The leading words and subjects exhibited in this Index, and the references to them, are
not to be regarded as complete; and in some cases the pages noted may not be precise in
consequence of changes in the paging, for which an apology is due.
considerable pains to detect the discrepancies which passed without rectification.
Bradford Observer, 99.
Branch establishments for Anglo-French
trade, 78.
Branding falsely, 97.
"Bribes" for British trade and shipping,
38.
BRIGHT, JOHN, 7, 12, 17, 127.
British colonies, 24, 45, 50, 53, 55, 62,
67, 83, 86, 96; armaments, 53; ship-
builders, 106; shipping, 126; ships
have no advantage, 69, 107; govern-
ment connives at wrong, 39; trade
displaced, 85; navy, 113.
British Trade and Foreign competition, 85.
BRITTAIN, F., of Sheffield, 84, 85.
BROWN, Sir Wм., his faint justification
of treaty, 10, 12.
Brussels, 82, 101, 103, 150.
Bulky commodities, whence value of
trade in, 2, 17.
Burdens imposed by law on industries
require countervailing duty, 30, 32.
Calculation, remarkable, as to effect of
short hours, 41.
Commission of inquiry as to the treaty,
and free-trade in manufactures sug-
gested, 36, 199; about emigration, 49.
Committees, Grand, of Parliament, 60.
COMMONS, HOUSE OF, 58.
Competition, unequal, its bad effect, 3,
foreign, 81-83, 91; British prosperity
stimulates, 7; how favoured, 8; Mr.
CHAMBERLAIN's experiences of, 41;
British, France guards against, 15.
Conference on Imperial Customs' Duties,
Canal, State, between Forth and Clyde, 25. Conclusions, 35, 36.
Capital, levying on, 86.
Capitalist, what he is, 156.
CAREY, H. C., 129.
CARY, JOHN, of Bristol (1695), 64, 118.
CHAMBERLAIN'S, Mr., speech at Birming-
ham, 39.
Chambers of Commerce, Associated, 21,
84, 85; Association of Papermakers,
81; Belfast, 84; Bradford, 99; Derby,
74; Dundee, 74; Edinburgh, 43, 106,
112; French, 77, 81; Ghent, 105;
Glasgow, 75, 103, 109, 112; Hull,
104; Leicester, 77, 101; Liverpool, 9,
66; Manchester, 14, 15, 78, 110, 130;
New York, 116; North Staffordshire,
79; Prussian, 117; Salt Chamber of
Commerce, Northwich, 79; Small Arms
Association, Birmingham, 97; South-
ampton, 79; South of Scotland, 91,
105; Yorkshire, 79; on shipping
bounties, 43; Union Syndicale of
Brussels, 150; Verviers, 150.
Change of employment troublesome, 19.
Change of public opinion, 34, 78, 94, 99.
CHARLES II., prohibition under, 121.
Chemicals, 70, 71, 75, 96.
Choice of markets, its importance, 8, 29,
46, 69, 83.
Class interests unduly considered, 18.
Clocks, 70, 71, 117.
Coasting trade with Britain, French con-
template, 27.
Coal, 2, 4, 15, 24, 28, 47, 65, 66, 67, 69,
71, 74, 77, 78, 91, 132; export
duties on, 15.
COBDEN, RICHARD, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 28, 35,
45, 65, 70, 79, 90, 93, 141, 143, 150;
would he renew the treaty ? 11; Club,
12, 13; "speeches of," 12; on French
treaty, 12; and Modern Political
Opinion," 13; opposed to patents, 30.
COLBERT, 64.
Congress of Commerce in Belgium, 101,
105, 150.
Conceit of British, 46, 93, 103.
Conscription, 91.
Conseil Supérieur du Commerce de France,
85.
Consumers, one-sided view as to, 19.
Continental Customs' Union, proposed
and popular, 101, 103.
Copyright, 31, 51; treaty with United
States, 20.
Copyright and Patents, 153.
Cosmopolitanism of shipowners and eco-
nomists, 26, 31, 33, 45, 69, 111, 113,
132.
Cotton manufactures, 2, 22, 71, 72, 75,
78, 89.
Council, Supreme, suggested, 52.
Counties should be represented by Peers
in Upper House, 58.
Coventry manufactures, 39, 74.
CoWLEY, LORD, 66, 142, 143.
Cruelty to workmen and employers, 19.
CRAIG-BROWN, Mr., 104, 105.
Currants, duty on, 34.
CURRIE, MR. JAMES, 43.
Customers, their value, 4, 20.
Customs charges, 68, 104; registration
duty proposed for Scotland, 1701, 135.
Daily Telegraph, 96.
DAVENANT, Mr., "Political Arithmetic,"
120.
Debate on free-trade, 26.
Debt, National, 25.
Defences, importance of, 126.
Denmark, 157.
DERBY, EARL OF, 89, 153, 154.
Dependence, a questionable object of the
treaty and economists, 12, 121.
Colonies, 24, 25, 45, 50, 53, 55, 62, 64, Despondent views of Mr. BRIGHT and
67, 86, 96; French, 67, 83.
Colonies and India, 113.
Combinations, 18, 148.
Commerce wanted, Minister of, 96, 97.
Commercial travellers in Anglo-French
trade, 78.
LORD SALISBURY, 16, 17.
Despatch in modern business, 148.
Discussion on free-trade proposed, 47.
Dublin refined sugar, 17.
Duties to countervail bounties, 1, 100;
countervailing on spirits, 5; on im-
ports, 9; a differential duty is practi
cally charged, 33; on export on coal,
15, 67; in France, 9, 77, 82, 120, 142;
partly paid by foreigners, 128; of
customs, an easy means of obtaining
revenue, 17; wholesale abolition of
duties, 11, 17, 34; cause inequality,
29; loss of power to restore, 66; a
small one in foreign manufactures
equitable, 30; prohibitive in United
States, 39; discriminating, 90; small,
to countervail different hours of labour,
31, 36, 41, 42; export and import
affect commerce much alike, 33;
"general," of customs in France, 34,
37, 91; denunciation of, 90.
EARTHENWARE, 70, 72, 79.
Economist, 63,
Edinburgh Courant, 115.
Edinburgh Review, 64.
Education, technical, wanted, 102.
Egg trade, 18, 23, 70,
Elastic fabrics, 74, 77.
Emigration, 3, 48, 56, 62, 86, 133; the
late Commissioners, 49; a Commission
recommended, 49.
Empire, the British, 49.
Employment, 3, 19; change of, 19; is
it easily found? 3; value of, injuri-
ously disparaged in United Kingdom,
20; diversity of, required, 21, 128-9,
Engagement, fulfilment of, by workmen,
Fallacy that cheap food means cheaper
labour, 6, 94; that labour finds em-
ployment in the kingdom, 19,
Farm produce, 6.
"Favoured nation terms," 33, 66, 89.
Favour for British manufactures, 30; for
foreigners, 64.
FAWCETT, PROFESSOR, M.P., 16.
Financial freedom, importance of, 25, 66.
Financial statements, 65, 132.
Future, requirements of the, 25, 132.
Fisheries, 24, 28, 70, 72, 79; Scotch, 28.
FISON, MR., 150.
Flax, 2, 71, 72.
"Folly" of foreign Governments, alleged,
Foreigners are favoured, 18.
Food cheaper, 5; monopoly, 7, 127.
France, 41, 45, 52, 74, 85, 98, 101, 119,
132, 149; exports to, 22, 71; are lessen-
ing, 22, 33, 89; jealously guards against
British competition, 15, 43, 87; trade
with, 15, 21, 78, 119; former sanguine
anticipations of what it would be, 64;
trade with, held to be injurious to
England in 1713, 121; excessive
duties in, 77; feeling in, 15; ports
of, 69; prohibitory duty in, 79, 81,
82; advantages of, 17, 89, con-
ceded to, 68, 80, 110; alleged dis-
advantages, 91; emigration from,
small, 20; protection retains popula-
tion in France, 20; imports from, 22,
70; vegetables from, 23, 71; indus-
tries of, 24, 74; fisheries of, 24, 124;
uneasy relations with, 10, 12, 66;
gains more than United Kingdom, 88;
friendship with, 70; its wealth, 114,
115; strength for war, 114; duties
in, 120, 142; difficult rivalry with,
125; its 1664 tariff, 144; no danger
of a French tariff injurious to us, 23,
90, 100; falsely expected downfall of
Protectionism in, 9; the Treaty, 137;
her share of benefit from Treaty, 11,
22; restraints of Treaty irksome to
France, 14; inconvenient for us, 14.
Freight and transport, 17, 76, 130,
Free-trade, 16; policy, 5; discussion on,
proposed, 47; reversal of, 13, 150; has
it been successful? 5, 36; in manufac-
tures, 6, 7, 8, 23; in food, 6; an in-
expressive term, 28; nowhere else
adopted nor in favour, 7, 104; term
abused, 11, 46; false anticipations, 16,
45; debate on, 26; change of opinon as
to, 36; League in United States, 156.
Free-trade and Protection, by PROFESSOR
FAWCETT, M.P., 16.
French, small farming, 23; objects, 12,
23, 109, 110; tariff, 91; negotiations,
how conducted, 23, 24, 34; their ad-
vantageous condition, 34; Mercantile
Marine Bill, 40; flag, registering ships
under, 112; argument regarding Eng-
lish wages, 123; china, 79; shipping,
67, 68, 79, 106, 108, 109, 111; duties
on rags, 82; superiority in manipula-
tion, S3; Minister of Commerce, 81;
bounties on sugar, 39, 68, 93; bounties
extend to coasting trade, 112; wines
and spirits, 12, 15, 16, 23, 65, 67, 73,
79, 81, 84, 89, 98, 110.
French Treaty, 9, 13, 16, 65, 66, 74, 78,
99, 128, 137; false expectations, 9,
11, 13; political object, 10, 12; con- | Individual interests unduly considered,
demned severely, 10; accepted with
hesitation, 11; COBDEN's speech on,
12; has disappointed anticipations, 35,
90; runs not on lines of free-trade,
34; a protective one, 88; propositions,
1872, 15; denounced, 15, 98; text
of, 136; restraints imposed, 16, 65;
negotiations, 109; inconveniences of,
17, 28; gain by, 23; one-sidedness
of, 66, 67, 69; French superior posi-
tion under, 28.
Friendship in trade, 4.
Future, the, 7.
GALT, Sir ALEXANDER, 21.
GARFIELD, PRESIDENT, 96.
Gazettes, 60.
Industrial supremacy, 85.
Inequalities between Britain and France
under Treaty, 28.
Inequality of Treaty, 66, 69.
Ingenuity of French negotiators, 87.
Interest of Scotland, ii.
International Congress of Commerce, 101.
Intra-imperial free-trade, 51, 128; cus-
toms union, 25, 54, 95.
Inventors, proper way to reward, 135.
Ireland, 75, 114; manufactures of, 17.
Irish peers, 59.
Iron, 76, 84, 87, 88, 89, 96, 101, 102;
iron pipes, 76, 81; works, continental,
132.
"General" duties of customs, a way Italy, 87, 131.
Germany, 25, 41, 52, 81, 85, 89, 97, 102, Jute, 2, 71, 72, 74.
KENNEDY, Mr., of Foreign Office Com-
mercial Department, 14; report, 101,
104, 105.
GRANVILLE, EARL, 15, 41, 43, 100, 105, Labour, different kinds of, 2; unskilled,
3, 19; immature, 89; hours of, 5, 31,
41, 63, 78, 80, 83, 92, 151; in France,
76; in Belgium, 88, 102, 104; age for,
31; wages in France and Belgium, 106.
LANCASTER, JOHN, 132.
Land, its limited extent incompatible
with protection, 8.
LAW, JOHN, of Lauriston, ii, 64.
League, Anti-Corn-Law, its policy, 6, 7.
Leaning towards home manufactures is
fair, a, 4.
Leicester, 77.
Libraries, public, 60; industrial, 103.
Libre échange, 105.
LIMOUSIN, M., of the Gironde, 103.
Linen, 71, 72, 74, 84, 102.
Lines and subsidies of packets, 6, 24, 27,
108, 113, 116, 148.
Liverpool, 67; tonnage in 1815, 1;
Chamber of Commerce, 9, 66; Courier,
116; Daily Post, 66; Mercury, 6;
Exchange buildings, 96; meeting at, 99.
Local government, 57.
London, 50, 57, 77, 92, 95, population
of, 17; its accessibility for European
trade, 17.
Lords, House of, 57.
Lost trades hard to recover, 132.
Louis XIV., 120.
Loyalty, a peculiar view, 13.
Luxury and luxuries, 6, 11, 23, 81, 84, Palm oil, 75.
Paper trade, 28, 71, 72, 81, 124; hang-
ings, 82.
Parliament, 32.
M'CULLOCH'S Commercial Dictionary, 1, Parliamentary machine, 56; papers,
Machinery, 102.
MACIVER, M.P., Mr., 113.
Mail subsidies, 27, 116.
= MALÉZIEUX, M., 91.
Manchester, 78; Chamber of Commerce,
14, 15, 78, 110, 131.
Manchester Examiner, 15.
Manufactories, new, their superiority, 4,
18; established by Britain in France,
29; in U.S., 29; Germany, 29.
Manufacturers, British, ill-treated, 31.
Manufactures, displacement of home, 12,
23; protection does not raise prices of,
8; free trade in, 6, 7, 8, 23 ; which are
profitable to a country, 118, 119.
Margins small in modern commerce, 31.
MASON, HUGH, M.P., 14; and SLAGG,
110.
MASON, STEPHEN, Glasgow, 103.
Merchant, the British (1713), 64, 119.
Migration of industries, 96.
Military service lost, 20.
MILL'S Political Economy, 127, 129, 130.
Mineral oils, 75.
Miners of S. Wales, 17.
MOLINARI, M. DE, 150.'
Money and Trade Laws, ii, 64.
MONGREDIEN, 99.
Monopolies, 127, 136.
Party spirit debarred from commercial
legislation, 37, 47.
Patents cause disparity between British
and foreign manufactures, 33; insti-
tute evil monopolies, 33.
Patent-laws, 68; of France, a shrewd
feature in them, 29; injurious to Bri-
tish trade, 29; irreconcileable with
free trade, 30; Bill 1881, 153; Royal
Commission on, 153; Commons com-
mittee on, 153; Commission proposed,
155.
Patent-office publications, 60.
PATERSON'S Proposal of
Trade" (1701), 136.
Patriotism, German, 102.
Pauperism, 5.
Peace, 54; agitation, an analogy from,
Peasant proprietors of France, 114.
Pensions for French seamen, 44.
Peel, Sir Robert, his policy, 6, 16.
Peerage, the, 58.
Perfection of manufacture hindered by
unfair trade, 3.
PERRY'S "Political Economy," 134.
Philadelphia Board of Trade, 116.
PITT, WM., 64.
Plural voting, 57.
Policy for the Empire, 21.
Political Discourses, Hume's, ii.
NAPOLEON, EMPEROR, the Third, 11, 12, Political Essays, Campbell's, 64.
Poor, treaty favours the rich, not the, 11,
84, 90.
Population, benefited, 5; increase of, 20;
strength of an empire, 21; France can
supply employment for, under Treaty,
29.
Porterage, 2.
Portugal, 87, 89, 150.
Postal service subsidies, 27.
Post-Office, 60.
Poultry of France, 18.
POWELL'S, G. BADEN, Protection and Bad
Times, 127.
Presidential Election in U.S., 117.
Press, 93, 94.
PRINCE CONSORT, Memoirs of, 13, 65.
Printed Goods, 75.
Printing and Binding abroad, 20.
Prices of necessaries not all lowered, 5.
Profitable business, 5.
Propagandism of free-trade, 9, 13, 32,
44.
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