The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England: with Letters from Ireland: Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographical History, Volume 2James Ainsworth, 1853 - Free trade |
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Page 31
... French chambers , has prevented , even up to the present hour , the de- finitive arrangement of any general treaty to regulate the commercial intercourse of the two countries . A vast mass of statistical facts were collected for the ...
... French chambers , has prevented , even up to the present hour , the de- finitive arrangement of any general treaty to regulate the commercial intercourse of the two countries . A vast mass of statistical facts were collected for the ...
Page 32
... French raw silk . The lowering of the tonnage on British vessels to one - third of its previous amount . The diminution of the duty on coals . The foundation was also laid of the Post Office arrangements since carried into effect ...
... French raw silk . The lowering of the tonnage on British vessels to one - third of its previous amount . The diminution of the duty on coals . The foundation was also laid of the Post Office arrangements since carried into effect ...
Page 49
... French government were unwilling to make any real concessions on their part , in return for those offered by Great Britain . Various arrangements , which promised beneficial results , had , however , been made on both sides . The ...
... French government were unwilling to make any real concessions on their part , in return for those offered by Great Britain . Various arrangements , which promised beneficial results , had , however , been made on both sides . The ...
Page 59
... French and some other nations , had long been acknowledged as a great disadvantage in our competition with them , in both the home and foreign . market . This inferiority was justly attributed to the want of some means of instruction in ...
... French and some other nations , had long been acknowledged as a great disadvantage in our competition with them , in both the home and foreign . market . This inferiority was justly attributed to the want of some means of instruction in ...
Page 67
... were almost entirely confined to the banks of the St Lawrence and its tributary streams . The country was governed and the lands held under the French law , known by the name of the Coutume FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 67.
... were almost entirely confined to the banks of the St Lawrence and its tributary streams . The country was governed and the lands held under the French law , known by the name of the Coutume FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 67.
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