Browsing JSSISI: 1879 to 1886, Vol. VIII, Parts LVI to LXIII by Title

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    • The Acts for taking the census in England, Scotland, and Ireland, of 1881 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      In the last session of Parliament three Acts were passed for taking the Census of the United Kingdom during the present year. The English Act is 43 & 44 Vic. c. 37. The Scotch Act, c, 38, and the Irish Act, c. 28. Inasmuch ...

    • Address at the close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Society 

      Monteagle, Lord (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)
      In addressing this Society, as I do for the first time, I feel myself weighted with a double difficulty. For not only am I deeply conscious of the honour done me by election to the chair which I occupy, but I am painfully ...

    • Address at the opening of the Thirty-eighth Session 

      McDonnell, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)
      Before entering on the subject of my address to-night, I feel that I must thank you very heartily for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the position of president of your society. When I look over ...

    • Address at the opening of the thirty-fourth session of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland 

      Mapother, E. D. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      It can scarcely be hoped that the address you are about to hear will secure approval for the Council in their choice of President, for it will deal with only one of the three branches into which the business of the Society ...

    • Arrangements for putting out fires in Dublin city and the townships of Drumcondra, Clontarf, Kilmainham, Pembroke, Rathmines, Blackrock, and Kingstown 

      Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
      The last great improvement in the arrangements for putting out fires in Dublin arose from the burning of Kildare-street Club in 1860; and some papers read at this Society, and the discussion thence arising, contributed to ...

    • Baronial guarantees under ?The Tramways Act, 1883?. 

      Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)
      Anyone who has watched the progress of business at the last spring assizes in Ireland, must have been struck by the interest exhibited in, and the time and attention devoted to the question of the construction of tramways ...

    • Bimetallism as a policy for the British Empire 

      Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
      In this paper I take as proved the Bullionist theory; that is to say, the doctrine that the circulating medium ought to possess intrinsic value. All who admit this admit further that the circulating medium ?or rather the ...

    • Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act 

      Edge, J. H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
      I may at the outset plainly state that I do not intend to travel over the whole ground occupied by the subject which I have chosen for my text. I take it that all reasonable people and a large number of the unreasonable ...

    • A common poor fund for the metropolis 

      Dodd, William H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      The Charity Organisation Committee of this Society, in their report in 1876, drew attention to the London system of having a common poor fund for the metropolitan unions, and suggested the desirability of extending this ...

    • Comparison between boarding-out and pauper schools 

      Smedley, Menella (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
      After I had considered in an address to the Statistical Society the question of the proper mode of dealing with the children whom destitution has brought into the care of the state, this paper was sent to me by the late ...

    • Continental land banks and land registers 

      O'Brien, Murrough (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)
      The Statistical Society allowed me on a former occasion to give an account of a Swiss State Land Credit Bank, from the operations of which it seemed to me some useful lessons might be learned. The question of making loans ...

    • The depositors in the Tipperary Bank, and the cost of proving wills and distributing small assets in Ireland 

      Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
      On the 16th of February, 1856, occurred one of the most serious calamities in Irish affairs in the past half century?the failure of the Tipperary Bank, consequent on the frauds of John Sadlier. In the Annals of our Time ...

    • The difficulties of bimetallism 

      Bastable, C. F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
      There has been within the past few months a marked revival of the bimetallist agitation, that had for some time previously been declining under the, for it, unfavourable influences of expanding trade and industrial ...

    • Discharged prisoners' aid societies 

      Alcorn, James G. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      The great principle of Beccaria, ?that it is better to prevent crimes than to punish them? and on which is built our very successful Reformatory and Industrial School system, has been sadly neglected in Ireland in regard ...

    • The Eric fines of ancient Irish law 

      Cherry, Richard R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)
      It is strange how very little attention is devoted by Irishmen to the study of the ancient laws of their country. These have been translated from the original Gaelic after the life-long labour of such distinguished scholars ...

    • A few observations on the present position of the Irish national school teachers, as regards salaries, pensions, and residences 

      Ferguson, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
      On the 5th March, 1875, Mr. Charles Henry Meldon, M.P. for Kildare, delivered a speech in the House of Commons which contains most valuable information regarding the then position of the Irish National School teachers. The ...

    • Free trade and Irish manufactures 

      Cherry, Richard R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)
      The movement which is at present on foot for the encouragement of native manufacturing industry in Ireland has been condemned by many economists as opposed to what are called free trade principles. It has been said that ...

    • The future of American agricultural competition 

      Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)
      In this paper I shall endeavour to bring before the members of the Statistical Society some figures, which seem to me to throw considerable light on the vexed question of the extent to which farming in the United Kingdom ...

    • Impediments to savings from cost and trouble to the poor of proving wills 

      Webb, Alfred (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      The desirability of encouraging thrifty habits amongst our people is now fully acknowledged; and the admirable arrangements of the Post Office department afford ample facilities for the investment of small savings, for ...

    • The Irish export trade in butter, with special reference to the regulations of the Cork market 

      Bastable, C. F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
      At a period like the present, when more interest than usual is felt in all inquiries as to the nature and amount of our industrial resources, I have thought that it would not be out of place to call the attention of this ...