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... interest of both nations to become one people ? And are either sufficiently aware of this ? " - Bishop Berkeley . LONDON : J. B. NICHOLS AND SON , 25 , PARLIAMENT - STREET . DUBLIN : JAMES MCGLASHEN . MDCCCXLVIII . танки PREFACE TO THE ...
... interest of both nations to become one people ? And are either sufficiently aware of this ? " - Bishop Berkeley . LONDON : J. B. NICHOLS AND SON , 25 , PARLIAMENT - STREET . DUBLIN : JAMES MCGLASHEN . MDCCCXLVIII . танки PREFACE TO THE ...
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... interest between the two countries , and an extending desire for the formation of an Irish republic , have induced ... interests of Ireland , or whether the late disas- trous calamity had so materially altered existing relations as to ...
... interest between the two countries , and an extending desire for the formation of an Irish republic , have induced ... interests of Ireland , or whether the late disas- trous calamity had so materially altered existing relations as to ...
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... interest of England that Ireland should be prosperous and happy . The facts contained in these pages demonstrate that Ireland has derived from the Union many benefits and advantages which would have been greatly enhanced but for the ...
... interest of England that Ireland should be prosperous and happy . The facts contained in these pages demonstrate that Ireland has derived from the Union many benefits and advantages which would have been greatly enhanced but for the ...
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... interest , also indicate progress . Year . No. of Funds . Capital . Circulation . £ £ 1838 50 180,526 1846 250 408,842 1,770,397 The yearly increasing sums of money transmitted by post- office orders in Ireland testify that there is an ...
... interest , also indicate progress . Year . No. of Funds . Capital . Circulation . £ £ 1838 50 180,526 1846 250 408,842 1,770,397 The yearly increasing sums of money transmitted by post- office orders in Ireland testify that there is an ...
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... interest of the portion of the national debt assigned to Ireland . £ The capital of the funded debt of Ireland , as it stood 5 January , 1817 , was 134,602,769 Deduct debt cancelled previous to 1st February , 1847 4,041,732 Actual ...
... interest of the portion of the national debt assigned to Ireland . £ The capital of the funded debt of Ireland , as it stood 5 January , 1817 , was 134,602,769 Deduct debt cancelled previous to 1st February , 1847 4,041,732 Actual ...
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Page 389 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party — often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community — and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual...
Page 404 - Parliament by law, and, until so defined, shall be those of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and of its members and committees, at the commencement of this Constitution.
Page 389 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled, men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 389 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and .action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Page 26 - Whereas in pursuance of his Majesty's most gracious recommendation to the two houses of Parliament in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, to consider of such measures as might best tend to strengthen and consolidate the connection between the two kingdoms, the two houses of the Parliament of Great Britain and the two houses of the Parliament of Ireland have severally agreed and resolved...
Page 399 - Ireland in the house of commons of the parliament of the united kingdom: That such act as shall be passed in the parliament of Ireland previous to the union, to regulate the mode by which the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons, to serve in the parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Ireland, shall be summoned and returned to the said parliament...
Page 400 - That it be the fourth Article of Union that four Lords Spiritual of Ireland by rotation of Sessions, and twenty-eight Lords Temporal of Ireland, elected for life by the Peers of Ireland, shall be the number to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
Page 376 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 391 - Ireland," and that the royal style and titles appertaining to the imperial crown of the said united kingdom and its dependencies...
Page 393 - Heirs or Successors shall declare her or their Pleasure for holding the First or any subsequent Parliament of Great Britain until the Parliament of Great Britain shall make further provision therein a Writ do issue under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom...