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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
372 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 19
A MEETING, convened by his Worship the Mayor, [?] held at the Mechanics' Institution yesterday, for [?] purpose of considering the propriety of raising a f[?]d, to be transmitted, through his Excellency the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War, to all engaged in it, must ever be a costly and calamitous affair; but both its cost and its calamities are matters to be calmly estimated and deliberately met—not vaguely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In answer to a call by the United States House of Representatives upon the Secretary of the Navy, as to the practionbility of converting the steam ships engaged in the mall service into vessels of war, that officer reports the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The effect of the Orders in Council respecting the commerce which may, and may not, be carried on during the war with Russia, may be summed up in one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How different are the circumstances under which we enter on the present war, from those which characterized the last. Then we entered readily, and some what rashly, on a conflict the duration…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It might be supposed that hundreds of editors labouring incessantly for more than twelve months, to get at the core of the present quarrel between Russia and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. David Urquhart, of prosaic antecedents, after going about the country denouncing the Government for its dilatoriness in regard to Eastern affairs, has of late taken to charging it with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—"A Soldier's Son" has so eloquently pleaded for those who may be left fatherless and destitute by the fate of war, that few who have read his letter can rise from its perusal without a feeling of admiration for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We confess that it is not without terror —nay, with a feeling approaching to absolute dismay—that we contemplate the near approach to fulfilment of the designs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The present war is a people's war, and the people will not object to pay for it. Pay for it, however, undoubtedly they will, and that very heavily indeed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MY DEAR LORD—Knowing you to be the most charitable and beneficent of public men, nor less judicious in the exercise of your bounty, I would rather make my appeal to you than to any other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRITISH FLEET, OFF ODESSA, APRIL 25.—The English official declaration of war reached the fleet then anchored at Baltshik Bay, near Varna, on the 9th of April, upon which the steamer Furious was sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →What [?] do on the other side the great[?], whilst on this side the leading European nations are arming against each other? That was a very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE war having been fairly inaugurated by the bombardment of Odessa, and the second instalment of additional taxation consequent upon hostilities having been just called for, it seems an appropriate time for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →England may take breath and be comforted somewhat; for at the time we write the telegraphic wires have been thrilled with the intelligence that "Austria is getting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →His Royal Highness, the Dake of Cambridge arrived here, in the Caradoc, at three p.m. on Tuesday, 10th, Marshal St. Arnaud arrived here on Sunday, the 7th instant, somewhat later in the day. Having chronicled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SINCE last Saturday all the news which haS reached London continues to be of preparations. Sir Charles Napier, with fine weather and open water, is proceeding up the Gulf of Finland; and Admiral Dundas,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following circular has been directed to the Catholic Clergy of the Archdiocese by the Archdeacon and acting Vicar-General:— St. Mary's Priory,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRITISH FLEET, OFF ODESSA, APRIL 25.—The English official declaration of war reached the fleet then anchored at Baltshik Bay, near Varna, on the 9th of April, upon which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE "HELLESPONT" steamer, arrived yesterday, furnishes news up to the 25th of May, brought out to Melbourne by the "Ocean Chief," only 72 days from…
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