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BELFAST WATERWORKS' BILL—PUBLIC MEETING

... BELFAST WATERWORKS' BILL-PUBLIC MEETING | tot On Toesday last, at 12 'clock, a public meeting of the lai inhhbitants of this town was held in the Police-Buildings sh for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Deputatioil appointed to wait upon Lord Belfast in London, with a be view of bringing about an amicable settlement in relatioi na to the Bill for supplying Belfast with additional ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 6722 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... J.jrjrEjtj&L JID&RJLI&r;,tF- IOIOUSE OF COMMONS-MONDAY, FrB. 19. PARljIAMRNTARY ELECTORS' QQTALIrICATION. *Upon the question being put, that this bill be nowi read a third time, Ajr. MAC LEAN entered into the history of this mea- sure, ard of the form which it hold originully asunyed, haeirrg relation exclusively to the freemen, arid anrrse- qujerily having added to it another measure. for ...

Published: Tuesday 27 February 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 12744 | Page: Page 1, 4 | Tags: News 

THE PAWNBROKING SYSTEM

... TO HENRY JOT-IN PORTER, RSQ. , S ?? t he ?? ?? of Tuesday week I punblished a partial reftation of some inisreprolientations wvhici you had :put forth against the Pawnbrokers of Treland en nUe'ue. In that refutation I felt it necessary, and absolutely dne to my- iast-ll and others in the trade, directly to repel the accusations broughlt forward; and alegto Vharzc yon with attempting to mislead ...

Published: Tuesday 20 March 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1582 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF BENJAMIN WEST

... BIOCGRAPHIIC Sk ETCH OF BENJAIMIN WEST. oet | B3ENsJArN WEST, President of the Royal Academy rn- of Painting, was born oin the 10th October, 1738, and nd was the son of Johu West, a Qaaker, residing at on Springfield, a village in the interior of Pennsylvania. of His father might be considered as illustrious in the an- am nals of philantrophy, if, i A-fr. Galt seems to intimato, his example ...

Published: Tuesday 02 October 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 5984 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

COMMEMORATION OF THE GREAT GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1638

... COMM1EMORATION OF TME GREAT GENERAL 43SEMBLY OF 1638. TIIE following. are some of the principal speeches which were delivered at thbe lecorn memoration 'din, ner in Glasgow. :Its will be recollected tliut the Lord Provost took thecliair on tile occasion:..: The Rev. Dr. Mijn, after~some introdluetorylobse~i vations ?? Lord, we are gratctul-tthe Chuich is gratefi-land till who love their ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4038 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

OLIVER CROMWELL IN LOVE!

... OLIVER CROMWELL IN LOVE'! Any one who had merely read those memoirs of this remarkable man which are generally given to the pub- lic as the authentic history of his life, would hardly suppose it possible that his heart could be more pene- trable than his head! Ilut the following biiefmemuoiir, drawn up from the inforihation contained in a collec- tion of letters in the possession of a ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4064 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ENGLAND VERSUS IRELAND

... TO TnE EDITOR OF THE LIVEUPOOL hlElICURY. Sift-Your paper of Ethe 21st instant has reached me. As it contains an uncivil attack upon me, it must have been sent either by you or some 6thcr good na- tured friend. Seriously, I am ilvways glad to get gratuitously a newspaperi that a-t;aceks me. Neither you nor I can'be of' ?? importance to the public, to justify f6 eonsumnption of one Aingie ...

Published: Tuesday 23 October 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3005 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF LORDS—FRIDAY, MAY 11

... MIOUSE OF LORDS-FpiDuY, MAY 11. IRIiMlt.0 LAW BILL. The Marquis of CLANRI CARDE presented a pe. titiou from ?? against the Irish Poor Law Bill, ?? by three Irish peers and many members of the bar. ' : f \ Lord LYNDIIURST said he had received a letter from his Noble Friend Lord Brougham, stating that it would be utterly out of his power to be in the House before Thursday next, fliough ho 'Was ...

Published: Tuesday 15 May 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1571 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE ARMY

... WAl5-OFF0t' , XOV. 21. Her lMajesty hacs lben crAcini01ly pleased to approve of the 4th or Koial Irish, Re'imeavt lr Dlragooiu a C3nrds, beariug upon its stamilards and appointimentts the I larp and Crown. together with the Star af tho Most illustrious Order ol' St. PatricL. eeFlFICE (IF lRiiDNANCiP, Dii IROYAI . A a ririhia V.-Ll IMI)I ANIM.- I1C dl es of thie fii- Ion jog COiiSSOI1S lire ...

Published: Tuesday 11 December 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

RUSSIAN INTRIGUES IN CANADA

... RUSSIAN INTRIGUESIN CANADA. U:ND1IL tins heading' various articles strongly d e nouruehig the intriguing spirit of the Russian Court have appear1 ed in the principaljournals of London) -oid also in somne of' tiose rf D)ublin, founded upon circum- stanices, to uvhit h eve shall presently refer. 'It will be recollected, tfiat, ill our last Itumber,, wo-publisbed a rrra~graph stntillt that at a ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FINALE OF THE BREEKS AFFAIR

... FINALE OF THE BREE KS AFFAIR. IN another part of our paper we have given a brief state. merit of the issue of the Breeks affair in the London Court of Arches, from which it appears, that the case of the Rev. John Breeks was not only dismissed, but he was . also condemned to pay widow Woolfrey's costs. The charge, of Sir Hcrbert Jenner occupied aoore than two f hours in delirery, but the ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3967 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY LETTER OF BISHOP W'HALE

... EXTRAORDINARY LETTER OF BlSHOP WHALE. tli TO 1.OUD JOHN RUSSET.L. .t St. Jarlath's, Taiel, Feast 'fSt. !ef~letius. C MY Lonr:-Thle important Cvents that have been dti crowded into the last few wveeks must recal to yoll and fe your Lordship's colleagues the delnsiveness of the po| irl licy which you have hitherto pursued towards Ireland. ij T You fancied that what was called agitation here was. ...

Published: Friday 10 August 1838
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4005 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News