{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/apr/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/apr/20/frome-vicarage-the-rev-mr-bennett", "section": "frome-vicarage-the-rev-mr-bennett", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "dismissed; Mr. De Gex occupied his place; and his (Mr. Horsman's) narrative was now concluded. But what was the condition in which the parishioners of Frome now stood? The clergy had memoralised—the laity had protested—the Nonconformists in the town had held a public meeting, at which they had raised their voices in behalf of Protestantism and against what they termed this \"now Papal aggression.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/apr/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/apr/20/frome-vicarage-the-rev-mr-bennett", "section": "frome-vicarage-the-rev-mr-bennett", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " to the vicarage of Frome. Without meaning to use the expression offensively towards the hon. Member for Cockermouth, he must say that this was, in fact, an attack upon the Bishop of Bath and Wells. Looking at the matter in this point of view, he thought they could not fail to remember that the Bishop of Bath and Wells was not only very advanced in years, but that his health was greatly impaired. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/apr/29/unstamped-publications-the-household", "section": "unstamped-publications-the-household", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "17 The ATTORNEY GENERAL thought that was rather a question for his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer but he should think until the law was finally settled, no interference would take place. § MR. HUME had put the question to the right hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer. The law had decided that the publication in question was legal, and it was a quibble worthy of the Government—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/apr/29/exhibition-of-1851-crystal-palace", "section": "exhibition-of-1851-crystal-palace", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "country absolved them from any necessity in adhering to it. To construct the building in the Park without the consent of the people was a trespass upon their rights; to pull it down without their consent was also a trespass. He implored the House not to act in open hostility to the wishes of the people, who would consider it an act of social exclusion were they to destroy this beautiful building. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/apr/29/exhibition-of-1851-crystal-palace", "section": "exhibition-of-1851-crystal-palace", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "now at once reject this Motion, and so settle the question for ever. § MR. WAKLEY said, the noble Lord who had just spoken appeared to be influenced by a very strong feeling. He (Mr. Wakley) had also a very strong feeling, but he had made no pledges; and if the noble Lord had made a pledge which he could not maintain, in consequence of the power of Parliament, morally he would commit no sin. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/07/tenants-compensation-ireland-bill", "section": "tenants-compensation-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "f the Amendment of his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Athlone (Mr. Keogh). What had the hon. Member for Athlone said this evening? It was true he had referred to the pamphlet of Mr. Hamilton, but he had not only referred to that pamphlet, he referred also to certain pigeon-holes in Dublin Castle. The right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Napier), with the sanctity which became a Member of the College—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/07/tenants-compensation-ireland-bill", "section": "tenants-compensation-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "Member for Athlone (Mr. Keogh). What had the hon. Member for Athlone said this evening? It was true he had referred to the pamphlet of Mr. Hamilton, but he had not only referred to that pamphlet, he referred also to certain pigeon-holes in Dublin Castle. The right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Napier), with the sanctity which became a Member of the College—[\"Oh, oh!\"]—well, then, with that want of sanctity—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/08/parliamentary-electors-bill", "section": "parliamentary-electors-bill", "cue_text": "The ATTORNEY GENERAL: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "h of last month in the Court of Common Pleas was considered the most conclusive reason for a change in the law which could by possibility be offered. With regard to the remarks of the hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney General, he really must assume, unless he were corrected, that the hon. and 1149 learned Gentleman had not taken the trouble to read the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "e noble Member for the City of London had stated most correctly what was the usual practice— that the Chairman of the Committee should read through the Resolution until he was stopped by an Amendment. He (the Chairman) was stopped by an Amendment, which was subsequently withdrawn, and he then understood that it was the general wish of the Committee to take the decision upon the words before them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh\"", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman whether he wished it to he believed that he had redeemed those promises, or whether he bad not 1612 been guilty of a cruel and a heartless hoax? They had been told that the British farmer was a primitive sort of person, who would believe anything he was told; but he (Viscount Drumlanrig) said they (the Ministerial party) had rashly and recklessly misled the British farmer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ncy. But the right hon. Gentleman had forgotten that the late Sir Robert Peel had found a deficit of two millions and a half (thanks to Gentlemen opposite), and yet, notwithstanding, had set about large remissions of duties; while, on the other hand, be was compelled to resort to the income tax to make it up. § MR. GOULBURN I obtained the in- 1621 come tax before taking off the other duties. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " Sir Robert Peel had found a deficit of two millions and a half (thanks to Gentlemen opposite), and yet, notwithstanding, had set about large remissions of duties; while, on the other hand, be was compelled to resort to the income tax to make it up. § MR. GOULBURN I obtained the in- 1621 come tax before taking off the other duties. [\"Hear, hear!\"] § MR. PEACOCKE That was the same thing. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Sir W. MOLESWORTH: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "trongholds which they long believed to be impregnable, cannot fail to impress upon those who are conscious of their inferiority in respect to these natural advantages, the ultimate ruin and destruction that must be the result of rebellious opposition to Her Majesty's authority; and there is reason to hope, provided that authority be duly supported by an adequate permanent military establishment\"— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Loudcries of\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "iness or not, that there are some things which he, too, has yet to learn. There were other reasons, besides the reason of triviality and irrelevancy, why a discussion should have been avoided to-night by the right hon. Gentleman on the subject of emigration. And I tell the right hon. Gentleman more—that the licence of language he has used—the phrases he has applied to the characters of public men—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_text": "es used and remain totally unmoved—my wish is to keep myself strictly within the bounds of Parliamentary order and propriety, and I beg of you, Sir, that if in one syllable I trespass beyond those bounds, you will have the kindness to correct me. I do not address myself to those Gentlemen belonging to the great party opposite, from whom I have never received anything but courtesy and forbearance —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Cheers and 1667 confusion, which drowned the remainder of the sentence.", "preceding_text": "[ Interruption ] —but, notwithstanding the efforts of some Gentlemen in a remote corner of the House, who avail themselves of darkness to interrupt me, I will tell them this, that they must bear to have their Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is so free in his comments upon the conduct of others, brought to the bar of the opinion of this Committee, and tried by those laws of decency and propriety— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Renewed cheers again drowned the remaining words of the sentence.", "preceding_text": "ed the remainder of the sentence. ] Sir, we are accustomed here to attach to the words of the Minister of the Crown a great authority—and that disposition to attach authority, as it is required by the public interest, so it has been usually justified by the conduct and character of those Ministers; but I must tell the right hon. Gentleman that he is not entitled to charge with insolence men who — "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/dec/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement", "section": "ways-and-means-financial-statement", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "did honour to the great statesman who conceived it. It was undoubtedly required in part to meet a deficit, but it had also this ulterior and principal purpose —to effect a great and needful commercial reform; to lighten the springs of industry; to give activity to trade, and to cheapen commodities of all descriptions. My belief is, that Sir Robert Peel viewed the income tax as a temporary measure—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/feb/18/enfranchisement-of-copyholds-bill", "section": "enfranchisement-of-copyholds-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No,\" and \"Yes.\"", "preceding_text": "ld probably receive petitions to present against it. He hoped, therefore, it would be a general understanding that the House would adopt no hurried legislation on the subject, but that sufficient time would be afforded for fully considering the measure. § MR. AGLIONBY said, he was perfectly ready to explain the provisions of the Bill 726 if it were the wish of the House that he should do so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/feb/18/county-rates-and-expenditure-bill", "section": "county-rates-and-expenditure-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "annually, without any supervision, without making some complaint to that House, and insisting that a measure of this kind should be passed. He trusted no man would hope again to receive any succour from the right hon. Gentlemen the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who, he was certain—and he spoke after observing his speeches and his conduct—had been a concealed opponent of this measure—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/feb/19/the-irish-government-and-the-world", "section": "the-irish-government-and-the-world", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member here handed the noble Lord a document.", "preceding_text": "er from the secretary of the noble Lord then at the head of the Foreign Office, offering him such information as he might desire for the purpose of defending the Government? I have not got that letter by me. It was produced at the trial, but as it is not of any great importance, I did not think it necessary, as the reading of all the documents would but weary the House, to provide myself with it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/feb/19/the-irish-government-and-the-world", "section": "the-irish-government-and-the-world", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "impugned. Therefore I cannot conceive that I, a Member of the Opposition in this House, have done wrong in submitting this case to the consideration of the House. I think it one worthy their consideration, and I cannot conceive but that the decision the House will arrive at to-night will be regarded as of the utmost importance. I believe that upon that decision rests the scale of public morality. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/feb/19/the-irish-government-and-the-world", "section": "the-irish-government-and-the-world", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": "rought it forward in so temperate a manner—one, himself proud, and justly proud, of being an Irishman—would have been the person to have made this Motion; and certainly I would not have been the individual to support it. If it was an extraordinary transaction, which could only have occurred in the heat and fiery fervour of party strife, every generous man would have helped to cast a veil over it, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/jun/14/case-of-mr-mather-review-of-the-session", "section": "case-of-mr-mather-review-of-the-session", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": ". The present Government are, no doubt, placed in a position of great difficulty, because they are a Government that are young in office, and young in official experience; while they have opposed to them Gentlemen of the greatest abilities, of a very large amount of official experience and great influence; and I must say that they have not shown very great forbearance to Her Majesty's Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/jun/14/case-of-mr-mather-review-of-the-session", "section": "case-of-mr-mather-review-of-the-session", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear [ \" from the Opposition benches.", "preceding_text": "what have we done to justify all this indignation on the part of the noble Lord and all those brokenhearted inquiries which have been addressed to us by the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. J. H. Smith)? The noble Lord wishes to convey to the country that, for party purposes—nay, for a viler consideration, for hustings purposes—we have been tampering with the question of education in this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1852/jun/14", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1852/jun/14/surrender-of-criminals-convention-with", "section": "surrender-of-criminals-convention-with", "cue_text": "Subsequently, Order of the Day for receiving the Report of the Amendment, read, and discharged; and Bill (by leave of the House) withdrawn.", "preceding_text": " owing to that diversity of circumstances, the law had been a dead letter; but it had been now revived, and with a very material extension, having reference to misdemeanours as well as other crimes. § LORD LYNDHURST said, that by the existing French law, supposing the Bill before the House to have been carried, an Englishman might have been apprehended here after he had been in Paris. § "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" and cries of \"No, no!\" from the Ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": "be a Minister as any other man. As a Member for a Liberal constituency he, for one, rejoiced at the elevation of the right hon. Gentleman to the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had had a hard card to play, but he had achieved his position without any aristo- 1311 cratic connexion, and after some severe struggles, accompanied with great dislike on his own side, and great distrust on this—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " have acquired office, and have the opportunity of carrying out our views, and going to a dissolution to settle this question, we will adopt it to this extent, that we will make it our stalking horse at the coming elections, not with a view of encouraging but for the sole purpose of preventing those unpleasant questions of Parliamentary Reform and the Ballot from being considered by the electors? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "s, he was informed that two of the noblemen who had all along been loudest in their clamours for protection (the Dukes of Richmond and Rutland) had found, since free trade, no material diminution in their rents. If it were the tenants who had suffered by the change, why did not the landlords take measures themselves for reducing those sufferings? 1334 As yet no reduction of rents had taken place. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "s a matter of a somewhat personal nature. The hon. Baronet the Member for Marylebone (Sir B. Hall) distinctly named the Duke of Richmond's estates; and I distinctly state, of my own knowledge, that the property of my noble relative in Sussex has been revalued, and that a dimiuution has occurred on the whole rental. § MR. COBDEN Well, I will state exactly what I have heard in the course of my—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "rd in the course of my—[ Loud cries of \"Oh, oh!\"] I am not going to make this a matter of reproach. I hope I have sounder views of political economy than to do that. But I have heard in the course of many oppor- 1343 tunities of inquiring of the neighbours of the noble Duke—of the tenants residing in the immediate neighbourhood of Goodwood—that not only has there been no reduction of rents—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Question!\"", "preceding_text": " others who would come forward and take his farm at the same rental. I say, then, if the Duke of Richmond's land will let on these terms, and if, when a farmer leaves his farm on the ground that the rent is excessive, half-a-dozen others with a capital are ready to take it, that his Grace would, I think, be very incapable of managing his own affairs if he dreamt of reducing the rent of that farm. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ccording to the noble Lord, was to produce 850,000 l., if not double. Timber was to produce 700,000 l. Now that the Navigation Laws are irrevocably repealed, and that the shipowners and shipbuilders are therefore justly desirous to be exempted from every possible impediment, are we going to impose a duty of 700,000 l., which is to be levied on timber. Cotton was to produce a revenue of 650,000 l. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "\"No, no!\" and loud cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "he returns are identioal with the increase? Sir, I do not deny that the people have food cheaper, and that free trade has benefited the working classes to the extent that their wages have remained the same. But did you mean that they should have that benefit? No. Your early argument for free trade was, that you had to compete with the foreigner, and could not do so on your present scale of wages. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"Hear, hear!\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "hey should have that benefit? No. Your early argument for free trade was, that you had to compete with the foreigner, and could not do so on your present scale of wages. [\"No, no!\" and loud cries of \"Hear, hear!\"] You contend—those of you who were most honest—that you wanted to repeal the Corn Laws in order to reduce the prices of food, and thus to have an excuse for lowering wages. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": " the end are not the working classes. The parties who really profit are the rich—the rich landowner, the rich capitalist, and temporarily, perhaps, a portion of the working classes. But how stands it with the bulk of the employers of labour? With the farmer for instance? He has been getting little or no return. Or with the shopkeepers as a body? or with the merchant? He also is getting no return. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" from the Ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": "or the other, should have been perfectly satisfied to wait until these measures were proposed, to consider them, and to see whether they were such measures as I could support. But they took a course which I will venture to say has no precedent in the history of this country since the Constitution was established, and for which no justification whatever in the maxims and rules of that Constitution—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "s, to my notions, not so conservative as those Gentlemen whom I see opposite. A man of large capital in this country said to me lately, \"Some time ago we heard a talk of democrats and the danger of democracy, but I think some of the farmers of England are more democratic than any class I know.\" I will not tell you the authority, but if I were, you would find it an authority universally respected. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"There's no such Motion.\"", "preceding_text": "t. § The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER I have to beg the noble Lord's pardon. I listened attentively to the speed of the noble Lord, expecting that after he had concluded the interesting narrative and amusing arguments with which he had favoured us, he would at last have condescended to announce that he did not sanction the proposal of the hon. Member for Middlesex to negative these Estimates. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "ch he had favoured us, he would at last have condescended to announce that he did not sanction the proposal of the hon. Member for Middlesex to negative these Estimates. [ Cries of \"There's no such Motion.\"] § LORD JOHN RUSSELL There is no such Motion before us. § The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Well, then, the negative to the vote which the hon. Member for Middlesex said he would move. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Great cheering from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "ion before us. § The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Well, then, the negative to the vote which the hon. Member for Middlesex said he would move. [ Cries of \"No, no!\"] Let the Chairman, then, state what is the Motion before us. The CHAIRMAN The Motion before the Committee is, the number of land forces, and that the grant of a certain amount of money for their support should be acceded to. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: No; he has done no such thing.", "preceding_text": "it is by old walls, is penetrated with modern and rational sentiments; and that the Gentleman at present representing it, as a Protectionist, has no chance of coming back on those principles again. I come down to Kidderminster, and I am informed that the hon. Gentleman who has sat among you as a Protectionist is offering himself again to the constituency of Kidderminster on free trade-principles. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Derisive cheers.", "preceding_text": "—for I confess I did not read that portion of his speech—referred, in another place, to the subscriptions put down upon that occasion as merely subscriptions on paper. In reply to that, I can assure hon. Gentleman opposite that it positively required arguments on the part of my hon. Friend 1393 (Mr. Cobden) and myself, to prevent those subscriptions, large as they were, from becoming much larger. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "r north, to Down. A noble Lord (Lord Castlereagh) in consequence of a domestic tyranny, as unconstitutional as unnatural, was forced to retire from that county. Thereupon the farmers of that county addressed the noble Lord; and in consequence that noble Lord will be put up again for Down, and will stand, along with my hon. Friend the Member for Rochdale, entirely upon free trade and tenant right. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/19/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Loud and continued cries of \"Oh!\" prevented the hon. Member from concluding the sentence.", "preceding_text": "e things are often managed when the candidate has nothing to do with them openly, and often when he is totally ignorant of what is being done. What I stated was, that a petition had been presented against the return of the hon. and learned Gentleman; that the hon. Gentleman's Friends proposed, as he has said, to enter into the case of his opponents; and that parties to the petition in the borough—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1852/mar/19", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1852/mar/19/commercial-policy", "section": "commercial-policy", "cue_text": "Ironical 1270 cheers from the Earls of Malmesbury and Lonsdale.", "preceding_text": "ree trade, a dissolution becomes still more imperative; although under any circumstances I think that measure the only step open to the noble Earl. I have once or twice touched on the fact that certain measures must be passed before we can have a dissolution of Parliament. But what are they? We are sitting here, if not as an Opposition, certainly not as the supporters of Her Majesty's Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1852/mar/19", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1852/mar/19/commercial-policy", "section": "commercial-policy", "cue_text": "Earl of MALMESBURY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ions which my noble Friend has received since he has been in office; and since the noble Duke has sat down I have had confirmed by my noble Friend in that which I believed to be the case on his part, that so far as Her Majesty's present Government is concerned, no such representations as those which are supposed by the noble Duke, have reached Her Majesty's Government from any country or quarter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1852/mar/19", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1852/mar/19/commercial-policy", "section": "commercial-policy", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ness of the country. I will not shrink from that responsibility so long as I believe that I can conduct it satisfactorily, and can carry through such measures as I believe to be for the public advantage that I should submit to the consideration of Parliament. It was not then a question of dissolving Parliament, it was a question of the other alternative, namely, the resignation of the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1852/mar/19", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1852/mar/19/commercial-policy", "section": "commercial-policy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "t the result would be that one party would be in sufficient strength to afford Her Majesty a strong Administration. That being admittedly a result to be desired, what it was necessary the country should have was a fair trial of the present Government before a dissolution took place. The country ought to have a fair trial of all parties which existed in the country before a dissolution took place. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/22/volunteer-rifle-companies", "section": "volunteer-rifle-companies", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": "certain if the noble Lord went to the country with the right hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) as an ally on one hand, and the hon. Members for the West Riding of Yorkshire and Manchester on the other, it would be a most unpopular Opposition. There was a great public actor in London who entirely expressed his (Sir J. Tyrell's) sentiments on the present state of affairs. Mr. Keeley—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/22/supply-navy-estimates", "section": "supply-navy-estimates", "cue_text": "An Hon MEMBER: No, no!", "preceding_text": "to the Admiralty, who fished up a long account with which he came down to the House, Now, he (Mr. W. Williams) was prepared to say, from information he had received, that the facts were as he had stated them, namely, that a Marine was ordered to shoot a seaman who was swimming ashore to desert; that he missed the man; that he was peremptorily ordered to fire again, and that the man was shot dead. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/30/the-ballot", "section": "the-ballot", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "THE BALLOT. (Hansard, 30 March 1852) Search Help HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1850s → 1852 → March 1852 → 30 March 1852 → Commons Sitting THE BALLOT. HC Deb 30 March 1852 vol 120 cc406-36 406 MR. HENRY BERKELEY then rose to bring forward the Motion of which he had given notice with respect to the Ballot. He said they had before them the prospect of a general election. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/30/the-ballot", "section": "the-ballot", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d them, though it did not appear that the hon. Gentleman had done anything, or had a wish to do anything, in furtherance of that object for which he was specially elected by the tenant farmers. When the election to which he had referred took place, the noble Dukes and noble Lords in that county, by their agents, brought up their tenants to the poll just as they would have driven a flock of sheep. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/30/the-ballot", "section": "the-ballot", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers", "preceding_text": " moral aspect—the example of France was conclusive. They had had 6,000,000 of people in France all voting in one day, they had had three or four general elections all over France with universal suf- 424 frage, and under the most exciting circumstances, and he said, without the slightest fear of contradiction, that there had been less of tumult, of violence, and of discord at the polling in France—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/30/the-ballot", "section": "the-ballot", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " The system adopted in Massachusetts would, however, protect the farmers from the prying eyes of the Earl of Derby or any other landlord. He must say that he had seen other sentiments of the Earl of Derby which in themselves would justify the adoption of the ballot. On another occasion the noble Lord distinctly told them that he considered the tenantry to be the political capital of the landlord. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/30/the-ballot", "section": "the-ballot", "cue_text": "Cheers from the Ministerial benches", "preceding_text": "lls and in other establishments in those counties. Well, this naturally caused, as he had said, considerable discussion amongst that class of persons. But what was the result? A crowded public meeting was held in Stockport, and those who were present passed an unanimous vote, that if they could not have the protection of the ballot, they would not have the franchise. They did so on this principle—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/30/the-ballot", "section": "the-ballot", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "—if not, he was sure there was in the country—to bring them to book on that question. What awaited them? Suppose they were to dissolve on this most exciting question—this question of the cupboard, the bread-basket, the sugar-basin—there would be no tumult in Manchester, or Glasgow, or Birmingham, or the West Riding of Yorkshire, with its 1,200,000 inhabitants, and its 800,000 of rural population. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1852/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1852/mar/30/the-ballot", "section": "the-ballot", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: No!", "preceding_text": " the ballot, and the only difference would be, that, instead of these things taking place in consequence of what is known, they will take place on suspicion. Again, it is said that the ballot will prevent bribery. The example given by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer the other night of the working of the ballot in New York, is, to my mind a conclusive answer to that assertion. "}