ABSTRACT
In Parliament, Radical criticisms of Sir Robert Peel’s financial proceedings were largely confined to the customary attacks of Hume and Williams on the alleged magnitude of the military and naval estimates. A Radical crusade which deserves some notice is H. G. Ward’s attempt to revive the Irish Church issue on June 11th and 12th. In moving the exclusion of incomes earned in “trades, professions, and offices” from the operations of the Income-tax, Roebuck led a Radical attempt to confine Incometax for the future to unearned income. More perilous to Peel than the Radical objections of detail or the finessing of Whig ex-Ministers, anxious to return to office, was the deep-rooted distrust of the “landed interest. The Government’s Irish programme was not confined to Maynooth. On May 9th the Government announced another Irish measure which, though enjoying practically unanimous Whig and Radical support, provoked further trouble inside the Tory party.
