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CORRESPONDENCE

... CORREISPONDENCE. 0 - THIE HARBOUR ELECTION. TO THE EDITOI OF THIE BELt'AST NE:VWS.LETTER.' Sin-To-morrowv (Thursday) the Whigs and Liberals of this city will he upon their trial. They' have a laree representation upon the Board owing; to the desire of ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1009 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF

... improve it they turned it into a defeat. ;'Earlv in the seei>1, Howe (who, Lord Macaulay says, ' latefy the most virulent of Whigs, lead been by the loss of place turned into the most ?? of Torie3) ''complained, With his usual vehomence and asperity, of ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1350 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE ROYAL GRANTS

... he feels strongly, nor does he believe that his vote or that of his followers in favour of the grants will influence either Whig, Tory, or Radical in the slightest degree. Certainly he has acted quite without regard to the main object of his life. It did ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 678 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... are deeply-seated points of difference diviving them from each other as sharply as ever they were divided in the old days of Whig and Tory. The Opposition appears to Mr. Goschen no longer to consist of Liberals. Taey have thrown r off the old creed, and ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... vacancy caused by the death of Sir William Tindal a Robertson. Sir Robert is a. seasoned politician. b Begilnning life as a Whig, he filled the office of I Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant in Ireland t from 1861 to 1855, when Old Palm died. The ...

Published: Thursday 10 October 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1489 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE PARNELL COMMISSION

... This division was drawn by a wit- 'icess, a Roman Catholic clergyman. who described the parish priests as old fossils or Whigs-men, Sir Henry added, who being older and with a better knowledge of their country. did not stir up the people, and whosuf'ered ...

Published: Thursday 21 November 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1598 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... two hundred and one years ago. The absence of any representative of the g-reat Tory Demoratt of the period, and of m nay Whig magnates whvese, dascendaiits hada right to he pre' snt, wvill le cant' - ponsatedl int oieoher w x'sy. More than one good ...

Published: Tuesday 05 November 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1461 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... plexities wvhieh the Irish question always presented throughout the whole of the long public life of Lord John Russell. The great Whig statesman tried his hand at conciliation. and at least once during the famine time in 1846 be defeated Sir Robert Peel on ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1531 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE DEBATE ON HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND

... say that was the time Scotland showed at its worst, As Burton said, the great security for Scotland was that members voted as Whig and Tory and not as Scotch and Englishmen. In what way was a Scottish Parliament likely to legislate better than this Parliament ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1761 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

BELFAST: MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1889

... Exactly fiftyycars ago, Lord Macaulay dcscribc.m the Whigs as being identified with the ?? oh; cause, for devotion to which Sydney ended lit days on the scaffold. Looking hack uroa the history of tho Whigs, he could discern a party often depressed, never ...

Published: Monday 22 April 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3520 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ULSTER INTELLIGENCE

... ; and W. Davies, J.P. A young man named James Binghans was put forward in custody charged with having assaulted Sir. Joshua Whig- ham on the 14th November last. It appeared from the evidence that the accused threw stones at M1r. Whigham and his wife, and ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1579 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE HOME OF THE FOXES

... Baron. If in the first half of the nineteenth century it was, in an especial sense, a social centre of political life for the Whigs, it re- tained unimpaired, under the later ri.gi7V,, its fause as the peaceful meeting place of allthat was clui- nent and ...

Published: Thursday 26 September 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1812 | Page: 7 | Tags: News