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Title: The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
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Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
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ber, 1852.f It seems fit to add the record of one personal incident in the same year,the bequest which a rich Manchester merchant, Mr. .John Camden Neild, made of his whole fortune to her Majesty—an act in which baron Stockmar saw a monument reared to the Queen during her lifetime in recognition of her simple, honourable, and constitutional career.^ * The wreck of the BIRKENHEAD steamship with reinforcements from England (February 26, 1852) demands record for the quiet heroism of the soldiers, who stood to their quarters with perfect discipline and silence till the ship sank under them. t The first message sent, from the Directors to the Prince President, seems to indicate the feeling of the commercial world of London in favour of his imperial designs, but on a condition :—that this wonderful invention may serve, under the Empire, to promote the peace and prosperity of the world. A submarine cable to Ireland was also laid in 1852. X Life of the Prince Consort, vol. ii. pp. 463-4.
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WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. CHAPTER XTV. Ministerial Re-elections—Mr. Gladstone at Oxford—State of the Continent : The Eastern Question: Russia and Turkey : France and England—Marriage of Napoleon III.—Meeting of Parliament: Speech from the Throne—Canada Clergy Reserves—Prospects after Easter : the light and dark sides—Differences in the Cabinet—Mr. Gladstones Financial Measures—Proposed Conversion of the National Debt—The Budget—Condemnation of the Income Tax—Its proposed cessation in 1860—Mr. Gladstone on its alleged inequalities—Its extension to Ireland—Duties on Irish and Scotch Spirits-New Succession Duties—Reductions of taxation—Assessed Taxes—Hackney Carriage Act—Stamp Duties: Penny Receipt Stamp—Repeal of the Duty on Advertisements :how carried—Taxes on consumption: their principle—Excise on Soap abolished—Revision of the Customs Tariff—Review of former reductions, and their effects on Commerce and the Revenue—The Tea Duty—

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