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VICTORIA PRESS, 83A, FARRINGDON STREET, and 1a, PRINCES STREET,
STOREY'S GATE, WESTMINSTER.
1
Introduction
Opening Address. Right Hon. LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX
Address on Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law. Sir ROBERT
J. PHILLIMORE, D.C.L.
Address on Education. THOMAS CHAMBERS, Q.C., M.P.
Address on Education. The Very Rev. the DEAN OF CHICHESTER.
Address on Health. EDWIN LANKESTER, M.D., F.R.S.
Address on Economy and Trade. EDWIN CHADWICK, C.B.
SELECT PAPERS, NOTICES OF PAPERS, ETC.
I-JURISPRUDENCE AND AMENDMENT OF THE
LAW.
Report of the Standing Committee of the Department
International Law.
Law of Affreightment
The Bankrupt Law.
Upon what Principle should the Bankrupt Law of England be
Amended? GEORGE MOFFATT, M.P..
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111
115
The Law of Evidence.
Is it expedient to remove any and what of the remaining restrictions
on the Admissibility of Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases?
ALFRED WADDILOVE, D.C.L.
Local Courts.
Upon what Principle should Local Courts be Constituted with refe-
rence to Extent of Jurisdiction and System of Procedure?
ARTHUR JOHN WILLIAMS
Mercantile Courts.
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143
Parliamentary Elections.
On the Frame of a Bill for Enabling Parliamentary Electors Volun-
tarily to Withdraw their Names from the Local Registry, and
form Unanimous Constituencies. THOMAS HARE
Capital Punishment.
The Practical Results of the Total or Partial Abolition of Capital
Punishment in Various Countries; Prepared as a Summary of the
most Recent and Authentic Information on the Subject. WILLIAM
TALLACK
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171
Repression of Crime.
On Recent Improvements in our System for the Punishment and Re-
formation of Adult Criminals. Rev. W. L. CLAY
Does the present Administration of the Poor Law create any obsta-
cles to the Reform of Criminals and the Repression of Crime?
And if so, how could such obstacles be removed? FREDERIC
HILL
What means is it desirable to adopt to prevent the passing of Sen-
tences inadequate to the proper Repression of Crime? T. B. LL.
BAKER
Some Prison Statistics, with Notes and Observations on the Causes of
Crime. Rev. THOMAS HUTTON
On the Consolidation of the Reformatory and Industrial Schools'
Acts. MARY CARPENTER
217
Necessity for the inviolate Preservation of Trial by Jury of all great
Questions of Fact. Miss SHEdden
260
Long Restrictions in the Use of Inventions, and Obligation to make
heavy Payments to Patentees, Incompatible with Free and Fair
Trade. R. A. MACFIE
Plurality or Graduation of Individual Votes as a means of Facilitating
the Extension of the Parliamentary Suffrage to all Classes.
R. A. MACFIE
261
Reformatory Schools, and especially the North of England Catholic
Girls' Reformatory School at Howard Hill, near Sheffield. R.
J. GAINSFORD
The Public Advantages of the Grant of Assizes to Sheffield. R. J.
GAINSFORD
262
On the Palace of Justice: its Site and Approaches, and the Arrange-
ments of the Courts and Offices of Judicature.
STER, Q.C., F.R.S. . .
THOMAS WEB-
On the Affiliation of Illegitimate Children. JOHN GUEST
II.-EDUCATION.
Report of the Standing Committee of the Department.
The Education of Girls.
What better Provision ought to be made for the Education of Girls of
the Upper and Middle Classes? Rev. F. D. MAURICE
The Ladies' College at Cheltenham. DOROTHEA BEALE
the Upper and Middle Classes? ELIZABETH WOLSTENHOLME
The Extension of the Factory Acts.
I. Factory Schools, and Education under the Print-works' Act. II.
The Children's Employment Commission (1862). H. SEYMOUR
TREMENHEERE
The Extension of the Factory Acts to other Industrial Occupations.
JOHN WILSON.
303
Rural Schools.
Rural Schools in relation with the State. Rev. G. H. FAGAN
308
Neglected Children.
Our Neglected and Destitute Children. Are they to be Educated?
MARY CARPENTER
Government Treatment of Ragged Schools. HENRY CARTWRIGHT,
F.S.A., Barrister-at-Law.
The State of Popular Education, and Suggestions for its Advancement.
E. BROTHERTON
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325
Classical Education.
Classical Instruction. Why? When? For Whom? W. B. HODG-
SON, LL.D., F.C.P..
The Economical Value of Education.
The Politico-Economical Value of a sound Elementary Education of
the Wage Class: Rev. J. LETTIS SHORT
Labour and Education. Discussion.
The Teachers' View of Payment for Results. JOHN PATON.
The Revised Code. Discussion
Education for those who Need it Most. A. O. CHARLES.
Neglected Children. Discussion.
On Education among the Slavonic Christians of Turkey in Europe.
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