INDEX.

The Roman Numerals refer to the Preface.

ABSENTEEISM.

Α

Mr. McCulloch's theory pursued to its legitimate con-
sequences, 238, 239.

ACCESSIBILITY,

Of commodities more important than cheapness, 139.
ACCOUNT.

Money of account, what it is, 173, 174.

ACCUMULATION.

Trusts for accumulation restrained, 86, 334.

ADULTERATION,

Of articles of food punished, 87.

AGRICULTURE,

The most important of arts, 208, 209.

Its burthens in England, 42, 43.

Unfair mode of estimating the pressure of its burthens,
xii.

Its burthens in Ireland, 153-159.

System of agriculture in Southern Russia, 42.

Mode of carriage of agricultural produce there, 43.
To be promoted if necessary by direct legislation, 92.
308, 346.

Immense amount of agricultural capital at stake, 15. n.
ALFRED THE Great.

Such a legislator as Ireland requires, 165, 166.
AMERICA.

See UNITED STATES.

ANNUITIES,

Legal supervision and registration of, 88.

ASHBURTON, LORD,

His opinion of the Currency Act of 1844, 176, 177.
On the National Debt, 233.

ASIA MINOR.

Formerly populous, now desert, 80, 206.

ASSAY MARKS,

On gold and silver, protection afforded by, 89.
ASSOCIATION,

The Socialist remedy. Its inapplicability, 320.
By joint stock companies, how it should be regulated
352-357.

ATTORNEYS,

Compulsory education of, 90.
Taxation of their bills, 89.

B

BACON, LORD,

On the spirit of system, 9, 10.
A writer on political economy, 3.

BALANCE OF TRADE,

Not to be neglected, 171.

Now against England, 34, n.

BANKERS' CHECKS,

Now part of the currency, 173.
Their large amount, 173.

BELGIUM,

Its obstinate maintenance of protection, 75.
Its tranquillity and prosperity, 76.
Improved cultivation of the soil, 76.

BROUGHAM, LORD,

His opinion of Mr. Ricardo, 211, n.

BUBBLE ACT,

Its necessity, 349, 351.

Its repeal and the consequences, 351.

BURKE, EDMUND,

His opinion as to the propriety of government inter-
ference, 82.

His recipe for cheapness. 62, 265.

Whether there can be too much capital, 49.

Capital of England, 145–149.

Vast masses of capital unemployed, 49.

Its natural channels not always the most advantage-
ous, 13, 14, 15, 18, 36, 55, 265.

Theory of the employment of capital on land, 214, 215.
Capital does not spring from savings only, 147.
Not sunk in Railways, 147.

Capital thrown out of employment will not, as is
pretended, necessarily find other employment, 48.
Two capitals to be considered in any case of production
by the aid of capital-the capital consumed in pro-
duction, and the capital reproduced, 37.

Four capitals where there is an exchange, 40, n.
Immense amount of agricultural capital in England,
45, n. xii.

CHATHAM, LORD,

An ultra-protectionist, 107.

R

CHEAPNESS,

A word of many meanings, 133.

The four kinds of cheapness, 133–140.

The maxim 'Buy in the cheapest market" examined, 36.
Cheapness of food a most important benefit, 119, 138.
No objection that it brings down rents, 120, 138, n.
How it may be safely attained, 138, n.
Mischiefs of aiming at it by the indiscriminate impor-
tation of foreign corn, 38, 138.

Amount of protection that ought to be conceded to
home-grown food, 41-45, 120.

Mr. Burke's recipe for cheapness, 62, 265.

CHECKS,

See BANKER'S CHECKS.

CHEVALIER MICHEL,

Advocates government control, 83.
On War, 288.

CHILDREN,

Mischiefs of working very little children, 259, 260.
CLAUSSEN, M.

His mode of preparing flax, 210.

COLBERT,

The policy of this great minister, 71.

COLONIES,

Enumerated, 99–105.

Their capabilities and value, 98, 108, 109.

Steam communication with, 96.

Now unrepresented in Imperial Parliament, 112.

Formerly not really so, 112.

Miserable inadequacy of the Colonial Office, 112.

COLONIZATION,

Abandoned to the let-alone system, 311.
Might be otherwise conducted, 312–317.
In New Brunswick, 313.

COLONIZATION,

Improved mode of transport at hand, 313.
Ready made Colonies, 314.

Land in the Colonies should be sold cheap, 314.
Regulation for its occupation, 315.

Emigration of criminals, 316.

COMPETITION,

Objections of the socialists to competition, 320.
How far they are well-founded, 321.

Competition requires regulation, 321.

Effects of universal and unlimited competition, 63, 247,
248, 321.

The true use and limits of competition, 321.

A new field of study, 321.

CONSUMERS AND PRODUCERS,

See PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS.

COPYRIGHT LAW, 85.

CORN AND CORN LAWS,

See FOOD.

COTTON,

Precarious condition of the cotton manufacture, 279.
Cotton from India, 115-118.

As cotton was once manufactured in India, so it may
be again, xiv.

CREDIT,

What it is, 146.

Its connection with capital, 146-149.

Supplies the place of bullion, 170.

CRIMINALS,

Mode of disposing of, so that their punishment may be
exemplary, useful, and reformatory, 316, 317.

CROMWELL, OLIVER,

Grandeur of his administration, 292.