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TRAX8ACTJONS OF THE SECTIONS. 
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Cefinaii, while in the intermediate apace upwards of 80,000 inhabitants, tlio Danish, 
frisicand German are spoken. In this district, the language of the churches and 
iciook is German, and the popular dialect with the lower orders is Danish. The 
re!^ of the states is Lutheran, which the king is obliged to profess j the other 
tdipOTs are Calrinism, which has 1600; Roman uatholicisni, which has 23.30; and 
hiiflii, 8000 followers. There are also 678 Hernhutters (Moravians), and 30 mem- 
tesef the Anglican church. 
Os it leant of Educational Establishments specially adapted to those persons 
hm with a feeble or imperfect mental organization. By D. Gaskell, 
The object of this paper was to demonstrate the number of the idiotic portion of the 
wminuoity j to state the nature of their peculiarities and deficiencies, as well os the 
•ediodofoTerconang such defects; and, lastly, to show how. by the establishment 
I adapted to minds the most irregular and wanting, public attention 
I Wild be advantageously drawn to the large iiroportion of that low class of minds 
I to, and easily led into the commission of crime. 
Attordiiig to a late return made by the Commissioners in Lunacy, it afipears that 
^ are in the workliousw of England and Wale* upwards of 4600 paupers born 
Wurally decent in mind. To this number must be added all those placed in asy- 
•sini Slid living with their friends. 
lu die county of Lancaster it appears from an investigation made at the beginning 
ina year, that of those paupers returned as insane but not placed in asylums, 185 
.7 "*''® heen attackwl with insanity, whereas ns many ns 503 Imve been mentally 
Wcicot from birth, If to this large number of paupers be added those belon^ng 
Mm other grade of society, we become conscious of the extent to which idiocy 
. F«TSih in the community. 
pwullai-jties belonging to tlm class of persons, all miiuitc description 
® forms of idiocy was iivoided, and the main features, namely, the pre- 
ot strong instincts and propensities combined with feeble moral and intcllec- 
(«wer*, was mainly dwelt on. The means ofremedyinglliesedofcctsbysystenia- 
wning was then stated to have proved successful. Lastly, it was argued that 
WiuH destined to regulate that lowest grade of huaian 
orn with strong hut mUgiiided passions and nronens.itic8, public attention 
to those parties considered responsible,in whom there is a natural 
to crime, owing to like deficiencies, namely a more or less low moral and 
osi power combined with fully-developed perceptions, passions and appetites. 
* w tbe supply of Silver Coin tn Ireland dating the ojjcrations 
Un i Y®/ 1846 and 18-17. By \V. Neilson Hancock, 
■' Professor of Political Economy in the University of 
fert die supply of silver coin were all taken from the correspon- 
wppratioas for the relief of distress iti Ireland, which had been presented 
•‘•odiiunk'"* "^*1® Board of Works in tlie .summer of 1840 found that, notwith- 
Irm Am * 1 of silver coin they distributed in payment of labourers’ wages, 
^ ’Jiinculty was esnprinn,....! r.,- In rlie romincncernent 
experienced in getting change for notes. In the commencement 
teiflJi ‘negovt-mment sent 8O,O00/. worth of silver coin direct from the Mint 
^*«r*ply the deliciency. After the end of October the Bank, of I reland 
^ id D* import large quantities of sih’er from the Bank of England. 
tanks in Ireland found the silver coin returning more f 
By the 
‘■arcnlEm. a ““u** ireionu lutina me silver coin iciuiuuig freely to 
•wiii *tie Skibberecn district, on the 6th of December, the paymaster 
get silver coin, and from the delay of paymentof wages conse- 
•«»e J'fficuity, an auault wm attempted on one of the overseers, 
® and the entire works nearlyrtopped. On the of 
^ki. On *““* 8*‘awal increase was observed in the supply of silver com in the 
^ 11147, the coin had ucciimulated to such an 
^bein».k places that the stowage of the banks was entirely filled. 
*''d>mQ j'‘’’atioii# in the supply of silver coin, the attempts to account for them 
1^7 UMuiisfactory. The Board of Works only ssad the coin disap- 
