http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8998 2013-06-19T02:11:51Z 2013-06-19T02:11:51Z Dublin Statistical Society http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9298 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Vol.I Session I: Preminary pages & list of members Author: Dublin Statistical Society

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z Walsh, Richard Hussey http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9106 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A deduction from the statistics of crime for the last twelve years Author: Walsh, Richard Hussey Abstract: Both in ancient and modern times it has been generally believed that want is unfavorable to virtue, and privation (malesuada fames) an incentive to crime. But a counter-theory is now growing up, and becoming, in fact, "rather a favourite one with chaplains, magistrates, and police officials. "According to this, the belief that want is the parent of crime must be numbered among popular fallacies; and statistics are relied on to prove that prosperous years are more prolific in vice than years of distress. The Rev. Mr. John Clay, for example, chaplain of Preston gaol, countenances this view in his "Reports on Crime and its Causes" and Mr. Waddington, Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, cites, with apparent concurrence, an opinion to the same effect, in his evidence before last session's Parliamentary Committee on Transportation. The evidence upon which this doctrine is based is of a most inconclusive and unsatisfactory nature. The statistics employed relate to very limited districts, and hence it is hardly safe or fair to apply to the entire population of the country the inference they seem to lead to. Description: Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association, Cheltenham, August 11th, 1856

1856-01-01T00:00:00Z Jordan, Thomas http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9105 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Effects of emigration; can it be made a means of relieving distress? Author: Jordan, Thomas Abstract: Many, for instance, we all know, are now occasionally assisted in our towns by benevolent individuals or associations. How much more effective might not this relief be, if instead of being given in small sums, it were bestowed at once and with the special view of enabling its objects to take advantage of the offer of the Emigration Commissioners. One case relieved in this manner would be equivalent to several on any other principle. Mendicancy would not be encouraged. The intending emigrant would be put into the way of realising the glorious privilege of being independent; and, as we showed before, his fellow-countrymen, though not relieved directly by the same individual or association, would be so indirectly. In this manner there could be a thorough investigation into the eligibility of each person—an investigation much more efficient than can possibly be made by the Emigration Commissioners, whose transactions must necessarily be on a large scale. Another object, too, could be accomplished by this plan, which the Emigration Commissioners profess themselves unable at present to effect. Their object, they say, is not to consider how distress may be best relieved here, but how the most suitable persons for the colony may be procured. But by the system of benevolence now suggested, the other object also would be secured — a proper selection would be made for the colony, at the same time that pauperism would effectually be removed. Description: Read May 19th, 1856

1856-01-01T00:00:00Z Walsh, Richard Hussey http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9104 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Observations on the present export of silver to the East Author: Walsh, Richard Hussey Abstract: Unlike the old movement of silver to the East, the present cannot be permanent. The former was rarely more than might be accounted for as the distribution of that metal to some of its principal customers— the nations of the East—according as fresh supplies were raised in the silver producing countries. But now silver is going faster to the East than it is produced throughout the entire world, and therefore the process cannot go on long, but must come to an end as soon as the redistribution of the old stock has been effected. Description: Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association, Cheltenham, August 12th, 1856

1856-01-01T00:00:00Z Webb, Alfred http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9103 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The progress of the colony of Victoria Author: Webb, Alfred Abstract: How has it happened that the colony of Victoria — occupying a central position with regard to the other Australian colonies, and possessing a fine soil, a genial climate, and greater mineral wealth than any other part of the globe — has caused disappointment and ruin to thousands of emigrants, and even became at one time the scene of bloodshed and civil war ? This is the question which I shall this evening attempt to answer: not so much from statistical details as from my own observations made on the spot. Description: Read 16th June, 1856

1856-01-01T00:00:00Z Dublin Statistical Society http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9102 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Proceedings of the Dublin Statistical Society: Ninth Session, Sixth Meeting - Author: Dublin Statistical Society Description: 21st April, 1856 -

1856-01-01T00:00:00Z Walsh, Richard Hussey http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9101 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Notes on the Société Générale de Crédit Mobilier Author: Walsh, Richard Hussey Abstract: The dividends of the Société Générale de Crédit Mobilier for the past year have been at the rate of 40 per cent; and its 500-franc shares sold for 1980 francs each, or at a premium of nearly 300 per cent. How is this to be reconciled with prognostications of want of success? Very easily, it appears to me. In the first place, it is quite possible those dividends have been paid out of capital, not profits; and that system, we all know, cannot go on long. And, in the second place, it is not unlikely that one of the various avocations of the Company lias been really a source of profit, but then a source of profit which must quickly be dried up. Description: Read 16th June, 1856

1856-01-01T00:00:00Z Greer, Samuel M. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9100 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: On the Bank Charter Act of 1844 Author: Greer, Samuel M. Abstract: Since the passing of the Bank Restriction Act in 1797, nearly two hundred statutes have been enacted by the British Parliament, bearing wholly or partly on the subjects of Banking, Bankers, and the Currency; being an average of about three acts of parliament yearly, for a period of sixty years. This prolific legislation seems to indicate the want of any fixed and definite principle influencing the legislators during that period, in relation to these matters; and of any uniform well-matured course of action among our leading statesmen. And when we examine the comparatively limited number of their statutes which bear directly upon the regulation of the currency, we discover that they do not form a harmonious code developing gradually a well-ordered system, founded upon sound and fixed principles, and matured by experience. On the contrary, nearly all the Currency Acts were devised to meet some pressing emergency, so that they are found to deal with only a portion of the subject, and to constitute in the aggregate a specimen of legislative patch-work rather than a consistent and uniform system. Description: Read May 5th, 1856

1856-01-01T00:00:00Z Haughton, James http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9099 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Education the surest preventive of crime, and the best safeguard of life, property, and social order Author: Haughton, James Abstract: Our national system in Ireland has been productive of great good. I would extend its advantages by increasing its funds, and by constantly widening its sphere of influence. No limit in these respects should be put to its operations. My own conviction is, that in order to make the system more truly national — that is, to bring within its influence the entire population — the education in our national schools should be exclusively secular and industrial in its character. Religious teaching should be conducted by parents and guardians, and by the clergy in whom they have confidence. The adoption of this principle would, as it seems to me, be the surest means of supplying a truly religious education also; as all parties would thereby be stimulated to exhibit, by the effects of their zealous labours, the excellent results of their various teachings. Manual labour for boys, and instruction in domestic economy for girls, seem to me essential for the promotion of virtue and happiness, and are therefore necessary elements of education suited for the prevention of crime, and the protection of life, property, and social order. Description: Read March 17th, 1856

1856-01-01T00:00:00Z Murphy, Joseph John http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9098 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The private and local business of parliament Author: Murphy, Joseph John Abstract: I will not attempt any detailed exposure of the vices of the system ; the rather as this has been admirably done by a writer in the Edinburgh Review for January, 1855, in an article entitled "Private Bill Legislation" which I will not spoil by attempting to condense. I will here speak only of the enormous expense it entails on the promoters of bills, especially when they meet with opposition. In the latter case the expense is so great, that it is by no means uncommon to oppose a bill on perfectly frivolous and untenable grounds, in hope that the promoters may find it cheaper to buy off opposition than to contest it. And who can tell how many useful enterprises are rendered impracticable, because they are too small to pay the expense of obtaining the necessary powers from Parliament? The Limited Liability Act does not meet this objection, for it affords no facilities for obtaining the power of compulsory purchase, which is equally necessary, in many cases, with that of the limited liability of shareholders. It is, besides, utterly unreasonable to expect members of Parliament to do the kind of work which is thrown on them by our system of private legislation. The expression private legislation is, in fact, a misnomer, a contradiction in terms. It is not legislation at all, but administration; and administrative work is not suited to Parliament. Description: Read May l9th, 1856

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