The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; vol. 2 of 4

Wilson, Robert · 1893

Mr. Roebuck and Emigration--Self-Government and the Colonies--Unsympathetic Whig Policy--Radicals and the Colonial Office--The Peelites and Hudson’s Bay Company--Financial Reform--Mr. Cobden at Variance with Mr. Bright--Combined Agitators--The Demand for Retrenchment--Trade and the Flag--Tories and Taxes--A _reductio ad absurdum_--A Raid on a Surplus--International Arbitration--Parliamentary Reform--Parliament and the Jews--The Tories oppose the Alteration of the Parliamentary Oath--Episcopal Prejudice--Tory Obstructionists--An Ordnance Department Scandal--Mr. Delane’s Attacks on Lord Palmerston in the _Times_--The Queen Remonstrates against Lord Palmerston’s Recklessness--An Anti-Palmerston…

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