and expatriated small farmers of Ireland. On a division, there were 119
for the clause and 9 against it. Here are the nine who opposed the
never-to-be-forgotten quarter-acre-Gregory clause: William Sharman
Crawford, B. Escott, Sir De Lacy Evans, Alderman Humphrey, A. M'Carthy,
G.P. Scrope, W. Williams. Tellers: William Smith O'Brien and J.
Curteis.[204]

FOOTNOTES:

[192] So given, in the daily _journals_, but in _Hansard_ the passage is
much modified, and the hit at the Irish landlords disappears.

"Allow me an opportunity of correcting the error which is widely
diffused among the public, and even in Parliament itself, that in
_Hansard's Debates_ we have the means of obtaining an authentic report
of parliamentary proceedings. This is an entire delusion. _Hansard_ is a
private publication, dependent on the ordinary newspaper reports,
supplemented by such corrections as members make themselves."--_Letter
of Mr. Mitchell Henry, M.P., to the Times of July 14th_, 1873.

[193] _The Morning Chronicle_.

[194] In some reports of the speech the words are "beggars enough for
all Europe."

[195] Mr. 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_. To make the sense terminate at "decimated," he
moulds a sentence and a half into one, thus: "The Chief Secretary says,
that the ministers did wisely in this decision, but I differ from him
when I hear, every day, of persons being starved to death, and when he,
himself, admits that in many parts of the country the population had
been decimated;" the censure on the Government contained in the words
immediately succeeding, is omitted. The reason why Mr. D'Israeli did
this is obvious from what follows, which shows he did not agree with
Lord George, in censuring the Government for not opening depots, and he
undertakes to prove that they should not have done so. He uses, amongst
others, the old trite argument, when he says: there is reason to believe
that the establishment of Government depots at the end of '46, however
cautiously introduced, tended in the localities to arrest the
development of that retail trade, which was then rapidly extending
throughout Ireland."--_Lord George Bentinck, a political Biography, 5th
Ed., pp. 360, 363_.

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