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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



POLITICAL ECONOMY. 



Division of produce . . page 97 

 Indications of prosperity . . 97 



Taxes 97 



Balance of consumption . . 

 Productive and unproduc- 

 tive labour 99 



Corn 99 



Capital advanced to go- 



vernment 99 



Capital 100 



Wages 100 



Money 100 



General rise of price 100 



Colonial coin 101 



Purchase 101 



Barter 101 



Luxuries 101 



Excess 101 



Coin and paper page 102 



Depreciation 102 



The luxury of idleness ... 102 



The mere labourer 103 



The seventh day 103 



Average prices of grain . . 103 

 Average prices of beef and 



mutton 104 



Cheap food 104 



Food and intellect 104 



Low prices 105 



Landed property 105 



Land speculations 1 05 



Proportion 105 



Economy 105 



Free trade 106 



Old and new schools of po- 

 litical economy 106 



STATISTICS. 



Income tax 108 



Parish relief 110 



Poor rates 110 



Saving banks 110 



Copyright 110 



The guards Ill 



Half pay Ill 



Dividends Ill 



East India stock 112 



Three per cent, consols . . 113 



Bankruptcy 113 



Revenue of Scotland and 



Ireland 113 



Advertisements 113 



Legacy duty 113 



New churches 113 



Income of the English 



dioceses 113 



Patronage of church liv- 



ings 



114 



Knights of the Bath 114 



Royal Society 114 



Public schools 1 15 



Attorneys 115 



Drury Lane Theatre .... 115 

 Court of Chancery ward- 

 ships 115 



Municipal debts 116 



The common council 116 



National debts 116 



National debt of Great Bri- 

 tain 118 



Dutch national debt 118 



The French national debt 118 

 American national debt . . 118 

 Elevenue from taxation ... 119 



