{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/apr/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/apr/14/roman-catholic-relief-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-relief-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. ESCOTT: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "ily spectator of their charity and benevolence; but no feelings of respect would hinder him from expressing what he believed it to be the duty of every Protestant Member of that House to express. If any of his remarks should give offence, he could only say that offence was not intended by him. He referred to the peculiar commission given to the Jewish nation to exterminate idolaters and idolatry. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/apr/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/apr/14/roman-catholic-relief-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-relief-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "commission given to the Jewish nation to exterminate idolaters and idolatry. [Mr. ESCOTT: Oh, oh!] The hon. Member for Winchester might dissent; but these were his opinions and principles, and they were those of every honest and true Protestant; and it was his conviction that a great deal of that which savoured of idolatry was mixed up with the forms and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/feb/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/feb/26/state-of-the-navy", "section": "state-of-the-navy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "He next referred to the Cyclops, Penelope, and Terrible. The engines of the last-named vessel, steam boxes and boilers, absolutely projected 6 ft. 5¼ in. above the water. The utmost danger would attend a shot striking the boiler of one of their steam vessels. If a shot went through the boiler of a steam ship, not one man below would escape: every one would be completely cooked in a moment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1847/feb/26", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1847/feb/26/duchy-of-lancaster", "section": "duchy-of-lancaster", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": "w us some of your lands that 520 really bear some good crops.\" Mr. Coke rejoined (alluding, no doubt, to Sir R. Wilson and himself): \"What's the use of showing you people from London wheat fields, when you don't know wheat from lavender?\" To come back to the Councillors. He saw that on his noble and learned Friend's agricultural Council there were two gallant officers accustomed to plough—the sea "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1847/feb/26", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1847/feb/26/duchy-of-lancaster", "section": "duchy-of-lancaster", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": " good crops.\" Mr. Coke rejoined (alluding, no doubt, to Sir R. Wilson and himself): \"What's the use of showing you people from London wheat fields, when you don't know wheat from lavender?\" To come back to the Councillors. He saw that on his noble and learned Friend's agricultural Council there were two gallant officers accustomed to plough—the sea [ laughter ]; and one of them to plough the land "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1847/feb/26", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1847/feb/26/duchy-of-lancaster", "section": "duchy-of-lancaster", "cue_text": "\"Hear!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": " two gallant officers accustomed to plough—the sea [ laughter ]; and one of them to plough the land [ laughter ]. He believed that the additional Council would not increase the rental of the Duchy to the value of 100 l. a year, whilst he regretted to add, that having heard his noble and learned Friend's explanation, he was just as ignorant on the subject as before that explanation had been given. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1847/feb/26", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1847/feb/26/scotch-banking", "section": "scotch-banking", "cue_text": "The Earl of EGLINTOUN: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "t by his noble Friend. Notice was given that the Bill was to be proceeded with; and a deputation of bankers, not consisting only of Messrs. Tennant and Drew, but of representatives also of the joint-stock banks, came up from Scotland, and had several interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. His noble Friend seemed to accuse Messrs. Tennant and Drew of making some misrepresentation to him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/jun/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/jun/11/portugal", "section": "portugal", "cue_text": "Mr. HUME: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "roposals. He believed that on that very morning the noble Lord (Lord Palmerston) had the singular good fortune to receive intelligence which might be deemed conclusive of the termination of this contest. It appeared from the public journals that the Conde das Antas and 2,500 of the forces of the Junta had been made prisoners by the English fleet; which must be regarded as a piece of good fortune. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/jun/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/jun/11/portugal", "section": "portugal", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: This has already occurred three times.", "preceding_text": "tent, the liberal and constitutional spirit expressed in these four resolutions. He trusted that every effort would be made by the noble Lord to insist on such a course being taken, and that the Crown of Portugal—if Crowns can be taught lessons at all—should by this time learn that it was neither safe nor prudent to provoke the people by encroaching on the constitutional liberties of the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/jun/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/jun/11/portugal", "section": "portugal", "cue_text": "Lord PALMER-STON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "cumstances, he (Mr. Baillie) must feel it his duty to remind the House of some of the consequences which had followed what he could not designate by any other term than the unjust, the unnecessary, and the uncalled-for interference of this country in the internal affairs of Spain and Portugal. He would not go further back than to the period when Don Miguel assumed the royal authority in Portugal. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/jun/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/jun/11/portugal", "section": "portugal", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: 5,000 men.", "preceding_text": "d the noble Lord would be left to bear all the odium. The Queen of Portugal, it was affirmed, had forfeited her throne when she demanded foreign aid to coerce her subjects; and from Title 4, Article 9, of the Charter of 1836, it would appear that such was the case. What, it might be asked, was the course taken by Mr. Canning in 1826? What did he say when he sent a. force of 6,000 men to Portugal? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/jun/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/jun/11/portugal", "section": "portugal", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "tish name. It was tiresome even to read, and much more so to listen to quotations from that blue book, otherwise he could quote a letter from Mr. Southern, in which it was stated that the whole matter had been brought about by these Cabrals, and that a sum of 60,000 l . had been sent by the Conde de Thomar. At this very moment it was Cabral who ruled Portugal—it was Cabral who ruled this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/jun/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/jun/25/captain-warners-inventions", "section": "captain-warners-inventions", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: All stuff!", "preceding_text": "55 l. . Now, monstrous as this was, Captain Warner stated that it was nothing to what he could do, and he talked of discharging missiles by volleys of 100 at a time, of projectiles weighing each 500 lbs. Now, for such an exploit, there would be requisite a balloon 123 feet in diameter, charged with 974,349 cubic feet of gas, having 5,298 square yards of surface, and requiring 7,947 yards of stuff—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/mar/19/french-influence-in-spain", "section": "french-influence-in-spain", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "a French Military Hospital, protected by a guard, in the Isla del Rey, or some other point in Port Mahon. It is added, that there is to be a French depôt for coals, on the pretext (a pretext the absurdity of which is obvious) that it is required for the supply of the French steamers running between France and her African settlements. When we look at the vast military and naval preparations—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/mar/19/poor-relief-ireland-bill", "section": "poor-relief-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Yes, if the workhouses are full.", "preceding_text": " had better be retained, as this was a permanent Bill, and not introduced merely with reference to present circumstances. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN thought many of the observations made by hon. Members would have been more applicable, if the present Bill was not for the purpose of establishing a permanent poor law in Ireland. The next clause, if passed, would provide for every case of famine and disease. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/mar/19/poor-relief-ireland-bill", "section": "poor-relief-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "The hon. Member, amidst interruption, read the opinion of Dr. Doyle upon the subject of out-door relief, as well 251 as passages from the report of the Poor Law Commissioners.", "preceding_text": "ch he was one, from the remarks which had been made upon them by the noble Lord, especially as to their saying so little. As the noble Lord who was at the head of the deputation explained their views, he (Mr. Lefroy) and other members, felt it unnecessary to obtrude any observation upon the noble Lord (Lord J. Russell), who propounded propositions which completely astonished the whole deputation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/mar/23/poor-relief-ireland-bill-committee", "section": "poor-relief-ireland-bill-committee", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Does the petition proceed from the guardians?", "preceding_text": "s effect upon the towns, and upon the rural districts encompassing them? He would read a petition from the union in which he himself resided, to show what that effect was. The petitioners stated that while the provision in question had 345 not stimulated local employment, it had subjected the electoral division of Killarney to taxation for the support of three-fourths of the paupers in the union. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/may/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/may/20/poor-law-administration-bill-adjourned", "section": "poor-law-administration-bill-adjourned", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER moved that the House be counted; but more than forty Members being present, Mr. Henley continued.", "preceding_text": "out-door relief were issued to 458 unions; the workhouse orders to 445: the medical orders to 587; the officers' orders to 572; the overseers' orders to 576. It was clear that these orders were to be universally applicable; the other places to which they were not sent were under separate management or local acts. But had any scheme been tried except the workhouse test, and giving out-door relief? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/may/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/may/20/poor-law-administration-bill-adjourned", "section": "poor-law-administration-bill-adjourned", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER again suggested that the House be counted; but upwards of 40 Members being in attendance, Mr. Scrope continued.", "preceding_text": " its end most successfully in places and at times when an extraordinary and sudden pressure of pauperism had occurred, as in the cases of the Bolton and Macclesfield unions in 1842, it could hardly be maintained that there would be any insuperable difficulty in adopting it with at least equal success under ordinary circumstances and in times when the pressure of pauperism was slight and moderate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/may/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/may/20/poor-law-administration-bill-adjourned", "section": "poor-law-administration-bill-adjourned", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "sect; MR. BORTHWICK then moved the adjournment of the debate. LORD J. RUSSELL had hoped that after three nights' debate, the House might have finished the discussion that night. § MR. FERRAND could not imagine how the noble Lord could expect the House to follow the course he proposed after his extraordinary speech. It might be the wish of Her Majesty's Government to put a stop to the debate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/nov/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/nov/23/address-in-answer-to-the-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-speech", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "hat examination necessarily implied abandonment; and he trusted, that in the inquiry to which those laws might be subject, no prejudication would be allowed to bias the judgment of the House. A prejudication of abolition would be as absurd as a prejudication of conservation—nay, perhaps, more so; for in conservation we knew what we possessed, but in abolition we did not know what we might obtain. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/nov/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/nov/23/address-in-answer-to-the-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-speech", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "tain. [\"Hear, hear!\"] He was glad to hear that assent from hon. Members opposite, which he took as a proof that they would submit to a full and fair inquiry on the question. With regard to the suffering which pressed so heavily upon our commercial, and, through our commercial, upon our industrious classes, it might be well for us, as an empire, that our pride should be abated for a moment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1847/nov/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1847/nov/23/address-in-answer-to-the-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-speech", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ed them in the Government, of doing impartial justice to Ireland. Whatever might be the character of the present House of Commons in other respects, he believed that no House had ever assembled with a more firm determination to do its duty fairly and impartially, and to be no longer blinded by mere words and conventional expressions. With such a House of Commons the system of shams was at an end. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1847/nov/23", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1847/nov/23/address-in-answer-to-the-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-speech", "cue_text": "Lord STANLEY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " country. And, my Lords, the expenditure sanctioned for railways, coming contemporaneously with the great amount of money required for the purchase of food, greatly exceeded the abilities of the country. Upon referring, my Lords, to those returns which are an authority upon the subject, I find that the quantity of foreign grain imported this 16 year, up to the 10th of November was 10,898,000 qrs. "}