Browsing JSSISI: 1855 to 1856, Vol. I, Journal of the Dublin Statistical Society by Title
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Address delivered at the opening of the Eighth Session of the Society
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)Before venturing to ask your attention to the few remarks, which as one of the vice-presidents, I am about to make on the opening of this the eighth session of the Dublin Statistical Society, I must first express my ... -
Address delivered at the opening of the Ninth Session of the Society
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)WE are now entering upon the ninth session of this Society, and the duration of its existence during a period of eight years must be a source of unfeigned gratification to all its members, as of itself affording a ... -
A deduction from the statistics of crime for the last twelve years
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)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, ... -
Education the surest preventive of crime, and the best safeguard of life, property, and social order
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)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 ... -
The effect of war on prices
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)It is scarcely necessary to say that the common opinion upon this question?an opinion, too, that is shared by some economists of eminence ? is that a state of war necessarily tends to produce a general rise in the prices ... -
Effects of emigration; can it be made a means of relieving distress?
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)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 ... -
The excessive Mortality of British Residents in India, as affecting the choice of the Civil Service of the East India Company as a career for young men
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)In this paper I propose to direct your attention to some facts, commonly overlooked, but which ought, nevertheless, to be fully considered by those who have to decide either for themselves or for others, as to the wisdom ... -
Factory education
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)It would be needless to point out the advantages of, or the necessity for, educating the great masses; and knowing, as I do, that there are amongst our members many men who, from their position as directors of railway ... -
Is fire insurance a proper subject for taxation?
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)OF the questions which the good feeling now subsisting between England and France has given rise to, perhaps the most remarkable is the competition in Fire Insurance between French and English Companies. A French Company ... -
Malthus
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)As the present age is honourably distinguished by efforts, well-meant, though not unfrequently misdirected, to ameliorate the condition of the labouring classes; as I believe an all-important step in that direction to ... -
Notes on the Societe Generale de Credit Mobilier
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)The dividends of the Societe Generale de Credit 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 ... -
Observations on the gold crisis, the price of silver and the demand for it; with answer to the question, "What becomes of the new supplies of gold"
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)A decline in the value of either of the precious metals must proceed very slowly; as, owing to their natural qualities and the purposes to which we turn them, they are calculated to accumulate gradually from age to age, ... -
Observations on the present export of silver to the East
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)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 ... -
On partnership with limited liability
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)Since I had the honour of submitting to this Society the paper prepared by me on the subject of limited liability, a Commission composed of eminent and learned men, entrusted with the task of taking evidence and reporting ... -
On the advantages of policies of insurance terminable at the age of 63 or at death, instead of at death only
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)The common mode of life assurance is subject to one defect. If the insured should happen to attain a considerable age, he changes, as time advances, from being a productive member of society, to a state of inability for ... -
On the Bank Charter Act of 1844
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)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 ... -
On the connexion between the origin and localization of diseases, whether usual or epidemical and the over-crowding of buildings in our cities
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)Room to be healthy is, then, one of the great wants of cities and towns, and no greater boon could be offered, to the working classes especially, than houses of two stories high being, at least in front and rear, freed ... -
On the criminal jurisdiction of Courts of Quarter Sessions in Ireland
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)There is an anomaly in our present system, at variance with all the other parts, which must excite wonder at having been so long overlooked ? the extensive jurisdiction of Courts of Quarter Sessions in criminal cases, ... -
On the general principles of taxation, as illustrating the advantages of a perfect income tax
(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 present state of the savings' bank question
(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 ...
