{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/21/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "the grand jury ought to attend the execution. [\"Oh&#x0021;\"] The clause, as it stood, was founded on a total misconception of the nature and object of capital punishment. Something should be done to supply the want of publicity by the presence of proper representatives of the public. If he were asked to name a suitable hour and place for the purpose, he should say New Palace Yard at four o'clock. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "5 &rarr; 1860s &rarr; 1868 &rarr; April 1868 &rarr; 28 April 1868 &rarr; Commons Sitting &rarr; COLLIERY ACCIDENTS. OBSERVATIONS. HC Deb 28 April 1868 vol 191 c1464 1464 &sect; MR. GREENE (who had on the Paper a Notice respecting Colliery Accidents and for the appointment of a Royal Commission on the subject) said, he had the right, as his name was first on the Paper, to bring the Motion forward. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "4 &sect; MR. GREENE (who had on the Paper a Notice respecting Colliery Accidents and for the appointment of a Royal Commission on the subject) said, he had the right, as his name was first on the Paper, to bring the Motion forward. [\"Oh, oh!\"] If hon. Members opposite thought that they could put him down he begged to tell them that they would not do it if they tried till six o'clock next morning. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " for the appointment of a Royal Commission on the subject) said, he had the right, as his name was first on the Paper, to bring the Motion forward. [\"Oh, oh!\"] If hon. Members opposite thought that they could put him down he begged to tell them that they would not do it if they tried till six o'clock next morning. [\"Oh, oh!\"] If the interruptions were continued he would persevere with his Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ptions were continued he would persevere with his Motion. [\"Oh, oh!\"] He was in earnest about it. He felt very strongly on the subject; and if it were not that he thought he should be doing the cause an injury by now pressing the Motion he certainly should not be inclined to withdraw it. He believed it to be as much more important than the Irish question as the Abyssinian war was to a street row, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "the Motion he certainly should not be inclined to withdraw it. He believed it to be as much more important than the Irish question as the Abyssinian war was to a street row, [\"Oh, oh!\"] He desired to remind hon. Members that 2,468 men were killed in coal mines in the short space of two years. If any hon. Gentleman opposite did not think that that was important, perhaps he would get up and say so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Opposition Cheers.", "preceding_text": "were an unendowed and purely voluntary Church; he had taunted the Government with inconsistency in opposing his Motion at the time it was proposing to disendow the West Indian Church. In the first place, the Government were not proposing to disendow the West Indian Church, but to remove its charge from the English Consolidated Fund, and to throw it, for its greater vigour, upon its own resources. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ome extent, he must admit, on both sides of the House, but chiefly on that of the Opposition. The Government were told, forsooth, that they were courting defeat. Well, what else could they do, when they had taken Office with a minority of 60? And yet, by the extraordinary tact, wisdom, and good-nature of the right hon. Gentleman the First Minister, the country had been benefited by a Reform Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ted to get rid of them, why not propose a Resolution stating that it had not the smallest confidence in them? That was what the hon. Member for Birmingham (Mr. Bright) said in his Tabernacle speech. He said, \"The Government are not worth having — turn 1491 them out.\" Well, turn them out. For his own part, he was not certain that if they they were turned out they would not be in a better position. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " might. He said, \"Remove anomalies.\" he said, \"Educate freely.\" But let them not educate with any missionary object—he hated the word missionary. Why take away the Grant to Maynooth and the Regium Donum? He never heard a word against the Church as a spiritual body; and by passing the Resolutions the House would be throwing itself into an abyss, the bottom of which they probably might never reach. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "s a party is to go to the constituencies.\" Nothing would give him greater pleasure than to go to his constituents—although certainly his last visit was not quite so pleasant or so cordial as one naturally expects. But he knew what the feeling of his constituents was on this subject, and, in fact, nothing but the pressure of his constituents would have made him speak before the Committee to-night. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "nd in the way of removing this institution are our main if not our only excuse for past years of inaction; but believing, as we do now, that public attention has been thoroughly aroused on this subject, believing that the moment is favourable for its settlement, and believing also that the necessity for a settlement of this question is greater and more urgent than it has been at any previous time—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "or India. The supporters of the Resolution had been been met both on the ground of principle and of detail. Those who were opposed to the Resolution maintained that the proposition of the right hon. Gentleman the Member, for South Lancashire was one of a momentous character, and that nothing in legislation for the last forty years could be compared to the importance of the issue therein involved. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "A right hon. MEMBER: It is not true.", "preceding_text": " to the Protestant cantons of Switzerland and you will find them advanced in civilization and wealth, far before the Roman Catholic cantons. Look at Scotland with her barren soil, but her Protestant religion. But go to the South of Ireland, and you will find agriculture in its most primitive state. [\"No!\"] Hon. Gentlemen may cry \"No;\" but statistics which have been laid before the House prove it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "nd that is embodied in the demand for the disestablishment of the Irish Church; a demand that he was at first to popularize and force upon his clergy. I might say much more upon this subject, but I know that the hour is growing late. Still I wish to enforce upon the House—unwilling as some of the Roman Catholic Members may be to hear it—the fact that they are now doubly servants of the hierarchy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: We shall never forget him.", "preceding_text": "se (Mr. Vincent Scully). Mark this, if a man is disobedient to Cardinal Cullen; 1530 if he does not accept that which has been described as the episcopal policy; if he does not become a candidate for Parliament under the auspices of the hierarch he is treated with contempt and contumely, whenever his name is mentioned in this House. Many hon. Members of this House will remember Mr. Vincent Scully—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "England. &sect; MR. WHALLEY said, he had supported the former Motion of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Lancashire with great reluctance; but he had done so because he considered that Protestantism in Ireland, so far as it was connected with the Church, had altogether failed. Those who conducted the Establishment were either incompetent or were traitors to the trust reposed in them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/apr/28/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"What name?\"", "preceding_text": "red that oaths were useless against the power of the Papacy. He wished to see the whole matter left to the decision of the people of England, and all modes of artificial support of religion put out of the way. &sect; MR. REARDEN said, he was surprised that the Prime Minister, who had assisted last year to pass a liberal measure of Reform, should call the Roman Catholics by a disageeable nickname. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/feb/13/leave-first-reading", "section": "leave-first-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "ication of the provisions of the Act, if it passed, might be carried into effect. But I regret to say, that instead of receiving from the Judges information upon the particular point on which we sought to be instructed, we received from that most eminent and exalted body—conveyed by their most august member—an expression of opinion upon the proposed Bill so entirely condemnatory of its provisions "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/jun/16/third-reading", "section": "third-reading", "cue_text": "\"Order, order&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "ding read. &sect; Motion made, and Question proposed, \"That the Bill be now read the third time.\"—( Mr. Gladstone .) &sect; SIR FREDERICK HEYGATE said, he did not rise for the purpose of offering further opposition to the Bill, but wished to clear himself from a statement which he was reported to have made upon the Motion with regard to a Royal residence, by the hon. Baronet the Member for Clare. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1868/jun/29", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1868/jun/29/debate-resumed-third-night", "section": "debate-resumed-third-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order\" and \"Spoke\" continuing, the noble Earl sat down.", "preceding_text": "try is concerned. I admit that upon the recommendation of the Government and the Bishop of Jamaica I sanctioned the Bill for the suspension of certain ecclesiastical offices in Jamaica. But where is the inconsistency? I sanotioned a Suspension Bill and I am prepared to vote for a Suspensory Bill this evening. Her Majesty's Government have sanctioned a disendowment scheme to the extent of £20,000. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/mar/05/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "Mr. J. STUART MILL: Hear, hear&#x0021;", "preceding_text": "n of Parliament, and, I think I may add, with the confidence of Europe. That policy is a policy of peace—not of peace at any price, not a peace sought for the mere interests of England, but a policy of peace—from the conviction that such a policy is for the general interests of the world. We do not believe that that policy is likely to be secured by a selfish isolation on the part of this country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/mar/05/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Hear&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "f such a policy be continued, I have no doubt when the occasion may arise—and periodical occasions will arise when the influence of England is necessary to maintain the peace of the world—that influence will not be found to be inefficient, because it is founded on respect and regard. With reference to our domestic policy, I say at once that the present Administration will pursue a liberal policy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/mar/05/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "year with reference to the government of Ireland? It was understood that the Irish Government were strongly of opinion that those unhappy men who had been taken in array against the Sovereign of this country in Ireland ought to have had their lives forfeited for the crime they had committed; but such was the vacillation and hesitation of the Government, that when pressure came to be put upon them "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/mar/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/mar/06/motion-for-an-address", "section": "motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "he Americans were such snobs and flunkies as they were sometimes supposed to be; indeed, he was sure they were not one- 1190 tenth part so guilty as ourselves. There was one man who, he thought, was especially suited to the post—a man whose name was a household word throughout the United States, as the staunch friend of that country—he referred to the hon. Member for Birmingham (Mr. John Bright). "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/12/bill-94-committee", "section": "bill-94-committee", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "e law dealt out to them was not likely to be more certain and more satisfactory. He (Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen) understood that what was really required was a local Court, whose decisions, upon the spot, could be speedily and economically obtained. He (Mr. Knatchbull-Hugesseu) re- 163 presented a large class of persons interested upon this question—namely, the boatmen of Deal and of the Kent Coast. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/notice", "section": "notice", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"Order, Order&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "at Her Majesty the Queen has been compelled, through delicate health, to retire from England during the remainder of this Session; and, if so, whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government, out of consideration to Her Majesty's health, comfort, and tranquillity, and in the interest of the Royal Family and of Her Majesty's subjects throughout the Empire, and especially of this metropolis "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/notice", "section": "notice", "cue_text": "\"Order, order&#x0021;\" \"Chair, chair&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "ire from England during the remainder of this Session; and, if so, whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government, out of consideration to Her Majesty's health, comfort, and tranquillity, and in the interest of the Royal Family and of Her Majesty's subjects throughout the Empire, and especially of this metropolis [ Loud cries of \"Order, Order&#x0021;\"], to advise Her Majesty to abdicate? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cheers", "preceding_text": "e that upon the House of Lords. If I have seen in the course of a lengthened career instances in which I have thought that House somewhat rash and precipitate, I certainly have seen more instances—and conspicuous instances, too—in which it has acted upon the dictates of an enlightened prudence. Were it true that this Motion had been made by us merely as a Motion intended for the purposes of party—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "he payment of the Roman Catholic clergy, my right hon. Friend at the head of the Government stated most distinctly that no such intention had ever existed, and I may add, speaking in the presence of my noble Friend, that neither the increase of the Regium Donum nor the payment of the Roman Catholic clergy was ever discussed by the Cabinet, or brought forward in any shape or form before the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "s not bound by that Oath as to every single thing connected with the Church which might be modified, but yet that modification must not be for the destruction, but for the advantage, of the Church. I said before that I regarded this Bill as inexpedient, and I consider it inexpedient on the ground which the right hon. Gentleman, by the almost contemptuous terms in which he spoke of the other House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Mr. LAWSON: Hear, hear&#x0021;", "preceding_text": " on the understanding that the £1,000 would be a charge to be paid by his successor. If that gentleman dies; during the continuance of this Bill, who is to pay his relatives back the money which he advanced on the living? I wish to ask that question. I know that the Bill contains these words in reference to benefices seized by the Commissioners—\"subject to all charges legally affecting the same.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Mr. GLADSTONE: Hear, hear&#x0021;", "preceding_text": " tell the Irish people that it is for the purpose of preserving the Protestant Church in this country that a wrong is to be perpetuated in Ireland, and that the justice which they demand is to be denied them. The hon. Gentleman who spoke last (Mr. Liddell) said that a wrong was not to be done in order that good might come from it. Is not the hon. Gentleman running in the face of his own argument? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Irish Romanists.", "preceding_text": "ent condition of Ireland impaired 772 the influence, lowered the prestige, enfeebled the strength, and, in certain contingencies, might endanger the stability of this Empire. He deeply deplored that the Premier should have lent the weight of his name to a statement so startling and unfounded as that of the alleged conspiracy for the severance of Church and State between the Irish Roman Catholics.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": " has been heard within the walls of Parliament before, and from the same quarter. It was heard forty years ago. It was heard on the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act , at the time of Maynooth, and it will be heard in this House again and again till there is that religious equality which those Gentlemen who represent Roman Catholic constituencies contend can lie only in the supremacy of their Church—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh&#x0021;\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "duce content in Ireland; and here we have before this measure has passed the second reading a Motion on the table which says that those whom it is sought to satisfy by this policy and by this measure will not be satisfied at all until they have complete religious equality—an equality that can only be obtained by repealing the Act of Settlement. I stand here as an independent Member of Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "up by endowing the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland. As an Independent Member of this House, I see that the Government are prepared to the best of their ability to resist this course of legislation, and to maintain the Constitution as secured by the Act of Settlement. On the other side, I see the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Lancashire—I give him credit for sincerity in the matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "leman the Member for Portarlington. What are his charges? He said that the Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant came down with an Irish policy, and that he proposed, in the first place, to endow a Roman Catholic University. Well, we have heard that charge before, and it has been contradicted. I myself have said over and over again that it never was proposed by us to endow a Roman Catholic University. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: Levelling up,", "preceding_text": "pon that subject. Now, because my noble Friend considered and could not resist saying that it is a miserable pittance, it is immediately inferred that one of our propositions was to increase the Regium Donum. There is not the slightest foundation for the inference, nor is there the slightest inconsistency in the statements of my noble Friend and of the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Hear, hear&#x0021;", "preceding_text": " the position of Ireland with reference to existing circumstances, and, therefore, when the hon. Gentleman the Member for Bradford comes forward and says the thing is perfectly simple—that all you have to do is to do justice to the people of Ireland, and to do in Ireland what was done in Scotland two centuries ago, and you will then find everything perfectly quiet and everybody perfectly content. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh&#x0021;\" and Cheers", "preceding_text": "that to be the opinion of powerful classes in this country—of classes powerful not from station merely, but from the possession and exercise of virtues, and who never interfere in political affairs except from the strongest motives of public duty. If this be a right view, or even an approximately correct view, it is most unwise to disregard or affect to despise it. It is not by managed majorities—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh&#x0021;\" and Cheers.", "preceding_text": "n is necessary for the happiness of the people and the security of the realm—whatever may be their opinion upon the subject rest assured that that opinion will be asserted and will be triumphant. MR. GLADSTONE Sir, I think I may say, without fear of contradiction, that no criticisms of any moment have been made upon the mere form, expressions, and particulars of the Bill that is before the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": " be desired. And if the noble Earl, as we think, used the words \"religious equality,\" I am quite sure he did not use them in the farfetched—I will not say much more than farfetched—sense which the right hon. Gentleman has just assigned to them. He said, \"I do not pretend to say that justice and policy may not depend to a great extent on the equalization of ecclesiastical arrangements in Ireland.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Laughter, and \"Oh, oh&#x0021;\"", "preceding_text": "well informed upon this point. What did the right hon. Gentleman say both last year and this year was the key of his ecclesiastical policy for Ireland? He said, \"You must create, and not destroy.\" Had those words a meaning? Yes, they had a meaning, and if illustration were wanted there is abundance of illustration from other quarters. The right hon. Gentleman, twenty-four or twenty-five years ago—"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1868/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1868/may/22/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "h does not do its work is in the end, if not a positive advantage to an Establishment that does, yet, at all events, is in the nature of the removal of a very great disadvantage. I think that there is not a man who would deny that the cause of the Church of England against her antagonists, if she has them, is made more arduous and difficult by the existence of the Church Establishment in Ireland. "}
