{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/aug/11/turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in", "section": "turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ess to watch events with the greatest circumspection. He felt bound to admit frankly that the Government really had no idea of the events which had occurred in Bulgaria, until attention was called to them in the House; and he gladly took the opportunity of saying that the Government and the country were very much indebted to the newspaper correspondents through whom those events had become known. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/aug/11/turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in", "section": "turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "man of a mind such as I believe is possessed 'by the hon. Gentleman to avail himself of a Parliamentary privilege, which I do not care to admit or deny, to insinuate an offensive opinion upon the Advisers of the Crown and upon the conduct of absent Ambassadors, when he knows we have no means, in the present state of affairs, of testing the opinion of Parliament or of the country upon the subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/aug/11/turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in", "section": "turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "ents which occurred, all of them events that tried the intelligence, the vigilance, and the thought of our Ambassador there to the utmost, and, in circumstances of great difficulty, I think he showed an intelligence, a courage, and a calmness which were highly beneficial to the course of public affairs. The hon. and learned Gentleman who has just addressed us in so learned and powerful an oration—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/aug/11/turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in", "section": "turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "was so in old times; I do not know myself if it be so at present—that it was an authority much looked up to; and I have never heard anything about its management or character to give any reason to treat its authority with contempt. But when I find its statements agree and tally with the statements in the published despatches, I naturally say that it gives me a prejudice in favour of its veracity. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/feb/22/resolutions", "section": "resolutions", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "t extent might this go? If a public vessel of war was British soil, and had all the legal rights of British soil, the captain of such a vessel might not only receive on the deck of his ship one slave, but 100 slaves would have a right to swim there, and a slave or slaves who came on board with their master on business might claim their freedom, and the captain of the vessel must allow that claim. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/feb/22/resolutions", "section": "resolutions", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_text": "aid— Mr. Addington told me that on one point Government had come to a conclusion, and it was utterly impossible for them to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves, In 1827 there is a similar letter, and on October 2, 1828, the American Minister writes— Lord Aberdeen said that in the present state of public feeling on the question, which he said might be called a mania \"— 750 —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/feb/22/resolutions", "section": "resolutions", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Not fugitive slaves.", "preceding_text": "Friend (Mr. Disraeli) had been taunted with having said something about difficulties which had arisen. They were told that because only one naval 756 officer had applied for instruction no difficulties had arisen. He thought he might call attention to the case of the Thetis , which occurred the year before last, in which this country had to pay £20,000 damages for having seized slaves improperly. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/20/parliament-arrangement-of-public", "section": "parliament-arrangement-of-public", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "tion he should be happy to answer it. MR. SULLIVAN complained of the conduct of the Government in the matter of this Bill. Irish Members had expected to have been met in a fair and conciliatory spirit, and now the Government would not tell them what Amendments they proposed to make. For his own part, he could only say that there was only a very small minority of Irish Members opposed to the Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/20/parliament-arrangement-of-public", "section": "parliament-arrangement-of-public", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "ecessity of dealing with the Irish Members in a fair spirit so far as this Bill was concerned. § MR. J. G. HUBBARD had heard with great regret that the Government intended to withdraw the Valuation Bill . He felt that announcement the more keenly, because at the commencement of the Session he introduced a Bill on the same subject, which he withdrew in deference to the Bill of the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/20/committee-progress-18th-july", "section": "committee-progress-18th-july", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "es might arise when certain laws existing in this country against Jesuits— THE CHAIRMAN said, the hon. Member was clearly travelling from the subject before the Committee. § MR. WHALLEY was sorry he had not been allowed to finish his sentence. He thought that the right hon. Gentleman would find, within his own Cabinet, everything that he (Mr. Whalley) understood by what was called Jesuitism. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/20/committee-progress-18th-july", "section": "committee-progress-18th-july", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "rnment recommended. The Church of England ought to rest in her pulpit. She ought not to descend to these poor little innocents and try to squeeze into their little brains the Athanasian Creed. There was no comparison between this country and Scotland on this question, because the national character of England was compromised, scandalized, and degraded by the conduct of her clergy—a set of Sepoys. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/20/committee-progress-18th-july", "section": "committee-progress-18th-july", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "esuitism. The clergy, sustained more or less for the purpose of promoting what we called the principles of loyalty and Protestantism, supported by an enormous revenue, established the voluntary schools he supposed to carry out their views. They were not to be relied upon to deal with our children behind the pulpit, for it was as much as we could do to manage them for their conduct in the pulpits. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/20/committee-progress-18th-july", "section": "committee-progress-18th-july", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "hools. If they adopted this clause they would hand over the powers of the school board to committees of corporations or committees of Guardians; but these would not have power to take over schools. It would therefore be a great misfortune to take away the boards. The right hon. Member who spoke last said there was great dissatisfaction throughout the country with the working of the school boards. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/26/further-proceeding-on-second-reading", "section": "further-proceeding-on-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " disposed of by the experience of the Civil Courts, in which no injurious consequences or practical inconvenience had been found to arise from the fact that interested parties were allowed to give evidence in their own cases. The present system left accused persons almost entirely at the mercy of the police, who frequently perjured themselves and conspired together in order to secure convictions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/26/second-reading-bill-withdrawn", "section": "second-reading-bill-withdrawn", "cue_text": "The hon. Member here explained the provisions of the Bill, and entered into some details as to the mode in which he wished the existing law to be amended, particularly as to the mode of assessment.", "preceding_text": "OPOLIS) ACT (1869) AMENDMENT BILL.— [BILL 74.] SECOND READING. BILL WITHDRAWN. HC Deb 26 July 1876 vol 230 cc1939-42 1939 § Order for Second Reading read. § MR. J. G. HUBBARD, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that he did not intend to press the measure upon the House, but that he desired simply to make a statement with a view to some legislation at a future time. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/27/committee-progress-25th-july", "section": "committee-progress-25th-july", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": " have.\" He referred to such things as those—labourers turned away from their employment because they were Methodists; shopkeepers having to close their shops because they were Methodists; farmers turned out of their farms and thrown on the world because they were Methodists; gentlemen in high position in commercial circles who were not placed on the magisterial bench because they were Methodists. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/27/committee-progress-25th-july", "section": "committee-progress-25th-july", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e. His right hon. Friend the Member for Greenwich (Mr. Gladstone) had once, with regard to the county of Huntingdon, given an instance of how magisterial appointments were dispensed, and in all probability there was not one man out of 20 among the magistrates of England and Wales who was not, excepting it might be in the West Riding, and in South Lancashire, connected with the Established Church. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/27/committee-progress-25th-july", "section": "committee-progress-25th-july", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d to offer these observations was one most unfavourable to his claim. He knew that Gentlemen opposite had never been accustomed to look upon Nonconformists and the Dissenting population but as persons who differed from them seriously in religion, and were mostly opposed to them in politics. He had never found them on their side advocating justice to the Dissenting population of England and Wales. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jul/27/committee-progress-25th-july", "section": "committee-progress-25th-july", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "et hours of the evening for calm discussion. He asked right hon. Gentlemen opposite to consider who they were, and whence they came. Nobody rejoiced more than he did at the last Election, when he saw the Conservative Party placed in power, because he saw that the right hon. Member for Greenwich was sacrificing his country upon the altar of expediency under the influences brought to bear upon him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jun/27/the-volunteer-review-in-hyde-park", "section": "the-volunteer-review-in-hyde-park", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": " on their way to those who may have asked for them. Besides this, there will be in closures for the friends of the Volunteers, and I propose to issue—what I hope will be considered a handsome amount—namely, 5,000 tickets. The rest of the in closure will be devoted to public bodies, and at the extreme end there will be a small space set apart on each side for the general public—a very small space. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/jun/29/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "l of his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Limerick, or of that other measure whose provisions had been sketched by the hon. Member for Mayo. He could see no possible justification for the merciless measure that had been proposed. No justification could be found in the present state of the country, for it must be well known that the savings banks were teeming with the millions of the people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/mar/20/committee-progress-16th-march", "section": "committee-progress-16th-march", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: There is the case of Spain and the Indies.", "preceding_text": "could be more appropriate for the Queen than Empress of India, because in that country there were yet a great many sovereign Princes, and Her Majesty was Suzerain over them. As to the Amendment, and its proposal to introduce the colonies into the Royal titles, he hoped the House would do nothing of the kind. They could find no instance in history of 285 any Sovereign taking a title from a colony. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/mar/20/committee-progress-16th-march", "section": "committee-progress-16th-march", "cue_text": "Several hon. Members: More, much more", "preceding_text": "k again; Tasmania and Western Australia were unsettled altogether, and the rest of their colonial 286 possessions were exceedingly small. It was not to be wondered at that they should have been passed over then; but the right hon. Gentleman had scarcely done justice to their present position. The Dominion of Canada alone now contained fully 4,000,000. Australia and New Zealand contained 1,500,000—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/02/address-for-returns", "section": "address-for-returns", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "n ex-Privy Councillor, on what authority he had made the statements which he (Mr. Lewis) 2029 had read. He could not suppose the object of the right hon. Gentleman was to degrade his Sovereign—they knew he had no objection to degrade the Conservative Party; but the right hon. Gentleman not only intended to insult the right hon. Gentleman at the head of the Government, but he insulted all of them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/02/address-for-returns", "section": "address-for-returns", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers .", "preceding_text": "overeign? Did he or did he not take that occasion to hold up to public prejudice, and I will say public infamy, the Chief Minister, asserting, under circumstances detailed by the right hon. Gentleman with minuteness, that after that Gracious Sovereign had been balked and baffled in her appeals to previous Ministers, she had found a pliant and a servile instrument who was now ready to do her will? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/02/address-for-returns", "section": "address-for-returns", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Conviction.\"", "preceding_text": "use he had not received any confidence whatever on this question. That being so, it at once lowered the level of his speech and statement from the character which the Prime Minister's observations had rather tended to give it. It reduced it from the level of a speech of an ex-Minister to the level of ordinary conversation or gossip. The right hon. Gentleman claimed no authority for his statement. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/12/public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "section": "public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " Mr. Justice Barry said, in County Waterford— The increase of intemperance was very much to be deplored. Mr. Justice O'Brien, in Roscommon, said— It was needless to comment on the ruinous consequences of the vice of intoxication. Mr. Baron Dowse, spoke strongly in Westmeath, Queen's County, and Kildare, saying, among other things— He was not a believer in men being made good by Act of Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/12/public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "section": "public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "cue_text": "MAJOR O'GORMAN: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "opinions had not been ascertained. He found, taking the City of Cork, that the total number of householders voting was16,000, but from the Census Returns it appeared that there were more than 20,000 separate families. He found that in Limerick 5,900 voted, and the Census Returns showed 14,000 families, whereas in Waterford there were 3,600 voters upon the subject, but it contained 6,200 families. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/12/public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "section": "public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ever given to any local assembly the right to decide whether public-houses should be totally closed; but if the House adopted this proposal because the Irish Members supported it, there was no reason why, on the same grounds, we should not be called upon to enact next Session that there should be Sunday closing of public-houses in Wales, or in an English county, or possibly in an English borough. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/12/public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "section": "public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: No, no!", "preceding_text": "e ought to be allowed on Sundays to enable the working classes to provide themselves with refreshments. Another instance in which he had to complain of the intemperance of the language indulged in by the advocates of Sunday closing, occurred in the case of a certain Dr. Lees, who spoke at a recent meeting in Dublin, and who for the last 10 years had been connected with the United Kingdom Alliance—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/12/public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "section": "public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: On a Sunday.", "preceding_text": "y of the young men, the bachelors. But in Ireland the young working man generally went out on the Sunday with the young woman whom he intended to make his wife, and was he to treat her to spirits? Was that the way to treat the future mother of his children? The hon. Member for Cork (Mr. Murphy) astonished him by saying that there were only four arrests for drunkenness during the day in that city. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/12/public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "section": "public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "nd Ireland had produced Petitions with only 3,357 signatures. He hoped his hon. Friends who sat on his side of the House would 564 believe that that was not only a serious question, but that it was a serious Party question. Would they believe him when he said that it involved this—whether the 30 Members who came as Conservative Members from Ireland should at the next Election dwindle clown to 10. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/12/public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "section": "public-houses-ireland-sunday-closing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "d Barebones Irishmen.\" 580 English Members have been asked not to take part in this division. If they do not, upon the same principle, they must not take part in the Home Rule debate, for the rule applies equally to the one as the other. I implore English Members not to leave without voting against this Resolution. If you carry this Resolution here to-night, you will have a revolution in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1876/may/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/may/26/the-official-referees", "section": "the-official-referees", "cue_text": "Mr. Herschell begged the hon. Member's pardon. He had not said it was usually the case.", "preceding_text": "on that had occurred in reference to this unfortunate appointment. MR. NEVILLE-GRENVILLE said, that the legal Gentlemen who had spoken placed the laymen in a most pitiable position. They had alleged that these four gentlemen, in general, were not fit for their post, and one in particular, but the hon. and learned Member for Durham (Mr. Herschell) had told the House that this was usually the case. "}