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... I THcE OE THOUSAND GUI-NEAS._The popularnotion. that we must not put too much faith in the doings of tile opposite sex is in every way applicable to horsc- flesh, more especially the juvenile Portion thereof, so that, in analysing the performances Or the forty- six fillies engaged in the One Thousand Guineas (there are forty-eight subs, two of the nominations, Rimetnbranza and Sybil, having ...

Published: Tuesday 20 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1862 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... AGRITCULT.URE. F A.C T S F O R F A R M1 E R S. NIILX HARID TO CHiURIN AND BUTTEL IIAnD TO GA- T'I.:l,-A Sabscriber, Ballyronan, writes- I have twelve milking cows in bales; they are fed on the best of hay and turnips; they milk well, hut ino- possible to churn; small produce, and blrnd for thc dairymaid to gather the butter. Piase let me klnoW tho fhult -It is tmost likely that the thult ...

Published: Tuesday 20 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 715 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND IN BELFAST

... TUE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND IN BELFAST. VISIT TO TI'E QUERE'S COLLEGE, THE PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, THiE MODEL SCHOOL, AND THlE DISTRICT HIOSPITA.L FOR THE INSANE. TUESDAY nigh't, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Chief-Secretary for Ireland, accompanied by his Pri- vate Secrelary, C. Cardswell, Esq., arrived in Belfast by tile express train. Having determined upon visiting some of the public ...

Published: Thursday 15 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1959 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ULSTER INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB AND THE BLIND

... ULSTER INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AUD DUMB AND THE BLIND. HOLYWOOD AUXILIARY. (FRtOM OUR OWN RIEPORTER.) LAsT evening, the annual meeting of the Froly,00 anxiliary to this excellent society was held in t-lr Assembly Rooms, Holywood, at ?? six O'clock tird Lord Bishop of' DowN and CONNOR and DR01a in the chair'. The attendance was considerable an would havo beein larger had it not been for iU il. ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1889 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ART UNION OF IRELAND

... 'ART;U-NI'G.N OF I'REEL AND . Tnri Managing Counriittee met' Aon Tuesday last, the 6th instant at the office No. 113, Grafton Street. Thiere ?? prcsent -The LORD CHANOUELLO in the chair;. J. Calvert Stronge, J.P.; Wim. Cotter' Kyle, LL.D.; Dr. Petrie, HERMA.; Willim Jendkins5, LL.D.; John E. Pigot, Christopher Copinger, Q.C. Robert C(alwell, WTillirmn Brocaa RlH.A.- Toifloas Hutton, D L . and ...

Published: Friday 16 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1092 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

TELEGRAPHIC ANECDOTES

... TELEGRAPHIC 'ANECDOTES. TiE Portland ?? Advertiser relates some humor- ous aneetotes'of telegratphic exrpIerence.& ;A ear- witness of the skill which the Morse operators acquire of rcadiig:bysound ?? with the manager of a telegraph company in his counting room, an individual entered, and proceeded to the counter wlher businebs was transacted. The manager inade.several apparently careless taps ...

Published: Tuesday 20 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 819 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE HOLYWOOD AND BANGOR RAILWAY COMPANY (1858)

... IN our last impression we apprised our readers that a meeting of the shareholers in the Holywood and Bangor Railway Company of last year was to be held yesterday for the purpose of receiving a statement of the accounts of the company. The meeting, we tniderstand, was well attended, and from the state- ment of accounts which has been submitted it appeared that the deposit on all the shares ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3887 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN

... A U S T 11 A L I A. (FaOM TIIt MEIRBOURND ARGUS, OCT. 17.) Tan mail leaves us on the eve of a Ministerial crisis. The Administration of Mr. OShanassy is believed to be upon its last legs, and there is scarcely a doubt that the result of to-morrow's debate will be to see its doom. On the address in reply to the Goveraor's Speech it is the intention of Mr. Nicholson, in the Lower House, to move ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3816 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... L;AT1EST NEWS. NEIV S-LETTEZR OFFICE, ?? Kloliey. [B YV UAGNEiTIO TEL EGRAV?1I.] S A R D I N I A. Turin, Dec. 20. M, Buoncomprgini leaves to-day lbr Florence, The designatinon of Count CavorI' as first Plenipo- tritiary of Sardinia nt, the Congrress is definite, and will be noti ted to thle different Powers aiter the nominations of the other l'lenipotentiaries have been pubbished. The frigato ...

Published: Wednesday 21 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 835 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BELFAST WATER COMMISSIONERS

... BELFAST WATER COMMISS[ONERS. SATURDAY Last, a special meeting of the Board of Bclfast Water Commissioncrs was held in their t'OOmll, Rosemary Place, for thc purpose of c ionsidering no( ices received from tho Ulster Railway Company relativo to the construction of a tramway to the quays and othro business. The chair was oc- cupied by Ar. Tno)AS GnAy. Tho other members preseut wern:-Dr. Dill; ...

Published: Monday 19 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 839 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TOWNS' IMPROVEMENT ACT IN ARMAGH

... TOWNS' IMPROVEMENT ACT IN ARIMAGH. Tas following letter, in reply to the memorial lately fhrwarded to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, lies been received by John G. Winder, Esq., ?? Dublin Castle, 9th Dec., 1859. GFNTIEMEN-Tho Lord Lieutenant having received, one alonth previous to the *1ate of this order, an applioa- tion from forty-five housoholders of the town of Arimagh, sach of sueh ...

Published: Friday 16 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... THIS DAY'S NEWS. [nBY MAGNETIC TELEGIIAPH.] NEI'W'-LETTER OFFICE, Teci/esday, One &e'lock', pa.1, F R A N C E. Paris, Wednesday. The Moniteur of to-(lay publishes the nomination of several secretaries of the French Embassy abroad, among which is the Marquis Chatcurenard, as Secre- tary of the Embassy at London, The state of Prince Jerone's health continues to improve, and there will be no ...

Published: Wednesday 21 December 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News