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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
578 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 29
THE dawn of the present year has discovered the British nation in a condition of doubt, if not of actual despondency, which is utterly at variance with the character of the Anglo-Saxon race. When the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The sum advertised by the Commissioners of the patriotic Fund as having been received by them up to Saturday last, amounts to about £320,000; and as a number of places have yet to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LORD JOHN RUSSELL, moved the third reading of the bill. Sir Edward Deering moved that it be read a third time that day six months. He had no objection to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Times of 24th and 27th November this subject occupies some space, and the question is put:â "How are we to spare our men, and make them go as far as possible â how make one Englishman count…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE must wait longer before we hear of the destruction of Sebastopol. The news just received by the Lightning merely states that the siege works were still going forward,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The most that can be said of the war this week is, that there has been no new catastrophe. For the present the weather, fiercer than war, seems to have interposed an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE mail which arrived in Sydney on Saturday brings us news from the Seat of War up to the 26th of December, and from England to the 6th of January, and presents us with a gloomy account of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THERE is a general feeling of disappointment, we observe, amongst all classes at the paucity of news brought by the January mail. The superficial observer, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE same unerring law reigns in the body politic, that regulates the health or distemper of the human frame. Those who follow the dictates of prudence and temperance in their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WE have from day to day printed letters from newspaper correspondents, in which the writers sometimes retail the hardships and discomforts at Balaklava. It should be borne in mind, however, that the writers are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Duck of NEWCASTLE said, after the debate that taken place in that house a few nights ago, and after the opinion that had been expressed by both House of Pareliment and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE freedom from crime and disorderly conduct in our army before Sebastopol, upon which Mr. Sidney Herbert lately dwelt with such well-merited emphasis, not only marks a great advance in the moral and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is a common observation that mothers are the fondest of those children that are in themselves the least worthy of their affection. They will idolise a spendthrift, a profligate, a rebel, or an idiot in the one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Ganges, which arrived at Toulon on Tuesday, the 2nd January, left Constantinople on the 25th December. At the last dates from the Crimea 18 Turkish battalions had already landed at Eupatoria. As soon as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The system upon which our army is organised, or rather deprived of all organisation, possesses so many and complicated effects that it not only gets us into difficulties, but almost seems to prevent the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this day received two despatches, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Grace Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved the third reading of this bill. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said as the noble duke had stated no now amendments he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Sir—I have been favoured with your letters of the 1st and 10th instant. I have also heard of the affair you Shad with the enemy on the 28th ultimo, and deeply regret the result. I have attentively perused…
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