 | 1896 - 734 pages
...Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet in 1855, after the Crimean DOWNING STREET, WHEREIN ARE THE OFFICIAL RESIDENCES OF THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AND THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY. War, which had hung like a dark shadow over all the Government's achievements, brought anew Chance... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1898 - 664 pages
...Chancellor of the Exchequer that the Government could not alter the gold standard in the United Kingdom. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury both expressly indicated the re-opening of the Indian Mints to the free coinage of silver as the contribution... | |
 | Richard Henry Gretton - 1913 - 164 pages
...Ministerial Reception-Rooms ; in the right-hand corner next to these rooms, a new War Office ; and the houses of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury, joining the War Office to the Treasury Building, would have completed the quadrangle. The Home Office... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1914 - 374 pages
...centuries, famous for its patronage of art and letters. 245:32. Lord Halifax. Charles Montague (16611715), the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury, was a liberal patron of the writers of the Restoration and the Queen Anne periods of literature. He... | |
 | Forrest Capie, Geoffrey E. Wood - 1999 - 456 pages
...Bank found it necessary to avail themselves of the permission granted on behalf of the Government (by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury of that day) to extend the note issue beyond the legal limits. The excess issue amounted to £2,000,000,... | |
 | Kenneth A. Schultz - 2001 - 326 pages
...profit and no power to England" (Newton 1929, p. 157). Similar views were held by the secretary of war, the chancellor of the exchequer, and the first lord of the treasury, Alfred Balfour, who wrote that military action was not the best course, but perhaps the "least bad"... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1848 - 674 pages
...not think you can apply any relief effectually, unless it is applied much earlier. 6467. The letter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury, in October last, stopped the panic and alarm, did it not ? — Yes, as far as the panic went ; but... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1874 - 1088 pages
...repelling selfish assaults upon the public purse are undeniably among the essential and primary duties of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury. But while these high officials have fancied that they were entrusted with the money of the country,... | |
 | 1868 - 332 pages
...implements of play. It takes a long period of time to get people out of any settled habits, and although the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury may not have old or dirty cards placed before them, we know many houses where clean cards are the exception... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 578 pages
...suspending the Act should, when there was ' danger of uncontrollable domestic ' panic,' be vested in the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury. Such a sliding scale — such a legal power ' within the law ' of occasionally breaking the law —... | |
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Bank, or of the other great corporate body, but from that panic to which his right honourable friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the First Lord of the Treasury alluded in the passage which had been referred to, as having existed, and as being... 
