The History of England from the Year 1830-1874, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1874 |
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... Tahiti Affair 141 of Office by the Ministry . • Manchester Mr. Paulton 178 More vigorous Efforts 182 • Recommendations of the Dele- gates vii PAGE The League Measures of Compensation to Progress the vi CONTENTS OF VOLUME II .
... Tahiti Affair 141 of Office by the Ministry . • Manchester Mr. Paulton 178 More vigorous Efforts 182 • Recommendations of the Dele- gates vii PAGE The League Measures of Compensation to Progress the vi CONTENTS OF VOLUME II .
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... Manchester 369 The Gorham Case A Reform Bill 371 The Judicial Committee of Dismissal of Lord Palmerston 372 the Privy Council The Derby Administration 379 University Reform The Aberdeen Administration 382 The Sunday Delivery of Letters ...
... Manchester 369 The Gorham Case A Reform Bill 371 The Judicial Committee of Dismissal of Lord Palmerston 372 the Privy Council The Derby Administration 379 University Reform The Aberdeen Administration 382 The Sunday Delivery of Letters ...
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... Manchester . ' By the police - returns for Manchester , made up to De- cember , 1841 , it appears that 13,345 persons were taken into custody , of whom 10,208 were discharged by the magis- trates without any punishment . Of these 3069 ...
... Manchester . ' By the police - returns for Manchester , made up to De- cember , 1841 , it appears that 13,345 persons were taken into custody , of whom 10,208 were discharged by the magis- trates without any punishment . Of these 3069 ...
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... Manchester 1500 children are annually added to les classes dangereuses . ' After remarking that the total annual expenditure for the punishment of crime was 604,9657 . , in the county of Lancaster alone , while the annual vote for ...
... Manchester 1500 children are annually added to les classes dangereuses . ' After remarking that the total annual expenditure for the punishment of crime was 604,9657 . , in the county of Lancaster alone , while the annual vote for ...
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... Manchester and Leeds . 1000 6150 London and Brighton 3000 1600 3000 1800 8000 38,000 3000 41,400 A bill for the abolition of imprisonment for debts under the amount of 207. had received the royal assent by com- mission on the 9th of ...
... Manchester and Leeds . 1000 6150 London and Brighton 3000 1600 3000 1800 8000 38,000 3000 41,400 A bill for the abolition of imprisonment for debts under the amount of 207. had received the royal assent by com- mission on the 9th of ...
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Page 349 - I have little hope that the propounders and framers of these innovations will desist from their insidious course. But I rely with confidence on the people of England ; and I will not bate a jot of heart or hope, so long as the glorious principles and the immortal martyrs of the Reformation shall be held in reverence...
Page 339 - Sunday in all parts of the kingdom. " And also, that Her Majesty will cause an inquiry to be made as to how far, without injury to the public service, the transmission of the mails on the Lord's Day might be diminished, or entirely suspended.
Page 279 - July that the petition should be printed was adopted without opposition; but when, on the same evening, he moved that the House should resolve itself into a committee for the purpose of considering its prayer, the motion, after a long debate, was rejected by 237 [against 148.
Page 206 - ... advanced to the highest dignities of the Church, for helping to rivet the fetters of Catholic and Protestant Dissenters ; and no more chance of a Whig administration than of a thaw in Zembla. These were the penalties exacted for liberality of opinion at that period, and not only was there no pay, but there were many stripes.
Page 214 - Now, sir, the Lord High Admiral on that occasion was very much misrepresented. He, too, was called a traitor, and he, too, vindicated himself. ' True it is,' said he, ' I did place myself at the head of this valiant armada; true it is that my Sovereign embraced me ; true it is that all the muftis in the empire offered up prayers for the expedition ; but I have an objection to war.
Page 99 - That a humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to take into her instant and serious consideration the best means of diffusing the benefits and blessings of a moral and religious education among the working classes of the people.
Page 94 - The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnauth, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory; the proof of your superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus.
Page 215 - I do say that my conception of a great statesman is of one who represents a great idea — an idea which may lead him to power — an idea with which he may identify himself — an idea which he may develop — an idea which he may and can impress on the mind and conscience of a nation.
Page 107 - Times, a series of anonymous publications, purporting to be written by members of the University, but which are in no way sanctioned by the University itself: " Resolved, that modes of interpretation such as are suggested in the said tract, evading rather than explaining the sense of the Thirty-nine Articles, and reconciling subscription to them with the adoption of errors which they were designed to counteract, defeat the object, and are inconsistent with the due observance of the above-mentioned...
Page 370 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing...