{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/aug/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/aug/16/colonial-representation", "section": "colonial-representation", "cue_text": "laughter.", "preceding_text": "bow. The first was, that the colonial Representatives should be elected for three years certain, whether in that three years there should be one, or two, or more, Parliaments elected in England. The colonial Member appointed to one Parliament, in the event of a dissolution, might hold his seat till the return of the Writ to the new Parliament. This interval might be six months for the West Indies "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/aug/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/aug/16/colonial-representation", "section": "colonial-representation", "cue_text": "Mr. Croker: I did not laugh at all. I was reading this paper.", "preceding_text": ", might hold his seat till the return of the Writ to the new Parliament. This interval might be six months for the West Indies [ laughter. ] He had begun his speech by expressing a fear, that very few Members who heard him would give their attention to the subject, but he was now convinced, that those who laughed did give their attention to it. The late Secretary to the Admiralty might laugh, but—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/feb/28/mr-oconnell-and-the-irish-government", "section": "mr-oconnell-and-the-irish-government", "cue_text": "cries of \" No, no \"", "preceding_text": "as he had been on this occasion, to enter into a discussion of the motives which impelled the hon. and learned Member to make such a declaration. He knew them not—more than that, he envied them not. He trusted that the House, if he had been betrayed into the use of any expressions which were inconsistent with its dignity or his own character,—which were not fit for him to use, or for them to hear "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/feb/28/mr-oconnell-and-the-irish-government", "section": "mr-oconnell-and-the-irish-government", "cue_text": "Peels of laughter for some minutes.", "preceding_text": "e in Ireland equal rights and equal privileges with those enjoyed in England, if the people would only take his advice. He would repeat the words \"if the people would only take his advice,\"—that is, if they would only agitate constitutionally, and bring forward their claims firmly, manfully, and peaceably, untarnished by crime, and unaccompanied by outrage. On this point then he stood triumphant. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/feb/28/mr-oconnell-and-the-irish-government", "section": "mr-oconnell-and-the-irish-government", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": "our. The right hon. Secretary had told the House of what he (Mr. O'Connell) had not done. He would beg leave to tell the right hon. Secretary of what he (Mr. Stanley) had done. The Marquis of Anglesey arrived in Ireland almost unnoticed. Shortly afterwards, he (Mr. O'Connell) went to Dublin. The people of Dublin thought proper to pay so humble an individual as himself a compliment on his arrival. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/feb/28/presentation-of-petitions", "section": "presentation-of-petitions", "cue_text": "cries of \"Move, move! \"", "preceding_text": "uilty of extremely disorderly conduct in the Gallery, 1033 which seemed to have been passed by entirely without notice. It did not become the dignity of the House to allow the member for Waterford to be insulted with impunity. He(General Gascoyne)had had the honour of sitting in that House for nearly thirty years, and in all that time he had never witnessed so insulting a breach of its privileges "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/feb/28/privileges-of-the-house", "section": "privileges-of-the-house", "cue_text": "order!", "preceding_text": "im. He could assure the Speaker and the honourable Members, that he was brought to the House by his business, and in coming there he was not guided by any improper motive, nor did he contemplate doing anything that was prejudicial to his country. He thought he had a right to enter the Gallery as an individual, and he conceived that the hon. Member could not expect that he should remain silent and—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jul/06/parliamentary-reform-bill-for-england", "section": "parliamentary-reform-bill-for-england", "cue_text": "laughter.", "preceding_text": ", and yet left that splendid community in the same state of confusion which had prevailed for nearly half a century, for the whole of the forty-five years which had passed since it was promulgated. He, at least, would never consent to this. He would miss no opportunity to declare against it, till he was compelled to submit to that, which no human power on earth should ever compel him to submit to "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jun/22/report-of-the-address", "section": "report-of-the-address", "cue_text": "\" Cries of No, no. \"", "preceding_text": " the security of the Church in Ireland. Now, religion was a good trade in most countries, but in Ireland it was particularly so. The poor of Ireland supported two Churches, one of which they believed to be necessary to themselves, and they maintained it out of their own poverty; and the English Parliament said the other was necessary for them, and accordingly taxed them enormously for its support "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jun/30/reduction-of-public-salaries", "section": "reduction-of-public-salaries", "cue_text": "great laughter", "preceding_text": " of the worthy Alderman. Such inconsistence was, he supposed, a misfortune which attached to the other side of the House. Now, what was the proposition which the noble Lord called on the House to reject? To return to the salaries of 1797; whereas the worthy Alderman had proved, from authentic documents, that the necessaries of life were lower, whilst the salaries of public officers were all risen "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jun/30/reduction-of-public-salaries", "section": "reduction-of-public-salaries", "cue_text": "renewed laughter", "preceding_text": "posed, a misfortune which attached to the other side of the House. Now, what was the proposition which the noble Lord called on the House to reject? To return to the salaries of 1797; whereas the worthy Alderman had proved, from authentic documents, that the necessaries of life were lower, whilst the salaries of public officers were all risen [ great laughter ]—aye, whilst the salaries were risen "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jun/30/reduction-of-public-salaries", "section": "reduction-of-public-salaries", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "e of the House. Now, what was the proposition which the noble Lord called on the House to reject? To return to the salaries of 1797; whereas the worthy Alderman had proved, from authentic documents, that the necessaries of life were lower, whilst the salaries of public officers were all risen [ great laughter ]—aye, whilst the salaries were risen [ renewed laughter ]. Well, then, they were raised "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jun/30/reduction-of-public-salaries", "section": "reduction-of-public-salaries", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": "were all risen [ great laughter ]—aye, whilst the salaries were risen [ renewed laughter ]. Well, then, they were raised [ hear, hear ]. He was much obliged to the other side of the House for setting him right. But he assured them that he did not stand up there with any factious intentions. He stood there to do his duty to the people, especially to that portion, of which he was the Representative "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jun/30/reduction-of-public-salaries", "section": "reduction-of-public-salaries", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "ef. It was true, that the Ministers themselves had not pretended that it would have such an effect; but the Press and the out-scouts of the Ministers had pretended so. Yes he said the Press and the out-scouts of the Ministers deluded the people. The people had been made to expect from the Reform Bill what he knew it could not realize. Whenever his servants went into the shops in the neighbourhood "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jun/30/reduction-of-public-salaries", "section": "reduction-of-public-salaries", "cue_text": "An hon. Member of the Opposition burst into a violent laugh.", "preceding_text": "he situation of the country at the time when the late Ministers fled from the helm, declaring themselves unable to guide the vessel of the State. He would tell the right hon. Gentleman that at the moment when the late Ministry so fled, the six home counties were almost in open insurrection; that the state of Ireland was most alarming; that the foreign relations of the country were most disturbed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/jun/30/reduction-of-public-salaries", "section": "reduction-of-public-salaries", "cue_text": "laughter, and cries of \"hear\" from the Opposition", "preceding_text": "ers introduced the Reform Bill as a parliamentary measure. By that Bill they were prepared to stand or fall. If they carried it, all their pledges of economy would be redeemed; and by a strict attention to those principles, which had already secured them the support of the people of England, they would stand, not convicted of a base dereliction of duty, but would go down to posterity-as Ministers—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1831/jun/30", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1831/jun/30/reform-petitions", "section": "reform-petitions", "cue_text": "Cheers from the Ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": "ith a firm opposition, and that I shall be prepared to do my duty to myself. I have said thus much, and I might say a great deal more. If there should come a contest between this House and a great portion of the people, my part is taken, and with that order to which I belong, I will stand or fall. I will maintain, to the last hour of my existence, the privileges and independence of this House.\" * "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/mar/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/mar/09/ministerial-plan-of-parliamentary-reform", "section": "ministerial-plan-of-parliamentary-reform", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear,\" from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "ngth, he certainly meant to be as brief as possible. He felt that it was a peculiarly difficult task to state his opinions after the very extraordinary speech of the hon. Gentleman, who, though many years his junior, had the fiat, anticipatory of the future services which he would do his country, already sealed on his conduct, by being, even now, a very considerable recipient of the public money. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/mar/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/mar/09/ministerial-plan-of-parliamentary-reform", "section": "ministerial-plan-of-parliamentary-reform", "cue_text": "Cries of' \"no, no!\"'", "preceding_text": "count the usufruct. Now, supposing an hon. Gentleman about to receive 50,000 l. , or whatever else it was worth, as compensation for the loss of Corfe Castle, he should like to know at what sum they would estimate the enjoyment of the office of Cursitor Baron preceded by a Commissionership of Bankrupts which the hon. Member's son or brother had obtained solely from the possession of that borough. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/sep/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/sep/09/supply-education-of-the-irish", "section": "supply-education-of-the-irish", "cue_text": "\"hear, hear\" from Mr. James E. Gordon.", "preceding_text": "h certainly would make him hesitate to say that this was a proselytizing Society. That passage stated, that no surprise ought to be felt when the Roman Catholics refused to receive the Bible instruction of the schools without note or comment; but why should the members of the Society on that account break down the goodly system of their house to meet the Catholic views of the fancied improvement? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/sep/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/sep/09/supply-education-of-the-irish", "section": "supply-education-of-the-irish", "cue_text": "cries of \"order, order.\"", "preceding_text": "hat any pains had been taken to correct the mistake when it was discovered. Colonel Perceval was glad to correct 1302 any erroneous impression which had been created by the mistake, and it was now evident that it was nothing else. § Mr. James E. Gordon said, that he rose to put himself right with the Committee. He was no match for the hon. member for Kerry in the language of the fish-market. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/sep/28/supply-windsor-castle-and-buckingham", "section": "supply-windsor-castle-and-buckingham", "cue_text": "order, order.", "preceding_text": "hose to which the vote now before the House, was to be applied. He, for one, was entirely taken by surprise, when he heard himself called on to agree that so large a sum should be voted away for the repairs and erection of palaces which would never be inhabited, for he had entertained some hopes that all such outlays would have ceased with the reign of that most extravagant Monarch, the late King "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/sep/28/sugar-refining-act", "section": "sugar-refining-act", "cue_text": "Cries of Question.", "preceding_text": "ere adopted, no beneficial result would ensue. § Mr. John Wood said, the speech of the learned Gentleman (Mr. Burge) was, certainly, very eloquent, and gave a very true picture of the state of the West-Indian interests; but he entirely denied that it was at all connected with the Bill at present before the House, or with the subject under discussion, which question he most carefully avoided. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/sep/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/sep/29/grand-jury-laws-ireland", "section": "grand-jury-laws-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "ce of the persons selected to perform the work thus resolved on by the Grand Jury. The works, too, were often done in a slovenly manner—the accounts of the expenses were lax—there was no check on the expenditure—the works were often undertaken, not for public advantage, but in many cases for private benefit alone. As a proof of this, he would mention a case that had occurred in the county of Mayo "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1831/sep/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1831/sep/29/grand-jury-laws-ireland", "section": "grand-jury-laws-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": " embankment by one expense, it would be a piece of economy; but it had not that merit, for there was no road leading to it on either side. The witness, in his account of the matter, added— \"There was no road intended to be made, and I imagine there was no use for a road there, as there was a bridge within a quarter of a mile of the place.\" It was to be hoped that such instances as these were rare "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1831/sep/29", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1831/sep/29/reform-city-of-london-petition", "section": "reform-city-of-london-petition", "cue_text": "\" hear, hear. \"", "preceding_text": " their Lordships by placing such a reliance on their decision in this important matter; and, above all things, he fondly hoped that that result would not be the rejection of those measures—a result which would be to all the friends of the tranquillity and prosperity of the empire, a subject of the deepest regret. § Lord wynford would take that opportunity to deny that he was an Anti-reformer "}