the deposits amounted to 28,342,2527., cash in hand and at call, 6,740,2077. partners' capital and reserve, 4,744,5987.

The following are some statistics of the joint-stock banks for June, 1904

The following are statistics of the Post-office savings-banks for 1893 and the last four years :

The following are statistics of trustees' savings-banks :

The payments include purchases of Government Stock for depositors, and the capital, is exclusive of Government Stock held for depositors.

Money, Weights, and Measures.

The sovereign weighs 123 274 grains, or 7 9881 grammes, 916 (or eleventwelfths) fine, and consequently it contains 113 001 grains or 7 3224 grammes of fine gold. The shilling weighs 87 27 grains or 5 6552 grammes, 925 (or thirty-seven fortieths) fine, and thus contains 80 727 grains or 5 231 grammes of fine silver. Bronze coins consist of a mixture of copper, tin, and zinc. The penny weighs 145 83 grains, or 9:45 grammes. The standard of value is gold. Silver is legal tender up to 40 shillings; bronze up to 12d., farthings only up to 6d. Bank of England notes are legal tender.

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Standard units are of length the standard yard, of weight the standard pound of 7,000 grains (the pound troy having 5,760 grains), of capacity the standard gallon containing 10 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at 62° F., the barometer at 30 inches. On these units all other legal weights and measures are based.

Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Great Britain and Ireland.

1. OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS.

Agricultural Returns of Great Britain. Annual. 8. London. Royal Commission on Agriculture, First and Second Reports, Minutes of Evidence (4 vols.), and Reports of Assistant Commissioners on various Counties of England and Scotland (20 vols.). London, 1896. Final Report of Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire, with Evidence and Appendices (6 vols.), 1896. Returns as to Number and Size of Agricultural Holdings in Great Britain in 1895. London, 1896.-Report of Committee on British Forestry, with Appendices. London, 1902.

Agricultural Statistics, Ireland. Detailed Annual Report. Report of Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction.

Dublin.-Annual General
Dublin.-Land Commis-

sion (Ireland) Reports. Annual. Dublin.-Ireland, Industrial and Agricultural. Published by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland. Dublin, 1902. Army Estimates, Annual.-Memorandum of the Secretary of State relating to the Army Estimates. London.-Army Accounts, Annual.-Army List, Quarterly.-Army: General Annual Return. London. Annual Report of the Inspector of Recruiting. Report of the War Office (Reconstitution) Committee. -Various Orders and Memoranda relating to Army Reorganisation, 1904.

Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales; in Scotland; in Ireland. Annual Reports by the respective Registrars-General.

Canals and Navigations: Returns made to the Board of Trade for 1898. Fol. London, 1900. Census of England and Wales, 1901. Preliminary Report, Detailed Returns and Summary Tables.-Census of Scotland, 1901.-Census of Ireland, 1901, General Report. Dublin, 1902. Consolidated Fund: Abstract Account. Annual. London.

Customs: Report of the Commissioners of H.M.'s. Customs. Annual. 8. London Duchy of Cornwall: Annual Accounts. Duchy of Lancaster: Annual Accounts. Education: Annual Reports of the Board of Education for England and Wales (containing a list of the year's publications by the Board). Statistics of Elementary Day Schools, Evening Schools, and Training Colleges. Annual. Grants to School Boards; School Board Accounts and Loans. Annual. Associations under Act of 1897. Annual. Claims Returns. Report of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland. Annual Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland. Report of Royal Commission on Secondary Education in England. 9 vols. London, 1895. Reports by Inspectors of University Colleges, London, 1902. Annual Reports from University Colleges participating in Grant of 15,000l. Annual Report on Intermediate Education in Wales. Return as to Technical Education (Application of Funds by Local Authorities) in England and Wales and Ireland; and the similar Return for Scotland. Annual Report of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland. Annual Return showing Expenditure from Grant, Statistics Day Schools and of Evening Schools. Report (Annual) on the Training of Teachers in Scotland. Annual Report of the Accountant for Scotland to the Scotch Education Departinent.

Electoral Statistics, Return of, in County and Borough Constituencies in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland. London, 1902.

Emigration: Annual Statistical Tables relating to Emigration and Immigration. Annual Emigration Statistics of Ireland.

Factories and Workshops Act: Return of the Number of Factories Authorised to be Inspected, Persons Employed, &c., for 1890. London, 1891. Report of Chief Inspector, and Supplement to Report. Annual. London.

Finance Accounts (Annual) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Annual Financial Statement. Financial Estimates. Return showing Revenue and Expenditure (England, Scotland, and Ireland) for 1901-02. London, 1902. First Report of Royal Commission on Financial Relations between Great Britain and Ireland; Evidence (2 vols.); Final Report; London, 1896. National Debt Accounts (Annual). National Debt during 60 years, Annual Return.

Fish Conveyed Inland by Railway: Annual Return. London. Reports of Inspectors of Sea Fisheries, and of Salmon Fisheries. Annual. London.

Income Tax Assessments: Annual Returns.

Geological Survey, Annual Report. By Sir A. Geikie. London.

Inland Revenue: Report of the Commissioners on the Duties under their Management for the years 1856 to 1869, with some Retrospective History and complete Tables of Accounts of the Duties from their first Imposition. 2 vols. Fol. pp. 168 and 219. London, 1870. Inland Revenue: Report of the Commissioners. Annual. 8. London. Judicial Statistics of England and Wales; of Scotland; of Ireland. Annual.

Labour Department of Board of Trade; Annual Report. Annual Report on Trades Unions. Reports on Strikes and Lock-outs; on Changes in Wages, &c.; on Co-operative Contracts. Registrar's Reports on Friendly Societies; on Industrial and Provident Societies; on Trades Unions.

Local Government: England and Wales; Scotland; Ireland; Annual Reports.
Local Taxation Returns: England; Scotland; Ireland.

Merchant Shipping: Tables showing the Progress of British Merchant Shipping. Annual Navigation and Shipping. Annual Statement. London.

Militia: Return showing Establishment of each Regiment. Annual. London. Mineral Statistics (Annual) of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 parts. Part I., District Statistics; Part II., Labour; Part III., Output; Part IV., Colonial and Foreign.— Inspectors' Annual Reports, 13 parts.-List (Annual) of Mines worked.

Mint Report. Annual. London.

Navigation and Shipping of the United Kingdom, Annual Statement of. Imp. 4. London. Navy Estimates. Annual. Navy: Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy. Annual. Navy List. Quarterly.

Police Reports of Inspectors of Constabulary for England and Wales, and for Scotland. Annual. London. Dublin Police Statistics. Annual. Dublin.

Poor Law, England: Annual Report of Local Government Board. 8. London. Poor Rates and Pauperism, Annual Returns Relating to. London. Poor Relief, Scotland: Annual Report of Commissioners. 8. Edinburgh. Ireland: Report of Local Govern. ment Board for Ireland. Annual. 8. Dublin.

Post Office: Report of the Postmaster-General. Annual. 8. London.

Prisons, Reports on, for England and Wales, for Scotland, for Ireland. Annual. London. Railway Companies of the United Kingdom Annual Report. Railway and Canal Commission, Annual Report.

Railway Returns (Annual) for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Annual Return of Street and Road Tramways. London.

Rateable Property (England and Wales) Return. Annual. London.

Reformatory and Industrial Schools of Great Britain; of Ireland; Annual Reports of Inspectors.

Roll of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. Annual. London.

Savings Banks, Annual Returns. Trustee Savings Banks, Annual Report on Transactions of each Bank.

Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom. Annual. 8. London.

Tariff and allied subjecis: Colonial Import Duties. Annual.-Foreign Import Duties. Annual.-British and Foreign Trade and Industrial Conditions; Statistical tables, &c.Prices, Wholesale and Retail in the United Kingdom.-Food Supplies Imported.-Comparative Statistics of Population, Industry, and Commerce in United Kingdom and some Foreign Countries..

Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions, Annual Statement of. Statistical Tables (Annual) showing Progress of British Trade and Production. Trade of British Empire and Foreign Competition.

Volunteer Corps: Annual Returns. London.

Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues: Annual Report of the Commissioners. Fol. London. Yeomanry Cavalry Training Return. Annual. London

2. NON-OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS.

UNITED KINGDOM AND ENGLAND.

Ackland (A. H. Dyke), Handbook in Outline of the Political History of England. London, 1895.

1900.

Acworth (W. M.), The Railways of England. 5th Ed.
Annual Register. A Review of Public Events. London.

Aflalo (F. G.), The Fishing Industry of England and Wales. London, 1904.

Anson (Sir W. R.), Law and Custom of the Constitution. 2nd Ed. 8. London, 1896. Arnold-Forster (H. O.), The War Office, the Army, and the Empire. London, 1900. Ashley (W. J.) (Editor), British Industries. London, 1902.

Aschrott (P. F.), The English Poor Law System Past and Present. [Eng. Trans. 2d. ed. London, 1902.

Baddeley's Thorough Guide Series. 10 parts. London.

Baedeker (K.), Great Britain. 5th ed. London, 1901.-London and its Environs. London. Baernreither (I. M.), English Associations of Working Men. Eng. Trans. 8. London, 1889. Bagehot (W.), The English Constitution. 2nd Ed. 8. London, 1872. Lombard Street: a Description of the Money Market. 10th Ed. 8. London, 1892.

Balfour (G.), The Educational Systems of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1898.
Bastable (C. F.), Public Finance. 3d. ed. London, 1903.

Bevan (C. P.), Editor, British Manufacturing Industries. A series by various writers. 8. London

Birkbeck (W. L. C.), Historical Sketch of the Distribution of Land in England. 8. London, 1886.

Blauvelt (Mary T.), The Development of Cabinet Government in England. London, 1902. Booth (C.), Life and Labour of the People in London. First Series, Poverty. 4 vols. 2d. ed. London, 1902.-Second Series, Industry. 5 vols. 2d. ed. London, 1903 -Third Series, Religious Influences. 7 vols. London, 1903.-Final volume, Notes on Adminis trative and Social Influences. London, 1903.-The Aged Poor in England and Wales. 8. London, 1894.

Boutmy (E. G.), Le Developpement de la Constitution et de la Societé politique en Angleterre. Paris, 1897.-Essay d'une Psychologie politique du Peuple Anglais au XIXe Siècle. Paris, 1901.-The English Pe ple. Trans. from the French. London, 1904.

Bowley (A. L.), Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century. London, 1900
Boyd (R. N.), Coal Pits and Pitmen. 2nd ed. London, 1895.

Brabner (J. H. F.), Gazetteer of England and Wales. Vols. I.-VI. London, 1895.
Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales. London, 1904.

Brassey (T. A.), The Naval Annual. Portsmouth.-The Royal Naval Reserve, the Mercantile Marine, and the Colonies. London, 1898.

Briggs (Sir J. H.), Naval Administration, 1827-92. London, 1897

British Army (The). By a Lieut.-Colonel. London, 1899.
Burdett (H. C.). Hospitals and Charities, 1898. Annual. London.
Burke (Sir B.), Peerage and Baronetage. 61st ed. London, 1898.
Burrows (M.), History of the Foreign Policy of Great Britain.
Cannan (E.), History of Local Rates in England. (Lectures.) London, 1896.
2nd ed. London, 1897-
Canning (A. S. G.), British Rule and Modern Politics. London, 1898.
Carlile (W. W.), The Evolution of Modern Money. London, 1901.
Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. London, 1898.

Catholic Directory. Annual. London.

Channing (F. A.), The Truth about Agricultural Depression. London, 1897.
Chapman (S. J.), The Lancashire Cotton Industry. London, 1904.

Chisholm (G. C.), Europe. Vol. II. In Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel. London, 1903.

Clarke (Sir G. S.), Imperial Defence. London, 1897.

Clode (Charles M.), History of the Administration and Government of the British Army, from the Revolution of 1688. 2 vols. 8. London, 1869-70.

Clowes (W. L.), Markham (Sir C.), Mahan (A. T.), and others, History of the Royal Navy. 7 vols. London.

Colomb (Admiral P. H.), Naval Warfare. 2nd ed. 8. London, 1895.

Conant (C. A.), History of Modern Banks of Issue. London, 1896.

Cotes (K. D.), Social and Imperial Life in Britain. Vol. I. London, 1900.

Courtney (L.), The Working Constitution of the United Kingdom. London, 1901.
Cox (H.), The United Kingdom and its Trade. London, 1902.

Cunningham (W.), The Growth of English Industry and Commerce. 3rd Ed. London, 1904.
Dicey (A. V.), Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution.
London, 1893.

4th Ed.

Dickinson (G. L.), The Development of Parliament during the Nineteenth Century. London, 1895.

Dilke (Sir Charles), Greater Britain. 2 vols. Britain. London, 1890.-The British Empire. London, 1899. London, 1869.-Problems of Greater Ditchfield (P. H.), Story of our English Towns. London, 1901.

London, 1897.-English Villages.

Donald (R.), The Municipal Year Book. Annual. London. London, 1897.

The London Manual.

Dowell (Stephen), A History of Taxation, and Taxes in England. 4 vols. London, 1888.
Dubois (Marcel) et Guy C.), Album Géographique. Tome III. Paris, 1899.
Duguid (C.), Story of the Stock Exchange. London, 1901.

Dumville (H. R.), Low's Handbook of the Charities of London. Annual. London. Eardley-Wilmot (Captain S.), The Development of Navies. 8. London, 1892.-Our Navy for a Thousand Years. London, IS99.-Our Fleet To-day and its Development during the Last Half Century. London, 1900.

Economist, The, Banking Supplements, published May and October annually.
Egerton (H. E.), A Short History of British Colonial Policy. London, 1897.
English Citizen Series. New Issue. London.

2 vols. London, 1902.

London.

Escott T. H. S.), Gentlemen of the House of Commons. Farmer (J. S.), The Regimental Records of the British Army. London, 1901 Farrer (T. H.), The State in its Relation to Trade. New ed. In the English Citizen Series. London, 1902.

Findlay (Sir G.), Working and Management of an English Railway. 5th ed. 8. London, 1894.
Fogo (R.), Local Taxation in England. London, 1902.

Fortescue (J. W.), History of the British Army. 3 vols. London, 1902.
Free Church Year-Book and Official Report. Annual. London.

Freeman (E. A.), The Growth of the English Constitution from the Earliest Times.

Ed. 8. London, 1873.

Fremantle (Hon. Sir E. R.), The Navy as I have Known It, 1849-1899.
Garnier (R. M.), History of the English Landed Interest.

Annals of the British Peasantry. London, 1895.

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2 vols. 8. London, 1893.

Gastrell (W. S. H.), Our Trade in the World in Relation to Foreign Competition, 188595. London, 1897.

Gibbins (H. de B.), Industry in England. S. London, 1896.

Giffen (R.), Essays in Finance. 2 series. London, 1880 and 1886.

Gneist (Rudolph), Das Englische Verwaltungsrecht der Gegenwart, in Vergleichung mit dem Deutscher Verwaltungssystem. 2 vols. Berlin, 1884.

Gneist (R. von), Englische Verfassungsgeschichte. 8. Berlin, 1882. [English Trans. London, 1891.] Das Englische Parlament in tausendjährigen Wandelungen. 8. 1886. [English Trans., London, 1891.]

Berlin,

Goodenough (Lieut.-Col. W. H.) and Dalton (Lieut.-Col. J. C.), The Army Book of the British Empire. 8. London, 1893.

Graham (J. C.), Taxation, Local, Imperial, and Local Government. 3rd ed. London, 1899. Graham (P. A.), The Revival of English Agriculture. London, 1899.