Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria: From Original Family Documents, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1861 |
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Page 386 - The Queen, having considered the proposal made to her yesterday by Sir Robert Peel, to remove the Ladies of her Bedchamber, cannot consent to adopt a course which she conceives to be contrary to usage, and which is repugnant to her feelings.
Page 192 - April, the Bill was read a first time in the House of Lords. On the 10th of April...
Page 34 - I shall not resort in vain for assistance in these afflicting circumstances, and that you will be ready to adopt such measures of salutary precaution, and to intrust to me such additional powers, as may be found necessary for controlling and punishing the disturbers of the public peace, and for preserving and strengthening the legislative union between the two countries...
Page 21 - ... will be discountenanced and resisted ; and that the establishment of internal tranquillity and order will prove that the measures which I have sanctioned will not be fruitless in promoting the security of the State and the contentment and welfare of my people.
Page 352 - Act for indemnifying those who have issued or acted under certain parts of a certain Ordinance, made under colour of an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act to make temporary Provision for the Government of Lower Canada.
Page 262 - that it is the opinion of this House, that funds may be derived from an improved mode of management of church lands ; and that these funds should be applied to religious instruction within the established church, where the same may be found deficient in proportion to the existing population.
Page 317 - House and the public may be able to place reliance ; and declaring, with all deference to the constitutional prerogative of the Crown, that her Majesty's present Secretary of State for the Colonies does not enjoy the confidence of this House or of the country.
Page 263 - Select Committee to inquire into the mode of granting and renewing leases of the landed and other property of the Bishops, Deans, and Chapters, and other ecclesiastical bodies of England and Wales, and into the probable amount of increased value which might be obtained by an improved management, with a due consideration of the interests of the Established Church, and of the present lessees of such property.
Page 165 - Episcopal duties — the state of the several Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with a view to the suggestion of such measures as...
Page 374 - I have observed with pain the persevering efforts which have been made in some parts of the country to excite my subjects to disobedience and resistance to the law, and to recommend dangerous and illegal practices. For the counteraction of all such designs, I depend upon the efficacy of the law, which it will be my duty to enforce, upon the good sense and right disposition of my people, upon their attachment to the principles of justice, and their abhorrence of violence and disorder. " I confidently...