CONTENTS. XV 



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 Rev. W. N. MoLESwoRTH on the Progress of Cooperation at Rochdale 225 



Alderman Neild on the Price of Printing Cloth and Upland Cotton from 1812 

 to 1860 229 



Mr. W. Newmarch on the Extent to which Sound Principles of Taxation are 

 embodied in the Legislation of the United Kingdom 230 



Mr. Edmund Potter on Cooperation and its Tendencies 230 



Mr. Frederick Purdy on the Relative Pauperism of England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland, 1851-1860 231 



Mr. E. J. Reed on the Iron-cased Ships of the British Navy 232 



Rev. Canon Richson on the Income-Tax 240 



Professor J. E. T. Rogers, Can Patents be defended on Economical Grounds ? 240 



on the Definition and Incidence of Taxation 240 



Mr. John Shuttlewokth's Account of the Manchester Gasworks 240 



Dr. John Strang on the Altered Condition of the Embroidery Manufacture 

 of Scotland and Ireland since 1857 243 



• on the Comparative Progress of the English and Scottish 



Population as shown by the Census of 1861 243 



Colonel Sykes's Notes on the Progress and Prospects of the Trade of England 

 with China since 1833 246 



Mr. Charles Thompson on some Exceptional Articles of Commerce and Un- 

 desirable Sources of Revenue 247 



Rev. W. R. Thorburn on Cooperative Stores ; their Bearing on Athenaeums, &c. 248 



Miss Twining on the Employment of Women in Workhouses 248 



Dr. J. Watts on Strikes 249 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



Address of J. F. Bateman, C.E., F.R.S., President of the Section 250 



Sir W. G. Armstrong on the Patent Laws 252 



Dr. G. Arnott on Railway Accidents, from Trains running off the Rails 252 



Mr. T. Aston on Elongated Projectiles for Rifled Fire-arms 253 



Mr. J. F. Bateman on Street-Pipe Arrangements for Extinguishing Fires 255 



Mr. Edward T. Bellhouse on the Applications of the Hydraulic Press 255 



Captain Blakely on Artillery versus Armour 255 



Mr. David Chadwick on Recent Improvements in Cotton-Gins 256 



Dr. Eddy's Proposal for a Class of Gunboats capable of engaging Armour- 

 plated Ships at Sea, accompanied with Suggestions for fastening on Armour- 

 Plates 257 



Mr. Peter Effertz on a Brick-making Machine 258 



Mr. John Haworth on a Perambulator and Street Railway 258 



Mr. Andrew Henderson on the Rise and Progress of Clipper and Steam 

 Navigation on the Coasts and Rivers of China and India 258 



Mr. James Higgin on a Sledge Railway Break 262 



Colonel Sir Henry James on Photozincography, by means of which Photo- 

 graphic Copies of the Ordnance Maps are chiefly multiplied, either on their 

 original or on a reduced or enlarged scale 263 



Mr. W. B. Johnson on the Application of the Direct- Action Principle 263 



