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 . -enthusiasts. Stanleys Bill secured immediate freedomfor all children of si.\ years of age and under. The rest wereto serve a twelve j-ears apprenticeship; but this expedient wasabandoned after four jears disheartening experiment. Theplanters received the comfortable compensation of £20,000,000. Lord Althorp bungled his Budget, being defeated on a motionfor the reduction of the malt tax by one-half He was dr
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 . -enthusiasts. Stanleys Bill secured immediate freedomfor all children of si.\ years of age and under. The rest wereto serve a twelve j-ears apprenticeship; but this expedient wasabandoned after four jears disheartening experiment. Theplanters received the comfortable compensation of £20,000,000. Lord Althorp bungled his Budget, being defeated on a motionfor the reduction of the malt tax by one-half He was drivento threaten the House with a general j^roperty and income POLITICAL HISTORY. 153 1832-18461 tax, and Opposition votes tnrnod the scale. The Government,however, renewed its contract with the Bank of England fortwentj-one years, and made bank-notes legal tender, in spiteof an irrational outcry against the possible depreciation of paper. The session of LS34 found the Grey Ministry tottering. ANew^Lord Durham, after insulting his father-in-law, had resigned ° ?^•because it was not sufficiently Radical. There followed theretirement of Stanley and the more Conservative members,. A PROTEST AGAIXST EMAXCIPATIOX. (from a satirical print of 1S33.) who were frightened by a motion of ^Ir. Wards on the IrishChurch, embodying the principle of the Appropriation , the meddlesomeness of Lord Brougham and theblundering indiscretion of ilr. Littleton, the new Chief Secretaryfor Ireland, produced hopeless mismanagement over the renewalof the Irish Coercion Act. Lord Althorp persisted in resigning,and in July Lord Grey declared the administration at an end. On Lord Melbourne, who judiciously declined to form aCoalition Cabinet with Peel and Stanley, fell the thankless taskof patching together the old Cabinet, with the assistance ofAlthorp Before the prorogation of Parliament the ISill tor thereform of the Poor Law passed (p. 302). It dealt with a rate 154 THE NEW SPIRIT AND TH
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