{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/apr/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/apr/04/east-india-duties-on-cotton-goods", "section": "east-india-duties-on-cotton-goods", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "know that if they were to compete with England they must do it independent of import-duties and on perfect free trade and equality the better. What was the result of the competition now? India found it sufficiently hard work to compete with Lancashire even with 5 per cent import duty. What was the effect? The screw was put upon the poor operatives of India in a way that was utterly discreditable. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/03/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "little time ago by the hon. Member, and withdrawn by him at the suggestion of various hon. Gentlemen; and what was to be said on the point was said then. The point now before the Committee was the same, only in somewhat different language, as was previously raised. In the course of the discussion, the Chairman had more than once pointed out to the hon. Member that lie was travelling rather beyond—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/03/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "each other; and the Committee would desire to know, before it proceeded with this Dill, which of them had spoken the truth? He had no hesitation in saying that if the statement of the hon. Member for Dundalk was true, all the exertions that they could make against this clause would be made, until they were assured that a humane cat, and not a cat which was an instrument of torture, would be used. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/03/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "\"Order, order ! \"", "preceding_text": " he would ask the hon. Member who had moved to report Progress to persist in his Motion, and to go to a Division repeatedly, unless they had an assurance that the First Lord would have the common decency to produce these cats. If the right hon. 1361 Gentleman challenged the veracity of any hon. Member of that House, he was, in common decency, bound to produce them. It would be a dishonourable act "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/03/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "Mr. CALLAN rose, but was met by cries of \" Orders!\"", "preceding_text": " pattern, at the Admiralty, of the Navy cat. He might assure the hon. Member for Dundalk that there was a sealed pattern of the cat for the Navy kept at the Admiralty. § MR. CALLAN remarked, that he had seen a cat at the Admiralty; but it was not a sealed one. § MR. W. H SMITH did not impute to the hon. Member any want of veracity; but he was sure that he was under some misapprehension. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/03/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "\" Order, order \"", "preceding_text": "horized by the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Macdonald) to say—that this continued opposition to any further progress of the Dill would cease only with the production of the cats; that on Saturday the very same demand would be made, and the Bill would not be allowed to move an inch until the cats were produced. He was satisfied that, if necessary, 500,000 Londoners would be assembled in Hyde Park—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "Mr. BIGGAR: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "utely necessary for the maintenance of discipline? It must be remembered that there were a great many prisoners in these prisons with very few persons to control them. If they did not keep up discipline, they might just as well not send a man to prison at all. A good deal of stress had been laid on the cats they had seen in the Oriel Chamber. He was exceedingly sorry these cats were placed there. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_text": "words of the hon. Member for Birmingham (Mr. Chamberlain), if they remained uncontradicted, would, in his (Mr. Denison's) opinion, give rise to future trouble and misunderstanding. He had stated, with respect to what had fallen from the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Secretary of State for War, that he had understood that the Government were about to abolish corporal punishment in the Army. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "\" Order, order!\"!", "preceding_text": " affected by the Bill. § Amendment agreed to; words inserted accordingly. 1597 § MR. PARNELL observed, that the question at issue was as to the pattern of the cat. The right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department had declared that a pattern was adopted by Earl Grey, as Chairman of the Royal Commission, because the one previously in use was not sufficiently severe. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/military-prisons", "section": "military-prisons", "cue_text": "Mr. ASSHETON CROSS: Hear hear !", "preceding_text": "oner.\" No provision in that Act had been more advantageous, or had proved itself to be more necessary, than 1599 the power so given of holding inquests on persons who died in prison. Since the introduction of the clause, several prisoners had died in gaol, and they had had fearless and independent verdicts returned by the coroners' juries from which the greatest possible benefit had been derived. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "Sir WILLIAM EDMONSTONE: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "eration; although, as the matter related to India, it was one on which many hon. Members were ignorant. There were, however, certain matters in Clause 145 in which ho (Mr. Parnell) took considerable interest, and if the right hon. Gentleman would go as far as that clause he would then be willing to report Progress. They had already sat up to the time at which, ordinarily, the House would adjourn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No, we cannot, and if we could we should not.", "preceding_text": "d to the hon. Member for Meath (Mr. Parnell) that they should go on until they reached some substantial Amendment. One or two important Amendments, he understood, were likely to be accepted by the Government. § LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE also hoped they might be allowed to go on. § MR. PARNELL understood that it was not possible for them to adjourn for an hour, and then resume the Sitting. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "e but to press his Motion to a Division. § Question put. § The Committee divided :—Ayes 5; Noes 76: Majority 71.—(Div. List, No. 147.) § Question again proposed, to leave out \" Sub-section 3.\" § MR. R. POWER hoped that the Government would not keep them there all night. The Committee ought to remember that the greatest obstruction to this Bill had come from the Treasury Bench. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh! \" and No, no! \"", "preceding_text": "at they should proceed to the end of that Part. MR. SULLIVAN remarked, that this debate was beginning to take a turn that he did not like. An intimation had been plainly made across the floor of the House that an organization was in existence to provide the Government with a sufficient amount of physical force to snatch the Bill through. It was clear that there was this organization in existence. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh! \"", "preceding_text": " attempted to turn the whole question into a personal matter; yet the effect of that discussion was that the Government had now made fresh announcements, and had actually gone so far as to give great hopes that the flogging clauses would be entirely withdrawn. He asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to act up to his word as an English Gentleman, and to keep the pledge which he gave to the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "\" Order, order! \"", "preceding_text": "tated in his place publicly in the House that relays of Members had been organized to enable the Government to force the Bill through at that Sitting. § MR. PULESTON rose to Order. The hon. Member was misquoting the observation he (Mr. Puleston) had made. He denied that he had stated that the Government had organized relays of Members to enable them to force the Bill through at that Sitting. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: He has not.", "preceding_text": "hon. Member should be called upon to withdraw the words he had used reflecting upon the Chair. § MR. PARNELL said, that the hon. Member had withdrawn the expression. He must protest against these attempts, on the part of the hon. and gallant Member for East Aberdeenshire (Sir Alexander Gordon), to exercise terrorism over hon. Members. The hon. Member, he must repeat, had withdrawn the words. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Disclaimed.", "preceding_text": "ards any Member of the Committee, and, therefore, he should withdraw it. § MR. PARNELL said, certainly he would withdraw the word; only the word he had used was \" terrorism, ' and not \" terrorize. He wished, however, to point out to the hon. and gallant Baronet the Member for East Aberdeenshire (Sir Alexander Gordon) that the hon. Member for Cavan County (Mr. Biggar) had distinctly withdrawn—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "\"Order, order! \"", "preceding_text": "eing best able to do so. He (the Chairman) had certainly not understood the hon. Member for Cavan County to withdraw the expression. He, therefore, thought it would be proper for him to state that he did so now. § MR. BIGGAR said, it appeared to him that the Committee were proving rather clearly that the time had arrived 1648 when Progress should be reported. Several Members of the Committee—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "Cheers and counter-cheers", "preceding_text": " that England, Scotland, and Ireland would want to know why the House of Commons was to be prevented from continuing the legislation of the country. The absence of the Leaders of the Opposition had been referred to; but he begged to state that there were a sufficient number of Liberal Members present, who were prepared to support a Conservative Government in carrying on the Business of that House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "Cries of \" No, no! \" and interruption.", "preceding_text": "e. Thus they had seen the Chairman, sitting calmly and judicially in the Chair, and allowing, without the smallest sign of objection on his part, language to be used, which, when he was called upon to decide, in the case of the Leader referred to, he was forced to admit was un-Parliamentary and should have been withdrawn. There was a feeling amongst his Friends that fair play was not administered—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "f or for any other Member of this House, to discharge the duties imposed upon them by the House, if such a direct attack can be made upon the fairness of his conduct, without being noticed and dealt with by the Committee or by the House. § MR. CALLAN Excuse my interrupting you, Sir. On Thursday night, we had an example of the disadvantage of interrupting a Member in the middle of a sentence. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "\"No, no!\" \"Order, order\"", "preceding_text": " by the House. § MR. CALLAN Excuse my interrupting you, Sir. On Thursday night, we had an example of the disadvantage of interrupting a Member in the middle of a sentence. [\"Order, order!\"] THE CHAIRMAN I must point out to the hon. Member for Dundalk that my attention has been particularly directed to the observation which he has used, charging me, in direct terms, with not giving fair play. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/court-of-requests-in-india", "section": "court-of-requests-in-india", "cue_text": "Loud and continued interruption.", "preceding_text": " of the Exchequer did not hear him. He admits that he did not hear, and yet he calls upon the hon. Member to disclaim doing that which he has never done. What were the words of the hon. Member for Dundalk, when he was interrupted in the middle of his sentence? His words were these—\" that fair play was not administered.\" When he had got as far as that, he was interrupted at once by the hon. Member—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "section": "legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "cue_text": "Cries of \" Order! \" and \" Withdraw! \"", "preceding_text": " the Government to resort to physical force, without giving Notice of their intention, must materially injure the progress of Public Business. The Government was attempting to bring pressure to bear on the Committee, and for that purpose they had evidently taken into their confidence a number of hon. Members of their own Party, and, perhaps, some of the more subservient Members of the Opposition. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "section": "legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw, withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": "se to Order. The hon. Member for Dungarvan (Mr. O'Donnell) has used 1667 words to the effect that certain Members of this Committee are more subservient than others, and you have ruled that those words are out of Order. I ask you, whether he has withdrawn those words, or whether he has not? THE CHAIRMAN I understood the hon. Member to withdraw them. § MR. O'DONNELL I substituted other words. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "section": "legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh! \"", "preceding_text": "ds taken down. MR. SULLIVAN said, he thought it was very undesirable that his hon. Friend the Member for Meath (Mr. Parnell) should be in any way manœuvred into a discussion on his Amendment, after he had, at the outset, stated that he was unable to enter upon it. It was an extremely clever strategical move on the part of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Secretary of State for War. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "section": "legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "cue_text": "\" Order, order! \"", "preceding_text": "opinion that it was to the interest neither of hon. Members opposite, nor of the Committee, nor of the country, that they should be detained night after night on plainly fanciful Amendments. It was all very well to say that they were very important Amendments. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Louth (Mr. Sullivan) came down quietly and placidly, and pretending to be very good-humoured—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "section": "legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "cue_text": "Mr. PARNELL: Oh! but it is an unfinished 1675 sentence.", "preceding_text": "embers opposite, nor of the Committee, nor of the country, that they should be detained night after night on plainly fanciful Amendments. It was all very well to say that they were very important Amendments. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Louth (Mr. Sullivan) came down quietly and placidly, and pretending to be very good-humoured—[\" Order, order! \"] § MR. CALLAN rose to Order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "section": "legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "cue_text": "\" Oh \" and laughter", "preceding_text": "he expression in that sense. If the Amendment of the hon. Member for Meath (Mr. Parnell) were so important, then the hon. Member, seeing the position he occupied in the House, ought to have put it on the Paper. If he considered it important, then—and he was not now speaking of the Government, but of the House—he said he should not have omitted it from the Paper. He did not wish to lecture anybody—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "section": "legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh \" and \" Order! \"", "preceding_text": "berate intention to obstruct the Business of the House. That was the charge—that was the offence charged against hon. Members of that House; and he rose for the purpose of moving that those words be taken down, when the right hon. Gentleman interposed; and if he was precluded by the Forms of the House from moving that, it was because the Chairman would not protect him when he first rose to Order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/05/legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "section": "legal-penalties-in-matters-respecting", "cue_text": "\" Order!\"", "preceding_text": "r. [\" Oh, oh \" and \" Order! \"] § MR. PARNELL said, he would appeal to his hon. Friend (Mr. Callan) not to press his Motion to take down the words of an hon. and gallant Member, which were certainly very absurd. The hon. and gallant Baronet occasionally gave them a little curtain-lecture, and perhaps one who was so much their senior was not always conscious of his actions at such a late hour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/17/afghanistan-war-correspondents-questions", "section": "afghanistan-war-correspondents-questions", "cue_text": "\" Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "words of the despatch correctly, that he had appointed as a correspondent of that paper an officer on full pay on his own staff. He further announced that an officer had been appointed from the Candahar column to correspond for a London daily newspaper, and also that he had entertained proposals from the correspondent of this newspaper that a captain of Engineers should be appointed in his place. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/17/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Saturday week.", "preceding_text": "ars among those who opposed that Amendment. [The Marquess of HARTINGTGN: What is the date?] That was on the 19th of June. THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON I stated frankly that I re-considered my position on this Bill exactly at the same moment as the right hon. and gallant Gentleman was re-considering his. § COLONEL STANLEY I do not know how far the noble Lord can fix the dates by that reference. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/17/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "\" Order, order! \"", "preceding_text": "as made by the hon. Member for Sheffield (Mr. Mundella), who said that only one or two soldiers had been shot in the German Army during the campaigns against Austria and France. Now, that, I cannot help thinking, is one of those wanton assertions which we occasionally hear made in this House. § MR. MUNDELLA That assertion is confirmed by a letter which appears in the newspapers this morning. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/17/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Wandering.", "preceding_text": "oble Lord. I do so on the ground of humanity, for the sake of the inhabitants of those countries in which our soldiers may hereafter unfortunately be engaged; I do so for the sake of our soldiers, and for the sake of the military honour of this great country. § MR. MUNDELLA said, the noble Lord who had just spoken characterized a statement which he made the other night as a wanton statement. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/17/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ool said that as our troops went to barbarous countries it was necessary for the maintenance of discipline to retain the power of inflicting corporal punishment on our soldiers. Were there no prisons in South Africa? Were there no prisons in India? What did it come to? That flogging was to be maintained for the sake of Afghanistan and Zululand. Was there ever such a hypocritical pretence as that? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/17/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "een legally convicted by a court martial of an offence the punishment of which is death. You know perfectly well the serious nature of the offence you have committed. I am very sorry for your case. If I had the power of remitting the sentence, your offence should be punished with flogging; but Her Majesty's Government and the Opposition would not agree, and I have no choice but to have you shot.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/17/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "experience on the question which would entitle their views to peculiar weight. Arguments they had never condescended to address to the House. The hon. and learned Member for Stockport had said he objected to flogging because it was brutal and beastly; and the hon. Member for Birmingham was scarcely less happy, for he described it as barbarous, disgraceful, and degrading to those who were flogged. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/17/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "\" Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "my,\" to insert the words \"in such manner as to show cowardice.\"—( Colonel Stanley. ) § Question proposed, \"That those words be there inserted.\" 720 § MR. PARNELL that he had an Amendment to move on Clause 3. § MR. SPEAKER I must point out to the hon. Member that I have already put a Question on Clause 4. § MR. PARNELL It was quite impossible to hear you, Sir, put the Question. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/28/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Three would be better than two.", "preceding_text": "not to be judged from the consideration of the conduct of one man, or that many statements had been made as to the action of the Judges in which he could not agree; but the very fact that charges were so repeatedly made against them in that House ought, in his opinion, to be quite sufficient to impress on the Government the expediency of having two Judges to try Election Petitions instead of one. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/jul/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/jul/28/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: But at 3 o'clock in the morning.", "preceding_text": "ogress, and ask leave to sit again.\"—( Mr. Parnell .) § MR. J. LOWTHER observed, that the hon. Gentleman had recently been occupied with another matter, which, although, connected with the representation of the people, had necessitated his absence from his place upon a recent occasion; and he, therefore, was apparently not aware that this Vote had been under discussion for more than an hour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/mar/13/nomination-of-select-committee", "section": "nomination-of-select-committee", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: No, no.", "preceding_text": " difficult, if not impossible. § MR. J. G. TALBOT was desirous of saying a few words before the discussion closed. Objection was taken to the nomination upon the Committee of the hon. and gallant Member for Truro (Sir James M'Garel-Hogg). The Chairman of Ways and Means had, however, pointed out that this was not an ordinary Private Bill, but that it partook of the nature of a public measure. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/mar/13/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " conciliate all, and make those Colleges beneficial to the whole population of Ireland. It did not appear that they had done so; but most certainly the system had succeeded admirably in the country with which he had the honour to be connected. It might be said—\"Well, but Scotland is a Presbyterian country, all the Professors must be Presbyterians, and therefore they teach Presbyterian doctrines.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/mar/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/mar/13/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "ed their examination they got their degree of MA. He would put it to anyone why an honest man appointed to be a Professor should interfere with the religious opinion of young men in teaching any of those branches? The gentlemen who were appointed Professors made the single declaration that they should not teach anything contrary to the Westminster Confession. That negative test was the only test. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/mar/17/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "Audit Department; but now they had been given over to the Audit Office, they had this great danger—that 1045 with regard to the Controlling Departments, which ought to bring to light the shortcomings of other Departments, there was no person to bring to light its shortcomings. He said that was a great evil; and he hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer was listening to him, and would attend to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/mar/17/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no; 1098 a majority!\"", "preceding_text": "g at war with that country. Then the hon. Member went on to state, and to repeat more than once, his firm conviction that if an Irish regiment of Guards were employed against Russia, the whole of the Irish people—[Mr. BIGGAR: No, no!] He had heard the hon. Member's words distinctly; and if his ears did not completely mislead him, he expressed it to be his belief that the whole Irish nation—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/mar/17/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " this charge, and it was one which ought not to be made at this stage of Army organization. § MAJOR O'BEIRNE said, the way in which officers' pay was entered in the Estimates was a deception to the public. An officer was put down as receiving 7 s. or 11 s., or more, a-day; but the public were not aware that these were subject to deductions for band and for mess, which was really most unfair. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/mar/20/bill-78-second-reading", "section": "bill-78-second-reading", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "k upon. If they would take three Judges in Ireland, he should have the most perfect confidence in their judgment. He should like to point out that there were other parties 1401 in this matter besides the Members themselves who required some consideration. In the case of the Galway Petition, the Judge sentenced the Archbishop of Tuam to what he (Mr. Callan) might term seven years' penal servitude. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/mar/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/mar/21/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "y the costs of the taxation also. I told him that the first loss was the best, and to yield to the demand, however exhorbitant, unjust, and even wicked. This is an example of what goes on—under the sanction of the law. It causes the greatest dissatisfaction in the public mind; it disgusts people with the general administration of justice, when, even in the attempt to get justice, they are robbed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/question-4", "section": "question-4", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " place the House in an unfair position to consider such a question; and he appealed to his hon. Friend as to whether he did not think that, in consequence of the course he had adopted in the present instance, the House would not approach the discussion of this question with advantage? What were the facts of the case? Six weeks ago, the hon. Member put a Question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": " expressing confidence in Sir Bartle Frere has been an important factor in stirring up popular feeling. An unofficial—he would not say private—letter had been used to stir up an agitation in contravention of the censure which had been sent out by one of the responsible Ministers. He thought he had stated sufficient to prove his case. He admitted that the case had been one very difficult of proof. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "itution been committed? He was afraid that, in perfect innocence, a great many had been committed from time to time. He saw before him at that moment a noble Lord who was very busily engaged in what was an undoubted breach of the Constitution. They would all be sorry if anything serious should happen to that noble Lord; but, without knowing it, he was exposing himself to the very gravest censure. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "rone, the author said— Here, then (under William III.), commences the age when the influence of the Court rapidly declined, when Ministers were virtually appointed by the Parliament instead of the Sovereign, and when, by the institution of the Cabinet, the scheme and policy of the Administration devolved upon a Parliamentary Committee, and the King was, in fact, excluded from his own Council. 261 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cheera.", "preceding_text": "this country from the government of 'the great families.' The King put himself at the head of the nation, and, encouraged by the example of a popular Monarch in George III., and a democratic Minister in Mr. Pitt, the nation elevated to power the Tory or National Party of England, under whose comprehensive and consistent, vigorous and strictly democratic system, this island has become—\"—[ P. 173.] "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " Prerogative when the Minister had a majority at his back? He might neglect and override all these checks. He came to the discussion of this question from no motive of Party; and, therefore, he had no hesitation in referring to the instance of a Prime Minister who, having a majority, had used the Prerogative to bring about a great change, overriding the authority of the other House of Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Chair, Chair!\" \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "e to address the Chair, the first who catches the eye of the Speaker is called upon; and as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Greenwich caught my eye first, I call upon him to proceed. MR. GLADSTONE rose to speak. § LORD ROBERT MONTAGU I rise, Sir, to Order. You told me, Sir, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was about to address the House after the Mover and Seconder had concluded. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\" Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman the Member for Greenwich caught my eye first, I call upon him to proceed. MR. GLADSTONE rose to speak. § LORD ROBERT MONTAGU I rise, Sir, to Order. You told me, Sir, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was about to address the House after the Mover and Seconder had concluded. [\"Chair, Chair!\" \"Order, order!\"] I am going to ask a Question as to Order. I arranged with you, Sir—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "ellor of the Exchequer did not rise when the Seconder of the Motion sat down; but the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Greenwich leaned across the Table and said to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, \"Will you rise?\" and the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, \"No; do you;\" and then the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Greenwich rose, and was called upon to speak; and I think it is quite unfair—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Sir CHARLES W. DILKE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " of place on the present occasion. I have heard the interesting historical disquisition of the hon. Member for Liskeard (Mr. Courtney); and I am sorry that that obliges me, parenthetically, to refer to his assault upon myself. In order to attain his paramount purpose of proving his own superiority to Party considerations, he has found it necessary to refer to what occurred in the last Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Order!\" and \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "ect; Notice taken, that 40 Members were not present; House counted, and 40 Members being found present, § LORD ROBEET MONTAGU , who, on rising to proceed, was received with cries of \"Divide, divide!\" said, if the hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets and the hon. Baronet the Member for Wexford would behave themselves properly and keep themselves decently quiet, he would not continue much longer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " entire people; but to say there was no cause for the apprehension referred to in the Motion was to impugn the common sense of a large portion of this nation. Such a belief in itself justified the course taken by his hon. Friend; when- 292 ever they were widely entertained, they ought to find expression in that House. He knew it would be argued that what had been done was innocent or unimportant. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "rn and Midland Counties, there was a widespread feeling of jealousy with regard to the manner in which the Crown was influenced. In consequence of the course which this debate had taken, it fell upon a few shoulders to maintain the proposition which had been put forward, and he hoped the House would permit him to add some observations to those which already had been made in support of the Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/13/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": "e. Do not lot the Government, 303 now that the people were beginning to pay some of the penalties of that policy, shelter themselves behind \"Court influence and personal government.\" The people who were responsible for this policy were the people of England themselves. If the Government had not been supported by the people, the policy which had been carried out could never have been persisted in. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/27/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": "wayo, who was in this House held up to their admiration? While listening to a speech lately made in \"another place,\" he happened to find himself standing by the side of a member of the Austrian Embassy, and said to him—\"Why, they talk of this Zulu King, who is, practically, a gorilla, armed with guns and assegais, instead of fighting with his tail and claws, as if he were the Emperor of Austria.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/27/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "outh Africa. All the parts marked red were British territory, while a little yellow patch, not more than one-twentieth of the whole, was not British. Now, looking to the course of the world and of history, looking to what went on in America and the rest of the globe, did they believe it was physically possible that, sooner or later—lie did not say now—the country so situated would not be annexed? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1879/may/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1879/may/27/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Opposition side below the Gangway.", "preceding_text": "ger dangerous to our Colonists.' Well, the Marshal proceeded by making roads, and establishing fortified posts as he went on. He hoped that as far as these fortified posts were concerned, the hands of Sir Garnet Wolseley would not be tied, and that it would be open to him to take such military steps as might 1374 be necessary to secure the safety of the Colonists. He had no more to say than this. "}