CONTENTS. XI 



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 Mr. RicfiARD Beamish's Statistics of Cheltenham 129 



Rev. C. H. Bbomby's Suggestions on the People's Education 130 



Mr. Samtjel Bbo'wn on the Advantages to Statistical Science of a Uniform 

 Decimal System of Measures, Weights, and Coins throughout the World . . 133 



Maey Cabpentee. (of Bristol) on the Position of Refonnatory Schools 

 in reference to the State, and the General Principles of their Management, 

 especially as regards Female Refonnatories 134 



Mr. Edward Clibbobn on the Tendency of European Races to become extinct 

 in the United States 136 



Mr. J. ToTVTNE Danson on the Diversity of Measures in the Corn-Markets of 

 the United Kingdom 137 



on the Connexion between Slavery in the United States 



of America and the Cotton Manufactui'e in the United Kingdom 137 



Dr. Louis Kb. Daa's Table of the Lapps and Finns in Norway, according to 

 the Census Retm-ns of 1845 and 1855 138 



Mr. Vincent Scully's Table showing the Poptdation of Ireland at diiferent 

 intervals from 1603 to 1856, vsdth Causes for Periodical Increase or Decrease 142 



Mr. J. TowNE Danson on the WiiTal Peninsula, and the Growth of its Popu- 

 lation during the last fifty years in connexion with Liverpool and the Man- 

 chester District 143 



Mr. James William Gilbaet on the Family Principle in London Banking. . 143 



Dr. W. Neilson Hancock's Definition of Income in Economic Science com- 

 pared with the existing Taxes on Income 144 



Mr. R. Thompson Jopling on the Mortality among Officers of the British 

 Army in the East 144 



Mr. R. G. Latham on the Distribution of the Albanians, politically 145 



Mr. William Newmabch on the Former and Present Plans of disposing of 

 the Waste Lands in the Australian Colonies 146 



on the Credit Mobilier and other recent Credit 



Institutions in France 146 



Lieut. -General Sir C. W. Pasley's Plan for Simplifying and Improving the 

 Measures, Weights, and Money of this Country, without materially altering 

 the present Standards 146 



Dr. M. Roth's Aphoristic Notes on Sanitary Statistics of Workhouses and 

 Charitable Institutions 149 



Ml'. H. W. RuMSEY on the Territorial Distribution of the Population, for pur- 

 poses of Sanitary Inquiry and Social Economy 151 



Dr. John Stbang on the Progress, Extent, and Value of the Porcelain, Earth- 

 enware, and Glass Manufacture of Glasgow 153 



on the Money-rate of Wages of Labour in Glasgow and the 



West of Scotland 155 



Mr. W. M. Tabtt on some Statistics bearing upon the Relations existing 

 between Poverty and Crime 159 



Professor R. H. Walsh's Deduction from the Statistics of Crime for the last 

 Ten Years 159 



on the Present Export of Silver to the East 161 



Mr. R. Monckton Milnes's Concluding Address 161 



