...the Treasury. Mr. Canning said, he wanted to know of what use were the Lords of the Treasury, except to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the Minister when he was wrong. MB. HUME said, that it was his opinion that, as they had lowered the prices of food...

...he may have done nothing beyond his duty when an admiralty lord, as defined by his witty leader, " to make a house, to keep a house, and to cheer the minister." He spoke but once on questions of foreign policy ;* and then it was in sentences that may yet prove...

...Paymaster-General (c). (a) Mr. Canning is said to have described the duties of Junior Lords of the Treasury to be, "to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the Minister." (Report to H. of Com. on Admiralty, 1861, No. 972.) (b) Report to H. of Coin, on Admiralty, 1861, Nos....

...system, were very much what Mr Canning described to be the duties of Junior Lords of the Treasury, — to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the minister. In the business of the Admiralty they had very little to do. They had no departmental 1s32. duties assigned...

...system, were very much what Mr Canning described to be the duties of Junior Lords of the Treasury, — to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the minister. In the business of the Admiralty they had very little to do. They had no departmental 1s32- duties assigned...

...jocosely on the shoulder, and shakes hands heartily even with Irish MP's. His duty is, as Canning said, " To make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the minister." Altogether he is a very powerful man ; not an orator, but perhaps something better, as facts speak...

...a Board exists, but its members have no power, and are the very officials whom Canning said existed to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the ministers. The India Office has a fixed " Council;" but the Colonial Office, which rides over our other...

...board. Such meetings are merely formal, and are held by the junior lords, whose real duties are said to be " to make a House, to keep a House and to cheer the Minister." A similar practice prevails in the Board of Trade and in the Admiralty. ,f- In the latter department...

...a Board exists, but its members have no power, and are the very officials whom Canning said existed to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the ministers. The India Office has a fixed " Council ; " but the Colonial Office, which rules over our...

...and, I fear, had been rather neglectful of his duty, which was threefold, and was defined thus — " To make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the Minister." He could therefore only reply to the latter fragment of the speech which he had heard, and which he...