Gladstone Salve - For Tender Consciences Finish:20-pack the archbishop of Canterbury offers

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

on 6th May 1882

London following their success on Sunday Night at the Palladium

Gladstone Salve - For Tender Consciences Finish:20-pack the archbishop of Canterbury offers'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