{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/aug/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/aug/06/church-patronage-ireland", "section": "church-patronage-ireland", "cue_text": "Captain Bernal: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "the understanding which was arrived at between himself and Her Majesty's Government, and that at no period has professional eminence and private character been more strictly adhered to as the rule of recommendation to the patronage of the Church. I do not believe that either parliamentary or political motives have ever influenced Lord De Grey in his recommendations to the patronage of the Church. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/feb/14/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "section": "state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "tion having been since granted, the administratrix obtained a licence from Government to sell off the stock, and the police authorities have restored it to her for that purpose. Let hon. Gentlemen opposite put themselves in the situation of the poor widow whose husband was just deceased, when her house was entered by the police for the purpose of taking possession of her deceased husband's stock. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/feb/14/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "section": "state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear,\" from the Ministerial Benches.", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman elicited a cheer from his party by attempting to show that there had been comparatively only a small increase of the military force in Ireland. But from the papers, as well as from the right hon. Gentleman's own statement, it is clear that, comparing the 1st of January, 1844, with the 1st of January, 1843, there has been an increase of 7,000 rank and file in that country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/feb/14/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "section": "state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ed in Ireland, in addition to that naval force which hovers about the coasts, and to say nothing of the battalion of marines who are 833 likewise placed upon the same service. I do not find fault with the Government for adopting those measures. It was the duty of the Queen's Ministers, in the actual state of Ireland, to take measures to provide against the consequences of their own misgovernment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/feb/14/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "section": "state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "of Ireland and of 846 England was made because the Irish were Roman Catholics. They remember that when that bill had repeatedly passed through the House of Commons it was arrested in the House of Lords, through the agency and activity of those with whom you were in daily communication, and with whom you now sit in the Cabinet of your Sovereign. They remember your conduct on the Registration Act . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/feb/14/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "section": "state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member.—He has not been accused of it till now.", "preceding_text": "re being no places of residence attached to their signatures, and but little time for inquiry, it was naturally concluded, that the name was at least one of those four; but whether it was so or otherwise, I am not prepared to say, for, as my right hon. Friend stated, 849 though Michael Dunn denied that he was a member of the Repeal Association, he did not deny that he had signed the requisitions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/feb/14/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "section": "state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member.—Both.", "preceding_text": " had gone there with two or three friends, he might have tried the question at once, by bringing an action of assault against any one who prevented him from appearing there. We now come to the main question. The noble Lord proposes to the House to go into a Committee of the whole House, not to consider measures of amelioration, but to propound resolutions condemnatory of Her Majesty's Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/feb/14/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "section": "state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "n who have attained that rank in their profession which has been bestowed on fifty Protestants. That disproportion is strikingly shown in the trials of the Traversers, where, no doubt, every efficient member of the Roman Catholic religion, was and would have been put in requisition for the defence. There were eight Queen's Counsel engaged for them, of whom five were Protestants and Conservatives. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/feb/14/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "section": "state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. Member : \"Mr. Moore.\"", "preceding_text": "ingly shown in the trials of the Traversers, where, no doubt, every efficient member of the Roman Catholic religion, was and would have been put in requisition for the defence. There were eight Queen's Counsel engaged for them, of whom five were Protestants and Conservatives. [Hear, hear.] It was certain, that only three of those gentlemen Messrs. Sheil, Monaghan, and Pigot, were Roman Catholics. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/jul/19/incendiarism-in-suffolk", "section": "incendiarism-in-suffolk", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: Who made it?", "preceding_text": " gave too low wages. The fact was that the farmers could not give what wages they liked, for they must be regulated by circumstances over which they had no control. Nevertheless, landed gentlemen endeavoured to produce a prejudice against the farmers, that they were screwing their labourers down to the lowest amount of wages, and not doing them justice. This was a most improper statement to make. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/jul/29/charitable-donations-ireland", "section": "charitable-donations-ireland", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: That was not a Bill.", "preceding_text": " was said that Roman Catholic Prelates had been consulted. He had not meant to allude to that measure, but as the allusion had been made on the other side, he would take the opportunity of showing what was the amount of difference between the measures, by contrasting them; the measure he meant that had the assent of the Roman Catholic Prelates, and the measure of Her Majesty's present Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/jun/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/jun/10/sugar-duties", "section": "sugar-duties", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \" I don't believe him.\"", "preceding_text": "derful success. What was said also of the distress on one island did not apply to another — some were doing well, and were able to compete with any part of the world, which of course depended upon the proportion which the people bore to the labour required. The case of Antigua was in point; Mr. Gurney, when he wrote his book, stated that the produce of that island had nearly doubled in six years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/jun/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/jun/10/sugar-duties", "section": "sugar-duties", "cue_text": "Mr. Bernal: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "? Was the House prepared to regard personal feelings and interests in a question of this nature, putting out of view the interests of the great body of the people? Would they legislate after this fashion, because a West India proprietor said that though the labouring population of those islands were happy, the proprietors themselves were unable to maintain the position they had hitherto occupied? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/mar/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/mar/07/relations-with-the-brazils", "section": "relations-with-the-brazils", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: No; 15 s.", "preceding_text": "mation is that which is open to all the Members of the House, the Library of the House of Commons. If the right hon. Gentleman had taken the trouble to look into Mr. M'Gregor's compilation of tariffs, he would have found in page 47 of the duties of the Germanic Union, that the duty which is levied in Germany on foreign sugar, and which I apprehend is a protective duty, is no less than 27s, a cwt. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/mar/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/mar/07/relations-with-the-brazils", "section": "relations-with-the-brazils", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: Not a protective, but a revenue duty.", "preceding_text": "hich I apprehend is a protective duty, is no less than 27s, a cwt. [An hon. Member: No; 15 s. ] No; it is 27 s., and not only that, but the course of events there of late years has been adverse to the Brazils; for about three years ago the duty was only 15 s., but within the last two years the Germanic Union have raised it to 27 s. Thus there is levied in Germany a protective duty of 27 s. a cwt. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/mar/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/mar/07/relations-with-the-brazils", "section": "relations-with-the-brazils", "cue_text": "Colonel Sibtkorp : \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "certaining that the Whigs were no better than the Tories. No; they were returned for the purpose of discussing these great questions, and for the purpose of settling them without favour or regard to any partial faction or interest whatsoever. Now, you monopolists all hang together. You are discussing the question of Sugar tonight, but it is the same interest, whether it be Corn, Sugar, or Timber. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/mar/11/supply-duelling", "section": "supply-duelling", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: Lieutenant Munro was absent without leave.", "preceding_text": "n superseded, laid on the Table of the House. The duel took place upon the 1st of July last, and Lieutenant Munro was not superseded until February. He purchased his commission that was lost, and his pay was stopped from the 1st of July last, although 818 he belonged to the Army until the end of February. He did not see what right the Horse-Guards had, in such a case, to stop the pay as they did. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/mar/11/supply-duelling", "section": "supply-duelling", "cue_text": "An hon. Member—\" I hope not.\"", "preceding_text": "ies at the Horse-Guards. He alluded to the assertion that, during the day which elapsed between the challenge being given and accepted in the case of Colonel Fawcett, the challenger and his second consulted five General Officers in the Army; and he asked the right hon. Baronet whether it was not known that the officer to whom he alluded consulted several Officers of high rank in his own regiment? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/mar/18/hours-of-labour-in-factories-adjourned", "section": "hours-of-labour-in-factories-adjourned", "cue_text": "Here Sir James Graham made some remark to the hon. Member, whose position was so immediately behind the seat of the right hon. Gentleman, that not a word could be heard even in the body of the House.", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who stated, as I understood him, that he had been waited upon by a deputation of mill-owners, who represented to him, that if Her Majesty's Ministers would consent to their proposition to oppose the Amendment of the noble Lord the Member for Dorsetshire, they would withhold all opposition to the right hon. Gentleman's Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1844/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/mar/18/hours-of-labour-in-factories-adjourned", "section": "hours-of-labour-in-factories-adjourned", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "osition 1242 for preventing the extension of the evil, by preventing women being employed more than twelve hours a day. The counter proposition is, that we shall impose restrictions, nominally and theoretically, upon the labour of females and children, but practically and universally, that we shall prevent the labour of male adults, even with their own consent, for a longer period than ten hours. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1844/mar/18", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1844/mar/18/the-creech-ireland", "section": "the-creech-ireland", "cue_text": "A laugh from Earl Fitzwilliam.", "preceding_text": "urposes of a parish, and should be divided between the Roman Catholic priests and the Protestant clergymen;\" the meaning of which was, that the Protestant rector must give up such a portion of the Church-pro- 1174 perty as would satisfy the noble Earl, in order to widow the Roman Catholic priest. And the noble Earl wished their Lordships to suppose, that such a proceeding would not be spoliation. "}