232 REPORT— 1861. 



A. — Yearly Average of the Pauper Census, 1851-1860. 



B. — Yearly Average of Poor Rates raised, 1851-1860. 



C— Yearly Average Expenditure for Relief, 1851-1860. 



Note. — Mr. Purdy's paper, with all the Tables, is printed in extenso in the 25th volume 

 of the Journal of the Statistical Society. 



Hie Iron-cased Ships of the British Navy. 

 By E. J. Reed, Member and Secretary of the Institution of Naval Architecture. 



The construction of iron-cased ships of war is engrossing so much of the attention 

 of scientific men at the present moment, and is manifestly fraught with such im- 

 portant consequences in financial respects, that this Association could not well be 

 expected to assemble, even in Manchester, without taking the subject into consi- 

 deration. 



With the view of best fulfilling the intentions with which the gentlemen of the 

 Mechanical Section made this the chief topic of today's deliberations, I propose — 



1st. To glance briefly at the circumstances under which the British Admiralty 

 resorted to the construction of iron-cased sea-going ships of war. 



* The numbers of indoor and outdoor paupers in Scotland appear only to have been 

 separately stated once; that was in 1859, when they amounted to 8,678 and 113,335 re- 

 spectively. 



t In England and Wales large sums are paid yearly for local purposes, unconnected 

 with relief to the poor; on the average, these payments have been £1,823,950. 



