Alison, Sir Archibald, 2
Alternations of premium on gold
and silver, 19; between Gold and
Silver Standards, 32
Alternative standard, 30
Appreciation of gold and rate of
interest, 10; and plethora of
capital, 11; effect on Consols
and industrial enterprise, 12;
transfers wealth to Silver Standard
countries, 13; effect on India,
13; argument in 1882, 75;
same as fall in average of prices,
99
Arbitrary interference with con-
tracts, 124
Argentine Republic, 167
Army and navy interests, 48, 112
Ash, Frederick, 105
Australia handicapped, 15
'BAD harvests,' 81
Bank notes and abrasion of coins,
38
Bank of England Issue Depart-
ment and the Mint, 38
Barbour, David Miller, 12, 48,
77
Barclay, Robert, 16, 133
Baring Sir Evelyn, 65, 75
Bimetallic League, 20 and Preface
Bimetallism misunderstood. 29
Bimetallist Party in 1882, 60
Birch, John Wm., 12
Board of Trade, 75
Bombay Chamber of Commerce, 81
Bondholders and taxpayers, 109
Bramwell, Lord, 61, 65
Breach of faith, 21, 43, 129
British Empire in the Silver Ques-
tion, 80
Broken compact, 109
CANADA handicapped, 15
Cernuschi, Henri, 25, 156
Change of ratio between gold and
silver, 62, 86, 157
Change of standard in the Roman
Empire, 178; in the United
States, Preface; in India, 179
and Preface
Chaplin, Henry, 74
Chapman, Robert Barclay, 11
Close of the mints against silver
prevents money increasing with in-
crease of other commodities, 147
Coinage, charge for, advocated, 36
Comber, Thomas, 65, 77, 81
Confiscation of property, 118
Consols, price of, II
Constitutional question, 22
Copper standard, 56
Credit and prices, H. D. Macleod,
5, 7; vary with metallic circula-
Prince Bismarck declared in favour
of the Double Standard, Preface
Prince of Wales, appeal to, 23
Production of money artificially
checked, 75
Production of silver erratic,' 57
Profit on coinage of silver, 96
QUANTITATIVE theory, 50, 173,
175
RAPHAEL, H. L., 65, 75, 78, 81,
117
Ratio between gold and silver, 17;
between cotton and wool, 27
Readoption of silver by England,
51
Reduction of metallic money, effect
of, 50, 75
Reid, W. S., 33
Relative cost of production of money
and other commodities tampered
with, 78
Relative interests of England,
France, and Germany, 151
Removal of a restrictive law alone
requisite, 51
Representatives
intrinsic value, 10
Repudiation of rights of property in
Ireland, 120
Repudiation of silver, effect of, 49;
origin of, and remedy, 51
Ricardo, David, 169
Right to pay in silver, 108
Rights of debtor and creditor, 21,
47
Rights of property, 117
Riots in Ireland, 65
Robertson, J. Barr, 12, 77, 118
Roman Empire, fall of, 25, 54, 174
Royal Commission on Depression of
Trade and Industry, 76, 118, 119
Royal Commission on Gold and
Silver, 1, 5-8, 10-16, 19, 42, 46,
48-50, 54, 57, 61, 62, 65, 74, 77,
78, 81, 85, 117, 118, 120, 128,
131, 142, 166
Royal prerogative, 24
Rupee standard in India, 179
SCHMIDT, Hermann, 65
Separation of Gold and Silver
Standards, 87
Seyd, Ernest, 25, 156, 159
Sherbrooke, Lord, 25, 91, and
Preface
Silver coin for unlimited legal
tender, 159
Silver Standard has been more stable
than Gold Standard, 16; aboli-
tion of, in England, 23
Smith, Adam, on fluctuating value
of metallic money, 6; disregarded
by Lord Liverpool, Preface
'Something wrong with silver,' 56
Special Acts to compensate for
fluctuations of standard, 52 and
Preface
Standard of coinage, 7
Standard of value, accepted term,
1; explained, 6, 61; not under-
stood by Lord Liverpool, 22;
tampered with by Edward I.,
103; by Robert Bruce, 103;
by Henry VIII., 103; by James
II., 104; by George III., Chapter
I.; by Victoria, 179 and Preface
to this edition
Standard unit, 7
Stanhope, Lord, 2
Steadiest standard, 139
Superfluous supply, 26
Supply and demand, 150
THE Lord Mayor and the 'Times,'
Tooke, Thomas, and the quanti-
tative theory, 50
Transfer of wealth by appreciation
of gold, 118
UNIQUE position in 1882, 79
United Kingdom handicapped, 15
United States Commission of 1876,
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