{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/apr/27/leave", "section": "leave", "cue_text": "Opposition Cheers.", "preceding_text": "arly 40,000,000 gallons of British and Foreign spirits, 1227 and 18,000,000 gallons of wine. Therefore, I think I may assume that the Committee will agree with me in this—that if the people of England and the United Kingdom in general did not spend quite so much money upon these intoxicating liquors, there would be more health, more wealth, and more happiness than at present exist in the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/apr/27/leave", "section": "leave", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Is that licensed victuallers?", "preceding_text": "ich is consumed by the people of the United Kingdom, really amounts to the same figure that it did in the year 1853. And another fact has to be remembered. You must consider not simply the increase of population between these two years, but also the number of public- 1228 houses which existed in the year 1853 and in 1869. In 1853 the number was 87,625; in 1866, 93,593; and in 1873, it was 97,132. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/apr/27/leave", "section": "leave", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Seven", "preceding_text": " do? It makes the hours, so to speak, more un-uniform than ever. The right hon. Gentleman does not dare to lengthen the hours for beer-shops, and what is the result? Why, in Lancashire—his own county—there will be 7,000 beer-shops closing at 11 o'clock, or earlier, and 8,000 public-houses keeping open, most of them, until half-past 11. So far from promoting uniformity, the Bill will establish six—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/apr/27/leave", "section": "leave", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " the Exchequer to say whether a publican could take out a licence for the double character of six days and of early closing, and thereby obtain the double remission. I have now. I think, touched upon every part of importance in reference to the Bill. With respect to its second reading, the Bill will be delivered to hon. Members in a few days, and we will put down the second reading for next week. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1874/apr/27", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1874/apr/27/railways-address-for-a-royal-commission", "section": "railways-address-for-a-royal-commission", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "which the noble Earl would refer to the Royal Commission. The Board of Trade last year interfered in a manner sufficiently decided by addressing a Circular to the various railway companies. Answers were given to that Circular, and he thought the public must be agreed as to the sufficiency of those answers. Certainly it had struck him that there was an affecting disinterestedness in those answers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/apr/28/acquisition-and-control-of-irish", "section": "acquisition-and-control-of-irish", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": "y than to raise the money by a tax upon Irish property, which would be improved in value by the proposed change. That declaration was signed by 72 Irish Peers, and by 90 Irish Members of that House out of 105: and as four of these Members were also Members of the then Government, it could not be expected that they would sign it. He said that he never knew of such unanimity upon an Irish question. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/apr/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/apr/28/acquisition-and-control-of-irish", "section": "acquisition-and-control-of-irish", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No. no!\"", "preceding_text": "that they have not got to this yet.\" As an Irishman, bound to do all he could to keep Englishmen out of Ireland, he was compelled to vote against the Motion. MR. GOLDSMID said, that, in accordance with the suggestion of the right hon. Baronet opposite (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach), he was perfectly prepared to withdraw his Amendment, and take the division on the proposal of the hon. Member for Kerry. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jul/17/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "If this appointment devolved upon the Crown, everybody knew that it would be made by the Prime Minister, and would therefore be a political appointment. Suppose they took a case—not at all a probable one for some years to come—that they had a Ritualistic Prime Minister, who denounced the Act of Uniformity, who threw discredit on the Reformation, who endeavoured by placing Resolutions on the Table—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jul/17/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Go on!\"", "preceding_text": "d an opportunity of communicating upon it with those he would probably think it his duty to consult, he (Mr. Gladstone) thought they would make much better progress by deferring the discussion. If the right hon. Gentleman would allow them to resume the discussion on Monday, at an hour when they would be able to finish the discussion in the course of the sitting, it would expedite Public Business. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jul/17/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ons, that the House should be taken to have discussed the principle they involved. He could not think that the country would be satisfied if at half-past one o'clock in the 267 morning they—at that period of the Session—adjourned the debate. § MR. SANDFORD protested against the question of the Mass being introduced into the discussion as it had been by the hon. and learned Member for Oxford. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1874/jul/17", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1874/jul/17/the-fiji-islands-cession-to-the-british", "section": "the-fiji-islands-cession-to-the-british", "cue_text": "The Earl of KIMBERLEY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "narvon) had quoted two cases as precedents. As to the first—that in Africa—he had no knowledge of it; but, as regarded the case of what was called the northern territory of South Australia, he hardly thought it was a precedent. He had always understood that territory to be an integral part of South Australia, and it was so marked on the maps. It was also subject to the jurisdiction of its Courts. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1874/jul/17", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1874/jul/17/the-fiji-islands-cession-to-the-british", "section": "the-fiji-islands-cession-to-the-british", "cue_text": "The Earl of DERBY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ume the responsibility, when it was offered to them by their own country-men. The question of land was, no doubt, one of considerable difficulty. The noble Viscount (Viscount Canterbury) seemed to suppose that Her Majesty's Government proposed to take possession of the land; but he (the Earl of Belmore) only understood his noble Friend to say that Government must insist on a right of pre-emption. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jun/04/bill-83-committee", "section": "bill-83-committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "were, and when they put against that the absolute closing of the exempted, they would find that the hours were placed on a far better and more intelligible understanding. They were bound to satisfy the country that this legislation was not for a class. The question had been asked of the House, \"Whether, if they were going to close public-houses, they were not going to close their own clubs also?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jun/04/bill-83-committee", "section": "bill-83-committee", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": "es open, and complained that in the legislation of the House on the subject certain rules were laid down for the rich and certain other rules for the poor. The practical result of closing public-houses early in London, as many apprehended would be the case, and as, indeed, he had stated on introducing the Bill, was likely to be the case, was that those people would establish clubs for themselves. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jun/04/bill-83-committee", "section": "bill-83-committee", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: West Ham?", "preceding_text": "he question was put to him first before Whitsuntide, to what places longer hours should be conceded, they had reduced themselves to one. He was free to confess that upon the most careful consideration he had since been able to give the subject, he had been led to the conclusion that there was not the smallest necessity for extending the boundary of the district of the Metropolitan Board of Works. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jun/04/bill-83-committee", "section": "bill-83-committee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ould entail hardship. There were the people who brought flowers and fruit to the metropolis, and who needed refreshments all night. The leading thoroughfares were fragrant with violets at one season, and strawberries at another. The vast numbers of respectable men engaged in finding them their luxuries should be considered. There were others whose occupation was not so savoury—the night-soil men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jun/04/bill-83-committee", "section": "bill-83-committee", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Half-an-hour.", "preceding_text": "h something fluid. Now, was that to be put a stop to because some persons had squalmish feelings, and pulled themselves into a notion that, inasmuch as certain individuals ate and drank too much, it was not right that those who did not do so should be able to procure anything? He hoped that the hon. and learned Member for Marylebone (Mr. Forsyth) would give way as regarded the quarter of an hour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/jun/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/jun/04/bill-83-committee", "section": "bill-83-committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "an amendment without touching the 700 districts which did not ask for any alteration. § MR. T. E. SMITH was opposed to the extension of hours for early morning drinking, and trusted that the Committee would adhere to the proposition of the Government, that at any rate it would not consent to the public-houses being opened so early as 5 o'clock. Morning drinking was worse than night drinking. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1874/jun/08", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1874/jun/08/public-worship-regulation-bill-nos-30-62", "section": "public-worship-regulation-bill-nos-30-62", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "nal as is not contemplated in the Book of Common Prayer. He regretted that the most rev. Primate was not disposed to accept the Amendment, and particularly so because unless some mention were made of the confessional it might be implied that their Lordships did not condemn the practice. He should be obliged to state what were the very gross abuses which existed under the name of the confessional. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1874/jun/08", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1874/jun/08/public-worship-regulation-bill-nos-30-62", "section": "public-worship-regulation-bill-nos-30-62", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "ere was one provision which might tend to remedy the evil. There could be no doubt that in all places of tolerable size it would be easy to find congregations for all the various types of worship which the Church of England included; and although a congregation might be divided among themselves into two parties, yet if there were any means of separating them they would both go on happily together—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/01/peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "section": "peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: What paper is that in?", "preceding_text": "Coast, articles appeared in this Flag of Ireland speaking of the British Army as if it had been the army of an alien and hostilerace, glorying in the report which came to this country—and which fortunately proved untrue—that our forces, including many Irishmen had been surrounded and cut off by the army of the Ashantee King, and going so far as to express a wish for \"more power to the Ashantees.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/01/peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "section": "peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "h 1554 was calculated to do harm, and arouse angry feelings. He (Sir Patrick O'Brien) was not there to support The Flag of Ireland , or The Irishman , and much less The Nation . Those journals had the strength of their convictions and the manliness to express their opinions. He was one of those who, having a strong faith in his country, had always advocated its connection with the English nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/01/peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "section": "peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "onnection with the English nation. [Hear, hear!\"] Hon. Gentlemen might sneer at him, and hon. Gentlemen behind him might also sneer, for, probably, it was inconvenient that he should express these opinions, but he thought the right hon. Baronet should, before attempting to rule Ireland, inquire what its Constitution was, and not merely refer to olden days. By olden days he meant last year. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/01/peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "section": "peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "an hon. Gentleman who attempted to speak last night on Navy administration, and he (Sir Patrick O'Brien) cheered the hon. Member. A friend asked him at the levee that day why he had clone so? and he replied that the hon. Member was talking so extraordinarily, that a cheer would be the best thing to discompose him. And this was the right hon. Gentleman who was attempting to interfere with him now. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/01/peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "section": "peace-preservation-ireland-act-the-flag", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "ay why he had clone so? and he replied that the hon. Member was talking so extraordinarily, that a cheer would be the best thing to discompose him. And this was the right hon. Gentleman who was attempting to interfere with him now. [ Laughter .] He had not risen in his place to be suddenly put down, He had known of many attempts to sit upon men in that House; but he was not going to submit to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/11/bill-83-second-reading", "section": "bill-83-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "r was the noble Lord to come forward and propose 11.30, when all the evils he had enumerated arose from the public-houses being kept open after 11 o'clock? Now, he had 128 always held the opinion that the more these matters were left to the good sense of the public themselves the better it would be. In fact, he held it would have been better to allow things to remain as they had been before 1872. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/11/bill-83-second-reading", "section": "bill-83-second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "tions of the day,—[\"Divide!\"]—and he found among them but one opinion on the Act of 1872; and, in fact, where-ever he went, people said to him \"We all like it.\" The magistrates, the ratepayers, and the respectable publicans liked it; and the only ones that did not like it were a few disorderly characters, 135 the curse of their neighbourhood, and one or two black sheep among the publicans. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/11/bill-83-second-reading", "section": "bill-83-second-reading", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"Divide!\" \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "o oblige them. It was hardly too much to say that the right hon. Gentleman opposite reigned by the grace of the licensed victuallers. That was one undoubted fact. Another 136 was that this Bill was drawn in the interest of the publicans. Now, did they not think that men generally would put these two undoubted facts together and would see in this measure the natural fruits of that unholy alliance? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/11/bill-83-second-reading", "section": "bill-83-second-reading", "cue_text": "The calls of the House for a Division, with other cries and interruptions, had now become so continuous that the hon. and learned Member resumed his seat.", "preceding_text": "t the publicans were again a power in England, and woe to the Government, woe to the party which dared to lay its little finger on them! They might disestablish Churches—they might sap the foundations of property—they might let the Army and Navy go to perdition—they might even educate pauper children—but there was one thing they must not and dare not do—they must not shut up public-houses. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1874/may/11", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1874/may/11/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "The Earl of SHAFTESBURY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "and hardships which arise in this world. There is no human system of law but will require a great degree of discretion in those who administer it. If, then, neither general interference nor general relaxation is practicable, and if it is dangerous to extend too far the necessary discretion of the administrators of the law, does not this point to the need of a thorough and searching Church reform? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1874/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1874/may/18/navy-construction-of-ironclads-resolution", "section": "navy-construction-of-ironclads-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ng, but her fighting qualities in the minds of everyone 418 on board. That was a sufficient answer to the statements which had been made by the hon. Member on the authority to which he had referred. He (Mr. Reed) did not complain of criticism, but he should be pained if the House were led astray by views derived from the writings of a half-crazy Admiral whether enunciated at first or second hand. "}