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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
15 stories in Sydney's papers
IT seldom occurs that grand military spectacles in times of peace give rise to painful emotions. The lengthened line of soldiers, moving as if one soul…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"All things, that we ordained festival, "Turn from their office to black funeral: "Our instruments, to melacholy bells; "Our (festive) cheer, to a sad funeral feast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE remains of this lamented Lady were committed to the tomb, at Parramatta, on the morning of Thursday last. The procession began to move from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISTOL, JAN. 13.—The labours of the Court[?]martial on Lieut.[?]Col. Brereton have been brought to a sudden and melancholy close. This mornings the ill[?]fated soldieri[?] doubtless actuated by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The last days of the patriot Hampden are thus graphically told in the Edinburgh Review of Lord Nugent's recently published " Memorials." We need scarcely observe,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We stated in our last that the bodies of Troy and Smith, the two highwaymen who were executed on Saturday, were interred the following day, with circumstances of hostility toward…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHAT mournful cause, on every sorrowing brow, Sheds the dark poppies of corroding woe, Shrouds every thought in melancholy deep, And moves each heart to sadden and to weep!…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"-- alike the palace and the cot Death reigns over all!" YES, weep! I bid thee weep this grave beside. No thoughts of vanity--no looks of pride…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thy lowly Tomb, is on a distant shore, Where the lone rank-grass rears its waving head; Where the dull, sullen, ocean-billows roar, In ceaseless mourning for th' unhonor'd dead…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At eleven o'clock the cuuvoi left the Hotel de Pologne, in the Rue St. Honore, whEre the General died, attended by upwards of 400 persotis of all ranks and classes, and ascended that street to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Died yesterday, at his residence in Queen-square-place, Westminster, Jeremy Bentham, in his 85th year. During the late unhealthy season he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →If a chairman, known to have been "dead" drunk over night, does not appear on his station before ten o'clock on the succeeding morning, the "undertaker,"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This very important trial, which has been in abeyance and excited so much interest, commenced yesterday morning. The Court was crowded to excess, and after some other business had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE knell of fate comes sounding from afar; And shadowy death, triumphant on the gale, Sped like a champion, conscious of his might. I saw the fatal javelin in his hand,…
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