448 



LAND REFORM 



Gilpin, Bernard, his sermon on the 

 oppression of the rural population, 



144-5 



Goldsmith, Oliver, his "Deserted Vil- 

 lage," 161-2 



"Good understanding" between land- 

 lord and tenant, 237-8 



Green, " History of the English 

 People," quoted on inclosures, 54-5; 

 on appropriation of Church lands, 99 



Grindcobbe, one of the leaders in Wat 

 Tyler's insurrection, 124-5 



Guernsey, average size of holdings, 

 and high price of land, 232-3 



Guyot, M. Yves, French "Free Trader," 

 281 



Hallam, the historian, on the sup- 

 pression of chantries, 99 



Hardenberg. See Stein. 



Harris, Mr. W. J., his estimate of the 

 losses to the farming industry by the 

 decline of agriculture ; remedy pro- 

 posed by, 292-3 



Harris, Mr. Leverton, on indemnity to 

 shipowners in time of war, 317-18 



Harris-Gastrell, J. P., on two great 

 dangers that menace England, 283 



High prices of little benefit to tenant 

 farmers, 8 



Home market, the, and the industrial 

 classes, 284-310 



Home trade, indifference to, by our 

 manufacturers, 292 



How the poor live, 411-15 



Howitt, Wm., on the German peasan- 

 try, 270-1 



" Hungry forties," cause of the distress 

 in the, 347-8 



Hunter, Sir Robert, his works on 

 common rights cited, 90 n. 



Importation of cattle from abroad, 



307-9 

 Imported corn, why duties are nnposed 



on, in France, 282 

 Imports of small articles of food, 13-15 

 Inclosurc Act (1710), the first, 62 

 Inclosure Bill, an, that did not pass ; 



opposed by William Cobbett, 76 

 Inclosure Bill of 1845 : introduced by 



Lord Lincoln (Duke of Newcastle) ; 



quotations from speeches against, by 



Mr. Sharman Crawford and Mr. 



Hume, 79-80 

 Inclosures, policy of, and its results, 



52-82 

 — total amount of land inclosed from 



1710 to 1867 under Inclosure Acts, 63 



Inclosures, illegal, the method adopted, 

 63 



— Parhamentary Return of, of 1B69: 81 



— arguments used in justification o^ 

 87-8 



— and depopulation, 93-4 

 Indigence and suffering in England, 



striking examples of, 411-15 

 Individualism, the chief motive power 



of human action, 421-3 

 Intensi%'e culture in the Channel 



Islands, 230 

 Ireland, sales of land in, under the 



Land Purchase Act, 235 



Kelvin, Lord, on rural education, 25 

 Kett, Robert, and the revolt under his 



leadership, 150-5 

 King, the, the theoretical owner of the 



soil of England, 43 



Labourer's Friends Society, report on 



inclosures, 71-3, 390 

 "Labouring poor," illiberal treatment 



of, under Inclosure Acts, 81 

 Labour statistics of the Board of Trade, 



no guide as to the actual condition 



of the majority of our population, 



XX, xxi 

 Landed aristocracy, policy adopted by, 



in early times, 51 



— classes, interests of, identical in con- 

 tinental countries, but antagonistic 

 in England, 281 



— interest, the, in Parliament, xi. ; 

 necessity of increasing the power of, 

 xii 



Land going out of cultivation, xiii 



— hunger and peasant proprietary, 205- 



33 



— laws of England, the, authorities 

 on, 43 n. 



— legislation, the two opposite policies 

 of England and Germany contrasted, 

 270 



— question, the history of, xv 



Land Purchase Bill, the, illustrations 

 of the benefits that would be con- 

 ferred by, 255-7 



Land reform, pre-eminently a labour 

 question, 303 



reasons why landlords should 



support it, 282 



various schemes for, 261, 273, 



276, 277, 279 



— tenure in England, the causes 

 which have led up to the present 

 system, 40 et seq. 



