Civil War in Russia
We learn from Mr. Fisher, a passenger by the Blue Jacket to Melbourne and who has just arrived in Sydney, that a despatch was telegraphed when the vessel…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1855
578 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 29
The State of the War
THE new Ministry which has been formed by Lord Palmerston, composing, as it does, some of the most talented men in England, gives us reason to hope that the difficulties into which England has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ten Days Later News From Europe. Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister. Lord Panmure, Minister of War
The Telegraph (s) arrived from Melbourne on Monday afternoon, bringing news to the 15th February, received by the Tasmania, arrived in Hobson's Bay from London the 15th, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →(From a Soldier of the 93Rd Highlanders.) Balaklava, December 23
My dear wife.—I received your kind and affectionate letter. I am happy to see by it that you are in good health, as health is a precious thing here. There is still a great deal of sickness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →What the Soldiers Have to Say of and for Themselves
Instead of copying exclusively the articles of the TIMES' "Own special Correspondent," whom some might perhaps fancy to write occasionally with a bias, and whose letters tell, we fear but too…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Decease of Nicholas, and Its Effects on the War
DEATH—that of late has been attempting to satisfy his insatiable maw in the camp of friend and foe, in the belagured city and on the frozen steppe—has at last made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War and Its Incidents. the Siege of Sebastopol
The Times correspondence from the Crimea to the 15th of February we condense in consecutive it rained heavily all night, and reduced the ground to such a state that the reconnaissance winch Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Items. (From the Liverpool A[?]ion, Monday, March 5.)
THE seventh company of the battalion of firemen of Paris left on Thursday night, by the Lyons Railway, for Toulon, where it is to [?]mbark for Constantinople. The company consists of [?] captain, a lieutenant, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Death of Nicholas, and the Issue of the War. (From a Correspondent.)
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 →Probable Effect of the Czar's Death on the War. (From the Liverpool Albion, 5th March.)
CHANCE medley seems destined to be the presiding genuis of the Crimean contest in all its stages. The inscrutability of the ways of Providence now mocks the calculations of man as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Imperial Parliament. House of Lords—february 20. Conduct of the War
Lord PANMURE moved the second reading of the Army Service Act Amendments Bill. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH had really expected that in moving the second rending of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters From the Seat of War. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,âI have delayed sending you the enclosed letters from my Brother, thinking the last mail would have made them uninteresting for publication; but I leave it for you to decide, and beg to remain,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Late Emperor Nicholas and the Musent War. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—Whatever effect the appalling event of which we were all so suddenly apprised on Saturday last—I mean the death of the late Emperor Nicholas—may have on Russia herself, there is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in the East. Defeat of the Russians at Eupatoria
The Moniteur publishes the following:— "The Minister of the Marine and the Colonies has received from the Crimea, by way of Bucharest, the two following telegraphic despatches, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Official Despatches From Field-marshal Lord Raglan. War Department. Feb. 27
Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Field-marshal the Lord Raglan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sonnets on the War
THIS temporary [?]ffusion has the advantage of a subject which interests. It a[?]so exhibits considerable poetical spirit, and as much harmony of ve[?]sification as perhaps the sonnet permits in English. The topic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First Speech of the New Minister of War on the Administration of the Office
LORD PANMURE, after expressing his regret that the noble Earl had not given him notice of the questions which he had asked, said that he quite concurred with him in thinking that when honours and rewards were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Inroad on the War Office
ADDRESSING the Spectator on the subject of the Balaklava Railway, one "Miles Investigator" remarks that —The inefficiency of our military system, brought to light by the necessities of actual work, having virtually…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Survey of the War. (From the Leader.)
THE Allied Armies have now been five months in the Crimea, and upwards of four months before Sebastopol. The sanguine hopes entertained by the British people at the brilliant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Manchester School and the War
THE attitude assumed in reference to the present war by the particular class of British politicians designated the Manchester School, receives a fuller…
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