TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 
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October 1833, was,-Milk, 446 quarts at lrf.=37*. 2rf.; Potatoes and other vege. 
abies, 53r. 6<i.; Butter, 12s. id .; Pork, 19«. 7hd. i Cottage rent, 4s. Sd.; Turf, Od. 
Total, 6/. 7i. Aid, ^ru t, j 
Tlie Sodety had built several cottages for the newly-married members. I hey had 
jt^rcil the property by spade cultivation, and each enjoyed greater individual com- 
brethan they possessed before. Some who entered the Society with a scarcity of 
doing had now two suits and a reserve fund of monej'. Their Dioralsand [tcrsonal 
qaevance had improved. All articles of consumiition were ]»aid for as received, 
vuhaliits of prudence were acquired which before had been unknown. I ho asjiect 
of tie Association promised a career of success, when circumstances compelled Mr. 
Viadileur to leave Irdand, which put a stop to proceedings which had exhibited to 
ihe world the posability of governing the Irish people upon a plan at once practi- 
cisle, profitable and prudent; and which, it is conceived, might be infoduced with 
(ropriety into Ireland at the present time, as it could be carried into upemtion with 
THT Httle additional capital to that now invest&l in that country in agiiciiltnral and 
Biinufacturing operations. It would also be easy of adoption by a party emigrating 
totlie colomes. It would give increased facUilies, owing to the union of efforts for 
Ft^uction ; cause economy in distribution ; and, at the >ame time, gi^e to each in* 
diiiJual perfect personal freedom, and a complete control over his own resources. 
On Eduention and Crime, By F. G. P. Keison, F.L S, 
Althe meeting of the British Association in 1840, Mr. Neison commumcated some 
cilculations and deductions on the influence of education on crime in England and 
Wiles, during the interval between the years 1811 and 184fi. On thvt occasion it 
w iliown tlut ofa variety of elements tested and lupposed to excrciie some mate- 
nd influence on crime, none were found subject to any definite law. -ir to manifest 
»ny diiect control oo the increase or ilecrease of crime, excefit education. Tlic pre- 
‘wi p^er was rea<l in continuation of the former inquiry, and embracing the period 
rfytars 1834-1844. It was stated that it the term edneatum be held to signify the 
wlture and elevation of the moral character, it is evident tlmt its imniediatc and 
*w>lisl influence is to destroy crime. In fact, in such sense, cducatior and frcciiom 
^ crime must bear tiie relation to each other of cause and effect; tnd therefore, 
education U at a maximum, crime must of -necessity be at n minimum, so that 
fli9 term be viewed in this light, no statiitical evidence would he h p^ion necessary 
“solve the problempropnted; but if the term education be used io its ordinary 
^^stion, and merely imply instruction, it then becomes a fit and important ques- 
^to determine whether education, in this limited sense, has any indiieneo on the 
^loproent of crime. The best available test of education in this country is that 
by the records of the Registrar-General, which show the preportioo of the 
“tn-ying who arc unable to write their names in the tnarriager registers. By 
out this test, it was found, that in those districts of the kingdom in which 
greatest proportion could write thuir oatiies, crime was about 31 per cent, below 
tne whole country; but in those districts in which the least proportion 
y crime was 13 pur cent, above theaverage. But, lest it should 
^*»pied rtat in the two groups now referred to, the difference io the amount of 
t may be owing to the influence of some other dement than simp y uduci^on or 
ifit ^ furiher analysis of tlie facts was attempted. In so far as the sub- 
yet been investigated, it might be fairly said that a high stateof education is 
I» ound accompani^ with a reduced rate of crime, and that a low state of eo uca- 
with it an increased amount of crime; hut it still remains tt be determined 
•t»h- 1 . ®®y ’’ot arise through the egeucyof some otker element. It 
•L tA * ^ ***te of education is generally the concomitant of wealth or 
adva^ctl position in the social scale of society, and hence the reduced rate of 
of education is usually associated with a pjculiar grade ot 
•^“'lufactures, subject to marked fluctuations In prosponty, exposing 
. ci^aged ID them to deprivation, temptation and vice, and thus directly increa- 
StD in of crime, which is falsely believed to have arisen from want of edu* 
An and distress co-existing with it. 
f»cci.h« nialle with a view to diminish those supposed disturbing 
y which the various counties and districts were divided into lections, so that 
