{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/apr/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/apr/23/public-business", "section": "public-business", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "expressions relative to Viscount Canning, which fell from me during the debate in this House on the Motion for a Vote of Thanks to the Indian Army. I did, on that occasion, express myself strongly with respect to Viscount Canning's conduct; but if the right hon. Gentleman will refer to what fell from me on that occasion he will find that I condemned the conduct of Viscount Canning hypothetically. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jul/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jul/09/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No, they are ashamed of them.", "preceding_text": "he benefit of London would equally apply to the case of Dublin, where the Court of the Lord Lieutenant, the courts of law, and the public offices were concentrated, and where during the summer months the state of the Liffey was nearly as bad as that of the Thames. The Corporation of London had long acted 1170 as the Conservators of the Thames, and were jealous as well as proud of their functions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/07/third-resolution-adjourned-debate", "section": "third-resolution-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " he thought that it would be impossible to pass a Bill founded upon the Resolutions this Session; and as both sides desired some measure on the subject, he was in favour of the Motion of the right hon. Member for Oxford. The House had decided almost unanimously that the government of India should be transferred from the Company to the Crown, and that the President should be assisted by a Council. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/07/third-resolution-adjourned-debate", "section": "third-resolution-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Question!\"", "preceding_text": "t would see that this was not a fair way to deal with the question, and that at all events they would not press it that night. § MR. P. O'BRIEN remarked, that the Government were in an unhappy position between the hon. Member for Huntingdon, an old member of their party, on one side—and the noble Lord the Member for the City of London, who had got them out of the scrape before, on the other. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1858/jun/07", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1858/jun/07/the-earl-of-kingstons-questions", "section": "the-earl-of-kingstons-questions", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": " in the form of questions put to the Government which it was impossible for them to answer, but which conveyed imputations of a most serious character against a very meritorious official. § THE EARL OF KINGSTON was understood to assure the House that he did not wish to advance any charges which could not be fully proved, and to express his readiness to postpone his questions to a future day. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/14/committee-fifth-resolution", "section": "committee-fifth-resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "that even in spite of the very sound objection made by his noble Friend the Member for Tiverton, that proposal might be a way out of the difficulties, though, to his mind, it was a very objectionable one, for if it were adopted, he believed the Council would be a jobbing one. At all events, if they came to a division, it ought to be upon a question which meant the same thing to every hon. Member. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/15/state-of-the-thames-question", "section": "state-of-the-thames-question", "cue_text": "Laughter and Cheers.", "preceding_text": "THAMES.—QUESTION. (Hansard, 15 June 1858) Search Help HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1850s → 1858 → June 1858 → 15 June 1858 → Commons Sitting STATE OF THE THAMES.—QUESTION. HC Deb 15 June 1858 vol 150 cc2113-4 2113 MR. MANGLES I wish to ask the noble Lord the Chief Commissioner of Works whether he intends to take any steps with regard to the present state of the River Thames. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/15/under-secretary-of-state-scotland", "section": "under-secretary-of-state-scotland", "cue_text": "The Lord Advocate here entered the House, and was received with some cheering and laughter.", "preceding_text": "or Scotland, the then Home Secretary reminded the memorialists that he was Secretary of State for Scotland. That was true in point of form, but every gentleman conversant with the manner in which Scotch business was conducted knew that it was not true in point of fact. The Home Secretary could do nothing without the Lord Advocate; but the question was where to find that indispensable functionary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/24/london-corporation-regulation-bill", "section": "london-corporation-regulation-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of No!", "preceding_text": " desirable to allow the House to go into Committee on the Bill, and there deal with his proposition when the proper time arrived for its consideration? § MR. ROLT said, he felt so satisfied that the matters he had stated could be estab- 301 lished by evidence, that unless it was understood that the clause depriving the Corporation of its property be withdrawn, or sufficient compensation made—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/24/london-corporation-regulation-bill", "section": "london-corporation-regulation-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: That has been abolished.", "preceding_text": " regret if the right hon. Gentleman had so far departed from the views of the Committee. But if it be really the opinion of the Government that the metage dues involved the rights of property to such an extent as to debar the House from abolishing them without providing compensation, he feared that the Bill must be altered, not only to meet that case, but to meet the case of the \"city toll\" also. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/24/the-government-of-india-no-3-bill", "section": "the-government-of-india-no-3-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: How much is the labour worth?", "preceding_text": "ve twelve days' labour of a man for the same sum in silver or gold which they had to pay for one day's labour of a man in England; that if, for example, these £25,000,000 were expended in purchasing labour, that sum would purchase twelve times as much in India as in England—that is to say, that the £25,000,000 would purchase as many days' labour in India as £300,000,000 would purchase in England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/jun/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/jun/24/the-government-of-india-no-3-bill", "section": "the-government-of-india-no-3-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER here made an observation.", "preceding_text": "over which he rules, he is really almost powerless to effect anything that those countries require. The hon. Gentleman behind me (Colonel Sykes) has 342 told us there are twenty nations in India, and that there are twenty languages. Has it ever happened before that any one man governed twenty nations, speaking twenty different languages, and bound them up together in one great and compact empire? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/15/question", "section": "question", "cue_text": "\" Order!\"", "preceding_text": "nts which had appeared in the public papers respecting an affray which had taken place in Dublin between the students of Trinity College 173 and the Police. It would be necessary for him to state a few facts. The outrage took place on Friday last, on the occasion of his Excellency Lord Eglington assuming the reins of Government in Ireland. It was a general holiday and great crowds were assembled. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/15/question", "section": "question", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "the question he is about to put. § MR. GROGAN said, that such was his intention. The locality whore it occurred was called College Green. On one side stood the College: and in front of it was a largo semi-circular space of ground, the property of the College, divided from the street by a wall, with iron gates. Within those precints the students of the College were assembled in great numbers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/15/question", "section": "question", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "f the College were assembled in great numbers. [\"Order, order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member must confine himself to the facts on which his question is to be founded. § MR. GROGAN went on to say that the hoys who were assembled there amused themselves by throwing oranges and apples at one another, and also amongst the people outside; there was, however, no ebullition of party feeling.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/15/question", "section": "question", "cue_text": "\" Order.\"", "preceding_text": "t; MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member must confine himself to the facts on which his question is to be founded. § MR. GROGAN went on to say that the hoys who were assembled there amused themselves by throwing oranges and apples at one another, and also amongst the people outside; there was, however, no ebullition of party feeling.—[\"Order, order!\"] —The procession of his Excellency passed the spot.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/15/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: \"So it was.\"", "preceding_text": "his profuse quotations,—for which he was always remarkable, though unfortunately they have not been on this occasion relieved by the brilliancy which in the old days reconciled us to endless extracts from Hansard —. the hon. Gentleman has fixed on the speech I made recently at my county town as one of his texts; and he says I stated that the Parliamentary Reform Bill of 1832 was a gross Whig job. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/18/question-2", "section": "question-2", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Question!\" and \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "; MR. CRAUFURD said, his question had reference to the despatch recently sent to the French Government. It had been reported that the draft of the reply to the despatch of Count Walewski was submitted for the approval of the French Government, or that at all events a communication took place between the two Governments for the purpose of settling the terms in which the despatch should be couched. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/18/question-2", "section": "question-2", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "ld endeavour to confine himself to the Rules of the House; but he wanted to point out certain dates upon which his question was founded. The papers which had been laid on the table of the House, bore certain dates. It would be in the recollection of the House, that on the 2nd of February it was announced to both Houses of Parliament that the Earl of Derby had undertaken to form an Administration. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/18/question-2", "section": "question-2", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "se, that on the 2nd of February it was announced to both Houses of Parliament that the Earl of Derby had undertaken to form an Administration. [\"Order, order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER This does not appear to me to be necessary to lay ground for the question which the hon. and learned Member proposes to ask. § MR. CRAUFURD The first despatch which I have before me bears date on the 24th February. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/18/papers-moved-for", "section": "papers-moved-for", "cue_text": "Captain SCOTT: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ndation that Oude should he made one great slaughterhouse, that all those who escaped our fire and our shell should be put to death by our bayonets, that those who escaped our bayonets should fall under the knives of the Ghoorkas, and the miserable remnant be driven to perish in the swamps, where it was humanely hoped that those whom famine and the pestilence spared, the wild beasts might devour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/18/leave-first-reading", "section": "leave-first-reading", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ss of Clanricarde) asked if he would take the trouble to go down and canvass Galway in his behalf. He did so, and must say he did not find two respectable gentlemen or tradesmen opposed to him. He had no communication whatever with the Marquess of Clanricarde on the subject of expense. His Lordship wrote to his agent, saying, \"Whatever money is required in the town of Galway I will see paid.\" 382 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/mar/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/mar/18/leave-first-reading", "section": "leave-first-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "olitical questions; and he (Mr. FitzGerald) thought the House ought not to compromise its honour and 392 dignity by entering into such topics. But if an argument were wanted to induce the House to agree to the present Bill, it would be found in the speeches of the hon. Members for Roscommon (Colonel French) and the Tower Hamlets (Mr. Ayrton). This was not a Bill for the punishment of individuals. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/05/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Mr. AYRTON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " of divorce, the case of Mrs. Kemble Butler, who had repudiated her husband from incompatibility of temper, was a well-known instance. He would now give his authority— Kent's Commentaries, vol. ii., p. 67:— It was adjudged in New Jersey, in the case of 'the State v. Lash,' 1 Harrison's Report, p.380, that a married man is not guilty of adultery in having carnal connection with an unmarried woman. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/07/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": " him that it was their duty to mark their disapproval of every appointment to the magistracy that savoured of party objects. The House would bear in mind that in the appointment of magistrates for boroughs it was the invariable custom of the late Lord Chancellor to examine the names of the parties recommended to him, and carefully to abstain from appointing gentlemen of only one side in politics. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/07/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: But how many have been appointed by the present Government?", "preceding_text": "nd what was its political character previous to such appointments—and it would be seen from that account that his noble and learned Friend had not 265 been influenced by any desire to give an undue preponderance to the Conservative party in connexion with the magistracy. The first place on the list was Norwich. There there were fifteen magistrates of the Liberal party, and thirteen Conservatives. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/07/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Liverpool.", "preceding_text": "en there were 4 Liberals, 2 Neutrals, and 3 Conservatives; 5 new magistrates had been added, and the state of the case now was 6 Liberals, 2 Neutrals, and 7 Conservatives. The last on the list was Canterbury. The original numbers were 8 Liberals and 3 Conservatives. His noble and learned Friend had put on 5 266 additional magistrates, leaving the balance still in favour of the Liberals by 9 to 8. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/07/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ability. He would convince the House of the truth of this assertion. He went with the recommendations to the Lord Chancellor, and told his Lordship that these were men of the highest respectability. The Lord Chancellor inquired of him the character of each gentleman severally. He assured his Lordship that each man of them stood high in the estimation of his fellow citizens. And that was the fact. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/07/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ad come forward and given evidence before the Committee. He was no lawyer, he was sorry to say; but by the 9th sec. of the 15 & 16 Vict. , c. 57, it was provided that persons who so gave evidence shall be released from all \"penal consequences, difficulties and incapacities.\" That being the state of the law, he (Mr. B. Johnstone) said that it would be perfectly illegal to strike 269 these men off. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/07/the-cagliari-question", "section": "the-cagliari-question", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " a despatch, he gave the general result as a matter which might be interesting to the House. But that is quite a different thing to laying it upon the table. Of course, when the proper time arrives, which I hope will not be long, it will be our duty to lay all the papers upon the table in relation to this subject; but at present nothing could be more injurious to the public service than to do so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/11/adjourned-debate-second-nigiit", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-nigiit", "cue_text": "Mr. ROEBUCK: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " certainly new to him (Mr. Malins), to hear that a Committee was not a part of the House. Certain business was so minute in its details that it could not be done by the House, and the House deputed it to Select Committees, and the votes of Select Committees became the votes of the House. [\"No!\"] He would prove it. What he was going to say was, that there was a particular Act of Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1858/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1858/may/11/committee-moved-for", "section": "committee-moved-for", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "had ever been worked at or near the spot where the alleged injuries occurred; and it was shown with reference to some of these nineteen cases that the parties had been excavating marl and clay, that they had filled up the cavities with rubbish and built upon it, and the foundations gave way. [Mr. J. L. RICHARD: From whom did that information come?] From Mr. Wragg, the mineral agent of the lessee. "}