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THE PANAMA CANAL

... Tismef are several reasons, says the Kaeiical Magazine, why the United States should wish to have the complete management of the Panama Canal. As a matter of fact the whole scheme seems to be viewed with a certain amount of dis. favour by the' eastern and more influential States of the Union. They are naturally unwilling to encourage the coustruction of a work that threatens to divert a ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 400 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE RECENT WAR

... THE RECENT WFAR. i2 * Leiuster, A8; lEunBter, 20; and Couaugut, 189, DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF PNR. BlAl UITZ, FallD^s.-The Duchess of Parma died helre to-day, after giving birth to a stillbborn l . __ , TEE CHVLERA. BIXVRID, FRIDTV.-Cholern has disappeared from Japan. Tweutv natives died from the Qisease Eli iWaiillR yeafierdaXv, TEE SICE AND MOUNDED. THE REVIEW IN CAIRO. Tau following telegram ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1279 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE LAND COMMISSION

... i:JTE IJ ALA3) COMMISSIONT- I:;o ou Ur. SP'.CIAL CEP1OTIcA1. ]JUI:I9IN, F~lUDrAY. j ;con1,t io.:eC. and :Ur. Coiulissioner ?? ctc ?? ill the (Court, 21, LowerPlNerrloit ro h lectr tiotin il.;ncr tle Lawd Act and Al ?? Act. iite ; C:aba. tenuant: Colonel Jesse Lloyd. Tr. J. ?? B. Rs a plied OJ be'ial; of the tcnallt5 ?? lte SlUnd he at liberty, in ?? of t(e i,-.ull o( the landloed to Leceico ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1030 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE NEW PEERS

... LnIUTEXANT-GENERn SIR GARNET JoSEPn WOL- SELEY, ?? ?? LL.D., ?? is descended from a family originally belonging to the County of Stafford, where they had been settled from before the Conquest. The family -was noble at the time of thwlPlantagenets, and among the first creations of baronetcies by James I. we find the name of Wolseley. A grandson of the second baronet also received the cognisance ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1655 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

The Belfast News-Letter

... Nelf axt - , lusi'tter. (ESTABLISHED AN2.O 173S7.) B E L F A S T: THURSDAY, SEPf43IBER 21, 1882. Sir Garnet Wolselcy has issued a circular congratulating the army on the brilliant suc- cess which has crowned its efforts in the Egyptian campaign. Abdelal has been shot by his own troops, and with him the last spark of the rebellion is said to have expired. The Kbedive's departure for Cairo is ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 5788 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: News 

THE SUB-COMMISSIONERS UNDER THE LAND ACT

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE BENLXAST NEWSVLETTER. Sin-From last November until the early part of August Sub-Commissioners sat in different parts of Ireland administering the Land Act of 1881. They have now resumed their labours after aR brief holiday. The time seems to be opportune, therefore, for saying a few words as to the character of their past operations. I will, for the preseut, confine my ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1373 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... THE TYRONE TITAGISTRACY. TO TIo EDITORr OF THE BELFAST EWS-TIETTER. Sin -Under the above heading a letter has lately appeared inI a contemporary, ?? more particularly, however, to the justices com- posing the Cookstown Bench. The writer kindly informs us not only of the political views of the gentlemen in question, but also of their religious persuasions. It might have been knore in- genuous ...

Published: Tuesday 19 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 404 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

IRISH MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THEIR VOTES

... IRISH MMIBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THEIR VOTES. DUlING the portion just expired of the parliamen- tary session of 1882, which has been described as having begun, continued, and ended with Ireland, there were 840 divisions, of which 180 took place before and 160 after midnight. Last year, out of 411 divisions, 152 were after midnight. On the 30th of last June there were no fewer than 32 ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1392 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB

... BELFAST.NATURXLISTS'FIELD CLUB. Tie last excursion for the season was made On Saturday last, to the Knock and the Castlereaglh hills. After leaving the Knock station, the first place visited was the old church in the 'Knock. graveyard, of which a mere fragment now re- mains. Not many years since the ruins were more extensive, but the gable fell down whilst the parties interested were ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1882
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE WAR IN EGYPT

... The following appeared in our Second ERi3on of yesterda;'- I - . FORTIFYING GEN0LE3H. The Daily Chronicle corresnondent Rt Port Said telegraphs thlis (Monday) naorning that ,ie sees several hundred of the enerav fortifving ths neighbonrhood of Gemileb, and that a fctilla G. sailing boats is plying between Geni'eh and ;ia- Wietta. AFFAIRS AT THE FRONT. Au Ismailia correspondent ?? ?? has now ...

Published: Tuesday 05 September 1882
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1308 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

PRESBYTERIAN NEWS

... (FROME OrR OWN CORRErP0NDE2NT.) Atthe meeting of the Belfast Presbytery on Tuesday, in accordance with the remit of the General Assembly, the returns of the various congregptions of the Presbytery for the fir't quarter of the year were inquired into, from which it appeared that. twenty-two congregations had made the first quarter's payment, against eighteen in 1851. In eighteen of the twenty ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1882
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News