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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
578 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 29
Wanted a War Minister of energy, invention, and insight, who thoroughly understands the present war. Wanted a Minister who will make the most of the enormous resources of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. BRIGHT most eloquently expressed the other night in the House of Commons his earnest hope that advantage would be taken of the earliest opportunity afforded by the negotiations at Vienna to concert a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two soldiers of the 99th Regiment have been tried and convicted of the heinous offence of making away with their ammunition in shooting at the Emperor of Russia, whom they had drawn on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The burden of every letter from the Crimea has been, See how much better provided the French soldier is than the English, and therefore how much more healthful, patient, and efficient is the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BY our last advices from the East (says the Times) it appears that a large body of Russian troops, advancing towards Sebastopol, had perished on the road, from the extreme severity of the weather and the hardships…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE result of the first campaign against Russia amounts really to this—that the war has to be begun again. We have done nothing but learn some hard lessons; and,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. ROEBUCK moved that the select committee appointed to inquire into the condition of the army before Sebastopol be a secret committee. He suggested discrcetly some of the difficulties which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Mothers lifting prayers unto one God, In alien language, and on hostile sod. Two Maidens wailing, in a different tongue, The gory mass of silent men among…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HOW THE SICK ARE TREATED.—A letter from the Crimea has the following:—"Here is a special fact for Dr. Smith, the head of the British army medical department. A surgeon of a regiment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At no period since 1832 has the current of public opinion in Britain set so strongly against aristocracy as at present, and not without reason. The picture at the Crimea of a body of brave men…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A brisk canvass is in progress, among the members of the House of Commons, with a view to induce them to allow the inquiry into the conduct of the war to drop. The agents of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oh a dainty growth is Official Routine, That crawleth o'er systems old; With red-tape-tondrils clasping keen, And choking where they fold!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A list of 191 deaths in the Crimea between Jan. 21-30, of which 150 took place between Jan. 28-30. lias just been published. The latter were in the hospitals at Scutari, and 41, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is generally admitted by English critics that the best poems on the present war have been produced by Mr. Gerald Massey, one of the young poets who have started up side by side with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amongst the absurd ideas that have grown up in this age of shains, is that of making war upon peaceful principles; and perhaps no instance more thoroughly ridiculous has occurred than the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the Hellespont, which came in this morning, we have received three days' later intelligence from England. The most important item is the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE last intelligence from Europe leaves scarcely a doubt that the war in which it is now engaged is destined to be one of long continuance. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The influence of war on the condit the people is a question on which every body will have opinions, and on which also some certainty is to be attained; but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An old proverb tells us that "Man appointes and God disappoints," and the trnth of this proverb has been lamentably illustrated by recent events. In the year 1851—still recollected as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the term approaches for the opening of the new conforence at Vienna, the probability of any concessions on the part of Russia dwindles away into mistry and most uncertain tenuity. The…
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