With the return of the Conservatives in 1841 and the impending grapple ...
With the return of
the Conservatives in 1841 and the impending grapple of Land and Industry, Parliament recovered its standing as the debating-place of public issues, and, what to the new electorate was even more important, as the guardian of the public purse.The country preferred an Income Tax from Peel to one deficit more from Baring. Until 1834 the traveller approaching London over Westminster Bridge saw on his left a foreshore where watermen lounged among their boats: behind it a walled garden fronting a low range of red-brick Tudor houses.
At the far left
the Chapel of St.
Carl projected almost to the water's edge, and high above all stretched the grey roof of the Hall. ...next pages >>
