''The Ceylon Herald'' was an

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newspaper in

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. After ''

The Ceylon Chronicle ''The Ceylon Chronicle'' was a short-lived English-language newspaper in Ceylon. The newspaper started on 3 May 1837 with Rev. Samuel Owen Glenie as editor. Rev. Glenie was the Anglican Colonial Chaplain of St. Paul's Church and later Archdeacon o ...

'' closed down on 3 September 1837 Mackenzie Ross bought the

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and started ''The Ceylon Herald'' on 7 September 1838. The newspaper opposed the government bitterly.

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Stewart-Mackenzie sued Mackenzie Ross for libel after ''The Ceylon Herald'' published an article alleging that the governor had gone to the

Veddah The Vedda ( si, වැද්දා , ta, வேடர் (''Vēḍar'')), or Wanniyalaeto, are a minority Indigenous peoples, indigenous group of people in Sri Lanka who, among other sub-communities such as Coast Veddas, Anuradhapura Veddas ...

country to purchase large amounts of land at nominal prices. Mackenzie Ross was acquitted after a trial before Chief Justice

Anthony Oliphant Sir Anthony Oliphant (17 November 1793 – 9 March 1859) was a Scottish lawyer who was the eighth Chief Justice of Ceylon. Early life and family Oliphant was born in Forgandenny, Perthshire, the third of seven children of Ebenezer Oliphant of Co ...

. ''The Ceylon Herald'' was sold to James Laing, the Deputy Postmaster in Kandy, on 29 November 1842. Under Laing's editorship the newspaper supported the government. Laing later sold the newspaper to another man who died in January 1845 after which the newspaper passed to his official administrator the Secretary of the District Court. The newspaper was edited by Knighton, Master of the Normal Seminary in Colombo, for a while before the printing press was sold to J. W. Schokman on 8 September 1845 for £1,178. Schokman however failed to settle the amounts due and on 1 July 1846 the printing press was sold to the owners of '' The Ceylon Times'' for £450. The last edition of ''The Ceylon Herald'' had been published on 30 June 1846. ''The Ceylon Heralds sister newspaper, ''The Overland Herald'', was published monthly from 24 June 1843 to 30 June 1846.

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1838 establishments in Ceylon 1846 disestablishments in Ceylon Defunct English-language newspapers published in Sri Lanka Newspapers established in 1838 Publications disestablished in 1846 {{SriLanka-newspaper-stub