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 . nance, and given much impetus topublic works. His successor. Lord Northbrook, had to contendwith a famine in Lower Bengal, and proved quite equal tothe emergency, though a worse visitation awaited the empirein 1876 and 1877. The trial of the Gaikwar of Baroda foran attempt to poison the British Resident ended in anunsatisfactory acquittal, but the Government felt justified indeposing him. A war with King Cof
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 . nance, and given much impetus topublic works. His successor. Lord Northbrook, had to contendwith a famine in Lower Bengal, and proved quite equal tothe emergency, though a worse visitation awaited the empirein 1876 and 1877. The trial of the Gaikwar of Baroda foran attempt to poison the British Resident ended in anunsatisfactory acquittal, but the Government felt justified indeposing him. A war with King Coffee Calcalli, of Ashanti,necessitated by his constant raids into the Gold Coast Colony,resulted in the capture of Coomassie by Sir Garnet Wolseley,and a hastily concluded treaty of peace. Mr. Disraeli, having attained his own at last, formed aMinistry of experienced men of affairs. Lord Cairns was Lord POLITICAL UISTORY. 527 1385] Chancellor; Sir S. Xorthcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer; The ^^^Lord Derby (formerly Lord Stanley), Foreign Secretary Lord M^ (Lord Cranborne, p. 519), Secretary for Carnarvon went to the Colonial Office again; Mr. Gathorne THE bottle iiuldeu, by sir joiix texmel. ^neproductd hij special permission nf the Pnprielors of Punch.) Hardy (afterwards Lord Cranbrook) became Secretary for War;and Mr. R. A. (afterwards Lord) Cross, Home Secretary. The bennnino-s of the new Government were modest ThePuWicenough. Much of the session was spent m amendmg its pre- ^^^decessors Acts. A Scottish Church Patronage Act removedsome of the anomalies of lay patronage, but did not healthe breach of thirty years. The Public Worship Regulation DomesticLegisla-tion. The Eastern Question. 528 THE SUCCESSION OF TEE DEMOCRACY. (1865 Bill, on the other hand, engendered much Parliamentaryheat. Introduced as a disciplinary m^asfire b} the Archbishopof York, both Lord Shaftesbur}- and Lord Salisbury received itwith imconcealed dislike. In
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