{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/apr/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/apr/02/rectory-of-bishop-wearmouth", "section": "rectory-of-bishop-wearmouth", "cue_text": "A cry of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ich he relied; and he believed that the noble Viscount would admit they were bettor authorities than the letter which had been read by him. The noble Viscount was quite mistaken in supposing that Dr. Wellesley required any defence of his character in consequence of what had fallen from him. He required nothing of the kind. He had made no attack upon him, and his character required no vindication. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/apr/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/apr/02/poor-laws-ireland-rate-in-aid-bill", "section": "poor-laws-ireland-rate-in-aid-bill", "cue_text": "Colonel DUNNE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "e him for all the disadvantages to which in such a purchase he must necessarily be subjected; and there can be no redemption for that part of Ireland—if it is to be through the transfer of land—except the land take its natural course, and come so cheap into the market that Englishmen and Scotchmen, and Irishmen too having capital, will seize it with avidity, notwithstanding all its disadvantages. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/apr/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/apr/02/poor-laws-ireland-rate-in-aid-bill", "section": "poor-laws-ireland-rate-in-aid-bill", "cue_text": "Here several hon. Members suggested various sums.", "preceding_text": "those extensive districts that are popularly called the distressed unions, the expenditure on the poor, during one year, was not less than 540,000 l ., leaving a debt of upwards of 120,000 l . in addition. It is proposed by this present Bill before us—by this plan of a rate in aid, that we should raise a sum throughout all Ireland, which, I understand, it is calculated would amount to 320,000 l . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/apr/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/apr/02/poor-laws-ireland-rate-in-aid-bill", "section": "poor-laws-ireland-rate-in-aid-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " Roman Catholic population—a population not only differing with the colonists in religion, but who will look upon them as possessing an inferior title to the land they hold. Sir, I see all the evils which would result from a colony ostentatiously planted on Protestant principles. Are we to reproduce a source of so many calamities? Is this statesmanship? No; surely the House will not authorise it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/apr/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/apr/02/poor-laws-ireland-rate-in-aid-bill", "section": "poor-laws-ireland-rate-in-aid-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "om a gentleman of his great talents, his great experience—his great experience especially with respect to Ireland. The right hon. Gentleman has discovered that the real cause of the misery and misgovernment of Ireland is not a political, municipal, moral, material, or social cause. He has found out that it is a legal cause—that all this part of Her Majesty's realm in Ireland has been in Chancery. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/apr/16/colonial-administration", "section": "colonial-administration", "cue_text": "\"Hear!\" and \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " appointment of governors, some amongst the ablest of our governors undoubtedly belong to the aristocracy. I hope the time is not come when the aristocracy are not to be selected if they are men of merit and ability. Few would compete, under such difficulties, with the Earl of Elgin; few with Lord Harris; and I even go so far as to say that Lord Torrington has made a most able Governor of Ceylon. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/apr/16/van-diemens-land", "section": "van-diemens-land", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "at the Motion of the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Youghall had come to a most unexpected conclusion, and one which he certainly had not anticipated. He could assure the House that he was prepared with a most complete answer to the allegations of the hon. and learned Gentleman, and if it would not be infringing the rules of the House, he should really like to give a short explanation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/06/suspension-of-the-habeas-corpus-act", "section": "suspension-of-the-habeas-corpus-act", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e mistaken, he never was a republican—he never would be a republican—that was, unless he very much altered his mind. But what must be the popular opinion of that form of government, judging of it by the efforts which were seen to flow from it in other countries? The people wished for a reduction in the Army and Navy. They were told that they could not have it because England was a mo- 337 narchy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/06/suspension-of-the-habeas-corpus-act", "section": "suspension-of-the-habeas-corpus-act", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: And bettor-looking.", "preceding_text": "r secure the affections of the people; it must infallibly tend further to alienate both from British rule and from the British people. Would a suspension of their liberties excite their love for England? and what charm for a people was there in coercion? Why should the Irish people love the English more than the French nation? The French were as well-mannered and agreeable persons as the English. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/06/suspension-of-the-habeas-corpus-act", "section": "suspension-of-the-habeas-corpus-act", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "hing of feelings approaching to an insurrectionary character, were perfectly cured, and convinced they were wrong in the views they then took. They were so completely changed that there was not one man among ten of them (if, indeed, there were ten who held those opinions, and to his knowledge there were not), to whom he could point his finger as entertaining any such feelings at the present time. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/09/habeas-corpus-suspension-ireland-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "The speech of the hon. Member was here interrupted by a Message from the House of Lords requesting a Conference. The hon. Member resumed.", "preceding_text": "o legislate upon it, and that the matter should be referred to a Committee. In the same week, the right hon. Gentleman informed the House that that vital question was to form no portion of the investigation of the Committee. The right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer had occasion to advert to the appalling destitution in certain districts in Ireland, but he had no remedy to propose. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/09/habeas-corpus-suspension-ireland-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "at eloquence about popular rights which seemed to animate hon. and right hon. Gentlemen when they happened to sit on his side of the House. He did not know whether it was any particular current of air, or peculiarity in the atmosphere of the House or not, but it always happened that speeches about popular rights, made for the purpose of catching votes, always proceeded from his side of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/09/habeas-corpus-suspension-ireland-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\" and \"Hear!\"", "preceding_text": "as rejected by the other House of Parliament. So untrue is it, Sir, that I invented this scheme for ousting the right hon. Member for Tamworth; and it is equally far from the truth that I allowed the question to slumber after I had taken it in hand. The measure was rejected in the House of Lords, whilst English opinion was in its favour. and the opinions of the Irish amounted to 547 indifference. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/20/colonial-system-ceylon-and-british-guiana", "section": "colonial-system-ceylon-and-british-guiana", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: That is the same high sheriff you referred to before.", "preceding_text": "e Governor, irrespective of the civil list. And now for that civil list. It consisted of a governor at 5,000 l , per annum; a chief justice at 957 2,500 l .; the immigration agent at 1,500 l .; a government secretary at 1,500 l .; two puisne judges at 3,000 l .; a registrar of Guiana and a registrar of Berbice at 1,200 l . a piece; an attorney general at 1,100 l .; and a high sheriff at 1,200 l . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/20/colonial-system-ceylon-and-british-guiana", "section": "colonial-system-ceylon-and-british-guiana", "cue_text": "Cheers and laughter .", "preceding_text": " Resolution an opportunity of making good his charges. That House was not the fittest place to make these charges, particularly considering the nature of those which had been advanced. But, having proposed to inquire whether there was any ground for the charges, ho, at least, might have postponed his judgment until his own accusations were proved, as they would be proved, to be utterly unfounded. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/20/colonial-system-ceylon-and-british-guiana", "section": "colonial-system-ceylon-and-british-guiana", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Pour", "preceding_text": " appointments made by Earl Grey. I think his appointments of governors show a very 1026 careful desire to select men of ability for those important trusts. I know myself how difficult it is very often to find a person well qualified for the post, who will consent to leave this country for a distant colony. I believe, in the very case of Ceylon, the government was offered to at least three persons—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/feb/20/colonial-system-ceylon-and-british-guiana", "section": "colonial-system-ceylon-and-british-guiana", "cue_text": "Laughter ,", "preceding_text": "o many years as an incubus upon this country. § MR. BAILLIE asked if he was to understand that the Amendment was withdrawn? If the Amendment were withdrawn, he would himself propose to make some alterations which might meet the views of the hon. Gentlemen opposite. MR. RICARDO thought that really, after all, there was no very great difference between the Gentlemen at both sides of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/jul/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/jul/09/marriage-scotland-bill", "section": "marriage-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: The law of England would not allow him so to legitimate his children.", "preceding_text": "ds his family what he felt to be an act of justice already too long delayed. Was that a ground of objection to the law of Scotland? Was it any reason for the proposed interference with that law? Would the law of England have prevented such an occurrence? Could the law of England prevent a man from marrying a woman with whom he had so lived; or could it prevent him from shooting himself next hour? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/jul/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/jul/09/railways-and-distressed-unions-ireland", "section": "railways-and-distressed-unions-ireland", "cue_text": "Alaugh.", "preceding_text": " and learned Member made these appeals for the purpose of increasing the prejudices and arousing the animosity of the English people. The English labourer or artisan would have nothing to pay; and if the hon. and learned Gentleman was really ignorant upon this subject, he would show him from the official returns that these loans had been previously made with a positive advantage to the Exchequer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/jul/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/jul/13/supply-miscellaneous-estimates-british", "section": "supply-miscellaneous-estimates-british", "cue_text": "An. Hon. MEMBER: It is not their own.", "preceding_text": "tanding was, that they were only to be admitted to the use of those apartments until the public accommodation required this further space. Three years ago, he wanted to know the means of the Royal Academy, but he lost his Motion by four or five votes only. He was now told that there was 100,000 l . belonging to the Royal Academy; that would enable them to build an edifice suited to their purpose. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/jul/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/jul/18/supply-ordnance-estimates", "section": "supply-ordnance-estimates", "cue_text": "Mr. HUME: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " causes that increase had taken place. His (Colonel Anson's) was merely an executive department, and there had been imposed upon it the charge of additional services since 1835—services with which it was at that period unconnected—to the amount of 300,000 l . a year. That reduced the actual difference in the expenditure to 800,000 l . But that actual increase arose from the increase of our forces—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/jul/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/jul/18/supply-ordnance-estimates", "section": "supply-ordnance-estimates", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "r the proper consideration of the question, that the evidence should have accompanied the report, namely, that there was an item under Vote 4, of 46,000 l . which the Ordnance was desired by the Treasury in 1843 to pay, and which was not charged under the same head in 1835. Far from being extravagant, they had been told over and over again, that the troops had not sufficient barrack accommodation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/jul/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/jul/18/supply-ordnance-estimates", "section": "supply-ordnance-estimates", "cue_text": "Mr. HUME: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "ases would sometimes inevitably occur, no man could deny. How, then, were they to be met? Heretofore, when balances were held over from one year to another, there was no difficulty whatever in paying off these unforeseen expenses. That system had very wisely, and as conducing more strictly to economy, been put at end to. No money was now ever kept over beyond the conclusion of the financial year. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/01/poor-laws-ireland", "section": "poor-laws-ireland", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" and cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "neral and comprehensive policy, he was convinced many Irish Members would consent to some system of local taxation to facilitate the transition. If Her Majesty's Ministers would come forward with a full and comprehensive plan, such as he had shadowed forth, he was sure that a majority of the Irish Members would not be indisposed to give such a plan their most serious and favourable consideration. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/01/poor-laws-ireland", "section": "poor-laws-ireland", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "he proceedings, that they called upon the House to confirm the 62 honest, just, and upright principle, that, for the poverty of Connaught, an auxiliary fund was to be raised from the other provinces to make up the deficiency in these insolvent unions? And did they call upon the British Parliament to tax the industry, the honesty, and the virtue of localities which had no more to do with Connaught—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/01/poor-laws-ireland", "section": "poor-laws-ireland", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "to Committee. § COLONEL DUNNE said, he did not see the use of any statement from the noble Lord, as they had the proposition already before them, and knew what it was. He thought it must be evident that the Committee had been coerced into the proposition which they had submitted to the House, and he thought they could discuss it just as well as if the noble Lord had made a speech of an hour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/14/landlord-and-tenant-bill", "section": "landlord-and-tenant-bill", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman who had just sat down showed conclusively that the mode of remedying the evils intended to be abolished by this Bill was not by the tenant farmers taking up leases. There were several reasons why the taking up of leases offered no remedy at all; one was, that the landlord was not willing to grant them; and another was, that the farmer was afraid to take one, especially at this moment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/14/landlord-and-tenant-bill", "section": "landlord-and-tenant-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": " committed it to such keeping, the Bill either would be shelved for this Session, or would come back to the House in such a mutilated shape that it would be totally different from its present form. He thought it might be as well if the hon. Member for Oxfordshire, who appeared to take so much interest in this question, invited three or four hon. Gentlemen to his dining-room to discuss the measure—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/14/clergy-relief-bill", "section": "clergy-relief-bill", "cue_text": "\"No, no!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "cclesiastical censures. He did not, however, think that right. That, however, was not the question; but so long as that was the law, no bishop did his duty who neglected to enforce them. The hon. Gentleman who had just sat down did not seem to understand the question in the least, as it applied to Roman Catholics and to Dissenters. In one case the man was in holy orders, and in the other was not. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/14/local-taxation-burdens-on-land-adjourned", "section": "local-taxation-burdens-on-land-adjourned", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name, name!\"", "preceding_text": " s. ? No.—49 s. ? No.—50 s. ? Still no: but he did ultimately agree to take 50 s. for his wheat of this year. I entirely approve of his practice of obtaining as much as he could for his wheat, but I think it would have been as well, if, with this opinion of its value, he had not alarmed his agricultural audience with a prospect of no higher price than 46 s. for the best wheat they could grow. 729 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/14/local-taxation-burdens-on-land-adjourned", "section": "local-taxation-burdens-on-land-adjourned", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Tenants under lease.", "preceding_text": "e land did not average more than 15 s. an acre. Now would any hon. Member contend that if half that rate of 17 s. 6 d. were removed from the land, the occupier would not be benefited by it? If he could tell the farmer that instead of paying 17 s. 6 d. poor-rate per acre, he would have to pay only half that sum in future, the immediate relief would be almost equal to the whole profits of his farm. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/mar/14/local-taxation-burdens-on-land-adjourned", "section": "local-taxation-burdens-on-land-adjourned", "cue_text": "Ironical cheering from the free-trade benches.", "preceding_text": ", beg to deny. Why, Sir, the farmers are positively unable to find a market, either in London or the country, for their agricultural produce. I was informed not many weeks ago, by a 745 farmer in Sussex, that though he sent to I market corn in good condition and of good quality, it was not merely that he could not get a moderate price, or even a low price, for it, but he could not sell it at all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/may/14/land-improvement-and-drainage-ireland", "section": "land-improvement-and-drainage-ireland", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: What do you know about them?", "preceding_text": "ishing from the destruction of the potato crop. Everybody was not likely to suffer, though a large portion of the agricultural population was likely to suffer. But a general cry of distress went forth. He would not enumerate classes; but in what he was about to state he included all classes, from the highest to the lowest. He found that there was in all of them a desire to acquire without labour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/may/14/land-improvement-and-drainage-ireland", "section": "land-improvement-and-drainage-ireland", "cue_text": "Mr. J. O'CONNELL: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ernment to live on their own labour—to be self-dependent, as in this country, where all were taught to depend on the labour of their own hands for their own subsistence. In Ireland every one looked to some external source for help. He never heard from any Irishman, either poor or rich, anything but the one cry of \"somebody must do something for us;\" but that somebody was never the person himself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/may/14/land-improvement-and-drainage-ireland", "section": "land-improvement-and-drainage-ireland", "cue_text": "said the hon. Member, turning to the benches behind him", "preceding_text": ", and not the amount of the sum; but that, largo as it was, had been expended so injuriously that it had left the people worse off than it had found them. Now, was there anything improper in his making that statement? Then he went further, and asked why the educated body of Irish Gentlemen had not stood forward and set the example of virtue in the appropriation of that sacred fund of charity? Why "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1849/may/14", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1849/may/14/foreign-intervention-in-rome", "section": "foreign-intervention-in-rome", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": ", he regretted to tell him that on this subject, as indeed on many others, it was impossible for any man to fathom his ignorance. His assertions, one after another, were inconsistent with themselves, and contrary to fact; and it would not be long before he heard from those whom he had slandered, that his assertions were falsehoods, and before he would be called upon to contradict or retract them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/may/15/disturbances-in-canada", "section": "disturbances-in-canada", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "l Office—as was ordinarily the case—a power to the Governor General to recommend to the Ministry there acting in Her Majesty's name to go down to the Canadian Assembly, and state that She sanctioned * Hansard (Third Series), Vol. ciii., p. 1125. 499 the appropriation of money to the express purposes of the Bill which had excited these disturbances? At the proper time he should be able to explain. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/may/15/emigration-from-ireland", "section": "emigration-from-ireland", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ney to come from? The money was the thing. The hon. Member had not stated how this large sum of money was to be obtained, nor how it was to be expended, nor what number of individuals it would be necessary to take out of Ireland. The next question was, If they had the money, could they not spend it better at home? They could not take out the population of Ireland at a less sum than 20 l . a head. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/may/15/emigration-from-ireland", "section": "emigration-from-ireland", "cue_text": "Mr. ROEBUCK: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "be the expense, for the greater would be the dificulty of finding employment for them all; and in common humanity, till that was done, they would be bound to maintain them. But suppose that only one million and a half were required, had this House shown itself so willing to advance the sum? Then there was another point; the more that was done for the people, the less they would do for themselves. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/may/15/emigration-from-ireland", "section": "emigration-from-ireland", "cue_text": "The hon. Member then proceeded to give extracts from Irish newspapers, confirmatory of what he had previously stated.", "preceding_text": "e; ten or twelve died weekly outside the doors; and he found in the Times of that very day, the 15th of May, the statement that 860 paupers had died in the workhouse in one week. In Moycullen, twenty-seven people died in three days, and the dead lay un-buried for want of coffins. Between Black-water and Ardmore, in the county Kerry, six people died of starvation within the week, on the road side. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1849/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1849/may/15/emigration-from-ireland", "section": "emigration-from-ireland", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: And agitators too.", "preceding_text": "facturers that Ireland might have been made a better customer than all our colonies put together; but the landlords, and the Government, by permitting them to do so, had destroyed her both as a consumer and a producer. It was true that Ireland had produced hodmen and wharfingers for England; but she had produced also, he was sorry to say, soldiers and sailors for England, and statesmen and poets. "}