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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...Ministerial scheme, they could scarcely obtain a hearing in consequence of the great excitement which prevailed. On the Government motion being put, it was negatived by a majority of 166, the number of members present being only a little over 400. This was the last question of domestic importance in a not undistinguished session. We have now reached that stage of Mr. Gladstone's career when he may be said to have touched his zenith as a financier, though for some years to come we shall still witness him administering the national exchequer with that consummate ability which made him the first of living financiers. Yet not alone in the light of a practical statesman have we regarded him; we, have seen him engaged in polemics; we have witnessed his outbursts of indignation over the wrongs of humanity in Southern Europe; and we have endeavoured to trace the results of his long and close companionship with the divine Homer. That which remains of his public life possesses as deep and wide an interest as that which has gone before; while for good or for evil its effects are irreversible, claim a much wider scope, and must exercise a permanent influence upon the national history and welfare. CHAPTER XVI. ADVANCING OPINIONS AND FISCAL REFORMS. Mr. Gladstone and Parliamentary Reform--Financial Statement of 1864--Growth of the Revenue--Decrease in the National Debt--Imports and Exports--Further Relief of Taxation--Favourable Reception of the Budget--Government Annuities and Life Insurances--Mr Gladstone on the Working Classes and the Franchise--Important Declaration--Hostility to the Palmerston Government--Mr. Disraeli's 'No Confidence' Motion--Speech by Mr. Gladstone--Mr. Bernal Osborne on the Ministry--Mr. Disraeli's Motion rejected--The Chancellor of the...

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