Malt, Annual Consumption of, at different Periods
Price of, at different Periods

Malt Tax not the Cause of Agricultural Distress

Manchester, average Wages of Cotton Spinners in
Mankind, the three Classes of

Manufactures, Taxation on, trebled by the Contraction of the Currency

Mills (Spinning), Number of Persons employed at, in Scotland

Morals of the People destroyed by Taxes

NAPOLEON, his Opinion of Agriculture

National Debt less than the Private at the close of the War
how affected by Peel's Bill

can never exceed the Means of paying it.

National Faith long ago broken with the Labourers

Newspapers generally under the Controul of the Monied Interest

Lage

23

24

213

117

298

72

187

30

105

249

22

38

2

2

104

155

105

their Proportion to the Population in Leeds

of Bledlow, their Letter to the Poor Law Commissioners

Peel's Bill, how it affects Prices

its ruinous Effects on the Fall of Prices

on Wages

Proof of its Action on the Currency

Political Economists weigh down the Agriculturists

disappointed by the Reformed Parliament

75, 76
117

140, 141

2

2

19

73

122, 260, 262

3

21

Political Unions the Children of Distress

Poor, the Rich bound to provide for them-Why?
Poor Law Act, Reasons why it should be repealed

2

155, 156
172

Population of Ireland in 1832

Commissioners, Letter to, from the Paupers of Bledlow

Poor Laws for Ireland, Propriety and Necessity of
Poor Rates, their increased Amount compared with the Prices of Wheat
in England and Wales for different Years

Persons relieved by

of Leeds in Proportion to its Paupers
of Great Britain in 1821 and 1831

Pound Sterling, equivocal Meaning of the Term

Preston, Address of its Operatives

140, 141
45, 157
15

183

189, 190

11

117

210

182

its Value compared with Wheat in various Years

234

217

Price, the various constituents of

1

of Wheat, extraordinary variations in

of Wheat, why it should be raised to 88. per bushel

of Food as affected by Taxation, View of

of Malt at different periods

Prices, ruinous fall in consequence of Peel's Bill
comparison of, in various years

always in proportion to the circulating medium
of Cotton in various years

Produce of the Land of Ireland, Value of

6

15

54, 55

69

16

24

19, 73

84, 85

104

229

157

265

56, 57

3

21

277

5

Parliament disappointed the Political Economists

Revenue, Public, Amount of at different Periods

Revolutions Originate in Oppression and Unequal Taxation
Rich, why Bound to Provide for the Poor

155, 156

SCOTLAND, Number of Persons Employed in the Mills
Sheep, Number in this Country

Sheffield, Situation of the Workmen in

State of the Hard-ware Trade in Sheffield

Ship-owners, Causes of their Difficulties

Silk Trade, Cause of its Deterioration

Silk, Smuggling of, Ensured in the French Offices
Importation of, (Raw) in Different Years
Importation of, in Different Years

Duties on, in 1821 and in 1833

Slaughter-house Masters, that Class described.
Smuggling of Silks, insured in the French Offices

So p, Duty paid on, in different Years

Spirits (Home-made), Quantity consumed in Britain
Staffordshire, State of the Iron Trade in
Standard of Currency, Remarks on

Sugar pays 4d. a pound in Taxation

its Value as an Article of Commerce

Quantity retained for Home Consumption

TALE OF A TUB applicable in part to the present Times

Taration, its Effect upon Prices

adds 4d. a pound to the price of Sugar

doubles the price of Tea

is three-fourths of the price of Beer

absorbs half the Income of the Labourer

difference between direct and indirect

Tabular View of its Effects on Prices

proposed Mode of Levying

Table of, and Proportions paid by, each Class

on Manufactures trebled by the Alteration of the Currency
the Inequality of

heavy and light, merely relative Terms

Receipt and Expenditure in 1-32

Comparison of direct and indirect

Taxes that destroy the Morals of the People

Tea, half its Price arises from Taxation

Quantity retained for Home Consumption

Theft, necessary to the existence of the Hand-Loom Weavers
Tithes, different Opinions as on whom the Burthen falls
Tobacco, Quantity Imported for Home Consumption
UNCULTIVATED Land in the British Isles, Quantity of

VOTERS for Mr. Attwood's Motion, List of
for Mr. Cayley's Motion, List of

WAGES, Reasons why they should be increased
of Cotton Spinners on an Average
Insecurity of a great Evil

when low, are pernicious to all Classes
Wellington's Reply to the Cambridgeshire Address
Wheat, its extraordinary Variation in Price

why it should be raised to 88. per bushel
Quantity of it grown in France

its Value compared with the Price of Gold
White Slaves, The future Population of Britain
Wine, Quantity Imported for Home Consumption
Wolverhampton, State of the Hardware Trade in
Wool, Quantity Imported in different Years
Exports of, in various Years

Woollen Manufactures, Exports of

Yarn, Exports of in various Years

Working Classes, Means of Educating them

Workmen, their Situation in Birmingham and Sheffield

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and quickly in the course of being answered by the dissemination of correct information: this is the means to the end we have in view, relief from distress. We sincerely wish we had as gratifying a prospect to lay before our readers of the probability of obtaining that end through the intervention of the legislature. We stated, at first, that our only hope lay in the constituencies coming to the resolution to elect no one who was not ready to go into unflinching inquiry on the subject of distress. Our fears have been too well justified. Party has carried the day against distress, and always will, so long as party is the first object in the mind both of the electors and the elected. The farmers will long remember Lord Chandos' motion on the malt tax; nor will they forget the true-hearted ones of that night. It has been said, "By proving too much you prove nothing." So in the case of the malt tax; the stockjobbers, acting on the Government, caused so large a majority against Lord Chandos, that, despairing of success, they have turned the country round, and will also probably the Noble Marquis himself, to look for some other and more substantial mode of relief, and one still more unpopular with the stockjobbers than the repeal of the malt tax.

OUR last number concluded at the same
time our answer to T. and our first volume.
We are in some measure at a loss how to
describe the feelings, or to consider the
auspices under which we undertake a second
volume. So far as the arrangement of the
Magazine, and the dissemination of its prin-
ciples are concerned, our anticipations are
exceeded. Their object was to communi-
cate to the landed gentry, to the farmers,
to the shopkeepers, to the manufacturing
and commercial interests, and to the work-
ing classes generally, the exact position in
which they were placed; to show them, if
they were distressed, how that distress arose,
and to advise them not to look for relief in
any other way than through the source
from whence the evil sprung. No one could
expect that those opinions could be spread
through a whole country in a very short
space of time, and yet, strange to say, within
the year since our labours began, we have
seen the farmers, at least, and a very con-
siderable portion of the working classes,
proclaiming their conviction as to the true
cause of their distress, and their resolution
to look for relief only through the removal
of that cause.
So far this is gratifying: we
are not vain enough to suppose that this
effect has been produced by our labours
alone the seed was sown long before our
day: when it fell upon good soil, it yielded
immediately and abundantly: it has been
our part to prepare a soil which required
much tillage before the seed would take
root; or so take root as to bring forth fruit.
Each day is increasing the breadth of our
tillage; and our determination is, that no
nook or cranny of our native land shall com-
plain that it is unprepared to receive the
seed of the truth respecting its distress.

:

Mr. Cayley's motion for an inquiry, whether Parliament HAD or HAD NOT the power to relieve the distress, was rejected by a majority of 90. It was brought forward, it is true, under untoward circumstances. Lord John Russell had given notice of his intention to develope the Corporation question the same night; Mr. Cayley had already given way twice or thrice to the Government; and, having the precedence, would not yield upon this occasion. The consequence was, that those members who considered party