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On the effect of the usury laws on the trade of lending money to the poor in Ireland
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)In the course of some investigations into the condition of the poorer classes in Ireland, my attention has been directed to the state of the trade of lending money amongst them. I find that whilst the large farmers ... -
On the effects of the usury laws on the funding system
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)The system of funding, by which the greater part of the enormous national debt of England has been created, is that of granting perpetual annuities of #5, #4, or #3, redeemable on the payment of #100. These annuities ... -
On the equal importance of the education, poor-law, cheap law for small holders, and land questions, at the present crisis
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)In an article in the Fortnightly Review for January, I called attention to the case of the migratory labourers in Mayo, and their sufferings from non-employment in England last year, as one branch of the present crisis to ... -
On the extension of the laws of pawnbroking now in force in Great Britain to Ireland
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)In 1870 a Select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to inquire into the state of the laws affecting the Pawnbroking trade, with a view to their consolidation and amendment. The Committee was re-appointed in ... -
On the general principles of taxation, as illustrating the advantages of a perfect income tax
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)There are few branches of political economy more interesting in themselves, or of more importance at the present time, than the subject of taxation, and yet there is scarcely any on which greater errors are prevalent. I ... -
On the general principles of taxation, as illustrating the advantages of a perfect income tax
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Gentlemen?The duties of a government, as enumerated by Adam Smith, are four in number:? 1st?To guard against foreign aggression. 2nd?To secure against internal fraud or violence. 3rd?To maintain public institutions which ... -
On the grand jury question in Ireland, considered with reference to the latest English analogies
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)As all our institutions for local government and administration are founded more or less on English precedents, it is useful, in collecting the information necessary for any important change, to combine a sketch of the ... -
On the importance and feasibility of making special local arrangements for facilitating peasant proprietors and other small holders in dealing with their interests in land
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Probably the greatest practical reform which the present generation has witnessed was Sir Rowland Hill's Penny Postage reform. The accommodation which the public, especially the poor and those residing in backward districts, ... -
On the importance of extending the British gold standard with subsidiary silver coins to India, as a remedy for the inconveniences in India from the rapid depreciation of silver
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The early years of Her present Majesty's reign were distinguished by the great reform for securing the perfect convertibility of Bank notes into gold, embodied in the Bank Act of 1844, which we owe to Sir Robert Peel and ... -
On the importance of raising Ireland to the level of England and Scotland in the matters of industrial schools and compulsory education
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The principle of compulsory education has a two-fold aspect: (1) It secures the education of the neglected and the helpless, and provides an organised means by which their education shall be provided and paid for. (2) When ... -
On the law reforms which have been successfully advocated by the Trades Union Congress, and the further law reforms which they now seek
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)When I learned that the Trades Union Congress, which has held twelve annual meetings, had fixed its next meeting to be held in Dublin, in September?thus visiting Ireland for the first time, I made some inquiries as to their ... -
On the legal provisions in Ireland for the care and instruction of imbeciles, idiots, deaf and dumb, and blind, with suggestions for amended legislation
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)In pursuance of the reference of the Council, at the suggestion of Mr. Jonathan Pim, to prepare a report on queries submitted by Sir Charles E. Trevelyan, Bart., K.C.B., viz.: (a) What arrangements have been made for the ... -
On the present state of the savings' bank question
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)About three years since, I had the honor of reading before this society a paper on the duties of the public with respect to charitable savings' banks. Since that time there have been promises of legislation, but nothing ... -
On the prospects of the beet sugar manufacture in Ireland
Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)It was the great importance attached to the beet-sugar manufacture by some advocates of its introduction, which led me to direct my attention to the economic conditions necessary to its success. It is necessary to obtain ... -
On the prospects of the manufacture of sugar from beet-root in Ireland
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)Between 1869 and 1876 an experiment was tried in Ireland of the manufacture of sugar from beet-root, which turned out unprofitable as a pecuniary speculation. When the failure occurred, it was suggested by a gentleman of ... -
On the report of the Irish Lunacy Inquiry Commissioners, and the policy of extending the English law for the protection of neglected lunatics to Ireland
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)I need offer no apology for bringing this subject before the Society at the present time. It is three years since, in consequence of an invitation from a great English philanthropist (Sir Charles E. Trevelyan) to Mr. ... -
On the Scotch branch of the Poor Removal question
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In the report of the Select Committee on Poor Removal of 1879 there is a very marked difference in the way in which the Scotch and English branch of the question was dealt with. -
On the statistics of crime arising from or connected with drunkenness, as indicating the importance of increasing the punishment of habitual drunkards, and of those who seriously injure their children by what they spend on drink
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discharge of my duty of reporting on criminal statistics in Ireland, some statistics have come under my notice which raise important questions as to the adequacy of the existing punishments for drunkenness. -
On the substitution for the three-fold law of succession resting on the accidents of tenure, of a three-fold law for distinct classes of (1) landed gentry, (2) manufacturers, and (3) farmers, resting on the scientific basis of the observed usages of these different classes as to wills and settlements
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discussions which have taken place on the law of successions in the United Kingdom, it has been commonly assumed that there is a simple issue involved, and the only change recommended or discussed is to extend the ... -
On the use of the doctrine of laissez faire, in investigating the economic resources of Ireland
Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)The natural resources of Ireland have furnished a favourite topic to Irish writers for the indulgence of national vanity; and the language of exaggeration has been too often applied in describing their extent and value. ...