Gladstone Salve - For Tender Consciences Finish:20-pack 'The Singer Yvette Guilbert'

'The Singer Yvette Guilbert'

View of nos 80 - 86 Whitechapel High Street

the archbishop of Canterbury offers to bless an apple woman if she will take her hat off

Portrait of an elderly man with thinning grey hair and a rather stern expression

The first Blackfriars Bridge

Gladstone Salve - For Tender Consciences Finish:20-pack 'The Singer Yvette Guilbert''Gladstone Salve For Tender Consciences', 1863. Mr Gladstone's 1863 Budget began with the premise that there was a surplus of 3,741,000. Various small increases in duties would bring that to a total of 3,874,000. But then, a number of reductions in duties and income tax (down from 9d to 7d in the pound) would diminish the return and the surplus would dwindle by 3,343,000. Here, Mr Punch translates Mr Gladstone's 'political language' to show that