Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← The wars & local soldiers, all years

Sydney · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1855

578 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 29

South Australia. Our dates reach to the 21st ultimo. The papers are chiefly filled with details of the war in the East, and matters of local interest. We subjoin a few quotations:—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1855 · page 3

THE FIRST PEAL OF BELLS.—On Tuesday evening, a meeting was held at Christchurch, North Adelaide, of persons desirous of promoting the erection of a tower at the north-west angle of the church, to be furnished…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The War, the Government, and the People. (From the Nonconformist, November 23.)

Empire · Wednesday 7 March 1855 · page 8

A second letter from our respected correspondent. "R. Robinson," calls for some further statement of the views we take of the policy of the present war with Russia. Since he has…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Enlistment of Polish Prisoners. (From the Examiner, November 18.)

Empire · Wednesday 7 March 1855 · page 8

There are several handred Polish prisoners at Deveonport, who are burning with desive to be led into the held against their late oppressors the Russsians. Why, when reinforcoments are so…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

The Ladies of Nottingham and the Wounded Soldiers. (From the Nottinghamshire Guardian, November 30.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1855 · page 3

AMIDST the sympathy so universally expressed for the widows and orphans of those who have fallen in their country's cause, we rejoice to think that a degree of solicitude which reflects highly and honourably upon…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

War Medals. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1855 · page 3

SIR,—Having observed the following official notification in [?] columns, I will make a few observations upon it, which perhaps you will publish in your widely-circulated journal:— "Horse Guards, November 22.—The Queen has been pleased…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

A New Zeal and War Medal. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 8 March 1855 · page 6

SIR—With feelings of much pleasure I perused the letter which appeared recently in the Sydney Morning Herald, on the subject of a War Medal for New Zealand. No person except an…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

This Policy and Prospects of the War. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 8 March 1855 · page 6

SIR—As I happened to be absent from Sydney when the public of our good city were requested to contribute to the Patriotic Fund, I beg to transmit, through you, my personal contribution…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Louis Kossuth Onthe War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1855 · page 3

At a public meeting held at St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre, on the 29th November, to celebrate the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Polish insurrection of 1830, the room was crowded to…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Peace Society and the War

Empire · Friday 9 March 1855 · page 5

The following address from Mr. Joseph Stnrge has been placarded upon the walls of Birmingham:- " To MY FELIOW-TOWNSMEN OF THE WORKING…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Mr. Sturge on the War. (From the Times, December 5)

Empire · Friday 9 March 1855 · page 6

The well-known advocate of pence, Mr. Joseph Sturge, has Just addressed the working classes of Birmingham on the subject of the Russinn war. In this document, which will be found in another…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

IRELAND, (From the Correspondent of the Times) Dubline, Monday Morning, December 4, the War

Empire · Friday 9 March 1855 · page 5

In The Times of Monday there was a passing allusion to the gratifying circumstance of two prelates of opposite persuasions being found side by side at the social board to do honour to a band fal…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

War Prices a Fallacy. (From the Econimist.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1855 · page 4

A GREAT effort has been made by some of our most influential contemporaries to connect the unexpected high price of corn with the war. Because during the long war, from 1791 to 1815, there were several years of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Hints on the War. (From the Times, November 24.)

Empire · Saturday 10 March 1855 · page 5

Seldom has it been our lot to publish at once intelligence so momentous, so anxious, so glorious, and so varied. Side by side with the despateches containing the details of a battle which exemplifies…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Our Succour in the War. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 13 March 1855 · page 6

SIR—The mail which brought me a score of papers last evening, supplied work enough to prevent even a glance at what is recorded of the doings here is aid of a "Benevolent" movement…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Soldiers' Leiters From the Camp

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1855 · page 3

WELL has it been said of the letters written by our soldiers from the Beat of war,—many of them, indeed, even on the battle field,—"Their descriptions are simple, the emotions expressed aro genuine, and the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Parliament and the War. (From Bell's Weekly Messenger, December 2.)

Empire · Wednesday 14 March 1855 · page 6

So Parliament really is to meet on the 12th of December? Not a moment too seen is the great Council of the nation to be assembled. The work to be done by both Lords and Commons will not be…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

War Music

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 March 1855 · page 5

The merest soldier is to-day The poet of his art. Though he should neither sing nor say The transports of his heart…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Holiness of War

Empire · Thursday 15 March 1855 · page 8

The grand and awful mystery of the world is the beauty and luxuriance with which good grows and flourishes out of evil. The heaviest sorrows nourish the noblest virtues; and ills that, in their first…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Science and War. (From the Atlas, November 11.)

Empire · Thursday 15 March 1855 · page 5

It is not at all creditable to us that a comparatively barbarous empire like that of Russia should be so nearly on a level with us in instruments of war. We cannot rival Russia in mere quantity of…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Our Bill for the Last War. [From the Spectator.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 March 1855 · page 3

THE Parliamentary paper just issued by the Treasury on the motion of Mr. Hume, exhibiting the loans, subsidies, and other advances to Foreign States from 1793 to 1853, is a useful memorandum; but it is one…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →