This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...a felon should be punished for his felony, and that his family should not lose his estate, nor, if he had one, his hereditary title. But it was at the same time, at the suggestion of a provident Treasury, directed that the costs of his conviction might be charged upon the property of which he stood possessed. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...a felon should be punished for his felony, and that his family should not lose his estate, nor, if he had one, his hereditary title. But it was at the same time, at the suggestion of a provident Treasury, directed that the costs of his conviction might be charged upon the property of which he stood possessed. The horrible direction, pronounced for the last time over some of the Irish Fenians in 1867, that the body of a traitor should be drawn and quartered after death was also obliterated and repealed as inconsistent with the character of modern 1s7o England. At the same time a great, tardy, and most bene ficial change was made in the administrative system of the country. By Order in Council, dated the ComD6l-it-ion 7th of June, all the Public Offices in the State, it-'$113 V" except the Foreign Office, were thrown open to public competition, and thus the proposals made in 1853 by Sir Charles Trevelyan and Sir Stafford Northcote were at last, after many years of opposition from the privileged classes, almost entirely carried out.' Mr. Gladstone had been in favour of them from the first, even when in other respects his opinions were Conservative. But until he became Prime Minister the resistance was more than he could overcome, and even in 1870 Lord Clarendon, who disliked the whole scheme, was strong enough to exempt the Foreign Office from its provisions. His successors have preserved the mixe principle of examination and patronage in that department. Otherwise the intellect of the country has been placed at the disposal of the State, subject to the drawback of low salaries and exclusion from Parliamentary life. The old Civil Service contained many capable and some extremely brilliant men. Since 1855, when a limited form of competition wa...
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