INTRODUCTION1
CHAPTER ⅠON THE CORN TRADE IN 1838 AND 18393
SECTION 1 Cursory review of the seasons and crops of 1836 and 18373
SECTION 2 Character of the season in 1838. prices and estimated produce of wheat6
SECTION 3 Character of the season of 1839. prices and estimated produce of wheat13
SECTION 4 Relative prices of wheat and barley18
SECTION 5 Influence of the corn laws on prices20
SECTION 6 Effects which a bounty would have had43
SECTION 7 Suggestion of the substitution of a fixed duty46
SECTION 8 Conjecture as to the prices at which wheat would range in the event of a free trade48
SECTION 9 On the effect of the prices of provisions on the condition of the working classes51
CHAPTER Ⅱ ON THE PRICES OF PRODUCE, OTHER THAN CORN53
CHAPTER Ⅲ ON THE STATE OF THE CIRCULATION IN 1838 AND 183966
SECTION 1 Causes of the recent depression of our foreign exchanges, and the consequent drain on the coffers of the Bank of England67
SECTION 2 On the regulation of the bank issues in 1838 and 183975
SECTION 3 Doctrine of the supposed duty of the Bank of England to accommodate the trade, and to support the commer credit of the country100
SECTION 4 Result of the review of the management of the bank in 1838 and 1839112
SECTION 5 Vindication of the bank from some groundless charges114
SECTION 6 Examination of the effects imputed by mr. hume in his speech of the 8th of July, 1839, to the management of the Bank of England120
CHAPTER Ⅳ ON THE SEVERAL ALTERATIONS PROPOSEDIN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CURRENCY, WITH AVIEW TO REMEDY THE EXISTING DEFECTS174
SECTION 1 On the proposed total separation of the business of issuing bank notes from that of the deposits, and other mere banking operations177
SECTION 2 Plan proposed for retaining the present system of union of the two departments, with greater security against the risk of suspension187
SECTION 3 On the two schemes which offer themselves, consistently with the present standard, in the event of the bank charter not being renewed203
SECTION 4 On proposed plans for altering the standard209
SECTION 5 On the effects of a silver standard211
SECTION 6 On the effects of a double standard216
SECTION 7 On a system of paper circulation without a defined principle of limitation218
SECTION 8 Digression on the suspended american banks228
SECTION 9 Summary of the preceding review of the state of the circulation, and of some of the alterations proposed in our banking system243
CHAPTER Ⅴ OBSERVATIONS ON A RECENT PUBLICATION BY MR. SAMUEL JONES LOYD, “ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CIRCULATION, AND ON THE CONDITION AND CONDUCT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND, AND OF THE COUNTRY ISSUES, DURING THE YEAR 1839”246
Paper communicated by Mr. Pennington277
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