{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/apr/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/apr/12/observations-1", "section": "observations-1", "cue_text": "Mr. OSBORNE: Hear, hear! and laughter.", "preceding_text": "the assurance which, from my information, I presume he gave, his reception was not sufficiently favourable to induce him to remain there he came back, and he may have reported himself to the First Lord of the Admiralty as having been unsuccessful. Dovor again flitted before the eyes of the right hon. Gentleman opposite, and Sir Henry Leeke was sent down to that borough as a Lord of the Admiralty. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/apr/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/apr/12/observations-1", "section": "observations-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "and gone to Dovor. Well, I do not think he will thank the First Lord for giving him this roving commission, but as to that gallant officer himself the country has some right to complain. That gallant officer had not served his time as an active officer, but what did the right hon. Gentleman do when he wanted an electioneering agent in the shape of an Admiral? Why, he put him upon the active list. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/apr/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/apr/12/observations-1", "section": "observations-1", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": " have to say, however, that in this general election and long afterwards there will not he a man in or out of this House who will place any confidence in a Board of Admiralty which is constituted as the present. I say more—that if the gallant Admiral the Member for Southwark (Sir Charles Napier) should make a Motion for an inquiry into the constitution of that Board, I, who have opposed it before "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/jul/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/jul/13/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Laughter from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "t was an abuse, and the Irish Roman Catholics would be every day calling with a louder voice on the Dissenters of England to aid them in their attack on it. § VISCOUNT PALMERSTON Sir, I am anxious to state in a very few words the grounds upon which I shall give my deliberate vote in support of the Bill before the House. I think that I have never hitherto voted for a Bill of this description. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/jul/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/jul/13/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Laughter from the Opposition", "preceding_text": "r of churches which are ornaments of the cities and towns in which they live; and that their liberality of sentiment would induce them to give freely and spontaneously that which, upon principle, whether well or ill-founded, they refuse when it is demanded of them by compulsion. Then, Sir, I am ready to vote for the second reading of the Bill. I trust that in Committee arrangements may be devised—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/jul/22/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "lass that it might be improved by the dirt. He says, \"Dirt gives gusto.\" That was Sir C. Eastlake's opinion of the cleaning process. As a specimen of his taste it was only necessary to quote his remark that \"early German art was corrupted by the introduction of a classical taste.\" Even Punch assailed the system; he said, \"Pictures carefully removed. Apply to the Director of the National Gallery.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/jul/22/observations-1", "section": "observations-1", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " the proportion of educated persons in Ireland, and he laid this at the door of the system of national education. Now he (Captain Esmonde) had expressed his dissent from this proposition in the only way in which at that period of the debate it was possible for him to do, and the right hon. Gentleman had said to him, \"the hon. Gentleman may shake his head. We shall see if there is anything in it.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/jul/22/civil-service-estimates", "section": "civil-service-estimates", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "he number of children under instruction in 1847, and another in 1857. In the former of these volumes they compared the number in 1837 with 326 that in 1847, so that here were two periods of ten years which might be compared. The National Society was well known, and he, a dissenter, admitted most cheerfully the good it had done. He did not approach this subject with the slightest sectarian spirit. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/jul/27/committee-2", "section": "committee-2", "cue_text": "Sir JOHN SHELLEY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "santries drawn off the attention of the Committee from the real point before them. He (Mr. Deedes) did not stand up for the sobriety or the general appearance of the javelin-men, but if the Sheriff was to be attended, the question was by whom should it be, and who was to pay the Bill? In Hampshire, the Sheriff paid the magistrates a fixed sum each year for providing persons to keep order in court."}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/02/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Mr. HADFIELD: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " first place, then, he would ask, who it was that desired this change? Some of them, indeed, he knew, and their motives also. The hon. Member for Sheffield (Mr. Hadfield), for instance, on the introduction of the Bill the other night, told the House what his motive was in desiring it. He said he supported the Bill for this reason only, that it put an end to all differences between land and money. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/02/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "will instead of by descent. The learned Attorney General had made what he thought a very good point when he commented on the evils of permitting an estate to go away from the eldest son. He said that a man died in peace under the existing law, because he knew that his estate would go to his eldest son. He died in peace, then, because the rest of his children and his widow were entirely destitute. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/02/second-reading-2", "section": "second-reading-2", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "or Plymouth would persevere in his endeavours to repeal an obnoxious and dangerous enactment. § MR. COLLIER observed, that when he introduced the Bill he was told that the subject had been so much discussed during the last Session that it was exhausted; but now that the House was on the second reading an adjournment was urged on the ground that there was not time for discussing the question. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/02/second-reading-2", "section": "second-reading-2", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "policy of the House of Commons as expressed in several Acts. It was well known, for instance, that the first Treating Act, passed in 1688, recited that the enormous expenses, not merely with reference to treating, but to the expenses generally, to which candidates were subjected violated the independence of the House and defeated the free choice of the electors. Why, in the, metropolitan boroughs "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/11/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "r man to be put in the commission. About three months ago this gentleman got into a dreadful scrape with a commercial traveller, and, in the County Court, got the worse of the matter. He was, however, a very active partisan at the last general election. The other gentleman was Mr. Dennis Herbert, a common brewer at Huntingdon, who had a public-house in every village and every place in the county. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/17/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "r part of the observations that he had the honour of addressing to the House (of which, of course, he should not have complained), but it attributed to him a great deal to which he had no claim. He was represented as having made a quotation from a speech supposed to have been made by Mr. Miall, and as having addressed a question to the hon. Baronet the Member for Tavistock, which he had not done. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/17/committee-moved-for", "section": "committee-moved-for", "cue_text": "Lord JOHN RUSSELL: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "e natural history collections at all. After that came another paper drawn up by Professor Owen, in which he modified his opinion as contained in that protest. This was accompanied by an elaborate, plan drawn up for the reconstruction of the several departments of natural history. But that report was never presented to the Government at all; for the trustees decided that it should not be presented "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/17/committee-moved-for-1", "section": "committee-moved-for-1", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": " of the Guards should be maintained? If the duties of the Guards were confined to London or to attendance upon the Sovereign the matter would he of little consequence, but as every one knew that the Guards were among the most distinguished regiments in the service, as their boast was, that wherever there was war they were present, it was clear that their position must be viewed as a military one. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/17/committee-moved-for-1", "section": "committee-moved-for-1", "cue_text": "Ironical Cheers.", "preceding_text": " must say his experience differed from that of the gallant General who bad just spoken. He believed there was great jealousy of the privileges enjoyed by that corps. He had unfortunately not heard the debate in its earlier stages in consequence of his having come down to the House at a somewhat later hour than usual, and he did not, therefore, think he should pursue the discussion with advantage. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/17/committee-moved-for-1", "section": "committee-moved-for-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e, think he should pursue the discussion with advantage. [ Ironical Cheers. ]. He would, however, give those hon. Gentlemen who were so ready to indulge in exclamations due warning that, although he might be foiled on the present occasion, he would come back to the charge and renew his onslaught on privileges, the existence of which be believed to be detrimental to the best interests of the army. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/28/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Ten thousand!", "preceding_text": "rough of Marylebone, which he would persist in calling \"Marrowbone.\" He (Mr. James) had no objection to that pronunciation, but it was one which grated a little harshly upon a metropolitan car. \"Why,\" said that hon. Gentleman, \"the industrial masses do not require an extension of the suffrage. Take the case of ' Marrowbone' at the last election, where, out of 21,000 electors, only 11,000 polled.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/28/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d been referring he should have voted with him, because his conviction was that at that time the noble Lord was maintaining the honour and character of England, and standing by men who had endeavoured in distant lands to do their duty to their country. But when his noble Friend censured the Solicitor General for the personality of his attacks he would refer to his election speech on the hustings. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/28/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh!\" and \"Question.\"", "preceding_text": "vicious that it contained principles to which they so strongly objected, that they would not read it a second time, and would not go into Committee upon it. It was a pity that they should not be consistent in the mode in which they dealt with the Bills which came before them. On Wednesday last the House was occupied with the question of the second reading of a Scotch Bill, the object of which was "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/28/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": " to meet us fairly on the question of Parliamentary Reform, and discuss and consider our Bill. And what has practically been the answer of the noble Lord? \"No, we will not even entertain your Bill. We will not allow the Bill to be discussed on the second reading. We meet you with a preliminary Resolution. It is not my object to discuss your Bill. My object is to embarrass Her Majesty's Government—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/28/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh! oh! and loud cheers\"", "preceding_text": "preliminary Resolution which he knows it is impossible for us to accept. We are told on the opposite side of the House to accept this Resolution and go on with the Bill. The last time we heard that language, was on Friday night from the noble Viscount the Member for Tiverton, and I am sorry to say, that that opinion was expressed by him in—(I can speak of it in no other terms)—a tone of arrogance—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/29/adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "cue_text": "Some cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "small boroughs—of those where, from kindly interest, from ancient and affectionate recollections, from local and traditional respect, from the memory of services received, from the admiration of great men and great qualities, the constituencies are willing to take upon trust the recommendation of candidates for Parliament from noblemen or gentlemen who may stand in immediate connection with them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/29/adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Opposition side of the House .", "preceding_text": "egree to be attributed to a succession of those distinguished statesmen, introduced at an early age into this House, and once made known in this House securing to themselves the general favour of their countrymen, that we enjoy our present extension of popular liberty, and, above all, the durable form which that liberty has assumed? I am aware that this has now become a rather antiquated subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/29/adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d a breach of faith on the part of public men; still the country was on the whole peaceable, because they believed that the House of Commons would reject the Government Bill and give them a proper measure of reform. The Bill had been called a sham and a delusion, but if he were inclined to borrow the slang of St. Giles's, with which the hon. and learned Solicitor General seemed to be so familiar. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/29/adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBR: \"And carried the bag.\"", "preceding_text": " to them. A noble and learned Lord (Lord Brougham), in 1832, said of the Radical Reformers of that time, who professed such zeal for the poorer classes that they reminded him of another well-known intriguer some eighteen centuries ago, who asked on a certain occasion, \"Why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence, and given to the poor? Not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1859/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/mar/29/adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-sixth-night", "cue_text": "Mr. WHITE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "h he was endeavouring to combine he trusted the hon. and learned Member would still be able to defend the noble Lord, and to give him that assistance which his abilities and learning had so well enabled him to supply. He now came to the probable result, as it had been called, of that discussion. It had been assumed that the result of this discussion would be to place the Government in a minority. "}