{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/22/australian-colonies-bill", "section": "australian-colonies-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "would have ever been a congress assembled in America, yet fifty years afterwards there was assembled a meeting which was the germ of the United States; and it should be remembered that that was in an age when there were no railroads. It was scarcely safe to hazard any prediction when we remembered how men were now enabled to coerce nature. Let them look at what might be done by means of railways. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/29/savings-banks", "section": "savings-banks", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Must the treasurer be a banker?", "preceding_text": " that savings bank. He found on inquiry that there were in point of fact very few towns in England having savings banks wherein other banks did not exist, and in those cases where a savings bank was in a town so small as to be unprovided with a bank, he believed there would be practically no difficulty found in procuring some of the nearest banks in other places to accept the office of treasurer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/29/savings-banks", "section": "savings-banks", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "depositors, he was not at all surprised at what had lately taken place. He had very great doubts whether the right hon. Gentleman would be able to carry out his mixed plan, which he had now proposed. He thought the public had a right to complain of the Government in this matter, because it was always under stood that the Government were pledged to the depositors, and thus the public were deluded. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/29/ecclesiastical-commission-bill", "section": "ecclesiastical-commission-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Since the days of the Reformation.", "preceding_text": "hem a little more of their own. He told the hon. Member that older far than any of our nobility was the property of the Bishop of London within five miles of the House. That property had since 691, clearly above 1,100 years, been in the possession of the Church for perhaps 1,200 years; and, with the exception of the great rebellion, has been uninterruptedly in the possession of the see of London. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/29/ecclesiastical-commission-bill", "section": "ecclesiastical-commission-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "eformation.] I am told by an hon. Member who has, I take it for granted, sworn to maintain the property of the Church, that these possessions have only belonged to the see of London since the days of the Reformation. I tell him they have belonged to the see of London since the year 691. I don't know if he has the unhappiness to disagree with the Bishop of London in the views he takes of religion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/29/ecclesiastical-commission-bill", "section": "ecclesiastical-commission-bill", "cue_text": "Cheers .", "preceding_text": " indulgence of the House when I address them that I should be the last to complain of interruption; but I own it is more than usually difficult to go on, when sounds, exclamations, and addresses to myself, proceed from the hon. Gentleman behind me. [Mr. HORSMAN bowed apologetically.] 970 There was one expression used by the hon. Member, to the effect that the commission was universally condemned. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Lord J. RUSSELL: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "subject should be taken into consideration, as he believed that the salaries to be paid to commissioners, head clerks, and those in lower stations, should be subject to revision periodically. He had brought forward the Motion, because hitherto the Government had shown no intention of revising the salaries 994 of the great mass of those officers who were permanently employed in the public service. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "s which had proceeded from that class, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had heard one great cause of the depression existing among them was the low price for making soldiers' clothing paid by Government; and yet the proposal made by the hon. Gentleman would lead to a still further reduction of the payments, which, according to him, was one of the great causes of depression among these people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Colonel SIBTHORP: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " work their establishments at once efficiently and economically; but men of business could not fail to see that reduction of expenditure was always a matter of the utmost difficulty. In order to show the probable effect of any attempt to force the Government to undue reduction, he should call the attention of the House to a passage in a report made to the proprietors of the Great Western Railway. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "end did some good. It did a great deal of good to stir these people up. There was the grossest job that ever existed, the Comptrollership of the Exchequer, a nice fat place for the noble Lord who enjoyed the ease and the emoluments of the office—some 2,000 l . a year. He had tried to get that gross job abolished. He had not succeeded, to be sure. He was refused, of course; but he would try again. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "resided for the most part, and he had told the people not to go to London during the year 1851; because the exhibition of 1851 was a humbug, the only object of which would be to encourage the foreigner to send his cheap and nasty goods where they were not wanted. He availed himself of the opportunity to exhibit to his friends a specimen of the foreigner's skill—so he put in his pocket a decanter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "A cry of \" Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e, on his strength, on his being able to perform the duties of his office. When they came to deal with these things, it was but fair they should consider the ordinary exigencies of society, and all that surrounded and was about them. Should it be said that the State only should be niggard, when in the business of life—ay, he would take an instance directly—in mercantile life men were better paid? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": "lur on the Government, for the Government could not he impeached on this occasion? They were not in the position of other Governments, for there had been no opportunities like the present for many years. No Government had been pressed as the present Government had been with a desire of economy—not that there had not been Oppositions, as the noble Lord must know, who had been advocates of economy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Viscount PALMERSTON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "bour by night. He is wrong; by day and night the services of those who fill subordinate offices, are placed willingly at the disposal of the Government. I ask the noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if he cannot confirm the truth of this, and whether at all hours of the night the officers who assist him do not consider their services to be at all times at the disposal of their superiors? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Cheers, and counter cheers .", "preceding_text": "te of things, but as the result of a system in which the country was now travelling. Man, like all animals, was gregarious in his habits, and there were only two modes of leading gregarious herds—they would go as they smelt the clover before them, or as they felt the goad behind them. He was for a strong Government, he cared not whether monarchical, or constitutional, or republican, or any other. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Cheers .", "preceding_text": " a very few years they acquired the means of maintaining themselves and their families. The present proposition was certainly an improvement on the rude measure of a 10 per cent reduction brought forward by the hon. Member last year; but yet what would go forth to the world if they passed it? They would declare a truism, but they would pronounce a censure on the Government, and delude the people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Mr. ROEBUCK: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " House for a remission of taxation which was not authorised by the state of the public finances, and by a duo consideration for the claims of the public creditor, though at the same time with a due consideration for the claims of our suffering constituents. We have been charged—the Tory party have been charged to-night by the hon. and learned Member for Sheffield with a new-born zeal for economy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "Colonel SIBTHORP: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ard so repeatedly from the Government its determination to proceed to the utmost possible extent in the course of revision and of reduction. The only conclusion to be drawn from the hon. Gentleman's Motion, under such circumstances, was, that he had no confidence in the proposals of the Government, and that he conceived it to be the duty of the Government to resort to some other mode of revision. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/apr/30/salaries-and-wages-public-service", "section": "salaries-and-wages-public-service", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": " shown themselves disposed to act as a very disciplined body. The noble Lord had taken great offence because certain Members on that (the Opposition) side of the House had voted, on a late occasion, against certain taxes. But the noble Lord seemed to have forgotten what happened two Sessions ago, when he proposed to put on an additional property tax. There was a sort of growl all round the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/jun/04/poor-laws-ireland", "section": "poor-laws-ireland", "cue_text": "The hon. Member read several letters to the same effect from different parts of the country.", "preceding_text": "me of the late vice-guardians: we are obliged to ask them what remains due to them, and to take their words for the state of their account; the vice-guardians left our union in a deplorable condition. In the 730 Boyle union, I see by the papers, there are nine relieving officers paid 355 l . a year for distributing 1 l . 14 s . 1¾ d . weekly. The proportions are nearly the same everywhere. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/jun/04/poor-laws-ireland", "section": "poor-laws-ireland", "cue_text": "The Hon. Member referred also to abuses in Listowel, Boyle, Castlerea, &c., &c.", "preceding_text": " in the house. The coals and provisions were constantly delivered short of weight. The milk was a spurious mixture, the contractors had no cows. The straw in the pauper beds was unchanged for seven months, and filth and disorder had accumulated to a frightful degree. 4,372 articles of clothing and furniture were missing, and to prevent infection, clothing, to the value of 60 l , had to be burned. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/mar/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/mar/25/the-national-land-scheme", "section": "the-national-land-scheme", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "money in the scheme. § MR. HENLEY said, the hon. Member had not informed the House whether the Bill was to be a public or a private one. § MR. O'CONNOR said, that would depend entirely on the advice he might receive from the persons whom he meant to consult. Perhaps the hon. Member, who was more expert at such matters than he 1370 (Mr. O'Connor) was, would condescend to give his advice. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/mar/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/mar/25/the-duchies-of-cornwall-and-lancaster", "section": "the-duchies-of-cornwall-and-lancaster", "cue_text": "The hon. Member then proceeded to read 1371 a number of returns which he had prepared of the income derived from these Duchies, and the expense of management, and also all the lawyers' charges.", "preceding_text": " for Tamworth to promote the settlement of disputes between the owners of properties in these Duchies and the Government, until he saw what compromise would be made between these parties, he had deferred bringing forward his Motion. As be could not get primary evidence on this subject, he should be obliged to resort to evidence which, however, was not of so satisfactory a nature as he could wish. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/mar/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/mar/25/chief-justices-salaries-bill", "section": "chief-justices-salaries-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Question!\" and \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "he increased powers of purchase of the one pound. But the example will be followed by all public bodies—the Bank of England—the India House, and by every company and by every merchant, master, and tradesman. They will say, the Government have reduced all salaries, so must we. Well, is it not evident it will come down to the mechanic and the labourer, and that their wages will be likewise reduced. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/mar/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/mar/25/chief-justices-salaries-bill", "section": "chief-justices-salaries-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "confessed that he should have felt a difficulty about going into Committee on the Bill, but as the House had decided that it would go into Committee, he had no hesitation in saying that 8,000 l. was a proper sum for the salary of the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Wages rose or fell with the number of labourers in the market, and the competitors for the office of Chief Justice were very few. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1850/may/02", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1850/may/02/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Cheers .", "preceding_text": "fect of leading to the importation of enormous quantities of corn from Prussia and other parts of the north of Europe. An impression had been excited abroad by the speeches made at public meetings and in Parliament, and by articles in the newspapers, that there was a probability of this country returning to protection. Foreigners were led to believe that the restoration of protection was at hand. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/may/07/kingstown-and-holyhead-mails", "section": "kingstown-and-holyhead-mails", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: They have not paid a sixpence towards it yet.", "preceding_text": "he great inducements that were held out to this company to lay out their money on this line—not a line merely projected for private advantage, but a line in which great national interests were involved—there was an impression abroad that that company had not been treated with the consideration its merits demanded. They were also induced to lay out 200,000 l . in improving the harbour of Holyhead. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/may/10/the-new-house-of-commons", "section": "the-new-house-of-commons", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "d of the House, to which he understood the hon. Member to refer, had been taken down. He believed the House would be ready for the reception of Members, in order to test its convenience, very early. [Mr. B. OSBORNE: When?] He believed it would be ready for their reception in the course of the next week; but of course their going there must to a cercain degree depend upon the state of the weather. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/may/10/parliamentary-voters-ireland-bill", "section": "parliamentary-voters-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cheers .", "preceding_text": "acy. On looking to the Continent, or wherever they found democracy in the ascendant, they found that as regarded its professed attempt to promote the happiness, enlightenment, prosperity, or liberty of mankind, it had proved to be a most deplorable failure. They had but to look around them and see that democracy, instead of being an angel of liberty, was but the grossest form of despotic tyranny. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/may/10/parliamentary-voters-ireland-bill", "section": "parliamentary-voters-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "a year; this Bill provided for one registration in the year. \"Oh, but,\" said an hon. Gentleman, \"under the old system there was such disgusting perjury! \"But the hon. Gentleman seemed to forget that it was an inferior class of persons whom he now expected to set everything right. Ireland was not the place to try this experiment. The people of Ireland did not care one farthing about the franchise. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/may/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/may/23/affairs-of-greece-recall-of-the-french", "section": "affairs-of-greece-recall-of-the-french", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\" from the benches usually occupied by the \"financial reformers\" and \"friends of peace .\"", "preceding_text": "vant from being introduced into their conference? It is desirable the House should clearly understand that it is not upon Ministers they are called upon to pronounce judgment in these matters. It is the honour of the Crown which is at stake—it is a question of peace or war. If the House of Commons do not decidedly say by a large majority that they will have peace with France—cost what it may cost—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1850/may/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1850/may/23/navy-estimates-1-naval-stores", "section": "navy-estimates-1-naval-stores", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: And acquitted.", "preceding_text": "duct of that man had been in the case of the Cambria , Captain Cook. It could be shown that Captain Aaron Smith, who was with a piratical ship in the Gulf of Mexico, took Captain Cook from his vessel, and carried him on board the pirate ship, where he was tied to the mast and wounded in such a manner by the crew that he still bore the marks upon his body. Captain Aaron Smith was tried for piracy. "}