... agents for the Belfast petition against the return of Mr Thomas M’Clure, the Liberal member, served notice upon the Northern Whig and other Belfast Liberal journals that an application will be made to the Court of Common Pleas for an attachment inst them ...

... their contesting the seat. Some of them expressed their readiness to come forward, and would have done so at once, had not the Whigs interfered to prevent the interests of the Earl being opposed. Thwarted thus in its attempt to bring forward a Liberal Candidate ...

... never yet found befitti utterance in words. The revealer of heart is still to come. Thomas Moore was but the caged canary,of a Whig drawing-room. There is more of the true soul of Erin in one air of Carolan, than in all the pretty melodies he ever penned ...