The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14
The Financial Reform Almanack For 1887
Contents
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The Financial Reform Almanack for 1887 p. 10
- [introduction] p. 10
- Quarters of the Year.—Greenwich Time
- Eclipses
- Law Sittings
- University Terms
- Hebrew Calendar
- Common Notes, Festivals, Fasts, and Anniversaries
- Tidal Constants of Ports and Places in the United Kingdom. — The Time of High Water
- January p. 11
- February
- March
- April
- May p. 12
- June
- July
- August
- September p. 13
- October
- November
- December
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The Queen and Royal Family p. 14
- [introduction] p. 14
- Table of Kings and Queens of England
- Imperial Parliaments of the United Kingdom
- Area of the British Empire: Its Population, Finances, and Commerce p. 15
- Articles (exclusive of Food) imported into United Kingdom. — Raw Materials (Quantities—in Thousands only) p. 16
- Manufactures (Quantities in Thousands only, Values Not Abbreviated)
- Administrations and Chief Ministers from 1702 to 1886 p. 17
- Alphabetical List of the House of Commons
- Parliamentary and Electoral Statistics. — Alphabetical List of Places Represented p. 28
- General Election (1886) p. 38
- The House of Commons — Under the old Regime p. 39
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The Corrupt Practices Prevention Act (1883) p. 40
- [introduction] p. 40
- Boroughs
- Counties
- "Packing" the House of Commons in the Landed Interest
- The Unreformed House
- The Reform of 1832
- The Reform of 1868
- The Acts of 1885 p. 41
- Anomalies of the New Representation
- Statistical Aspects of the General Elections of 1832 and 1868 p. 42
- The English Farmers and the Tory Party
- Financial Reforms Achieved
- The House of Lords p. 43
- Comparative Age of Peerages p. 44
- List of Liberal Peerages gone over to the Tory Party in recent years p. 47
- How to Commence Reform
- Statistics of the Peerage
- Alphabetical List of the House of Lords p. 48
- Representative Peers for Scotland
- Representative Peers for Ireland
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Peers of Parliament (in own Right)
- Dukes
- Marquesses
- Earls
- Viscounts p. 58
- Recapitulation
- Peers and Peeresses Who Hold only Scotch Patents p. 69
- Peers Who Hold only Irish Patents
- Recapitulation of Totals. — (Peers, &c., not having Seats in House of Lords.)
- Finance Accounts of the United Kingdom p. 72
- Details of Income, Gross and Net. — Public Income. (Gross.) p. 73
- Public Expenditure. — Expenditure p. 74
- Twelve Years' Tables of Income and Expenditure p. 76
- Ten Years' Details of Revenue. (Figures unabbreviated.) p. 78
- The National Debt
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Gross Public Income and Expenditure from 1801-10 to 1886 p. 83
- [income and expenditure] p. 83
- Samples of War Expenditure
- Tables p. 84
- Loss of Life by War p. 85
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Estimates for Civil Services
- Class I,—Public Works and Buildings
- Class II—Salaries and Expenses Op Civil Departments
- Class III.—Law and Justlce p. 87
- Class IV.—Education, Science, and Art
- Class V.—Foreign and Colonial Services p. 88
- Class VI.—Non-Effective and Charitable Services
- Class VII.—Miscellaneous
- Totals of the Several Classes p. 89
- Revenue Departments
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Army Estimates.1886-87
- Principal Points of Difference between the Estimates of 1885-86, and those for 1886-87
- Average Strength of the Regular Army at Home and Abroad p. 90
- Establishment Op the Militia, 1886-87
- Numbers of Yeomanry Cavalry
- Establishment of the Volunteer Force
- General Statistics of the Volunteer Force (All Arms)
- Army Estimates for 1886-7 p. 91
- Army Pay and Allowances. — Staff Officers at Home
- Navy Estimates
- Navy Pay and Allowances
- Royal Marines Pay and Allowances p. 97
- Local Taxation of the United Kingdom p. 98
- Local Expenditure of the United Kingdom
- Amount of Government Grants in Aid p. 99
- The Underassessment of Mansions, &c
- Poor Rates and their Application
- Educational Statistics p. 103
- Population Statistics — Comparative Increase of County populations (in thousands) p. 104
- Estimated Population at the Middle of Each Year, From 1840 to 1886 p. 105
- Marriages, Births, and Deaths
- Progress of Railways in Thirty-One Years
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Our Indian Empire p. 109
- Important Dates in the History of British Power in India p. 109
- VI.—Statistics of Education in India, 1881 p. 113
- VII.—Distribution of the Religious Denominations of the Population under Education
- VIII.—Seven Years' Imports (Quantities)
- IX.—Seven Years' Exports (Quantities) p. 114
- X.—Taxation, Income, and Expenditure of Municipalities in the several Presidencies and Provinces
- XI.—Principal Sources of Income of Municipalities
- XII.—Principal Heads of Expenditure of Municipalities p. 115
- XIII—The Indian Import Tariff
- The Export Tariff p. 116
- XIV.—Statement showing one Year's Gross Expenditure in England of the Government of India
- Average Annual Consumption of the Principal Imported and Exciseable Articles per Head, for the Total Population of the united Kingdom p. 117
- The Suez Canal
- The Bank of England Monopoly p. 118
- Amount Received and Paid by Trustees of Savings Banks; and Computed Capital Invested at the End of Each Year from 1841 to 1885 p. 123
- Average Annual Gazette Prices of British Wheat, Barley, and Oats, per Imperial Quarter
- The Land Question
- Other Facts and Figures Bearing on the Land Question
- Acreage under each Crop, Fallow, and Grass; and Number of Live Stock in Great Britain and Ireland, including the Isle of Man and Channel Islands p. 132
- Statistics of Agriculture p. 134
- The Irish Land Question
- "Promotion by Merit" in the British Public Service: and how it Works or is "Worked." p. 135
- Arrears of Rent (Ireland) Act
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Crown Lands
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- Ancient Demesnes
- Acquired Demesnes
- Alienation and Resumption
- Seizure of the Monastery Lands
- Enrichment of the Aristocracy
- The Nature of Crown Land Property and Revenues p. 138
- Present State or the Land Revenues p. 139
- The Cost of the Royal Family p. 140
- Deceased Sovereigns p. 143
- Recapitulation
- Royal Public Parks and Pleasure Gardens (Expenditure Upon) p. 144
- Statistics of Europe. — Military and Naval Summary of Europe in 1886
- The Hereditary Revenues p. 145
- Total Real Value of Imports and Exports
- Average Prices of Imports and Exports, 1875 and 1885
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The State Church p. 149
- [introduction] p. 149
- Votes of the Bishops in the House of Lords
- Church Property the Property of the State
- Nature of the Ecclesiastical Revenues
- The Establishment in Wales p. 153
- The State Church of Scotland
- A Method of Disendowment for England and Wales
- Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Irish Church
- Statistics of Nonconformity p. 155
- Other Facts and Figures Bearing on the Church Question
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Import and Export Statistics p. 157
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- Progress of Foreign Trade p. 158
- Progress of British Shipping
- Memorandum p. 159
- Quantities of Wheat, Wheat Flour, and other Grain Imported into the United Kingdom
- Declared Value of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures Exported
- Customs Revenues (1884) of British Colonies and Possessions p. 160
- Proportionate Values of British Trade with Colonies and with Foreign Nations
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The Pension List p. 162
- [tables] p. 162
- Civil List Pensioners p. 164
- Hereditary Pensions
- List of Taxes And Imposts p. 166
- The Inhabited House Duty
- The Customs Duties
- The Stamp Duties
- The Income Tax
- Income Tax
- Evasions of the Income Tax p. 178
- Lands and Property in Mortmain
- The Land Tax
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- Statistics of Land Tax
- The Constitutional Right to a Revision of the Land Tax p. 183
- 1.—The Ancient Revenues of England
- The Crown Lands, or Folcland. — 2.—Saxon Land Tenures
- 3.—The Terra Regis of Domesday
- 4.—Crown Land Public Property, and Unalienable
- 5.—Folcland granted away to Royal favourites p. 184
- 6.—The Injustice resulting to Taxpayers
- 7.—Privileges of Crown Tenants in Ancient Demesne
- 8.—Resumptions of Alienated Crown Lands p. 185
- 9.—Enquiry and Partial Restitution both prevented by the Aristocracy in 1688
- 10.—The Grants and Alienations of Queen Elizabeth
- The Feudal Tenures. — 11.—The Feudal Tenants and the King
- 12.—Feudal Sub-Tenancies and Copyholds
- 13.—Knight-service Tenures
- 14.—Character of the Rents then Exacted
- 15.—Introduction of Scutage
- 16.—Scutage Levied only by Consent of Parliament p. 186
- 17.—The Seven Feudal Incidents
- 18.—(I.)
- 19.—(II.)
- 20.—(III.)
- 21.—(IV.)
- 22.—Empson and Dudley's Offences p. 187
- 23.—(V.)
- 24.—(VI.)
- 25.—(VII.)
- 26.—Binding nature of the Feudal Contract p. 188
- 27.—Proposals for its Relaxation or Variation
- 28.—Oppressive Incidence of the Tenures
- 29.—The Commonwealth Assessments p. 189
- 30.—The Tenures at the Restoration in 1660
- 31.—Suggestion to fix a Rent-charge in Lieu
- 32.—Coke, Noy, and Blackstone approve the Rent-charge p. 190
- 33.—The Convention Parliament votes an Excise
- 34.—The Debate Described
- 35.—Copyholders and Feudal Sub-tenants denied Relief
- 36.—Extent of Revenue from the Feudal Tenures p. 191
- 37.—Gravity of the Constitutional Change Effected
- 38.—The feeling of Landholders towards Wars
- 39.—Change of Fiscal Methods at the Revolution
- 40.—The Landed Interest oppose a Land Tax p. 192
- 41.—Effect of their Manoeuvres in 1690-1
- 42.—The Land Tex Act of 1962 p. 193
- 43.—Obvious intention of this and later Acts as to Assessments
- 44.—The Tax an equivalent for the abolished Revenue from Tenures
- 45.—Alterations of the Act in 1696 p. 194
- 46.—New Valuation not taken in 1697
- 47.—The neglect stereotyped
- 48—Personalty under the Land Tax Acts
- 49.—A Question needing Reply p. 196
- 50.—An Error Combated
- 51.—Reply to the Question in Section 49 p. 197
- 52.—The Land Tax Illegally Levied
- 53.—Also Illegally Assessed
- 54.—Therefore Inequitable and Unconstitutional
- 55.—The Redemption difficulty Met p. 198
- 56.—Unjustifiable position of the Landowners
- 57.—The Purchase-money of their Estates unpaid, and still owing to the State
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The Financial Reform Almanack for 1887 p. 10