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Member for Leitrim (Mr. Tottenham) carried the matter a little further, because he suggested that any person who took the same view as the noble Lord the Member for Woodstock would be guilty of recklessness or insanity.
1880
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S3V0240P0_14686
1870
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S4V0051P0_2119
1890
1897-07-26
1,107,684
S3V0150P0_10025
Then all the bad characters and drunkards were at once dismissed from the police force, and no policeman was punished by imprisonment.
1850
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867,134
S3V0315P0_26365
The liberties of the people in any part of the country ought not to be taken away by an inferior authority.
1880
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S1V0039P0_5040
The Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, acquaints the House of Commons, that the sum of 58, 000 l .
1810
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173,896
S3V0104P0_191
He did not doubt, however, that parties of a liberal tone of politics would be more readily recommended, as likely to have the best chance, because their political views might be considered as coinciding with those of Government.
1840
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925,326
S3V0293P0_13295
The complaint on the other hand was that the Crown did not challenge men who, from the social position they occupied as Freemasons, were likely to acquit Cornwall.
1880
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714,213
S3V0233P0_13598
He thought it was wrong that the Crown should try to establish rights which had never heretofore been known in the law of Scotland.
1870
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796,365
S3V0329P0_10195
MAC NEILL (Donegal, S. ) asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, in the Killybegs Petty Sessions District of the County of Donegal, there is not one Catholic magistrate, although more than 90 per cent of the population of the district are Roman Catholics; and, whether Her Majesty's Government will take steps to remedy this grievance?
1880
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1,526,418
S2V0014P0_11346
gentleman, as it ap-
1820
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S3V0071P0_3076
[Mr. Rutherford: """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""But that was overruled. 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1840
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S3V0261P0_11785
If it should cost a little more money, I do not ask the Education Department to supply it.
1880
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S3V0096P0_16292
We cannot discover, from the sources of information which we possess, that more than 2, 000 slaves have been imported into Cuba in each of these two years.
1840
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806,888
S3V0312P0_23519
Gentleman the Member for Derby think is the alternative if we cannot pass those measures?
1880
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S3V0305P0_5419
Under high pressure and the exceptional circumstances of the case last year, the Revising Barristers worked a great deal more than they could properly have been called upon to work; and you cannot expect them to do that constantly, year by year.
1880
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S3V0200P0_491
Were they in alliance, either, with the speakers at so-called tenant-right meetings, where topics of a very different kind were introduced?
1870
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S3V0188P0_6767
Is that the case with Universities?
1860
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S3V0326P0_18673
Member for Louth admitted that the name of the introducing Member was in his handwriting.
1880
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1,478,934
S3V0144P0_24908
They were also distinctly given, and they had never been given better or more powerfully than by the noble Lord the present Prime Minister in 1848–49.
1850
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717,362
S3V0127P0_5143
And yet these men, holding these extensive powers, were appointed by men who were perhaps of less, certainly not of superior standing to themselves.
1850
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302,334
S3V0016P0_20109
He had, therefore, been obliged to come to that House, praying for a restitution of the pension of this wounded soldier.
1830
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357,041
S3V0040P0_5872
It had been argued that Canada endured practical grievances which pressed heavily upon the colony.
1830
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797,147
S3V0095P0_4802
Gentleman would give him the name of any country likely to join in our reciprocity policy; and if not, judging from the past and surveying the present, and admitting that the experiment of free trade had not had a full trial, the advocates of that measure must at least permit him to say—what indeed none could deny—that all the flattering predictions with which its enactment was ushered in had been utterly and completely falsified.
1840
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774,904
S3V0195P0_22686
said, he would be prepared to alter his Amendment by requiring the Church Body to make their application within twelve months of the 1st of January, 1871.
1860
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S3V0039P0_5162
rose to move for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the causes of the irregularities and delays which have taken place in the transmission of the mails by the railway from Birmingham to Liverpool.
1830
null
775,864
S3V0029P0_1226
Both of them had been over and over again disturbed by polemical discussion, but particularly Cambridge which had been agitated in the beginning of the last century.
1830
null
577,695
S1V0003P0_5626
It was made, and it was successful; for they were met within sight of the harbour of Cadiz, and if we had been 24 hours later, they would have arrived safely in their destined harbour, and then, in addition to the armament which the hon.
1800
null
20,409
S4V0030P0_11208
Gentleman whether he thinks it is fair to all the other firms who took the trouble to tender for this contract that the most vital provision should be departed from in the case of this particular firm that got the contract?
1890
1895-02-14
643,942
S3V0117P0_326
He (Lord Brougham) was not aware of the intention of his noble and learned Friend to bring the subject before their Lordships on Monday night, and therefore he was not prepared, in the statement he then had made, to sift his account of the working in Ireland of the Bill of the present Master of the Rolls, and to compare the provisions of that Bill with the provisions of the Bill which last Session he (Lord Brougham) had laid before their Lordships—which had found acceptance from their Lordships—which had passed through all its stages without any opposition whatever, except the doubts expressed by his most learned and able and much lamented Friend the late Master of the Rolls (Lord Langdale), which doubts upon further consideration had been so far removed, that he bad waived any objection to the measure: so that having passed through that House without any opposition, it went to the other House of Parliament, where it was dropped from; accidental circumstances, such, he presumed, as existed at a late period of the Session.
1850
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S3V0270P0_25753
He bad heard the right hon.
1880
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S3V0228P0_14554
For my part, I cannot understand why reason and argument ought not to be as potent in this House as in any other place in the world.
1870
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672,452
S3V0288P0_9620
Member for North Shropshire could not be accused of any opposition to the principle of the Bill.
1880
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S3V0226P0_9906
If they had a severe law, they inflicted that severe law only upon a guilty person; but under a vague law the penalty might be inflicted upon an innocent person.
1870
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629,656
S3V0045P0_12084
He did not wish to press the bill in the absence of the noble Lord or any other Members but he could not agree to put off the Committee on the bill for so lengthened a period.
1830
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S3V0163P0_10212
Gentleman on that great national subject.
1860
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191,336
S3V0069P0_2300
Gentleman at the head of her Majesty's Government, I cannot but view it as among the causes that have the most materially strengthened the hands of the agitators of that question, that by the regulations of the National Board, the education and training of the great mass of the Irish population has for many years been, and still continues, to the practical exclusion of the Clergy of the Established Church, the natural friends of British connection, entrusted to the Roman Catholic Clergy who are, as your Lordships' are now well aware, the active promoters of the Repeal movement.
1840
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S3V0151P0_27096
This question had been raised two years ago, and a provision was then made that when Parliament met it should be put in possession of the mode of disposal of these sums.
1850
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S3V0251P0_8736
Was it reasonable to suppose that an elected body would be less liable to influence than the local magistrates—
1880
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S3V0156P0_26565
The usual course, however, would be followed, and the new duty would take effect immediately after the Resolution had been reported to the House.
1860
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The hon.
1830
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S3V0027P0_4900
He admitted that, but he also begged to remind the hon.
1830
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S3V0085P0_803
In so doing, they had no doubt taken a part which had led to the destruction of life; but, putting out of the question those stories (concerning which he had not one particle of information) respecting advertising rewards for living captives or the heads of the slain, he did not see anything so bad in the efforts of the peasantry to support a Government under which they had received signal advantages and benefits.
1840
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S3V0071P0_5335
That question he should at any time be ready to discuss.
1840
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S3V0202P0_4918
He thought the system of registration proposed would tend to prevent disputes in future.
1870
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87,634
S3V0026P0_184
The King's Speech is also, we are told a Reforming Speech.
1830
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521,697
S3V0333P0_6773
Hon.
1880
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1,629,330
S3V0322P0_17573
Order, order!
1880
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S3V0319P0_21586
The forced sales have amounted to not less than £800, 000.
1880
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1,297,345
S3V0309P0_12068
Members opposite.
1880
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1,023,690
S3V0062P0_17120
Why, then, should the House be called upon to impose this obnoxious Income-tax upon traders and others, and thereby twice to tax personal property, when so just a tax as one on real property by descent, was capable of realising the total amount of the deficiency complained of?
1840
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S3V0209P0_18410
In which class of schools was the teaching of the most inveterately denominational character?
1870
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276,182
S3V0008P0_6175
He should join in supporting the motion, he understood his hon.
1830
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S3V0095P0_19519
a liberality of sentiment to a small class—which, he must say, might involve a great deal of il-liberality to a very large class.
1840
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S3V0109P0_9497
If it had not been or that, the whole country must have been in absolute convulsion long ago.
1850
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28,103
S3V0181P0_597
I am far from contending that these arguments are without weight, or that there is no truth in the statements on which they rest; but it does not follow, because there is a certain amount of good mixed up with the gross abuses which now prevail, that we ought contentedly to allow these abuses to flourish.
1860
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S3V0123P0_4059
It was stated, by a high authority, that more real practical business was done by that House on the Wednesdays than on any of the other days of the week.
1850
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S3V0288P0_17838
The bailiff forced in the door, as admission would not be given, and this was quite legal under the authority of the writ.
1880
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S4V0048P0_661
Many members of the Church of England think that, having regard to the tender age at which children are taught in elementary schools, and the very limited time given to teaching religion in the day school, the simpler the teaching is made the more likely it is to have effect; and if the teaching is confined to the simple elements on which all Christians are agreed, more good will be done than by trying to make little Churchmen or dissenters of them.
1890
1897-03-30
1,058,706
S3V0140P0_9476
Some of the best men were shelved on this list, and never got further.
1850
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S3V0250P0_7529
What was the position of this matter?
1880
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7,529
S3V0023P0_19091
To meet a few extreme cases, the same severe and costly remedy was to be applied to all!
1830
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S3V0319P0_23946
Friend stated, there is no intention to blame the present Government in the matter.
1880
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S3V0162P0_10438
The hon.
1860
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158,325
S3V0174P0_20093
No doubt the demands that were made by Mr. Clare were extravagant, and his manner of supporting them eccentric, and this might have had an effect upon the Judge, whose summing up was more like the impassioned argument of an interested counsel than the calm deliberation of an impartial Judge.
1860
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S3V0240P0_19344
The practice which has prevailed has been to move to reduce a Vote by a reasonable amount.
1870
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967,675
S1V0031P0_8228
from 120 to 100.
1810
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S3V0015P0_4239
Decidedly opposed to such a course.
1830
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S3V0056P0_7181
If, then, imprisonment for three years was the maximum amount of punishment for all the grave offences, included in the act to which he had just referred, and which, previous to the passing of that act, were punishable with death, that amount of punishment ought to be the standard by which all future legislation upon the subject of secondary punishment should be guided.
1840
null
78,049
S3V0204P0_16447
The principal alterations made were due to a compromise which had been made.
1870
null
144,701
S3V0086P0_15085
I will rest our case on Lincolnshire.
1840
null
626,072
S3V0329P0_10968
Under it Wales would gain to the extent of 3 d .
1880
null
1,527,191
S3V0224P0_2511
The Royal Geographical Society considered that proposal, and informed the Government that they were not in a position to accept it.
1870
null
570,587
S3V0022P0_7007
He should, however, take that opportunity of recording his own conviction of the impolicy and injustice of requiring from the Dissenters the payment of Church-rates when they erected, entirely at their own cost, their own chapels, and supported their own ministers.
1830
null
454,732
S3V0216P0_16416
This was a matter worthy of the consideration of the Government.
1870
null
419,503
S2V0001P0_18117
member for Bramber made his motion, the noble lord, having hung back for about 10 minutes, said, """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Oh, if the House think it proper, I will consent to adjourn the debate. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
1820
null
18,740
S3V0201P0_26165
On that occasion the right hon.
1870
null
82,076
S1V0035P0_13388
said, that the object of sir E. Knatchbull was evidently to do as much injury as possible to the petition.
1810
null
130,098
S3V0279P0_3977
The French officer who conducted him over the yard gave him a great deal of valuable information.
1880
null
445,667
S3V0151P0_29793
His hon.
1850
null
918,237
S3V0164P0_19810
Had it not been that the negotiations for the treaty of commerce were simultaneous with the cession of Savoy and Nice, which he could call by no other name than a trick, he should have said that treaty did lay us and Europe under considerable obligations.
1860
null
224,629
S4V0034P0_24049
On July 15 last year the Secretary for War said that he could not, with due regard to the interests of the public service, give any figures with regard to the reserve store of ammunition, but he added that he did not profess to regard it as satisfactory.
1890
1895-06-21
761,304
S3V0305P0_14785
Member for Essex (Mr. Beadel) another illustration of the doctrine held on the other side of the House.
1880
null
933,078
S4V0039P0_16696
in the pound upon the actual rental.
1890
1896-04-16
856,767
S3V0277P0_6136
It is contended, I believe, by the War Department that the Navy charges should considerably exceed this amount; but that is not a matter which I will go into at present.
1880
null
393,363
S3V0062P0_5733
Why have I dealt so liberally with respect to timber, but because I want the profit arising from the reduction of duty to be obtained by the consumer.
1840
null
190,441
S3V0263P0_25711
Why should it be held that the man who was able to make a contract with the owner of his holding in the year 1884 was not to be considered to have made a reasonable contract with his landlord in 1878 or 1879?
1880
null
198,037
S3V0303P0_5331
It is unfortunate, however, in this case as in many others, that hon.
1880
null
866,654
S3V0149P0_20972
I shall, upon the contrary, feel it to be my duty to support the simple Motion of my hon.
1850
null
848,491
S3V0123P0_10968
It had been said of him, indeed, that he was one among the few whose conduct had not been tainted with any sinister purpose in the matter.
1850
null
244,811
S3V0228P0_25896
Then the House had been told that the arrangements as to transport were so defective that certain persons made large fortunes out of contracts with the Government.
1870
null
683,794
S3V0203P0_4146
said, the noble Earl (the Earl of Feversham) was quite right in supposing that the statement as to there being only 30, 000 Snider rifles in store was inaccurate, and, without going into the particulars of the matter, he might add that that blunder was a ridiculous one.
1870
null
110,076
S3V0329P0_5328
Careful inquiry in Bechuanaland had convinced him that if we had set up a firm permanent administration there at a cost of £10, 000 or £15, 000 we should have avoided an expedition which cost the country over £1, 000, 000 sterling.
1880
null
1,521,551
S3V0119P0_10505
So that it would appear that the parties who had the management of the savings of the industrious depositors in savings banks were as uncontrolled in that management as if they were disposing of their own private money; so that a body of irresponsible men were intrusted with the deposits of the industrious classes of this country.
1850
null
166,540
S3V0089P0_9150
With one exception, he believed that all the corn merchants of the city of Cork had combined to keep up prices.
1840
null
674,917
S3V0329P0_1021
There was very much mirage in the month of July, and you could not shoot with mirage—
1880
null
1,517,244
S3V0145P0_17755
As the law at present stood, a married woman had full power to dispose of real estate, whether in possession, reversion, remainder, or contingency.
1850
null
743,905
S2V0019P0_13480
members to declare their intention to oppose a motion before they had heard the grounds on which it was to be supported.
1820
null
330,880
S2V0010P0_16926
that, through the whole slave population, there was one feeling, that something essentially beneficial was intended to be done for the negroes, but that their masters were opposed to any amelioration of their condition.
1820
null
194,918
S3V0114P0_9524
It was stated that nearly one-half of the body composing the synod were of another way of thinking; and yet so much were they all the vassals of a foreign Power that the synodical address was professed to be carried by the unanimous acclamation of the assembly.
1850
null
104,787