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The Belfast News-Letter

... of the Stamp Returns in 1858, when the Whig used them to prove that it possessed a superior circulation. The News-Letter then declared the test to be utterly fallacious. We quote its own words— “The Northern Whig, like the ‘ engineer’ in Shakspeare’s line ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

issue in any way

... for ;” in other words, to the payment of the two Reas and the Whig, in accordance with “ the fair and reasonable” terms proposed by John in his speech on the 9th of April, 1856, which the Whig so highly approved of and applauded ! When discussing our Municipal ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 385 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BELFAST

... on to the Northern Whig. He said, as reported in the Whig the day after the meeting, namely, on the 10th of April, 1856, “I “cannot permit any injury whatever to accrue to ‘‘the only honest newspaper in Belfast, the Northern “ Whig, without taking care ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2476 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ELECTION NEWS

... the next General Election. There are still three candidates in the field at Leicester —Mr. Heygate, Conservative; Mr. Harris, Whig ; and Mr. Taylor, Radical. ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1861
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CHAMPAGNE STAKES

... this It will only be a sham fight got up to resem- ble a real one. The Tory Opposition does not want to kill the Whig Cabinet, and the Whig Cabinet does not intend to be killed. The case is one in which every mem- ber may vote according to his conscience ...

Published: Friday 03 August 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

the rival newspapers

... he said, from the Whig office was lower than that from the News-Letter office, but the committee were inclined to give the contract to the paper having the greater circn- lation, There were jnst two tenders sent in, one from the Whig and the other’ from ...

Published: Monday 29 July 1861
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DIVISION ON MR. BAINES’ BILL

... second class followed their example. Lord Palmerston’s absence may, however, be accounted for by indisposition. Thirty-five Whigs did not vote at all, and nine professed Liberals voted for the previous question. ...

Published: Monday 15 April 1861
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 53 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ABANDONMENT OF THE REFORM BILL,

... is once more in the hands of the people. The Daily News adverts to the withdrawal of the Bill as triumph for the reactionist Whig as well as Tory. ...

Published: Tuesday 12 June 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

... honest newspaper in Belfast, the Northern Whig, without taking care either to continue the Suit or else to have the Northern Whig indemnified against any loss it bas sustained or may sustain.” Is it true that the Whig published this speech of Rea’s the next ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3616 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WORK OF THE SESSION

... utterly barren. It is the capital disgrace of the session. The Herald remarks that a series of disastrous failures is all the Whigs will have to boast about when on their Autumnal visit to their constituents. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE STEAM YACHT FOX. The ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BELFAST DAILY MERCURY, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1861

... however, is not extinct because it falls into the sea, and the Whig party is not dead because everybody, from Earl Grey to M. Proudhon, calls himself a Liberal. Principles do not die, and the Whig party is based upon a principle, that Governments ought to ...

Published: Tuesday 07 May 1861
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3755 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO CORRESPONDENTS

... Northern Whig.” Huving seen this, you will have no hesitation in with- drawing the epithets outrageous swindling,” “ fraud,” and “astounding cheat,” as applied to your obedient Francis The contract was made last year with the Daily and Weekly Whig, and the ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1861
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 583 | Page: 3 | Tags: none