The extraordinary black book: an exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland; civil list and crown revenues; incomes, privileges, and power, of the aristocracy; Privy Council, diplomatic, and consular establishments; law and judicial administration; representation and prospects of reform under the new ministry; profits, influence, and monopoly of the Bank of England and East-India Company, with strictures on the renewal of their charters; debt and funding system; salaries, fees, and emoluments in courts of justice, public offices, and colonies; lists of pluralists, placemen, pensioners, and sinecurists: the whole corrected from the latest official returns, and presenting a complete view of the expenditure, patronage, influence, and abuses of the government, in Church, state, law, and representation. By the original editor.
Wade, John, 1788-1875.
The extraordinary black book: an exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland; civil list and crown revenues; incomes, privileges, and power, of the aristocracy; Privy Council, diplomatic, and consular establishments; law and judicial administration; representation and prospects of reform under the new ministry; profits, influence, and monopoly of the Bank of England and East-India Company, with strictures on the renewal of their charters; debt and funding system; salaries, fees, and emoluments in courts of justice, public offices, and colonies; lists of pluralists, placemen, pensioners, and sinecurists: the whole corrected from the latest official returns, and presenting a complete view of the expenditure, patronage, influence, and abuses of the government, in Church, state, law, and representation. By the original editor. - London : Published by Effingham Wilson, 1831. - xx, 576p.
First published in 1820 as "The black book, or, corruption unmasked"
Great Britain. Parliament --Reform.
Political corruption--Great Britain.
Great Britain--History--19th century.
The extraordinary black book: an exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland; civil list and crown revenues; incomes, privileges, and power, of the aristocracy; Privy Council, diplomatic, and consular establishments; law and judicial administration; representation and prospects of reform under the new ministry; profits, influence, and monopoly of the Bank of England and East-India Company, with strictures on the renewal of their charters; debt and funding system; salaries, fees, and emoluments in courts of justice, public offices, and colonies; lists of pluralists, placemen, pensioners, and sinecurists: the whole corrected from the latest official returns, and presenting a complete view of the expenditure, patronage, influence, and abuses of the government, in Church, state, law, and representation. By the original editor. - London : Published by Effingham Wilson, 1831. - xx, 576p.
First published in 1820 as "The black book, or, corruption unmasked"
Great Britain. Parliament --Reform.
Political corruption--Great Britain.
Great Britain--History--19th century.