{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/feb/17/famine-and-disease-in-ireland", "section": "famine-and-disease-in-ireland", "cue_text": "\"No, no,\" and \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "yed great good taste and feeling, as he had not interwoven with those observations much of political matter, except in so far as regarded the social welfare of Ireland. In following out as far as he was able the remarks of the hon. Member for Kilkenny, he should 1087 endeavour to show, that, in many points, those observations were very pertinent to the question in general debate before the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/feb/17/commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "section": "commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " The noble Lord, who had always, he believed, been a sliding-scale nobleman was now ready, it seemed, to accept a fixed 1112 duty. The noble Lord had changed his mind, just as the right hon. Baronet had changed his, with this difference, however, that the right hon. Baronet changed his because he was convinced that he had been wrong; while the noble Lord changed his in order to keep up his rents. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/feb/17/commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "section": "commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " Scotland, England would become an exporting instead of an importing country. \"It may seem, Sir,\" said the hon. and gallant Officer, \"very ridiculous in a sailor like me to give advice to hon. Gentlemen opposite, on the subject of agriculture; but I myself am a farmer. True, I am not a farmer of very long standing, having only been a farmer four years. Four years ago I took a farm of forty acres. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/feb/17/commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "section": "commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ious to place the protectionists in office; but you wish to be avenged on those who have forsaken the obligations of party, in order to obey the call of a great country, imploring them to work out its commercial deliverance. I was going to make an observation to the Member for Oxford, if he had not left the House: I fear the hon. Baronet has forsaken his usual associates in politics, the bishops. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/feb/17/commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "section": "commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "cue_text": "Sir R. PEEL: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "n question. Now, from 1842 a change came over the state of public affairs. We were then blessed with abundant harvests; and I must say that, when the right hon. Baronet spoke last night, I think that, in his exultation at our recent prosperity, he should not have forgotten that it was to those harvests, and to the success of railway speculations, that we were indebted for our national prosperity. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/feb/17/commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "section": "commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: In what year?", "preceding_text": "ing any opinion to the House, until I consulted with men of practice and experience on the subject. This is a question which I think important, and which the House ought to weigh well before it decides on the proposition which has been submitted to it. In the year 1837 I had a corn transaction, in which I was enabled to deliver wheat at a port in this country—all charges paid, at 25 s. a quarter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/feb/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/feb/23/commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "section": "commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "present summer; but they must look further—they must look what the crop of potatoes, which he was sorry to say was the sole food of 4,000,000 of the people there, would be in the subsequent years of 1847 and 1848, because they must bear in mind not only that the crop of the present year was destroyed, but that there would be the greatest difficulty in obtaining sufficient seed for future culture. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/feb/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/feb/23/commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "section": "commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws", "cue_text": "Mr. MUNTZ: Oh, no! I beg your pardon.", "preceding_text": "rred to the article of spelter or zinc. He (Sir G. Clerk) had heard with great astonishment the declaration of the hon. Member, that the zinc trade had suffered from the change that had taken place; but he confessed he could not find out from his statement in what manner, or how, the manufacturers of zinc had been injured. He said, when the price of zinc was 75 l. a ton, the duty was 45 l. a ton. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/jun/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/jun/24/roman-catholic-relief-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-relief-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. MORGAN JOHN O'CONNELL: Astonished! Oh, not at all.", "preceding_text": " he would suggest an efficient mode by which a correct register could be obtained. The plan had been communicated to him by a Friend, who was a member of the legal profession. He would have the registry managed by the sub-inspector of police for each district. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Kerry seemed astonished at the suggestion that the record should be kept by the sub-inspector of police. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/jun/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/jun/25/protection-of-life-ireland-bill", "section": "protection-of-life-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: That was in Galway.", "preceding_text": "ntry-side would rise to revenge it.\" He next went into Roscommon, which was one of the disturbed counties; but he believed it was perfectly notorious that there probably the greatest number of clearances had taken place. It was there that they had recently that horrible case, where Mr. Gerrard turned out some three or four hundred persons, in order to convert the land held by them into pasturage. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/jun/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/jun/25/protection-of-life-ireland-bill", "section": "protection-of-life-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "The hon. Member was here interrupted by Messengers from the Lords returning with the Corn Bill , agreed to.", "preceding_text": "trary accusation had been brought against him by his friends; and he must be permitted to say, on this point, that the greater part of their legislation for Ireland had been conducted on the worst possible principle, and he regretted to think that some of the measures, good in themselves, which they had brought forward, had lost half their efficacy from the mode in which they had been introduced. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/jun/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/jun/25/protection-of-life-ireland-bill", "section": "protection-of-life-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "he first reading of a Bill did not necessarily oblige one to vote for its subsequent stages. But the first reading had been affirmed after a debate of four or five nights. That first reading having taken place, and having voted for it under such circumstances, he felt himself bound to examine whether anything had since occurred which would justify him in changing the vote which he had then given. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/mar/17/customs-and-corn-importation-report", "section": "customs-and-corn-importation-report", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " all events, be terminated at the next general election. The right hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) asked him to accept the Chiltern Hundreds; but he disdained being the nominee of Government, and told him so. Since then now he had the happiness to inform the right hon. Baronet he had received a letter from his constituents, in which they expressed regret that he had not accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/mar/17/customs-and-corn-importation-report", "section": "customs-and-corn-importation-report", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "at ground—let them reflect upon the injury they were inflicting on the very interest that they represented. What was the effect of predicting calamity to follow from this measure? Why, it depreciated the price of the articles in question, and at this moment there was not the least doubt but that the price was kept down by the delay occasioned by the Motions and speeches of hon. Gentlemen opposite "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/mar/18/fever-ireland-bill", "section": "fever-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: Not foreign!", "preceding_text": "on of the year at which the English labourer hoped that increased wages would enable him to set aside a sufficient sum to provide for the wants of that period of the year when employment would become scarce, and food more costly; yet the misfortune of his position was this, that at that critical moment the labour-market in England became glutted with an influx of labourers from a foreign country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/may/13/the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "section": "the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: For one year.", "preceding_text": "earnestly solicited them to do so. By so doing, they would not be pledging themselves to any principle which they could not sanction. The Bill contained only two clauses; and it should be borne in mind that the hon. Member who introduced it only proposed in the first instance to go for eleven hours. What he proposed was, that the experiment of the eleven hour system should be tried for two years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/may/13/the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "section": "the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Competition.", "preceding_text": " feeling on the part of the operatives, in consequence of the state in which they were placed. They saw the manufacturers make enormous fortunes—it was perfectly well known that they did—it was perfectly notorious that manufacturing capital was very successful—it was clear what the manufacturers made—he rejoiced that they did make it—but the operative was crushed to the earth by diminished wages. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/may/13/the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "section": "the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: 10 s. 3¼ d.", "preceding_text": "ive, that they were really anxious on his account, and not on their own; that they wished to save him as well as themselves. Now, what would be the effect on him? The effect, as stated by Messrs. Holdsworth and Gregg, of one hour would be a reduction of about 7½ per cent of the wages of labour. They stated that the average wages of labour in their district was about 10 s. 2 d., 10 s. 4 d. —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/may/13/the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "section": "the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: I object to 4 s.", "preceding_text": "and 1841, and that was stated, not on his testimony, but on the testimony of manufacturers themselves, submitted to Mr. Horner. The average fall from the year 1828 to 1841, excluding the spinners, which would make the fall still greater, was 17 per cent, and the lowest reduction that had taken place was 11 per cent—that was to say, the 8 s. wages fell to 7 s., and the 4 s. wages fell to 3 s. 6 d. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1846/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1846/may/13/the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "section": "the-ten-hours-factory-bill", "cue_text": "Continued cries of \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_text": "it was contended that such reduction should be made by amicable arrangement between the masters and the operatives; at the same time it was alleged that if such reduction was made, whether voluntarily or by legislative enactment, it would bring ruin upon our manufactures. The only question, therefore, seemed to be whether the reduction should be by mutual arrangement, or by legislative enactment. "}