{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/apr/03/parliament-breach-of-privilege-the-pall", "section": "parliament-breach-of-privilege-the-pall", "cue_text": "Cries of Whom?", "preceding_text": "take any part in this debate; but I think I should be wanting in duty to my constituents, and in loyalty to my hon. Friend who has felt it his duty to make this Motion, if I did not point out to the House that, whoever may be described as an Ultramontane Member—which is not uncommonly used as a term of opprobrium—at any rate, there can be no doubt as to whom this article is intended to designate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/apr/03/motion-for-a-select-committee", "section": "motion-for-a-select-committee", "cue_text": "Mr. GOSCREN: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "bsence of regulations with regard to the manning of ships, the number of seamen in the merchant service was 162,000, and the number of apprentices was 8,000; whereas, in 1870, while the number of merchant seamen was 196,000, the number of apprentices was only 4,200. In order to secure for this country in time of emergency an efficient Reserve, we must rely upon the co-operation of the shipowners. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/apr/03/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Lord HENRY LENNOX: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "have 582 them as soon as our more imperious wants are satisfied. LORD HENRY LENNOX asked whether these remarks referred to the Devastation type of vessel? § MR. GOSCHEN said, he would read on— I therefore urge as strongly as I can that the type of ship necessary for fleet fighting be taken up as the one most required; that our new constructions may be of the nature of the Glatton or Hotspur. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/apr/24/ways-and-means-report", "section": "ways-and-means-report", "cue_text": "Mr. M. T. BASS: Hear, hear", "preceding_text": "chequer, the present Prime Minister, was that its removal would, by cheapening the article, benefit the brewing trade; and, if he remembered aright, his hon. Friend the senior Member for Derby (Mr. M. T. Bass) was one of those who encouraged that idea. He thought he might appeal to his hon. Friend, and ask him whether his experience was not that in 10 years the price of hops had risen 22 per cent—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/apr/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/apr/24/ways-and-means", "section": "ways-and-means", "cue_text": "Mr. WHITE: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "egradation than that in which the country was placed with respect to the United States; and he could only regret the moral change which had come over his countrymen when the position we occupied provoked no expression of regret or indignation. There seemed to be no sense of degradation in doing that which the Secretary of the Treasury had told them was cheap —namely, pay £3,000,000, to escape war "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/07/church-discipline-letters-of-the", "section": "church-discipline-letters-of-the", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "l, at the very beginning of the Session, move for leave to introduce a Bill to give a speedy and inexpensive remedy against the introduction and continuance of practices contrary to law in churches belonging to the Church of England as by law established. § MR. WHALLEY said, he understood the right hon. Gentleman to say that the attention of the Government had not been drawn to this subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/07/church-discipline-letters-of-the", "section": "church-discipline-letters-of-the", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " the introduction and continuance of practices contrary to law in churches belonging to the Church of England as by law established. § MR. WHALLEY said, he understood the right hon. Gentleman to say that the attention of the Government had not been drawn to this subject. [\"Order!\"] It would, however, be in the recollection of the House that he himself introduced a Bill for that very purpose. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/10/question-4", "section": "question-4", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": ". I do not think any of these clerks were excluded by the retrospective action of the Treasury Minute of 1856, because it did not apply to that Department. 151 § LORD ELCHO The right hon. Gentleman has not answered the Question whether he would \"otherwise improve their position?\" THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER I have no knowledge of any claim they have for the improvement of their position. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/questions-1", "section": "questions-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Photographs.\"", "preceding_text": "d not, therefore, be submitted for public inspection. The contract and plans were required at the Office of Works, and it was quite impossible to make an exhibition of them. MAJOR BEAUMONT said, there could be no difficulty about exhibiting copies of plans. § MR. AYRTON said, that would require copies to be made. The making of copies would take a considerable time, and would involve expense. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-the-queens", "section": "hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-the-queens", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ss the Grand Duchess Marie—but that it will give satisfaction to Her Majesty and to the other Members of the Royal Family. § MR. P. A. TAYLOR said: Sir, although a very humble Member of this House, I have thought it my duty to rise to protest against the proposition made by Her Majesty's Government, as being unwarranted by precedent, and wholly uncalled for, by the circumstances of the case. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-the-queens", "section": "hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-the-queens", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " to protest against the proposition made by Her Majesty's Government, as being unwarranted by precedent, and wholly uncalled for, by the circumstances of the case. [\"Oh, oh!\"] I can only say—and I say it with a sincerity that I think ought to find credit even in the minds 1187 of those who disagree with me—that it is a painful thing to me that I cannot respond to the appeal of the Prime Minister. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-the-queens", "section": "hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-the-queens", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ould it be morally right in me to attempt any factious opposition to the measure. I therefore content myself with giving Notice that on the second reading of the Bill I shall raise a discussion, and take the sense of the House upon it. § MR. HOLT On a former occasion some statement was made to the House by the Government with reference to the religious convictions of the Illustrious parties. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-the-queens", "section": "hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-the-queens", "cue_text": "\"Oh! Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "se upon it. § MR. HOLT On a former occasion some statement was made to the House by the Government with reference to the religious convictions of the Illustrious parties. [\"Oh!\"] I know that it will be in accordance with the feelings of a large number of persons that some communication should be made to the House on that subject; and I hope the right hon. Gentleman will be prepared to do so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/post-office-balances-telegraphic", "section": "post-office-balances-telegraphic", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: What is the date of that letter?", "preceding_text": " that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should not have to propose another money Bill except upon data that would be satisfactory to him. What did that mean? That money was to be spent in no other way than by the agency of that Bill. Did it not amount to an undertaking which would be understood between gentlemen, that not a farthing would be spent until the materials for another Bill were prepared. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/post-office-balances-telegraphic", "section": "post-office-balances-telegraphic", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "e absence—which I very much regret—of the Leader of the Opposition from the opposite benches; but, at the same time, I think we owe a duty to our constituencies—at least, such Gentlemen as are returned by independent constituencies—and we ought not to make everything smooth for the right hon. Gentleman and his Colleagues, considering how soon we may have to account on the hustings for our laches. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/custom-house-clerks-at-the-outports", "section": "custom-house-clerks-at-the-outports", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "But, without any want of respect to the Treasury, or those who held office in it, he would ask the House whether the conduct of the Treasury of late had been such as to give the country general confidence in its management of these matters? He had watched the evidence that was given before the Committee with reference to the Civil Service Writers, and that certainly seemed to point the other way. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/custom-house-clerks-at-the-outports", "section": "custom-house-clerks-at-the-outports", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " too many clerks, and that, in many instances, the salary was too small. Large reductions were made in the number of clerks in London, and the salaries raised; and he expected that his right hon. Friend and himself would have received the thanks of the gentlemen who participated in the results of those labours. But no sooner were their salaries augmented than they raised the question of back pay. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/custom-house-clerks-at-the-outports", "section": "custom-house-clerks-at-the-outports", "cue_text": "Loud cheers.", "preceding_text": " the Government was a promise that this matter should be referred to a Departmental Committee, or to a Committee of that House next Session, and he trusted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would intimate the adoption of one course or the other. § MR. HUNT expressed his great disappointment that no Member of the Government had risen to state that they were prepared to consider the matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jul/29/custom-house-clerks-at-the-outports", "section": "custom-house-clerks-at-the-outports", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "t the Chancellor of the Exchequer would intimate the adoption of one course or the other. § MR. HUNT expressed his great disappointment that no Member of the Government had risen to state that they were prepared to consider the matter. [ Loud cheers. ] It was unfortunate that the Government refused to be guided by the expression of opinion which had been littered from all parts of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jun/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jun/11/second-reading-1", "section": "second-reading-1", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ol after the labours of the day? He would ask hon. Members, however, how they would like one of their own children of 9 or 11 years of age to be forced to come to the mill at 6 in the morning? As to the poor factory children going to night schools it was of no use, as they only sat down by the fire and fell asleep. And that was the system which was said to be essential to our national prosperity. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jun/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jun/19/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " service without any equivalent, but only paving the way or advertizing the future success of the line. And now, when some slight germs of improvement and commerce there were just beginning to show themselves, it would have been most deplorable, in the interest of the suppression of the slave trade, and also a most harsh and cruel thing, if that contract was to be taken away from them altogether. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jun/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jun/19/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "upon them, that decision, if it were adverse, would leave the companies saddled with a heavy loss; and the result would be that in the end the country would have to pay an increased rate for those contracts. So that a liberal policy was their wisest and truest policy. Once let the companies get the notion that Governments were unsafe parties to deal with, and there would be no limit to extortion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jun/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jun/19/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Date.\"", "preceding_text": "Director General of the Indian Post Office. As an independent service the British India Steam Company would not have tendered at all, or at all events not at the rate named, because they were well aware of the difficulties attending such a service on the East Coast of Africa. \"3. If the Company were asked now to undertake this service, they would not be prepared to do so on the terms then named.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/jun/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jun/19/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "ndependent service the British India Steam Company would not have tendered at all, or at all events not at the rate named, because they were well aware of the difficulties attending such a service on the East Coast of Africa. \"3. If the Company were asked now to undertake this service, they would not be prepared to do so on the terms then named.\" [ Cries of \"Date.\"] The date was the 18th of June. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "il was to be appointed by the Executive Government, who were directly responsible to Parliament. But he would ask the hon. Member who was it that appointed the first Senate of his own beloved Queen's University? The Lord Lieutenant of the day. Who was it that appointed the Professors in every Queen's College? The Lord Lieutenant of the day—\"the ephemeral representative of political subserviency.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": "ence. He was the author, and has been the prime promoter in this country of the alliance between Liberalism and the Papacy. And now, Sir, see what occurred. The Roman Catholics, having reduced Ireland to a spiritual desert, are discontented, and have a 1827 grievance; and they come to Parliament in order that we may create for them a blooming Garden of Eden. The Prime Minister is no ordinary man. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ary man. [ Ministerial cheers. ] I am very glad that my sincere compliment has obtained for the right hon. Gentleman the only cheer which his party have conferred upon him during this discussion. The right hon. Gentleman had a substitute for the policy of concurrent endowment, which had been killed by the Roman Catholics themselves. The right hon. Gentleman substituted the policy of confiscation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"All,\" and \"Read, read, read!\"", "preceding_text": "eading the first four of them, and then as he found the operation become a long one leaving off, the hon. Gentleman skipped lightly over the whole of these, and then read out at full length the other four. Sir, the first four are of a character totally at variance with—that is to say, of a totally different effect from the last four. I do not think I need read them all, but I will read the first. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "r the whole of these, and then read out at full length the other four. Sir, the first four are of a character totally at variance with—that is to say, of a totally different effect from the last four. I do not think I need read them all, but I will read the first. [ Cries of \"All,\" and \"Read, read, read!\"] Very well, Sir, I will \"read, read, read,\" if only the hon. Member will \"hear, hear, hear.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ere is the first resolution— We are of opinion that through the University of Dublin any person in Ireland, wherever educated, should be enabled to obtain a degree who can pass the necessary examination. Well, Sir, there is a proposition most distinctly in favour of the fundamental principle of the Bill, which allows access to the University and its degrees otherwise than through Trinity College. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "f the Government to recognize the principle of separate denominational endowment. No doubt there will be concord in the lobby for a few moments between those two parties, but that concord will end when the tellers come to the Table. On what plan of action have you decided? No doubt you will be a formidable body; for all I know you will be a majority. I see before me the party expectant of office. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/25/order-rules-of-debate-question", "section": "order-rules-of-debate-question", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "u, Sir, that nothing is further from my intention than to imply, even in the most indirect manner, any doubt of the statement made by my hon. Friend the Member for Derby. But a statement having been made which appears capable of explanation, I thought it best for all purposes that that explanation should be given at the earliest possible moment. § MR. PLIMSOLL May I beg to say a word or two? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/27/parliament-order-of-business-navy", "section": "parliament-order-of-business-navy", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "seven Notices of Motion. LORD HENRY LENNOX inquired after what hour the right hon. Gentleman would not go on with the Votes that night. § MR. GOSCHEN Not after 11 o'clock. § SIR LAWRENCE PALK said, it certainly appeared to him the other night that the First Lord of the Admiralty did give the House to understand that the Navy Estimates would not be taken that night, but on next Thursday. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/27/parks-regulation-act-meetings-in-the", "section": "parks-regulation-act-meetings-in-the", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "fully repented of their error, and had done their best to rectify it. The hon. Member for York (Mr. Lowther) had referred to the clauses which authorized the right hon. Gentleman the First Commissioner of Works to frame Rules for the government of the Parks, but he had not stated 274 how it was that that clause came to be inserted in the Bill. The hon. Member who doubtless possessed great ability "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/27/parks-regulation-act-meetings-in-the", "section": "parks-regulation-act-meetings-in-the", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: The \"Upas tree.\"", "preceding_text": "the Parks, and the speakers at the meeting—who, as usual, played but a small part in the proceedings, were stationed beyond the legal distance from the post which had been set up by the Chief Commissioner. A 281 body composed of at least 50 or 60 persons ascended the trees, and he himself saw at least one branch of a tree broken off in the most deliberate manner, which must have measured 25 feet. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/mar/27/parks-regulation-act-meetings-in-the", "section": "parks-regulation-act-meetings-in-the", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: It was anonymous.", "preceding_text": "ion of the fashionable part of the community against the poorer portion. He believed that if the people who availed themselves of the public Parks on Sundays were asked their opinion, they would say that the public demonstrations interfered with the peaceable and orderly enjoyment of the Parks. A letter describing one of these meetings in November had been sent to the newspapers by a Liberal M.P. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/may/09/motion-for-a-select-committee", "section": "motion-for-a-select-committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "atisfied that an investigation was necessary after the remarks of the right hon. Gentleman, and he only hoped the right hon. Gentleman would urge the Government to deal with the questions of rating and local taxation, so as to enable him to carry into effect those reforms with regard to superannuation which he was so anxious to accomplish. § MR. EYKYN wished to ask whether the Home Secretary—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/may/09/supply-civil-service-estimates", "section": "supply-civil-service-estimates", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": ". I connect my observations with this Vote because this man is, amongst other things, a bankrupt. I venture to think, therefore, that this 1776 would be a favourable opportunity for the Attorney General to explain to the Committee something of the nature of the difficulties of the Tichborne case. We have been told on a former occasion that it was an insult to common sense to suppose that this man—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1873/may/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/may/23/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Sir CHARLES WINGFIELD must protest against the hon. Member for St. Ives (Mr. Magniac) putting words in his mouth which he had never uttered.", "preceding_text": "na to be carried out. The edict was in force only on paper, and hence the state of things in Macao which he had so graphically described, and which there was no doubt was conducted as cruelly and horribly as it possibly could be. The hon. Member had said that our conduct in the past with regard to China was not calculated to inspire confidence on the general subject of the prohibition of slavery. "}