Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria, Band 1

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Seite 177 - Mr. Hobhouse acknowledged that the late Ministers had gone as far in retrenchment as the corrupt system of the House of Commons and of the constitution of the Government had permitted them. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, and another debate ensued, in which reduction, the foreign policy of the country, and existing distress, were much dwelt upon. On the 14th, Lord King made a speech against the Established Church, while presenting a petition respecting tithes. The Archbishop...
Seite 229 - The danger is terrible. The time is short. If this bill should be rejected, I pray to God that none of those who concur in rejecting it may ever remember their votes with unavailing remorse, amidst the wreck of laws, the confusion of ranks, the spoliation of property, and the dissolution of social order.
Seite 300 - Bill went into committee. Several other speeches were made, but, as in the other House, the address was carried without a division. The following day, on the report upon the address being brought up, Mr. Hume recommended strict economy to Ministers. Mr. O'Connell brought under the consideration of the House the position of the Poles, and then described the state of Ireland; and Mr. Hunt withdrew the motion he had given notice of the previous day. It will be seen that in the House of Commons affairs...
Seite 229 - ... pride of a fatal consistency, but of history, of reason, of the ages which are past, of the signs of this most portentous time. Pronounce in a manner worthy of the expectation with which this great Debate has been anticipated, and of the long remembrance which it will leave behind. Renew the youth of the State. Save property divided against itself. Save the multitude, endangered by their own ungovernable passions.
Seite 229 - Save the greatest, and fairest, and most highly civilized community that ever existed, from calamities which may in a few days sweep away all the rich heritage of so many ages of wisdom and glory. The danger is terrible. The time is short.
Seite 109 - Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.
Seite 352 - Guards, headed by their lieutenant and standard-bearer; then came the groom of the stole, the gold stick and the master of the horse, the captains of the Yeomen of the Guard and of the Gentlemen Pensioners (Lord Foley) and of the Archer Guard of Scotland (Duke of Buccleugh), and a few other subordinates of the royal household. All having been conducted to their appointed places at the conclusion of the anthem, the King attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Deputy Lord...
Seite 279 - Cupar more extensive Accommodation for holding the Courts and Meetings of the Sheriff, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Fife, and for the custody of the Records of the said County.
Seite 246 - that in using the term 'lower classes' he meant nothing offensive, acknowledging that he had sprung from them, and that he gloried in the fact ; and it was, in his opinion, a noble and delightful thing to know that the humblest man in the realm might by a life of industry, propriety, and good moral and religious conduct, rise to eminence.
Seite 228 - Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform that you may preserve. Now, therefore, while everything at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless struggle against the spirit of the age, now, while the crash of the proudest throne of the continent is still resounding in our ears, now, while the roof of a British palace affords ignominious shelter to the exiled heir of forty kings...