[286] Mrs. Simpson's Many Memories, p. 237.
[287] For paper on Irish income-tax, see Appendix.
[288] Loans made to Ireland for various purposes.
[289] Cavour, as Costi's letters show, took an eager interest in Mr. Gladstone's budget speech.
[290] Greville, Third Series, i. p. 59.
[291] Northcote, Twenty Years of Financial Policy, p. 185.
[292] Mr. Gladstone received valuable aid from Bethell, the solicitor-general. On leaving, office in 1855 he wrote to Bethell: 'After having had to try your patience more than once in circumstances of real difficulty, I have found your kindness inexhaustible, and your aid invaluable, so that I really can ill tell on which of the two I look back with the greater pleasure. The memory of the Succession Duty bill is to me something like what Inkermann may be to a private of the Guards: you were the sergeant from whom I got my drill and whose hand and voice carried me through.'
[293] The city articles of the time justify this statement.
[294] Gladstone Memo., 1897. See also Appendix.
[295] It may be said, however, that Peel was right about the yield of the income-tax, and only overlooked the fact that it would not all be collected, within the year.