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Bagehot Baron Bramwell Basevi C. P. Villiers Cazenove Chadwick Chair Clay Club Colonel Torrens Committee Coulson elected a member Entwistle Fawcett following questions G. W. Norman Giffen Grote H. R. Grenfell honorary member J. A. Hankey J. D. Hume J. E. T. Rogers J. G. Hubbard J. H. Palmer J. L. Mallet J. L. Prevost J. R. McCulloch J. S. Mill J. W. Cowell L. H. Courtney Labour Lord Belper Lord Monteagle Lord Overstone Lyall Macaulay Merivale Mushet N. W. Senior Newmarch Parnell Pennington Political Economy Porter proposed Pryme resignation Ricardo S. C. Holland S. J. Loyd Sir C. W. Dilke Sir H Sir J. M. Macleod Sir R. R. Torrens T. E. C. Leslie T. E. Cliffe Leslie T. H. Farrer T. R. Malthus Thomas Hare Tooke Vardon Vice-Chair Visitors W. E. Gladstone W. J. Blake W. R. Greg W. S. Jevons W. T. Thornton Waley Warburton Watkin Whitmore Wilkinson
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Page 12 - ... which could not stand against unrestrained foreign competition would be discouraged, yet as no importation could be continued for any length of time without a corresponding exportation, direct or indirect, there would be an encouragement for the purpose of that exportation of some other production to which our situation might be better suited; thus affording at least an equal, and probably a greater, and certainly a more beneficial, employment to our own capital and labour.
Page 12 - Government of this and of every other country, each trying to exclude the productions of other countries, with the specious and well meant design of encouraging its own productions, thus inflicting on the bulk of its subjects who are consumers, the necessity of submitting to privations in the quantity or quality of commodities...
Page 12 - That of the numerous protective and prohibitory duties of our commercial code, it may be proved, that while all operate as a very heavy tax on the community at large, very few are of any ultimate benefit to the classes in whose favour they were originally instituted, and none to the extent of the loss occasioned by them to other classes.
Page 11 - That freedom from restraint is calculated to give the utmost extension to foreign trade, and the best direction to the capital and industry of the country. "That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest...
Page 12 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation. That...
Page 37 - The members of this Society will regard their own mutual instruction, and the diffusion among others of just principles of Political Economy, as a real and important obligation.
Page 284 - A country cannot be expected to renounce the power of taxing foreigners, unless foreigners will in return practise towards itself the same forbearance. The only mode in which a country can save itself from being a loser by the revenue duties imposed by other countries on its commodities, is to impose corresponding revenue duties on theirs.
Page 222 - Bank, or of the other great corporate body, but from that panic to which his right honourable friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the First Lord of the Treasury alluded in the passage which had been referred to, as having existed, and as being removed.
Page 153 - The same rule which regulates the relative value of commodities in one country, does not regulate the relative value of the commodities exchanged between two or more countries.
Page 13 - ... classes in whose favour they were originally instituted, and none to the extent of the loss occasioned by them to other classes. "That among the other evils of the restrictive or protective system, not...