{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/apr/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/apr/12/clitheroe-election", "section": "clitheroe-election", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Only one.", "preceding_text": " subject of treating; but he thought before they decided on that question, they ought to ask themselves whether or not the evidence before the Committee on the Clitheroe election petition proved that corrupt practices of direct bribery extensively prevailed. He did not know what was the number of instances of bribery given in to the Committee; but he apprehended it was by no means inconsiderable. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/apr/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/apr/12/duty-on-carriages", "section": "duty-on-carriages", "cue_text": "Mr. F. FRENCH: Oh, no!", "preceding_text": "told him (Mr. Bright) that he kept no less than eight carriages. He thought these facts, with reference to Ireland, showed to what an extent the carriage duties operated to prevent the extension of carriage-building and the comfortable 1039 accommodation of families in this country. What was the reason that in Ireland a carriage could be bought for a considerably lower price than in this country? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/20/attornies-and-solicitors-certifi-cate", "section": "attornies-and-solicitors-certifi-cate", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "t the general plan of the Government as exhibited in the Budget, because he thought that in the end it would lead to further relief from taxation; and if he voted for the Bill now before the House, he would be acting contrary to the understanding which he had hitherto gone upon. Whatever might have been done on other occasions with respect to this tax, the circumstances were now entirely altered. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/20/recovery-of-personal-liberty-bill", "section": "recovery-of-personal-liberty-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: No, no!", "preceding_text": "ect; MR. BOWYER Then my Motion, \"That the Bill be read a second time that day six months,\" falls to the ground. § MR. SPEAKER That Motion falls to the ground, and that question cannot now be entertained. § MR. J. BALL said, he was glad to find that the discussion was not to turn on the second reading of a Bill which had been rejected and renounced by those who had formerly supported it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/20/recovery-of-personal-liberty-bill", "section": "recovery-of-personal-liberty-bill", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "he petition which had been presented to the Court upon behalf of the lady in question was presented for the purpose of procuring the property in dispute for the benefit of the body of which she was a member, and that she, in fact, could not be considered as having acted upon her own unbiassed inclinations. The Lord Chancellor proceeded to say that he should hold that the lady was not dead in law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/20/recovery-of-personal-liberty-bill", "section": "recovery-of-personal-liberty-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: The book is excluded.", "preceding_text": "ved that that exclusion had been sanctioned by the Commissioners, the majority of whom were Protestants. The resolution of the Commissioners was, in fact, only a restoration of the practice which was established when the Irish educational system was founded by Lord Derby. The book which Roman Catholic children were not to be obliged to use was a work on the Evidences of the Truth of Christianity. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/22/tenants-compensation-ireland-bill", "section": "tenants-compensation-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Colonel DUNNE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " though his right hon. Friend was very anxious about that Bill, he kindly consented to allow this measure precedence. § MR. H. HERBERT said, his memory certainly differed from that of his right hon. Friend, for he distinctly remembered that he stated it could not come on till Monday. He believed his hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Portarlington could corroborate him in his impression. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1853/jul/22", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1853/jul/22/succession-duty-bill", "section": "succession-duty-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ld involve a question of great importance, as affecting public morality; but it ought to be brought on in a regular way, and not by a sidewind, as its introduction into the present subject would be. The question before their Lordships was, whether they would allow it to go forth to the people of this country that they had rejected a measure which had been received with satisfaction by the country—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/28/south-sea-annuities-dissentients", "section": "south-sea-annuities-dissentients", "cue_text": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER: Oh, no !", "preceding_text": "ions. Before any discussion hardly could take place upon it, it was greatly altered and modified. The limitations which were proposed to the various kinds of stock which were brought under our consideration, varied from day to day, and the measures were hurried through this House because we were told that there was such eagerness to accept the commutation that we must waive our right of criticism—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/28/government-of-india-bill", "section": "government-of-india-bill", "cue_text": "Sir J. W. HOGG: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " The passage he had read formed part of the Resolutions of the Committee. He further found that the hon. Member for Honiton (Sir J. W. Hogg), who was a Member of the Committee, moved an Amendment that the words after \"extinction\" should be omitted; but the hon. Baronet was a party to the emphatic declaration that nothing but the extinction of the salt monopoly would remedy the evil of the system. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/28/government-of-india-bill", "section": "government-of-india-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "is state of things. At last, in 1845, the trade of this country cried out loudly; and he considered it his duty to go to the India House with a deputation to remonstrate on the fact that for nine intervening years nothing except the lowering of the duty in 1844 had been done to remedy the evils complained of. In 1845 the hon. Baronet the Member for Honiton was what was generally called \"a Chair.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/28/government-of-india-bill", "section": "government-of-india-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ers were concerned, there was no monopoly with regard to the sale of that article. There were, in fact, in India five different competing supplies of salt, the duty upon all being equal, whether levied by customs or by excise. It would have been something to the purpose if any evidence had been laid before the House to show that the natives of India had any reason to complain of the want of salt. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/28/government-of-india-bill", "section": "government-of-india-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "is manufacture an sale of salt must be prohibited for the future. Now he (Mr. Lowe) would put it t the House whether that was a logical conclusion to come to. The right hon. Baronet had cited a further part of the Act expressly excepting from the prohibition this very case, and providing that trade should not be carried on except for the purposes of raising revenue, and the purpose of Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/28/government-of-india-bill", "section": "government-of-india-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ings a monopoly, but what was monopoly? In his view a monopoly meant an exclusive privilege of selling a thing. That was no doubt the original meaning the word. When one person was thus exclusively privileged he had an interest opposed to that of the people, who were the buyers, and exercised that privilege to degree hurtful to the people. In that sense the East India Company had monopoly at all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/28/government-of-india-bill", "section": "government-of-india-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " for a moment shown any inclination to pretend that the fiscal regulations respecting the manufacture of salt in India are not one of the greatest evils that can possibly exist. Is it the wish of the House of Commons that these evils should be permanent, and that no exertion should be made to remedy them? Have you well considered the circumstances of a population in a chronic state of bad health? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/jul/28/government-of-india-bill", "section": "government-of-india-bill", "cue_text": "Amidst cries of \"Move!\" the hon. Member moved that We Chairman report progress.", "preceding_text": "money. § MR. THORNELY said, in that part of the House many Gentlemen entertained a very great disposition that the question should be adjourned. He owned he felt surprised at the very large sums proposed to be given to the Directors and Chairman, and if the proposition were persisted in, he should move, as an Amendment, that the former should be paid 500 l. and the latter 1,000 l. per annum. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/mar/14/the-household-narrative", "section": "the-household-narrative", "cue_text": "Mr. M. GIBSON: Oh! no.", "preceding_text": "rom taxation 161 a number of publications which clearly, as the law existed, were liable to duty. With some difficulty a Bill was prepared, and that Bill, as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Manchester had stated, he (Sir F. Thesiger) obtained leave to introduce. But it was the right hon. Gentleman himself, by starting a preliminary objection, who prevented that Bill from being brought in. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/06/order-precedence-in-resumed-debate", "section": "order-precedence-in-resumed-debate", "cue_text": "Much confusion and interruption prevailed throughout, the discussion.", "preceding_text": " aware, also, that not less than twenty Irish Members intended to address the House on the subject. I could not for one moment imagine that the question would have been put without giving ample time for discussion. I merely wish to set myself right with my friends in Ireland, and more particularly with my constituents, who are more interested in the subject than any other constituency in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/06/the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "arr; 6 May 1853 → Commons Sitting THE BUDGET—WAYS AND MEANS—THE INCOME TAX. HC Deb 06 May 1853 vol 126 cc1245-84 1245 § House again resolved itself into Committee of Ways and Means; Mr. Bouverie in the Chair. 1246 The CHAIRMAN having read the Re-solution, § CAPTAIN MAGAN said, I wish to avoid saying what I feel. The Irish Members have been taunted with reference to this income tax. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/06/the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name, name!\"", "preceding_text": " move that the Chairman report progress. In the first place, Sir, I think there is a matter which ought to be explained with respect to how the Irish Members came to the conclusion to turn out the late Government. We had a meeting upstairs, and certain Members came there and assured us that if the Government we expected to come into office did come in, no income tax would be imposed upon Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/06/the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "cue_text": "Renewed interruption.", "preceding_text": "ught proper to interrupt me, all I can tell that hon. Gentleman is this—that I am quite willing to make every allowance for the great difficulties under which he must be labouring. If he had wished to accomplish what he intended by his Motion last night, and which he did not at all simplify to my mind by the incoherent wandering [ Great confusion ]— § MR. LAWLESS Really I must rise to order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/06/the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "cue_text": "The hon. Member was again interrupted; and Captain Magan rose and addressed the House at the same time, amid great confusion.", "preceding_text": "; MR. LAWLESS Really I must rise to order. [ Renewed interruption. ] Perhaps, Sir, you will point out in a shorter way than the hon. Member who has just addressed the House, in what manner I have trespassed on the rules of this House, or any assembly of gentlemen, in moving that Ireland be exempted from the income tax. I can only pledge my word of honour that in that Motion I had no other motive. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/06/the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "otion now before the House was a sham and a delusion. MR. J. D. FITZGERALD said, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer said he would have an opportunity of renewing his Amendment when he had more materials on which to form a judgment, and as he understood he was to have to have no support from hon. Gentlemen opposite, he did not think he would be warranted in taking up the time of the House further. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/06/the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax-1", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": " Ireland, and one upon which no great difference of opinion existed. [Mr. M'CANN: No, no!] The hon. Member for Drogheda would have an opportunity of replying on that point, if he wished. It was very important that erroneous statements made in that House should not go forth to Ireland, and that the question should be put before the people on its merits as clearly and distinctly as possible. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/12/the-government-and-the-irish-members", "section": "the-government-and-the-irish-members", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": " thing, that denial was conclusive in my mind. I believed him implicitly, and there was an end of it. But the charge having been made by the hon. Member for Westmeath, in such distinct terms, I thought the House was called upon to have the matter satisfactorily explained. It now turns out that the hon. Member for Westmeath did make an erroneous statement— § CAPTAIN MAGAN I did not—I deny it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/12/the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-the-income-tax", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " and yet he would exclude from the opportunity of making his way in the world every man whose father had not made it for him beforehand. That might be political economy, but it was subversive of every principle upon which the greatness of this country was founded. Every man who had perseverance and ability might begin with small means and make them large; but the hon. Gentle- 254 man denied that. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/12/the-budget-ways-and-means-succession", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-succession", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER called attention to the simplification of titles, and the expense attendant upon legal conveyances of land.", "preceding_text": "ransferred for the most part without expense, and land could not; but since those days a great mass of personal property of a species then unknown has grown up, and become subject to expense in transfer almost or altogether similar to that upon land. Take the railway shares, and you have at once a mass of property amounting to 300,000,00 l., subject to precisely the same tax or transfers as land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/12/the-budget-ways-and-means-succession", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-succession", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Will the claim of the Crown revive during his whole life?", "preceding_text": "stice to the Exchequer and to the relative claims of other classes. In the event of a subsequent and voluntary alienation of property, the claim of the Exchequer will revive; but in the event of the successor continuing to hold the property, the charge will only be on the net life interest. I think every Gentleman who looks into that matter will find powerful reasons in support of that provision. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/12/the-budget-ways-and-means-succession", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-succession", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " and conjecture at pleasure; but if you take the interest of mortgages, and other incumbrances, of settlements and all other charges on land, at 25 per cent, it leaves 36,000,000 l. net annual landed income. Now, that 36,000,000 l. of annual income represents a capital value of about thirty times as much. But then how often do successions come? It seems not irrational to say once in thirty years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/13/the-budget-ways-and-means-succession", "section": "the-budget-ways-and-means-succession", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "tice that pertained to the proposition? In his opinion the act was little short of positive confiscation—the drain upon the capital of the country would be so enormous. The right of hereditary successions was one of the main props of our social system, as much so as a hereditary monarchy, or our Parliamentary institutions. He believed that the passing this Act would be a blow at the constitution. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/13/customs-etc-acts", "section": "customs-etc-acts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "had a suggestion to offer to the right hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer for a new tax, from which a large sum of money might be realised, at the same time that it would tend to the relief of native industry, a thing for which he would always stand up. His suggestion was, that the right hon. Gentleman should impose a tax—and a heavy one too—on the lamentable influx of foreigners into this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/13/rye-writ-adjourned-debate", "section": "rye-writ-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"No, no!\" and \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": " it. § MR. BASS, who was again received with loud cries of \"Spoke!\" said, he only desired to state, in answer to what he 375 supposed to be the suggestion of the noble Lord (Viscount Palmerston), that he should ask the leave of the House to introduce a Bill for the disfranchisement of the borough of Rye. § SIR JOHN SHELLEY said, he would withdraw his Motion by leave of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1853/may/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/30/customs-acts", "section": "customs-acts", "cue_text": "Ironical cries of \"Hear!\"", "preceding_text": "t once, and consent to a postponement; hut, if not, I trust we may be allowed to proceed. § MR. DISRAELI Sir, the noble Lord has anticipated the purport and effect of the observations I made, in a very disingenuous spirit, and in a manner which, I must say, is not favourable to the independent Members of this House. I do not think I was bound to say I opposed the reduction of the tea duties. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1853/may/30", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1853/may/30/maldon-election", "section": "maldon-election", "cue_text": "Laughter. The noble and learned Lord then left the Souse apparently in anger at the interruption.", "preceding_text": "n into which they had been appointed to inquire. This Committee did no such thing. Their report read \"at elections,\" and that might mean two, three, or four elections before the one which was referred to their consideration. [Lord CAMPBELL: Read the words of the Act of Parliament.] Did the noble and learned Lord mean to say he could not state the effect of an Act of Parliament without reading it? "}