CORN. Average Prices of Corn per Imperial Quarter in England and Wales, with the Rate of Duty on Foreign and Colonial Wheat, during each Week of the Last Quarter of 1845; together with the Average Prices for the whole Quarter.-(Continued from p. 366, of vol. VIII.) Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans, Peas. Aggregate Date of Certificates From of preceding Prices, From British Weekly Weekly Weekly Weekly Weekly regulating Foreign PossesWeeks Average Average Average Average Average Duties for regulating Duty. Duties on Wheat per Quarter. Coun sions the Week tries. out of Europe. Foreign and Colonial Wheat and Wheat-Flour imported in each of the Months ending 10th October, 5th November, and 5th December, 1845; the Quantities upon which Duties have been paid for Home Consumption during the same Months; and the Quantities remaining in Bond at the close of them.-(Continued from p. 366, of vol. VIII.) CURRENCY. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act of the 7th and 8th Victoria, c. 32, for the Weeks ending on Saturday, the 8th November, and 6th December, 1845, and 3rd January, 1846.-(Continued from p. 367, vol. viii.) Average Aggregate Amount of Promissory Notes of Country Banks, which have been in Circulation in the United Kingdom, distinguishing the several Banks, or Classes of Banks, by which issued in each part of the Kingdom, during the three weeks ending 8th November, and 6th December, 1845, and 3rd January, 1846.-(Continued from p. 367, vol. VIII.) BANKRUPTCY. An Analysis of the Bankruptcies in England and Wales, gazetted in each Month of the Quarter ending December 31, 1845; showing the Counties and Branches of Industry in which they have occurred.--(Continued from p. 368, of vol. VIII.) QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. JUNE, 1846. Twelfth Annual Report of the Statistical Society of London. THE Council of the Statistical Society of London, in rendering to the Fellows an account of its year's stewardship, has at length the pleasure of presenting to them a perfectly clear balance sheet, and yet one which shows that their funded property remains undiminished. The mere excess of current income over current expenditure has enabled it, notwithstanding the charges incurred in removing from Regent-street to the present apartments of the Society, to extinguish the arrear of debt, to an amount varying between £50 and £100, with which each year has so long been commenced. It is, therefore, with double satisfaction, that the Council congratulate the Fellows on this removal, by which it effects a saving of £50 per annum in rent, although the style and extent of the accommodation afforded by the new apartments, are such as would have warranted an addition of that amount to the former rental. About £30 will be required in the current year, to defray the cost of adapting the furniture of the former apartments to the present, and that of making some additions to it, required by the ample space now enjoyed; but the removal has occasioned no other extraordinary outlay which is not included in the annexed balance sheet, and defrayed in the last year's expenditure. The number of Fellows elected during the past year has been 13, the number who have withdrawn from the Society, or are deceased, 11; and the newly-revised list will contain the names of 412 Fellows. A part of the Society's affairs which it appeared to the Council might be put upon a sounder footing, was the printing of its Journal: and circumstances arising which placed them at liberty to seek any new tender for that labour, one was required from Messrs. Harrison, with which they closed, because it offered a saving of £20 per annum, at the same time that the character and resources of the firm were a sufficient guarantee that the work would be turned out in the best style of their art; an expectation which has been fully realized. The stock on hand of the Journals and publications of the Society was at the same time obtained from Messrs. Clowes, and transferred to its new premises; and the whole of its affairs are thus brought into a clear and compendious arrangement. Seventy pounds per annum have been virtually added to the income of the Society by these savings, and VOL. IX. PART II. H with all its movable property on the present insured premises, it has commenced the year 1846 with a clear thousand pounds balance in its favour. The only Committee of the Society which has received funds for local investigations during the past year, is the Committee for collecting the Statistics of the population inhabiting a central portion of Whitechapel, a description of whose condition would, it was anticipated, afford a fair picture of that of the vast mass of the labouring population occupying the eastern part of the metropolis, on the north side of the Thames. This Committee owed its appointment to a special donation of £25 by Mr. Hallam, towards an inquiry of this nature to be made in the metropolis. Mr. Slaney made another of £10, in aid of its operations; and a further sum of £16 4s. has been granted for their completion from the general funds of the Society. At first the Committee had considerable difficulty in procuring agents possessing the peculiar qualifications required for the task, but they were at length fortunate enough to obtain persons of character eminently qualified, and they have now collected the whole of the required details, by careful survey and investigation from house to house. The details themselves are interesting, but an abstract of the results, which will be much more so, is in course of preparation, and will be laid before the Society at one of the meetings of the present Session. The labours of the Committee on Benefit Societies were superseded for the time by those of Mr. F. G. P. Neison in the same field; the results of which, under the name of Contributions to Vital Statistics, have already been laid before the Society, and published in brief in its Journal. Their scientific value, and their utility to the most meritorious part of the poorer classes, entitle Mr. Neison's labours to the highest praise; conducted, as they undoubtedly have been, at a great pecuniary as well as personal sacrifice. The complete re-analysis of the Criminal Statistics of England, by the Rev. Whitworth Russell, submitted to the Society at the first meetings of the present Session, was, in like manner, both for its extent and intricacy, a work rather for an associated body than one which it was to be expected that any individual would undertake, however much interested in the results. In the recent numbers of your Journal the papers of Dr. Guy upon influence of employments on health, and on the expectation of life among the higher classes, together with the principal papers read at the fifteenth meeting of the Statistical Section of the British Association at Cambridge in June last, have successively appeared. Among the latter the paper on the Progress and Present Extent of Savings Banks in the United Kingdom, by G. R. Porter, Esq., that on the Trade of Norway, by R. Valpy, Esq., and that on the Statistics of Merthyr Tydvil, by G. S. Kenrick, Esq., are especially deserving of attention. the The paper to be brought before you this evening, by Mr. Butler Williams, on the public advantages, yet undeveloped, to be derived from the railway system, will also tend to show how immediately each new truth which can be elaborated in social science seeks to realize itself, directly or indirectly, in corresponding social improvements, and to demonstrate that the practical and the scientific are |