cco, wine, coffee, corn,
currants, timber, chicory, figs, hops, pepper, raisins, and rice.

18 See an interesting letter to Sir W. Heathcote in reply to other
criticisms, in Appendix.

19 On Mr. Duncan's resolution against adding to an existing deficiency
by diminishing ordinary revenue and against re-imposing the
income-tax at an unnecessarily high rate. _Moved Feb. 21._

20 Martin's _Life of Prince Consort_, v. pp. 35, 37, 51.

M9 Budget Introduced

21 Greville, III. ii. p. 291.

_ 22 Eng. Hist. Rev._ April 1887, p. 301. The majority in the Lords was
193 to 104.

23 Aug. 31, 1897.

24 Martin, v. p. 100.

25 Bright wrote to Mr. Gladstone that he was inclined "to think that
the true course for Lord John, yourself, and Mr. Gibson, and for any
others who agreed with you, was to have resigned rather than
continue a government which could commit so great a sin against the
representative branch of our constitution."

M10 Revival Of Popularity
M11 Cabinet Currents

26 See Appendix.

27 "He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put
together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically
dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of
diversified mosaic, such a tessellated pavement without cement ...
that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch
and unsure to stand upon."--_Speech on American Taxation._

M12 Defeat Of The Lords

28 At Manchester, Oct. 14, 1864.

M13 Resistance To Panic

29 For his letter to Mr. Gladstone, Dec. 16, 1859, see Ashley, ii. p.
375.

M14 Resistance To Panic
M15 Fortifications

30 See Appendix. "This account," Mr. Gladstone writes, "contains
probably the only reply I shall ever make to an account given or
printed by Sir Theodore Martin in his _Life of the Prince Consort_,
which is most injurious to me without a shadow of foundation: owing,
I have no doubt, to defective acquaintance with the subject." The
passage is in vol. v. p. 148. Lord Palmerston's words to the Queen
about Mr. Gladstone are a curiously unedifying specimen of loyalty
to a colleague.

31 "It appears that he wrote his final opinion on the subject to the
cabinet on Saturday, left them to deliberate, and went to the
Crystal Palace. The Duke of Argyll joined h