Modern England, 1815-1885Longmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 80 pages |
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Page 45 - Mill, were undertaken by him some four years after his retirement from official life, in consequence of the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company...
Page 35 - IVel was convinced that protection was no longer tenable ; but his cabinet would not follow him. Lord Stanley resigned, and the ministry broke up. Lord J. Russell was unable to form a cabinet, and Sir R.
Page 38 - Universal suffrage. 2. Annual parliaments. 3. Vote by ballot. 4. Abolition of property qualification for members of parliament.
Page 6 - Byron died for the^awakened freedom of the land to which poetry owes so much. The Greeks fought well and bravely against the Turks, who could not put down their rising foe. 4. A congress of European powers was summoned to meet at Verona in the north of Italy, in 1822, apparently for Canning's the purpose of discussing the affairs of Greece, policy. it was attended by the Duke of Wellington as representive of England. As soon as it was suggested by the other powers that a general interference should...
Page 35 - In a season of financial pressure, it appeared to some of the most influential manufacturers of that thriving town that the only remedy for the evil lay in free trade, and that by artificially keeping up the price of corn the manufacturing interests of the country were sacrificed to the supposed benefit of the agricultural interests.