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... standard of gold or silver , in fineness , weight or denomination ; " an amendment which was carried by an overwhelm- ing majority . While Mr. Huskisson invariably and firmly re- sisted all attempts at tampering with the Currency , we ...
... standard of gold or silver , in fineness , weight or denomination ; " an amendment which was carried by an overwhelm- ing majority . While Mr. Huskisson invariably and firmly re- sisted all attempts at tampering with the Currency , we ...
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... standard of comparison for any that preceded or may follow it , so is it obvious that , in relation to shipping no less than cotton , we must exclude the year 1825 from among the general bases of reasoning , with regard to commercial ...
... standard of comparison for any that preceded or may follow it , so is it obvious that , in relation to shipping no less than cotton , we must exclude the year 1825 from among the general bases of reasoning , with regard to commercial ...
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... Standard of its Money , once settled , should be inviolably and immutably kept to perpetuity . For whenever that is altered , upon what pretence soever , the Public will lose by it . " Men , in their bargains , contract , not for ...
... Standard of its Money , once settled , should be inviolably and immutably kept to perpetuity . For whenever that is altered , upon what pretence soever , the Public will lose by it . " Men , in their bargains , contract , not for ...
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... standard , and even the existence of such a fixed standard , were either altogether overlooked by the Bank , ( they could scarcely be unknown to them ) or utterly disre- garded in their practice , -my astonishment was great indeed ...
... standard , and even the existence of such a fixed standard , were either altogether overlooked by the Bank , ( they could scarcely be unknown to them ) or utterly disre- garded in their practice , -my astonishment was great indeed ...
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... standard lowered , in any given proportion , the prices of all commodities would rise in the same proportion ; although the real value of every such commodity , measured by a re- ference to the quantity of gold in such coin , would ...
... standard lowered , in any given proportion , the prices of all commodities would rise in the same proportion ; although the real value of every such commodity , measured by a re- ference to the quantity of gold in such coin , would ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amount appeared assertion attention Bank of England Bill Board of Trade bullion Canning's Catholic cent Chancellor charge Chichester circulation circumstances coin Colonial commercial Committee commodities conduct consequence consideration considered continued Corn Laws course currency debt declared depreciation Duke of Wellington duty Eartham East Retford effect exchange Exchequer existing favour feelings felt foreign gold Government guineas honourable gentleman hope House of Commons Huskisson important increase interest Ireland issues kisson labour loan Lord Granville Lord Liverpool Lord Palmerston manufacturing measure ment millions Ministers nation nature necessary never object occasion opinion paper Parliament party payment period person political present principles proportion proposed question received Resolutions respect revenue right honourable friend right honourable gentleman Secretary at War session silver Sinking Fund speech taxes tion Whigs whilst whole WILLIAM HUSKISSON wish
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 48 - Observations on the Principles which Regulate the Course of Exchange; and on the Present Depreciated State of the Currency.
Seite 264 - An Act for making Wet Docks, Basons, Cuts and other Works, for the greater Accommodation and Security of Shipping, Commerce, and Revenue within the Port of London; and to make Regulations relating to the said Docks.
Seite 178 - That in order to revert gradually to this security, and to enforce meanwhile a due limitation of the paper of the bank of England, as well as of all the other bank paper of the country, it is expedient to amend the act which suspends the cash payments of the bank, by altering the time till which the suspension shall continue, from six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, to that of two years from the present time.
Seite 99 - Our true policy would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system, that which every man who has studied the subject must know to be the true principle of commerce, the interchange of reciprocal and equivalent benefit We may rest assured that it is not in the nature of commerce to enrich one party at the expense of the other. This is a purpose at which, if it were practicable, we ought not to aim ; and which, if we aimed at, we could not accomplish.
Seite 236 - Britain ; and shall be issued at the receipt of the Exchequer to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to be by them placed to the account of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt...
Seite 41 - COMMITTEE appointed to enquire into the cause of the High Price of Gold Bullion, and to take into consideration the state of the Circulating Medium, and of the Exchanges between Great Britain and Foreign Parts...
Seite 141 - In the first grief on his friend's loss, he uttered expressions which were certainly received as a pledge that he would never enter office in conjunction with those who had left Mr Canning in the lurch. His words, as avowed by himself, were, ' that his wounds were too green and too fresh to admit of his serving in the same cabinet with those who had deserted the service of the country,, at the time his friend's administration was formed.
Seite 303 - That this House do resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the Distressed St,,te of the Agriculture of the United Kingdom.
Seite 177 - THAT the Promissory Notes of the Bank of England are stipulations to pay,' on demand, the Sum in Pounds Sterling, respectively specified in each of the said Notes.
Seite 55 - Whoever buys, gives, whoever sells, receives such a quantity of pure gold or silver as is equivalent to the article bought or sold; or if he gives or receives paper instead of money, he gives or receives that which is valuable only as it stipulates the payment of a given quantity of gold or silver. 22 Financial Pamphlets. 580. "Most unquestionably,