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Excerpt from Imperial and Colonial Partnership in EmigrationThe chairman I have much pleasure in calling upon Mr. Torrens to address you on what we all feel to be a most interesting subject. (hear, hear.)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to d...

Excerpt from Empire in Asia: How We Came by It, a Book of ConfessionsBut distance, which had hitherto left fair Hindustan secure from European lust, seemed to lessen year by year, after the Portuguese and Dutch mariners had proved that the Cape Of Storms could be safely passed in ships of heavy burthen. The prolific isles Of the Eastern Sea were speedily lit upon by these birds Of adventure, and the loud satisfaction they were heard to express...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Right Honourable William, Second Viscount Melbourne, Vol. 1 of 2Some historic tribute, it will be owned, is due to the memory of a man who by the space of forty years took part in pro moting every legislative change which subsequent experience has approved, and who in three successive reigns filled some of the most responsible offices of state. And if the recollec tions of his public life be found entwined with thos...

Excerpt from Imperial and Colonial Partnership in Emigration This is union, indeed, this is something like wisdom. They come of the old stock, these men of Canada, and we may well be proud of them they are doing for their country what I suppose we should do in similar circumstances for our own, but what a figure we should cut in history and in our own domestic policy with this despatch on the table of both Houses, if our Government were to sa...

Excerpt from History of Cabinets, Vol. 1: From the Union With Scotland to the Acquisition of Canada and Bengal William of Orange - Parliament confers the Crown but retains the Sceptre Division of Offices - Ministers but no Ministry - King attempts Legis lation - Queen Mary and her Advisers - Irish Forfeitures - Marl borough in the Tower - Triennial Act - Legislative Veto - Treaty of Ryswick - Parliament Annuls Royal Grants - Accession of Anne...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Right Honourable William, Second Viscount Melbourne, Vol. 1 of 2Some historic tribute, it will be owned, is due to the memory of a man who by the space of forty years took part in pro moting every legislative change which subsequent experience has approved, and who in three successive reigns filled some of the most responsible offices of state. And if the recollec tions of his public life be found entwined with thos...

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Excerpt from Lancashire's Lesson, Or, the Need of a Settled Policy in Times of Exceptional Distress: A Letter Addressed to the Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M. P., President of the Poor Law Board Public Works Act, Who Blameable for Delay, Operatives Good Labourers, Waste Time and Waste Labour, Exceptional Employment, Public Work in Ireland, Municipal Conscience, Blackburn and Manchester, Statement of Mr. Rickards, Loans, How used at Man...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Right Honourable William, Second Viscount Melbourne, Vol. 2 of 2 With the overwhelming majority of the 30th of April against a dissolution of the Union, the triumphs of the Grey administration came to an end. They had been many and signal, the firstfruits of an influence almost unbounded which had been won by the achievement of Reform, and the exercise of which seemed to be irresistible, while those who mainly cont...

Excerpt from The Marquess Wellesley: Architect of Empire, An Historic Portrait Of the eminent men whom in earlier years I had many opportunities of closely observing, none seem to me so characteristically representative of the two races long alienated by evil laws as those whose likeness I have sought to trace in these volumes. The ideas and usages of a dominant caste, taught from childhood to believe themselves indispensable to the maintenan...

Excerpt from Empire in Asia: How We Came by It, a Book of Confessions The bravest hearts and clearest heads among them during the seventeenth century, never dreamed that they were marking the site, if not laying the foundation, of an empire - not of the ocean merely, or its isles, - not of trade alone, with its infinite produce, - but of territory won by the sword for its own rich sake, and kept by the same for the like reason. About the Pub...

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Excerpt from History of Cabinets, Vol. 2: From the Union With Scotland to the Acquisition of the Acquisition of Canada and Bengal John Scrope, mp. For Lyme Regis, who had been for many years Business Secretary to the Department, when called on to give evidence, refused to take an oath which would have bound him to disclose what had been done with traced to his hands and those of the Minister, for the purposes of Secret Service. About the Pub...

Excerpt from The Government of London Notwithstanding the rapid increase Of building for domestic and manufacturing purposes on both sides Of the river, it had long preserved its early character for clearness and salubrity. Little heed was taken byeits easy-going Conservators of the gradual substitution Of steamboats for tardier means Of trans port, or Of the increasing refuse from noxious traders, and the outfall from deleterious factories. ...