{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/apr/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/apr/05/law-and-police-seizure-of-explosives", "section": "law-and-police-seizure-of-explosives", "cue_text": "Opposition laughter.", "preceding_text": " At 1 o'clock this morning a man was arrested in a house in London, and found to be in possession of a box which, I am informed, contained 1¾ cwt. of liquid, which was contained in indiarubber bags. These were immediately sent to Woolwich, and the Report is that the liquid is a highly explosive compound, believed to be nitro-glycerine. This man, who has been arrested, came from Birmingham. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/apr/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/apr/17/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "Sir R. ASSHETON CROSS: Hear hear!", "preceding_text": "al more control in increasing or decreasing the expenditure, than had been acknowledged. For instance, in the case of salaries alone they had a very considerable amount of power in raising or decreasing the expenditure. The proposal to cast upon the State the whole charge of the police he had already alluded to. He believed it would lead to centralization, and to the paralysis of local authority. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/apr/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/apr/17/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " to hear that the right hon. Gentleman opposite, who had himself had the charge of this question under the late Government, agreed with him; and he would, therefore, say no more upon the matter. In regard to lunatics, he thought if the whole charge of lunatics fell on the State all motive for economy would cease, and it would be found that a large number of paupers would suddenly become lunatics. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/apr/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/apr/17/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Not at all.", "preceding_text": "d during the course of legislation with regard to local taxation, it would have been found that real property had not borne that share of Imperial taxation, which, undoubtedly, would have fallen upon it but for the fact that it had to bear what were called the hereditary burdens upon it. He did not know to what extent hon. Gentlemen opposite admitted the existence of hereditary burdens upon land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/apr/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/apr/17/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "irely to affairs connected with the condition of things in Ireland, such as was altogether without precedent; and that last year, when we had not scrupled to advise the delivery from the Throne of a Speech positively holding out the question of local government as a principal subject to engage the attention of Parliament, again imperative necessity, connected with the state of Ireland, intervened—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/apr/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/apr/17/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "n particular taxes were raised with reference to particular outlay. The right hon. Gentleman knows very well that we have in view something of a totally different character; and that is to prevent, what I do not think he will venture to deny, a course of injustice, if, under the name of relief to local taxation, you are going to lay upon labour a large portion of the charge now borne by property. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/03/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "NT. HC Deb 03 August 1883 vol 282 cc1484-7 1484 MR. GLADSTONE With respect to the course of Business to-morrow, we hope to get, if possible, to the Report on the Scotch Agricultural Bill to-day; but, if not, it will be taken after the Parliamentary Registration (Ireland) Bill to-morrow, that Bill having been substituted for the Report on the Bankruptcy Bill at the wish of hon. Gentlemen opposite. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/03/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " Local Government Board would have no more to do in his Office than the Lord Privy Seal had at this moment. Another objection which he entertained, as an English Member, to this measure was, that there was no Poor Law system worth the name existing in Scotland at all. Hon. Members representing Scotland were fond of telling them that the Poor Law system of Scotland was better than that of England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/03/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Not at all.", "preceding_text": " it would lead to false conclusions; that it, therefore, would not work well; and he should heartily join with his hon. Friend the Member for Bute (Mr. Dalrymple) in voting for its rejection. § SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT If I rise at this time, it is because I know there is an anxiety, if possible, to finish this debate, and to devote what remains of the time of the House to other Scotch Business. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/11/resolution-adjourned-debate", "section": "resolution-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " were not perfect, and they might, no doubt, be open to criticism; but no Act of Parliament and no Code of Rules was perfect. The principle Parliament had adopted in relation to these matters was that it was incapable, as was certainly 171 the case, of legislating upon them. On the whole, the present Rules formed a very decided step in the right direction. Judges were not law reformers as a rule. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/11/resolution-adjourned-debate", "section": "resolution-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "And the Home Secretary added— That the judicial and administrative staff of the country was more expensive than all the Public Departments of the State put together.\"(3 Hansard , [216] 1801.) He could see no excuse for the present system; but if there was to be no alteration in the Vacation except upon the report or recommendation of the Judges, it would never be shortened by a day or by an hour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/11/resolution-adjourned-debate", "section": "resolution-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " upon them, had attempted to discharge it according to the very best of their power in the interests of the public. The House ought, therefore, to be very careful in the language they applied to them. Let him ask the House to consider whether it was possible to accept this Motion without almost acting unconstitutionally, and at least acting in a manner which would be a great insult to the Judges. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/11/consideration", "section": "consideration", "cue_text": "A laugh", "preceding_text": "ir duty to England, which substantially had got the measure; and it would be a heavy responsibility if, in the anxiety at once to extend it to Ireland without delay, they were to entail upon the House such a prolongation of labour as might even end in endangering the passing of the Bill as a Bill for England, but a Bill which he hoped would, in the next Session, serve for an extension to Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\" and \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ar from that statement being correct, the people of Ireland fully believed—the people in the locality in which the murder was committed fully believed, and he (Mr. Harrington), and many intelligent men with him, and many of the priesthood of Ireland also fully believed—that the man Joyce was foully done to death, and that perfect knowledge of his innocence was in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Weldon.", "preceding_text": "nce on which the right hon. Gentleman relied? Now, he wished to call the attention of the Committee to the way in which the law was administered in Ireland, and the story of the man M'Hugh was an excellent case in point to show with what vindictiveness and injustice the law was being used against individuals. Some three years ago this man was arrested with another man whose name he had forgotten. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: He was sent to penal servitude for life.", "preceding_text": "ad fired at his house; and he (the Attorney General for Ireland) only wished that the example of that man were more generally 316 followed. One of the attacking party was shot in the back. He was immediately deserted by his comrades, was arrested, and was convicted of having taken part in the outrage. That man afterwards swore to the persons who were concerned with him in the attack on the house. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Ironical Home Rule cheers .", "preceding_text": "erable distance; and in this particular case the postponement had taken place with the consent of those who represented the prisoners. Again, reference had been made to the murder of Mr. Herbert in Kerry; and he (the Attorney General for Ireland.) might say that in that case there was a clear and distinct charge against the man who had boon returned for trial if the witnesses were to be believed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Mr. BIGGAR: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": " to death by the Lord Lieutenant, who had evidence in his hands at the time to prove the man's innocence.\" It would be hardly necessary to ask anybody but people blinded by prejudice—it certainly would not be necessary to ask the vast majority of Members of that House—to come to the conclusion that Lord Spencer, if he had not believed a man to be guilty, would not have allowed him to be executed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Laughter from the Irish Members", "preceding_text": "g. As to the general administration of justice in Ireland, referred to by the hon. Member for Newcastle (Mr. Cowen), and particularly with regard to the late trials in Dublin, it had been remarked that there had been an exceedingly small number of Catholics on the juries. He (the Attorney General for Ireland) had admitted that the small number of Catholics on the juries was a strange circumstance—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ge numbers of Roman Catholics had been challenged by the prisoners themselves, though there was a desire on the part of the Crown to have Roman Catholics on the juries. In the last case the number was six Catholics against six Protestants—and, on the whole, he could say it had been the anxious desire of the Executive that no man should be excluded from the jury-box on account of his religion. 325 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "rsed and their motives impugned. The hon. Member who had just spoken (Mr. Healy), availing himself to the full of the freedom which the House accorded to its Members, had used the strongest adjectives and the most vigorous form of invective against those whose arduous task it had been to assert the law, in a great crisis, against persons, whom everyone who had studied the cases knew to be guilty. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iv-education-science-and-art", "section": "class-iv-education-science-and-art", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " control of their Art Museum. The Lord Lieutenant, however, had not declared what step the Government were going to take in regard to this autonomous management. He would ask Her Majesty's Government to state now whether or not they would allow that separate independent management, on which principle alone the Dublin Museum could prosper. § MR. CAVENDISH BENTINCK said, he wished to point out—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/class-iv-education-science-and-art", "section": "class-iv-education-science-and-art", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "—the item being, \"Carriage of Materials, &c.\" It had increased from £4,000 to £5,000. There was no explanation given of this in the Estimates. What, therefore, did this increase mean; seeing that every shilling of expenditure was looked after so carefully? He found, in another place, that the grant for examples had increased from £3,200 to £3,700. Then, as to Solar Physics and Scientific Research—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/committee-on-re-commitment", "section": "committee-on-re-commitment", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "he foundation of a fund which would be seized upon by Parliament whenever occasion arose, or temptation occurred to expend 411 the money. The people of England would not relish paying the Income Tax in order that they might, out of their industry, in the case of the working classes, and out of their life tenancies, in the cases of the propertied class, pay off a Debt charged upon the inheritance. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/aug/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/aug/13/committee-on-re-commitment", "section": "committee-on-re-commitment", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "or of the Exchequer had a good deal of natural sagacity in these matters; but there were certain influences always at work on these questions, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was required to be a great financial conjuror if he was to satisfy everybody. The Bill really consisted of a mass of contradictions. It adopted two absolutely conflicting principles, and tried to make them work together. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "s, though they did not regulate their policy, occasionally modified 181 both their policy and their speeches. For instance, in the speeches made by Members of the Liberal Party, they had lost no opportunity of insinuating that the late Conservative Government were not only responsible for the establishment of the Dual Control—which was true—but that their action was not defensible in that matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "hat of the noble Marquess. As to the Amendment of his hon. Friend, there was a great deal in it in which he was inclined to agree with him; but, at the same time, he had one objection to it which was conclusive. If it were carried, the Government would be obliged to take it as an instruction 183 that they were as quickly as possible to take the troops out of Egypt and leave the country to itself, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "le that we should take Egypt. The late Government investigated all the questions involved, and they saw that anything like the annexation of Egypt by England must entail on this country extraordinary difficulties. These were not new questions, therefore, and he was perfectly prepared to give to the Government any humble support in endeavouring to get them out 217 of the difficulties they were in. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "Mr. BOURKE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "t the whole of the points connected with this subject, with the exception of those new ones which had been raised to-night by the right hon. Gentleman opposite. In the course of that debate words were used with regard to the military character of the rebellion in Egypt, and with regard to Arabi being a military adventurer, which aroused the indignation of the hon. and learned Member for Plymouth. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "s of the Foreign Office, for they had been violated and set aside; it was not motives of peace, because they had broken the peace; it was not the balance of power, because they had found it established, and they had completely destroyed it. The key-note of their policy had been the avowed and open desire to reverse the policy of their Predecessors, the late Government, in every single particular. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " and understood the cheers of the hon. Member for Wycombe, as adding his seal, 231 for what it was worth, to the fact that the key-note of the Government policy had been the spirit of faction. The Ministry found England strong, with the alliance of Germany and Austria, and with the friendship of Turkey, and the peace of Europe secure. They reversed that by insulting Austria and affronting Germany—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "icized freely and severely the faults which led to the crisis that the Government declared to require such exceptional measures to cope with. The blunders of the Government had been 235 so incredible, that he had felt it his duty, on patriotic grounds, to refrain from expressing all he felt concerning them. There was a striking analogy between the policy of the Government in Egypt and in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/adjourned-debate-second-night", "section": "adjourned-debate-second-night", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " supreme. We say that there has been great mismanagement in this matter. You have been too hasty on one occasion, and on another occasion you have been too slow; and the end has been that you have now landed us in a confusion which speaks for itself. It is all very well for the Government to say—\"We can bend our course this way or that,\" and that we must judge you by the result you have produced. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "Lord HENRY LENNOX: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " I, in my turn, should like to make an appeal to hon. Members opposite. I would appeal to them to consider the character of the opposition in which they are at present engaged. The nature of that opposition was very candidly admitted by the noble Lord (Lord Henry Lennox) who just now moved that the Speaker do leave the Chair, for he informed us that he would do all he could to obstruct this Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "Several hon. MEMBERS: No, no!", "preceding_text": "nly one Member has admitted it. 260 THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON The noble Lord (Lord Henry Lennox) made a Motion, as he said himself, for the purpose of Obstruction. LORD HENRY LENNOX Perhaps the noble Marquess will allow me to correct him. I am sure he does not wish to misrepresent what I said. What I said was that I was determined to obstruct the progress of the Bill at this hour of the morning. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/feb/16/motion-for-leave", "section": "motion-for-leave", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": " had behind him had remained in the House to this late hour, on the second night of the Session (1.50 A.M.), through any abstract admiration for Mr. Bradlaugh. They all had their little Bills, and they were kept here waiting because the Government would persist in bringing in this particular Bill at this particular moment. It would be just as easy for the Government to bring in the Bill to-morrow—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/south-africa-the-republic-of-stellaland", "section": "south-africa-the-republic-of-stellaland", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d Montsoia and Mankoroane of their territories? § MR. EVELYN ASHLEY I believe the hon. Member is right. § SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE What we want is an explanation of the sort of Government that was established in Stellaland. We ought to have some clear notion of what it is, and if it was recognized in any way by Her Majesty's Government? § MR. EVELYN ASHLEY It is a very simple matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/petroleum-acts-storage-of-petroleum", "section": "petroleum-acts-storage-of-petroleum", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "hall have the same facilities, I will endeavour to do the same with this Bill. § In reply to Mr. ARTHUR O'CONNOR, § SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT said, that petroleum was regulated by the Act of 1871. § MR. CALLAN asked whether it was a fact that the Home Secretary had been in Office three years, and had taken no measures to remedy the state of things that he had just confessed now existed? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/committee-progress-5th-july-sixteenth", "section": "committee-progress-5th-july-sixteenth", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "uld impair the efficiency of the measure; and if some of them could he got rid of, he believed it would be of the greatest advantage to the working of the Bill. He would like to see the clause withdrawn, for the purpose of reconsideration. § MR. J. HOLLOND said, he rose to move the Amendment standing in his name. § MR. CALLAN wished to put a question to the Chairman on a point of Order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/committee-progress-5th-july-sixteenth", "section": "committee-progress-5th-july-sixteenth", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Both sides!\"", "preceding_text": "undertake the support or de- 633 fence of Election Petitions, unless they received extremely large fees. That would continue, do as they would. A solicitor would not leave his London business, and a counsel would say he would not go unless he was properly compensated. The client would, therefore, be deprived of the counsel's services, and, in all probability, would have to obtain inferior advice. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/committee-progress-5th-july-sixteenth", "section": "committee-progress-5th-july-sixteenth", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "andidate, or his agent, the corrupt practices, the Petitioner would be mulcted not only in his own costs, but also in those of the candidate. The most difficult thing in the matter of an Election Petition was to bring the charge home to the candidate, though it was often very easy to prove that corrupt practices had extensively prevailed. At his own election, in Dundalk, in 1880, he was defeated. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Mr. WARTON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "the women who discharge the duties of citizenship, who pay rates and taxes, and in many other ways fulfil the obligations which are imposed upon them by the law; it does seem to me a great act of injustice that the voting power which they possess shall stop short of allowing them to vote for Members of the House of Commons. I am asked the question again and again—\"Pray where do you mean to stop?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Mr. BERESFORD HOPE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "s to the State. What can possibly be urged against the extension of this privilege to them, which we, as men, hold and enjoy? Another argument which is used against the proposal is, that it is the thin edge of the wedge; that if we allow women to have votes for Members of Parliament, the time will not be far distant when they themselves will aspire to the position of occupying seats in the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cheers .", "preceding_text": "self to that principle, there is no reason and no argument that I can understand for stopping short at the point at which the hon. Member for Ashton under-Lyne now says he is prepared to stop short. If I am not much mistaken, there are other Members in this House who will probably vote for my hon. Friend's proposal, who would be ready now to stand up in the House and advocate a greater extension. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "in his experience—I do not say it in a derogatory sense—he must have been somewhat unfortunate with regard to those women whose views he has had an opportunity of learning. So far as I have had the advantage of hearing the opinions of women on any definite subject, I have found them devoted—continually, consistently, permanently devoted—to what I may describe as the reformation of the human race. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "be very dangerously increased by giving women the franchise. The world would not be happier or more rational if all husbands and wives held a dull consensus of view upon every subject. But there is another reason that can be urged in support of the Motion which I have rather suggested than stated definitely. It is obvious that to confer the suffrage on women is essentially a Conservative measure. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": ". If 715 you give every householder a vote, you must give every man a vote. If you give every man a vote, you must give every woman a vote, and so on. Principles of abstract political reasoning are, perhaps, not dealt with by any political Party in this country; but these are principles which I am most surprised to hear from Members of the Conservative Party. I proceed on the lines of experience. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "e bringing of women into contact with the ideas of public life, with the conceptions of national progress, with the development of national character, with the elevation of the people, and with the relation of this nation to other nations, just supplies that want which is necessary for herself, and, still more, which is necessary for her as the companion of man. If you want to have a heroic woman—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/06/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "t? He does not find' in her any companionship; but, on the contrary, a drag upon his aspirations. Now, Sir, I understand it is by giving women the franchise that my hon. Friend now seeks to lift them from this condition of weak-minded error. I say that is a proposition of very serious aspect. What period of probation are these women to go through before they arrive at the ideal of my hon. Friend? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/india-the-maharajah-dhuleep-singh", "section": "india-the-maharajah-dhuleep-singh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " or five lacs guaranteed by the Treaty, in order to purchase this estate, charging him between 4 and 5 per cent for land which never could produce 3 per cent? He should also ask the Government whether they would refer the whole of the questions involved to a Select Committee? He wished, further, to ask the indulgence of the House for a moment, while he made a statement on behalf of the Maharajah. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/prevention-of-crime-ireland-act-1882-mr", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-act-1882-mr", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "tent insinuated that a communication might have been made to them by Mr. Harrington before the appeal, whether it is not the fact that the moment they were found guilty by the magistrates they were sent to gaol; and, whether it was not, therefore, impossible for anyone to have communicated with them? § MR. TREVELYAN He could have communicated, Sir, according to the ordinary gaol regulations. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/prevention-of-crime-ireland-act-1882-mr", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-act-1882-mr", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "d suspended for the precise purpose of preventing prisoners from communicating with the outside; but, under ordinary circumstances, they were not. § MR. HEALY Might I ask, whether it is not a fact that, when a man is sent to gaol under these circumstances, he is not allowed a visit for two months? These men were sent to gaol for two months, and were not allowed a visit during the whole time. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/prevention-of-crime-ireland-act-1882-mr", "section": "prevention-of-crime-ireland-act-1882-mr", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " that, when a man is sent to gaol under these circumstances, he is not allowed a visit for two months? These men were sent to gaol for two months, and were not allowed a visit during the whole time. [\"Order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member is entering into a matter of controversy. He must confine himself to a Question. § MR. HEALY Precisely; but all Questions are matters of controversy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/egypt-the-cholera-the-evictions-at-boulak", "section": "egypt-the-cholera-the-evictions-at-boulak", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "states that, in his opinion, the Prefect had been blamed somewhat hastily for all that went wrong; but that he had obtained leave from the Khedive to place Major Chirnside, who speaks Turkish and Arabic, and in whom both His Highness and Sir Edward have great confidence, temporarily under the Prefect. The Khedive had agreed to withdraw the Prefect, if Major Chirnside is not able to work with him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/egypt-the-cholera-the-evictions-at-boulak", "section": "egypt-the-cholera-the-evictions-at-boulak", "cue_text": "Au hon. MEMBER: Which papers?", "preceding_text": " whether the reports in the newspapers were true in substance or detail. As an illustration of the danger of committing himself to the statement in the Question, he would point out to the hon. and gallant Baronet that if he referred to two of the best informed morning papers of that day he would find in them contra- 543 dictions of material facts previously published by them only two days before. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/ministerial-statement", "section": "ministerial-statement", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "exceedingly sorry when he could not meet the wishes of hon. Members, and particularly those of the right hon. Gentleman; but he was now in this difficulty—that some of his Friends wished him to go on with his Motion to-morrow evening, and some of them wished him not to go on. Therefore, taking all things into consideration, 565 he thought it would be better that matters should remain as they were—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/class-iv-education-science-and-art", "section": "class-iv-education-science-and-art", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: In free schools?", "preceding_text": "t figures, 16.80 for every 100 souls, the dispensations allowed being too few to affect this proportion, which is the standard for children of all ages; that, in 1880, the children announced as liable to school attendance were 493,437, of whom the children in attendance were 492,912, and those on leave of absence, sick, inmates of asylums, &c., numbered 525; so that every child was accounted for. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/class-iv-education-science-and-art", "section": "class-iv-education-science-and-art", "cue_text": "Au hon. MEMBER: Whereabouts?", "preceding_text": "will shortly relate to the Committee. I was referred to a school in the country which is doing marvellously good work, and which has had surprisingly good results among a scattered population, and I wanted to know how those results 577 were accounted for. I made an inquiry of the Inspector with respect to that school, and I will state to the House the result. It was a rural school in Dorsetshire. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/class-iv-education-science-and-art", "section": "class-iv-education-science-and-art", "cue_text": "Mr. MUNDELLA asked what the hon. Member was quoting from?", "preceding_text": "t which he regarded as most serious. It was reported on high medical testimony that brain disease among the children in Scotland had risen in the last decade by about one-half as compared with the previous decade—the figures given by Dr. Beveridge in the decade ending 1868 having been 5.8 of deaths from diseases of the brain, against 7.7 in the next decade in eight of the large towns in Scotland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/class-iv-education-science-and-art", "section": "class-iv-education-science-and-art", "cue_text": "Mr. MUNDELLA: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "lla) told them that there were on the register 4,189,000 children. Well, they were very satisfactory figures, and the Committee cheered them when they first heard them. When they came to analyze the figures, however, they found that 416,000 of the children were under five years of age, and that 898,000 were under seven years of age. Therefore, they had 1,314,000 children under seven years of age. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/jul/26/class-iv-education-science-and-art", "section": "class-iv-education-science-and-art", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Move, move!\"", "preceding_text": "nted from discussing this important question. It might be said—\"Why don't you proceed to discuss it now?\" But he would ask hon. Members—\"How is it possible to expect a House exhausted with nine or ten hours' important Business to pay calm attention to remarks of Scotch Members upon Scotch subjects at such a period of the morning?\" He must say he felt very much inclined to move to report Progress. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/05/supply-navy-supplementary-estimate-1882-3", "section": "supply-navy-supplementary-estimate-1882-3", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: £90,000.", "preceding_text": " to the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Wolseley. He had done that with a specific object, because the Committee had been told that an additional grant was to be voted for Lord Wolseley and Lord Alcester. He supposed he must take it from the Prime Minister that full Notice would be given of the day on which that grant would be brought forward. What he wanted to know now was, what portion of this £50,000—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/05/supply-navy-supplementary-estimate-1882-3", "section": "supply-navy-supplementary-estimate-1882-3", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "of six months. That was a declaration which gave hon. Members sitting below the Gangway great satisfaction, and they thought there was going to be an end of this miserable matter. But now the Prime Minister, on the first night of his return to the House, came down and dashed away all their hopes by saying that the noble Marquess was wrong, and there was altogether an uncertainty about the matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/05/transvaal-1882-3", "section": "transvaal-1882-3", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "But the hon. Member had taken care to inform the Committee that there was not the remotest chance of the Motion of the hon. and learned Member for Chatham coming on, and that there was no day fixed for the Motion of the right hon. Member for East Gloucestershire. Therefore, with this Liberal Under Secretary of State 1517 for the Colonies—this humanitarian Under Secretary of State for the Colonies—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1883/mar/05", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1883/mar/05/motion-for-an-address", "section": "motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "Laughter, and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "n this House. I mean that, whenever the name of Ireland is mentioned, every possible Irish subject is thought germane to the question immediately under discussion, and is dragged into the debate. Every observation that has been made 100 times before on the history of Ireland during the last few years is revived, and that, too, with very little relation to the subject immediately before the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/12/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No!", "preceding_text": "dvantage against that of the public. He thought it was too much to say that, when they had spent so much and risked so much for the preservation of the Forest. The Committee of Epping Forest consisted of 12 members of the Corporation, acting in conjunction with four gentlemen who were Verderers, elected by commoners; and he believed that that joint Committee were unanimous in supporting the Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/12/departmental-statemest", "section": "departmental-statemest", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "er for Durham (Sir. Joseph Pease) suggested that the existence of a large and efficient Volunteer Force was a reason for reducing the number of our Army; but the hon. Baronet was never under a greater delusion, for he (Mr. Bulwer) believed that if such a notion got abroad among the Volunteers as that their existence would be made the excuse for reducing the Army, the Volunteer Force would vanish. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1883/mar/12", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1883/mar/12/india-native-states-hyderabad-illness", "section": "india-native-states-hyderabad-illness", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": " Granville.) § LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY said, it was rather irregular that an attempt should be made to stop Questions before they were put. He had put this series of Questions on the Paper in order that he might not be accused of taking the noble Earl (the Earl of Kimberley) by surprise, and in order that he might get an answer. With regard to the charges he would go into them first of all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/20/south-africa-the-transvaal-and-1", "section": "south-africa-the-transvaal-and-1", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "gard to the second part of the Question, which related to the condition of Bechuanaland, as being a country subject to disorder, that was a matter which had been amply illustrated by the Papers which had been presented from time to time. There was rather a large literature on the matter; and, not to go back beyond recent years, he might supply the following references to the hon. Member:—C. 2,220—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/20/law-and-police-reported-attack-on-lady", "section": "law-and-police-reported-attack-on-lady", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "inquiry; but he was not in a position to make any statement on the subject. The matter was too recent, and being under the regular course of investigation by the police authorities, there was no reason whatever for interfering with that investigation. § MR. LABOUCHERE I would ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he does not think it would be desirable to offer a reward—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/20/law-and-police-reported-attack-on-lady", "section": "law-and-police-reported-attack-on-lady", "cue_text": "Renewed laughter.", "preceding_text": " under the regular course of investigation by the police authorities, there was no reason whatever for interfering with that investigation. § MR. LABOUCHERE I would ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he does not think it would be desirable to offer a reward—[ Laughter ]—to any person who comes forward with evidence to show who is the guilty party in this transaction? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/20/scotland-the-crofters-destitution-in-the", "section": "scotland-the-crofters-destitution-in-the", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "uld take a more humane course in Scotland, for it would be a disgrace to the House and the country if any person was allowed to die of starvation. There was a Mace lying on the Table of the House which would sell for a good sum of money; and if the House had not any other means in that rich country to prevent people from starving, he thought they ought to sell it, and give the proceeds in relief. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/mar/20/further-proceedings", "section": "further-proceedings", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "wson), as to the desire that his Bill should be extended to Ireland. He thought that in Ireland people were very well satisfied with their present bankruptcy system; and he should, therefore, protest against the extension of the provisions of this Bill to that country. § MR. DAWSON In personal explanation, I have every respect for the legal opinion of the hon. and learned Member for Kildare. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/09/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "The hon. Member illustrated the mode of nail-making with a small machine which he exhibited to the House.", "preceding_text": "great spikes, four and five and six inches long, in which they had to bring to bear an immense amount not only of skill and quickness, but a very great amount of physical strength. They had to forge the iron bar in the fire, to take it out and cut it up into 6-inch lengths, put each piece into the place made in the anvil, hold the header and make the spike. Afterwards they had to point the spike. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/11/parliament-adjournment-the-derby-day", "section": "parliament-adjournment-the-derby-day", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "acit approval of the Leaders on both sides of the House. He wished to put a Question to the Prime Minister on this subject. § MR. SPEAKER I must point out that the Question which the hon. Mem- 531 ber desires to put does not relate to any Bill or Motion before the House. § SIR WILFRID LAWSON wished to know whether he might ask the Prime Minister whether he tacitly approved the proposal? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/11/law-and-justice-ireland-the-dublin", "section": "law-and-justice-ireland-the-dublin", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "arr; May 1883 → 11 May 1883 → Commons Sitting → QUESTIONS. LAW AND JUSTICE (IRELAND)—THE DUBLIN MURDER TRIALS. HC Deb 11 May 1883 vol 279 cc532-3 532 § MR. BIGGAR I wish to ask the Prime Minister a Question of which I have given him private Notice, and it is, Whether, seeing that in the recent criminal trials in Dublin, the juries have been invariably and systematically packed—"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/11/law-and-justice-ireland-the-dublin", "section": "law-and-justice-ireland-the-dublin", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ion of which I have given him private Notice, and it is, Whether, seeing that in the recent criminal trials in Dublin, the juries have been invariably and systematically packed—[\"Oh, oh!\"]—and the witnesses for the Crown—[ Loud cries of \"Order!\"]—the Government would not, under the circumstances, undertake to commute the punishment of the prisoners now lying under sentence of death? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/24/papal-see-diplomatic-communications-mr", "section": "papal-see-diplomatic-communications-mr", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order !\"", "preceding_text": "Oh!\" and \"Order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member is now entering on matters of controversy. He can put any Question he thinks proper arising out of the answer to the last Question. § MR. NEWDEGATE I humbly apologize, Sir. I thought it necessary to make a statement. I will put the Question in this shape. I wish to know whether Mr. Errington—whoso success I need not refer to—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/24/papal-see-diplomatic-communications-mr", "section": "papal-see-diplomatic-communications-mr", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\" and 768 a cry of \"Evasion!\"", "preceding_text": "t; SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFF I think the House is entitled to more definite information on this point. The noble Lord says that Lord Granville has not written to Rome; but the question is whether he has written to Mr. Errington. That is a very simple question, and one to which we ought to have an answer, \"Yes\" or \"No.\" § LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE I gave a perfectly fair and straightforward answer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/24/papal-see-diplomatic-communications-mr", "section": "papal-see-diplomatic-communications-mr", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " to Rome; but the question is whether he has written to Mr. Errington. That is a very simple question, and one to which we ought to have an answer, \"Yes\" or \"No.\" § LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE I gave a perfectly fair and straightforward answer. [ Cries of \"No!\" and 768 a cry of \"Evasion!\"] I made no verbal distinctions whatever, and I believe the House is satisfied with the answer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/24/papal-see-diplomatic-communications-mr", "section": "papal-see-diplomatic-communications-mr", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Yes or No?\"", "preceding_text": "I put to the noble Lord was clear and distinct—namely, whether Earl Granville has written to Mr. Errington expressly with reference to certain transactions, or has he not? Yes or no? § LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE I should very much regret if, through any want of clearness on my part, any misunderstanding should have arisen in reference to this subject. I have already answered the Question twice. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/24/land-law-ireland-act-1881-judicial-rents", "section": "land-law-ireland-act-1881-judicial-rents", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "er, gave Notice that on Monday lie would, ask, Whether the view taken by the Land Commissioners in this case was not stated in a Circular issued by them to the tenants, not in the exercise of their judicial office, but voluntarily on their part? § MR. T. A. DICKSON I do not think there is the slightest prospect of an appeal in this case. The tenant was utterly unable to enter upon an appeal. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/24/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "o speak, under the county landlords no longer existed. There was a strong disinclination on the part of the Irish farmers and peasantry to put themselves under the leadership of those landlords who were known as the exterminators of the country. Again and again, the scandal had been seen of a great landlord, such as Lord Clanricarde, whose relations with his tenantry were a scandal to the country—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/24/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Farm horses.", "preceding_text": "ld be difficult to find any where in Europe 14,000 irregular Cavalry who, for the short time they had at their disposal for drilling, were so efficient. Not only was that the case, but he might say even more. He had seen the Regular Cavalry, and he had been a soldier himself, and he could say that the horses of the Yeomanry Cavalry of England were far finer than the horses of the Regular Cavalry. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/25/parliament-business-of-the-house", "section": "parliament-business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "80s → 1883 → May 1883 → 25 May 1883 → Commons Sitting → QUESTIONS. PARLIAMENT—BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. HC Deb 25 May 1883 vol 279 cc899-901 899 § MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT I wish to ask the Prime Minister, Whether the statements in the Liberal papers to-day are correct, that the Prime Minister intends to call a meeting of the Liberal Party to revive their drooping spirits-— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/25/parliament-business-of-the-house", "section": "parliament-business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Do not answer!\"", "preceding_text": "3 vol 279 cc899-901 899 § MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT I wish to ask the Prime Minister, Whether the statements in the Liberal papers to-day are correct, that the Prime Minister intends to call a meeting of the Liberal Party to revive their drooping spirits-— [\"Oh, oh!\"]—and whether the right hon. Gentleman intends to make on Monday a formal statement with regard to the Business of the House? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1883/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/may/25/parliament-business-of-the-house", "section": "parliament-business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Do not answer!\"", "preceding_text": " War will consider the language which has been used by the hon. and gallant Member; but we are not in a condition, at the present moment, to make arrangements for giving another night to the Army Estimates. § MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT Perhaps the Prime Minister will be good enough to say \"Yes or \"No\" to the Question whether he intends to make a statement as to the Business of the House on Monday? "}