Browsing Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection by Date of Publication
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On the economic causes of the present state of agriculture in Ireland: part six
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)In this paper I propose, in the first place, to direct your attention to the special impediments to the application of capital to mining operations in Ireland, which arise from the state of the law with regard to mines. ... -
On the connexion between statistics and political economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)As our Society professes to be formed in order to promote the study of "Statistical and Economical Science," I think it may not be inappropriate to make a few observations, by way of introduction, on the connexion between ... -
Observations on Irish railway statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)As the railway system has now been considerably extended in Ireland, it becomes a matter of interest to mark its progress, and to examine the parliamentary and other public returns of traffic, for the purpose of discovering ... -
On the economic causes of the present state of agriculture in Ireland: part four
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)In my last paper on the Economic Causes of the State of Agriculture in Ireland, I noticed three of the six legal impediments to the application of capital, by tenants, to agricultural operations, namely the old feudal ... -
Report of the council
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)In presenting the first annual report, the council have much pleasure in referring to the proceedings of the society during the past year. -
On the policy of direct or indirect taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)A direct tax can be made to possess all these requisites; it can be made equal, by imposing it on every person according to his means; it can be rendered certain, and can be levied at suitable and convenient times; and ... -
Report of the trustees of the Lurgan Loan Fund to the Commissioners of the Loan Fund Board of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)We, the Trustees of the Lurgan Loan Fund, beg to report to the Commissioners of the Loan Fund Board of Ireland, that after nearly ten years' experience in this district, and after the most careful inquiries, we have ... -
Report on the patent laws
(Society for Promoting Scientific Inquiries into Social Questions, 1851)I have, at your request, inquired into the state of the Law of Patents in this country, and I now beg to lay before you the result of that inquiry. My attention was particularly directed by you, "to the expense and delay ... -
Lecture on an international code of commerce morally and judicially considered
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The purpose and end of all social inquiries is to connect abstract theories with the practical business of life; to discover that link by which the conception of an idea may be joined to its realization, and to analyse, ... -
Report on the legislative measures requisite to facilitate the adoption of commercial contracts respecting the occupation of land in Ireland
(Society for Promoting Scientific Inquiries into Social Questions, 1851)Having been requested by you "to report for your consideration the principal leading alterations in the laws respecting the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland, required for the full adoption of the following ... -
Is there really a want of capital in Ireland?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The question respecting capital, to which I propose in this paper especially to direct your attention, is the following: ?Is there really a want of capital in Ireland? -
Statistics of crime
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)On the present occasion I purpose to lay before you some statistics of crime, principally derived from the "Returns of the Dublin Metropolitan Police", which appear to have been carefully compiled. To these I shall add ... -
Report on the patent laws
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)I have, at your request, inquired into the state of the Law of Patents in this country, and I now beg to lay before you the result of that inquiry. My attention was particularly directed by you, "to the expense and delay ... -
Address of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin [at the first Annual Meeting of the Social Inquiry Society of Ireland]
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)His Grace expressed his great satisfaction at the establishment of such a society as that, which seemed to him calculated to meet in some, perhaps in a very great measure, one very great evil, which was essentially ... -
On the relation between the material welfare and moral training of the industrious classes
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)We live in an age of industrial progress; improvements and inventions in the different arts and sciences, have furnished unprecedented facilities for the production of luxuries and comforts of every kind. Yet side by ... -
Address of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin [at the first Annual Meeting of the Social Inquiry Society of Ireland]
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)His Grace expressed his great satisfaction at the establishment of such a society as that, which seemed to him calculated to meet in some, perhaps in a very great measure, one very great evil, which was essentially ... -
Report on the legislative measures requisite to facilitate the adoption of commercial contracts respecting the occupation of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Having been requested by you "to report for your consideration the principal leading alterations in the laws respecting the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland, required for the full adoption of the following ... -
Lecture on an international code of commerce morally and judicially considered
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The purpose and end of all social inquiries is to connect abstract theories with the practical business of life; to discover that link by which the conception of an idea may be joined to its realization, and to analyse, ... -
A consideration of the theory that the backward state of agriculture in Ireland is a consequence of the excessive competition for land
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)The theory, that injurious consequences result to the community from excessive competition for land, is one that has many supporters at the present time; and as the choice of measures for better regulating the relation ... -
Should boards of guardians endeavour to make pauper-labour self supporting or should they investigate the causes of pauperism?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The controversies, as well theoretical as practical, respecting the mode in which poor laws should be administered, have generally arisen from taking too narrow a view of the subject. The all important question of the ...