Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the Borough of Gateshead, Volume 7

Voorkant
1847
 

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Pagina 4 - I recommend you to take into your early consideration, whether the principles on which you have acted may not with advantage be yet more extensively applied, and whether it may not be in your power, after a careful review of the existing duties upon many articles, the produce or manufacture of other countries, to make such further reductions and remissions as may tend to insure the continuance of the great benefits to which I have adverted, and, by enlarging our commercial intercourse, to strengthen...
Pagina 4 - her Majesty was made to say, ' great satisfaction in giving my assent to the measures which you have presented to me from time to time, calculated to extend commerce and to stimulate domestic skill and industry, by the repeal of prohibitive and the relaxation of protective duties. I recommend you to take into your early consideration whether the principle on which you have acted may not with advantage be yet more extensively applied.
Pagina 4 - I have to lament that, in consequence of a failure of the potato crop in several parts of the United Kingdom, there will be a deficient supply of an article of food which forms the chief subsistence of great numbers of my people.
Pagina 4 - My Lords, and Gentlemen, I have observed, with deep regret, the very frequent instances in which the crime of deliberate assassination has been of late committed in Ireland. It will be your duty to consider whether any measures can be devised calculated to give increased protection to life, and to bring to justice the perpetrators of so dreadful a crime.
Pagina 4 - Any measures which you may adopt for effecting these great objects will, I am convinced, be accompanied by such precautions as shall prevent permanent loss to the revenue, or injurious results to any of the great interests of the country.
Pagina 4 - I have made on this occasion to recommend to your calm and dispassionate consideration these proposals, with no other feeling or interest in the ultimate issue than that they may, to use the words of Her Majesty's Speech, conduce to the promotion "of friendly...
Pagina 3 - My Lords, and Gentlemen, " It gives Me great Satisfaction again to meet you in Parliament, and to have the Opportunity of recurring to your Assistance and Advice. " I continue to receive from My Allies, and from other Foreign Powers, the strongest Assurances of their Desire to cultivate the most friendly Relations with this Country.
Pagina 77 - order ' he cared not a straw ? When each had his dungeon and rack for the poor, And a gibbet, to hang a refractory boor ? They were days when a man with a thought in his pate Was a man that was born for the popular hate ; And if 'twere a thought that was good for his kind, The man was too vile to be left unconfined ; The days when obedience, in right or in wrong, Was always the sermon and always the song ; When the people, like cattle, were pounded or driven, And to scourge them was thought a King's...
Pagina 4 - The disease by which the plant has been affected has prevailed to the utmost extent in Ireland. I have adopted all such precautions as it was in my power to adopt for the purpose of alleviating the sufferings which may be caused by this calamity; and I shall confidently rely on your co-operation in devising such other means for effecting the same benevolent purpose as may require the sanction of the Legislature.
Pagina 55 - ... estate and interest in such lands and of the claims made by them in respect thereof ; and every such notice shall state the particulars of the lands so required, and that the promoters of the undertaking are willing to treat for the purchase thereof, and as to the compensation to be made to all parties for the damage that may be sustained by them by reason of the execution of the works.

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