{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/aug/08/personal-explanation", "section": "personal-explanation", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "and gallant Baronet said upon the occasion to which he refers was this—that he had received information that a particular officer in Pembroke Dockyard had taken a particular course in the purchase of coal, and that that officer had been severely reprimanded by his superiors or had been complained of. SIR JOHN HAY If the right hon. Gentleman desires it, I will read what I then stated to the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/aug/08/lords-committee", "section": "lords-committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "d be. They would, in fact, increase in a geometrical ratio. When once appeals got into arrear the temptation to parties to appeal for the purposes of delay would be irresistible, especially in a country like India, where the interest of money was 1717 something like 10 per cent. Well, but how did hon. Members propose to remedy the evil which they admitted to exist? Simply by doing nothing at all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jul/04/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Half an hour", "preceding_text": "s on both sides of the House to be present, it is almost impossible to insure a House being made if practice so very sharp is followed. My own feeling is that I would rather leave it to the gentlemanlike instincts of both sides of the House than have any rigid rule upon the subject; but if an understanding were arrived at that a certain period, say a quarter of an hour, of grace was to be allowed—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jul/04/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ttached to the purposes of any particular denomination or religion. But our desire is to encourage the foundation of Colleges, and we will not inquire whether they are to be denominational Colleges or not; we claim nothing for them less than absolute freedom. § MR. MOWBRAY said, he was very glad to hear that there was at last some principle to which Gentlemen opposite were prepared to adhere—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jul/07/bill-170-second-reading", "section": "bill-170-second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: For how long is it to be in force?", "preceding_text": " with any legislation of an exceptional character in regard to Ireland. He entertained that opinion very strongly. The time had not yet arrived; but he hoped it was not far distant. He begged the House to regard the Bill as consisting of the 4th clause, with an additional one which would make it last a short period. It would facilitate discussion if they conceived the Bill to stand in that shape. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jul/07/bill-170-second-reading", "section": "bill-170-second-reading", "cue_text": "Mr. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE said that the 5th clause had been withdrawn.", "preceding_text": "e necessary to introduce it, why it was not brought forward at an earlier period of the Session. Why did Her Majesty's 1683 Government wait until the July anniversaries of those events which had placed Her Majesty's dynasty on the Throne were about to be commemorated not in a spirit of hostility towards any class in Ireland, but in vindication of the rights of the free citizens of a free country? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jul/27/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Mr. RYLANDS: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "tice of the Charity Commissioners in favour of these superannuation allowances which the hon. Member condemns. Then, Sir, the hon. Member fixed his attention particularly on the case of Mr. Hodgson, the secretary and treasurer of the Bounty Board, and the hon. Member went so far as to say that he thought Mr. Hodgson had, during the whole period of his 48 years' service, been very much over-paid — "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jul/27/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Mr. RYLANDS: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "r fixed his attention particularly on the case of Mr. Hodgson, the secretary and treasurer of the Bounty Board, and the hon. Member went so far as to say that he thought Mr. Hodgson had, during the whole period of his 48 years' service, been very much over-paid — [Mr. RYLANDS: Hear, hear!] — and that it would be conduct creditable to him, and he even went so far as to say honourable in him—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jun/30/committee-progress-28th-june", "section": "committee-progress-28th-june", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": " was expressed by hon. Gentlemen opposite for a \"year of grace.\" What did that phrase mean? It meant that the education of the country was to be delayed for 6 or 12 months or more, in order that the system which particularly suited those hon. Gentlemen might be carried out. A greater misnomer than to call it \"a year of grace\" he could not conceive; it ought rather to be called a year of disgrace. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jun/30/committee-progress-28th-june", "section": "committee-progress-28th-june", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " it was not for the sake of the children, but for that of the ratepayers, that this additional protection was required. It was asked—\"Why should any ratepayer be obliged to contribute towards religious teaching which he did not approve?\" His reply was—\"If it is so necessary to protect the conscience of the ratepayer, why should there not be equal consideration for the conscience of the taxpayer?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/jun/30/committee-progress-28th-june", "section": "committee-progress-28th-june", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": "Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. § SIR JOHN PAKINGTON said, he rose to move the Amendment of which he had given Notice, in page 5, line 24, to leave out sub-section 2, and insert— 2. The Holy Scriptures shall form part of the daily reading and teaching in such school, but no religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught therein. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/25/peace-preservation-ireland-bill-bill-75", "section": "peace-preservation-ireland-bill-bill-75", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh\"", "preceding_text": "urney from Ireland were to be left untouched. Were these offices to be at liberty to publish any amount of Irish treason and sedition, and to excite to murder and agrarian outrage, and action to be taken only when the paper so published was found in Ireland? Were the police only to be at liberty to seize the well-thumbed copies after they had been read in every forgo and shebeen house in Ireland? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter. .", "preceding_text": " was opened up, he replied that they did not know how much might have been effected by a different policy. He had been told by a gentleman, whose name was not unknown to many Members in that House, who had been long in China, and who, at the present moment, had large interests there, that if he went back to China he would leave behind him the name of Englishman and pass under that of an American. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Loud cheers. .", "preceding_text": " Hong Kong. At a dinner given to Admiral Keppel on leaving, and at which the whole of the leading merchants and officials seemed to have been present, a certain English Colonel responded for the \"Army.\" One of the China papers thus reported his speech— As regarded China, he contended that the Chinese were an inferior nation, and should be brought down and shown that they were the inferior nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/motion-for-a-select-committee", "section": "motion-for-a-select-committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " their own religion he scarcely meant them to draw the inference that Roman Catholics were to do that without regard to their neighbours' liberty. There was a feeling abroad in the country that the character of these institutions was not by any means in harmony with the liberty of the subject. It was supposed that persons were forced to enter them, and that when there they were forcibly detained. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/motion-for-papers", "section": "motion-for-papers", "cue_text": "Cheers, and 'No, no!", "preceding_text": "ch were, in fact, the extracts corresponding to those portions of his speech which had given rise to these charges. He would neither assail nor defend, but would simply read the extracts, which were as follows:— Was the earth created only for Emperors, Kings, and Governments? [A Voice: No, no!] Was it created for an aristocracy, or for those whom George Henry Moore calls an oligarchy of buckeens? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/motion-for-papers", "section": "motion-for-papers", "cue_text": "Cheers", "preceding_text": " the earth created only for Emperors, Kings, and Governments? [A Voice: No, no!] Was it created for an aristocracy, or for those whom George Henry Moore calls an oligarchy of buckeens? [ Cheers, and 'No, no!] God alone has supreme dominion over the land, and he created it that the people might occupy it and live upon. You have just as good a right to occupy the land of your birth as the landlords "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/motion-for-papers", "section": "motion-for-papers", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "f your birth as the landlords [ Cheers ]; and any law made by man to deprive you of that right of occupancy is a violation of the natural law. … My first mission was in New Ross in '46–7, and there I witnessed scenes in the town and in the workhouse that made me proclaim undying war against landlord law. … This tyranny has become intolerable—it can be borne no longer.… "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/motion-for-papers", "section": "motion-for-papers", "cue_text": "'Shame!'", "preceding_text": "it, and a gentleman made a speech in favour of the fox, and said he hoped the farmers would not grudge him a fowl for his breakfast. … But the poor of Killesk were driven out in the snow; a dying woman, Mrs. Murphy, had to receive the last Sacraments under the ditch; I saw the snow water dripping down into the deathbed of the aged Mrs. Ryan; for them there was no compassion, no protection. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/motion-for-papers", "section": "motion-for-papers", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "- 929 rals; but there are other pastorals—other missives coming across the Atlantic every day, which are read by thousands, which are carried by the penny Press into every cottage in the land. To one of these I beg to call the landlords' special attention, not as a threat—God forbid—but as a friendly, a salutary warning. Mr. John Mitchel has great influence with the Irish race all over the globe. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/mar/29/motion-for-papers", "section": "motion-for-papers", "cue_text": "Cheers and laughter.", "preceding_text": "reat influence with the Irish race all over the globe. [ Cheers. ] Only a short time since both branches of the Fenian organization offered to make him their leader. I will read for you the advice lately given by Mr. Mitchel to the Irish peasantry. You may condemn it, but you cannot ignore it; you must deal with it as a fact. He says—'If the landlord evict you unjustly, shoot him like a mad dog.' "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/02/committee-progress-28th-april", "section": "committee-progress-28th-april", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "te knowledge of Ireland; but I know enough to say that that will not be the ease. I do not think that the landlords will view this 3rd clause with that terror and trepidation which it appears to cause in the minds of some English and Scotch Members; but I believe that, in the great majority of eases, affairs between landlords and tenants in Ireland will go on precisely as they have hitherto done. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/02/committee-progress-28th-april", "section": "committee-progress-28th-april", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "l right of property. The section imposed a fine on alienation. It provided that the landlord should not capriciously evict without paying a fine. With regard to the question whether a fine on alienation was a proper subject of legislation, he might refer to Continental law to show how universal such fines were. Then as to ancient English law on this subject. The state of things after the Conquest—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/02/committee-progress-28th-april", "section": "committee-progress-28th-april", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ny man in that House in improving his estate. Certainly, when the Bill was brought in, he served notice on his tenants; but he felt quite satisfied that Mr. Irvine had not the least intention of disturbing any of them. The meeting referred to by the hon. Member for Kilkenny (Sir John Gray) was a voluntary one, got up by the tenants for the purpose of expressing their confidence in their landlord. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/02/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No doubt of it.", "preceding_text": "ywhere else, then he would admit there was a necessity not for inquiry, but for immediate and stringent legislation, because the rights of personal liberty laid down in Magna Charta and protected by the Habeas Corpus Act would be a dead letter. But he would put it to any rea- 61 sonable man—and he hoped they were all reasonable men—was it possible—did anyone believe, that such coercion did exist? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/02/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e ventured to state that he should be able to show sufficient reasons against even the modified Order which was now before them. He would in the first place point out that, as far as he knew, the House had never ordered a Parliamentary inquiry without its being suggested with what view that inquiry was to be made. Let it be remembered, too, that the property of these institutions, if they had any "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/20/motion-for-correspondence", "section": "motion-for-correspondence", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "d it would attract a handsome donation of valuable pictures, just as was said now. [Mr. W. H. GREGORY: And we have got them.] No doubt a great many pictures had been given to the national collection; experience, however, had shown that people had a great fancy for giving pictures to commemorate themselves, but did not offer to contribute pictures which would pro- 1072 mote the Art of the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/20/motion-for-correspondence", "section": "motion-for-correspondence", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: You are obliged.", "preceding_text": "y large number of the works of one artist, and it might become the duty of the Government to consider whether a national collection ought not to consist of the most perfect 1076 works of every school, and whether it would not be better for the enlightenment of the students of Art to have a more general collection, instead of having one of the finest rooms occupied by the works of a single artist. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/20/motion-for-a-commission", "section": "motion-for-a-commission", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ther motive than a desire to dimi- 1095 nish risks and dangers at sea. He was, however, under one disadvantage—namely, that while his subject affected two of the most important matters in connection with the welfare of this country—first, the interests of shipowners, and, secondly, the preservation of sailors' lives—the Board of Trade was not represented in this House by any responsible Minister. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/20/motion-for-a-commission", "section": "motion-for-a-commission", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No, no!", "preceding_text": "to a great extent, British vessels. The average of those casualties 1108 was 3,420 per annum. During the last three years—namely, 1866, 1867, and 1868—the numbers were 3,370, 3,363, and 2,721. He had also inquired as to the premiums on insurance, and he was assured by the Secretary at Lloyd's that in those 10 years there had been in almost all cases a reduction in the premiums on British vessels. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1870/may/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1870/may/20/motion-for-a-commission", "section": "motion-for-a-commission", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ourse of his professional experience. To their peculiar conformation he attributed the loss of so many of those long ships; and their un-safety was greatly aggravated when they reduced the freeboard of the ship to a degree disproportionate to her buoyancy. Another source of danger was that the crews were composed of the most heterogeneous materials, including every description of foreign rubbish. "}