The Late Mr Meiklam's Racing Career
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 March 1855 · page 1
"The blue and white-tripes" of this lamented sportsman have been so long and 30 worthily known on the English and Scottish Turf that we feel called upon to glance briefly at his racing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Late Mr. Nesbit
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 April 1855 · page 10
We have much pleasure in giving insertion to the subjoined extract from a Geelong paper. We hardly need say that the step which Mr. Brooke has taken to evince his…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Funeral Obsequies of Lord Frederick Fitz-clarence. (From the Bombay Telegraph and Courier.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 April 1855 · page 3
YESTERDAY evening and Bombay witnessed what happily it has seldom seen—the funeral obsequies of a dead chief. The pageants attendant on the burials of military men are of too frequent occurrence in India,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moral of the Soldiers' Funeral. (From the Liverpool Chronicle, January 27.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 May 1855 · page 5
A NOVEL sight was witnessed in Liverpool on the afternoon of Thursday lastâa soldiers' funeralâthe interment in the Mount Cemetery of two brave fellows who arrived in the Cambria from the East, to die here,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Moral of the Soldiers' Funeral. (From the Liverpool Chronicle, January 27.)
Empire · Monday 7 May 1855 · page 6
A novel sight was witnessed in Liverpool on the afternoon of Thursday last— a soldiers' funeral—the interment in the Mount Cemetery of two brave fellows who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Death of Miss Mitford. (From the Athenceum, January 13.)
Empire · Friday 11 May 1855 · page 5
After a long period of decline and helpless suffering, cheerfully horne, the authur of Our Village. died at Suullutvlicld-coltage, near Wending, on Wednesday last, aged, as a memorandam furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death of the Only Sister of William Wordsworth. (From the Illustrated London News of 3rd February.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 May 1855 · page 3
THE living links that unite us to the poets of the first half of the present century are fast disappearing from among us This week has added another to the many that have gone. Dorothy Wordsworth, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Mr. B. Boyd
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 May 1855 · page 5
THE following letter has been received, addressed to Captain Towns, by Mr. Mark Boyd, the brother of [?]e above lamented gentleman. It will be perceived [?] deeply conscious the bereaved family are of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death of Tom Belcher
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 19 May 1855 · page 1
Another of the school of British pugilists has been taken from us. The veteran Tom Belcher, whose first battle took place as far back as 1804, died recently at his house in Trafalgar-square,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sudden Death Emperor of Russia!
Empire · Saturday 19 May 1855 · page 1
The government on Friday afternoon received telegraphic despatches from the Hague and Berlin, as also from the British minister at the Hague, stating that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bell's Life in Sydney. Saturday, May 19, 1855. Second Edition, Saturday Morning. Death of the Emperor of Russia
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 19 May 1855 · page 2
THE mail-packet "Blue Jacket", arrived from England this morning, bringing the momentous intelligence of the Death of the Emperor of Russia. In the House…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Second Edition. Highly Important English and European News. Death of the Emperor Nicholas. Further Changes in the English Ministry. Defeat of the Russians by the Turks at Eupatoria. Empire Office, Saturday, 9 a.m
Empire · Saturday 19 May 1855 · page 1
THE splendid clipper ship Blue Jacket, under the command of Captain E. Underwood, and bearing the English Mails to March 6th, arrived in Hobson's Bay at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Late Mr. Joseph Hume
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 May 1855 · page 6
IN the House of Commons, on the 26th February, Lord Palmerston, in rising to move a new writ for the burgh of Montrose for the election of a member in the room of the late Mr. Hume, said I cannot, in doing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Death of Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P. (From the Times, February 22.)
Empire · Monday 21 May 1855 · page 3
The living political reformers of Great Britain have lost their oldest leader—Joseph Hume is numbered with the dead. Mr. Hume had been visibly declining in health for a year past. During…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of the Emperor Nicholas. (From the Glob, March 3.)
Empire · Tuesday 22 May 1855 · page 2
Yesterday the Foreigh Office received telegraphic intelligence that the Emperor of Russia was dead. The first information was for warded in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Death of Nicholas. (From the Morning Chronicle, March 3.)
Empire · Thursday 24 May 1855 · page 6
The Prime Minister in the House of Commons, and the Earl of Clarendon in the House of Lords, announced last evening, that intelligence had just been received about the death of the Emperor of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Death of Nicholas, and the Issue of the War. (From a Correspondent.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 May 1855 · page 2
AT this stage of the war—to us the opening of a campaign—being only able to derive our knowledge of events from the driblets of news that flow upon us through various long and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Libertine at His Own Funeral
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 May 1855 · page 3
THERE is a capital ghost-story in Washington Irving's new book, just out, entitled, "The Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost." It has a fine meaning at the heart of it; and, as the story is but short, so we give it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of the Emperor Nicholas, of Russia
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 May 1855 · page 10
We received yesterday afternoon (Friday), the following very important telegraphic dispatch from our correspondent at Berlin: -- "Berlin, Friday, March 2, 5 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Impromptu on the Death of the Czar
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 26 May 1855 · page 2
NICHOLAS' health began to fail, He asked for some physic, and tuk it, Then he turned a little pail (pale), And then—he kicked the bucket…
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