{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/apr/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/apr/05/prisons-bill-bill-1", "section": "prisons-bill-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "oyal Commission to show that these prisoners were guilty of no moral crime, and that their offence was not of a degrading kind. The prisoners to whom he had referred were men of excellent moral character. THE CHAIRMAN ruled that the hon. Member was not in Order in referring to this question. § MR. PARNELL replied that the ruling of the Chairman had not been the same up to the present moment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/apr/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/apr/05/prisons-bill-bill-1", "section": "prisons-bill-bill-1", "cue_text": "\" Order, order !\"", "preceding_text": "ot pertaining to the particular clause before the Committee, to which I have already called his attention as being out of Order. § MR. PARNELL said, the prisoners who had been hitherto convicted of the offences alluded to had been confined in convict prisons, and, therefore, he was bound to draw his illustrations from convict prisons. Although he thought the Chairman's ruling thoroughly wrong"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/apr/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/apr/05/supply-civil-service-estimates", "section": "supply-civil-service-estimates", "cue_text": "\" Order, order !\"", "preceding_text": "to Order. § MR. M'CARTHY DOWNING said, ho regretted that the obstruction had been thrown in the way of the Bill. He was not aware that a single Irish Member was opposed to the measure; and, on the contrary, he thought the Government were entitled to thanks for introducing a measure which gave an instalment of Home Rule. § MR. BIGGAR said, the hon. Gentleman could not have read the Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/apr/16/marine-mutiny-bill", "section": "marine-mutiny-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "rt the word \"fourteen.\" —( Mr. Parnell. ) § Question put, \"That the word 'seven' stand part of the Clause.\" § The Committee divided: —Ayes 96; Noes 47: Majority 49.—(Div. List, No. 74.) MR. SULLIVAN moved to insert after Clause 30— Provided always, That the lashes aforesaid shall not be administered by any instrument save one approved and duly stamped by the Lords of the Admiralty. 1231 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/apr/16/marine-mutiny-bill", "section": "marine-mutiny-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " by at the time. He should like to see specimens of both sorts brought into the House to show hon. Members what they were like. There was a great difference in the severity of the punishment inflicted by the two, and he had seen gentlemen of the press in Dublin who had come away from witnessing the worst form of punishment with their faces bespattered with the blood and torn flesh of the victims. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/aug/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/aug/10/observations-question", "section": "observations-question", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " the Member for Bradford, that the Government would observe a strict neutrality simply. The Prime Minister stated that the observance of a strict neutrality on our part was dependent on the observance of certain conditions on the part of Russia. § MR. WHALLEY said, that in the Crimean War this country had been made the tool of France—France being the mere instrument and sword of the Vatican. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/aug/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/aug/10/observations-question", "section": "observations-question", "cue_text": "'' Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "s on the part of Russia. § MR. WHALLEY said, that in the Crimean War this country had been made the tool of France—France being the mere instrument and sword of the Vatican. [ Laughter. ] He believed that 769 Lord Russell would be disposed to say that it was by the inscrutable influence of the Vatican, which they were unable to detect and control, that this country was dragged into that war. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/aug/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/aug/10/observations-question", "section": "observations-question", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "o that war. ['' Oh, oh!\"] He (Mr. Whalley) might be all wrong; but surely hon. Gentlemen might give their attention when such grave issues were at stake. All Europe concurred in the views which he expressed, and France was now in convulsions on the question whether that influence was to obtain a predominant power. He could not understand why these expressions of his were always met with laughter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/aug/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/aug/10/observations-question", "section": "observations-question", "cue_text": "\" No,\" laughter, and cheers.", "preceding_text": "n whether that influence was to obtain a predominant power. He could not understand why these expressions of his were always met with laughter. [ Laughter. ] He begged to say that the laughter stimulated Mm in his effort to fix the attention of the House on the subject. He was speaking on an authority as high as a man could speak—namely, those engaged in the contest. Of course, he might be wrong. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/aug/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/aug/10/observations-question", "section": "observations-question", "cue_text": "Sir WILLIAM EDMONSTONE: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": " deliberate insult, intended to provoke Russia into acts of antagonism and hostility. [\"No, no!\"] Of course, what he said was a matter of no further consequence; but he must further say that the Emperor of Russia had thought not fit to reply in the same insulting and arrogant terms, because he had not 770 only his own sense of the rectitude of his intentions, but knew that he had Europe with him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/feb/22/question-observations", "section": "question-observations", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "neral desire of the House to continue the adjourned debate, hon. Gentlemen who have Notices on the Paper may be probably willing to defer to the general wish of the House and not move their Amendments; but if these Amendments are moved, I shall be bound to put them in order to the House, and the general rules of debate will be followed. § MR. MITCHELL HENRY I wish to make a few observations. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/feb/22/question-observations", "section": "question-observations", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Which of them!\"", "preceding_text": "otion, therefore, could not be brought forward with any chance of success. At the same time, we are, it is admitted, in a most critical position, and it is surely eminently desirable that we should not now repeat the history of the Crimean War and drift into difficulties which full and open discussion in this House would prevent. I therefore beg to ask respectfully the Leaders of the Opposition — "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/feb/22/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" and a voice \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "n one case at any rate, that a very small proportion of the magistrates assembled in quarter sessions had really had time to consider or understand the Bill, whilst hon. Members who are anxious to support the Government in their new policy, posted down to the various quarter sessions, 846 and claimed the votes of many justices rather as a matter of Party allegiance than on the merits of the Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/feb/22/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Mr. ASSHETON CROSS: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ls could only be erected by the authority of Parliament. Gaols were always created by statute. But statutes could abolish thorn without interfering with the common law. Equally so far as the Justices were concerned they had no power by law over the gaols. [Mr. ASSHETON CROSS: By common law, I said.] I accept the right hon. Gentleman's correction. \"Justices by common law had no power over a gaol.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/feb/22/administration-of-prisons", "section": "administration-of-prisons", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "stem had already driven the matmakers to a state of destitution. So it had the brush-makers. [\"No, no.\"] Prison labour had done that. What trade was the right hon. Gentleman going to attack next? Was it the brewers? If he was going to attack them, he could assure him that they would make his tenure of office not worth a year's purchase. None knew that better than the right hon. Gentleman himself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/jul/28/sheriff-courts-scotland-bill", "section": "sheriff-courts-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. ANDERSON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "idence they could have as to that professional Conservatism which had proved too strong for the Lord Advocate and for the Government. The people wanted that extension of jurisdiction without limitation. The Commission of 1870, composed of the highest legal functionaries both in Scotland and England, reported that the extension of jurisdiction in regard to heritable rights should be without limit. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/jun/05/question-observations", "section": "question-observations", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "an Government for the purpose of obtaining an assurance that the navigation of the Suez Canal shall not be interfered with by Russian cruisers,\" said: If the House will permit me by way of explanation, I will state my reasons for giving Notice of this Question, and, if necessary, I will conclude with a Motion. The reason why I put this Notice is because at this moment Egypt is at war with Russia. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/jun/05/question-observations", "section": "question-observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "isolated position in Europe, and simply putting forward British interests in the face of the interests of the whole of Europe, are doing that in this case, or whether there have been any previous communications with other Governments which are undoubtedly concerned, equally concerned with ourselves, in this matter? We, I hope, are determined at all events that the arrogance of British pretensions—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/jun/05/question-observations", "section": "question-observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "oubtedly concerned, equally concerned with ourselves, in this matter? We, I hope, are determined at all events that the arrogance of British pretensions—[\"Oh!\"]—with regard to the Suez Canal, to the Mediterranean, and to other matters in relation to the Eastern Question, shall not be put forward in such a way as to call upon us the general protest, and, perhaps, the forcible resistance of Europe. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/jun/26/part-i", "section": "part-i", "cue_text": "Sir PATRICK O'BRIEN rose to Order, fie had not spoken of corruption.", "preceding_text": "ouched for the present as proposed by the Bill. MR. SULLIVAN said, the hon. Baronet (Sir Patrick O'Brien) appeared to lay it down that whether they wanted the Judges or not they had better keep them, because it brought the money there. That was a corrupting influence, and the hon. Baronet belonged to an antediluvian school of Irish politics if he thought now-a-days they could carry on corruption. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/jun/26/part-i", "section": "part-i", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": " as ornaments, it were better to strike them off altogether. If the Master of the Rolls, whose appointment had just been the occasion of an hour's use, not to say waste of time, if the appointment of the Master of the Rolls was not a real one, and if there was another Judge appointed to do the work of the ex-officio Judge, it would have been better not to have lost an hour in the last discussion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/jun/26/illegitimate-intestates-estates-scotland", "section": "illegitimate-intestates-estates-scotland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "led it to his only friend, his mother, who died a few days before him, and there being no one to take the property, the legitimate son and the children of the legitimate daughter claimed it as being next of kin. The Treasury refused to accede to that claim. What would have been the effect of their conceding it? It would have been a reward to them 291 because their father had begotten the bastard. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/jun/26/illegitimate-intestates-estates-scotland", "section": "illegitimate-intestates-estates-scotland", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "e of law, and do an act of justice, rather than allow the Government to retain possession of money to which they were not entitled. He considered that the fact of the deceased not having made a will showed that he believed his property would go, according to custom, to his sister and her children. He did not believe there was any will in existence. He sincerely hoped from the essence of his heart—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/mar/01/prisons-bill-bill-1", "section": "prisons-bill-bill-1", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " discuss the point. § MR. PEASE thought the difficulty with regard to the insertion of the Amendment in this Bill might be met by placing all criminals, including those in the convict prisons under long sentences under the surveillance of the local magistracy. § SIR ANDREW LUSK was strongly in favour of inspection. We did not know where we were going; but we knew where we had come from. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/mar/01/prisons-bill-bill-1", "section": "prisons-bill-bill-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "endment. § MR. HARDCASTLE said, that under the clause it was possible for the Secretary of State to order that the visiting justices should not report to quarter sessions but to himself. MR. ASSHETON CROSS said, he could not possibly prevent the visiting justices telling their brethren at quarter sessions what they saw inside the gaols. No doubt they would have their chatter about the gaols. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/mar/01/supplemental-provisions", "section": "supplemental-provisions", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "into a cold cell, supplied with a board for his bed and another for his chair, and was obliged to wash and scrub his cell. § MR. WHALLEY said, that if the debate were adjourned he would prove that the Secretary of State had refused to relax the rule in the case of a very notable prisoner. He was prepared to show that in that case measures were taken to prevent that man preparing his defence. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/mar/01/supplemental-provisions", "section": "supplemental-provisions", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " that the Secretary of State had refused to relax the rule in the case of a very notable prisoner. He was prepared to show that in that case measures were taken to prevent that man preparing his defence. [ Cries of \"Name.\" ] The person he referred to was one of the witnesses in the Tichborne trial, and he charged the Judge who tried that man with partiality in a corrupt administration of justice. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/mar/08/bill-63-second-reading", "section": "bill-63-second-reading", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "most unsatisfactory portion of the Bill. It first of all gives an appeal to the assessment committee, which I say is quite right and proper; but then, if any one is not satisfied with this, he is to appeal to the petty sessions. But who are they who compose the petty sessions? Why, they are in reality the assessment committee, with all the practical knowledge of the assessment committee left out. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/mar/19/supply-navy-estimates-1", "section": "supply-navy-estimates-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh! oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e rather unreasonable in endeavouring to take that Vote after the discussion on the last Motion, which, so far as he could understand, simply seemed to have been introduced to take up the time of the House. He hoped the Government did not propose to detain the Committee to divide upon the Motion, he (Mr. Parnell) was about to move. It was no intention of his to obstruct the Business of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "f such a character that the Government may accept them; and yet these are the very Resolutions on which he asks you to condemn us. He has withdrawn the others. Does he mean to call attention to those Resolutions which he is not going to press? Is he going to press an indictment on which he is not going to take a decision? Is he going to press those Resolutions which he thinks so milk-and-watery? —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "est if, after all, this matter were not to be discussed. § SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT said, what the right hon. Gentleman had suggested was precisely the offer which had been made to him the other night. The offer made to the Government was that the hon. Baronet the Member for Maidstone (Sir John Lubbock) would withdraw his Motion if the Government would propose a Vote of Confidence in themselves. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "Laughter, and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "rther declarations and further steps on the part of the Government were still valid, and it was still a matter of duty incumbent upon me to bring the question before the House. In consequence I considered with myself in what mode I could best submit these matters to the consideration of the House. My object is not, and never has been, to obtain or ask for a Party advantage against the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "Loud cheers .", "preceding_text": "would be obtained if it were possible to induce the Government to accede to them. The right hon. Gentleman now represents them as of no value or importance whatever; but if they are as he says, and if they do not contain mischief and poison—why will not the right hon. Gentleman opposite concur with this side of the House in obtaining the united declaration of the House of Commons on this subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "of late, Turkey has acquired a passion for a National Debt, for large standing armies, for iron-clad fleets, and for improved arms; and the result has been that a great increase of revenue was necessary, It has been raised in a disproportionate degree from the Christian Slav Provinces, and it is this endeavour to obtain an enormous revenue which has been one of the greatest curses of the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: The Cephalonian Report, I think, has been laid on the Table.", "preceding_text": " one of our soldiers was wounded. A score of the people were shot, and many scores were flogged, and the punishment of flogging is one viewed by the Greek population, as I have often been assured, with a horror even greater than capital punishment. Will you lay that Report on the Table? What is the meaning of producing charges against other countries when you are not prepared to produce your own? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "o not themselves understand, and are not conscious of, so strange does it appear to me. But never have I imputed to them motives inconsistent with their perfect honour. Yet what says the hon. and learned Gentleman. He goes to his constituents, and to them he announces that I have entered into a warfare against the Government, animated by a vindictive malignity founded on my exclusion from office. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "Cheers .", "preceding_text": "tay their hands? If you compare dates you will find that there was very little time between the two to stay their hands in. The right hon. Gentleman says that he had confidence in Lord Salisbury and the proposals he made at the Conference. Now, if there has been one thing against which Englishmen ought to protest it is when an attempt is made to separate one Member of the Cabinet from the others. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ay— La Russie, en renonçant à la pretention do couvrir d'un protectorat officiel les sujets Chrétiens du Sultan du rit Oriental, renonce également par voie de conséquence naturelle, à faire récrire aucun des Articles de ses Traités antérieurs, et notamment du Traité de Koutchouk-Kainardji, dont l'interpretation erronée,\"—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head. If that is not it, what is it? I can tell you what it is. It is as clear as daylight. What he means is this—\"If you will only say you will go to war if they don't do these things, although you don't mean to go to war; if you will only bark loud enough, though you don't mean to bite, Turkey will give way.\" Well, I call that conduct utterly unworthy of us. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "section": "postponement-of-orders-of-the-day", "cue_text": "Cries of \"To-morrow.\"", "preceding_text": " localize, to minimize, or to wipe away the effects of this war, there the Government will give their services. Motion made, and Question proposed, \"That the Debate be now adjourned.\"—( Mr. Childers. ) § THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER apprehended there could be no two opinions on the point that it would be necessary to adjourn the debate. The only question was as to the day for resuming it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": "he cheers were redoubled; when he spoke of the action of Russia being the real obstacle to peace, and used the usual stock Party arguments to which we had been so accustomed during the last three months, nothing could be louder than the cheers he called forth from hon. Members opposite. But when the right hon. Gentleman went further, and announced his utter detestation of the Bulgarian outrages — "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " utter detestation of the Bulgarian outrages — [ Ministerial cheers. ] Yes, hon. Members opposite cheered now. When he said that he abhorred from the bottom of his heart what had occurred in Turkey not a single cheer came from the opposite side. When he said that the whole responsibility for the present state of things rested upon the Sultan, hon. Members opposite had listened to him with dismay. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Name.", "preceding_text": "overnment. Could Her Majesty's Government be embarrassed by the House formally declaring what Her Majesty's Government themselves had declared over and over again? But the real fact was that the country had been told repeatedly, not by Her Majesty's Government, but by those outside, who were said to be friends of Her Majesty's Government, that it was a despatch which did not do justice to Turkey. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Mr. GLADSTONE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "in such a momentous crisis of the world's affairs, there is to be a dual Government—not as the right hon. Gentleman most recklessly asserts within the Cabinet—but whether he himself, shrinking from proposing a Vote of Censure, without responsibility, is to wield the foreign policy of this country; or whether it is to be still entrusted to the full responsibility of Her Majesty's present Advisers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "oks, Italy is by no means to join us in war against Turkey, Germany refuses point blank, France assures us she has no notion to take part in the crusade, and Austria repeats as emphatically the same tale. The country, then, would be put in this very serious position, that we were to go to war—at the bidding of the right hon. Gentleman—against Turkey in concert with Russia, and with no other ally. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " call that which stands still? A mere blind clinging to phrases which had lost their meaning. The ancient philosopher made the discovery that the only thing he knew was that he knew nothing, and if we were to turn to the speeches delivered by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite during the Recess we should find one burden in them all—\"The only thing we can decide is that we can decide nothing.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Cheers and counter cheers.", "preceding_text": "se. In these circumstances, what is this House to do? Is it to maintain the feeling that it has hitherto held, of great respect and confidence in the opinion of that right hon. Gentleman? Is it to be said that a man who has lived his life in politics, who upon so great an occasion puts forth such important Resolutions as these, should upon a sudden find that he had made a most lamentable mistake? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": " been adopted without any change of aim, and the views of the other Powers began to be pleaded with a view of securing that the amount of good done to the oppressed should be as small as possible. The right hon. Gentleman said he did not impute motives. What was that but to say Her Majesty's Ministers were determined that the smallest amount of good should be accomplished for those subject-races? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1877/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1877/may/08/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Bluntschli.", "preceding_text": "ty of Kainardji, and said he could read it in Russian and Turkish, and he (the Attorney General) supposed in Greek and in Arabic. He read them a little bit in Italian, and stopping at a comma, he said the Treaty gave them the right of interference. In addition to that he cited the statement of a historian of Turkey and the opinion of a jurist whose name he (the Attorney General) did not remember. "}