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Lord Randolph's speech that night on the Irish question was the best he ever delivered. It came on late in the evening, and he stuck to his text like a clergyman. He quoted from Hansard to prove that Mr. Gladstone did not know what he was talking about; he blazed out against the Parnellites till they were called to order. The ironical members who cried "Hear, hear," regretted it.
The Government having evidently abandoned their promise of bringing forward a measure for the reclamation of Irish waste lands, Mr. The hon. member proceeded to speak in support of his resolution, but, says Hansard, he had not proceeded far when the House was counted out. Poulett Scrope had given notice of his intention to move, with respect to the waste lands of Ireland.
Sir Robert Peel then proceeded, with calmness and dignity, to encounter the possible, if not even probable fatal unpopularity of proposing that which he succeeded in convincing Parliament was the only resource left a conscientious Minister an INCOME TAX. Hansard, vol. lxi. col. 429, 430, 431.
Metcalfe to Stanley, 23 November, 1844. Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 9 December, 1847. Stanley to Metcalfe, 18 May, 1844. Hansard, 30 May, 1844. Kaye, Life of Lord Metcalfe, ii. pp. 405-9. Metcalfe to Stanley, 13 May, 1845. The year which intervened between Metcalfe's departure and the arrival of Lord Elgin at the beginning of 1847, may be disregarded in this inquiry.
Them that shouldered muskets an' fit an' lived on hard-tack don't want no more uv it." Westerfelt said nothing. "Hello thar!" The voice was from the buggy behind. Westerfelt turned. It was Frank Hansard with Jennie Wynn. "Hello!" replied Westerfelt, greatly relieved, "Whyn't you git down an' fight it out while we're waitin'?" jested Frank, in a low voice.
Even the cold and colorless pages of 'Hansard' show signs of the excitement under which he labored, and of the tumultuous applause and dissent by which his opening sentences were interrupted. 'The speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he said, 'must be answered on the moment. It must be tried by the laws of decency and propriety." He indignantly rebuked his rival's language and demeanor.
I say, further, that England and Scotland are eager to make atonement for past crimes and past errors; and I say, yet further, that it depends upon us, this House of Commons, this Imperial Parliament, whether that reconciliation shall take place, and whether that atonement shall at length be made. From Hansard. Bright was opposed to the war with Russia.
They called at the Reform Club twenty times in the morning, badgered whips and red-tapers; were introduced to candidates, badgered candidates; examined would-be members as if they were at a cattle-show, listened to political pedigrees, dictated political pledges, referred to Hansard to see how men had voted, inquired whether men had spoken, finally discussed terms.
D'Israeli, in his Political Biography of Lord George Bentinck, quotes this passage, and, as it seems to me, manipulates it unfairly, by ending it at the word "decimated," as if there were a full stop there, whereas the sense in the original only requires a comma, and so it is in Hansard.
The fact that nobody wants Hansard is not necessarily a rebuff to Parliamentary eloquence, yet these low prices jump with the times and undoubtedly indicate an impatience of oratory. We talk more than our ancestors, but we prove our good faith by doing it very badly. We have no Erskines at the Bar, but trials last longer than ever.