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TO A FRIEND, THR DEATH OP HIS INFANT SON. My friend, the tenderest tie which bound Thy soul to this

... will soon s debased to the price of an equal weight of uncoined metal—that is to say, ten or eleven per cent below the gold standard. In this debased currency, every debtor, who can, will make his payments, and the greater part of the sovereigns will disappear ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1826
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1282 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Tatraanar, Jcmt fa Distress of the Manufacturing Classes. Mr. BROUGHAM said be held in bis band a

... generally ready to advance money upon fair security.—(Hear, hear, from Mr. Peel.) Mr, WODKHOUSE contended that the present gold standard operated most injuriously well towards foreign countries at home—it waa a standard not adapted any where. Mr. LEYCESTER ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1829
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1482 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE CURRENCY. {From tfte Morning Herald.) understand that Ooveruraent arc seriously contemplating a relaxation ..

... a paper currency Is it honest—nay, is it not barbarous and inhuman to extort the payment of it, or its interest, in a gold standard ? Can we be surprised the sufferings of the people of England when goaded such unnatural exertions Are not all their hearts ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1831
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 817 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF LORDS—Wednesday, A ceil 24,

... member had j then ex'pressly stated, that adopting it they would have a better chance of maintaining the standard than the gold standard only. And was he now to be condemned for recommending that tending to depreciation, which the hon. member said would maintain ...

Published: Monday 29 April 1833
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4541 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CJinam'rlc*

... the agriculturist have in the alteration of the standard now proposed ? Some gentlemen might prefer silver standard to a gold standard. On that point he would give no opinion present; but this ho thought would not disputed, that if paper bad bjen made c ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1835
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1502 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

[Five-penci, All, th?n, (Hml (he agriealtiiritts would gniii from thu«tom« paring with the standard, would be ..

... the circulation, and again every thing went on delightfully till the commencement of IB2G. Then they returned again the gold standard, and had they had sines that time single year of agricultural prosperity? /'cheers) No, since tbs year 1826, they had had ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1835
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1435 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BELFAST, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1835

... in a state of great prosperity. ( Hear, and cheer*. ) They came. then, to the year 1826, and determined pro. with the gold standard. Let them east hack their eyes, then, to the past, and reflect on what its history proves. They had agriculture in prosperity ...

Published: Monday 08 June 1835
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3418 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1835

... than himself. What ; wanted was. that thero should bo alteration the atan- ' dard, instead of being compelled to abide by gold standard only. He wanted alteration of standard from gold to silver, which believed would be productive of the best results. Ho ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1835
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2035 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TAXATION

... collecting the public revenue is greatly enhanced, and the burdens of the people further augmented. 7. That the return to gold standard in 1819, followed by the suppression of small notes in England and ales, has materially changed the relative condition ...

Published: Monday 15 February 1836
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1083 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

COMMERCE. MANUFACTURES, &c

... another derangement. By that Act it is ordained, that the gold eagle still retaining the legal value of 10 dollars, and the gold standard remaining unaltered, shall contain 232 gialns of pure gold, and grains of standard gold being an advance of the former ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1837
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO TUE EDITOR OF THE VINDICATOR

... nation. The remedy I would propose would, humbly submit, be an efficacious one, while at the same time it would maintain gold standard. I would suggest that government, an order council, or otherwise,w f onld authorise the Bank of England to issue one pound ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1839
Newspaper: Vindicator
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 966 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BELFAST, TUESDAY, DEC. 27, 1842

... pre- pamphlet was put into circulation, at the commen the week, from the pen of Mr. David Salomor connexion between our gold standard and the rec -By the tary vicissitudes, with tor their preve ssel left adopting a double stand: rd, by the of ers from our ...

Published: Tuesday 27 December 1842
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2031 | Page: 2 | Tags: none