The Theory and Practice of Banking, Volumen2

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1876

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Par of Exchange between England and Ireland
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Incorrect to say that the Act of 1844 is the complement
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Discussion between Mr Hume and Lord Overstone
14
Tooke on Currency
15
Colonel Torrens on Currency
16
Examination of the modern opinions on Currency
17
Their description of the extraordinary debasement of the Irish
18
Exchange with Belfast favourable to Ireland while that with
19
Opinion of M Michel Chevalier
20
Fatal conduct of the Bank of England at this period
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Report of the Committee
26
Discussion on second point of difference between the
28
Policy of the Bank
30
First declaration by a Parliamentary Committee that
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Fundamental vice of the constitution of the Bank of England 259
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Opinion of a foreign merchant
36
On Banking Obligations
37
Great multiplication of country banks in 1809
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Judicious conduct of the Bank during this drain
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Right of issue belongs to surviving partner
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Remarks upon some of the evidence
44
Increase of the panic
46
Specie and Credit form the only true circulating medium 269
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The circulation of Scotch 1 notes in England forbidden 126
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Remark of Mr Huskisson
50
Mr Horsley Palmers description of the method adopted
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The same continued
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Great speculations and increase of country banks in 1813
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The same continued
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Act to prohibit the Bank making advances to Government
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Provisions of the Act renewing the Bank Charter in 1833
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Mr Vansittarts resolutions
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Rejection of the Bullion ReportMr Peel votes with
90
Mismanagement of the Bank in 1818
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12
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Great drain of Bullion in 181819appointment of Committee
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Decline of bullion in the Bank in 1836
112
Opinion of Mr Ward Director of the Bank
116
ON THE BUSINESS OF BANKING
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CHAPTER
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Preliminary Observations
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180
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Extraordinary aid afforded by the Bank of England to Com
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50
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CHAPTER XI
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Great Commereial Crisis in 1793
213
Failure of the Western Bank in 1857
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The circumstances of this failure prove the solidity of
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Sir Robert Peel is entitled to neither the merit or the blame
254
Drain of bullion in the Autumn of 1855
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Pole 290
295
Goodwin v Robarts
296
All Negotiable Instruments are Currency
297
Bank Credits are Ready Money 300
303
Writers who include Bank Credits as Currency
304
Opinion of Mr Holland
305
Speech of the Marquis of Titchfield
306
Cobden on Currency
310
Mr G W Norman on Currency
311
Lord Overstone on Currency
312
Discussion between Mr Hume and Lord Overstone
316
Tooke on Currency
321
Colonel Torrens on Currency
322
Examination of the modern opinions on Currency
324
Legal and Philosophical errors of these opinions
326
Consequences of these doctrines
330
Opinion of M Michel Chevalier
332
CHAPTER XIV
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First constitution of the Bank
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PRESENT TIME
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The Bank receives the power of unlimited issue
337
Conversion of Peel to the Currency Principle
338
The Bank Act does not carry out this Principle
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Arithmetical errors of the Bank Act
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841
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Examination of the arguments alleged for maintaining
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Great complexity of the Act of 1844
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An Inquiry into the Banking System of the country will
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become necessary
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A banker may stand in four relations to his customer
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Trading customers
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VOL II
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Relation of banker to customer as WAREHOUSEMAN of Plate
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Continuation of Sir Robert Peels speech
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SET OFF and MUTUAL CREDIT
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On Discounting Bills of Exchange
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Nature of the Clearing System
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SECTION III
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The Marquis of Titchfields description of Currency
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Opinion of Mr John Ward
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General revival of prosperity in 1823
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Resolution of the Bank of England in opposition to the evi
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Statistics of the Scotch Banks in 1874
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125
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Copies
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126
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129
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The speeches of Lords Liverpool and Grenville deserve to
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