... exception «' engagements, it was a matter of utter indifprovided promissory note was to paid in ''whether they adopted the gold standard of ft. or 4/. 25., or 4/. 65., or anything else, no' relief to commerce if the standard was now 1- instead of 3/. 17s. ...

... withor pendent on another, whereas when analysed and examined, is found to be an aliquot part, that is 160-623rds of of gold standard fineness. If we were in monetary tions to substitute for the word pound, the word aliquoi, we should avoid much confusion ...

... political horizon is calm and quiet enough at present, and 1 may at my age fairly hope not to outlive the reign of the gold standard. It is hardly necessary to notice at any length the proposals, from some quarters of no great authority, of returning in ...

... objected to what you call free trade, not because it is free trade, but because it is not free trade, until we abolish the gold standard ; or, other words. Sir Robert Peel's bill of 1819. I believe that the bill alluded to has been the sole cause of the d ...

... fact already in progress from commercial balances without that act, and would not be accelerated by it. The exclusive gold standard medium is thought also to be a more than questionable measure of policy. This is the only country where such an arbitrary ...

... No no:. on.' ) Well, then, would state his views the subject of convertibility and the standard. (Hear, hear ) What the gold standard was he was unable to'say; but that it was something of consequence in the opinion of the right hon. bart. was clear from ...

... w~ho were thcn estcemed gzreatest and tetreorges conviction that, wvith a metal- L alo small circulation, and a fixed gold standard, pecuniary er- fhlutuations would altogetller eoas lo- IWe always feel som1e sentiment for one-pound notes, be- he cause ...

... hesitation of our contemporary. If, as is the case in this country, all contracts are sub- ject to the ultimate test of a gold standard, it is abun- dantly plain that the equilibrium of prices between this country and other countries is maintained in a very ...

... being the heart of the commercial world, are felt to the remoteat parts of the globe. Can the currency be'kept up to the gold standard in no other way than by these Juggernaut sacrifices; this immola. tion of all other interests under the wheels of the car ...

... placed himself at the head of the German movement, and contributed not a little & towards the raising of the Schwarz Roth Gold standard on the Stephans Pla'z. At that time the court considered him a semi-revolutionist, and it is therefore utterly inexplicable ...

... 'the price fall,'or permanently rse,, se I may be the. case,; e such an accident will not materially affeqt us, with s e gold standard and a token ?? coinage which can- not be destroyed till the price of silver exceedsa 6, 6d. an ounce, thei rate Iof'eo ...

... reference to Califor- 'Aia, has no doubt created a' greater disturbance in the ex- changes between those countries using a gold standard, and those using a silver standard, and between the relative prices of the metals, than the increased supply of gold actually ...