{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/apr/16/ministers-money-ireland-bill", "section": "ministers-money-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": "ax from eight towns, principally inhabited by Roman Catholics, and exempting from the tax all the towns inhabited mainly by Protestants? He trusted that those hon. Members who usually supported the Government would rather incline to support the arguments and the statements of the Chief Secretary for Ireland than the course which that right hon. Gentleman had adopted as a Member of the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/apr/25/the-naval-review-question", "section": "the-naval-review-question", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "han that. The accident had happened to the boilers of the Transit somewhere about a year ago, and since that time she has undergone complete repair. She was reported perfectly fit for service on the 25th of March last, with the single exception that one of her airpumps was affected, but that circumstance in no way injured her boilers. The only result of it would be, that it would reduce her speed—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/apr/25/the-naval-review-question", "section": "the-naval-review-question", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " boilers. The only result of it would be, that it would reduce her speed—[ Laughter ]—I am not going to conceal anything—that it would reduce her speed from eleven knots to ten knots an hour. The defect, in fact, was considered a matter of such slight importance that she was reported as about to go to the Crimea, and she would have gone had 1547 she not been required on the occasion of the review."}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/apr/25/the-naval-review-question", "section": "the-naval-review-question", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: It was the \"Parliamentary train.\"", "preceding_text": "is; and I will read an extract from a letter which I have received from a person perfectly unknown to me, which I think explains the occurrence. He states that, 1553 intending to embark in the Himalaya, he went down in the earliest special train from London which followed soon after the six o'clock train. He says that on the way they were delayed by what I suppose I must call an \"ordinary\" train. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/apr/25/police-counties-and-boroughs-bill", "section": "police-counties-and-boroughs-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Where was this?", "preceding_text": "into, the more it would be seen that the proportion of arrests to committals, and of committals to convictions, was extremely unsatisfactory. He found that, in 1851, 314 persons were summarily convicted by the magistrates, 124 committed for trial, and only ninety-four convicted. In 1855, 322 persons were apprehended for indictable offences; ninety-nine of these were discharged by the magistrates. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/apr/25/police-counties-and-boroughs-bill", "section": "police-counties-and-boroughs-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: Frimley.", "preceding_text": "berland, its morality must be dated from the year 1851, that memorable era when a rural police was first established there. For the noble Lord had said that before that year neither life nor property was safe in the county of Surrey. Now, he (Mr. Evelyn) himself had lived in the county for some years anterior to that date, and he had been quite unaware of the dangers to which he had been exposed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/feb/08/juvenile-offenders-ireland-bill", "section": "juvenile-offenders-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: The Bill is merely a copy of that which was passed last Session for England.", "preceding_text": "arr; 1850s → 1856 → February 1856 → 8 February 1856 → Commons Sitting JUVENILE OFFENDERS (IRELAND) BILL. HC Deb 08 February 1856 vol 140 cc495-7 495 § Order for Second Reading read. § MR. VINCENT SCULLY said, he hoped the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland would postpone this measure until Irish Members had an opportunity of consulting their constituents. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/feb/13/formation-of-parishes-bill", "section": "formation-of-parishes-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. HADFIELD: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "s. Fees were demanded larger than 683 the law allowed, and the influence of the clergy was thereby often destroyed. The districts, as he had already stated, were liable for twenty years to the rates of the mother church, and, as no benefit was derived, the district churchman frequently refused the rates more from this reason than from any disapproval of the Church as a great national institution. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/feb/22/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Colonel Hear, hear !", "preceding_text": "re was a decrease to the amount of £7,405. The next Vote was for wages, and in that there was an increase of £175,000, chiefly incurred in our establishments at Balaklava, Scutari, and Malta. There was also an increase in the Woolwich, Waltham Abbey, and Enfield establishments. He was sorry to say that the progress of the small-arms manufactory at Enfield had not been so rapid as he had expected. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1856/feb/22", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1856/feb/22/the-wensleydale-peerage-motion", "section": "the-wensleydale-peerage-motion", "cue_text": "The LORD CHANCELLOR: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "dges were consulted as to the claim of a commoner, the husband of a Peeress in her own right, to be summoned and to sit in that House in her right. They answered— That the common law dealeth little with titles and customs of chivalry, but such questions had always been decided before the Constables and Marshals of England. THE LORD CHANCELLOR Who put that question to them? LORD CAMPBELL The King. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1856/feb/22", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1856/feb/22/committee-for-privileges-the-wensleydale", "section": "committee-for-privileges-the-wensleydale", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ining any doubt as to the legality or constitutional character of the step, they determined on giving a life peerage to a Member of the bench who, it had been admitted on both sides, would add greatly to the judicial strength of the House. He wished it to be distinctly understood on the part of the Government that they had no conception whatever they were raising a question of constitutional law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/01/our-relations-with-the-united-states", "section": "our-relations-with-the-united-states", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: We do.", "preceding_text": "ent on going into Supply, as it might enable hon. Gentlemen to avoid delivering their judgment on a grave international question. It would be much better if a plain substantive Resolution had been submitted to the House, and they had been called to vote \"Aye\" or \"No\" on the question—\"Do you approve of the conduct of Her Majesty's Government in endeavouring to raise soldiers in the United States?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/01/our-relations-with-the-united-states", "section": "our-relations-with-the-united-states", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER made a remark, which was inaudible.", "preceding_text": " it my duty to give effect to my opinion. But then I may be asked, \"Why, admitting that we ought not to weaken the hands of the Government in carrying on 145 their difficult negotiations with a foreign country—why do you enter upon this discussion and express opinions contrary to the course taken by the Government?\" My answer is plain. I have no choice, after the turn which this debate has taken. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/01/our-relations-with-the-united-states", "section": "our-relations-with-the-united-states", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "was necessary to ascertain 173 first of all, what the law of the case was. He had observed in the American despatches, and in the arguments addressed to the House, a great deal of looseness and want of precision in the representations of the law upon this subject. At one time the whole complaint in the American papers was, that there had been an invasion of the municipal law of the United States. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/01/our-relations-with-the-united-states", "section": "our-relations-with-the-united-states", "cue_text": "Cheers from the Ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": " the matter before the House of Commons, and to have a discussion of this question upon its merits. The only point, with regard to the Motion of the hon. Member for Mayo, on which I differ from the right hon. Member for Oxford University, is as to the course which my right hon. Friend intends to adopt. Whether or no the hon. Member for Mayo intends to press his Motion to a division I cannot tell. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/01/our-relations-with-the-united-states", "section": "our-relations-with-the-united-states", "cue_text": "Renewed cheering.", "preceding_text": "its. The only point, with regard to the Motion of the hon. Member for Mayo, on which I differ from the right hon. Member for Oxford University, is as to the course which my right hon. Friend intends to adopt. Whether or no the hon. Member for Mayo intends to press his Motion to a division I cannot tell. [ Cheers from the Ministerial benches. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite cheer; I really know not why. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/01/our-relations-with-the-united-states", "section": "our-relations-with-the-united-states", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Ministerial side.", "preceding_text": "of Smith was adopted for disguise? It is only fair to put these inquiries to the Government. If these things are true, the defence set up by the Government vanishes altogether, and I have no hesitation in saying, in the face of Parliament and the country, that, if these facts are true, I, as an English Gentleman, am entirely ashamed of 191 them. At this late hour I will not dwell upon that point. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/01/our-relations-with-the-united-states", "section": "our-relations-with-the-united-states", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "alluding, for a moment, to those last despatches. As I said at the outset, they are most remarkable, and make the case worse than it was before. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Solicitor General rather boasted of the complete acceptance in these despatches of the apology of the British Government; but it seems to me the language of acceptance contains one of the bitterest sarcasms I ever read. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/01/our-relations-with-the-united-states", "section": "our-relations-with-the-united-states", "cue_text": "Cries of \"dissent.\"", "preceding_text": "r a division. Few sentences could be heard consecutively, but the hon. Gentleman was understood to blame the Government for the course they bad taken in reference to recruiting in the United States, which he thought was clearly a violation of their municipal law; and to deprecate any disturbance of the amicable relations between the two countries. MR. BENTINCK moved the adjournment of the debate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/04/partnership-amendment-no-2-bill", "section": "partnership-amendment-no-2-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. LOWE: Would the hon. Member move for a Select Committee?", "preceding_text": " second reading, the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Lowe) said that the proposed measure was not to be considered as an alteration of the law of partnership, but only as a remedy 341 for something which had accidentally occurred from a legal decision with that law, to which he (Mr. Glyn) could not assent; and that if he were encouraged, he should be happy to bring in an extended Bill upon the subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/jul/04/partnership-amendment-no-2-bill", "section": "partnership-amendment-no-2-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "being a drug would be extremely valuable to society. The present Bill would, he believed, bring about that union, and it was most desirable that it should pass, as, if it were thrown over, great injustice would be done to single traders. The Joint-stock Companies Bill was almost certain to become law, and by it a host of Companies would be created to compete with traders in all kinds of business. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/12/reformatory-schools-scotland-bill", "section": "reformatory-schools-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ere, and expressed a hope that they were not ill? The answer was, \"No, but they have been, behaving badly.\" \"How?\" I inquired. \"Why, one of them went into the drawingroom yesterday and took a lump of sugar, and the other did not tell upon him.\" \"A fine little fellow,\" said I. \"Well, he is the boy who has been punished,\" was the reply; \"the other who took the sugar was not punished at all!\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/12/aggravated-assaults-bill", "section": "aggravated-assaults-bill", "cue_text": "The hon. Member then read a long list of cases of assaults", "preceding_text": "xtent, and there seemed to him to be no other alternative left than to resort to corporal punishment. It would be impossible, indeed, to exaggerate the evil. The return for which he had moved did not enter into the details 27 of individual cases; but, on looking over a file of the Times, he had been shocked to read the particulars of some of the cases which occurred in the second year of the Act. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/13/metropolitan-vestries-question", "section": "metropolitan-vestries-question", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "erview with the Attorney General, in which that hon. and learned Gentleman informed him that he had prepared a Bill, which he proposed to bring in, in order to meet that difficulty, observing, at the same time, that he (the Attorney General) himself had no doubt as to the meaning of the Act, but that as doubts had arisen, he felt it incumbent on the Government to remove all doubts on the subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/13/operations-in-the-baltic", "section": "operations-in-the-baltic", "cue_text": "Sir C.NAPIER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ary, 1837. He repeats the proposition which he offered to me as to Nelson:— Fought the battle of the Nile at thirty-nine, Copenhagen at forty-two, and was killed at forty-seven. Had he not been an admiral till sixty, I much doubt whether you would have either heard of the battle of the Nile, or Copenhagen; and the battle of Trafalgar most certainly would not have been fought in the manner it was. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/13/operations-in-the-baltic", "section": "operations-in-the-baltic", "cue_text": "Sir C. NAPIER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "use was pleased to give its assent, and the objectionable portion of the law is now altered. After the Baltic fleet was named for the Baltic service, the Royal Albert, a three-decker, was in the year 1854 named for service in the Black Sea. That ship went out as the flagship of a gallant officer in no respect inferior, either in experience or in judgment, to the hon. and gallant Admiral opposite. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/13/operations-in-the-baltic", "section": "operations-in-the-baltic", "cue_text": "Sir C. NAPIER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "bility on that occasion—but I ascribe a large portion of that success to the ability and knowledge of the pilots who were placed on board his ships. Now, Sir, I have been blamed for recommending caution to the hon. and gallant Officer, and he rather taunts me with having restrained his ardour when he first went into the Baltic, although he also charges me with goading him on as winter approached. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/13/operations-in-the-baltic", "section": "operations-in-the-baltic", "cue_text": "Sir C. NAPIER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "at we did not wish or intend to send him on any desperate service, and I thought it my duty to restrain his honest zeal. That was only at the first commencement of the Baltic campaign. Now, Sir, this brings me to the hon. and gallant officer's dispatch, dated May 30, off Hango Head, in which he says that he thinks, upon reference to the plans, that Sweaborg is un-attackable either by land or sea. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/13/operations-in-the-baltic", "section": "operations-in-the-baltic", "cue_text": "Sir C. NAPIER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "he next day by a further examination, but the French fleet appeared, and I proceeded to join them. Not after a personal reconnaissance, but with the plans and charts of Sweaborg in his hands. [Sir C. NAPIER: No such thing.] I quote the words of the hon. and gallant Admiral. It is for him to contradict if I am wrong in saying that he never closely reconnoitred Sweaborg until the 23rd of September. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1856/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1856/mar/13/operations-in-the-baltic", "section": "operations-in-the-baltic", "cue_text": "Sir C. NAPIER: Oh, yes; I remember.", "preceding_text": "icer (Sir C. Napier) on this subject. Writing on the 8th of January in the present year a letter to The Times, from which I have already quoted—[Sir C. NAPIER: I wrote no letter of that date.] The hon. and gallant Officer's memory is very treacherous as to what has occurred even very lately. This letter was 99 written on the 8th January, 1856, and published in The Time. on the 10th of that month. "}