{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ADLAUGH). (Hansard, 27 April 1881) Search Help HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1880s → 1881 → April 1881 → 27 April 1881 → Commons Sitting PARLIAMENTARY OATH (MR. BRADLAUGH). HC Deb 27 April 1881 vol 260 cc1252-96 1252 § MR. BRADLAUGH (advancing to the Table) I am here, Sir, to take and subscribe the Oath required by Law on my return as duly elected Member for Northampton. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\" and cheers.", "preceding_text": "n the work of legislation. But, Sir, when the hon. Member asks me if I will give facilities for the introduction of a Bill for the purpose of dealing with this case, he places me under a very grave difficulty. It is quite true, Sir, that many Members from Ireland do not appear to have considered, from the course they took last night, that they were involving the House in embarrassments that might—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " up either of the two days which are alone at the disposal of the Government for the conduct of their Business and for the progress of the Irish Land Bill . I am sorry to say, therefore, that so far as I am concerned, I do not see any way of giving facilities for the Bill of my hon. Friend, if it is to be an opposed Bill. The question is really one which should be put to others rather than to me. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": " the conduct of their Business and for the progress of the Irish Land Bill . I am sorry to say, therefore, that so far as I am concerned, I do not see any way of giving facilities for the Bill of my hon. Friend, if it is to be an opposed Bill. The question is really one which should be put to others rather than to me. [\"Hear, hear!\" and \"No, no!\"] I mean whether the Bill is to be an opposed Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "or Northampton (Mr. Labouchere) to the First Minister of the Crown, and the right hon. Gentleman has answered that Question. The 1256 hon. Member is not now putting a Question to any Minister of the Crown, but he is entering into a matter of argument and debate; and he is, therefore, out of Order. MR. GLADSTONE Perhaps, Sir, I may be allowed to say that nothing could be further from my intention. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "absolve me from my duty of leaving no stone unturned for the purpose of prosecuting that Bill. § MR. RYLANDS I wish, Sir, to put a question to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North Devon, who is, I believe, in possession of the Bill introduced last Session by the hon. Member for Northampton, and which is simply to give Members the option of taking the Oath or of making a Declaration. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman the Member for North Devon, who is, I believe, in possession of the Bill introduced last Session by the hon. Member for Northampton, and which is simply to give Members the option of taking the Oath or of making a Declaration. [ Cries of \"Order!\"] I am anxious simply to explain the terms of a question which I am about to put to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "sect; MR. LABOUCHERE Sir, in order to put myself strictly within the Rules of the House, I will conclude with a Motion. The Bill which I have already put into the hands of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North Devon was introduced by me last year. I sought 1257 to introduce it this year, but I have been prevented from doing so. It is, in the simplest mode possible, to give every Gentleman—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman the Member for North Devon said last night that the proper course for Mr. Bradlaugh to take after the Resolution that had been passed was to wait outside until the House had legislated on the matter. I wish, therefore, to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, in the face of that statement, he would undertake not to place any impediment in the way of the Bill being discussed—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "olution that had been passed was to wait outside until the House had legislated on the matter. I wish, therefore, to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, in the face of that statement, he would undertake not to place any impediment in the way of the Bill being discussed—[ Cries of \"Order!\"]—and decide upon one way or other, provided that Her Majesty's Government gave facilities for its progress? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e Gentleman exercising authority over hon. Members at the other side of the House that, provided these facilities are given, an expectation may be entertained that the Bill will be discussed within a reasonable time, in order that a vote may be taken upon it. At the same time, I 1258 would call the attention of the House to the fact that a question of Privilege can be brought forward every night. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "at suggestion, it might be possible on the part of the Government to make a proposal to the House on the subject—yet, at the same time, not interfering with the limited duration of time which we can give the Land Law (Ireland) Bill —a proposal to test the feeling of the House upon the suggestion of the hon. Member for Northampton by the aid of one or more Morning Sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "pposite, in which he says that he and his Friends will be no parties to the profanation of an oath. I entirely concur with him that none of us ought to be parties to such a proceeding. But here we come to a point on which we part company. Our contention is, that by permitting Mr. Bradlaugh to take the Oath without our interference we do not in any sense make ourselves parties to that profanation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "al merits of Northampton and Birkenhead, as he was sure that the latter constituency was highly intelligent, when they sent so intelligent a Gentleman as the hon. Member for that borough. He regarded the discussion which had taken place as eminently satisfactory, because it had become apparent that there was a general opinion on both sides of the House that some sort of legislation was necessary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/apr/27/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " Motion ought not to be allowed to be withdrawn without some words of explanation from the Irish Catholic Members. The Prime Minister thought fit to blame them on the present occasion, and complained that they were aiding in a movement the object of which was to embarrass the Government; and he pointed out that the natural result of that policy would be to defer, if not to defeat, the Land Bill . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "''Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ntrol. He had referred to the Records of the House, and, as far as he could make out, there was not a Session for the last quarter of a century or more where Supply had been so hopelessly in arrear. There was only one occasion when the condition approximated to what it was now, and that was in 1870. He knew hon. Gentlemen excused the authorities by saying that the present Session was exceptional. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "thout an accusation. The Government had repeatedly refused to give any replies to Questions which Irish Members had put with respect to them. It was absolutely necessary for the fair fame of many honourable men in Ireland that Irish Members should not allow the Government to continue to libel those men. The Government had arrested the hon. Member for Tipperary; they had arrested a trusted priest. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "ssion the Orders of the Day should have precedence of Notices of Motion, and that Government Orders should have priority; and he had endeavoured to point out that if that Motion were acceded to Irish Members would practically be deprived of an opportunity of bringing the case of the imprisoned \"suspects\" before the House. He had desired to show that the character of these \"suspects\" was in danger—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "s in danger—[\"Order, order!\"]—that he might urge with additional force the right that Irish Members had to demand from the Government facilities for rescuing these men from the unworthy libel that had been cast upon them. He would not presume to continue his observations if the right hon. Gentleman in the Chair ruled that he was out of Order in saying that a good priest and a good Irishman—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " out of Order in saying that a good priest and a good Irishman—[ Cries of \"Order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER I have already ruled the hon. Member out of Order, and I am surprised that he should continue to make such observatious after my ruling. 390 § MR. PARNELL said, that Irish Members would appear to have lost sympathy for the \"suspects\" if they did not bring their case before the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\" and \"Name him!\"", "preceding_text": "\"Order!\"] The Ministry of the day, of course, always gained the sympathies of the powers that be in that House; but if they might not bring the cause of their imprisoned countrymen before the House, he would boldly say that all liberty and regard of private right was lost to that Assembly, and that the Minister of the day had transferred himself from a Constitutional Minister into a tyrant—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " and said: I will not wait for the farce of a division. I will leave you and your House, and the public will see that there is no longer freedom of discussion left to the Irish Members. MR. GLADSTONE Sir, I was about to move, when you rose from the Chair, that the words of the hon. Member be taken down. I must say I never in the course of my whole experience ever heard such words addressed to you—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " leave you and your House, and the public will see that there is no longer freedom of discussion left to the Irish Members. MR. GLADSTONE Sir, I was about to move, when you rose from the Chair, that the words of the hon. Member be taken down. I must say I never in the course of my whole experience ever heard such words addressed to you—[ Cries of \"Order!\"] § MR. HEALY I rise to Order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Question!\"", "preceding_text": "considerate autocracy of a \"loutish youth of 19,\" the Agent of the Ameer of Cabul. Sir, when I speak of this humiliating transaction, I cannot help recalling a similar episode, associated with others even more disgraceful, in the recent history of another portion of the British Empire. Sir Garnet Wolseley, also as Governor and General, assured the loyal Colonists and Natives of the Transvaal that—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "of invasion. India, I affirm, is the goal, the ultimate end, not only of all Russian progress in Central Asia, but of the military aspirations of the great bulk of the Russian Army. Now, Sir, this being the case, I should like 417 to ask hon. Members opposite if they have any idea what that Army is? Authorities of great weight say that in a few years it will number over 8,000,000 of fighting men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/01/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Mr. CAINE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " noise and tears, winding in the direction of the mountains. To the feet of our troopers the beautiful, swarthy Tekke women on their knees, threw themselves, holding forth in their hands sucking babes, and imploring in an unknown tongue to have mercy on them. All of them by command of the Chief of the Staff were turned back to the aoul. Affecting were these scenes; but war will always remain war. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1881/aug/01", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1881/aug/01/second-reading-first-night", "section": "second-reading-first-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "et the landlord or agent know that they had them, inasmuch as they had no hold of the land. 'Do you really think there was the slightest foundation for such a fear?'—' I do, most sincerely. The tenant's rent might he raised, or a fine required.' The next extract is from the Evidence taken by the Bessborough Commission, and is only a sample of what may be found in it from one end to the other. 246 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1881/aug/01", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1881/aug/01/second-reading-first-night", "section": "second-reading-first-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "e believe that this reference to the Court will be a great boon to all parties. My Lords, I know some think that this exceptional legislation ought, at least, to be confined to the smaller tenants in Ireland. I see that I myself have lately been quoted in support of that opinion. I suppose I did say, in the year 1870, that tenants of holdings valued at £100 ought to be able to protect themselves. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1881/aug/01", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1881/aug/01/second-reading-first-night", "section": "second-reading-first-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "trary to the spirit of the Land Act . It is proposed by the Bill that if within the next six months any such lease is brought before the Court, and if the Court shall find it to contain such inequitable terms, and to have been forced upon the tenant by threat of eviction, the Court shall be at liberty to declare such lease void. The transactions in question must be very strange to your Lordships. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/04/state-of-ireland-disturbance-at-new-boss", "section": "state-of-ireland-disturbance-at-new-boss", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "mendation of the magistrates. § MR. REDMOND said, that, in consequence of the reply which had just been given to his Question, and which was at variance with the details supplied to him from information the credibility of which he could not for a moment question, he thought it his duty to make two or three observations, and, in order to enable him to do that, he would conclude with a Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/04/observations-2", "section": "observations-2", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "jected to them. However, the Question was put, and the hon. Member for Galway (Mr. T. P. O'Connor) characterized it as \"mendacious.\" The Speaker called the hon. Member to Order, and the word was withdrawn. Almost immediately afterwards the hon. Member for Roscommon rose in his place, and there was this excuse for him, that he seemed to labour under the influence of passion that was not simulated. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/04/observations-2", "section": "observations-2", "cue_text": "Mr. JOHN BRIGHT: What I said was that I regretted he had not withdrawn them.", "preceding_text": "mber for Leitrim might as well say that the Government of Ireland were responsible for those murders, as to say that the Land League were responsible for them. With respect to the question under discussion, the right hon. Gentleman who had just spoken admitted the whole case when he said that his hon. Friend the Member for Roscommon had not had an opportunity of withdrawing the words he had used. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/04/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: It is a mistake.", "preceding_text": "ng number of adjutants in the Yeomanry unnecessary? In the Cavalry there were only 19 adjutants on duty all the year round; but in the Yeomanry there were no less than 39. By a better organization, also, something else besides the annual eight days' training might be found for the adjutants to do. They were only at work eight days, and during the rest of the year they were paid for doing nothing. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/19/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "r of fact, were never brought to trial. This was a most extraordinary state of things. Then, again, in the case of the murder of a policeman at Loughrea—he had no sympathy with the murderer, and he hoped that he would be convicted, and hanged by the neck until he was dead. He had no sympathy whatever with crime of this kind. The murder was a foul and blackguard murder, which no respectable person—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/19/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name him!\" from the Liberal Benches, answered by cries of \"Shame!\" from the Irish Members.", "preceding_text": "ance if he liked; but it would be his own affair. He maintained that upon this Vote, and owing to the action of Crown Solicitors, the question of trial by jury was brought up, and he was discussing it, and he should discuss it, and it would be for the Chairman, when he (Mr. Healy) was discussing the action of these men in his place in Parliament, to take his own steps upon his own responsibility. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/19/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "pers and magazines, under the name of Terence M'Grath, and disseminated a large number of lying calumnies on the Irish people. § MR. W. E. FORSTER I have not read this book; but I am told it is an interesting one. § MR. CALLAN said, that the right hon. Gentleman, instead of presenting a park or a library to Bradford, would be doing a much more useful act if he presented Mr. Blake to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/24/parliament-public-business-scotch", "section": "parliament-public-business-scotch", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\" and Order!\"", "preceding_text": "detrimental to the dignity of this high Office in the arrangements which have been made. The Lord Advocate will continue, I need not say, as he has always done, to take a principal part in the conduct of Scotch Business in the House of Commons. § GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOUR The Secretary of State has entirely failed to give us information as to the channel of communication on Scotch Business. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/24/education-department-the-hall-of-science", "section": "education-department-the-hall-of-science", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ed with the greatest propriety, that the Committee is highly respectable, and 822 the conditions on which the grants were made by the late Government have been fulfilled. § SIR HENRY TYLER said, that, in consequence of the right hon. Gentleman's reply, he should feel himself under the necessity of saying a few words on the subject; and to put himself in Order he would conclude with a Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/24/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Mr. WARTON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " inflicted on suitors by the great delay in getting their cases heard, he was sure they ought not to turn a deaf ear to this appeal. His proposal was to shorten the vacation by 14 days; and, as there were 22 Judges, it would practically add another Court sitting all the year round. He hoped the Government would not meet his Amendment with a non possumus. They had had very little reform this year. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/aug/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/aug/24/bill-134-second-reading", "section": "bill-134-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "eld. § MR. O'KELLY said, he should like to know the authority of the hon. and learned Gentleman for the statement? § THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON) said, that the report of the outrage appeared in the London papers a few weeks ago, and the connection of the hon. Member for Roscommon with the Press should teach him that published statements were generally accurate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/feb/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/feb/23/parliament-business-of-the-house-urgency", "section": "parliament-business-of-the-house-urgency", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "own out on this side of the House, nor by me, or any of my Friends. Therefore, I do not at all endorse the probability. But supposing there was a person in position arrested, it would be rather hard upon the Government to have to arrest somebody else who had committed no crime, and who was not suspected of having done so, in order that the gentleman arrested might have someone to keep him company."}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/15/petty-sessions-clerks-registry-office", "section": "petty-sessions-clerks-registry-office", "cue_text": "Mr. HEALY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ke up the time of the House by this Question. He also regretted the manner in which this Question was framed, and the way in which a very respectable man—Mr. Mackey—was alluded to. He had been informed that there was a dispute between a representative of a firm of solicitors and a gentleman who signed himself \"A Solicitor's Apprentice,\" named Mr. Maurice Healy, a near relation of the hon. Member. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/15/petty-sessions-clerks-registry-office", "section": "petty-sessions-clerks-registry-office", "cue_text": "Mr. HEALY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "retted the manner in which this Question was framed, and the way in which a very respectable man—Mr. Mackey—was alluded to. He had been informed that there was a dispute between a representative of a firm of solicitors and a gentleman who signed himself \"A Solicitor's Apprentice,\" named Mr. Maurice Healy, a near relation of the hon. Member. [Mr. HEALY: Hear, hear!] He believed he was his brother. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/15/court-and-land-commission", "section": "court-and-land-commission", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " was the kernel of the whole business. If it was unsatisfactory there would not be a single sale, nor transfer, nor a letting, which the local people would allow to take place, unless local opinion—that was, the opinion of the Land League—were satisfied. If these things were ratified by 100 Courts, unless they had the ratification of the Land League, the people would not allow them to take place. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/15/land-law-ireland-bill", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "s in their power to record their opinion by refusing to pass the clause. If the Committee took that course, Her Ma- 1069 jesty's Government would soon bring up a proper proposal. § MR. T. P. O'CONNOR said, he could not agree with the hon. and learned Member (Mr. Warton) that they were proceeding too fast. In fact, he was of opinion that for some days they had been proceeding much too slowly. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/15/land-law-ireland-bill", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " where exorbitant rent was exacted, knowing that public opinion was so strong and the process-server so obnoxious that no landlord, unless prepared to go to the bitter end, would care to serve writs on his tenants. This was owing to the influence of public opinion brought about by the Land League; but, in former days, when no such influence existed, despotism was only tempered by the blunderbuss. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/19/the-magistracy-ireland-mr-clifford-lloyd", "section": "the-magistracy-ireland-mr-clifford-lloyd", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ly and privately intimated to the right hon. Gentleman that they consider that the appointment of Mr. Clifford Lloyd to any Southern district would be that of a firebrand, and calculated to lead to a breach of the peace? § MR. W. E. FORSTER I have no information whatever from Mr. Whitworth, a gentleman not in this House. § MR. CALLAN Has the right hon. Gentleman received any intimation?—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/19/the-magistracy-ireland-mr-clifford-lloyd", "section": "the-magistracy-ireland-mr-clifford-lloyd", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d any intimation?—[ Loud cries of \"Order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member has put his Question and has received an answer. § MR. CALLAN Pardon me, Sir; not to the second part of the Question—namely, whether the right hon. Gentleman has received any information from the present Member for the borough of Drogheda. § MR. W. E. FORSTER I certainly have received no official information. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/19/criminal-law-inadequate-sentences", "section": "criminal-law-inadequate-sentences", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " doing so, he would be assuming an authority which the Constitution of the country had not given him. § MR. H. H. FOWLER asked if it was not usual to give to the House the Judge's explanation in cases of the kind? He should like also to know whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman would consent to give him, as an unopposed Return, copies of the depositions of the witnesses in this case? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/19/criminal-law-inadequate-sentences", "section": "criminal-law-inadequate-sentences", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "d Gentleman would consent to give him, as an unopposed Return, copies of the depositions of the witnesses in this case? [ Cries of \"Order!\"] That was a very serious matter, and he believed it was the first occasion in which the sentence of a Judge had been called in question on which the Secretary of State for the Home Department had not stated to the House the Judge's explanation of his reasons. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/19/protection-of-person-and-pro-perty", "section": "protection-of-person-and-pro-perty", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "opinion of the right hon. Gentleman, sufficient to warrant the arrest of Irishmen, but that Englishmen using it should be free from arrest? § MR. W. E. FORSTER , in reply, could only say that he had carefully looked, and was still looking, at this matter. The hon. Member must really leave the Government some discretion whether they considered that certain persons ought to be arrested or not. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/19/land-law-ireland-bill", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. GIBSON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "t; Amendment negatived. § MR. HEALY moved to leave out the words \"since the passing of 'The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870 .'\" He was very glad indeed that the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney General for Ireland had moved his Amendment, and he thought it would go a long way towards giving satisfaction in Ireland. But why they should have stopped at the Land Act of 1870—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/19/land-law-ireland-bill", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": "ct; THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. LAW) said, the Government believed the Court would manage its affairs like all other Courts, according to definite principles, and by the adoption of such rules of procedure as were best suited for the exercise of their powers. § SIR R. ASSHETON CROSS said, he should not press his Amendment, but should like to have it negatived rather than withdrawn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jul/19/land-law-ireland-bill", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "n of their Act of 1870. Where, then, was their justification for so slandering their own work of 1870? If they did not care to repeal that 12th section, why were they going to make it worthless? But they were doing still worse. They were going back, and giving powers to this Court—not a Law Court, but a partly lay Court, for he declined to recognize the accident of any member of it being a lawyer—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jun/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jun/09/class-i-public-works-and-buildings", "section": "class-i-public-works-and-buildings", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "VRE remarked that the building was already finished. MR. GORST said, that fact certainly did not appear before the Committee. The total expenditure for the year 1880 was left blank, and the sum voted for 1880–1 was put into italics; and, therefore, he presumed, without having the knowledge that a member of the Department possessed, that nothing had yet been done to give effect to the Vote. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jun/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jun/28/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Home Rule Cheers, and \"No, no !\"", "preceding_text": "g many weeks the liberty of speech was largely curtailed. Up to that time the Speaker had been the servant of the House. He had simply to give effect to Rules that the Legislature adopted. But by their scheme of \"Urgency\" they made the Speaker their master. He not only put the Rules in force, but he made Rules of his own, and applied them as he liked, in order to close discussion when he pleased. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jun/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jun/28/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "nifest to everyone who followed the proceedings of the House that the work had got too heavy for the machinery. It was necessary to recast it; but, until this was done, better progress might be made even with the old mechanism. If a little more consideration was shown by one Party for the other, the dead-locks that they sometimes experienced would not arise. Members talked too long and too often. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/jun/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/jun/28/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh !\"", "preceding_text": "rwarded those Bills and seen them passed. But if anybody would cast his recollection back to the history of the last six months, he would see that the Government could not be blamed for not bringing forward measures of secondary importance. And when the House considered how English and Scotch Business of the highest moment had been entirely put aside in order to bring forward great Irish measures—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/01/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_text": " Motion for its introduction is made too soon. The noble Lord the Member for Middlesex (Lord George Hamilton) I thought not very consistently with some of the language which he has used, or with the opinions of his Friends, was met with applause from some hon. Members below the Gangway on the opposite side, when he spoke of a Liberal being always more in favour of coercion than a Tory Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/01/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "t day, and disappears from the scene the third. There are others who have taken that course, and who remind me of no one so much as the gallant French sea captain whose exploits were sung in the Anti Jacobin. His name was, I think, Monsieur Bon Jean, and the lines ran— Bon Jean was a gallant captain, In battle much delighting, He fled full soon on the 1st of June, But bade the rest keep lighting. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/01/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " weeks, had been trampled upon. They were told they had failed, and the Home Secretary dilated on the feebleness of the opposition with which this Bill was likely to be met. Now, he would ask Irish Members to contrast the tone of the Home Secretary with that of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Gloucestershire (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach) when he introduced the Peace Preservation Bill of 1875. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/01/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "stablish his courage upon a better basis than his candour. The speech of the right hon. Gentleman bristled with results, and was crowded with misrepresentations. There was a kind of dramatic appropriateness in giving the duty of introducing the Bill to the right hon. Gentleman, who, he firmly believed, would find it impossible to make a civil speech upon the most ordinary and commonplace subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/01/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " Chief Secretary for Ireland; and next, the Home Secretary, who, in introducing the present Bill had borrowed some of the dramatic effects of his right hon. Colleague. The Chief Secretary introduced the Coercion Bill by citing two or three cases of shocking and exceptional atrocity, and induced everybody to believe that when the Blue Book was published every page would bristle with similar cases. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/01/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_text": "Gentleman was doing. He had not hesitated to attend numerous meetings of his English fellow-subjects and attempt to dissipate the vile calumnies which the right hon. Gentleman was spreading. He told the right hon. Gentleman that no man could commit a higher offence than to excite the people of England against the people of Ireland, or to excite the people of Ireland against the people of England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/11/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: To avoid a breach of the law.", "preceding_text": "ay week, as he had given Notice that it would not be taken next Monday. MR. GLADSTONE No, Sir; because, in our opinion, Parliament would wish not to throw over from the current year the inception, if I may so call it, of the plan, if Parliament should think fit to adopt it. If so, in order to bring it within the current year, it is absolutely necessary that we should have the Vote on Monday week. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/11/third-reading", "section": "third-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Monday!\"", "preceding_text": "uth, he added that nobody could imagine what a difficult question it was. That was the harvest 837 which Ireland had reaped from the most enlightened and God-granted Government this country had ever seen. That Bill was now passing away from them, and with it all that liberty-destroying machinery of urgency, clôtures, coups d'état, and Dictatorships, never, he hoped, to return again. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/11/third-reading", "section": "third-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\" and \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": ", who once personally and alone quelled a riot from the power he had acquired over the people through refusing to consent to coercive legislation. The Home Secretary had endeavoured to prove a complicity on the part of men of the Land League with other persons whose conduct he had held up to approbrium; but did not Napoleon III. bring home to the Liberal Party complicity in an assassination plot? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/11/third-reading", "section": "third-reading", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "Ireland, or the House of Commons. He who used to be plain Mr. Speaker had been turned into the august Cæsar of the House. That example would grow, and would be followed in after years. In order to make the motives and conduct of the Irish Members misunderstood, the English people had been told that they had stood in the way of beneficial measures, not only for Ireland, but 859 for England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/11/third-reading", "section": "third-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: Try!", "preceding_text": "th the Government, nor even of those who sat below the Gangway on the Ministerial side—would, so many of them, have been absent from the House? If, he said, there was an overpowering feeling among their constituents, why had those hon. Gentlemen not been in their places? He was sure that he could venture to appeal with confidence from hon. Members below the Gangway opposite to their constituents. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/11/third-reading", "section": "third-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "ut there was no doubt of the absolute necessity for such measures. The only question had been raised whether they ought not to have been brought in earlier. He was bound to say that it was very questionable if the Government would have been as successful in carrying such measures at an earlier period. There would have been a large number of their supporters who would have sharply criticized them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/11/third-reading", "section": "third-reading", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": ", they might rest assured that it would in its turn, having laid ground for a new agitation, again lead to coercive measures. The only way to benefit the Irish people was to tell them the truth, that so far from having been oppressed in the matter of land legislation by the Parliament of this country, they were, at the present moment, the most favoured tenantry in any part of the civilized world. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/24/parliament-business-of-the-house", "section": "parliament-business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "posals he had made to the House. He could only protest again, on behalf of the private Members, that it was necessary for them to look to their own interests. § SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT thought that the noble Lord was hardly just in saying that the Government endeavoured to take the time of the private Members, as that very evening they were giving the time of the Government to a private Member. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/24/parliament-business-of-the-house", "section": "parliament-business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Third.", "preceding_text": " of the House on his Motion. § EARL PERCY explained that he had argued that the hon. Member would not be able to elicit a vote of the House, but its opinion by means of a debate. § SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT observed, that that was usually done by taking a vote. At any rate, the position of the hon. Member would remain unaltered, and Ids Motion would still stand second on the Paper on Monday. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/24/parliament-business-of-the-house", "section": "parliament-business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "nwise to run any risk with regard to the renewing of that Act in good time; and 1831 he thought the plan of the right hon. Gentleman was the only way of avoiding confusion in the Business of the House. It was true that unusual demands had that Session been made on the time of private Members; but that was a circumstance over which the Government, however much they might regret it, had no control. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/mar/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/mar/24/afghanistan-the-withdrawal-of-british", "section": "afghanistan-the-withdrawal-of-british", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": "Russian influence from Afghanistan? You agree that it ought to be done, and we have a right to ask how you propose to do it.\" The only answer, as far as he could at present find, that had been given to this question was this—\"Withdraw your troops. Let Afghanistan entirely alone, and you will find that they will be just as ready to resist the Russians as they have ever been to resist the English.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/may/09/land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "cue_text": "\"No, no!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "did not exist, they had compensation for disturbance, recoverable in cases of capricious eviction under the disturbance clauses of the Land Act of 1870. In a word, they had a system of partnership, or quasi- partnership, in the land, and the tenant had an interest or property in his holding just as much as the landlord had. The tenant and the landlord were, in fact, joint proprietors of the soil. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/may/09/land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "at object was to alter the law at present in existence in all parts of Ireland not subject to the Ulster Custom, and to give every holder of land to whose tenancy the Bill applied the absolute right of free sale. He hoped hon. Members who had read the clause to which he was referring had endeavoured to understand it, though he must confess he had some doubts as to the success of any such attempt. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/may/09/land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "nly the most loyal and useful subjects of Her Majesty in that country? And were they, for the sake of doing this, to put a stop practically to the prosperity of Ireland? He hoped not, and he, for one, would certainly vote against the Bill unless those portions of it which related to alterations of the law of landlord and tenant were omitted. He would vote for it if those alterations were omitted. "}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/may/09/land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Go on!\"", "preceding_text": "on than this measure has had on the 111 part of the Government, as far as it was possible to give it. We have endeavoured I to make it worthy of the Government, and of the Parliament to which it was, offered, and we hope that it will do good to the people whose interests it is intended to advance and to secure. As to those people, if I had 10 minutes more, there is one thing I should like to say. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/may/09/land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "section": "land-law-ireland-bill-bill-135", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "all, but ninetenths.] That is nearly all. Do not let the House run away with the idea that all the improvements are, as a rule, done by the tenant. When we read the Report and the Evidence published by the Bessborough Commission, we find that on most of the large estates most of the improvements have been made by the landlords, and that some of them have practically received no rent for the land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1881/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1881/may/09/merchant-shipping-bill", "section": "merchant-shipping-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. MONK: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "r more time I was prepared at once to fall in with that expression of opinion. If my hon. Friend (Mr. T. E. Smith) will withdraw the Amendment, I will withdraw the Motion and postpone the Bill. With regard to the remarks of the right hon. Gentleman opposite, I may say that I had made inquiry at the Vote Office, and I was assured in the most positive terms that the Bill was delivered this morning. "}