{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/jun/04/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "\" Cheers.\"", "preceding_text": " in that House; it was applauded by Lord Ashburton, with whom the right hon. Baronet ought, perhaps, to have some fellow-feeling; and it passed the House of Lords— the great Conservative body of the kingdom, as it was called—without a division.: If that measure were so fraught with evil as it had since been described to be, was it not the duty of the Tory party to arrest it in the House of Lords. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/jun/04/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Who signed the address?\"", "preceding_text": "Lord, if I for a moment thought him guilty of being capable of such a production. I refer to it merely for the purpose of showing the calm and temperate language which is employed, in the endeavour to excite the people, on the eve of a general election, at a time when the House of Commons is called on to deliberate upon a question of the most exciting nature that can be placed before the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/jun/04/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "\" Cheers\"", "preceding_text": "kely to be too favourably disposed towards us, or anxious for our continuance in office, declared, that we had acted prematurely in resigning. That opinion the noble Duke expressed both in public and private. Having resigned our offices, however, the right hon. Baronet was called upon to form an administration; but his attempt to do so failed, owing to circumstances to which I will not now refer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/jun/04/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Lord John Russell: Hear, hear !", "preceding_text": "ned. No doubt all this is perfectly true. But do I affirm it was their duty to resign? No. The propriety of resignation depends upon a combination of circumstances. But I ask the noble Lord, of what avail are his precedents, with reference to himself? He cannot deny that there may be circumstances in which it may be proper for a Ministry to resign, on being defeated on their own legislative acts. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/jun/04/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "tful announcement that the Government had at length determined to exist no longer on sufferance. Yes, the noble Lord, stung by a sense of that humiliation to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred, two years ago, told us, that their situation was intolerable, and that the Government had at last determined that they would exist no longer upon sufferance—but you have had some humiliation since "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/mar/30/newfoundland", "section": "newfoundland", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "tter to eudeavour to amend the constitution, and to improve the working of it whenever they could, than to abolish a representative government in the colony as a remedy. He confessed that he should entertain some doubts of the attachment, of a House of Commons to a representative constitution, which would consent to the repeal of the constitution of a colony, unless on the very strongest grounds. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/17/sugar-duties-ways-and-means-adjourned", "section": "sugar-duties-ways-and-means-adjourned", "cue_text": "Ironical Cheers.", "preceding_text": "peal of the Union than any act that had been committed for the last thirty years. It was not a resolution merely upon sugar and upon slavery, but it was also a resolution to unseat the Government that had done justice to the Irish people. And he would not be acting fairly as an Irish representative, if he did not warn them before they raised seven or eight millions of people in arms against them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/17/sugar-duties-ways-and-means-adjourned", "section": "sugar-duties-ways-and-means-adjourned", "cue_text": "Opposition Cheers.", "preceding_text": "rity of the House, as it had been scouted by the people of this country. He reiterated the hope of the hon. Baronet, the Member for Marylebone, (Sir B. Hall) that her Majesty's Ministers would feel it their duty to appeal to the country upon these measures. He did sincerely hope that they would make that appeal, and especially after the first display they had seen of the feelings of this country: "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1841/may/17", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1841/may/17/corn-laws", "section": "corn-laws", "cue_text": "Oh, oh.", "preceding_text": " I did not intend to interrupt the noble Earl, but I wished to have the remark distinctly understood. I must say that it is quite contrary to all my experience. § Earl Fitzwilliam was glad to hear it; but he was afraid that his remark applied as well to the agricultural, as to the manufacturing classes. When the price of corn had risen two or three years ago, there had been no rise in wages. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " but it was consequent on the policy of the Government. The noble Lord charged the Conservative party with a dishonourable coalition with the Chartists. This he denied. In a late contest the Chartists offered their support to the Conservative candidate, who had been most active in putting them down, on the ground that the noble Lord and the Government had first misled them and then punished them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh,\"", "preceding_text": "t to have read and known—to reports on the table, where there was ample evidence of bribery and corruption. Why, it was but last night that a right hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Wynn) gave notice of a motion to institute a prosecution for bribery and corruption. Did the House believe, that they would have ever heard of that proposition if there had not been the fear of a dissolution of Parliament? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "\" Cries of Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "o do what the Tories had not been able to do for nearly a century — to conquer the French in negotiation and to secure the peace of Europe. The right hon. Baronet had observed silence as to his policy. Now, it was very well known that many of those who supported the right hon. Gentleman were loudly calling for the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Bill . 914 Was that bill to be repealed or not. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "t transactions, he would admit that the late division on the question of the sugar duties did certainly produce a state of things, from which it must have been apparent to every one that matters could not be suffered to go on in their present condition, and that the Government did not possess sufficient authority in the House to carry through those measures which they had submitted to its notice. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Hear, Hear from the Ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": "l was, in all essential particulars, the ground work of the bill subsequently passed. [ No, No. ] I contend, most distinctly, that it, was so. The measures, were identical in all essential particulars, save that, in the one first introduced, the commutation was voluntary; whilst in that introduced by the present Government commutation was rendered compulsory after the lapse of a certain interval. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Mr. Warburton: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "e upon this subject than, in passing, to observe that this measure furnishes another proof that Ministers are compelled to come to this side of the House for their principles and examples; for, after all, the measure is mainly founded upon the principle and model of the Metropolitan police, founded by my right hon. Friend, the Member for Tam-worth. Next comes the Penny Post— that is all your own. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Mr. Hume: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ce; and, if the truth were known, I have no doubt that since their budget has been scouted by the House of Commons, and the deficiency of the revenue has involved them in fatal financial difficulties, they now feel that the warning of the Postmaster-general was prophetic. I wish the Gentlemen joy of that measure. The next of the measures to which we have been referred is the Irish Municipal bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Mr. Hume : Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "kenny cheers. Why, I thought he was not satisfied with that measure. That measure passed; and it is the only measure, in the present Parliament, which Ministers have forced without the full concurrence of their opponents. But were they able to force even that measure, without large concessions?— concessions which destroyed the very vitality of the bill in the eyes of the hon. Member for Kilkenny.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Lord Howick: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ures which they think necessary. I am now about to comment on a measure which appears to me to afford at once a test of the legislative skill of the Government, and of their power to carry their intentions into effect. I allude to the Poor-law Amendment Bill . I was a party to the introduction of the New Poor-law. I attach the greatest importance to it: I think it a measure of primary importance. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "An hon. Member, hear:", "preceding_text": "s House, over which the hon. Member for Peterborough presided, and on which I also had the honour to serve, was studiously overlooked. I will give the House some proofs of the strength of the Government, and also of their legislative skill, in their conduct with respect to this bill. The most important part of the measure was, that which projected the prolongation of the commission for ten years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not a distant day.\"", "preceding_text": "nded by Ministers. Now, I ask the hon. Member—I ask any man—whether, when my right hon. Friend gave notice of the motion, any conduct could be more ambiguous than that of the Government? The Chancellor of the Exchequer, fixed a day for considering the sugar duties; and the noble Lord, the Secretary for the Colonies, named a distant day for propounding the Government plan respecting the Corn-laws. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1841/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1841/may/28/confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "section": "confidence-in-the-ministry-adjourned", "cue_text": "Cheers from the Ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": "rney. He is a good constitutional authority at all events. Upon that an- 962 nouncement being made by Mr. Canning, Mr. Tierney said—\" As for a dissolution, I am convinced that it cannot be intended, particularly when I see that a religious clamour is raised, because the malice of the devil himself could not have thought of preparing for a dissolution by the wicked cry of the ' Church in danger.' \""}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1841/oct/05", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1841/oct/05/the-corn-laws-explanation", "section": "the-corn-laws-explanation", "cue_text": "Lord Melbourne — \"Hear, hear,", "preceding_text": "which I do not entertain in order to secure a full attendance of Members.\" He was sure the noble Viscount would admit the correctness of that statement, and that what he referred to was the attendance of Members in the present Session of Parliament. He was sure the noble Viscount could not mean that the notice was to be given to secure a full attendance in six months' time, or any distant period. "}