{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/apr/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/apr/06/the-late-rajah-of-sattara", "section": "the-late-rajah-of-sattara", "cue_text": "Sir J. HOBHOUSE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "d the Rajah guilty, unheard, and undefended. Although General Lodwick had, as President, signed the report of the Commission, he had dissented throughout the proceedings from the conduct of his colleagues, and had twice declared in the Court of Proprietors that he should never regret any act of his life more than having allowed himself to be induced by overwhelming entreaties to sign that report. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/apr/07/the-intended-chartist-demonstration", "section": "the-intended-chartist-demonstration", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "er Secretary distinctly stated to them that he could not receive them in the capacity of national representatives, but only as persons coming from a meeting held in a certain house, and in that character only. § MR. WAKLEY: The meeting on Kennington Common has been publicly advertised during the last month, and it was publicly stated that 500,000 persons would probably attend the procession. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/apr/07/the-intended-chartist-demonstration", "section": "the-intended-chartist-demonstration", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "tion from the persons calling themselves \"The National Convention\" with respect to that petition. I derived my information solely from a public newspaper, that public newspaper being the property of an hon. Member of this House. I derived my information from no other source whatever; and I do therefore think that the people have been somewhat unjustly treated in being allured into the supposition—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/apr/07/security-of-the-crown", "section": "security-of-the-crown", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ent. But there was another and a still more alarming ingredient in the Bill—for it placed in the hands of the Attorney General the power of inflicting the punishment of transportation for life, on account of words used in a moment of excitement, or perhaps words not spoken at all, but sworn to by some hireling incendiary; and he regretted to say that Ireland was too productive of such characters. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/apr/07/security-of-the-crown", "section": "security-of-the-crown", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": " He implored them to try the effect of mildness on the people. If they relied on the ordinary tribunals of the law, the Government might rest assured that they would be in a position to laugh to scorn all those who were plotting against them, and throwing obstacles in the way of the administration of the law. What right had the Government to apprehend any violation of the public peace in Ireland? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jul/04/incumbered-estates-ireland-bill", "section": "incumbered-estates-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: There is the case of a minor.", "preceding_text": "andowners of Ireland in that respect. Now, it had been suggested that a person out of spite might sell an old family estate for the mere purpose of injuring the party who was to come after him. Such a case was undoubtedly possible, but he did not think it was probable; and if it arose, an application might he made to the Court of Chancery to stop the sale, on the ground that it was not necessary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/the-writ-for-derby", "section": "the-writ-for-derby", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": " for Montrose. He (Mr. Ellice) believed that the son of his hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) held and executed with efficiency an office of no great value in the public service. He believed that he had 1082 been appointed without the solicitation, or even without the knowledge, of the hon. Member for Montrose, to be secretary of a valuable commission now sitting, to inquire into the management of the Mint. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/the-writ-for-derby", "section": "the-writ-for-derby", "cue_text": "Lord J. RUSSELL: The debate on the Bill of the hon. Member for the Flint boroughs occupied three nights.", "preceding_text": "ew inquiry. There might have been a Committee of the House, or a Bill might have been introduced, reciting in the preamble that many cases of corruption had been proved to have taken place, and providing that a new tribunal should be appointed for entering fully into the subject; and it is my opinion that if the Government had proposed that course the House would in one night have assented to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "section": "sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "cue_text": "Cheers, and a laugh .", "preceding_text": "rnment are carrying on this immigration, and then the colonists will be able to judge for themselves; and this country will be able to judge, too, of the real value of this immigration, carried on under the auspices of the Government. I will first read an extract from a despatch from Governor Lord Harris—one of those despatches which the hon. Gentleman opposite forgot to lay before the Committee. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "section": "sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "f emigrants—that is, a sufficient number to pay the expenses—the Government guarantees the payment of a sufficient sum to defray the expense of the stores and other charges; and, in addition, the Government has to provide a storekeeper and surgeon, on board of each ship, at the public expense. The Bangalore was chartered-to carry 236 emigrants or emancipated negroes from Sierra Leone to Trinidad. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "section": "sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "cue_text": "Lord J. RUSSELL and Mr. HAWES Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "is noble Friend made a minute to this effect—' This may be laid before the Committee, as suggested.' As the noble Lord the Member for King's Lynn stated that the despatch had not been laid before the Committee, he (Mr. Hawes) had thought it necessary to make inquiry on the subject, to show that it was the intention of his noble Friend (Earl Grey) and himself that it should be communicated. § "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "section": "sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ake the liberty to read again the questions asked and the answers given with respect to a despatch respecting which it appeared in the minute that it was regarded as of great importance. Mr. Goulburn put the following question to the hon. Gentleman:— Can you explain the reason why we have no accounts in the papers laid before Parliament, for Jamaica, of the character of those from other colonies? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "section": "sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Adjournment?", "preceding_text": "acteristic of the noble Lord that he always thinks the smallest inaccuracy or error must be imputed to some design of wilfully misrepresenting or perverting the truth. I very deeply regret this disposition on his part. I have seen it very often, and it affects very materially the force of any charge he can bring against any public servant. With respect to the question immediately before the House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "section": "sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "cue_text": "Mr. SPEAKER: The hon. Member does not mean to say, I presume, that the noble Lord has knowingly made a false charge?", "preceding_text": "d, to meet them without documents and dates, again selects Friday night—to fling abroad his calumnies till Monday, and on Monday I will state the truth to this House, But that is not all. 1158 The noble Lord has made a charge which I mean to call on him to prove; and which he ought not to have made, unless he is in a condition to prove it. I tell him that that charge is wholly and entirely false. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "section": "sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_text": " in a condition to prove it. I tell him that that charge is wholly and entirely false. [Mr. SPEAKER: The hon. Member does not mean to say, I presume, that the noble Lord has knowingly made a false charge?] I simply said to the House that the charge is distinctly false, and the noble Lord best knows himself how far he is liable to the other imputation. What is the charge which the noble Lord made? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/23/sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "section": "sugar-duties-adjourned-debate-third-night", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_text": "e, that our fraudulent conduct would be discovered—that we hastily and shamefully—[\"No, no!\"] Yes, that was the charge—I am not going to let the noble Lord off—that we shamefully, disgracefully, dishonourably concocted—for that was the word—that minute afterwards, in order to enable us to explain it to the House. And is it the conduct of English Gentlemen here to make such charges without notice? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/30/sugar-duties-committee", "section": "sugar-duties-committee", "cue_text": "Mr. WILSON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "reat advantage to have a fall of duty to the extent of 10 s . per cwt. He (Mr. Bright) admitted, that low duties were advantageous to the revenue, if carried to a certain point, and altogether advantageous to the consumer. But he had the authority of the hon. Member for Westbury out of doors, for the doctrine that the highest duty regulated the price, and that the price regulated the consumption. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/jun/30/sugar-duties-committee", "section": "sugar-duties-committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "ability, in carrying out a difficult experiment; and they appealed to them for no large boon. They merely asked for temporary encouragement; and the hon. Member for Manchester now asked them, with this evidence before them, to refuse them that reasonable demand. § MR. JAMES WILSON declared that he would not have risen to address the House had he not been called upon by the Chairman to do so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/mar/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/mar/09/poor-law-ireland-the-quarteracre-clause", "section": "poor-law-ireland-the-quarteracre-clause", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "his metropolis which enabled them to perform their laborious work with alacrity and cheerfulness. The fact was, that the Irish labourers were starved in their own country, and the Irish gentry ought to endeavour to give them, by some means, profitable employment in Ireland. If the Irish gentry would not employ the people, the consequence would be that the people would take possession of the land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/mar/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/mar/09/poor-law-ireland-the-quarteracre-clause", "section": "poor-law-ireland-the-quarteracre-clause", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " their own country. Only he should like to see them more united among themselves, more decided in their opinions, shifting less with the Government of the day, and not relying on the Whig or Tory factions, but on the good sense of the people. He did not believe that England or Ireland had much benefited under either of these parties, and he would take the rule out of the hands of the aristocracy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/mar/15/the-borough-of-harwich", "section": "the-borough-of-harwich", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "he matter to the bottom. There was a general impression abroad—more especially in Ireland—that the boroughs in this country were becoming more corrupt and more rotten than before the Reform Bill . As an Irishman, he felt a particular interest in having the question sifted to the bottom; because, for every borough disfranchised in this country, he intended to put in a claim on the part of Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/mar/31/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: It is not a question of expenditure, but men.", "preceding_text": "e so much impatience was evinced on the question whether they should vote 7,100,000 l . for the Army, in addition to 7,900,000 l . for the Navy, he could scarcely hope by anything he could say to bring back the feeling of the House to a proper sense of its duty to the country. His hon. Friend proposed to reduce the Navy expenditure one-sixth, and now proposed to reduce that of the Army one-ninth. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/mar/31/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers and laughter .", "preceding_text": " of the buckhounds, or against some claptrap vote of the kind. But it was only right the country should know, that if that House once allowed these large items of the public expenditure to pass, there was no hope for retrenchment. Were hon. Gentlemen opposite prepared for the great discontent which was rising up in the minds of the people in consequence of the present enormous weight of taxation? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1848/may/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/may/16/cathedrals-and-collegiate-churches", "section": "cathedrals-and-collegiate-churches", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "e in the county of 1096 Lincoln? He demanded from the hon. Member, who had been working like a mole under ground, from what quarter he obtained such a charge, or rather fabrication? He knew many most zealous and indefatigable clergymen connected with Lincoln Cathedral; and did the hon. Member mean to charge them with a dereliction of duty? He knew not of what religion the hon. Member was, if any. "}