{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "section": "the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "possession of letters from all persons concerned—from the Lord Lieutenant, the Under Secretary, and the Inspector General of the Police, which make me quite satisfied that the affair is being dealt with in a manner which authorizes me to say that the authorities are worthy to command a Force of this kind. § MR. CALLAN I received last night from the \"R. I. C,\" that is, the R.I.C. of Cork City—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "section": "the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": ", the Under Secretary, and the Inspector General of the Police, which make me quite satisfied that the affair is being dealt with in a manner which authorizes me to say that the authorities are worthy to command a Force of this kind. § MR. CALLAN I received last night from the \"R. I. C,\" that is, the R.I.C. of Cork City—[\"Order, order!\"] To put myself in Order, I will conclude with a Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "section": "the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": " is extending, and has extended; and whether it is true or false, I know not, but the main cause alleged is the arbitrary conduct of these extraordinary Resident Magistrates, who order them about throughout the country, for which they receive no compensation or extra pay of any kind. I see the Secretary of State for the Home Department is suggesting some matter to the Chief Secretary for Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "section": "the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "e for the Home Department is suggesting some matter to the Chief Secretary for Ireland. [\"Order, order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member, I am bound to say, is quite out of Order in the observation he has now made. In the Orders of the Day there is a Bill relating to the pay of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and it is out of Order to anticipate the discussion of it. § MR. CALLAN I do not. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "section": "the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "Order, order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member, I am bound to say, is quite out of Order in the observation he has now made. In the Orders of the Day there is a Bill relating to the pay of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and it is out of Order to anticipate the discussion of it. § MR. CALLAN I do not. [\"Order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member cannot proceed. § MR. CALLAN You order—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "section": "the-royal-irish-constabulary-alleged", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "it is out of Order to anticipate the discussion of it. § MR. CALLAN I do not. [\"Order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member cannot proceed. § MR. CALLAN You order—[\"Order, order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER I have already warned the hon. Member that he cannot proceed with the matter. § MR. CALLAN I do not intend to proceed; I only wish to refer to the arbitrary conduct of the magistrates —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/orservations", "section": "orservations", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "he crofters well, he thought himself entitled to do so; and he would say this—that he did not rise for the purpose of making an appeal to the Prime Minister to forego an inquiry as regards the condition of the Highland crofter; but he thought it was a great misfortune that this subject should be brought before the House by those who really knew nothing whatever of the subject on which they spoke. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/orservations", "section": "orservations", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name!\"", "preceding_text": " which an account was given of the Celtic people of Scotland. He felt quite sure that hon. Members who had addressed the House had a kindly feeling towards the population, and that they would shrink from placing people in the same condition as they had been in as described in that book. He (Mr. Ramsay) had in his possession the ancient Charter for one of the most valuable Islands in the Hebrides. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/class-ii-salaries-and-expenses-of-civil", "section": "class-ii-salaries-and-expenses-of-civil", "cue_text": "Mr. WARTON: Order, order!", "preceding_text": "nt Board had no desire to run counter to the wishes of the people. He (Mr. Healy) denied that in toto. What did they do in the case of Dr. Kenny? Because Dr. Kenny was arrested as a \"suspect,\" and because he was acting as treasurer of the Land League, they instantly dismissed him from an important Government office he held. They all knew that when a row 815 was made about the matter in that House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/class-ii-salaries-and-expenses-of-civil", "section": "class-ii-salaries-and-expenses-of-civil", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "er Fortescue), now Lord Carlingford. The right hon. Gentleman said—\"This is a very unfortunate thing, and I would rather you would drop it.\" He (Mr. Callan) said— \"It is a matter I will not drop.\" The Chief Secretary for Ireland said—\" Do you know anybody you could put in his place?\" And he (Mr. Callan) immediately telegraphed to a gentleman in Dundalk, who voted for him at the previous election. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/04/class-ii-salaries-and-expenses-of-civil", "section": "class-ii-salaries-and-expenses-of-civil", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "or him at the previous election. [\"Oh!\"] Oh, he never forgot these things. He telegraphed to the young man to know if he would accept £200 a-year, and the next day he had an answer by telegraph, saying he would be most happy to do so. He nominated his friend for the post, on the express condition that he was not to bring the matter before the House. His friend had held the appointment ever since. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/11/consideration-of-lords-amendments-to", "section": "consideration-of-lords-amendments-to", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " which elapsed between the receipt of the Lords Amendments and their consideration by this House. They were complicated Amendments, and, of course, had to be printed, and he says it was a waste of time, because the whole thing had been agreed upon between the Government and the Leaders of the Opposition. I never heard a more rash, a more absurd, nor a more groundless statement made in this House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/aug/11/committee-1", "section": "committee-1", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "; SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (who, on rising, was met with cries of \"Oh, oh!\") said, that hon. Members who said \"Oh, 1604 oh!\" might leave the House. He certainly had not the smallest intention of letting this Bill pass without a reasonable discussion. It was a Bill of enormous importance. He might say that it was as important as all the other Bills that had passed the House since this Parliament began. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": "The case was very different in regard to the police of every city and municipal borough in England and Scotland. That state of affairs was owing to the Government under which the country was ruled. He complained that on the occasion of the street disturbances in Dublin the police were called out without the Executive having consulted the municipal authorities. He never felt so humbled in his life—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\" from the Irish Members.", "preceding_text": " at the beginning of an era of prosperity; and if the Government could do something for the leaseholders—pass a Bill to provide the labourers with decent homes, and legislate liberally with regard to the tenants' arrears—contentment would be restored to the country. § MR. P. J. SMYTH said, that if it were convenient that that debate should close, he should be happy to withdraw the Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "in his choice of his own mode of industry, dared to take a farm which had become vacant. Mr. Parnell goes on to say— This has been our principle from the very commencement. Without such a policy we could not have succeeded in this movement at all. [Mr. LEAMY: He did not say that.] I give the passage as it is reported in The Freeman's Journal, and I have already said what, in my opinion, it meant. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "cue_text": "Cheers from the Home Rule Members.", "preceding_text": "ing a newspaper in the House? § MR. SPEAKER The right hon. Gentleman is perfectly in Order. 294 § MR. W. E. FORSTER I do not wonder at the hon. Member not wishing me to read it. The hon. Member is not one of the registered shareholders. Mr. Healy said— The tenants of Ireland will not pay rent. They will be evicted; but no man will dare to take the land from which they have been ejected. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "cue_text": "Mr. BIGGAR: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "lusion to that form of outrage which was the most powerful and the most prevalent at that time, as we were warned it would be. At the Tyrone Election Mr. Parnell went down to try and secure the return of one of the candidates—the Rev. Harold Rylett. At Omagh Mr. Rylett 295 said frankly that the Land League proposed that no man should take another man's land; if he did so he was to be \"Boycotted.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "cue_text": "Cheers from the Irish Members.", "preceding_text": "ld and influence they had but one weapon—that weapon the substitute of the old pike that did much good service in '98—and that was the all-powerful weapon of the Land League, the power of 'Boycotting'—the power of crushing by social ban, as by a Nasmyth steam hammer of 1,000 tons, every traitor to his country. Use that weapon with discretion, use it wisely; but, when needed, use it without mercy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/a-public-apology", "section": "a-public-apology", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "—that the hon. Member for Cork City and the hon. Member for Sligo, and most of the other Members, took great care in their mode of expression. It was a long time before we found out their true meaning. It was driven home to us. Being upon our honour, we were obliged to refrain from arresting any man against whom we did not feel there was reasonable suspicion of intimidation or incitement thereto. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/a-public-apology", "section": "a-public-apology", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" from the Irish Members.", "preceding_text": "t in some quarters 303 was called the \"sham prosecution,\" we prosecuted the leaders. I will not say whether the late Government had or had not ground for the course they took. For the little my support was worth they had it; but it did excite my surprise that the leaders were not included in the prosecution. [Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL: Michael Davitt was included.] He was not a leader at that time. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/a-public-apology", "section": "a-public-apology", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "arry out this idea of theirs. At the same meeting the hon. Member for Sligo made a speech, and he said— To-night will be marked for over as a memorable and glorious night in the history of Dublin and of Ireland. To night Ireland has broken loose from the Lion and the Unicorn, and has arrayed itself in all the irresistible majesty of the people under the sacred banner of the Shamrock and the Harp. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/a-public-apology", "section": "a-public-apology", "cue_text": "Cheers from Irish Members.", "preceding_text": "obably, not the intention of the hon. Member for Sligo to follow the example of Tone and Fitzgerald; but the people must have thought he would. [Mr. SEXTON: I did not name them.] You did not name them; but the people must have imagined you had them in your mind. Then Mr. Parnell went on— We are warned by the history of the past that we must fight these people within the lines of the Constitution. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/a-public-apology", "section": "a-public-apology", "cue_text": "Mr. BIGGAR: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "bright political future that was behind it. For his part, he would never consider his work ended until a foreign flag left their country or lay under it. This foreign flag was the Union Jack. Mr. O'Kelly continued— The Land League would win the land for the people, and, as their fathers ended at Clontarf, by putting the foreign flag into the sea. Were those words that we could allow to be spoken? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/a-public-apology", "section": "a-public-apology", "cue_text": "A laugh", "preceding_text": "any spy who is informing the police about the Land League Organization. (By Order of the Committee in Council.) This notice was circulated in the country. Will hon. Gentlemen opposite get up in their places and deny it? § MR. METGE I most distinctly deny it. § MR. T. D. SULLIVAN I deny it. I never heard of it before. MR. W. E. FOESTER Here is another proclamation, signed by Patrick Ford—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/a-public-apology", "section": "a-public-apology", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: He was in Athens.", "preceding_text": "hese outrages have happened in consequence of the incitement and advice of, and at the instigation of, the Land League, to the effect that men should be visited with penalties because they paid rent. There was no attempt [on the part of the organization to prevent these outrages, and when these things were happening 311 there was no stepping forward of the hon. Member for Longford to disown them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/09/motion-for-leave-5", "section": "motion-for-leave-5", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_text": "refore, the House would not lose much if they decided to reject the Bill altogether. He had risen to take part in the discussion in consequence of the remarks which had been made by the hon. Member for Mid Lincoln (Mr. Chaplin) in regard to the conduct of the Government and of the Chief Secretary. He (Mr. R. N. Fowler) was as much opposed to the conduct of the Government as any man in that House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/15/the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "section": "the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "cue_text": "Mr. GLADSTONE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "n Lord Granville twice gave Mr. Errington a letter recommending him in that capacity to the Holy See. The hon. Member seemed a kind of Reuter recommended to the Papal See. It was not denied by the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister that a letter was written. If a letter were written, by what right did the Secretary of State write a letter which was not placed on record at the Foreign Office? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/15/the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "section": "the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ur breach of faith, thrice conquered, thrice pillaged, and thrice oppressed since you evacuated the stronghold of Candahar. Is this \"a magnificent success?\" A revolt has just broken out in Herat, the Western capital of Afghanistan, and the outer gate of India. The discontents in Herat and Candahar are, or will be, without the slightest doubt, Russia's opportunity. Is this \"a magnificent success?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/15/the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "section": "the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Read!\"", "preceding_text": "ubstantially right in saying that England had always maintained that she would permit no interference either in the internal or the external affairs of Afghanistan. The Russian semi-official journal used strong language with reference to the speech of my hon. Friend opposite, which provoked the speech of my noble Friend, and used language so strong that I should hesitate to quote it to the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/15/the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "section": "the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Read, read!\"", "preceding_text": "er in the internal or the external affairs of Afghanistan. The Russian semi-official journal used strong language with reference to the speech of my hon. Friend opposite, which provoked the speech of my noble Friend, and used language so strong that I should hesitate to quote it to the House. [ Cries of \"Read!\"] I hesitate to use the language, because it is quite un-Parliamentary language. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/15/the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "section": "the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "cue_text": "Mr. BIGGAR: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "ress, when put upon Radical legs, had an effect somewhat similar to hobbles upon horses. He was sure it had some effect upon those people, though he would not make the charge which others made. On this question he was speaking, not as an Irishman, but as a Scotchman, and as a spectator of events. As such, he had no doubt the right hon. Gentleman the Chief Secretary had acted with good intentions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/15/the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "section": "the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "cue_text": "Mr. BIGGAR: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "er, he might look at it differently, he was bringing matters to a rather dangerous crisis; and it was to be hoped that before the present debate ended the right hon. Gentleman would see his way to giving an explanation of his words, if the view he (Mr. Macartney) had taken of them was inaccurate. He wished to refer to a declaration made by the Chief Secretary, for whom he had the deepest respect. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/15/the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "section": "the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "House on a memorable occasion, in the course of a memorable speech. There was, therefore, no reciprocity in this instance, for the Representative of the Queen had not \"Boycotted\" the Lord Mayor of Dublin, though the Lord Mayor of Dublin seemed to have \"Boycotted\" the Representative of the Queen. He was afraid that he should not be able to conclude his observations in the short time that was left. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/15/the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "section": "the-address-in-answer-to-the-queens", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: You will have an opportunity.", "preceding_text": " to have \"Boycotted\" the Representative of the Queen. He was afraid that he should not be able to conclude his observations in the short time that was left. [\"Oh, oh.\"] Hon. Gentlemen who cried \"Oh, oh!\" should recollect that, besides all the other speeches on the other side, one speech delivered on the previous night had 761 occupied three hours, and that no time was left to him to reply. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name!\"", "preceding_text": "and till it himself What has brought about this condition of things? Intelligent organization. This was the Constitutional agitation and intelligent organization of the Land League! § MR. R. POWER Whose speech is the right hon. and learned Gentleman reading from? § THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON) replied, that he was the principal organizer 801 of the League. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Read!\"", "preceding_text": "eague of Iowa significantly telegraphs—\"One step backward and no more money.\" All of which provoked laughter and applause. Money was all that was wanted. What did it matter if the country was wrecked and the people left to perish, if wholesale ruin was spread from one end of the country to the other, provided only these Land League agitators could get money? He would pass over the 1st resolution. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Irish Members.", "preceding_text": "gitators could get money? He would pass over the 1st resolution. [ Cries of \"Read!\"] Well, it ran thus— That this National Convention, assembled by the will of the people of Ireland, and acting in their name, declares that the political and social evils which afflict and impoverish our country are to he found in the detestable system of alien rule so injurious and oppressive to our people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\" and \"Shame!\"", "preceding_text": "on that occasion given over to riot and to the plunder of property, for which Mr. Chancellor, silversmith, he thought, had to be compensated. § MR. SEXTON That was more than three weeks after Mr. Parnell's entry. It was after we had all been arrested. § THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON) Three weeks after! Well, but it was 805 at the instance of the Land League. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Home Rule Members.", "preceding_text": "ependence;\" and Mr. Parnell replied accordingly— A spirit that is shown in every quarter and corner of Ireland. That spirit, fellow-countrymen, will never die till it carries the alien rule which has kept our countrymen impoverished and in chains, and sweeps that detested rule, with its buckshot and bayonets, clean over the Channel, whence it came, never to return. What was that but rank treason? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Home Rule Members.", "preceding_text": " will never die till it carries the alien rule which has kept our countrymen impoverished and in chains, and sweeps that detested rule, with its buckshot and bayonets, clean over the Channel, whence it came, never to return. What was that but rank treason? [\"Hear, hear!\" from the Home Rule Members. ] Then hon. Members below the Gangway opposite admitted that such language was rank treason? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "sted rule, with its buckshot and bayonets, clean over the Channel, whence it came, never to return. What was that but rank treason? [\"Hear, hear!\" from the Home Rule Members. ] Then hon. Members below the Gangway opposite admitted that such language was rank treason? [\"Hear, hear!\" from the Home Rule Members. ] 806 Then he was not going too far when he put that construction upon it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "nd the Coroner's jury brought a verdict of wilful murder against the head constable. A third case was at Belmullet, which he should consider very gravely. But whether it was a Crown official who was concerned through over-zeal in the maintenance of order, or whether it was an ordinary subject, he would not shrink from the performance of his duty, when he was satisfied that it was his duty to act. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "So also Lord Rosse had a tenant whose holding was valued at £27, and his tenant on going into the Land Court was served with a notice demanding an increase of rent from £27 to £40. Mr. Parnell, had, in fact, done nothing more than a great many of the landlord class had also done, and why was he to be punished for that? The fact was, that the Liberals were in an entirely false position in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Mr. GLADSTONE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " the same time the bulk of the population, is a different matter. He did not think his observations laid him open to the criticisms of a Prime Minister. The right hon. Gentleman said— I appeal for support and backing in our arduous undertaking. This is the answer we have to Mr. Lowther. The proposition which is here made is one with which we are entirely at issue. I absolutely protest against it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Mr. GLADSTONE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "in our arduous undertaking. This is the answer we have to Mr. Lowther. The proposition which is here made is one with which we are entirely at issue. I absolutely protest against it. [Mr. GLADSTONE: Hear, hear!] I believe a greater calumny on the Irish nation—I do not say it was a wilful calumny—I believe a more gross or unjust statement could not possibly be made against the Irish nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "y were, and that no ideas should be allowed to go forth that the question of the integrity of the British Empire was to be dependent on local opinion in any one portion of that Empire. If the people of Kent or Cornwall objected to connection with the rest of the Empire, while he would respect their opinions they would have no influence on him; and he said exactly the same with respect to Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\" \"Never!\" \"Quote!\" and \"Withdraw!\" from the Irish Members.", "preceding_text": "eague, still utilized its outrages for the purpose of coercing Parliament into passing this revolutionary measure which otherwise Parliament would not have entertained. The First Lord of the Treasury on one occasion went out of his way to eulogize the hon. Member for Tipperary (Mr. Dillon), a Gentleman who had made himself rather celebrated by publicly endorsing the practice of mutilating cattle. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Cheers from the Irish Members.", "preceding_text": "he Govern- 861 ment in the performance of a duty elementary and common to all Governments, replied by saying that, in his opinion, it could not be too widely known that the person against whom we were acting received the support of the large majority of the people of Ireland, and that Mr. Parnell, who had just then been incarcerated, was the chosen Representative of the great bulk of that nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: The Common Law.", "preceding_text": "ch, from beginning to end; and I will make no terms with it, or entertain it in any way; and the true answer to this charge is not merely that we did not do it, but that we could not do it. If it is said that we tolerated the Land League, the meaning of that is that we allowed its operations to go on when we had the power to stop them by means of the Act for the Protection of Person and Property. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Mr. R. N. FOWLER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "st, exercise all the powers of the law, such as they were, for the purpose of vindicating it against such declarations. I think it was the noble Lord the Member for Middlesex who stated that we had made capital of the political prescience of Lord Beaconsfield, apparently referring to the letter of Lord Beaconsfield to the Duke of Marlborough, at the time of the Dissolution of the last Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: The same thing.", "preceding_text": "unately, there is not a word about it in the letter. The hon. Member has, indeed, a marvellous memory; he remembers not only that which has happened, but that which has not happened, for the letter, in emphatic terms, only warns us against a great scheme for the disintegration of the Empire. Of the social agitation with which, since then, we have had exclusively to deal, it does not say one word. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/feb/16/bill-45-second-reading", "section": "bill-45-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "uch questions required. He confessed that he felt altogether out 884 of his element when matters of this kind were brought forward. Some years ago, when a Church matter was before the House, an innocent Dissenter asked what he was to do, when the question was one of entire indifference to him, and one about which he knew nothing. The answer he received was, that he ought to walk out of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/08/parliament-business-of-the-house-english", "section": "parliament-business-of-the-house-english", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "elated to the Bill which stood in his (Mr. Chaplin's) name, and was the First Order for Wednesday next. He was very grateful to the hon. Member for the interest he took in that Bill, more particularly as he did all he could to prevent its introduction. Important as the question was, he (Mr. Chaplin) should certainly not think of asking the Prime Minister, in the present position of public affairs—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/08/offences-against-this-act", "section": "offences-against-this-act", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "fend themselves against these offenders if they were prohibited from using the natural weapon of \"Boycotting?\" A man who deceived his fellows by first of all joining an organization, or urged other men to join an organization, and take up a certain attitude against their oppressors, and then renounced his promises, was a traitor, and deserved the term of traitor. A man who went to bid for a farm— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/egypt-the-political-crisis", "section": "egypt-the-political-crisis", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "S W. DILKE said, that the hon. Member for Portsmouth (Sir H. Drummond Wolff) had spoken of the evident reluctance of the Government to give information to the House. He (Sir Charles W. Dilke) ventured to assert that more late information had been given to the House in regard to Egypt on recent occasions than had ever been given before on any question involving dangerous points of foreign affairs. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/egypt-the-political-crisis", "section": "egypt-the-political-crisis", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers from the Ministerial Benchet.", "preceding_text": "onnage which passed through the Suez Canal were British, he thought it would not be incorrect to say that our interests in Egypt were to those of France as six or eight to one. Another grave reason against the joint intervention was the action of France lately in regard to Tunis. By that action she had drawn down upon herself the hatred and detestation of the whole Mussulman world, and justly so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/egypt-the-political-crisis", "section": "egypt-the-political-crisis", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "dictation of M. Gambetta. He felt sure that the present difficulty would be put an end to by the despatch of Turkish troops to Egypt. No Power disputed the International right of the Porte to control the affairs of Egypt. If Egypt were the only question involved, the Government might be allowed to drift on; but they must remember that the question of our Empire in Central Asia went along with it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/egypt-the-political-crisis", "section": "egypt-the-political-crisis", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "n with France in the East, as far as financial interests are concerned, and sharp opposition to France the moment we get beyond the limit of those financial interests. § MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT Sir, the Prime Minister has, no doubt unintentionally, misrepresented me on two very serious and important points. In 1148 the first place, I made no violent attacks whatever on the Government of France. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/egypt-the-political-crisis", "section": "egypt-the-political-crisis", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "f motives; I simply said that French interests and our interests were divergent. In the second place, I did not advocate the joint intervention of France and England in financial matters. I merely said if we went one step beyond that our interests and those of France would become divergent. MR. GLADSTONE I never said that the hon. Member had made any violent attacks upon the Government of France. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/egypt-the-political-crisis", "section": "egypt-the-political-crisis", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "his conduct. We look to him as the Representative of the Sovereign of Egypt, the Porto, in Egypt. That is why Her Majesty's Government look to Dervish Pasha. He gives us assurances with reference to the protection of life and property, and the hon. Member opposite (Mr. Chaplin) attaches to those assurances the epithet of a Kilmainham compact. That is no affair of the Porte and its Representative. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/egypt-the-political-crisis", "section": "egypt-the-political-crisis", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "r of the Porte and its Representative. [\"Oh, oh!\"] That is the hon. Gentleman's opinion of the conduct of Dervish Pasha, the Representative of the Porte. Her Majesty's Government are not responsible for what relations Dervish Pasha may establish with Arabi Pasha or anybody else. The relations he chooses to have with Arabi Bey is rather the affair of Dervish Pasha and the Government he represents. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/egypt-the-political-crisis", "section": "egypt-the-political-crisis", "cue_text": "Sir CHARLES W. DILKE: Oh, no!", "preceding_text": "h Questions should not be answered. But there would be no danger in the Questions being answered if the Government Would send serviceable ships. The danger existed in their sending ships which were not serviceable. It had been shown that, when lightened, only two of them could go into the harbour. The Government, therefore, had sent ships to Alexandria which could not assist the Euro- 1172 peans. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": " guard myself against assenting to the position in which he appeared to place evictions as contrasted with other matters reported to the Government in Ireland; and, also, I desire to guard myself against being supposed, by any silence on my part, to tolerate the assertion that any appreciable number of landlords should be open to the deliberate charge of acting in an unpatriotic or unfair manner. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "oercion of the Conservative Party. If the opposite course entailed the responsibility of retarding the remedial measure of the Government, let them not hesitate to take that course, seeing their end could be obtained by no other means. § MR. BORLASE said, he wished the Government would accede to the request of the hon. Member for the City of Cork (Mr. Parnell), and have a Saturday's Sitting. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/jun/14/offences-against-this-act", "section": "offences-against-this-act", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ject before them. The hon. Member who had just intervened without reason (Mr. H. Samuelson) was, to a certain extent, justified by the action of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, and it was doubtless owing to a truly Liberal tenderness for the conduct of his Chiefs that he had not risen to Order during 1201 the speech of the right hon. and learned Gentleman. § MR. H. SAMUELSON again rose—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/mar/15/bill-48-second-reading", "section": "bill-48-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "hen, the right hon. Gentleman excogitated his own method of procedure and consulted nobody. He could not for the life of him see how this Act would work at all. The right hon. Gentleman had not been remarkable for paying any attention to the wishes of those who were anxious for the tranquillity of Ireland. He (Mr. Mitchell Henry) found himself in the greatest difficulty in making any suggestions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/mar/15/bill-48-second-reading", "section": "bill-48-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " when he stated that in his district it would take seven years for the Sub-Commissioners to dispose of the cases, and he ventured to say that the full Court would not get through these cases for 14 years. They should remember that all the small streams of the Commission flowed into the main channel of the full Court. The discussion to-day was only the beginning of a number of similar discussions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/mar/15/bill-48-second-reading", "section": "bill-48-second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\" and \"Question!\"", "preceding_text": "e Government, for if he had not——[Mr. WARTON: Question!] It was the question. If his hon. Friend (Mr. Parnell) had, if he might so term it, been let loose, and the Act had then become discredited, it would have been said that he had discredited it, and the Party who worked with him. If the hon. Member had not been muzzled, and locked up in gaol, and confined with his staunchest supporters——"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/05/ireland-irish-policy-of-the-government", "section": "ireland-irish-policy-of-the-government", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No‡\" from the Ministerial Benches.", "preceding_text": "he principle and most important part of it, and probably that which the hon. Gentleman has in his mind, was documentary, and that the documents in which it was contained reached me from my right hon. Friend the late Chief Secretary for Ireland. § MR. GIBSON I beg leave to ask the right hon. Gentleman if he would have any public objections to giving that documentary evidence to the House? 235 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/05/state-of-ireland-outrage-near-foxford", "section": "state-of-ireland-outrage-near-foxford", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh‡\"", "preceding_text": "to the House. It states that whilst Mr. M'Gloin was driving to the Petty Sessions, at Foxford, a discharged soldier, named Patrick Jennings, came up to the cart and raised his arm in a suspicious manner. Mr. M'Gloin saw a revolver in his hand, and heard a click. He then fired four rounds from his rifle, and Jennings was killed by the fourth shot. The revolver was found in the hand of the murdered—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/05/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: But they do not.", "preceding_text": "ry; while, in England, they had gentlemen declaring that education was a bad thing for the agricultural interest, that it took men away from the farms, disqualified them for the plough, and sent them in search of other employments. In England there were 8,000 rural parishes in which children were free to labor on passing the Fourth Standard, which every child ought to pass 283 at 10 years of age. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/05/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Mr. WARTON: Hear, hear‡", "preceding_text": "alf and the tenant the other half, they must each have equal representation. No doubt much might be said in favour of making each pay half of the taxes, and giving each representation on the board, and forcing both to the front, compelling them to take part in the local management. Another question brought forward by his noble Friend the Member for North Northumberland was that of over-education. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Mr. HEALY: Oh, no.", "preceding_text": "nfluence, and if Lord Spencer were an archangel he would refuse to trust him with it. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bradford, whose frank and somewhat rough appearance of honesty was characteristic, when he 1102 first appeared at the Table of the House, spoke pathetically of his inexperience of Ireland, and asked them to trust him, and he really believed that some of them did trust him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Without appeal.", "preceding_text": "ed before officials like the military gentleman from Birmingham, whose word, to say the least of it, was as good as his oath. Or, perhaps, the unfortunate man might be taken before the military magistrate at Mayo, who delivered gunpowder speeches, and who had been remonstrated with by his superior officer. Those were the men who were to have the privilege of sentencing to six months' hard labour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ost upon the preliminary stage, and the natural consequences follow in the impediment of Public Business. It is the question of the spirit in which these discussions are to be conducted—are they to be conducted with a desire fairly to take the judgment of the House upon them; or are they to be conducted with a desire to magnify and prolong every debate that may take place upon the several stages? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "n unjustly evicted. Was that a legal duty or obligation? It was in order to safeguard land-grabbers that the Bill was brought in. This Government, or any Government, would never eradicate from the minds of the Irish people that it was a crime both against God and man, in the present condition of Ireland, where land was life, for a man to take land from which another man had been unjustly evicted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "t the eleventh hour, the right hon. Gentleman, in introducing the present Act, was not ashamed to denounce the Act which he had formerly spoken of with so much satisfaction. Charges had been made against the people of Dublin because the perpetrators of the recent murders had not been discovered; but he (Mr. Healy) would say that the people of Dublin were eager to give up the murderers to justice. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and \"Go on!\"", "preceding_text": " large portion of the Liberal sentiment in the country will support the Prime Minister in the Bill he has brought forward, and I believe, too, that the men who dare to stand up and say now, as they have said at other times, that they object to the measure, will very probably bring on themselves the severance of many political friendships. I feel for myself that every word I utter loses me a vote. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers from Conservative Benches.", "preceding_text": " last year's measure, and yet, to-day, we witness the failure—as shown by the appearance of this new Bill. Who say it will fail? The Irish Members? They told us the same thing last year, and today they are accepted as true prophets. Nay, more than these tell us it will fail. History tells us so, for history 1136 does not contain the record of a Coercion Act that has been successful. I often think—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": " for, you first of all denied, and finally granted. Every time you have brought in a Coercion Bill, they have denounced it, and, finally, you have had to admit its failure. And thus, after 80 years, you are placed in the position to-day, as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bradford (Mr. W. E. Forster) has told you, of having brought in the worst Coercion Bill ever placed before the public. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "things would so settle, that peace and order would so overspread the country after the \"suspects\" were released, that it would be possible—happily possible—to proceed merely with remedial legislation, letting the Coercion Acts expire without their being under the painful necessity of producing such a measure as this at all, I think I am right. 1138 [\"No, no!\"] Then more is the pity if I am wrong. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers from the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_text": "deference to the sentiments of the people of England. A Government could not last a week that did not bring in such a Bill; the present sentiment of the English people is such, and the feeling of hon. Members opposite is such, that if the Ministry had not brought in the Bill, they would have raised a loud cry that would have shaken the Government from their seats. How much longer are we to go on? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "r more efficaciously administered than in Scotland. To adopt this Bill, which seemed to him to be martial law under the name of something else, was a thing he would have no part in. A successful measure should give power to interrogate prisoners as to their conduct, the giving of a verdict on the vote of the majority of the jurors, and the power to return open verdicts in the absence of evidence. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "y hon. Members opposite. He certainly had expected some real discussion from them. He had been particularly disappointed in the speech of the hon. Member for the City of Cork (Mr. Parnell), who had just been let out of prison under circumstances which were creditable, possibly, to the right hon. Gentleman at the head of the Government, but which were very discreditable to the hon. Member himself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/19/prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "cient that had ever come under his notice, and the administration of the past Coercion Act by the late Chief Secretary for Ireland had made his name, he believed justly, a name of evil memory in Ireland. The cause of the murders in Phœnix Park being allowed to be carried out was, he alleged, the thorough inefficiency of the Irish police and the withdrawing of all safeguards for protection. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/copyright-legislation", "section": "copyright-legislation", "cue_text": "Mr. WARTON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "dvantage, he would be very glad to direct the attention of the House to the subject. He believed, with the hon. Gentleman, it was a subject which it would be more convenient to treat as a whole than as a part. As regarded the Bill of the hon. Member for East Worcestershire (Mr. Hastings), it was introduced without consultation with the Board of Trade, and it had not the support of the Department. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "le who had been evicted. It was said the Bill would benefit the landlords, inasmuch as they would now get payment of arrears, which otherwise they would never receive; but he (Captain Aylmer) believed he was speaking the sentiments of the landlords 1283 of Ireland when he said that the majority of them would rather go without their arrears of rent than obtain them in the way provided by the Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "eater now than they had ever been in the last 30 years. Moreover, they were the balances of men who would not pay their rents. These men would have the opportunity given to them of taking out these balances between the passing of the Bill and the application to the Court, and dissipating them among their tradesmen and their friends, and then they might ask the State to pay a year's rent for them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers from the Ministerial Benches.", "preceding_text": " for the second time, in dealing with this Arrears Bill, have taken up a measure that was introduced by four of the most prominent members of the Land League, which Bill was avowedly brought in for the purpose of saving the adherents of the Land League from the consequences of their own conduct in refusing to pay rent. Now, I ask anybody, putting all political and Party considerations on one side—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers from the Ministerial Benches", "preceding_text": " me that we are making the grant a gift, without in any way affecting the efficacy of the measure which contained the principle of making the grant a loan. Let me point out one of the obvious advantages of making the grant a loan rather than a gift. Suppose you were to make a loan at a low rate of interest, say 1½ per cent; no doubt, in one sense, it would be a gift. That is perfectly true—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " to do so. Having regard to what appeared a most unusual proceeding on the part of the Government in closing an important debate in this manner, he, by way of protest against the further progress of the Bill, would move the adjournment of the House. § MR. R. N. FOWLER said, he rose to second the Motion. One point had been agreed to—namely, that this measure was one of first-class importance. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "estion, not only to the House, but to the country. When we are of opinion, as we are, that the matter has not been fully discussed, that the arguments 1359 which have been brought forward on our side have not been answered, that our arguments have not met with full discussion and reply, I think we are bound to adhere to our appeal. I regret very much that we should be obliged to take this course. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\" and laughter", "preceding_text": "o a remark which had fallen from the right hon. Member for Bradford (Mr. W. E. Forster). The right hon. Gentleman had said that public feeling in Ireland was entirely in favour of this question being speedily settled. There he (Lord Claud Hamilton) cordially agreed with the right hon. Member. But the right hon. Gentleman had not said on what principle the majority of the respectability of Ireland—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Tuesday!\"", "preceding_text": "had known it all his life. This Bill was placed in his hands on Saturday morning. He had had no opportunity of seeing its provisions until then. He had since read the Bill, and had written to friends in Ireland for particulars in reference to certain matters upon which he wished to inform himself, in order that he might be able to bring a sound judgment to bear upon the measure. It was now Monday—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Go on with the debate.", "preceding_text": "ent of the debate moved. Occasionally he had known the 1365 Motion for Adjournment to be defeated, and a division taken on the Main Question; but he had never known—and he challenged contradiction—an instance in which the Leader of the Opposition had stated, on behalf of those who sat near him, that they desired to continue the debate, in which the Government of the day had not at once given way. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "ust point out to the House, and to the hon. Member who has just addressed the House (Mr. Chaplin), that this digression is certainly irregular on a Motion for the adjournment of the House. § MR. CHAPLIN said, he would refer to the matter no further than to explain that what he had attributed to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby was the statement that no Whip had been sent out for a division. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/22/bill-163-second-reading", "section": "bill-163-second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: To-day.", "preceding_text": " sense. [\"Question!\"] He thought hon. Gentlemen would find this was the most practical observation—and he thought he could say it without vanity—that had been made this evening—namely, that either the Prime Minister would yield or he would not yield. Let him point out what would be the result of the Prime Minister yielding to-night. The Bill for the Prevention of Crime was set down for to-morrow. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/state-of-ireland-captain-dickenson-and", "section": "state-of-ireland-captain-dickenson-and", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "Captain Dickenson, as another man would probably have shot him. A cross case, brought by Captain Dickenson against Ryan, for assault, was also dismissed. I do not think any further inquiry is necessary in this case. § MR. DAWSON Does the right hon. Gentleman think that it is in accordance with the administration of justice to fire revolvers on the highway without notice, and against the law? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/state-of-ireland-captain-dickenson-and", "section": "state-of-ireland-captain-dickenson-and", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order! \"", "preceding_text": " can only ask a further Question arising out of the answer already given. § MR. DAWSON said, he would ask the right hon. Gentleman, whether he thought it was judicious in Ireland to allow captains in Her Majesty's Army to proceed with loaded revolvers through the country, and to fire merely because they saw a party in the road crying out 1191 merely to save themselves from being driven over? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/egypt-trial-of-arabi-pasha", "section": "egypt-trial-of-arabi-pasha", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "on. Baronet to say that Arabi Pasha is being tried under no Code whatever, I would ask whether the military tribunal which is trying Arabi is framed under a recognized Code or not? § SIR CHARLES W. DILKE I declined last night to answer Questions upon Egyptian law. I am not competent to answer those Questions, and it is not my duty. § SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFF I will not move the adjournment—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/the-irish-land-commission-arrears-of", "section": "the-irish-land-commission-arrears-of", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "uch circumstances it will exercise that power favourably to the tenant. § MR. PARNELL May I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether, in the event of a lodgment being made and the proceedings stayed, as predicted by the right hon. and learned Gentleman, a tenant would be safe from the costs of the suit? § MR. LEWIS Before the right hon. and learned Gentleman answers the Question—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/egypt-trial-of-arabi-pasha-1", "section": "egypt-trial-of-arabi-pasha-1", "cue_text": "Loud Cries of \"No ! \" from below the Gangway on the Opposition side.", "preceding_text": " Egyptian Court Martial sentences Arabi to death, will British soldiers be asked to supply the gallows' guard? MR. GLADSTONE I am astonished, I must say, notwithstanding the licence which prevails in that quarter, and which the hon. Member has enlarged, that he should put such a Question to me. Arabi is undergoing a trial under a Code of rules which we trust, and believe, will secure him justice. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Kilmainham Treaty.", "preceding_text": "t did they find? \"Brass, Sir; sounding brass.\" No orator could with more ingenuity pervert the meaning of an opponent, or disfigure his reputation. His language was sometimes as reprehensible as that of the army which, under his great ancestor, swore terribly in Flanders. The noble Lord had been endeavouring to enlist Irish recruits to vote against the Resolution, and what did he whisper to them? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: He was never in Parliament.", "preceding_text": "supporters; and what became of those Irish Members to whom the tone of the House was the supreme law, and the convenience of the House the first consideration? One of them, a forger and a swindler, committed suicide; another, a forger and a swindler, was expelled from the House of Commons; the third was made a Commissioner of Income Tax, and he plundered the Public Exchequer, and fled, to America—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "cue_text": "Mr. WARTON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " done possibly beyond that. He did not mean, at that late hour of the night, to interpose long; and, therefore, he would satisfy himself with saying this—that the energetic and vigorous oratory of his hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle (Mr. Cowen)—very brilliant, but not altogether consequent—had, he thought, missed this one point. He seemed to be of opinion that there was too much legislation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "cue_text": "At this point an interruption occurred through the entrance to the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery of the Native officers of the Indian Contingent deputed to visit this country.", "preceding_text": " the Chair? It was important to the House of Commons that they should know whether it was the opinion of the Chairman of Committees that the \"evident sense of the House\" meant the evident sense of the House \"at large?\" He would like to have an answer to that question from some Member of the Government—say, from the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Chamberlain). § "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\" and \"Conservative!\"", "preceding_text": "upporters; but it was not until almost the close of that oration that the President of the Board of Trade condescended to enter the House, and even to listen to the arguments which were advanced in the ablest and most powerful manner against the Resolutions which the Government had submitted to the House. It was as a Radical of Radicals that the hon. Member for Newcastle had often been described. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "Gentleman, and the only excuse he could give for him was that he had been for years a trading politician—that for years he kept a book of good and evil for every public man, aye, even in his own country; because whenever they got a man with a true, real, thoroughly evil disposition, they might be sure that he would attempt to make capital in that House by platitudes in abusing his own countrymen. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Read on!\"", "preceding_text": "he House that, in his opinion, the Resolution which he was then proposing would not be sufficient to meet the difficulty that existed, and that— There is only one alteration of our Rules which would be of a character that really could prevent Obstruction, and that is one for which we have no English name, but which is known to us all under the name of the clôture .\"—[3 Hansard, ccl. 1457.] "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/10/adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-nineteenth-night", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "Committee—he would not venture to do so there; but he owned his intention in his speech in this debate. In the spring 1282 of the year he cited a speech of the noble Marquess showing that he was the author of this measure, and he cited a speech of the Prime Minister in answer to his Colleague; and, with the permission of the House, he would read the Prime Minister's speech. The Prime Ministersaid—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/30/resolution-1-standing-committees-on-law", "section": "resolution-1-standing-committees-on-law", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " have been submitted to the judgment of the House? § MR. SPEAKER If the hon. Member had risen in his place at the time and demanded a Division, I should have considered it my duty to put the Question to the House. MR. MACARTNEY rose to a point of Order. He said that after the clock marked a quarter to 6 yesterday the Question was put by the Deputy Speaker, and he said that the \"Ayes\" had it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/30/resolution-1-standing-committees-on-law", "section": "resolution-1-standing-committees-on-law", "cue_text": "Cries of \"When?\"", "preceding_text": "ent. § SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFF said, he hoped the Prime Minister would give some intimation as to what he would do when the Amendment of the noble Lord the Member for Woodstock (Lord Randolph Churchill) was brought forward. More than once they had been asked by the Government to put things off till a 415 further stage, and when the further stage was reached the matters were put off altogether. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1882/nov/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/nov/30/resolution-1-standing-committees-on-law", "section": "resolution-1-standing-committees-on-law", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Name the Bills.", "preceding_text": "ulous and mischievous consummation—a wasteful expenditure of time. Therefore, it should be understood clearly that there were two things which were requisite. They should secure that the handling of several Bills which they might have in their minds, and which the Government hoped to bring in next Session, and which were altogether suitable to be so handled, should be committed to that machinery. "}