{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/07/the-financial-statement", "section": "the-financial-statement", "cue_text": "Several hon. MEMBERS: No!", "preceding_text": "ging over our heads, and is now only for a short time suspended, which declares that the Malt duty has a paramount claim on the consideration of Her Majesty's Government, with a view to remission or reduction. Now, Sir, I do not suppose the Committee would allow us to keep that surplus of a million and a quarter, which I have named, in our own hands. Are they disposed to give it to the malt duty? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/19/denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "section": "denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Mr. Rainals is a Vice Consul.", "preceding_text": " of the Danish language and Danish institutions. These men invariably made me promise secresy, lest they should lose their licence or their appointment. I need not quote further, for I think I have shown conclusively from these Reports of Consul Ward and Consul Rainals that the Government of Denmark has been in the highest degree arbitrary and unconstitutional towards the people of these Duchies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/19/denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "section": "denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ved in that House, and might possibly be regarded as foolish by the public. England was about to play at the Conference an up-hill game, and every possible method of conciliation would be wanted. He was at a loss to understand how our Government would be able to explain satisfactorily to Russia, Austria, and Prussia the very ill-timed visit which was now creating such a sensation in this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/19/denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "section": "denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " say a great deal which on that occasion would be left unsaid, from a fear of prejudging matters that would shortly be deliberated upon elsewhere. He need hardly remind the House that the questions under consideration were of the greatest possible importance, to be discussed with calmness, and not treated with the rollicking rhetoric in which the hon. Member for Liskeard was so fond of indulging. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/19/denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "section": "denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "which the hon. Gentleman had dealt with it, there would be little difficulty in explaining it to the satisfaction of the most ordinary intellect, but he had no hesitation in saying that the hon. Member had treated it altogether on false principles. He had talked with the greatest assurance, as if he alone could form a correct opinion upon the question of the succession to Denmark and the Duchies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/19/denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "section": "denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers .", "preceding_text": " sudden death of the late King, which brought into operation the law of succession. Reference had been made to the answers given last year by his noble Friend at the head of the Government to the hon. Member for Hors-ham (Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald), that, under certain circumstances, Denmark would not be allowed to stand alone. An interpretation had been given to that answer which was not warranted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/19/denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "section": "denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ntry was with the Government in this matter, and that a war was not desired by the people. It was very easy to say that England had been degraded and humiliated. There was no humiliation in trying to preserve peace, even although their efforts had proved unavailing. In fact, they were bound when one proposal failed to make another. Her Majesty's Government were not intermeddling as had been said. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/19/denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "section": "denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": "en within twenty-four hours a Conference would assemble to consider them. The people of Schleswig-Holstein would be represented there; if not adequately represented by the King of Denmark, by the Plenipotentiary of the Diet. The whole question would be heard and discussed, and, he repeated, it would be altogether unjustifiable and unprecedented if he ventured to express an opinion on its details. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/19/denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "section": "denmark-and-germany-treaty-of-london", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "the reserve of the noble Lord, and above all, so convinced that this Treaty of 1852 is a dead letter, 1376 which will never patch up the so-called integrity of Denmark, that I shall be content to be adjudged by the events of the Conference. I will therefore simplify matters by saying that on this occasion, like the noble Lord, I shall also be a follower of the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Disraeli). "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/29/case-of-mr-bewicke-committee-moved-for", "section": "case-of-mr-bewicke-committee-moved-for", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: He did quite right.", "preceding_text": "a jury and before Judges of the highest impartiality; but, unhappily, Mr. Bewicke treated the charge with contempt. No man in the kingdom was entitled to treat such a criminal charge with neglect, or to leave that to be done after his conviction which ought to have been done before it. That, however, was the course taken by Mr. Bewicke. He omitted to retain an attorney or counsel for his defence. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/29/privilege", "section": "privilege", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "wish to address you on a point of order. I beg to state that the name of a Member (Mr. Black) was on the paper before mine. I waited, expecting his name to be called. I thought I had risen to address you before you left the Chair. If you say otherwise, I bow to your decision, but I hope that I may be allowed to proceed with my Motion. § MR. BERNAL OSBORNE I second the Motion for adjournment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/29/privilege", "section": "privilege", "cue_text": "Cries of No!\"", "preceding_text": "tion affecting the privileges of this House; and, without making any pointed allusion to you, I must say that I did not hear you, Sir, put the Question. A noble Lord on the other side (Lord R. Montagu) said he did hear it; but he was sitting in close proximity to the Chair. I was not favoured with that private and confidential communication. My hon. Friend below me rose before you left the Chair. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/apr/29/privilege", "section": "privilege", "cue_text": "\"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_text": "air, and the hon. Member for Buckingham rose in his place. It is perfectly true that the hon. Member rose in his place before I left the Chair, but not before I put the Question. That is an exact statement of the case, and I regret that any hon. Member who was paying any attention to the business of the House should have arrived at a different conclusion. MR. KINGLAKE said, that as he was sitting "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/feb/25/our-naval-force-resolution", "section": "our-naval-force-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "owerful fleet at all, that we should have that powerful fleet now, as it ever was that the Archduke Charles should march a certain number of miles in a shorter time than he did. I think I heard from the opposite side of the House a hon. Gentleman (Colonel Sykes) say a little time ago that our present steam navy was so powerful that we are an overmatch for any two nations on the face of the globe. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/feb/25/supply-navy-estimates", "section": "supply-navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Ironical Laughter.", "preceding_text": " matter. § MR. STANSFELD said, there was no error. § VISCOUNT PALMERSTON hoped the Committee would agree to the Vote. This was a Vote for men, and questions about dockyards could only arise when the Votes on the subject came before the House. If an hon. Member should be going into a discussion on matters which belonged to a subsequent Vote, he hoped the Chairman would call him to order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/jul/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/jul/18/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "n) which we have just heard is so different in spirit to the one he delivered on a former occasion, that it is necessary I should make a few observations. The noble Lord has appeared in quite a new character, particularly with regard to Brazil. He says that he thinks the House will be of opinion that he will best discharge his duty by avoiding irritating language towards the Brazilian Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/jul/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/jul/18/new-zealand-guarantee-of-loan-bill-bill", "section": "new-zealand-guarantee-of-loan-bill-bill", "cue_text": "A laugh!", "preceding_text": " to sufferers, and the local government expenses. After these charges had been met, what would become of the security? The revenues of the colony, too, were not in the hands of the Treasury but under the control of local Ministries, which 1689 were ephemeral; and although they might have an honest Government now, you might have a democratic one to-morrow and then they would never get their money. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/jun/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/jun/02/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": " near their own residences or amongst their constituencies which might escape the entire spoliation of their endowments under the new Minute, and are therefore content to allow the injustice which they hare averted from themselves to fall upon the rest of the kingdom, I tell them to 1067 their faces that they do not know their duty or the constitutional principle of their functions in this House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/jun/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/jun/02/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "ed was of an analogous character. There was an accusation of maladministration brought against one of the great Departments of the State, and he was confident the inquiry could be carried on far more fairly, more impartially, and with more of a judicial spirit by five Gentlemen selected from Members of that House, who did not usually act from party motives, than by a Committee of fifteen Members. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/jun/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/jun/02/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of What is it?", "preceding_text": " that among the five Members could not be included those who were best acquainted with the case, and most competent to conduct it. Now, the proposal of my right hon. Friend entirely removes that difficulty; and, on the part of Her Majesty's Government, I have to say that we are willing to refer the matter to a Committee formed upon the suggestion of my right hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/jun/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/jun/09/bill-90-second-reading", "section": "bill-90-second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "EY said, he agreed with that suggestion He had told the hon. Member for Derby (Mr. Bass) that he would not oppose the second, reading, but that it would be necessary to amend the Bill in Committee. § MR. BUTT said, he thought it was absurd to suggest that the discussion should be taken in Committee. The Bill Consisted of only one clause, and consequently the whole question was now, at issue. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/mar/15/papers-moved-for", "section": "papers-moved-for", "cue_text": "\" No, no !'' and cheers .", "preceding_text": "ving out of view the much graver question involved in the arrest itself. That course, he was certain, had given rise to very general dissatisfaction. On the subject of arrest the language of the Articles of War was plain and explicit. The Articles provided that no officer or soldier was to be kept in arrest or confinement beyond a period of eight days without being brought before a court-martial. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/mar/15/papers-moved-for", "section": "papers-moved-for", "cue_text": "\"No, no !\" \"Read the Article,\" and cheers .", "preceding_text": "r soldier was to be kept in arrest or confinement beyond a period of eight days without being brought before a court-martial. [\" No, no !'' and cheers .] He would be glad to be corrected by hon. Gentlemen opposite if he were wrong in his reading of the Articles, but he contended that any officer who kept a soldier in arrest for more than eight days without trial was liable to be cashiered. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/mar/15/papers-moved-for", "section": "papers-moved-for", "cue_text": "The hon. and gallant Member here read an extract from The Times of India withdrawing all the charges made in that paper against Colonel Crawley.", "preceding_text": "ey would not only have had the letter of Sir Hugh Rose, answering every part of the statement of the hon. Member for Andover, but the letter of Adjutant Fitzsimon, if forwarded in the ordinary course. Moreover, they would have had the very Indian newspapers, the first channels of the slander, recanting and repairing their error, and stating that they had been deceived by the letter of Mr. Smales. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/02/bill-82-consideration", "section": "bill-82-consideration", "cue_text": "Mr. CRAWFORD: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "lustration would suffice. In a Bristol refinery the other day, 12 lb. of actual mud was found in a cwt. of Brazilian sugar, which choked the filters, and caused much expense in reburning the animal charcoal. It was said, however, that the classification brought in this abominable stuff. \"If it were not for this false system it would all be purified in the place of growth, and come in good sugar.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/02/supply-navy-estimates", "section": "supply-navy-estimates", "cue_text": "\" No, no Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "construction of the dock. § SIR JOHN PAKINGTON The hon. Gentleman implied it. § MR. WHITBREAD Neither did I imply it. § SIR JOHN PAKINGTON would not, of course, say any more on that point. But the whole subject was an important one. No time ought to be lost in constructing a dock on the French Creek, and abandoning this dock on the Marsa, which was condemned by all the authorities. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/05/supply", "section": "supply", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Move, move.\"", "preceding_text": "or the Lancaster.\" [3 Hansard , clxxi. p. 1462.] Now, he wanted to elicit from the Government a promise that that waste of public money should be put a stop to, and that, pending any question as to what the future course should be, the Government should get the best article possible under the circumstances without increase of cost. If he received any support he would move a reduction of the Vote. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/11/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Opposition cheers.\"", "preceding_text": "but it was almost wholly cut off, and the industry of the northern counties received a blow unparalleled in their history. For some weeks of the very year in which the hon. Member made that speech, we did not know whether we were not at war with the United States; and what was the conduct of the working classes of England? Did we hear of a repetition of the Reform riots of Nottingham and Bristol? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/11/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman that the burden of proof must be held principally to lie; that it is on those who say it is necessary to exclude forty-nine-fiftieths that the burden of proof rests; that it is for them to show the un-worthiness, the incapacity, and the misconduct of the working classes, in order to make good their argument that no larger portion of them than this should be admitted to the suffrage. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/11/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\" and laughter .", "preceding_text": "y, is in the political sphere separated from us by a distance almost immeasurable. For now it may be fearlessly asserted that the fixed traditional sentiment of the working man has begun to be confidence in the law, in Parliament, and even in the executive Government. Of this gratifying state of things it fell to my lot to receive a single, indeed, but a significant proof no later than yesterday. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/11/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "ndividual Members, for whose character and consistency I have a great respect, are of opinion that the Constitution of the country should be changed. The hon. Member for East Surrey (Mr. Locke King) introduced a few days ago a Bill to extend the county franchise, and he must have been pleased with the result of his Motion, for he had the support of the noble Viscount in a most enthusiastic speech "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/11/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman has a peculiar mode—rather an abstract mode— of presenting a question to the House by telling us what the hon. Member for Leeds means by his Bill. That is no argument. The question is what the Bill means. Now the Bill speaks for itself, and we can all understand it. It proposes to introduce some 250,000 or 300,000 men whom we do not know much about, suddenly into the Constitution. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/11/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": "hich once made can never be altered or reversed—an experiment which, if made at all, ought to be propounded by the responsible Ministers of the Crown, acting 331 as a body, through their Chief, who is unfortunately absent to-day, but who if present would, I have no doubt, have delivered as enthusiastic a speech in favour of this Bill, as he did in favour of the Bill of the hon. Member for Surrey. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1864/may/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1864/may/26/poland-resolution", "section": "poland-resolution", "cue_text": "\"No, no!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " been doing in the case of Denmark for the last six or seven months. Talk of strong language—talk of menaces of war, and that it was contrary to the dignity of this country to hold such language unless we were prepared to support it! The last Minister who ought to make such a declaration was the noble Lord himself, who was at the head of a Government which had been using bullying language. "}