118 REPORT—1852. 
ejectment and want of leases, and in the impediments to the transfer of landed 
property. 

Statistics of the Revenues of the University and some of the Colleges of Oxford, 
compiled from the Report of the Oxford University Commission. By JAMES 
Heywoop, M.P., F.R.S. 
It appeared, as far as could be ascertained, that of nine colleges, the average in- 
come of the heads of houses was £1100 a year; and as regarded Fellows, taking 
in the Canons of Christ Church, the average income was £234 a year. The total 
income of Oxford University was about £22,000, and of the colleges £152,000; 
at Cambridge the total income was about £133,000, and that of Trinity College, 
Dublin, was about £50,000, making in all about £355,000. There were 557 fellow-, 
ships in Oxford, of which about thirty-five were vacant every year. The revenue 
arising from the University Press, by the printing of Bibles and Prayer-books at 
Oxford, was stated to be about £8000 a year—though the amount was not regu- 
larly paid over, but only when it had jncreased to sums of £40,000 or £60,000. 
Notice of the Progress of the Sewed Muslin Manufacture in Ireland. 
Communicated by Mr. HoLpen, and read by Professor Hancock. 
It stated that the trade was introduced into Ireland between 1800 and 1810, but 
little progress was made with it until the period between 1820 and 1830. The,in- 
troduction of lithographic printing between 1830 and 1835, instead of the old block 
system, was one of the most important elements in firmly establishing the trade. 
The old blocks cost from 3s. 6d. for simple patterns, to £6 or £7 for more intricate, 
besides the time (two or three weeks) occupied in the preparation of the patterns, 
and cutting them upon the blocks, whilst they could now be produced in a few 
hours at about the same amount of shillings as it formerly cost pounds. So exten- 
sively had the business increased during the last fifteen years, that there was now 
employed in Ulster, and other parts of Ireland, nearly a quarter of a million indi- 
viduals. The wages of the young persons were, when they first commeneed, only 
from 6d. to 1s. per week ; the more experienced obtained 4s. to 6s., and a few first 
class workers 10s.; and there was now paid between £500,000 and £600,000 per 
annum for the manufacture, exclusive of the cost of the materials ; and moreover, 
the employment was afforded in the best manner, being given to young females at 
their own homes, under the supervision of their parents. A great deal of good had 
also been effected by the establishment of training-schools for teaching the em- 
broidery, and the landed proprietors had been very forward in establishing those 
schools. Amongst others, the Earl and Countess of Enniskillen established one of 
these schools; and the result was, that the females of Enniskillen were now earn- 
ing, from embroidery, no less than £400 a week. The Irish manufacture was 
rapidly growing into importance, and, despite of fiscal arrangements, was making 
great way on the Continent; even in France, where the import of goods of this 
description was interdicted, a large quantity obtained admission by smuggling. 

Statistics of the Island of Portsea. Communicated by the Literary and 
Philosophical Society of Portsea. 
A mass of documents, giving minute particulars of the results of laborious inquiries 
into nearly every subject connected with that locality, 

Excessive Emigration and its Reparative Agencies in Ireland. 
By Joun Locke. 
The following brief abstract of this paper is intended to indicate the subjects dis- 
cussed in it. The paper has been printed at length in the proceedings of the Statistical 
Society of London, and subsequently in a pamphlet by Parker and Son, London. 

