The Foreign Enlistment Act. (From the Shefield Free Press.)
Empire · Friday 13 April 1855 · page 6
This odious mensure has become law since the appearance of our last number. The government narrowly escaped defeat in the Lords, and in the Commons we are glad to notice that the minority…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War-office, January 9
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 April 1855 · page 3
The Right Hon. the Secretary at War has received from His Grace the Duke of Newcastle the following list of casualties among the non-commissioned officers and privates in the forces under the command…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War-office, January 8
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 April 1855 · page 3
The Right Hon. the Secretary at War has received from his Grace the Duke of Newcastle the following list of casualties among the non-commissioned officers and privates in the forces under the command…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Department, J[?]n 9
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 April 1855 · page 3
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this day received two despatches, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Grace by Field Marshal the Lord Raglan, G. C. B.:â…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Importance of the War
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 14 April 1855 · page 8
THE pages of history do not we think present us a period, when the interests of the whole world were more endangered, and of greater importance, than in the present struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Incidents of the War. the Menaced Attack—french Exertion—their Successes in the Sorties
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 April 1855 · page 7
With the extraordinary rapid means by which communications are carried from St. Petersburg [?] the Crimea, it would be scarcely prudent to mention any of our plans of attack. In spite of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Despatches From the Crimea. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday, January 9.) War Department, January 8
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 April 1855 · page 3
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this day received a despatch, of which the following is a copy, addressed to his Grace by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B.:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Treatment of Soldiers' Wives
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 14 April 1855 · page 11
Passing round the wall of the Scutari barracks, we came upon the most Wretched mud hutsim aginable which had been erected for the soldiers' wives. These edifices more resembling the plasterings of mason-wasps than anything intended…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Cardwell on the War
Empire · Monday 16 April 1855 · page 2
The President of the Board of Trade, the Right Honorable E. Cardwell, M.P. for Oxford, has been sponding a day or two with his constituency; and on New Year's Day, he dined at the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What the Russians Think of the War. (From the New York Herald, 18th December.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 April 1855 · page 2
MR, T. P. Shaff[?]er, Secretary of the American Telegraph Company, recently returned from Russia, has favoured us with some interesting information on public opinion there in relation to the Crimean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Attacks of the Times on the Conductors of the War, and Its Own Defence. (From the Times, December 30.)
Empire · Monday 16 April 1855 · page 2
Are we, or are we not, to publish the letters that pour in from the Crimea? The question no longer concerns the graphie narratives of "our Own Correspondent," for in this respect, just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Report From the War Department
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1855 · page 5
The actual strength of the army is only 10,745 The whole authorised strength is 14,216. The deficiency is fast decreasing by more rapid enlistments. A statement is given of the changes made in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Christmas. (Spectator of 23rd December.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1855 · page 3
THE season of domestic reunion, the anniversary from which each Christian year would naturally date, comes to us this time under circumstances unknown to the the majority of these who are now living. It differs in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Moralities. (From the Spectator.)
Empire · Wednesday 18 April 1855 · page 6
The freedom from crime and disorderly conduct in our army bofore Sebastopol, upon which Mr. Sidney Herbert lately dwelt with such well-merited emphasis,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lord Brougham on the War
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1855 · page 3
ON presenting a petition to the House of Peers on the evening of Monday, 18th December, before the debate began, Lord Brougham took occasion to deliver a short but impressive speech on the war, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Later English News. Progress of the War
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1855 · page 4
BY the Yarra Yarra, last night, we have papers from Melbourne to the 14th current. The Frederick, Captain Morton, which sailed from Liverpool on the 24th January, brings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Press and the War. (From the Northern Daily Times, January 22.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1855 · page 4
THE part the progressive section of the Press of England has played during the present war is highly creditable to its character and the large sections of the public whose political views it represents. The interests of the British Empire were no sooner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leading Men of the War. (From the Weekly Dispatch) Lieutenant-general Sir George Brown
Empire · Wednesday 18 April 1855 · page 2
Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown, K.C.B., was born at Lisk, near Elgin (N.B.), and is a member of the old family of the Browns of that place, distinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord John Russell on the Enlistment of F0reigners Bill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1855 · page 3
IN moving the second reading of the Bill, his lordship went somewhat at length into the scope of the measure, and the general question, the reason stated by the noble lord for adopting this course being, that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Progress of the War. Further Particulars. (From the Melbourne Morning Herald of 12th current)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 April 1855 · page 2
WE received our file of English papers yesterday afternoon. The sum and substance of the news is thisâthat Sebastopol has [?]ot filien, and peace is not concluded, Everything, however, is proceeding at the seat of war with the fiercest activity and the most…
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