{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/apr/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/apr/04/suppression-of-the-opium-trade", "section": "suppression-of-the-opium-trade", "cue_text": "Here some hon. Members laughed.", "preceding_text": " in China. He says that he considers dram-drinking more injurious, both to health and morality, than opium smoking. He says, that the comprador or cashkeeper of his firm, had smoked opium for thirty or forty years, and that no bad effects had resulted from it. He adds, that he was one of the cleverest fellows he had ever met with, and that in thirty years he had never known him to make a mistake. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/apr/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/apr/04/suppression-of-the-opium-trade", "section": "suppression-of-the-opium-trade", "cue_text": "An hon. Member : And compose us", "preceding_text": "d be most unjust, if, for the purpose of opening a market for the British 467 manufactures, you adopt measures which must inevitably have the effect of destroying the agriculture of India. Are hon. Members so very sensitive on the subject of opium? Did we not derive a large revenue from tobacco; a revenue to the amount of 3,400,000 l . on the tobacco smoked and chewed, to excite and stimulate us. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/apr/27/harbours-between-portsmouth-and-the", "section": "harbours-between-portsmouth-and-the", "cue_text": "Cries of \" Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "tons at Ramsgate harbour; if under 300 tons, the charge was but one halfpenny per ton, and if above 300 tons only 2 d. § Mr. Mackinnon in reply said, he feared he should appear to be placed in that position spoken of by the hon. and gallant Member for Brighton—of making only a sham fight; but after what had fallen from the right hon. Baronet he had, no alternative but to withdraw his motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/aug/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/aug/15/servia", "section": "servia", "cue_text": "Viscount Sandon had only referred to the speech of the hon. Member for Shrewsbury.", "preceding_text": "s, which he hoped that he would 843 do at some time or other, instead of indulging there in censuring the present Government for not following his example. § Mr. Smythe did not rise to discuss this subject, but rather in consequence of the charge which had been made by the noble Lord the Member for Liverpool, against certain young Members, sitting on that (the Ministerial) side of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/aug/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/aug/18/slave-trade-suppression", "section": "slave-trade-suppression", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: And those were not altered.", "preceding_text": "e denied that the recommendation of the House of Lords to a measure was a powerful argument in its favour when it came before the House of Commons, more especially when that recommendation was in favour of a bill which, like the present, involved high and important legal considerations. But the representations made to the Government were not against the whole bill, but against particular clauses. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/feb/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/feb/02/the-address", "section": "the-address", "cue_text": "Mr. Ferrand: Oh!", "preceding_text": "ation of anti-christian spirit and feeling as the tax on the people's food, whereby the employment of their industry was prevented, and all for the sake of adding to their own fortunes. Yes, that was the effect of the Corn-law, and one of its consequences is now admitted by the head of a college at Oxford, for he says that there are nearly 10,000,000 of people who are unable to eat wheaten bread. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/feb/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/feb/02/the-address", "section": "the-address", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " a stalking-horse of free-trade, and hold out a pretence to the poor man that the nostrum of free-trade was a sure remedy for his sufferings; but he would tell them that there could be no protection secured for the poor unless machinery was taxed. Machinery deprived the poor man of his daily bread. It was pronounced of him that he should 150 earn his means of subsistence by the sweat of his brow. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/feb/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/feb/02/the-address", "section": "the-address", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "t one of the hon. Member's meetings, two or three men stood forward to discuss the question of free-trade in corn. They were poor labouring men who dared to differ from an hon. Member of the House of Commons; they undertook to prove that the Corn-laws had never injured them, but that they were crushed by the tyranny and starved by the avarice of their masters. The hon. Member durst not meet them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/feb/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/feb/02/the-address", "section": "the-address", "cue_text": "\"Hear\" and laughter", "preceding_text": "hall be indulged with the attention of the House for a few moments, while I reply to the remarks of the hon. Member for Knaresborough. I can assure the hon. Gentleman, that though he may fancy he does great injury to the cause of the repeal of the Corn-laws, his speeches are considered in 154 Manchester to be best calculated for effecting the object of the League—the total repeal of the Corn-laws "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/feb/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/feb/02/the-address", "section": "the-address", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "ester I will ensure him a good hearing. Nay, more, I will accept his challenge to argue this question before a large assemblage, not only of manufacturers but of working men. [Mr. Ferrand: In public?] Certainly in public, if you choose it; and I very much doubt whether the hon. Gentleman's eloquence or his facts will persuade the audience that they have an interest in laws for making food scarce. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/feb/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/feb/02/the-address", "section": "the-address", "cue_text": "Cheers", "preceding_text": "; and I very much doubt whether the hon. Gentleman's eloquence or his facts will persuade the audience that they have an interest in laws for making food scarce. [Hear, hear.] I wonder, too, that he or his friends have not called a public meeting in favour of those laws, which he contends are so popular, in order to convince us that the voice of the country is in favour of scarcity and starvation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/feb/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/feb/02/the-address", "section": "the-address", "cue_text": "loud cries of \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_text": " in public?] I will not allow myself to enter at length into this subject, but I protest against the system adopted by the hon. Gentleman, that whenever a grave public question is discussed in this House, a diversion is attempted by bringing forward a series of personal charges, and indulging in a number of loose statements which I am afraid it will not be found so easy afterwards to substantiate "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/jul/19/medical-charities-ireland", "section": "medical-charities-ireland", "cue_text": "The hon. Member quoted the report of the committee on Medical Charities (Ireland) to show that the bill was required.", "preceding_text": "agricultural party than the Honiton farmer \"had discovered there was a worse devil in existence than Lord John.\" His object in asking the House to go into committee on the bill was threefold —immediate legislation, central control, and medical inspection; and he should endeavour from the evidence to show he did not seek for anything unreasonable, or to 1269 which any fair objection might be made. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/jul/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/jul/25/national-education", "section": "national-education", "cue_text": "Hear, and laughter.", "preceding_text": "ord. not opposing but supporting it is resolution. Looking, then, to what their duty was, and what they ought to do, as well as regarding the state of the country, he ventured to declare this to the right hon. Baronet, that if Wales had been better instructed than she was—if English masters had been sent there a hundred years ago—if the Welsh language had been put an end to years ago as it ought —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/jun/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/jun/21/inclosure-of-commons", "section": "inclosure-of-commons", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "is means, the man was made a pauper of; it would be far better that he were solely dependent on wages; he would be more independent. At the same time, he was ready to acknowledge, that in the system at present before the House, there was more independence than in the fragment system. He had another objection to this system of enclosing commons. On the common, the sports of the village took place. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/mar/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/mar/07/church-of-scotland", "section": "church-of-scotland", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: What do you say to the Strathbogie case?", "preceding_text": "He thought it would have been better for the Church then to have done so. It was not necessary to give up its jurisdiction; but for the sake of harmony, and taking into consideration the state of things in Scotland as well as the decisions of the courts, it would have been better for the Church to have recalled the Veto Act . The question had a spiritual aspect, and it had also a temporal aspect. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1843/mar/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/mar/24/factories-education", "section": "factories-education", "cue_text": "\"Oh,oh ! \"", "preceding_text": "he Church of England; and he praised it so much, that he was tempted to show by the documents before him, that the Church did not deserve his praise. The hon Member called the Church the supreme instructress of the people; he thought she performed her duties very ill, when he considered the large funds she had at her disposal. She had between 5,000,000 l. and 7,000,000 l. a-year for her services. "}