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So much misapprehension and misrepresentation prevails as to what has really taken place in the House of Commons with reference to my Parliamentary struggle, that I reprint the Report of the Second Select Committee and the Evidence taken before such Committee, together with my...
94. And I presume, of course, that at the time when you made that claim you founded it upon the belief that you were entitled to make affirmation in the House of Commons?--I mad...
3. Part 382. Mr. GIBSON: You have been asked by several honorable Members about O'Connell's case; in your opinion, is there the slightest analogy between the facts and circumstances in O...
5. Part 5165. Mr. STAVELEY HILL: I wish to ask you one question with reference to what took place before Lord Justice Brett (then Mr. Justice Brett), and, of course, if you think proper,...
2. Part 223. Mr. BRADLAUGH (through the Committee): I should like to ask upon that whether the case of Daniel O'Connell was not a case of absolute refusal by the Member to take the oath...
11. Part 11Three times your Eminence has--through the pages of the _Nineteenth Century_--personally and publicly interfered and used the weight of your ecclesiastical position against me i...
1. Part 1So much misapprehension and misrepresentation prevails as to what has really taken place in the House of Commons with reference to my Parliamentary struggle, that I reprint the...
12. Part 12Upon being refused permission to affirm, you immediately came to the table of the House and offered to take the oath. This proceeding was objected to, and the majority of the Ho...
6. Part 6And the several statutes qualifying persons to come into and sit and vote in this House were read, viz., of the 30 Car. II., 1 Will. and Mariæ, and 7 and 8 Will. and Mariæ.
10. Part 10SIR,--In addressing the House for the third time from this position, I feel the exceeding difficulty of dealing fairly with myself without dealing unfairly with the House. If I...
13. Part 13Mr. Bradlaugh was then recalled and requested to withdraw from the House. Standing by the table, he said: "I respectfully refuse to obey the order of the House, because the orde...
8. Part 8SIR,--I have to ask the indulgence of every member of this House while, in a position unexampled in the history of this House, I try to give one or two reasons why the resolutio...
7. Part 7_Resolved_ (after Debate), That David Salomons, Esq., is not entitled to vote in this House, or to sit in this House, during any debate, until he shall take the Oath of Abjurati...
9. Part 9Mr. SPEAKER,--I have again to ask the indulgence of the House while I submit to it a few words in favor of my claim to do that which the law requires me to do. Perhaps the House...
14. Part 14Feb. 16th.--Sharp succession of frantic speeches in the House of Commons by Mr. Newdegate, Alderman Fowler, Mr. Warton, Mr. Henry Chaplin, Mr. Onslow, Mr. Grantham, Mr. Beresfor...