{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/apr/25/income-tax-committee", "section": "income-tax-committee", "cue_text": "\"Laughter.\"", "preceding_text": "lst privation and distress so generally prevailed in the country. He believed that the Queen would be glad that the reduction of expenditure should if possible be made. It could not be pleasing to her to see all the glittering appearance at her court, such as formerly distinguished the court of Louis 16th, whilst tales of misery and destitution came from every part of the manufacturing community. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/apr/25/income-tax-committee", "section": "income-tax-committee", "cue_text": "\" Laughter.\"", "preceding_text": "t than he should. Before sitting down, he had again to urge upon the right hon. Baronet, that in order to carry put his own principle of not protecting any particular interests, he ought to tax rea1 property by descent in the same manner as, personal property had been taxed since 1758. He had for ten years been \"hammering \"that measure upon the House, with, he was sorry to say, but little effect. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/apr/30/southampton-election-mr-mabson", "section": "southampton-election-mr-mabson", "cue_text": "\" Order.\"", "preceding_text": "he Sergeant-at-Arms, not for the purpose of procuring additional evidence from him, but as a punishment for the manner in which he had given his evidence. He felt, that in using the expression he had done, after that avowal of the hon. Member for Gateshead— § Mr. Hutt: I rise to order, Sir. I feel, Sir, that the hon. Gentleman is not entitled to say, after having used the indecent expression—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/apr/30/southampton-election-mr-mabson", "section": "southampton-election-mr-mabson", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"Chair,\" and \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": " strongest terms which the forms of the House would allow. The hon. Member did not, however, as it appeared to me, use any strong expression affecting the hon. Member for Knaresborough. I trust the hon. Member for Knaresborough will see, that it is perfectly irregular to allude to what has been said in a former debate. § Mr. Hutt Perhaps, if I am perfectly in order, the House will permit me— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/apr/30/southampton-election-mr-mabson", "section": "southampton-election-mr-mabson", "cue_text": "The hon. Member was again interrupted by loud cries of \"Order,\" and \"Chair.\"", "preceding_text": "rhaps, if I am perfectly in order, the House will permit me— [ Loud cries of \"Chair,\" and \"Order.\"] I presume the House is not going to refuse to hear me in explanation of my course of proceeding—some explanation of the charges made against me. Sir, I am disposed to approach this subject in all calmness. As I have stated, I did not use the expression attributed to me. The expression I did use was—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/apr/30/southampton-election-mr-mabson", "section": "southampton-election-mr-mabson", "cue_text": "Cries of \" Order, order.\"", "preceding_text": "f my course of proceeding—some explanation of the charges made against me. Sir, I am disposed to approach this subject in all calmness. As I have stated, I did not use the expression attributed to me. The expression I did use was—[The hon. Member was again interrupted by loud cries of \"Order,\" and \"Chair.\"] Surely the commonest indulgence might be granted me. I did not say that for the purpose of—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/apr/30/southampton-election-mr-mabson", "section": "southampton-election-mr-mabson", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "it could not be a court of appeal while without evidence in the cases referred to it. Every hon. Member must have been vexed at the introduction of such questions into the House, seeing that they could not be discussed without exciting feelings and language that must be deplored. Therefore, everything that took place with regard to election petitions ought to be altogether removed from the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/apr/30/southampton-election-mr-mabson", "section": "southampton-election-mr-mabson", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "doubt on the subject, he would not oppose the inquiry which was suggested. § Sir C. Napier had not last evening an opportunity of replying to a grave charge made against him by the right hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government. He had been accused by the right hon. Baronet of having endeavoured to embarrass the Government by bringing forward a motion of an unparalleled character—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/aug/08/ipswich-election-writ", "section": "ipswich-election-writ", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " by Ipswich committee, on 10th July, 1835, that Arthur Bott Cook, John Bury Dassent, John Pilgrim, and others, were guilty of bribery at the said election. Arthur Bott Cook was one of the men who caused the miscarriage of the noble Lord and the hon. Gentleman, who were unseated this Session. The evidence showed that he bribed Richard Bishop with 8 l ., William Pack, jun., with 10 s . to his wife. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/aug/08/ipswich-election-writ", "section": "ipswich-election-writ", "cue_text": "Cheers;", "preceding_text": " to get up and say, \" we will set this report at naught,\" he thought that the sooner the House parted with its jurisdiction in these matters the better. This was the first committee in reference to which he had heard complaints made so openly, and he would say, so indecently, as they had been made. He had seen them in the public prints—he had heard them openly made in the lobbies about the House; "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/07/importation-of-foreign-corn", "section": "importation-of-foreign-corn", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: What was the duty at that time?", "preceding_text": "and the most calculated to do good. It was then proposed that wheat and wheaten flour then in bond should be allowed to be taken out of the warehouse at a certain duty, and that the King in council should have the power to allow the importation of foreign corn, the quantity not exceeding 500,000 quarters. The agricultural interest was most strenuously0020opposed to the Government on the occasion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/07/importation-of-foreign-corn", "section": "importation-of-foreign-corn", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Corn ought to be admitted now.\"", "preceding_text": "diate effect will be to hold out inducements to the proprietors of bonded corn to withhold that corn from the market. What does the House say to a proposition for enabling the Privy Council during the sitting of Parliament to alter the votes of both Houses, and determine the price at which foreign corn is to be admitted? I want to know at what price it is that Government is to admit foreign corn? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/11/repeal-of-the-corn-laws", "section": "repeal-of-the-corn-laws", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: More than double", "preceding_text": "ers; in the former week the duty was 22 s . 8 d ., and in the latter week the duty was 23 s . 8 d . This quantity had to be set against the 25,000 and the 48,000, introduced in the two weeks under the operation of the right hon. Baronet's diminished duty. This larger quantity having been brought in, be it remembered at a duty almost double that under which the smaller quantity had been brought in—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/11/repeal-of-the-corn-laws", "section": "repeal-of-the-corn-laws", "cue_text": "Loud groans from some hon. Members .", "preceding_text": "nt, even although their very countenances told him that they felt it was condemned? Let them never expect to find another Prime Minister who would take office to uphold such a monopoly. They had killed Canning by thwarting him, and they would visit the same fate upon their present leader if he persevered in the vain attempt to govern for the aristocracy whilst professing to govern for the people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/11/supply", "section": "supply", "cue_text": "Cheer", "preceding_text": " in the world in which there was more jobbing than in the militia and volunteer regiments of Canada. There might be a necessity for keeping up such forces; but the Government ought to tell the House what kind of forces they were, their numbers, their pay, their expenses, their constitution and regulations, and what proportion of their charges the Canadians themselves defrayed? When he left Canada "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/11/supply", "section": "supply", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "jobbing and expenditure of public money during the period of the first insurrection. He had stated nothing to the House which could not be fully supported and borne out by facts. Why, within the space of eight miles in Canada there were (during the period he was in that country) no less than seventeen military colonels; and in one regiment there were fifty officers be- 1371 longing to one family. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1842/jun/02", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1842/jun/02/national-distress", "section": "national-distress", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "d. He had lately asked a gentleman connected with a town in which distress existed, how it was that the people had borne their sufferings with such 1130 patience, for he thought that if he had seen his children perishing around him from want—if he had seen the felon in gaol better treated than the person willing to work—sooner than submit to this, he thought he would have gone and helped himself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jun/14/belfast-election", "section": "belfast-election", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "en the Tory Gentleman of the same board was affected by it? Or, perhaps it will be said, that you felt it necessary to patronise this Gentleman in return for his condescension in patronizing the present Administration. In his address to his constituents he tells them, that the best proof he can give of his entire confidence in the present Administration is, that he has accepted office under them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jun/14/customs-acts-the-tariff-coals", "section": "customs-acts-the-tariff-coals", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: The supply of coal will last 1,700 years.", "preceding_text": "land and Durham will be exhausted in a period not greatly exceeding 200 years. This opinion rested on the high authority of Mr. Bakewell. Another eminent geologist was asked this question (May 6, 1830)— What do you think of the policy of permitting the exportation of coals to foreign ports from Newcastle?\" and his answer is, \"It is permitting foreigners to consume the vitals of our own posterity. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/may/10/customs-acts-the-tariff", "section": "customs-acts-the-tariff", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "be in some parts of the kingdom a partial failure, and we may be able to procure a supply of a better article from the continent, and is it not to the manifest advantage of agriculture to promote the introduction of what is in some sort to be looked upon in the light of a raw material? We have, therefore, reduced the duty from 20 s . per cwt. to 5 s . per cwt. on grass-seeds. Take, again, onions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/may/10/customs-acts-the-tariff", "section": "customs-acts-the-tariff", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_text": "t the English grazier would have felt a panic twice as great as the panic which has now been felt, and he would have said, that it was utterly impossible for him to contend against the competition of Ireland and Scotland. I am quite ready to admit, that with respect to Ireland and Scotland, there was this difference, that they, being 373 parts of the United Kingdom, arc entitled to import cattle. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/may/10/customs-acts-the-tariff", "section": "customs-acts-the-tariff", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "d to vindicate those points which have been most subjected to animadversion. I know that many Gentleman who are strong advocates for free-trade may consider that I have not gone far enough. I believe that on the general principle of free-trade there is now no great difference of opinion, and that all agree in the general rule that we should purchase in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/may/10/customs-acts-the-tariff", "section": "customs-acts-the-tariff", "cue_text": "Cheers.'", "preceding_text": "tion it was or was not material for the House to be in possession of. § Mr. Shaw deprecated the waste of valuable time which had been caused by the motion. Major Vivian said, he had derived his information from a person in no respect connected with the Government, and it was probable he had acquired the page of Mr. Meek's report through the carelessness of the head of one of the departments. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1842/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/may/24/customs-acts-the-tariff-cattle", "section": "customs-acts-the-tariff-cattle", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: That was owing to the new Poor-law.", "preceding_text": "could be called a fire, which was probably only a few embers. On the shop keeper asking the mother of the young man, if she knew where her son had got the potatoes which he had brought in to her, she replied, No; I was afraid to ask..' He then went to the pot and took off the lid and on looking in, he found a portion of a dead dog, which the poor family was boiling to eat along with the potatoes. "}