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Anonymous 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