An Episode of the War
I got very comfortable quarters in the house of a Greek family, who did everything to make me comfortable. They had been pretty well off before our troops landed in the Crimea, but when…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1855
578 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 29
The War. (From the Times of January 25.)
"THERE is a season for all things," and on the eve of a great national disaster it is some comfort to think that the presentâyes, this very present hourâis the season for a great national duty. As for the pending…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mismanagement of the War. (From the Times, January 25.)
There is a season for all things, and on the eve of a great national disaster it is some comfort to think that the precent âyes, this very present hourâis the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Impending Dissolution of the Cabinet. Secession of Lord John Russell Imperial Parliament. House of Lords. Thursday, January 25. the War
Lord Lyndhurst gave notice that he would move, on Friday, the 2nd of February, a resolution attributing the disastrous position of the expediton in the Crimea to the mismanagement of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Slaughtering the Wounded on the Field of Battle. (From the Times, 27th December.)
We have received the following despatch from our correspondent at Vienna:— "Tuesday Afternoon. "A Russian ukase ordains that whoever after a…
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The London Times, and other journals lately received, are filled with the most gloomy accounts of the state of the British tropps in the Crimea, Immediately on the meeting of Parliament, Mr…
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THE SIEGE OPERATIONS BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. âAccording to a telegraphic despatch from Prince Menschikoff, received in Paris on the 22nd of January, nothing extraordinary had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Necessity for Reform at "The War Office." (From the Times, January 24.)
LORD GREY gave notice last night of his intention to move an address to the Crown on Tuesday next, upon a subject which is at this time of the very highest consequence, for it lies at the root of all the failures of…
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We described yesterday, upon the authority of a valued correspondent, the painful contrast between the miserable condition of the British troops in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War-drain Upon This Labourmarket. (From the Spectator.)
IT is highly probable that some men who were opposed to the war, and desired to veto it, are the same with those who have quite lately opposed the Enlistment of Foreigners Bill; but the grounds on which they stand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Foreign News. The War in the Crimea
Advices of the 16th are as follows: The ground before Sebastopol is covered with deep snow. On the morning of the 13th the Russians, after a furious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Munitions of War, &c. (Extracted from proceedings in the House of Lords.)
THE Duke of Newcastle alluded, in the course of his speech, to the inadequate supply of stores of all kinds. I feel, said the noble lord, that I should be trespassing too long on your attention, otherwise I have returns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Days' Later News From England. Defeat of the Ministry on Mr. Rocbuck's Motion. Further Intelligence From the Seat of War
By the arrival of the A.S.N. Company's steamship Telegraph, we are in possession of English and European news to the 31st January, (four days later than previously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War. Aspect of Affairs in the Crimea. Despatch From Lord Raglan. (From the Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, January 26.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, January 26.—His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has received a dispatch of which teh follwing is a copy addressed to His Grace by Field Marshal…
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PARIS, Tuesday, January 30.—The Moniteur publishes the text of the Military Convention, made by the Piedmontese Government with England and France. The King of Sardinia will provide an army…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Foreign News. The War in the Crimea
Advices of the 16th are as follows: The ground before Sobastopol is covered with deep snow. On the morning of the 13th the Russians, after a furious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, January 26. Conduct of the War
Mr. LAYARD said, he had no intention that evening of entering into details, though he could acarcely give a silent vote; but, as usaual, his right honorable friend the Secretary at War had dragged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Conduct of the War. (From the Times of January 30.)
It would tax the best-read historical student to produce a more complete case of political collapse than that which it is England's ill fate, sore cost, and we had almost said foul dishonour, to witness this day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moral of the Soldiers' Funeral. (From the Liverpool Chronicle, January 27.)
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 →Four Days'later News From England. Defeat of the Ministry on Mr. Roebuck's Motion. Further Intelligence From the Seat of War
[The following appeared in a second edition of The Empire, delivered to our town subscribers at a late hour yesterday.) BY the arrived of the A.S.N. Company's…
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