The New Screw Steam Man of War
THE Agamemnon, 90, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C.B., when she Went down the river on Friday afternoon, (September 30.) made a speed of upwards of 10 knots per hour until…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1853
59 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
English Extracts. Religious War Cries. (From the Examiner, September 4.)
The only surviving belligerent party in Europe is, strange to say, the ultra-Catholic. The Mars of Austria died with Schwarzenburg. Young Italy has ceased…
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BY the papers which have recently arrived from England, we may gather that indications of a warlike nature occasionally protrude above the political horison, sufficient to induce a suspicion that ere the…
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The enemies of freedom are of more than one species. There are those, who, weak minded, though well intentioned, allow themselves to be borne along the wrong path by sophistry and deceit…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →IRELAND. (From the Times' Correspondent October 11.) the "War Press" Redivivus
DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.—Pikes, vitriol bottles, ard gunpowder, are again looking up in the Irish market. A Galwayian journal (the Vindicator) has been the first to give the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assurances of Peace and Prospects of War. (From the Morning Chronicle, October 9.)
When Parliament meets, the nation will no doubt be informed that her Majesty's Government continues to receive the most friendly assurances from foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Seamen Spent Their Prize-money During the War
Plymouth was at this period full of gaiety. Fore-street was almost crowded with the officers of the navy and army -- the former swimming in prize-money, whilst the dillies (hackney chariots) plying…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →What Would Be at Stake in a General War. (From the Spectator, October 23.)
CONVERSATION in Vienna as well as in London and Paris, in Berlin, Brut sels, and Rome—in New York and Washington—to say nothing also of Cape Town and the Australian capitals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Little War Accounts. (From the Spectator, December 18.)
The economists who object to war expenditure might perform very useful service if they were to revise the military accounts for the last few years, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Burmese War. (From the Times, December 23.)
The history of our Indian empire hitherto is, happily, one which must be written under the title of "Rise and Progress," not "Decline and Fall," No Gibbon as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald. To preserve peace, be prepared for war
GENTLEMEN,—I remember having with much satisfaction perused your pithy and clearsighted article on the rejection of the Volunteer Corp Bill, which appeared in your issue…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Kaffir War. (From the Times.)
IT has been announced to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the Kaffir war is at an end, and therefore there appears in the Budget the item of £250,000 for expenses saved under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Little War Accounts. (From the Spectator.)
THE economists who object to war expenditure might peform very useful service if they were to revise the military accounts for the last few years, with the key supplied by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Burmese War. (From the Ttmes' Correspondent.) Bombay, Nov. 17
THE termination of the Burmese war still seems as far off as ever. "Since our last, despatch," says the Calcutta Englishman, "we have no further acquisitions in Burmah to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War—and Sydney Defences. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—"War, or no war? Divine "Revelation" declares in the affirmative The seventh vial is poured out—the earthquake has shaken the nations; the Papacy has received its death—blow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Empire. Tuesday, March 29, 1853. the Expensiveness of War and Its Establishments
IT is the favourite doctrine of a class of noble-minded philathropists, perhaps somewhat extreme in their views, that the moral nature of war is so diabolical…
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ALTHOUGH it is impossible to predict with any approach to accuracy what may be the course of events in Europe during the next few months, there are yet indications of what we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War, or No War? -- Ought We Not to Be Prepared?
THERE seems to be an ominous gathering in the political aspect of Europe. Every where preparations for a coming storm are silently though surely going forward. By almost every tongue…
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One morning I was, with many others, standing at the door of Mr. Hoxland's library, printing office, and gossiping shop, in Fore-srreet, the usual rendezvous of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Empire. Tuesday, April 19, 1853. Is War Probable?
IN the absence of all recent news from Europe, it is very difficult to express on opinion upon a subject which, has been glanced at by some of our correspondents,…
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