JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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The Brussels Free Trade Congress and International Association for Customs Reform
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1857)It is not necessary to dwell upon the benefits which must also result from the concentration of the efforts of distinct nations in the prosecution of objects involving the common interests of all; or upon the tendency ... -
Report of the Council at the opening of the Tenth Session of the Society
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Proceedings of the Dublin Statistical Society: Fifteenth Session, First Meeting -
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Co-operative Societies
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1862)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 ... -
Observations upon a paper on poor relief, by Dr. Dowling of Tipperary
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1862)The essay now read seems to me to contain much suggestive matter to thoughtful men ? much that should make us pause and seriously consider the consequences of introducing into our country a more general system of out-door ... -
Employment of women in Ireland
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1862)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, ... -
Suggestions for the improvement of the laws relating to Bankrupts
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1862)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 ... -
Report of the Council at the opening of the Fifteenth Session.
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Proceedings of the Dublin Statistical Society: Fourteenth Session, Seventh Meeting -
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Proceedings of the Dublin Statistical Society: Fourteenth Session, Fourth Meeting -
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Observations on trial by jury, with suggestions for the amendment of our present system
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1861)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 ... -
On the use and abuse of apprenticeship
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1861)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 ... -
Competitive examinations and their bearing on the Civil Service
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1861)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 ... -
A consideration of the discoveries of gold and silver in the sixteenth century, with a view to point out the effects to be anticipated from the recent discoveries of gold. ? Silver proposed as a substitute for a gold standard, to prevent the anticipated rise in all prices to three times their former amount
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1861)The subject which I have selected to bring under your notice this evening is connected with one of the most remarkable events of our own day. The supply of gold and silver had remained at a regular and constant state ... -
The educational and other aspects of the statistics of crime in Dublin
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1861)By resisting the continued influx of country pauperism into the large towns; by repressing so far as is possible the tendency to this movement which is nourished by the circumstance that poor law aid is available only ... -
Free-trade resolutions of the Council-General of the Herault.
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)Last session the French government presented to the Legislative Body a bill for abolishing the prohibitions against importation which abound in the tariff, and replacing them by duties which, though high, are not ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The progress of the colony of Victoria
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)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 ...
