Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Band 23Statistical Society of London, 1860 |
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31st December Allenheads amount annual Annuities assessment average price Bank Bank of England Belvoir Castle births British capital Census cent classes compared Consolidated Fund consumption contingent votes Cotton cwts deaths decrease Diff districts duties England and Wales English expenditure expenses Exports fact favour Females Foreign Geddeh Government illegitimate important Income increase India interest Ireland January June labour land less levied loan London Males Manufactures MARRIAGES means miles Mins months nearly North Shields paid paper parishes Parochial period persons piastres Poor Law Poor Rate population present produce Property Tax proportion provinces Prussia quantity Quarter ended 31st Railways rate of mortality Receipts reduced relief returns revenue Scotland Silk Society Spain Spanish Statistics supply taxation temperature tion tonnage tons total number towns trade United Kingdom vessels voters votes wages Wheat whole William Newmarch Yarn
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Seite 296 - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and...
Seite 524 - It is certainly a fact, which cannot be controverted, that most of the diseases which have raged in the islands during my residence there, have been introduced by ships ; 2 and what renders this fact remarkable is, that there might be no appearance of disease among the crew of the ship which conveyed this destructive importation.
Seite 354 - West proved that additional labour cannot be applied to an indefinite amount to a given extent of land, by showing, on the principles of human nature, that if it were otherwise, no land except that which is most fertile and best situated would be cultivated. All the technical terms, therefore, of Political Economy represent either purely mental ideas, such as, demand, utility, value and abstinence, or objects which, though some of them may be material, are considered by the Political Economist so...
Seite 275 - Those general laws, therefore, in the knowledge of which we recognize one of the highest treasures of man on earth, are left unexpressed, though rendered self-apparent, as they may be read in the uncompromising, rigid figures placed before him. It is difficult to see how, under such circumstances, and notwithstanding this self-imposed abnegation, Statistical Science, as such, should be subject to prejudice, reproach, and attack; and yet the fact cannot be denied. We hear it said that its prosecution...
Seite 301 - That of those evils, that which consists merely in the amount of the rates, — an evil great when considered by itself, but trifling when compared with the moral effects which I am deploring, — might be much diminished by the combination of workhouses, and by substituting a rigid administration and contract management for the existing scenes of neglect, extravagance, jobbing, and fraud. ' 3. That by an alteration, or even — according to the suggestion of many witnesses — an abolition of the...
Seite 356 - I repeat th«t the observation, the recording and the arranging facts, which is the science of statistics, and the ascertaining, from observation and from consciousness, the general laws which regulate men's actions with respect to production and exchange, which is the science of political economy, are distinct from the arts to which those sciences are subservient. We cease to be scientific as soon as we advise or dissuade, or even approve or censure.
Seite 300 - ... it is without its beneficial effects ; as it proceeds from no impulse of charity, it creates no feelings of gratitude, and not unfrequently engenders dispositions and habits calculated to separate rather than unite the interests of the higher and lower orders of the community ; even the obligations of natural affection are no longer left to their own impulse, but the mutual support of the nearest relations has been actually enjoined by a positive law, which the authority of magistrates is continually...
Seite 479 - Chronicon Preciosum: or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Money; the Price of Corn and other Commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-labour etc.
Seite 19 - Calico Printing, Dyeing, and Bleaching, and in Silk and Fustian Dyeing, a decline in wages has occurred in those branches which no longer require any special or peculiar skill ; and also in the higher Class of skilled workmen, such as "Machine Printers ;" bat the wages of this class now range from 25s.