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International Statistical Compar. and its over-reIfesentation in
iSOtls [1892 ]-continued. Parliament, ii. 16. •
similarity of conditions in com· IRELAND, disaffected part; of, a
parisons of trade of countries; dr-creasing quantity, i. 432.
jntercolonial trade of Australasia; ---1- economic value of, to G,eat
use of foreign trade as a special
test of welfare of nations not Britain, i. 431.
justified; France and England a - exces~ive imperial expendi.
good example, 68-69. ture on, L 442.
Wages: difficulties of international -- Home Rule or separation
statistical comparisons of, from
differences in length of working disastrous to, i. 448.
day and continuity of employ. -- industrial character of Irish
ment; .wage statistics very in- inferior to the people of Great
complete though recently much Britain, i. 433.
improved, 70.
Distribution of popUlation accord. -- landlords, expediency of the
ing to earnings, and its influence State buying them out, i. 452.
on wage statistics, 71-72. -- over-taxation, objections to
Wealth statistics: dangers of com- present government grants to
parative; . necessity for statistics compensate for, i. 455.
of relative income and of sources
of wealth or income in compari- -- - used as an argument
sons of national wealth; diffi- as to its over-representation in
culty in dealing with foreign in- Parliament, i. 277.
vestments; dangers of interna. -- -- compared with its re-
tional comparisons of revenue
from probate duty or income tax, sources, i. 439.
73-75· -- population of, compared
Conclusion, 76. with that of Great Britain, i.
Table A. Total population and
total male population (over 43 2 •
twenty) in France, Germany and -- stationary rents and rising
United Kingdom, 77. prices of cattle beneficial to
Taole B_ Imports and exports of the peasantry, i. 391.
Australasian colonies in 1889 -- taxation and representation
showing interstate trade, 78.
of, i. 277.
INTERNATIONAL trade and the
question of a nation living on
its capital, ii. 283. JEVONS, his inquiry of 1863 into
INTERSTATE free trade and growth depreciation of gold, i. 77.
of large communities, ii. 183. -- obituary notice of, ii. 4.
INVESTMENTS abroad, are they -- his " multiple standard"
diminishing? ii. 284. criticised by Mr. Bagehot, ii.
-- -- interest from British, 166.
and the excess of imports, i.
335· LABOUR., increasing severity 0(,
INVISIBLE exports, annual amount and its relation to wages, ii.
of, about one hundred million 86.
£, ii. 417. -- reduction of hours of, -in
IRELAND, capital of, about four England, i. UI. •
hundred million £, mostly LABOURING classes, progress of,
owned locally, i. .f.f 3. in last half century [1883], i.
-- decrease in population of, 382.