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 NOTES AND MMORANDA 557 day, and for securing to women and children four holidays in the course of each month. The bill as introduced into the Council contains no clause fixing the hours of labour or providing for holidays for adult males employed in factories, and leaves Sec. 7 of the existing Act which fixes the hours of employment for children at not more than nine in each day, as it stands. East India (Progress and Coutition). Statement exhibiting th Material Progress and Comtition of India during the ear 1889--90. Twenty sixth number. 250. THIS is an annual review of the progress and condition of India issued by the India Office. The present report deals with the administration and legislation, municipalities, criminal and civil justice, finance, land revenue, forestry, agriculture and mineral resources, public works, post office and telegraphs, education and literature, emigration and migration, and trade and manufactures of British India for the years 1888 89, and 1889 90. A preliminary report on the census of 1891 is also appended, and statistical details are given relating to the native states and frontier relations, and the army and military operations. Emigration Statistics of Ireland for the year 1890 (C--6295). Tnxs is an annual return issued by the Registrar-General of Dublin, and is not. to be confounded with the emigration returns issued by the Board of Trade. The present publication deals with emigration from Ireland to all parts including Great Britain, whereas the Board of Trade returns relate to emigration from the United Kingdom to places out of Europe only. The report under review is accompanied by tables showing the number, ages, occupations, conjugal condition and destination of the emigrants from each county and province in Ireland during the year 1890. The number of emigrants who left'Irish ports in 1890 was 61,435, a decrease of 9,365 as compared with 1889, the nmnber of male being 31,449 or 4,998 less than in the previous year, and of females 29,986 a decrease of 4,367. Of the 61,435 emigrants in 1890, 61,313 were natives of Ireland and 122 were persons belonging to other countries. Irish Land Commission. (C--6415). Return of Jlicial Rents. April 1891 Trim is a return, according to provinces and counties, of judicial rents fixed by Chief Commission, Sub-Commissions and Civil Bill Courts as notified to the Irish Land Conmission during the month of April 1891, specifying dates and amounts respectively of the last increases of rent where ascertained, also rents fixed upon the reports of valuers appointed by the Irish Land Commission on the joint