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442 INDEX
FOREIGN investments, income GERMANY and its· disposition to
from, and its relation to im- colonize in relation ~ the
ports, ii. 4 II. British Empire, ii. 236.
-- trade of countries as a test -- gains of, from the Franco-
of their prosperity, ii. 69. <1erman War of J 870-7 I, i.
-- --. of the United King- 4 1,7 2•
dom only a small portion of -- gold currency established
total trade of the country, i. with proceeds of the Franco-
IIO. German War of 1870-71, i. 48.
FRANCE and her colonies in re- -- gold currency, influences of,
lation to the British Empire, i. 94-
ii. 235. Glads/one's, Mr., work in Fin-
-- Franco-German War of I 870- a'IKt [1869J, i. 229-252.
7 I, cost of, i. I. Importance of finance to any poli-
- land tax in, and the Cadas- Ileal leader; secondary place of
tre, i. 269. finance in this country since
-- loss of; from the Franco~ 1842, 229-230.
Great increase in taxable income
German War, i. 72. of the nation; alarming financial
-- recovery of, after the Franco- condition 01 country prior to
Gennan War, i. 49' 1842, 23 1-232•
-- treaty of 1860 and Free Reduction of pressure of taxation
Trade on the Continent, i. on the masses. Taxation reduced
by seven million £ in 1842-S2,
242 • and by thirteen million £ in
FREE breakfast table, feasibility 1853-66, notwithstanding in-
of, i. 252. creased eXfeoditure,233-23S.
FREE Trade, influence of, on im- Abolition 0 export and import
duties due to Sir Robert PeeL
proved communications and Mr. Gladstone'. later reductions
cheapened production, ii. 184. of taxation more difficult, 236-
-- -- on the Continent and 237·
the French Treaty of i 860, i. Opposition to the income tall and
to its inequalities, 238-240.
242 • Increase of expenditure between
-- -- and Protection to 18S3 and 1860 greater lhan rate
manufactures considered, ii. of increase of wealth of country,
161. 24 1•
French Treaty of 1860 the inaugu-
-- -- and Protection in ration of Free Trade on the Con-
New South Wales and Victoria, tinent, 242.
i·345· Reduction of income Iall due to
keeping down expenditure, 243.
_. - -- successes and Protec- Failure of his plan for laxation '01
tionist victories, ii. 178. charities, 244-
FRE~GHTS, Mr. Bourne's estimate Mr. Gladstone's oratorical powers,
of earnings for, i. 320. his efforts to check expenditure.
-'- earnings of British shipping and beliefin power offree trade.
His efforts for multiplication 01
for, i. 318; ii. 417. means of employment by rem&val
- shipping, and the excess of of artificial restrictions, and fQf
imports, ii. 286. improve~ent of working c:lasses.
244-246.
}.Ir. Gladstone's budget o( 1853.
GENERAL statistical' ideas, im- Failure of plan {or coo\'e15ion of
portance of, ii. 337. debt, 247.