of St. Peter’s, Seel Street, Liverpool. John A. Gilbert, resident priest of St. Mary’s, Edmund Street, Liverpool. William V. Dale, resident priest of St. Mary’s, Edmund Street, Liverpool. Robert Gillow, resident priest of St. Nicholas’s, Copperas Hill, Liverpool. John Hearne, senior priest of St. John’s, Wigan. Robert Johnson, resident priest of St. John’s, Wigan. John Dowdall, resident priest in Bolton. _Cheshire._ Michael Power, resident priest of St. Mary’s, Duckinfield. _Yorkshire._ Thomas Billington, Vicar-General of Yorkshire district, and senior resident priest of St. Mary’s, York. Henry Walmsley, senior resident priest of St. Ann’s, Leeds. Richard Wilson, resident priest of St. Anne’s, Leeds. Edward Metcalfe, successor to Rev. R. Wilson at St. Anne’s, Leeds.