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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
62 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4
IN reply to a letter from Mr. W. F. De Salis, of 17, Cannon-street, City, London, addressed to the Under Secretary of State for War, in which that gentleman prefers a request, on behalf of the Australian colonies,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN our natural impatience at the slow progress of recruiting—and that it is slow is unhappily too notorious, whatever the organs of Government in the Press may be instructed to say to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME French journals heve Started the cry of English cruelty and barbarity in India. "This is a war of extermination," says the Gazette de France; "England openly adopts the doctrines of terrorism; England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Native community of Bombay, headed by our venerable and philanthropic Baronet, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, entertained the European soldiers of the Garrison to a sumptuous banquet on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE subjoin, from the Friend of India of 17th December, particulars of the extraordinary escape of a British soldier from Lucknow, prior to the relief of that garrison by Sir Colin Campbell. The gallant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The rude experience of life has a wonderful effect upon the theoretical conc[?]ons of meditative minds. This truth has been remarkably illustrated by the wars in which it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A SUFFLEMENT to the London Gazette of Tuesday, 15th December, publishes the official reports of the various commanding officers on the different points where severe fighting has taken place. As the lists of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chairman (Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood): Can you form any opinion as to what proportion of the European troops profess the Roman Catholic religion?—I should think the proportion was about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How the Irish Catholic soldier is treated just now, while fighting the battles of England in the far East, will he seen hy the following letter which appears in the latest number of the Bengal Harkaru…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have just heard a mos extraordinary stroy regarding Brevet Major Ward, who is in command of H.M.'s 60th Rifles at Arcot, which for the sake of the Regiment we hope is not true, although…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wounded.—Brigadier-General Sir H. M. Lawrence, K. C. B., commanding the forces, mortally (since dead): officiating deputy assistant adjutant-general, Captain T. F. Wilson, slightly; officiating deputy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wounded.—Sub-assistant Commissary-General, Lieutenant T. James, dangerously. ARTILLERY. Wounded.—Captain A. P. Simons, twice, severely;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General and Brigade Staff.—Wounded, 1 European Officer. Artillery, Regular and Irregular.—Strength consisting of 10 light guns and an 8-inch howitzer; killed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General and Brigade Staff.—Killed and died of wounds: 1 European officer. Wounded: 3 ditto officers. Artillery, Regular and Irregular.—Killed and died…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN a sermon preached at Salt Lake by Brigham Young, on the 18th of October last, he spoke thus:—I do not know that anybody complained in Nauvoo, except Brother Kimball,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The letter of Mr. Acton, from which we extracted about a week ago, and that gentleman's speech against misappropriation of the Patriotic fund, have brought out Sir John Pakington on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHATEVER happens in this world of woo is ordained by an all-wise Providence as a just punishment for human depravity, or as an incentive to heroic virtue. The dreadful scourge of war, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Bengal Hurkaru of 4th February, says:— The arrival of Mr. Russell, the Times' Correspondent, has made a greater impression in this country than the arrival of a newspaper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steam-yachts forming tho royal marriage squadron at Portsmouth will move in a few days to the Thames. They comprise the Royal State yacht Victoria and Albert, the Fairy, the Admiralty State yacht Osborne, the Curacoa 31-gun frigate, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From advices received to-day, it appears that the Mormons will not retreat from Utah, as was expected by the Government, but will fight it out where they are. This insures a bloody war in the spring…
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