... andMr. Gladstobe parts with them the more willingly inasmuch as the tax is admittedly a bad one. Exactly 25 years ago, when a Whig Govern- ment first attempted to deal with the abuses of Protection, the proposal to reduce the duty on foeeign timber was one ...

... concocted, with the hope of eatching the Adul- lamites, substituting an £8 for a £7 franchise in -. boroughs. If the lalf-hearted Whigs do zlot iil- prove of this plan, the Opposition will submit y another, allowing tile reduced borough franehise to :r stand ...

... process to the towns containing adles than 8000 souls is to be condemned as the weak and 'al illiberal proposal of mere Whigs, and all the boroughs . I under 10,000 inhabitants are to be threatened with the CC fate of their smaller brethren. As a similar ...