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Volume 13, Number 1, February, 1850Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii W. H. Sykes Contributions to the Statistics of Sugar Produced within the British Dominions in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24 G. R. Porter Agricultural Statistics of Ireland . . . 25--29 William A. Guy On the Relative Value of Averages Derived from Different Numbers of Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--45 W. H. Sykes Statistical Account of the Labouring Population Inhabiting the Buildings at St. Pancras, Erected by the Metropolitan Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--61 J. T. Danson On the Progress of Emigration from the United Kingdom During the Last Thirty Years, with Reference to the Growth of the Population During the Same Period 61--63 John Barton The Influence of Subdivision of the Soil on the Moral and Physical Well-being of the People of England and Wales . . . . 63--77 Bernard Hebeler Railways in Prussia and Other Continental States, at the Close of the Year 1848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80 Henry Howard Statistics on the Manufacture of Plate Glass in Great Britain from 1760 to 1847, with Remarks on Foreign Productions and the Export Trade . . . . 80--84 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--96
Anonymous Sixteenth Annual Report of the Statistical Society of London Session 1849--50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102 A. C. MacLaren On the Origin and Spread of Cholera in the 8th District of Plympton St. Mary, Devonshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--134 Anonymous Abstract of the Report of a Tour in the Five Departments of Britanny, During the Years 1840 and 1841, Under Instructions from the Academy of the Moral and Political Sciences, Made by MM. Benoiston de Chateauneuf and Villerme, Members of That Academy; From the Fourth Volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of the Moral and Political Sciences of Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--151 J. T. Danson On the Fluctuations of the Annual Supply and Average Price of Corn, in France, During the Last Seventy Years, Considered with Particular Reference to the Political Periods of 1792, 1814, 1830, and 1848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--167 Cuthbert Finch Vital Statistics of Calcutta . . . . . . 168--182 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--192
F. G. P. Neison Mortality of Master Mariners . . . . . . 193--209 G. R. Porter On a Comparative Statement of Prices and Wages During the Years from 1842 to 1849 210--218 E. Wyatt-Edgell Proposal for Preserving and Making a General Index of the Parish Registers Anterior to 1837 . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--221 Joseph Fletcher Statistical Account of the Police of the Metropolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--267 Anonymous Proceedings of the Census Committee of the Statistical Society of London, 1850 267--269 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--288
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 377--380 J. T. Danson Progress of the Foreign Commerce of France during the reign of Louis Philippe, 1830--48 . . . . . . . . . . . 289--304 G. R. Porter Examination of the recent Statistics of the Cotton Trade in Great Britain . . . 305--312 F. G. P. Neison Mortality of the Provident Classes in this Country and on the Continent . . . 313--358 G. R. Porter On the self-Imposed Taxation of the Working Classes in the United Kingdom 358--364 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--376
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii P. A. Schleisner Vital Statistics of Iceland . . . . . . 1--10 J. T. Danson Of the Quantity of Gold and Silver supposed to have passed from America to Europe, from the Discovery of the Former Country to the Present time . . . . . . 11--44 W. H. Sykes Expenditure in India on Public Works from 1837--8 to 1845--6 . . . . . . . . 45--47 James Stark Contribution to the Vital Statistics of Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--87 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--96
Anonymous Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . 97--108 W. H. Sykes Mortality and Chief Diseases of the Troops under the Madras Government European and Native, from the Years 1842 to 1846 inclusive, compared with the Mortality and Chief Diseases of 1847 . . 109--142 William Newmarch An Attempt to Ascertain the Magnitude and Fluctuations of the Amount of Bills of Exchange (Inland and Foreign) in Circulation at one time in Great Britain, in England, in Scotland, in Lancashire, and in Cheshire, respectively, during each of the Twenty Years 1828--1847, both inclusive; and also embracing in the inquiry Bills drawn upon Foreign Countries . . . . . . 143--183 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--192
G. R. Porter On the Accumulation of Capital by the Different Classes of Society . . . . . . 193--199 F. G. P. Neison On the Rate of Mortality among Persons of Intemperate Habits . . . . . . . . . 200--219 T. J. Brown A Statistical Review of the National Debts and Revenues in Proportion to the Extent of Area and Population of the Various Countries of Europe . . . . . . 220--226 Arthur S. Thomson A Statistical Account of Auckland, New Zealand, as it was Observed During the Year 1848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--249 Anonymous Statistics of New Munster, New Zealand, down to 1848, Compiles from Official Records in the Colonial Secretary's Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--261 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--288
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 377--380 William A. Guy On the Duration of Life among the Clergy 289--297 Richard Valpy Vital Statistics of Geneva: --- An Abridged Translation from the French of M. Edouard Mallet . . . . . . . . . . . 298--337 R. Thompson Jopling Sanitary Statistics of the Metropolis 337--343 E. Wyatt-Edgell On the Statistics of Places of Worship in England and Wales, Founded on a Table Compiled by the Rev. T. Blisse . . . . . 343--344 Anonymous Statistics of the North-West Provinces of British India . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--347 Edward Balfour Remarks on the Abstract Tables of the Men Discharged from the Military Service of the East India Company . . . . . . . 348--356 Anonymous Trade of the United Kingdom in Lead, Copper, Tin, and Zinc. From Returns to a Motion by Mr. Pendarves . . . . . . . . 357--362 Anonymous Twenty-First Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Ipswich, 2nd--8th July, 1851. Section F. Statistics . . . . . . 363--363 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--376
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Joseph Fletcher Statistics of the Farm School System of the Continent, and of Its Applicability to the Preventive and Reformatory Education of Pauper and Criminal Children in England . . . . . . . . . . 1--49 John Crawford History of Coffee . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58 W. H. Sykes Taxation and Revenue of the Free City of Frankfort-on-the-Maine . . . . . . . . . 59--63 Anonymous Census of the United States of America, Abridged from the Report of J. C. G. Kennedy, the Superintendent of the Census, to the Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart, Secretary of the Department of the Interior: Dated Census Office, Washington, December 1, 1851 . . . . . . 64--84 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
T. Tooke Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . 97--99 W. H. Sykes Mortality and Sickness of the Bombay Army, 1848--9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--107 Leone Levi On Commercial Statistics, and an Attempt at a Universal Commercial Code . . . . . 108--114 Joseph Fletcher Statistics of the Attendance in Schools for Children of the Poorer Classes . . . 115--117 J. R. Bedford On the Vital and Medical Statistics of Chittagon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--150 Dr. Guy On the Immediate Effect Produced on the Revenue by the Remission or Increase of Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--154 William Farr Influence of Elevation on the Fatality of Cholera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--183 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--192
F. G. P. Neison On the Rate of Mortality in the Medical Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--222 Dr. Guy On the Effect of the Remission of Taxes on the Revenue in the Thirty Years from 1822 to 1851 Inclusive . . . . . . . . . 223--227 Earl Grey On the Population of the Colony of British Guiana, as Enumerated on the 31st of March, 1851. Being the Substance of a Despatch from Governor Barkly, presented to the Society of the Right Hon. Earl Grey, Her Majesty's late Secretary of State for the Colonies . . 228--249 Professor Holst and A. S. Oliver Massey On the Statistics of the Insane, Blind, Deaf and Dumb, and Lepers, of Norway . . 250--256 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--288
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 377--380 G. R. Porter On the Productive Industry of Paris . . 289--307 J. W. Gilbart On the Laws of the Currency in Ireland, as Exemplified in the Changes that Have Taken Place in the Amount of Bank Notes in Circulation in Ireland, Since the Passing of the Act of 1845 . . . . . . . 307--326 Colonel Sykes On the Census of the Islands of Bombay and Colaba, Taken on the 1st of May, 1849, by Captain Baynes, Superintendent of Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--338 John Locke On Irish Emigration, with Especial Reference to the Working of the Incumbered Estates Commission . . . . . 339--345 John Locke Additional Observations on the Valuation and Purchase of Land in Ireland . . . . 345--350 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--376
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii William Farr The Income and Property Tax . . . . . . 1--44 John Crawford On the History and Consumption of Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--52 Dr. Guy On the Relation of the Price of Wheat to the Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--68 W. R. Wilde Statistics of the Deaf and Dumb in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77 John Strang On the Progress, Extent, and Value of Steamboat Building and Marine Engine Making on the Clyde . . . . . . . . . . 77--84 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
Lord Overstone Fifteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 97--102 Colonel Sykes Administration of Civil Justice in British India, for a period of Four Years, Chiefly from 1845 to 1848, both inclusive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--136 Anonymous Statistics of the Island of Portsea . . 137--168 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--192
Dr. Guy On the Immediate and Remote Effect of the Remission of Customs and Excise Duties on the Productiveness of Those Branches of the Revenue . . . . . . . . 193--200 Anonymous Statistics of the Island of Portsea . . 201--243 J. R. Hubertz Statistics of Mental Diseases in Denmark, According to the Census of July 1st, 1847 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--274 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--288
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 373--384 F. G. P. Neison Analytical View of Railway Accidents . . 289--337 Thomas Beggs Freehold Land Societies . . . . . . . . 338--346 Henry Cooper On the Cholera Mortality in Hull during the Epidemic of 1849 . . . . . . . . . . 347--351 Henry Cooper On the Relative Prevalence of Diseases in Hull, and the Effects of Season upon Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--355 Lady Bentham On Certain Statements Contained in a Communication to the Statistical Section at Belfast, in September, 1852, entitled ``Statistics of Portsea and Portsmouth Dockyard'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--362 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Leone Levi Resume of the Statistical Congress, held at Brussels, September 11th, 1853, for the Purpose of Introducing Unity in the Statistical Documents of all Countries 1--14 William A. Guy On the Duration of Life among Medical Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--23 Anonymous Statistics of Portsea and Portsmouth Dockyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26 A. S. Thomson Contribution to the Natural History of the New Zealand Race of Men; Being Observations on Their Stature, Weight, Size of Chest, and Physical Strength . . 27--33 Henry Munroe Statistics of the Northern Whale Fisheries, from the Year 1772 to 1852 34--42 Josiah Curtis On the System of Registration in the United States of America . . . . . . . . 43--44 Edward Cheshire The Results of the Census of Great Britain in 1851, with a Description of the Machinery and Processes Employed to Obtain the Returns; also an Appendix of Tables of Reference . . . . . . . . . . 45--72 Edward Cheshire Statistics Relative to Nova Scotia in 1851 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
Anonymous Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 97--102 Dr. Guy On the Relation of the Price of Wheat to the Revenue Derived from Customs and Excise Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--116 John Angus Old and New Bills of Mortality; Movement of the Population; Deaths and Fatal Diseases in London During the Last Fourteen Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--142 William Tayler A Statistical and Historical View of the Statute Law of the Realm, and of the Number of Statutes Passed in Each Reign from the Earliest Recorded Period to the Present Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--158 Samuel Paull On Agricultural Statistics . . . . . . . 159--167 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--192
J. T. Danson Our Commerce with Russia, in Peace and War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--218 F. G. P. Neison Analytical View of Railway Accidents . . 219--242 Frederic James Minasi On a Decimal Coinage for the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--258 G. M. Bell Historical and Statistical View of the Colony of Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--288
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 373--388 J. W. Gilbart The Laws of the Currency, as Exemplified in the Circulation of Country Bank Notes in England, since the Passing of the Act of 1844 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--321 Charles Jellicoe Suggestions for Improving the Present Mode of Keeping and Stating the National Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--325 Thomas Abercrombie Welton Statistics of the United States of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--357 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--372
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Anonymous Objects and Progress of the Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 J. T. Danson On the Current Price, and the Cost Price, of Corn, in England, during the Last Ten Years, as Illustrating the Value of Agricultural Statistics . . . . 3--20 Alfred Waddilove The Effect of the Recent Orders in Council, in Relation to English, Russian, and Neutral Commerce . . . . . 21--33 Colonel Sykes Statistics of Nice Maritime . . . . . . 34--73 Rev. John Clay On the Effect of Good or Bad Times on Committals to Prison . . . . . . . . . . 74--79 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--96
Thomas Tooke Twenty-First Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 97--103 William Newmarch On the Loans Raised by Mr. Pitt During the First French War, 1793--1801; With Some Statements in Defence of the Methods of Funding Employed . . . . . . 104--140 Horace Mann On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales . . . . . . 141--159 Richard Valpy The Progress and Direction of British Exports, and the Influence Theorem of Free Trade and Gold . . . . . . . . . . 160--173 David Buxton The Census of the Deaf and Dumb in 1851 174--185 Anonymous Miscellenea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--200
William Barwick Hodge On the Mortality Arising from Naval Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--221 Robert Everest On the Influence of Social Degradation in Producing Pauperism and Crime, as Exemplified in the Free Coloured Citizens and Foreigners in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--239 John Cleghorn On the Causes of the Flutuations in the Herring Fishery . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--242 William Newmarch On the Loans raised by Mr. Pitt During the First French War, 1793--1801; with some statements in Defence of the Methods of Funding Employed . . . . . . 242--284 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--300
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 393--407 Richard Valpy The Effect of the War, in Russia and England, upon the Principal Articles of Russian Produce . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--311 William A. Guy On the Fluctuations in the Number of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and in the Number of Deaths from Special Causes, in the Metropolis, During the Last Fifteen Years, from 1840 to 1854, inclusive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--329 John Strang On the Progress, Extent, and Value of the Coal and Iron Trade of the West of Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--332 James William Gilbart A Ten Years' Restropect of London Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--344 H. Reader Lack The Mining Resources of France, 1841 to 1852 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--355 A. K. M'Callum Juvenile Delinquency--Its Principal Causes and Proposed Cure, as Adopted in the Glasgow Reformatory Schools . . . . 356--363 Andrew Tennent Statistics of a Glasgow Grammar School Class of 115 Boys . . . . . . . . . . . 364--366 John Yeats On Our National Strength; Tested by the Numbers, the Ages, and the Industrial Qualifications of the People . . . . . . 367--377 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--392
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Leone Levi Resume of the Second Session of the International Statistical Congress Held at Paris, September, 1855 . . . . . . . 1--11 William A. Guy On the Nature and Extent of the Benefits Conferred by Hospitals on the Working Classes and the Poor . . . . . . . . . . 12--27 Charles Babbage Analysis of the Statistics of the Clearing House During the Year 1839 . . 28--48 Robert Everest On the Distribution of the Emigrants from Europe Over the Surface of the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59 Robert Clarke Short Notes of the Prevailing Diseases in the Colony of Sierra Leone, with a Return of the Sick Africans Sent to Hospital in Eleven Years, and Classified Medical Returns for the Years 1853--4. Also Tables Showing the Number of Lunatics Admitted to Hospital in a Period of Thirteen Years, and the Number Treated from 1st April, 1842, to 31st March, 1853 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--81 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
Harry George Vane Twenty-second Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 97--101 Mr. John Glyde Localities of Crime in Suffolk . . . . . 102--106 Colonel Sykes The External Commerce of British India During Two Periods of Years; Namely, the Eight Years (Ended 30th April) 1834--35 to 1841--42, and the Five Years 1849--50 to 1853--54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126 William Pare Equitable Villages in America . . . . . 127--143 J. W. Gilbart The Laws of the Currency in Scotland . . 144--169 A. G. Malcolm The Influence of Factory Life on the Health of the Operative, as Founded Upon the Medical Statistics of this Class at Belfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--181 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--200
Robert Hunt The Present State of the Mining Industries of the United Kingdom . . . . 201--218 William Barwick Hodge On the Mortality Arising from Military Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--271 Charles Jellicoe The Bank of England; its Present Constitution and Operations . . . . . . 272--283 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--304
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 401--408 Anonymous British Association for the Advancement of Science. Twenty-Sixth Meeting, 1856. (Cheltenham) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--310 Robert Hunt The Present State of the Mining Industries of the United Kingdom . . . . 311--324 Frederick Hendriks On the Financial Statistics of British Government Life Annuities (1808--1855), and on the Loss Sustained by Government in Granting Annuities . . . . . . . . . 325--384 W. G. Lumley Report on the Proceedings of the International Congr\`es de Bienfaisance, Held at Brussels, September, 1856 . . . 385--389 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--400
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii J. T. Danson On the Existing Connection Between American Slavery and the British Cotton Manufacture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 John Clay On the Relation Between Crime, Popular Instruction, Attendance on Religious Worship, and Beer-House . . . . . . . . 22--32 Mary Carpenter On the Importance of Statistics to the Reformatory Movement, with Returns From Female Reformatories, and Remarks on them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--40 John Bowring The Population of China. A Letter Addressed to the Registrar-General London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--53 R. Thompson Jopling On the Mortality Among Officers of the British Army in the Crimea . . . . . . . 54--60 William Golden Lumley An Account of the Banking Establishment in Belgium, Termed l'Union du Credit de Bruxelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--65 William A. Guy On the Duration of Life Among Lawyers; With Additional Observations on the Relative Longevity of the Members of the Three Learned Professions . . . . . . . 65--71 R. Everest On the Proportion of Foreigners to Natives, and of Foreign and Native Convicts, in Several States of Europe and America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76 Richard Hussey Walsh A Deduction From the Statistics of Crime for the Last Ten Years . . . . . . . . . 77--78 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--96
Anonymous Twenty-Third Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 97--101 William Farr On The Pay of Ministers of the Crown . . 102--131 John Strang On the Progress, Extent, and Value of the Porcelain, Earthenware, and Glass Manufacture of Glasgow . . . . . . . . . 132--134 Samuel Brown On the Progress of Fire Insurance in Great Britain, as Compared with Other Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--168 William Newmarch On the Electoral Statistics of the Countries and Boroughs in England and Wales During the Twenty-Five Years from the Reform Act of 1832 to the Present Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--234 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240
Frederick Hendriks On the Statistics of the British Land-Tax Assessment, and Particularly of England and Wales, from 1636 to 1856; with Notes Upon the Political Arithmetic of the Earlier Period of its Settlement 241--307 John Strang On the Money-Rate of Wages of Labour in Glasgow and the West of Scotland . . . . 308--312 John Ingram Travers Memorandum on the Present Statistics of the Currant Trade . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313 William Newmarch On the Electoral Statistics of the Counties and Boroughs in England and Wales During the Twenty-Five Years from the Reform Act of 1852 to the Present Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--340 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--364
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 457--467 W. M. Tartt Report on Criminal Returns . . . . . . . 365--377 John Clay On the Effect of Good or Bad Times on Committals to Prison . . . . . . . . . . 378--388 John Strang The Improvement of Tidal Rivers, as Exemplified by the Former and Present Condition of the River and Harbour of Glasgow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--396 Richard Beamish Statistical Notice of the Town and Parish of Cheltenham . . . . . . . . . . 397--423 John Strang On the Rise, Progress, and Value of the Embroidered Muslin Manufacture of Scotland and Ireland . . . . . . . . . . 424--428 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--456
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Samuel Brown Report on the International Statistical Congress, Held at Vienna, September, 1857 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Edwin Chadwick On the Economical, Social, Educational, and Political Influences of Competitive Examinations, as Tests of Qualifications for Admission to the Junior Appointments in the Public Service . . . . . . . . . 18--51 William A. Guy On the Annual Fluctuations in the Number of Deaths from Various Diseases, Compared with Like Fluctuations in Crime, and in Other Events Within and Beyond the Control of the Human Will . . 52--86 J. T. Danson On the Ages of the Population in Liverpool and Manchester . . . . . . . . 87--93 James Robert Napier The Apprenticeship System, in Reference to the Freedom of Labour . . . . . . . . 94--97 Anonymous Quarterly Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 98--114
Anonymous Twenty-Fouth Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society. Session 1857--58 115--120 Colonel Sykes Notes on Public Works in India . . . . . 121--155 William Arthur Wilkinson Metropolitan Railway Terminal Accommodation, and its Effect on Traffic Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--168 W. G. Lumley On the Present State of the Administration of the Relief to the Poor in the Metropolis, and the Charge of the Poor Rate Thereon . . . . . . . . . . . 169--197 Anonymous Thos Tooke F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . 198--201 Anonymous Note by Editor on the Four Abstract Tables of Imports, Exports, Shipping, and Bullion, at pp. 214--217 infra . . . 201--201 Anonymous Quarterly Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 202--222
Frederick Hendriks On the Statistics of Indian Revenue and Taxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--296 Charles M. Willich and E. T. Scargill Tables Relating to The State of The Population of Great Britain at The Census of 1851, With a Comparative View, at the Different Ages, of The Population of France; Also a Comparative Return of Births and Deaths, 1838--1854 . . . . . 297--307 W. G. Lumley On the Present State of The Administration of Relief to the Poor in the Metropolis, and Charge of the Poor Rate Thereon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--338 Henry Roberts Report on the Proceedings of the Congr\`es International de Bienfaisance, Held in Frankfort-on-the-Maine, September, 1857. Drawn up for the Statistical Society of London, at the Request of One of their Honorary Secretaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--344 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society 345--346 Anonymous Quarterly Reports . . . . . . . . . . . 347--368
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502 Charles Best Robinson Chronicon Pretiosum Snathense; or Lists of Prices of Various Kinds of Agricultural Produce, and of Other Articles, in the Ecclesiastical Peculiar of Snaith, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries 369--420 John Strang Comparative View of the Money-Rate of Wages in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, in 1851, 1856, and 1858 . . . 421--426 Robert Baker On the Industrial and Sanitary Economy of the Borough of Leeds, in 1858 . . . . 427--443 William Newmarch On the Recent History of the Credit Mobilier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--453 J. H. Sadler and Colonel Sykes Notes on Indian Fibres Illustrated by Prepared Specimens . . . . . . . . . . . 454--456 M. Corr van de Maeren On the Progress of Free Trade on the Continent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--459 Charles H. Bracebridge Notes on Self-Supporting Dispensaries, with Some Statistics of the Coventry Provident Dispensary . . . . . . . . . . 460--463 John Strang The Sewing Machine in Glasgow, and Its Effects on Production, Prices, and Wages 464--467 Anonymous Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Leeds, 22nd--28th September, 1858 . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469 Anonymous Quarterly Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 470--490
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Edward Baines On the Woollen Manufacture of England; With Special Reference to the Leeds Clothing District . . . . . . . . . . . 1--34 W. M. Tartt On Subjects Connected with Crime and Punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43 Edwin Chadwick On the Progress of the Principle of Competitive Examination for Admission into the Public Service, With Statistics of Actual Results and An Investigation of Some of the Objections Raised . . . . 44--75 Editorial Section Mercantile Reports of The Character and Results of The Trade of the United Kingdom During the Year 1858; With a Reference to the Progress of Prices, 1851--9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--100 William Newmarch On the Electoral Statistics of England and Wales, 1856--8. --- Part II. Results of Further Evidence . . . . . . . . . . 101--168 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177 Anonymous Quarterly Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 178--202
Anonymous Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 203--207 Joseph John Fox On the Vital Statistics of the Society of Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--231 John Strang On Water Supply to Great Towns: Its Extent, Cost, Uses, and Abuses . . . . . 232--249 William Tayler Report of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of The National Association for The Promotion of Social Science, held at Liverpool, in October, 1858 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--252 E. Headlam Greenhow On a Standard of Public Health for England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--270 Samuel Brown On the Financial Prospects of British Railways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--296 William Newmarch On the Electoral Statistics of England and Wales, 1856--8 --- Memorandum with Reference to Certain Portions of the Paper Read in February, 1858 . . . . . . 297--305 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--313 Anonymous Quarterly Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 314--335
William A. Guy On the Duration of Life as Affected by the Pursuits of Literature, Science, and Art: with a Summary View of the Duration of Life among the Upper and Middle Classes of Society . . . . . . . . . . . 337--361 J. T. Danson Propositions and Inferences, with Statistical Notes, Touching the Provision of Country Dwellings for Town Labourers-and in Particular for Those of the Town of Liverpool . . . . . . . . . 362--377 Richard Valpy A Brief Review of the Operations of the Bank of England in 1857 . . . . . . . . 378--380 Edwin Chadwick Results of Different Principles of Legislation and Administration in Europe; of Competition for the Field, as Compared with Competition within the Field, of Service . . . . . . . . . . . 381--420 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--430 Anonymous Quarterly Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 431--454
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 563--578 Colonel Sykes The Past, Present, and Prospective Financial Condition of British India . . 455--480 J. J. Fox Supplementary Table to Paper ``On the Vital Statistics of the Society of Friends'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--483 A. Koolomzine Some Observations and Statistics on the Universities of Russia in the Year 1856 484--490 William Acton Observations on Illegitimacy in the London Parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, and St. George's, Southwark, during the Year 1857; Deduced from the Returns of the Registrar-General . . . . 491--505 Anonymous First Course of Lectures by the Tooke Professor of Economic Science and Statistics, in King's College, London 506--506 James Heywood Third Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at Bradford, in October, 1859 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--510 John Strang Church Building in Glasgow, Showing the Number, Size, and Cost of the Various Places of Worship Erected within the Municipality during the Last Twenty Years, 1839--59, through Voluntary Effort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--515 Anonymous Twenty-ninth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Aberdeen, 14th--21st September, 1859 . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--517 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society 518--520 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--540 Anonymous Quarterly Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 541--562