Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . f)„,U. liii.^^el! .1 Sons. lii UEOiUiE tiOIlDUX.[From the statue bij Oiislom Ford, , at Cliathmi.) shed. At first the Government was bent on the reconquest ofthe Soudan: then it wavered, and determined to retire on theEsryptian frontier. _ . ^As an additional trouble there came in March a collisionbetween the liussians and Af-hans, at Icnj-deh. War between 540 THE SUCCESSION OF THF DE^LOCEACY.
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . f)„,U. liii.^^el! .1 Sons. lii UEOiUiE tiOIlDUX.[From the statue bij Oiislom Ford, , at Cliathmi.) shed. At first the Government was bent on the reconquest ofthe Soudan: then it wavered, and determined to retire on theEsryptian frontier. _ . ^As an additional trouble there came in March a collisionbetween the liussians and Af-hans, at Icnj-deh. War between 540 THE SUCCESSION OF THF DE^LOCEACY. [1885 England ami llussia seemed inevitable. The Indian Govern-ment prepared to defend the frontier; Mr. Gladstone asked for avote of credit of eleven millions. That luckless financier,Mr. Childers, was forced to produce a most disastrous Budget,and on one of ins resolutions the Crovernment found itself ina minority of 12 (2()4 to 252), and resigned. Lord Salishury formed a ilinistrv, with Sir M. Hicks-Beach asChancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House, and Lord. Penj-deli. TUE OP THE TIDE, (lUprodULcd Jnj special pprmhsion of the Jropriffors «iy ifnn7(.) R. Chureiiill as Secretary for India. Sir Stafford Xorthcote was The Firstsomewhat vmgraciously transferred to the LTpper House with the qq^^^^First Lordship of the Treasury. The Cabinet adhered to its ;lecessors latest policy in Egypt, while all danger of a collisionwith llussia was removed Iw the appointment of a joint com-mission to determine the Afsfhan frontier. Before the sessionclosed, the Lord Chancellor for Ireland, Lord Ashbourne, carrieda meritorious Act for facilitating land purchase in Ireland. Atthe general election, however, which began in November, thoughthe English boroughs showed a strong Conservative gain, the[ As Earl of Iddesleigh ; lie died not long afterwards.]
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