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 THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL W. are confined also to merely tabulating the varied subjects which have been discussed by Section F of the British Association, under the presidency of Dr. Cunningham, at Cardiff. Here is a register of the work done there: Address o) Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Economics; THE PRESiDe. N?. Arbitration with regard to Miners' Wages; C. It. PER, NS. The Coal Question; T. FoRs?.R BRowN, Esq. Miners' Thrift and Employers' Liability; G. L. CXMrSr. LL, Esq. Industrial Insurazce in Germany; L. TYLOR. Life Insurance; JOHN U. McCANDLISH, Esq. The Survival of Domestic Industries; Prof. GONNrR. Free Travel; S. M. BURROUOHS. The alleged Differences in the Wages paid to Men ad to Women. for similar Work; S. WEBB, Esq. The Taxation of I&ventors ; Dr. LEwm EDMUNDS. Recent Material Progress in India i relation to British Trade: (i) Agriculture; C. L. TUftER, Esq. (ii) Railway Communication; W. C. FURrVALL, Esq. Report of the Uommittee on the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools. TI Up-bringing of Pauper Children; J. O. BEVXN. The Data available for Determining the best Limit (physically) for Hozrs of Labour; Dr. ARLDOE. The Cure of Consum]tion in its Economic Aspects; G. W. HMB,E?ON. The Increase of Food and Population; W. E. A. AxoN. Le Play's Method of Systextic Observation; F. AUBER?rN. ,l?ccent Changes in the Dgstrgb&tio of Population in England and Wales; E. CANA, Esq. THE new Factories and Workshops Bill, introduced by the Home Secretary in February, has now passed into law, after undergoing a few modifications in its way through Parliament. Its object is to make some miscellaneous but minor amendments in the general Factory Act of 1878. It extends the sanitary requirements of that Act to all workshops whatever, except domestic workshops in which only members of the same family are employed, but intrusts the enforce- ment of this provision, not, as in the case of the factories, to he factory inspector, but, in the first instance to the local authority, the factory inspector being however empowered to interfere, if the local au- thority neglects the duty, and to perform it at the latter's expense. A new provision is made against fire: all factories employing more than forty persons are required to have efficient means of escape on each storey above the ground floor. The age of permissible employment for children is raised from ten years to eleven after the 1st of January, 1893. The employment of women for four weeks after child-birth is absolutely prohibited, and the work of all women in factories and workshops during the day which might hitherto be brought within any specified period of fifteen hours, with four-and-a-half hours off for meals must now be brought within a specified period of twelve hours,