http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8999 Sun, 12 May 2013 21:17:11 GMT 2013-05-12T21:17:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9143 Title: Proceedings of the Dublin Statistical Society: Tenth Session, First Meeting - Author: Dublin Statistical Society Description: 17th November, 1856 Thu, 01 Jan 1857 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9143 1857-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9142 Title: On the laws relating to joint-stock companies Author: Murphy, Joseph John Abstract: The limited liability act of 1856 has placed the law of joint-stock companies in a satisfactory state, so far as regards the position of the shareholders. They can obtain a charter of incorporation by simply ^plying for it, and the liability of shareholders is limited to the amount of the shares. But if the principle I have stated is sound — that mercantile liability for the consequences of a man's own actions ought to be unlimited — it follows, that in every concern the acting partners ought to be under unlimited liability. The acting partners of a joint-stock company are the directors; and yet the law does not recognise their unlimited liability. This ought to be changed. Description: Read 19th January, 1857 Thu, 01 Jan 1857 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9142 1857-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9141 Title: On the disposal of our convicts Author: McKenna, P. J. Abstract: It is especially irksome to find men of education and intelligence adopting, without consideration or enquiry, the opinions of newspaper writers, whose object in the present day seems to be to reflect public opinion rather than to instruct or inform it. The public is irritated, and justly so, by the outrages of the ticket-of-leave men in England; and I am quite prepared for their running away with the subject, and losing their senses in talking about it, with the first impulse of that irritation ; out that they should whirl along with them many who might fairly ®e expected to form sound conclusions, and to help in stemming the torrent, must be a matter of deep regret to all who have inquired into and take an interest in this subject. I consider it a duty to assist in setting the question fairly before the public, however small that assistance; and if, in stating my opinions and the reasons for those opinions, I should bring forward facts known to, many, arguments that may be common-place, and reasonings obvious on a moment's reflection, I shall hope to be forgiven. Description: Read 15th December, 1856 Thu, 01 Jan 1857 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9141 1857-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9140 Title: The present state of the dwellings of the poor, chiefly in Dublin Author: Jordan, Thomas Abstract: FOR the last few years considerable attention has been given to the condition of the working classes. One of the most obvious tests of that condition is the state of their dwellings, and as I have daily opportunities of observing these, the present question is one that often passes through my mind. It is generally allowed that the dwelling or the house accommodation is closely connected with the improvement and elevation of the occupier. Let any one become acquainted with some of the poorer classes in the streets in which they generally live, and let him try to point out the duty of charity, the evil of drunkenness, or let him dwell on higher interests, and tell of the time and place when sorrow and death will be no more, he will find the most serious obstacles to his teaching in the state of things around him; that the wretchedness by which he is surrounded certainly does not open the poor man's mind to charity and love, that squalor and destitution are most serious hindrances to his entertaining those just views of Providence, which are as essential to human happiness as they are to leading the mind to more solemn convictions. Description: Read December 15th, 1856 Thu, 01 Jan 1857 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9140 1857-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9139 Title: The Brussels Free Trade Congress and International Association for Customs Reform Author: Hutton, Henry Dix Abstract: It is not necessary to dwell upon the benefits which must also result from the concentration of the efforts of distinct nations in the prosecution of objects involving the common interests of all; or upon the tendency which such co-operation must have to eliminate the jarring elements of traditional prejudice and national animosity, replacing these remains of a barbarous and retrograde system by conceptions which will gradually consolidate European peace, placing it under the protection of a strong, enlightened, and united public opinion. These are the noble objects for which the new " International Association for Customs Reform" is now working, and by virtue of which it claims the sympathy and aid of all who wish well to the cause of commercial liberty, and desire to substitute for a system which has been justly designated a state of industrial feudalism, one which, adopting mutual amity as its principle, and resting upon the invariable laws of social order, must result in the true welfare and progress of nations. Description: Read November 17th, 1856 Thu, 01 Jan 1857 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9139 1857-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9138 Title: Report of the Council at the opening of the Tenth Session of the Society Author: Dublin Statistical Society Description: Read 17th November, 1856 Thu, 01 Jan 1857 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9138 1857-01-01T00:00:00Z