TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 185 
The following is a similar return for the last five years :— 
1835. 1836. 1837. 1838. 1839. 
£ £ £ £ £ 
British Bills ............ 294,775, 269|355,288,900|333,268,600/341,947,400'394,203,000 
Trish Bills ......0..00:..- 51,109,061] 59,155,607| 54,179,165) 54,359,464) 55,615,722 
Estimated amount of 5 
Foreign Bills .... 57,914,721) 69,420,406) 65,012,080) 66,500,577) 75,479,120 
Billscreated by Bank- ’ 
ers compounting 1,604,000} 2,078,560} 2,624,600) 2,696,600} 3,196,000 
for Stamps......... 
otal... 405,403,051|485,943,473|455,084,445|465,504,041/528,493,842 
circulation at one +|101,350,762/121,485,868/113,771,111/116,376,010/132,123,460 
REC yeticvesiwessessas 
Average amount sf 
On the State of Education and Crime in England and Wales. 
By Mr. Josep BEnTLey. 
The author exhibited, in a tabular form, the proportion of persons to 
one school, one bookseller, one public library, one Mechanics’ Institute, 
and one ale-house, in the several counties of England, explaining that 
he had collected these data while engaged in the compilation of Pigot’s 
Directory. He had taken the criminal statistics from the parliament- 
ary return of committals, and the amount of population from the last 
decennial census. He entered into a very minute comparison between 
the town of Dudley and the city of Worcester, from whence he in- 
ferred that education was demonstrably a restraint on crime. 
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Dr. W. Cooke Taylor read an abstract of a paper communicated 
by Mr. Saxe Bannister, ‘On the Population of certain parts of Africa.’ 
The object was to show, that the function of vitality was much higher 
in the American settlement of Liberia than in Sierra Leone and the 
Anglo-African colonies ; and also that the natives more readily came 
to the Americans than to the British. 
On the Application of Statistics to Moral and Gconomie Science. 
By Dr. CHALMERS. 
On the Pauperism of Glasgow. By Dr. CHALMERS. 
Illustrations of the Practical Operations of the Scottish System of the 
Management of the Poor. By Dr. Avtson. 
