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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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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 ate. This insures a bloody war in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following are extracts from a private communication, dated, February 15th, and addressed to a military officer in this city by his son, an officer serving in the Indian war, and stationed at Allahabad:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE need not call upon our readers to appreciate the enterprise which has brought news of such importance as are contained in our telegram of yesterday. The death of Sir CHARLES…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Commissioners appointed by the Queen to inquire into all circumstances connected with the sanitary condition of our troops, whether in health or sickness, have reported among other matters, that:—When a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN the House of Lords, on the 24th of March, the Earl of Ellenborough, addressing their lordships, said:- My lords, I much regret I had left the House when my noble and learned friend opposite (Lord Brougham)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Overland Friend of India, of 3rd May, gives the following summary of intelligence, for the fortnight preceding. Nothing new is talked about in Calcutta, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—According to the parliamentary report in the Herald of this morning, it appears that when Messrs. Piddington, Donaldson, and other pro-Chinese members were defeated in their sly attempt to divide their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOLDIERING, considered as an occupation, and as it is practised in the times of peace, is tame, monotonous, wearisome. The occupation of the soldier, qua soldier, is not favourable to health…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Will you kindly inform me if it be true that the Government of this colony have reduced the colonial allowance hitherto granted to the military, by twentyfive per cent.?…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →OF all nations[?] says the Times, there is none that drifts into war so easily as England. "The facility consists in our perfect security, in the good opinion of our own justice and peaccsbleness,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE delay which has occurred in the departure of the Dne de M— to take possession of his new office being known to be of his own seeking, has given rise to a thin filet of smoke, beneath which smoulders the spark…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Emperor Napoleon has just replaced the Count de Persigny as his Ambassador at London, by the Marshal de Malakhoff. This diplomatic change has a double significance of no slight importance in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the date of our last advices from New Caledonia, there were at Port de France three ships of war and two war steamers, with a military force consisting of about 1000 men, soldiers and marines. Other venssels with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Of the "birth, parentage, education," and carcer of this eminent personage many accounts have been published, but no two of them agree between themselves; and whilst some exalt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Fagan rose to call the attention of the Secretary of the Board of Control to the army regulation made by the Governor-General in India in council in 1855, which required that the children…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are glad to see the House of Representatives hesitating in its proceedings over the swindles and extravagances, past, present, and to come, of the Utah Expedition. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A private letter received in Salem Massachusetts, gives the following terrible story of the atrocities commilted in the Banda Oriental country, of which imper. fact accounts have been received through English papers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An expedition has been fitted out by the government of the United States, the object of which is to wage war against the people of one of the national territories. The expedition is an armed one. In its exterior aspect, it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE copy the following from the Cape Argus, June 3:- It is not true, as stated, that Boshof has run away from his Free State subjects—nor is it true that Pretorius has been elected President of the Free State. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE idea of war with a power like France is so formidable to every man acquainted with the resources and valour of that gallant nation, that any suggestion of its probability, from whatever…
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