http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9002 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:50:34 GMT 2013-06-19T16:50:34Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9120 Title: Proceedings of the Dublin Statistical Society: Fifteenth Session, First Meeting - Author: Dublin Statistical Society Description: Monday, 18th November, 1861 - Wed, 01 Jan 1862 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9120 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9119 Title: Co-operative Societies Author: Connor, Frederic W. Abstract: Co-operative societies, cautiously conducted, might act perhaps as indices of the normal rate of wages and the normal condition of labour throughout the various trades ; if they are compelled to lower wages or to curtail a privilege, the workman knows that it must be, and the whole trade accordingly submits to the reduction or curtailment. While pointing out the difficulties that beset the path of co-operative manufactories, we extend to them the truest help. We heartily wish them success, hoping that wisdom will be gained, if not wealth, from the industry, self-control, and mutual forbearance needed to conduct them; at the same time trusting that they may reap the full reward of that energy which springs from freedom, and participate in that progress which waits on self-reliance ; trusting still more strongly that such associated workshops may become the sanctuaries of honest work, upright fellowship, and manly independence, which by infusing individual sympathy into united action may create around them an atmosphere of Christian love. Description: Read Monday evening, 20th January, 1862 Wed, 01 Jan 1862 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9119 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9117 Title: Employment of women in Ireland Author: Gibson, Edward Abstract: The subject of the employment of women has been so long and so frequently discussed, and all its arguments have been so recently considered at the meeting of the Social Science Association in this city, August, 1861, that I shall not occupy the time of the meeting in proving facts which are no longer denied, and demonstrating what are now admitted to be truisms. I shall assume the advisability of not limiting educated women to obtaining subsistence by the one overstocked profession of governess; and also that the sex of a woman, though it may be a misfortune, is not a crime. With these humble assumptions I shall briefly lay before the Society what has been done in Ireland with regard to women's employment. Description: Read on Tuesday, 24th December 1861 Wed, 01 Jan 1862 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9117 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9116 Title: Suggestions for the improvement of the laws relating to Bankrupts Author: Kennedy, Alexander D. Abstract: The two suggestions I propose for the amendment of the Irish Bankruptcy Law. First — That the Judge of the Bankrupt Court should be empowered to punish by imprisonment any bankrupt who may have committed any fraud or offence against the Bankruptcy Laws, or whose insolvency is attributable to rash speculation or unjustifiable extravagance, or who may have been guilty of any misconduct in relation to his trade. And secondly — that every bankrupt who shall- pay less than 20s. in the pound, and who shall at any time subsequently acquire a certain sum of money or yearly income, shall from time to time be compellable to apply a portion of such money or income towards the payment of his debts due at the date of his bankruptcy, - until same be paid in full. Description: Read Monday, 18th November, 1861 Wed, 01 Jan 1862 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9116 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9115 Title: Report of the Council at the opening of the Fifteenth Session. Author: Dublin Statistical Society Description: Read Monday, 18th November, 1861 Wed, 01 Jan 1862 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9115 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9114 Title: Proceedings of the Dublin Statistical Society: Fourteenth Session, Seventh Meeting - Author: Dublin Statistical Society Description: Monday, May 20th, 1861 - Wed, 01 Jan 1862 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9114 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9113 Title: Proceedings of the Dublin Statistical Society: Fourteenth Session, Fourth Meeting - Author: Dublin Statistical Society Description: Monday, 18th February, 1861 - Tue, 01 Jan 1861 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9113 1861-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9112 Title: Observations on trial by jury, with suggestions for the amendment of our present system Author: Houston, Arthur Abstract: In this paper, I propose briefly to examine:— 1. What is the fundamental principle of trial by jury, and what are the advantages resulting therefrom 2. The machinery by which the system is worked in this country and in England, and how its efficiency is thereby affected. 3. The defects, if any, existing in these institutions, and their remedies. Description: Read Monday, 15th April, 1861 Tue, 01 Jan 1861 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9112 1861-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9111 Title: On the use and abuse of apprenticeship Author: Shaw, George F. Abstract: Any satisfactory solution of the various questions arising out of the custom of apprenticeship, must be based on a species of statistical knowledge which nobody has been, as yet, at the trouble of collecting. But I also think that the statistical inquiry itself may be rendered more compendious and fruitful, by distinctly stating what are the questions that have to be settled, and by putting them in certain points of view which have perhaps been hitherto not sufficiently attended to. This I shall endeavour to accomplish, and however imperfect may be my success in a subject which has been so much neglected by political economists, I trust that much benefit will accrue at all events from evoking the discussion of it in this Society. Description: Read Monday, 18th March, 1861 Tue, 01 Jan 1861 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9111 1861-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9110 Title: Competitive examinations and their bearing on the Civil Service Author: Connor, Frederic W. Abstract: Since the appointment of the Civil Service Commissioners, it has been attested that a great improvement has taken place in the intellectual and moral status of the junior clerks ; that their business habits have not been seriously impugned ; that the more unlimited the competition, the greater has been the tendency to secure fit persons. We have the evidence of high officials, men of great sagacity and ripe experience, in favour of open competition we have parliament unanimously approving of the principle, and the general public supporting the views of their representatives. We have observed it successfully adopted in several great departments of the state, and that it is calculated to impart a powerful and healthy stimulus to our systems of education at large ; and to afford salutary and happy inducements to youths of fair promise to qualify for appointments in the service of the state.. Neither must it be forgotten that up to the present we have had no bonafide open competition for any office under the Home Government, and that socially, politically, and morally it is prudent and desirable that the principle should be formally recognised. Further, we have the Civil Service Commissioners themselves desiring the immediate and general introduction of open competitive examinations, and we have the Secretaries to the Treasury of several administrations voting for and publicly advocating the measure. Description: Read February 18th, 1861 Tue, 01 Jan 1861 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9110 1861-01-01T00:00:00Z