{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/dec/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/dec/21/enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "section": "enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " would be the result on these persons reaching England? Why, that a great portion of them would not have been married at all when they left their own country, and if they had been we could not have proof of the fact. Not to allow these men to receive half-pay would, he thought, be exceedingly objectionable. They were a class of persons who had been truly described as a sort of national assassins. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1854/dec/21", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1854/dec/21/militia-bill", "section": "militia-bill", "cue_text": "The Earl of DERBY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "MESBURY Perhaps the noble Duke would gratify the House with a return, showing the number of regiments embodied which had their full establishment on that very day. Would the noble Duke give that to the House? § THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE If the noble Earl made such a motion to-morrow he would consider it. He must say he thought further reference as to the state of the regiments was not desirable. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/dec/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/dec/22/enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "section": "enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "e they not the most intelligent, the most instructed, and have they not proved themselves the most patriotic people in Europe? and if they are not dissatisfied, why should we stand out for better conditions, and why should we make greater efforts and greater sacrifices to obtain peace than they? I may be told that the people and the Governments of Germany are not quite in harmony on these points. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/dec/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/dec/22/enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "section": "enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "dead in their graves, than that they should become exposed to the miseries which must of necessity ensue should the Russian secure a permanent footing in these kingdoms. He knew what his own nation had suffered during seven centuries, from suffering itself to be conquered; and it was well known what terrible evils the Saxons had endured for four hundred years, from the Norman conquest of England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/dec/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/dec/22/enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "section": "enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Read, read!\"", "preceding_text": " county. It is with unfeigned reluctance I now write on a matter which may, perhaps, seem outside my legitimate province; but I know that my constituents will expect of me to bring it formally under your notice, as Chief Secretary for Ireland. That communication was an important one, not merely as regarded Cork, but the whole of Ireland. He would not trouble the House by reading the answer to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/dec/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/dec/22/enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "section": "enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " \"Go on, and consummate this measure of unpopularity—enrol your mercenaries; but you will be ere long visited with public odium and indignation.\" Unfortunately, however, the unpopularity of the measure cannot be confined to yourselves; and, doubt it not, in the place of the present enthusiasm there will be a serious reaction. [\"No, no!\"] Am I right? Then this measure is not forced upon the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/dec/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/dec/22/enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "section": "enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "about 500,000 men, on his sending, to the Emperor of Russia a message asking whether he would make peace, the Russian nobleman who brought the message to him was immediately degraded. One of the most serious things attending the war was, that in all probability, it would entail upon us a vast debt, as other wars had done. After all, however, the war was neither more nor less than a religious war. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/dec/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/dec/22/enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "section": "enlistment-of-foreigners-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " also guilty of another mistake with reference to an observation of my hon. Friend as to the character and position of the Turks. We have referred over and over again to a monstrous statement made by the noble Lord the Member for Tiverton as to the improvement of the Turks—a statement which is contradicted by all facts. Tonight, with a disingenuousness which I should be ashamed to use in argument—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/feb/20/the-proclamation-against-the-export-of", "section": "the-proclamation-against-the-export-of", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "hould be glad, therefore, if the noble Lord would say whether the Proclamation is to be taken in the broad meaning which the words imply, or whether the Government intend to issue any notification by which trade may, as far as possible, be set free? There is another ground on which the parties engaged in that branch of manufactures wish to be made acquainted with the intentions of the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/feb/20/russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "section": "russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "leagues. The statement of the noble Lord was made within a week after Lord Clarendon had addressed to Lord Stratford a reply to the despatch containing these consular reports, and stating that they had received the most serious attention of Her Majesty's Government. Of course, the noble Lord must be excepted from the 930 other members of Her Majesty's Government who had seen the consular returns. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/feb/20/russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "section": "russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "so that it may be said that our imports from Russia will average altogether 12,000,000 l. sterling per annum. And bear in mind that you have articles imported from Russia of primary importance and value to your manufacturers. Take, for instance, the article of tallow. How would your locomotives travel without tallow? How would your mechanic carry on his operations if he did not grease his wheels? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/feb/20/russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "section": "russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "But Fuad Effendi foresees that embarrassment will arise from the pretensions of the rival sects as to whether the inscriptions round the cupola are to be in Greek or Latin, whether the sacred images in it are to be made and habited according to Greek or Latin fashions. So that, in fact, this was a dispute whether the milliner was to come from Paris or from St. Petersburg, to dress up these idols. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/feb/20/russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "section": "russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: We have not 40,000 to send.", "preceding_text": "probate troops, the condemned regiments from Algeria. When the noble Lord talked about the massacre of Sinope, did he not recollect something about the smoking cave of Colonel le Pe- 981 lissier? These were the troops France was sending out—such were the troops we were sending, leaving ourselves defenceless. [\"No, no!\"] Why, it was said by a late speaker that we were sending 40,000 troops. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/feb/20/russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "section": "russia-and-the-porte-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "sibility, of a Minister who has advised his Sovereign to go to war; but the noble Lord feels so acutely the conduct of Russia, that on more than one occasion in these discussions, he has indulged in the language of invective, both towards the Russian Minister and towards his master. We were told the other night that the conduct of Count Nesselrode was fraudulent. That is a very strong expression. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/jun/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/jun/19/supply-miscellaneous-estimates-criminal", "section": "supply-miscellaneous-estimates-criminal", "cue_text": "Mr. FITZROY asked if the hon. Member would name any one?", "preceding_text": " Sir, those principles are not enforced, those arrangements are not carried out at this moment, even in the prisons under the control of the Government. They were not enforced last year. They are still less enforced now. As I understand, the arrangements of some of our prisons are more bigoted and more unjust now than they were when the attention of the noble Lord was first called to the subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/jun/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/jun/19/supply-miscellaneous-estimates-criminal", "section": "supply-miscellaneous-estimates-criminal", "cue_text": "Mr. SPOONER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "uld they refuse? The hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Spooner) would refuse upon a very intelligible principle; but he apprehended that the House was not prepared, although it had agreed with his vote, to adopt his reasons. The hon. Member said, with perfect consistency, in the case of Roman Catholic prisoners and Roman Catholic chaplains to gaols, that their religion was a fable—an idolatrous deceit—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/mar/22/vestries-bill", "section": "vestries-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": "is for one moment, and he should accordingly move that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. § Amendment proposed, to leave out the word \"now,\" and at the end of the Question to add the words, \"upon this day six months.\" § MR. W. WILLIAMS said, he had seen many attempts at experimental legislation, but he must confess he never had seen any- 1211 thing to compare with this. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/may/22/ways-and-means-exchequer-bonds", "section": "ways-and-means-exchequer-bonds", "cue_text": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": " because he had told them that the principle which he carried out last year was the principle he intended to follow out in this, and which appeared to be destitute of prudence and of caution; and, in the next place, because he thought that, if they did borrow, they were plainly bound to borrow on the plan that would be most adapted to their purpose. If they took a loan, let it actually be a loan. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/may/22/ways-and-means-exchequer-bonds", "section": "ways-and-means-exchequer-bonds", "cue_text": "Mr. BARING: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "s which they had not taken. Whether his right hon. Friend ought to have foreseen that which was beyond the power of other persons to see—whether in the month of March he ought to have foreseen the bad harvest, the war, and other contingencies which afterwards arose—had been the subject of so much discussion in that House, that he considered it would be a waste of time to do more than refer to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/may/24/the-property-disposal-bill-ad-journed", "section": "the-property-disposal-bill-ad-journed", "cue_text": "Mr. WHITESIDE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "in direct opposition to that valuable maxim of the law, which laid upon the party who alleged a fact the onus of proving it, and which did not oblige any person to prove a negative. He could not help thinking that the real object of the Bill 851 was not to protect Catholics, but to make political capital; and rather than see it carried into effect, he should prefer the alternative of civil death. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1854/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1854/may/24/the-property-disposal-bill-ad-journed", "section": "the-property-disposal-bill-ad-journed", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "r been unravelled; but a sufficient number had, he considered, been made public to justify the present Bill, which he hoped would be carried by a large majority, in spite of the false assertion that it was intended as an insult to Roman Catholics. It was too much to say that such a case as the M'Carthys' was fiction. The vow of obedience bound the parties as to all matters spiritual and temporal. "}