{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/apr/30/adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " almost the only cause of your incessant increase of expenditure, of debt, and of taxation. It promises confidence and peace with France, instead of perpetual distrust and occasional war. Again, he says:— I have said that they are afraid that this Treaty menaces the great patrimony of the taxes upon which this great aristocratic power in your country so much depends for promotion and for income.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/apr/30/adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "classes. They had ascertained the enormous influence exercised over those classes by those who controlled their political opinions. They knew the political opinions of one hon. Gentleman in that House, the weight they carried in the country, and how far they influenced the working classes. He thought the views of the hon. Member for Birmingham had been latterly very much overlooked in that House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/apr/30/adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "cue_text": "Mr. BRIGHT.—Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "ssed himself in a manner to lead to any misapprehension, but he merely intended to convey to the House his own inference from what he had read. He would, however, make another quotation. Further on in the same speech the hon. Member said— There is another kind of Peer, which I am afraid to touch up—that creature of—what shall I say? of monstrous, nay, even of adulterous birth, the spiritual Peer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/apr/30/adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh\"", "preceding_text": " both sides of the House, he was induced to fear that, like other instances of Liberal cohesion, which they had witnessed within the last few years, it had been of a somewhat short-lived character. He had certainly been surprised at the contrariety of some of the opinions which had been expressed on the other side of the House as regarded the merits of this measure. The hon. Member for Birmingham—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/apr/30/adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "g the institutions of the country.\"—[ Ibid. ] It would be seen, therefore, that the opinion expressed by the right hon. Gentleman on that occasion was undoubtedly in favour of the £6 borough franchise. But what was the objection taken now? Why, that it would swamp the constituency. Now, perhaps, hon. Gentlemen opposite might object to his (Mr. Locke's) constituency, and say it could not be worse. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/apr/30/adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-fifth-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "that the opinion expressed by the right hon. Gentleman on that occasion was undoubtedly in favour of the £6 borough franchise. But what was the objection taken now? Why, that it would swamp the constituency. Now, perhaps, hon. Gentlemen opposite might object to his (Mr. Locke's) constituency, and say it could not be worse. [\"Hear, hear!\"] He did not suppose they meant anything personal to himself—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "e in pursuance of the proposal of Sir R. Peel; and he expressed his gratitude to England in these words:— I would not, I confess, go this length, when I came into this room to-day, for I had a little inkling that there was some trick under all this liberality; but my friend Dr. Gray brought mo the Act of Parliament, and I read it in my seat here, and I proclaim it excellent in all its parts. 1054 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Cries of ' No, we will die first,' and cheers.", "preceding_text": "d his gratitude to England in these words:— I would not, I confess, go this length, when I came into this room to-day, for I had a little inkling that there was some trick under all this liberality; but my friend Dr. Gray brought mo the Act of Parliament, and I read it in my seat here, and I proclaim it excellent in all its parts. 1054 [Cheers.] …. But is this to make us give up agitation? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "lent in all its parts. 1054 [Cheers.] …. But is this to make us give up agitation? [ Cries of ' No, we will die first,' and cheers.] I do not mean to quarrel with any one who differs in opinion from me on any subject; still less am I inclined to quarrel with any one who thinks with me, that it was the repeal agitation that produced this change in Sir Robert Peel with reference to Maynooth. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "s.] …. But is this to make us give up agitation? [ Cries of ' No, we will die first,' and cheers.] I do not mean to quarrel with any one who differs in opinion from me on any subject; still less am I inclined to quarrel with any one who thinks with me, that it was the repeal agitation that produced this change in Sir Robert Peel with reference to Maynooth. [Cheers.] Agitation, I thank you. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "tion? [ Cries of ' No, we will die first,' and cheers.] I do not mean to quarrel with any one who differs in opinion from me on any subject; still less am I inclined to quarrel with any one who thinks with me, that it was the repeal agitation that produced this change in Sir Robert Peel with reference to Maynooth. [Cheers.] Agitation, I thank you. [Cheers.] Conciliation Hall, I am obliged to you. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Loud cheering.", "preceding_text": "ot mean to quarrel with any one who differs in opinion from me on any subject; still less am I inclined to quarrel with any one who thinks with me, that it was the repeal agitation that produced this change in Sir Robert Peel with reference to Maynooth. [Cheers.] Agitation, I thank you. [Cheers.] Conciliation Hall, I am obliged to you. [Cheers.] Repeal Association, Maynooth ought to pray for you. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " [Cheers.] Conciliation Hall, I am obliged to you. [Cheers.] Repeal Association, Maynooth ought to pray for you. [Loud cheering.] There is a story told of the officers of the Irish Brigade: as long as a young man who came into the French army as a cadet conducted himself well, he was left a cadet, so they always found it necessary to become a little riotous to get promoted to the rank of officer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Cheers and laughter.", "preceding_text": " as a cadet conducted himself well, he was left a cadet, so they always found it necessary to become a little riotous to get promoted to the rank of officer. [ Laughter. ] We, in Conciliation Hall, represent the officer. The Irish cadets understand the policy of misconducting themselves. This is a boon to us to misbehave in future, and we are too honest not to give them the price for their money. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/14/motion-for-committee", "section": "motion-for-committee", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "derstand the policy of misconducting themselves. This is a boon to us to misbehave in future, and we are too honest not to give them the price for their money. [ Cheers and laughter. ] … When they tell us that we should thank Sir Robert Peel and the two hundred myrmidons that go with him from one side of the House to the other, I say, thank Conciliation Hall! thank agitation! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/16/returns-moved-for", "section": "returns-moved-for", "cue_text": "Mr. W. WILLIAMS: Oh, no‡", "preceding_text": " Woolwich. He thought it was not enough to condemn military men for flogging men for slight offences, but this House ought also to bear its share of the blame for having given them authority to do so. § LORD CLARENCE PAGET said, he had no objection to the Returns desired by the hon. Member, provided he would leave out the names of the officers who were obliged to inflict corporal punishment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/16/committee-moved-for", "section": "committee-moved-for", "cue_text": "Several hon. MEMBERS: The system of nomination", "preceding_text": "embers of Parliament. § MR. HENNESSY said that his object was inquiry, and in accordance with what appeared to be the general wish, he should carry his Motion to a division. § VISCOUNT PALMERSTON said, that if the hon. Gentleman's only object was, as had been stated by the hon. and learned Member for Sheffield (Mr. Roebuck), to ascertain what the present system of examination really was "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/27/export-of-coal-question", "section": "export-of-coal-question", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "e Government respecting the 11th Article of the Treaty. He had reason to believe that there was on the part of the French Government a disposition expressed not to insist upon the retention of that Article. He now begged to ask, Whether any information of the kind has been received by Her Majesty's Government—he did not mean whether any official information had been made to the British Government "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/27/duties-on-foreign-wines", "section": "duties-on-foreign-wines", "cue_text": "Mr. BRIGHT, Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "idently of a similar quality to those French wines, when at the bedside of a sick sailor; and that description of the right hon. Gentleman's sufferings had been really sufficient to make one's blood run cold. How, then, could the right hon. Gentleman propose to introduce such stuff to our labouring population? He hoped the labouring population would at last understand who were their real friends. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/feb/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/feb/27/duties-on-foreign-wines", "section": "duties-on-foreign-wines", "cue_text": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "refore, that not only would considerable delay be occasioned, and that a new class of officers would have to be appointed, but that the proposed test would give rise to constant disputes between the officers and the shippers. In fact, the whole of the wine trade agreed in the opinion that the test was one of a perfectly impracticable character; there was not one dissentient voice upon that point. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/jun/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/jun/01/tax-bills-paper-duty-repeal-bill", "section": "tax-bills-paper-duty-repeal-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: In this House.", "preceding_text": "being displeased at his present position, was rather pleased that he had got more money at his disposal. He thought he was acting rightly in giving the right hon. Gentleman an opportunity of removing that impression. During the debate that took place in that House about two months ago on the question of the paper duties the right hon. Gentleman declared that if the Paper Duties Bill were rejected—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/jun/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/jun/01/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Mr. WILLIAMS: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "le in the item for subsistence of men in confinement, which for the year 1860–61 amounted to £12,000 as compared with £8,000 in 1859–60. He also found that for the movement of troops last year £129,000 was required, while this year £138,000 was asked for. Now this increase was hardly justifiable. Perhaps the items were in themselves small, but they altogether amounted to a large sum—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/jun/06/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh! oh!\" from two or three Members of the Opposition.", "preceding_text": " this property is situated in or near cathedral towns which are also Parliamentary boroughs. If these properties are be to let by Bishops, and Deans, and Chapters, from year to year—if the land is 2110 to be subdivided and let as accommodation land in the immediate neighbourhood of these cathedral towns, they will some of them become, I had almost said, the mere nomination boroughs of the clergy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/jun/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/jun/21/petitions-rules-of-the-house", "section": "petitions-rules-of-the-house", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "e of Commons had adopted in appointing a Committee to search for precedents on the subject of Taxation Bills instead of taking a more direct step. He begged to move that the Petition be read by the Clerk at the Table. § SIR WILLIAM MILES What is the prayer? The CLERK —\"To the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled; the respectful remonstrance of the undersigned\"—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/jun/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/jun/21/leave-first-reading", "section": "leave-first-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No! never.", "preceding_text": "etired to barracks; but the result was that the men obtained what was due to them, were re-armed, and were finally sent on active service. No man would venture to say that this regiment—since distinguished as Sir Charles Napier's—was not to be trusted on account of this occurrence. The readers of Irish history were aware that the 5th Dragoons in the rebellion of 1799 refused to charge the rebels. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/jun/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/jun/21/consideration-adjourned-debate", "section": "consideration-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "eat compact under which Roman Catholics were admitted to sit in that House. He warned the Committee not to adopt legislation directly in favour of the Jesuits and of other regular orders connected with the Church of Rome, who throughout Europe were the great originators of oppression, recognized and treated as such, and who had been deemed deserving of being expelled from every country in Europe. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/12/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.", "preceding_text": "officers which was required in the case of malt, spirits, and other productions. Now, he was far from saying that the paper duty should be permanent; but, in the present state of our finances, when we were literally living from hand to mouth, and forestalling all our revenue, it would be a most imprudent thing to immediately abolish so fruitful a tax. The question might be asked, \"What is paper?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/12/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "nnual subscriptions which it receives; so that nearly the whole of its income goes into the coffers of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Now, to show still more clearly how this tax operates against the diffusion of cheap tracts among the working classes, I will take the case of two periodicals published by the Religious Tract Society — The Leisure Hour and The Sunday at Home —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/12/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "-tax is not in the will of the Ministry, but in the will of the nation, which a few years ago was content with an expenditure for military services of—\" I can't read the figures exactly, but say of so many millions. § THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Pray read what I wrote. § MR. HORSMAN It runs, I think—\"The nation, which a few years ago was content with a Supply service of £21,000,000, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/12/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ture for military services of—\" I can't read the figures exactly, but say of so many millions. § THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Pray read what I wrote. § MR. HORSMAN It runs, I think—\"The nation, which a few years ago was content with a Supply service of £21,000,000, [The Chancellor of the Exchequer: Hear, hear!] but which now thinks fit to spend on the same service £21,000,000\"—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/12/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "respect abandoned the principles of that great statesman; that he has left the school of Sir Robert Peel, and attached himself to a newer and bolder one. With the exception of that little chasm in his financial proposal which he himself described, which he made and filled up, there is not one feature of his scheme which is not a plain and flagrant abandonment of the principles of Sir Robert Peel. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/12/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "reat error to suppose, as my right hon. Friend has supposed, that paper is consumed exclusively by the rich. The rich, no doubt, are the largest consumers for mere writing purposes, but paper is consumed to an enormous extent by the poor, who can scarcely purchase a single article of daily consumption, or of the small comforts of their lives, which is not wrapped in paper that enhances its price. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/14/religious-worship-bill-second-reading", "section": "religious-worship-bill-second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " concurred as to the necessity of preaching the Gospel. That, he should beg to remind his right hon. Friend, was not exactly the case, for there were four hon. Members who did not believe in the necessity of preaching the Gospel, and by those Gentlemen, whom recent legislation had admitted within the walls of the House, such discussions as the present, he contended, must be regarded as an insult. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/23/new-writs-for-norwich", "section": "new-writs-for-norwich", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "currence of that corruption, of which we all complain. § MR. E. P. BOUVERIE said, that whatever might be the inclination of hon. Members, they could not refuse to issue this particular writ, and therefore, the opposition of the hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. D. Griffith) was too late. The House had already acceded to the issuing of the writ rendered necessary by the unseating of Mr. Schneider. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/mar/23/annexation-of-savoy-and-nice-to-france-1", "section": "annexation-of-savoy-and-nice-to-france-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "xasperating language. § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member may make an explanation of anything which has fallen from him if his words have been misunderstood; but he cannot, in accordance with the rules of the House, reply to the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. § MR. HORSMAN I was merely going to observe that when the right hon. Gentleman imputed to me the use of insulting language.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/may/14/irregularity-and-orders-thereon", "section": "irregularity-and-orders-thereon", "cue_text": "Cries of \"To morrow!\"", "preceding_text": "es and practice, the House may think fit to do again what was done in 1797. We have, therefore, thought it important to specify that what was done on Thursday was done without any urgent occasion. I now therefore propose to order—\"That the said proceedings shall be null and void;\" and thereupon, \"That the Resolution passed in Committee of Ways and Means be reported,\" either this day or To-morrow. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/may/22/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Derisive cheers.", "preceding_text": " whatever. § MR. CONOLLY said, he rose to move an Amendment that all the words after the words \"regium donum\" should be omitted, and that the following words should be added to the Resolution: — Should no longer be exposed to the annual criticism of this House, but having been duly sanctioned by this House for a lengthened period of time, it ought now to be placed upon the Consolidated Fund. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1860/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1860/may/22/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_text": "he (Mr. Conolly) did, although lie himself did not belong to it, and he felt confident that if hon. Members would look into the actual position of affairs they would not accede to this Resolution. He denied the authority of the hon. Mover and Seconder on this question, and he would confidently appeal to the judgment of the House to vindicate the claims of that most respectable and respected body. "}