CORN

Commerce, progress of British, 426
amount of imports and exports, 476
Commercial crises, causes of, 306

action of the Bank of England on,
307

in 1793, causes of, 70
in 1820, 176

in 1825, causes of, 181
in 1836 and 1839, 228
in 1847, 304

- of 1847, 1857, and 1866 com-
pared, 439

decline of prices of shares, 440
of 1857, 392

in the north of Europe, 398
of 1866, 437

Government assistance, 71

- suspension of cash payments in,
77

in 1857, 428

of 1866, 437

in 1847, 1857, and 1866, compa-
rison of, 438

effect of, on prices of shares, 440
education, need of, 454
credit, report on, 128
-laws, 328

discrepancies of, 330
conference on, 331

Royal Commission on, 331
policy, enterprising character of,
in 1788, 24

-policy of the United Kingdom, vi
Companies, capital of, formed in 1824-5,

177

number and amount in 1835-37, 230
with limited liability, number of, 429
number of finance, 429

Confederate States of America, forma-
tion of, 422

Consular jurisdiction in the East, 387
Consumption, quantity per head of Ex-
ciseable articles of, 497
Continuity, law of, 6

Contraband of war, neutral demands
respecting, 105

Convoy tax, establishment of, 100

Copenhagen, Battle of, 106

Copyright, Law of, 340

Mr. Justice Talfourd on, 341
in foreign countries, 343
international, 344

Corn, effects of bad harvest, 72
imports of, in 1793 and 1794, 73:
laws of 1773, 24

object of, 218
of 1801, 219
of 1804, 220

of 1816, 220

injurious effects of, 222

of 1828, 223

Corn Laws, report of Committee on, 219
and the price of bread, 221, 219
protest against, 221
league against, 224

Mr. Villiers' motion on, 225

Sir Robert Peel's opinion of, 262
sliding scale, advantages and dis-
advantages of, 263

Sir Robert Peel's bill of 1840, 246
Sir Robert Peel's policy on, 293
a new law in 1842, 294

--state of, 22

prices of, in 1763, 122

probable causes of the high price
of, 23

Costa Rica, treaties with, 514
Cotton, history of, 6

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consumption of, in England, in the
middle ages, 6

imports from India and China, 242
machinery, introduction of, 6
manufacture, reduction of rates on,
169

prices of, 177

production of, in the United States,
83

Whitney's invention, effects of, on, 83
requirements of the world, 427
price of, 1820-1870, 427
imports of, 427

manufacture, progress of, 450
Country issues, estimates of, in 1823-24,

180

See International

Coinage, 458
Denmark, mercantile system in, 30
- and the armed neutrality, 49
reciprocity treaty with, 166
progress of trade in, 467
treaties with, 511

Derbyshire, progress of wealth in, 509
Discounts of the Bank of England, 78
Discriminating duties, effect of, 417
Docks, formation of, 176

Dollars, issue of, 77

Dominica, treaties with, 514

Double standard, authorities against,

138

Sir Robert Peel on, 138

report of a commission in France
on, 137

Droit d'Aubain, what, 29

EART

ARTHENWARE manufacture, im-
provements introduced by Wedg-
wood, 11

reduction of rates on, 169

East India Company, incorporation of,

-

238

- fund of, 239

monopoly of, 239

renewal of the Charter of, 240
repeal of the Charter of, 241
Lord Macaulay on, 242

- Progress of India under, 242
- monopoly of the China trade, 244
See India

Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, peti-
tion for free trade by, 150
Egypt, consular jurisdiction in, 387
Electro-plating, invention of, 448
Emigration, increase of, 299

facilities accorded to, 300

-

- in 1825, 178
definition of, 121

- meaning of par of exchange, 121
rate of exchange, 121

between England and Ireland, 123
fall of, 130

trade, Committee on, 154
advantage of freedom to, 154
report of Committee on, 155
Mr. Wallace on, 156

Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 387
Forestalling and regrating, laws of, 23
France, convention of commerce with,
1826, 183

effects of revolutions in, 315

imports and exports to and from, in
1847 and 1848, 318

relations with, 403
economic policy of, 404

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GOLD

France, letter of Napoleon, 405

-

- negotiations for a treaty of commerce

with, 405
finances of, 102

patent law of, 340

law of copyright in, 343
political economy of, 27

treaties of, with the United States,
47

war with, 48

commercial relations with, 53

early treaties with, 53

- natural relations between England.
and, 54

proposal of, for mutual freedom, 55
negotiations for a treaty of com-
merce with, 55

state of, in 1788, 67

- assembling of the States-General, 67.
Revolution in, 67

war with, 69

complaints of, against England, 80
hostile measures by, 80

decree prohibiting British merchan-
dise in, 80

reprisals against, 106

- reciprocity treaty with, 166
- tariff of, 149

imports and exports of, in 1815, 149
number of patents of invention in,
474

progress of commerce in, 463

- treaties with, 511

Frankfort, destruction of British goods,

114

-reciprocity treaty with, 166

Free ships, free goods, neutral demands
of, 105

treaties respecting, 372
Free-trade, advantages of, 150

-

and Adam Smith, 150

Mr. Poulett Thomson on, 172

petition in favour of, 149

progress of, 412

Fullarton, Mr., theory of currency, 281
Funding, comparative advantage of dif-
ferent methods of, 100