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... Ebrb - 3reos'. Z FACTIOTUS OPPOSITION OF THE FREE TRADE PARTY. (From the Morning Herald.) -THE test is, it seems,* very soon to be applied to the present House of Commons that will ascertain the hamoinht:f patriotism and good sepn .which'eists in that assembly. Mr. Charles Villiers, the brother of 'the Earl if' Clarendon, 'hts-followed 'up the spiteful. snarling of Earl Grey in the ,House of ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1852
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3346 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

BELFAST BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... TmiE usual weekly meeting of this body was held on Wednesday, in the Board-room, at eleven o'clock. The members present were-.J. W. S. M'Cance, Esq., chair- man ; Sir William G. Johnson, Dr. Kidley, Robert Thomson, J.P., William Coates, J.P., Arthur Aickin, Robert M'Connell, II. Posnett, Robert Magee, William Watson, Samuel Carson, Samuel Giffic, Henry Murney, Jacob Bell, Samuel Boyle, Robert ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1852
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

BURNING OF THE AMAZON

... BURNING OF TIlE AMAIA Z ON. LATEST PARTICULARS. BEnsT, JAN. 5.-The Dutch vessel Geeftrinda, Cap- tain Teinteleer, entered the roads here to-day, with twenty-five shipwreckedl persons who escaped from the catastrophe. She picked up one of the boats yes- terday (Senday, the 4th January), at half-past six o'clock in the evening, and a second this morning at seven o'clock. In the presence of such ...

Published: Monday 12 January 1852
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 893 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

The Press

... etc ?-V-- rc5- - , FRANCE AND IRELAND. (fTrom the T0imes.) EVERYTHING which we have been taught to regard as the impersonation of the spirit of evil is at this moment rampantly triumphant. Tyrainny among princes, license and-corruption afnong the military, servility and mean- ess among civilians, punishments without crime,.and perjuries without shame, are the staple oft cotemporary history., - ...

Published: Monday 19 January 1852
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1916 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

GIBRALTAR—THE MOORISH PIRATES

... GIBRALTAR-THE MOORISH PIRATES. Oua accounts from Gibraltar are to the 31st ult. No further intelligence had reached that place from the Riff coastrelative to the Moorish pirates who had beaten offlierMajesty's steam sloopJanus (as mentioned in the NeIVs-Lettsr of Friday), except that the five men taken by the Moors, and now held in captivity, belonged to the British brig Nelson, which was ...

Published: Monday 10 November 1851
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1167 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

REPORTS OF THE BELFAST DEPUTATION

... WIa are obliged, in consequence of tile necessity of placing the important Parliamentary debate of Fri- day evening in this page, to refer the reader to our fourth page for the interesting, reports of the deputa- tion from this town to London, on Postal Affairs, tho Packet Station, Tribunals of Commerce, New Custom House, hc., as adopted at the special meeting of thle Chamber of Commerce, held ...

Published: Monday 23 February 1852
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

DOWNPATRICK POOR LAW UNION

... TIE usual weekly meeting of the Guardians of this Union was held on Saturday last. The elerkrcad the sealed order of the Commissioners declaring the Dispensary Districts of the Union, Ac- cording to this sealed order, the Commissioners dis- approve of the late sub-division of the union by the Guardians, into six dispensary districts, as twice agreed to by the board, after full discussion, and ...

Published: Monday 23 February 1852
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 645 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

The Army

... mbe 1w s TuiE BLUES.-The deficiencies of a certain Cornet of this regiment, who has gone to winter on the Conti- nent, are said to amount to no less a sum than £87,000. Six or seven of tho officers had become responsible by endorsing or accepting bills for tile youth, in different sums, ranging from £4,000 to £17,000, to meet which it is expected that some of them will have to part with ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1851
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1366 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

The Army and Navy

... 0-4c Ruip an's flaVp. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. WAn-Onicr, Nov. 14. (ith DragoonsSergeant-Major G. Fraser to be Quarter-Master, vice Smith, who retires upon half-pay. 1st Dragoons-Cornet J. 1. Jones to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Littledale who retires; Assist. Surg. R. F. V. de Lisle, from 06th, to be Assist. Surgeon, vice Grogan, promoted in 26th. 7th Light Dragoons-Cornet J. Aytoun to ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1851
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1107 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE IRISH EDUCATION QUESTION

... THE IRISIH EDUCATION QUESTION. Tim present crisis in the affitirs of the Board of National Education in Ireland formed the subject of an interesting discussion in the House of Lords on Monday. The Earl of IDonoughimore, in an able and temperate speech, called the attention of their lordships to the fact of the recent exclusion, by the Board, of Doctor Whateley's Scripture Evidences, and the ...

Published: Friday 22 July 1853
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 514 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

A FASHONABLE DINNER PARTY IN THE LAST CENTURY

... A IASIIJONABLF I)ENNEUR PARTY IN TIHE .Si'r (CF2NTURY. 11 IIN Lord Sparkish, 'F.)rr kNer'oi'oat, and Coil. Atwit, theirnimmortal personagtes of Swvift's Polite Conversatiori, Came to breakfast with my Lady Smart, at oleveu o'clock ill th!e in- 'llirig, nily Jlordt -laL t was albsrerit at the ILevee. Hlis lo Idship t ras it hi omIe to dinnel :it ti re o'clock to receive hioJ griats; anrd w-r ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1853
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 942 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

The Army

... 9be latillp. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. )VARnOF Pici-, Jut1E 17. 4th l)ralgoenl Guila ds-Tietiteoiiat R.. J. Hleniy to be Captail, by puichase, vice Scott, NhO rWiles; C inet C. AM'Doniel to be Iie t., by pu1rchitse, Iice H2em It Ls. It. isher to bc Cornet, by purchase, vice M'Daoilel. GLI Drlg:Oons-A. Mu11rr,1ay to be Cornet, wvithouit pIcilllsO, vice WVilson, deceasedi 1st loot-Iieut. T1 ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1853
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 632 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News