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43 2 INDEX
ARMY ESTIMATES, probably forty BIRTH-RATE and'death-rate and
million £, in a few years, ii. rate of excess of. births over
264. deaths in Australia and Eng.
-- for home defence should land, ii. 354-355.
be maintained locally, i. 270. BOURNE'S, Mr. S., paper on oa1cial
-- insufficient pay to troops a 'trade and navigation statistics,
cause of difficulty of obtaining i. 289.
recruits, ii. 259. BRITISH EMPIRE, effects of the
-- reform, necessity for, shown South Mrican war on the, ii.
by the South African War, ii. 205.
21 3. -- -- relative growth of com-
-- and Navy, increased ex- ponent parts of the, ii. 2Z:Z.
penditure on, a necessity, ii. -- -- Zollverein unsuitable
3 1 3. to, for geographical reasons, ii.
AUSTRALASIA, birth-rate and 180.
death-rate and rate of excess of BRITISH Zollverein, the dream of
births over deaths in, ii. 354. a, ii. 387.
-- an example of the futility of BUDGETS, Mr. Gladstone's, and
protection to foster manufac- his work in finance, i. 229.
tures, ii. 157.
-- intercolonial trade of, ii. 68, CAPE COLONY and Natal, finances
78. of, as affected by the war, ii.
AVERAGES, uncertain character of, 21 7.
if made up of great extremes, CAPITAL, accumulation of, a
i. 393. benefit to the poor, i. 420.
-- are we living on, ii. 278.
BAGEHOT, Mr., on a new standard -- British, invested abroad,
of value, and on Mr. Jevons's losses of, i. 101.
"multiple standard," ii. 166. --of Ireland, one twenty-fourth
BALANCE of trade and balance of that of United Kingdom, i.
indebtedness, i. 308. 43 6•
BANKS, City of Glasgow Bank -- supposition that Great
failure and the fall in prices, i. Britain is living on its, not
13 2 • proved, ii. 301.
-- country, injurious effects of --" waste of, on war and arma-
bad harvests on, i. 138. ments, ii. 290.
BANKING, difficulties of, with a CENSUS figures of civilized coun-
multiple standard as suggested tries, an index to their growth,
by Jevons, ii. 167. ii. 270.
BANKRUPTCY statistics as a test of CENTURY, the statistical, ii. 268.
the commercial morality of a CHANGES, recent, in prices and
country, ii. 57. incomes compared, i. 156.
BAXTER, Dudley, and Leone Levi CHARITIES, taxation of, failur; of
on earnings of working classes, Mr. Gladstone's plan for, j.
i·3 86 . 244· •
BIMETALLIC systems of currency, COAL, gas, and water, estimated
Gresham's law as·!o worn coins amounts paid for, in United
not applicable to, ii. 163. Kingdom, ii. 382.