Gladstone Salve - For Tender Consciences river Nile figures and a horse-drawn wagon

figures and a horse-drawn wagon

Monument to the judge Sir Edward Bruce in Rolls Chapel

dates from 1520

is now the Earl of Beaconsfield

A crowd assembled to watch two women fighting in the street

Gladstone Salve - For Tender Consciences river Nile figures and a horse-drawn wagon'Gladstone Salve For Tender Consciences', 1863. Mr Gladstone's 1863 Budget began with the premise that there was a surplus of 3,741,000. Various small increases in duties would bring that to a total of 3,874,000. But then, a number of reductions in duties and income tax (down from 9d to 7d in the pound) would diminish the return and the surplus would dwindle by 3,343,000. Here, Mr Punch translates Mr Gladstone's 'political language' to show that