SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS
... SPIRIT OF -THE JO URNALS. - THE PENSION LIST. (Frorn the Observer.) The opposition to the ministerial proposal for in- quiry was founded upon the fact that, when an inquiry had been heretofore proposed into the merits of the different'pensions on the civil list, that inquiry was strenuously resisted by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, and other members of the reform cabinet. Doubtless ...