{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/08/opening-of-letters-at-the-post-office", "section": "opening-of-letters-at-the-post-office", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "an people. The power of opening letters did not exist in the United States, nor in Canada; but it was preserved in Ireland, in England, and in Scotland. It was not exercised in our Colonies, although it was exercised in this country. It did not exist in France. Monsieur Guizot had declared in the French Chamber, that in law, and in fact, 310 the correspondence of the French people was inviolable. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/08/opening-of-letters-at-the-post-office", "section": "opening-of-letters-at-the-post-office", "cue_text": "\"Oh! oh!\"", "preceding_text": "y continue the power? He denied that this power was exercised under the Prerogative of the Crown; would the Prerogative fine him 5 l. for sending a letter by a private hand? The whole of the Post Office was established by Acts of Parliament, and by Act of Parliament it ought to be regulated. The agitation of this subject had damaged the right hon. Baronet both in his public and private character. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/15/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-third", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-third", "cue_text": "Loud laughter, and cries of \"Hear.\"", "preceding_text": "r Northamptonshire had challenged him to name those that expressed such a desire; but he would not name them. Under any circumstances, he should have given the same cordial support to the measure which he was prepared to do, from whatever Minister it had proceeded; but, independently of all other considerations, he was prepared to maintain that the question was one of the very highest expediency. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/16/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-fourth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-fourth", "cue_text": "\"No!\" \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "he was ready to vote the Regium Donum, and money for the support of the 770 Established Church of Scotland. Why, as the right hon. Member for Edinburgh had stated, in his most luminous speech, the doctrines of a part of the Church of Scotland, and of some of those who received the Royal Gift in the north of Ireland, were more opposed to the Church of England than the tenets of the Church of Rome. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/16/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-fourth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-fourth", "cue_text": "Loud cries 814 of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " would not seek to ascribe it to evil motives. There was one other point which he could not pass over in this discussion, and that was, in regard to the absence of those Gentlemen from whom they had so often heard of Ireland's grievances. It was worthy of observation that the hon. Member for Cork, and those who were immediately associated with him, were not on these benches to support this cause. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/18/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "or any such 'archbishop,' 'bishop' or person in holy orders of the Church of Rome to alien, &c.: provided always that it shall and may be lawful for the said 'archbishop,' 'bishop,' or other person in holy orders of the Church of Rome to execute such leases as are hereinafter mentioned. This, I affirm, was a direct violation of the Act of Settlement, and in contravention of the Oath of Supremacy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/18/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "cue_text": "Derisive Cheers.", "preceding_text": "stituents from the hustings at Lancaster, he used these words:— If, in the present instance, there were any contest for the representation of this country, of which we have heard so much, but seen so little—if any Gentleman had come forward to support the views of Her Majesty's Government, to defend their present policy, to vindicate their consistency, to support their firm adhesion to principle. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/18/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "consistent, to go and sit behind the noble Lord the Member for London. I thank the House for having listened to me so long, but the subject is one on which I feel deeply. I cannot conclude without warning you that the people will not soon forget the pledges given at the last election. They will not soon forget that you have violated the principles which have placed the Royal Family on the Throne. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/18/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "cue_text": "The hon. and learned Member, referring to some notes which he held in his hand, was here assailed with Cries of \"Read, read, read!\"", "preceding_text": "ideration of the details would involve the important question—the public fund out of which this money should be raised. The character of the debate had been hitherto equal to its importance, to the momentous issues involved in the decision—temperate and decorous as became the wisdom and gravity of Parliament—except, indeed, during a short and painful interval in the course of the present evening. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/18/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "cue_text": "Interruption repeated.", "preceding_text": "equently and in so elevated a tone the word \"Read\" as an interruption to the observations I offer to the House, to stand on his feet and deliver his own more sagacious sentiments to the House, I desire that in the ordinary decency and courtesy due from 991 one Gentleman to another, I may be permitted to proceed in the discharge of a bounden duty to the constituency I have the honour to represent. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/18/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "cue_text": "Cries of", "preceding_text": "gave to the right hon. Baronet the open intimation of his opinion, that when on a future stage of the Bill the question mooted by the hon. Member for Sheffield (Mr. Ward) shall be discussed in the House, he anticipated that by a majority which would produce the extinction of the measure, it would be determined that from the taxes of England, the Consolidated Fund, the sources should not be drawn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/18/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate-sixth", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "ng but a preliminary question whether they were to concede an endowment to the Roman Catholic Church. Out of what revenue the expense was to be met, had yet to be discussed. Were these imaginary difficulties? Was there not on the Voles a notice of Motion involving not the endowment alone, but an endowment out of the property of the United Church of England and Ireland. Before he proceeded further—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/24/treasury-correspondence", "section": "treasury-correspondence", "cue_text": "No answer, but much laughter, was vouchsafed to this question. The letters, it was understood, were fabrications.", "preceding_text": "ect; \"J. YOUNG.\" § (No. 2.) § \"CAPTAIN MEYNELL, M.P., TO MR. YOUNG, M.P. § \"Dear Young—Peel and all of you may be d—d before I come up to vote for Maynooth. Because Fitzroy, and Mackenzie, and Kelly are rogues, that is no reason why I should be. § \"Yours ever, § \"Windsor, Thursday. § H. MEYNELL.\" § He would like to know whether these letters were genuine? § "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/24/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "se foreign landlords—for such they were—was anything but politic or wise; they kept down the Irish Celt by cruel laws, inflicted upon him fresh and rigorous restrictions, and took no means for his moral and social elevation; and as to the Irish Church being, as was stated by the right hon. Gentleman, a Church fed by wealth, it was a Church starved to absolute inanition up to the last fifty years, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/24/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear,\" from the Treasury bench.", "preceding_text": ", not merely to do good to that country, but from his seeing the shadow of coming hostilities, and therefore it was necessary for him to palliate the feelings of our Irish countrymen; otherwise he would not have been prepared to grant such a measure. [\"No, no.\"] This was the impression on every Member's mind, that without some such feeling this measure would not have emanated from the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/24/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "er in the Church or amongst the Dissenters, we have not been able to carry as far as was desirable the assistance given by the State to education. But if in the great measure of education we cannot trust to voluntary efforts, I think that this is more strongly the case as to religious instruction. Who are those who most want religious instruction? Precisely those who are not sensible of the want. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/24/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Mr. G. A. Hamilton: My observations had reference only to the adoption of the Motion of the hon. Member for Sheffield.", "preceding_text": "sent to any measure of liberality. He denied, however, that the hon. Gentleman who had spoken last, represented the feelings of the Protestants in Ireland; he represented only the Orange party of that country, and while he talked of their loyalty, what did the right hon. Baronet think when the hon. Gentleman threatened, if the Government added insult to injury, that they would join the Repealers? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/24/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "be hoped from the measure. I very much regret, therefore, that the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Macaulay) should have so studiously fixed this imputation upon the Government in forgetfulness of all these facts. I regret it much, because it appears to me that he was thinking less of the benefit this measure might produce to Ireland, than of the degree of party advantage which might be gained from it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/apr/24/maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "section": "maynooth-college-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh! oh! divide\"", "preceding_text": "se of in Exeter Hall—even in this House? Did the Catholics taunt the Members of the House with such disgraceful epithets, or turn round and call them heretics 5 The calumnies against the Catholics of Ireland expressed not only by those petitioners, but by their Representatives in this House, showed that, however much they might talk of religion and charity, they had none of either in their hearts "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/feb/25/appointment-of-lord-lucan", "section": "appointment-of-lord-lucan", "cue_text": "Lord Ingestre: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "(neither of them certainly acting in his capacity as a magistrate at the time), and that in two years from his dismissal, or even less, he was not only reinstated, but placed at the head of the whole list of magistracy as the Lord Lieutenant of that county; he appealed to them, would any of them bear that?—would any of them bear that? He asked them for the third time, would any of them bear that? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/jul/22/rajah-of-sattara", "section": "rajah-of-sattara", "cue_text": "The hon. Member read from the Printed Papers a passage from the testimony of Krushnajee, accusing Colonel Ovans of receiving money and presents.", "preceding_text": "y the accuser, and sent to Mr. Warden. It covers three folio pages, and refers to evidence in support of every one of the charges. It is in this paper that we first find a direct charge against Colonel Ovans; and I will read the passage, that the House may decide whether or not it was worthy the attention of those who are bound to preserve the honour and integrity of the British service in India. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/may/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/may/30/privilege-printed-papers", "section": "privilege-printed-papers", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: The Chief Justice is a Peer.", "preceding_text": "ivilege is gone. Suppose the times altered, and that there should be upon the Bench some Judge desirous of carrying out the despotic propositions of a despotic Sovereign? Suppose the House of Commons to come into collision with that Chief Justice—see in what an abject position it will be if you fail to maintain your privilege on this occasion. We all know the value of a precedent in this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/may/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/may/30/privilege-printed-papers", "section": "privilege-printed-papers", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "God's sake, not to proceed hastily. But according to the supposed case I have put—and I have a right to suppose it—your officer is all the while in prison; this House is degraded, not only in the eyes of the country, but of Europe, and, having lost its privileges, sunk to the condition of a secondary court. We should not then be the same House of Commons as in olden days, when we ruled everybody; "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/may/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/may/30/academical-institutions-ireland", "section": "academical-institutions-ireland", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: Who was it?", "preceding_text": "e Roman Catholic population from that Church with which they are connected. I have seen it stated in a work by an officer high in the confidence of the late Government, who was rewarded for his services by an order—of all orders in the world to give to such a man—of Isabella the Catholic, that the people of the Basque Provinces were daily being seduced from their allegiance to the Church of Rome. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/may/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/may/30/academical-institutions-ireland", "section": "academical-institutions-ireland", "cue_text": "Mr. Colquhoun: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "is the noblest effort of Christianity and kind feeling towards the great body of our fellow subjects in that country, and the most successful that has ever yet been made in their behalf. This Collegiate measure is avowedly an extension, and nothing more than an extension, of the present scheme of national education from the children of the humblest to the children of the middle and upper classes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1845/may/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1845/may/30/academical-institutions-ireland", "section": "academical-institutions-ireland", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: Who would read it?", "preceding_text": "ed Government would prevail in this country. He hoped they would not always be annoyed by those horrible principles of bigotry which actuated the people of England now; but still, if they refused them the boon on any other terms than the present measure, they were prepared to do the best they could themselves for the education of the people. They would write for them the history of their country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1845/may/30", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1845/may/30/post-office-offences-act-amendment-bill", "section": "post-office-offences-act-amendment-bill", "cue_text": "Lord 1049 Denman: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "ice. In this case the guilty person would escape by the letter being forwarded without being opened, and the person who was so guilty might take an action against the man who gave that true information to the Secretary of State, because one of the authorities at the Post Office had made a very natural mistake, and opened the wrong letter. In nine cases out of ten they might open the wrong letter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1845/may/30", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1845/may/30/post-office-offences-act-amendment-bill", "section": "post-office-offences-act-amendment-bill", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ak the secrecy which had been imposed upon him as a Member of the Committee; but without going further, he would only inform his noble and learned Friend that it did. His noble Friend who introduced the measure had as holy an abhorrence of general warrants as his noble and learned Friend behind him; but if the Bill were to pass into a law, general warrants, for the first time, would be legalised. "}