...efficient members of the Cabinet were Lord Eldon, who gladly resumed the great seal; and Mr. Perceval, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons ; with Lord Hawkesbury, Mr. Canning, and Lord Castlereagh, who held the seals of the Home, Foreign,...

...year,. and twenty days.' In the new administration formed by Pitt, now created Lord Chatham, Townshend was chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. There had been difficulty, as before, in prevailin; upon him to give up his lucrative post of paymaster:...

...year and twenty days.' In the new administration formed by Pitt, now created Lord Chatham, Townshend was chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. There had been difficulty, as before, in prevailing upon him to give up his lucrative post of paymaster...

...pure and lofty character, and possessing in large measure the confidence of his party and the country, was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and leader of the House of Commons. Mr. Brougham was raised to the Woolsack, and brought to the support of the ministry indefatigable energy,...

...gold in Australia, by which great streams of emigrants were drawn from our shores to the ' diggings.' A second Burmese war broke out in 1852. The governor...compensation. He was met with an insulting refusal A second attempt to arrange the difficulty also failed ; and a British army then entered Burmah. Martaban...

...members of the Cabinet were 1807. Lord Eldon, who gladly resumed the great seal ; and Mr. Perceval, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons ; with Lord Hawkesbury, Mr. Canning, and Lord Castlereagh, who held the seals of the Home, Foreign,...

...year and twenty days." In the new administration formed by Pitt, now created Lord Chatham, Townshend was chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. There had been difficulty, as before, in prevailing npon him to give up IIM lucrative post of paymaster:...

...(November 22). Henry Brougham, now created LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX, became Lord Chancellor. VISCOUNT ALTHORP was Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons ; and LORD PALMERSTON began the most distinguished part of his official life as Foreign Secretary....

...in Australia, by which great streams of emigrants were drawn from our shores to the " diggings." 12. A second Burmese War broke out in 1852. The governor...compensation. He was met with an insulting refusal. A second attempt to arrange the difficulty also failed ; and a British army then entered Burmah. Martaban...

...four years. The Earl of Derby then formed a Con- AD servative Ministry, in which Mr. Benjamin Disraeli was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. 9. A second Burmese War broke out in 1852. The governor of Rangoon having ill-treated the commanders...