{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/aug/11/troops-for-india-observations", "section": "troops-for-india-observations", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: And Major Edwardes?", "preceding_text": "ould lose no time in manifesting, in some conspicuous way, their sense of the services of those gallant officers. He might mention especially the two Lawrences and Lieut. Willoughby—one of whom in Oude, with an extremely small force, and the other in the Punjab, upheld the authority of the Governor and prevented disaster. Then there was Brigadier Wilson, who had evinced great skill and gallantry. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/aug/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/aug/25/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "ts of the Governor, the colony had never been in a more perfect state of quiet, and that there was not the slightest risk of disturbance arising. He thought, therefore, that they ought to be furnished with a little more information upon this subject, and to be told the exact date at which the Legion was put upon full pay, as well as the causes of their being so. They had grumbled and not unjustly—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/feb/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/feb/05/resolution-moved", "section": "resolution-moved", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "rol whatever upon the expenditure of the money. If his Motion were carried, hon. 245 Members would still have every other day on which to bring forward their grievances. There could be no doubt that it would lead to a great saving of time, and, as he contended, would in its practical effect prove highly advantageous to the country. The Government were not averse, as he understood, to this Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/feb/13/committee-of-supply-financial-statement", "section": "committee-of-supply-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "t beneficial objects in view, but all of whom it would be impossible to satisfy if the taxation of the country were, not £60,000,000, but £120,000,000 a year. In fact, no moderate amount of taxation would be sufficient to meet all the useful objects now projected. It is only a little while ago that an application was made to me by the Metropolitan Board of Works for no less a sum than £4,000,000. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jul/23/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh! oh!\"", "preceding_text": " it would affect the calculations very much. Hon. Members must bear in mind that the deductions were made from the salaries actually received by the servants. A man entered the service at 19 years of age, at a salary of £100 a year, and the deduction was 5 per cent. He went on until he had been 40 or 45 years in the public service, and by gradual increase his salary was £1,000, £1,200 or £1,5000. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jul/23/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " must bear in mind that the deductions were made from the salaries actually received by the servants. A man entered the service at 19 years of age, at a salary of £100 a year, and the deduction was 5 per cent. He went on until he had been 40 or 45 years in the public service, and by gradual increase his salary was £1,000, £1,200 or £1,5000. [\"Oh! oh!\"] He could quote a great number of such cases. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jul/23/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ut never whether the deductions are paid or not. 278 What was the consequence of that? Why this: that if one man who did not pay deductions, received £100 a year, another who paid the deductions did not receive £100 a year, but £100 a year minus the deductions. The right hon. Gentleman would say, doubtless, that the difference was made up thus, that one received the pension and the other did not. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jul/23/correspondence-moved-for", "section": "correspondence-moved-for", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "had never been found hostile to anything which might promote the soldiers' comfort. At no time was the health of the common soldier more precious to the country than at the present moment; and therefore he might fairly appeal to the noble Lord at the head of the Government, in the midst of his multifarious operations to bestow a few minutes of his time upon the examination of this drying-machine. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jul/23/supply-miscellaneous-estimates", "section": "supply-miscellaneous-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No! no!\"", "preceding_text": "PPLY.—MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES. HC Deb 23 July 1857 vol 147 cc304-29 304 § (3.) £7,125, General Board of Health. MR. W. WILLIAMS said, he had to complain of the shortness of the time during which these Estimates—class No. 7— had been in the hands of Members. They included forty-eight votes, amounting to £684,000, and showing an increase of £303,000 over the Votes for the same items last year. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jul/23/supply-miscellaneous-estimates", "section": "supply-miscellaneous-estimates", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "seful, so must be the Public Health Act . The Public Health Act had been applied to 239 towns, and the majority of those towns were most thankful for the benefits conferred by the Act, and the aid received from the General Board of Health in the form of legal, engineering, and medical advice. So far from being useless, the Board of Health was, perhaps, the most useful department of the Government "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jun/08/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Not the Board of Trade.", "preceding_text": "of the year, I was not aware of that fact, and can only say that it must have arisen from some accidental diminution in the number of vacancies. The real question is, what is the number of offices in which that system is adopted? As far as I know, it is adopted in the Treasury, in the War Department, in the Home Department, and in the Colonial Department. It is also adopted in the Board of Trade. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jun/08/second-reading-1", "section": "second-reading-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_text": "e having accepted that guarantee, however, they would be subject to such rules as the Government might deem it desirable to lay down, and the result would be a step in the direction of the system which obtained on the Continent, where every function of the community was usurped by what was called the civil service of the country. To any such system as that he for one was most strenuously opposed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1857/jun/18", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1857/jun/18/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "tent in the principle which the Government was now asking their Lordships to carry a little further. Why did his noble Friend acquiesce in that principle? Because of the exceeding inconvenience of the then state of things. The Government now asked their Lordships to carry the principle still further for a similar reason, because of the great inconvenience of the state of things which now existed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/may/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/may/29/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Where?\"", "preceding_text": "ate establishments in order to add to their income, and that unfitted them still more for the labour of the morrow. He was satisfied the Government would do the work cheaper and better if they rewarded these labourers on a more liberal scale. § SIR JAMES ELPHINSTONE thought it not right to give these men such low wages as 12 s. a week, when agricultural labourers were receiving 18 s. a week. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1857/may/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/may/29/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " a rule of the House by referring to a matter which took place in a former debate, and was also diverging from the subject immediately under the consideration of the Committee. § SIR JOHN TRELAWNY said, he would ask the hon. Baronet whether he had reconsidered the answer he had given the other evening to a question he (Sir J. Trelawny) had put to him with respect to the pay of the sergeants? "}