JOURNAL

OF THE

STATISTICAL SOCIETY

OF

LONDON.

VOL. XVII.

LONDON:

JOHN WILLIAM PARKER AND SON, 445, WEST STRAND.

1854.

NOTICE.

THE Council of the Statistical Society of London wish it to be understood, that, while they consider it their duty to adopt every means within their power to test the facts inserted in this Journal, they do not hold themselves responsible for their accuracy, which must rest upon the authority of the several Contributors.

CONTENTS.

Page

Résumé of the Statistical Congress at Brussels. By LEONE LEVI, ESQ., F.S.S.

On the Duration of Life among Medical Men. By WILLIAM A. GUY, M.B.

Observations on the Statistics of Portsea. By JOHN FINCHAM, Esq.

1

15

24

On the New Zealand Race of Men. By A. S. THOMSON, M.D.

Statistics of the Northern Whale Fisheries. By HENRY MUNROE, M.D.........

On Registration in the United States of America. By JOSIAH CURTIS, M.D.

The Results of the Census of Great Britain in 1851. By EDWARD CHESHIRE,

Esq..........

27

34

43

45

Statistics relative to Nova Scotia in 1851. By EDWARD CHESHIRE, ESQ.

Miscellanea

73

81

Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society.-Session 1853-54....

On the Relation of the Price of Wheat to the Revenue derived from Customs

and Excise Duties. Communicated by DR. GUY

97

103

Old and New Bills of Mortality; Movement of the Population; Deaths and

Fatal Diseases in London during the last Fourteen Years. By JOHN

ANGUS, ESQ., General Register Office

117

A Statistical and Historical View of the Statute Law of the Realm, and of the

number of Statutes passed in each Reign from the earliest recorded period

to the present time. By WILLIAM TAYLER, ESQ., of the Middle Temple 143

On Agricultural Statistics. By SAMUEL PAULL, ESQ.

159

Miscellanea

168

Our Commerce with Russia, in Peace and War. By J. T. DAnson, Esq.,

Barrister-at-Law.....

193

Analytical View of Railway Accidents. By F. G. P. NEISON, Esa.

On a Decimal Coinage for the United Kingdom. By FREDERICK JAMES

MINASI, ESQ.

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219

243

Historical and Statistical View of the Colony of Victoria. By G. M. BELL, ESQ. 259

Miscellanea

275

The Laws of the Currency, as exemplified in the Circulation of Country

Bank Notes in England since the passing of the Act of 1844. By J. W.

GILBART, Esq., F.R.S.

289

Suggestions for Improving the Present Mode of Keeping and Stating the

National Accounts. By CHARLES JELLICOE, Esa., F.S.S.........

322

Statistics of the United States of America. By THOMAS ABERCROMBIE

WELTON, Esq.

326

Miscellanea

358

Index

373

LIST OF FELLOWS

OF THE

STATISTICAL SOCIETY

OF

LONDON,

No. 12, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE,

SESSION 1854-55.

(Corrected to July, 1854.)

FOUNDED IN 1834.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY HARRISON AND SONS, 45, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

1854.