ADDRESS. 
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which in one country are punished by imprisonment, and swell the criminal 
calendar, in another are treated, as they should in many cases be, only as a 
subject of compassion and correction,—take no place in the criminal calendar 
at all. 
Indeed, it is one of the difficulties which beset a large proportion of these 
investigations, whether into morals, health, education, or legislation, and 
winch must always distinguish them from those which deal either with 
matter or defined abstractions, that, as I have said before in using the same 
terms, we are otten uncertain whether wo mean the same thing; whether, in 
act, when we are using the same denominations, the same weights and 
measures are really employed. Such conferences, however, as those of 
Brussels tend much to limit the extent of error. 
Among the objects which may best occupy the attention of the Statistical 
section at the present moment, will be the discussion of a decimal coinage, 
amt the statistics of agricultural produce. It is important in regard to both, 
mat by previous sifting and discussion not only the best conclusions should 
e arrived at, but the subject should be so familiarized to general apprehen¬ 
sion as to secure the widest co-operation. In regard to a change in the 
inage, the interests .and feelings of the lower classes must be especially 
'Z ed; am1, \ VJtl1 t , h ' 3 vie,v > without expressing any ultimate opinion, I 
uld recommend to those who are considering the question, the pcru-al of 
a pamphlet, fuli of important matter, by the late Mr. Laurie, the work of the 
mst liours ol a man ol eminent knowledge and virl 
I ; .~ 8 n ' do th,i opemuous oi ini! consumer niul tin; 
SS "f ,1 *°“ W «w* ' “ fl»jr should bo taken and published at 
each kin?! y ^ ar ’ OD r C 10 th ? 1 V rin g» wording the extent of soil devoted »o 
haw,.si i gr f' n .‘ a ,act easily ascertained; the second time as soon as the 
sevml LcS'i ed i*r an !f )Un ?.iS K U,e nmount of t,ie C, '°P> ascertained on 
an.mJ ? 61 under difterent circumstances of soil and climate, ami 
C ndue proportion as a multiple to the acreage already published. 
0*?'™** 1 believe, Tmpractiib/c, at leant 
the approximation wWI " n“ ‘ * 01,6 maJce “ vaIatlb,e f ’ or P»«setlt use ; and 
th e pu^ Jose< wh,c 1 * have suggested would, I conceive, be adequate to 
" WhTve SiS'SESif ?? EtUn °S™P l 'y> thew few Sections. I believe, 
attractiveh ere—wh J * lnterest > none, I imagine, which would be more 
Interests of the. pUee nt2Wd T VCry is co , nnected witb lhl ‘ immediate 
finished work - ami wbm r. MH ' K!e 0 raw niaterial, or a new destination for 
Js another channel tv>r ii.„ „ ei / oow communication, established and reported, 
‘h e channels of he^ \I~ ^ ut t,uit “““««*» which, bursting from 
* the and percolates every creek and cranny 
^niericS^SienL^by 1 the Pali ° P f nin S U P the heart of the South 
Jf® traversing and unftimr rh!. S ay ? 1 h* Amazons, and the Orinoco; that 
lf ‘e rirer Murray • the lo P , “ of Victoria and South Australia by 
S ° r ry to sav, is as vet nil J ‘^ cted Cx P ,oratlon of North Australia, which, I am 
**rmth of dm Association in P r ? jetJ , t ’ , and «iav require some of the fostering 
c ° v eries in South Africa 1 t, » U ,nto ac ‘ ua * existence; the wonderful <Us- 
^ Central* Africa byCth^TSf? T' **««+-«* ‘he explorations 
ftl, d others of the iv ^ ’ ‘hopictures given us by Capt. Erekitie 
% Ze 0 f ^Zv 10 f ° fth ^ i?landere the South Pacific, passing by 
1854. tia,)Sltl ° U fr0m the lowest barbarism to a fitness for the 
