... a more influential Liberal member. We have been accustomed to so much mismanage- ment and jobbery in the allotment of the Civil List pensions that we ought perhaps to receive in silence the .names of the persons most recently added. We have no wish to ...

... was Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, and it was mainly owing to his energy and persistence that limited, and even- tually open, competition was substituted for patronage in public appointments. Of late the scope of the Civil Service Commission ...

... manulacturers as against the power by feudal tenure. The middle and working-classes were united as no theory, no Charter, no merely heroic issue could have united them. The cheap Press was teaching the reasun- ableness of the Chartiet poitrs; there was ...