SECTION 1 Cursory review of the seasons and crops of 1836 and 1837 3
SECTION 2 Character of the season in 1838.prices and estimated produce of wheat 6
SECTION 3 Character of the season of 1839.prices and estimated produce of wheat 13
SECTION 4 Relative prices of wheat and barley 18
SECTION 5 Influence of the corn laws on prices 20
SECTION 6 Effects which a bounty would have had 43
SECTION 7 Suggestion of the substitution of a fixed duty 46
SECTION 8 Conjecture as to the prices at which wheat would range in the event of a free trade 48
SECTION 9 On the effect of the prices of provisions on the condition of the working classes 51
CHAPTER Ⅱ ON THE PRICES OF PRODUCE,OTHER THAN CORN 53
CHAPTER Ⅲ ON THE STATE OF THE CIRCULATION IN 1838 AND 1839 66
SECTION 1 Causes of the recent depression of our foreign exchanges,and the consequendrinn the coffers of the Bank of England 67
SECTION 2 On the regulation of the bank issues in 1838 and 1839 75
SECTION 3 Doctrine of the supposed duty of the Bank of England to accommodate the trade,and to support the commer credit of the country 100
SECTION 4 Result of the review of the management of the bank in 1838 and 1839 112
SECTION 5 Vindication of the bank from some groundless charges 114
SECTION 6 Examination of the effects imputed by mr.hume in his speech of the 8th of July,1839,to the management of the Bank of England 120
CHAPTER Ⅳ ON THE SEVERAL ALTERATIONS PROPOSEDIN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CURRENCY,WITH IEW TO REMEDY THE EXISTING DEFECTS 174
SECTION 1 On the proposed total separation of the business of issuing bank notes from that of the deposits,and other mere banking oraios 177
SECTION 2 Plan proposed for retaining the present system of union of the two departments,with greater security against the risk of suspension 187
SECTION 3 On the two schemes which offer themselves,consistently with the present standard,in the event of the bank charter not being renewed 203
SECTION 4 On proposed plans for altering the standard 209
SECTION 5 On the effects of a silver standard 211
SECTION 6 On the effects of a double standard 216
SECTION 7 On a system of paper circulation without a defined principle of limitation 218
SECTION 8 Digression on the suspended american banks 228
SECTION 9 Summary of the preceding review of the state of the circulation,and of some of the alterations proposed in our banking system 243
CHAPTER Ⅴ OBSERVATIONS ON A RECENT PUBLICATION BY MR.SAMUEL JONES LOYD,“ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CIRCULATION,AND ON THE CONDITION AND CONDUCT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND,AND OF THE COUNTRY ISSUES,DURING THE YEAR 183”26