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Admiralty amongst amount annual annum appointed army balance Bill Board of Admiralty Boots British capital cent Chancellor charge classes Colonies commerce Commissioners Committee Company cost Council Crown Customs and Excise Direct Taxation Ditto effect England estimates Exchequer Excise Duties expenditure expense Finance Accounts Financial Reform Association foreign free trade Freedom of Trade Fund G. C. Lewis Government House of Commons Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Income Tax increase Indian Indirect industry interest Ireland J. R. WILLIAMS Kingdom labour land Liverpool London Lord Lord Derby Lord Panmure manufactures March 31 ment millions Ministers naval navy object Office paid paper Parliament parliamentary payment pensions persons political pound present system principle produce proposed public money question receipts revenue Royal salary Sarawak Secretary Shillings ships Sir James Sir James Stephen Street system of taxation tion Treasury United Kingdom wages Weedon whilst
Popular passages
Page 111 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 177 - The most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants.
Page 177 - The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, necessarily increases with the increase of the revenue and stock of every country, and cannot possibly increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, naturally increases with the increase of national wealth, and cannot possibly increase without it.
Page 177 - ... The demand for those who live by wages, it is evident, cannot increase but in proportion to the increase of the funds which are destined for the payment of wages. These funds are of two kinds; first, the revenue which is over and above what is necessary for the maintenance; and, secondly, the stock which is over and above what is necessary for the employment of their masters.
Page 178 - The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they are going fast backwards.
Page 177 - Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary, we must not expect to find the wages of labour very high in it.
Page 43 - Majesty hopes that this new colony on the Pacific may be but one step in the career of steady progress, by which Her Majesty's dominions in North America may ultimately be peopled, in an unbroken chain, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by a loyal and industrious population of subjects of the British crown.
Page 35 - PUBLIC EXPENDITURE Of the UNITED KINGDOM, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Reduction of the NATIONAL DEBT, in the Year ended 5th January, 1849.
Page 60 - Restoration. its own safety by means of its own strength, and the protection of person and property for all its members, there will then remain its positive ends :—1, to make the means of subsistence more easy to each individual :—2, to secure to each of its members the hope* of bettering his own condition or that of his chitdren :—3, the development of those faculties which are essential to his humanity, that is, to his rational and moral being.
Page 79 - That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance to this other world, and if there be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them.