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... Zo(orcjnbt0 FAMILY PAST ME.-ANSW1:aS TO ENIGMAS, &C., IN THE lNEws-LErrErit OF iTUESDAY Ltsr.-WVe have reccived several cmillnllications, cintailning selutions of some of the enigmas and charades which appeared iu our puhilioation of Christmas Dav, tile best of which arc from A Yonog Rea- der, of Belfast, and A Schoolboy, of Eye, in England; biut, as we have promised to iiiser tile ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

GRAND SCENERY OF NIAGARA

... AT the foot of the cataract it is possible, though hazardous, to penetrate thirty yards behind the gigantic concave sheet of the headlong flood, where a cavern is formed of about one hundred-and-fifty feet in height, fifty in breadth, and three hiuindired in length, well adapted for the hahit~ition of its present tenants-the eel and thle water snalie. The perilous path lies along tbe narrow ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 901 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SIR R. PEEL AND HIS TENANTS

... SIR r.. PEEL AND IlS TENANT8. Taru foliosvisg letter has beets adilressed by Sir Rt. Peel to the tertant-farmers onl his estate : I wvisht to cornmisnisicats with you onl the present state anil the prospects ofiagricolture sot farris they coscecri our relations (if Isssliord and tcnasst, and I know not thist I could select asty better mnode of cemlaruniealion thasi this which I have adopted. ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1938 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... jorciga F RA N C B. A Comisoresso-r has been appointed by the President of the Recsisitlic to examine the ministerial accounts for 18.19. Tile directors of the llanis of France have declared a divi- dend of 52f. per share for the ialf-year eding the 31st De- cember, 1849. Eighlt Socialists, confined in prison at Lyons, lave effected their escape. Tihere las not vet heen anv modification or ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1712 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

RETROSPECT OF 1849

... I- these days of change and progress, every year is an aneus mirabilis, and it is as hazardous to aver that the one to which we have just bil adieu has been more rc- markable than its precursors, as it is to predict that the year upon whose threshold we step to-day will be signalised. bv events which will constitute the lanilmarks of ages. Still the year 1849 has ad(lded no small nor ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1876 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

The Press

... El -3 _I . SUMNMARY OF THE PUBLIC PRESS. TIF Tiiles is full of adliration of the tewv agitationt set on foot by Richard Cobden, on the subject of the colonies, which it considers as good as Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Bill, or the Repeal of the Corti Laws, and obscrves that if it be only once granted that ?? England has now forcsworn religious, civil, and commercial monopoly, ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4021 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH'S ALMANACK

... EXTiRACTS FROM PUINCI'S ALMANACU. 1litNrS ABOUT FinE.-Itt case of fire, whatever may be the heat of thb moment, lkeep Cool; let nothing put you out, ?? flit somnething to put out the fire ; keep yonrself col- lectedl, arid then collect your famtily. After putting on yn.ur shoes alsi stockings, call out for piunllts and hose to tire fire- men. Don't think about saving your wvatcth and rings, ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1007 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Agriculture, &c

... Agriculturr, &C'. FARMING OPERATIONiS FOR JANUARY. PLOUGH ING Fort Gretrean; CRor's.-All stubble ploughinsg Ought to be as deep is possible-say nine or ten indies at least; and( to effect this it will, pterhaps, be necessary to employ three horses in the plough. The Object of ploughing land for- green crops at en early season is chiefly the benefit derived fromt eaposure of the soil to the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2063 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CLIMATOLOGY VERSUS PROTECTION.— THE FAMINE CURE!

... CLIANIATOLOGY VERSUS PROTECTION.- THE FAM1INE CURE! LORD ROSSE, So well known as the co8nstructor of the monster reflecting telescol)e at Birr, and as an amateur star-gazer of the first magnitude, has just publisihed aR letter, in which lhe states the grounds on vhichi lie re- fuses to attach his signature to the National Petition against Free-tratle. We have every respect for the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1477 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Local Intelligence

... - ?? -- -- I jr Local Eiitdfigrua. . NE WS-LETTER ALMANTACK FOR lS50. Wi, have issued an Alitiiit:tCk for the ensuing year, which, as far as practicabisl, we have forwarded to our subscribers. But as it cantiut be transmitted with our paper, through the Post- office, such of our tubseribers as have not received it tony have a copy at once by appliciltion at our office. UrlsTER, RmITwAr.-Tlie ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1892 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF THE COLERAINE TENANT-RIGHT ASSOCIATION

... MEETING OP THE COLERAINE TENANT-rIuGT A S S 0 C I A T I 0 Ni ONe Satlrday, a meeting of this body ,was held irt the Town Hall, Coleraine, for tbe r purpose of petitioning Parlhimeint for the legal recognition of Terrant-riglt, and the securing of the enants in the cenjoyment of permrnancent improvemchts. Tihe meeting was large and rospectatrle. Amnroig thosec present we observed Jeirin Boyd, ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1582 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Local Intelligence

... Karat rhitc1ligarr THR PA-Is'1CnINFuTlEPCA` PICrTOMlr, AL7a1ANrACIC.- Air. HIGee has agahi issued an cleg-ant almnaiacl-sheet to the inhabitants of the province, in ?? of the gratnil increased patronage his splen(]id establishninest has received during the past year, and in token of future increased elfirts to merit its continuance. The sheet, liue all Mil. M Gce's efflrts to pleasc thle ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1850
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2981 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News