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 556 THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL the congested districts of the United Kingdom to the British Colonies or elsewhere; to examine into the results of any schemes which have received practical trial in recent years; and to report generally whether in their opinion it is desirable that further facilities should be given to promote emigration, and if so upon the means and the conditions under which such emigration can best be carried out, and the quarters to which it can most advantageously be directed. The Committee in concluding their report suggest that in case of need a Board of Emigration and Colonisation should be established for England and Wales upon the lines adopted for the existing Colonisation Board for Scotland. The Committee also state that they have no grounds for thinking that the present condition of the United Kingdom generally calls for any general scheme of State organised colonisation or emigration. Comparative Trade Statistics. Statistical Tables showing the progress of British Trade and lroduction 1854--90. I continuation of Tables presented by the Board of Trade to the Royal Commission on Trade Depression (C--6394). THIS return, which as stated in the title, is in continuation of C 4621, of session 1886, carries the information contained in that paper down to the latest date. The tables given relate to population and emigration, shipping and foreign trade, production, profits and capital, money market, banking and currency, prices and miscellaneous statistics relating to the United Kingdom. Statistical tables are also given for a series of years relating to Germany, France and the United States. Deaths from Starvation--(Metropolis). 245. THIS return gives the number of deaths in the Metropolitan district in 1890 upon which a coroner's jury had returned a verdict of ' death from starvation,' or' death accelerated by privation.' In the Central division there were 13 deatls, 8 in the Eastern division, I in the Kingston division, I in the Newington division, 3 in the North- Eastern division, 2 in the Liberty of Her Majesty's Duchy of Lancaster, and 3 in the City and Liberty of Westminster making a total of 31. East India (Factories). Return. 86. THIS is the report of a Comnission appointed in September last under the orders of the Governor-General of India in Council to inquire, in the centres of factory labour, into the views and requirements of the Indian operatives as to the restrictions to be imposed upon their labour in factories. This Commission was appointed in consequence of the draft bill to amend the Indian Factories Act of 1881 which was introduced into the Legislative Council on 31st January 1890, containing a provision for limiting the hours of work for women to eleven in any one