"First provincial daily paper in Ireland...It advocated every measure that might seem calculated to enlarge the true freedom, advance the intelligence, elevate the morals, and improve the social and physical condition of the people."

James Simms set up this paper in 1850, explaining bitterly that, after 20 years of writing "every political editorial article...and...every article upon the great national questions of the time" from its 291st to its 3,256th number, he had been dismissed as editor of the Northern Whig.