The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-18 00:00:00

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it is easy

one side, and Mr. Grattan on the other; to quote Sir j.
Newport arid Sir H. Parnell against Mr. Wilberforce and
Mr Secretary Ryder; And much in the way of impression

'ercival's admission—which, how-
ever, his son limits, and with seeming fairness, to the sti-
pulated term of twenty years after the Union.

may be made of

fairly pleaded as the basis of a contract binding the na-
tion : for that purpose nothing can be effectual but the let-
ter of the statute.

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nave been able to find bearing at ail
on the question—and that, it must be admitted, rather
vaguely—is the following poriion of the resolutions of
Parliament preliminary to the Union in 1800:—" That a
sum not Ic.,s than th, -urn which has been granted by the
--t of Ireland on the average of the last six years,
----ntencouragement of agriculture
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institutions for pious
and charitable purposes, shall be applied for the period of
twenty years after the Union to such local purposes, in
such manner as the Parliament of the United Kingdom
shall direct."

Is this what your lordship referred to ? If not, then
with all sincerity of courtesy and most unfeigned respect,
I entreat your lordship to refer us to the letter of the con-
tract, that we may not act or speak in ignorance Gf so im-
portant a document.—l have the honour to be, my lord,
your faithful and obedient servant,
HUGH M'NEILE.
Lord Viscount Sandon, M.P., &c.

THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication the wea-
ther has been unusually cold for the advanced season of
the year,—prolonging, in fact, the winter into a great part
of the " natural" spring. Stilt, no harm has yet been
done, and as an early advent of warmish weather is always
dangerous in this .country, which, in such case, is subject
to frosts, even into April, we see nothing to apprehend
from this check to premature vegetation. When a mild
temperature comes, and that cannot be far distant, the
lat.d will be in so pliable and proper a state for the recep-
tion of seed, that the difference of a week or two will pro-
bably be more than made up by that advantage, and the
less chance of a " killing frost" hereafter. The present
frost trizy be said to have cor:►menced so far back as the
19th of October, inasmuch as it has been unremitting,
with more or less intensity, ever since, with the exception
of a few occasional showers of rain. The night of the
14th of this month was the coldest of the month, the
thermometer standing at night at 19 degrees, or, in other
%voids, 13 degrees below the freezing point ; at nine next
morning it stood at 24 degrees; showing an unprece-
dented low t-rnperature for the month of March, and
such, indeed, as has not occurred here for ten years. It
froze all day yesterday, and last night at eight o'clock the

glass stood et 30 degrees. It has never ceased freezing
.:,mo-t intensely since the 3d instant. A little snow fell
lfist night between seven and eight o'clock. The wind
during this long severity of weather has been almost
exclusively from the east—always cutting in this part of
-he world. It is somitwhat remarkable that in Manehes-
er tie froit has been still more intense, the thermometer
t one time at 14 degrees ; hut this is ac(,ounted
town being inland, and the neighbourhood of
being always less subject, from the saline
to severe visitatiuns of this kind.

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