Cries, in a crisis, for statesmanship popular and patriotic to test and contest free-trade in manufacturers shammed in concessive treaties, shackled with repressive duties, and shattered by aggressive bounties, through which deviations from Le Libre Travail et La Libre Échange British aids are unduly promoting foreign aims upon our industries and shipping: and to constitutionally preserve and adjust the Empire and emigration, Parliament and its procedure, warily and warmly recognising the imperial development and imperative demands of the time. With an appendix containing the French treaty, the French shipping bounty scheme, and many illustrative extracts /
compiled by R.A. Macfie ...
- 2nd ed., with additional information regarding the French bounties.
- London : Edward Stanford, 1881.
- xxxvi, 246, [2]p.