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178 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 9
THE African Steamship Company's screw steamer Athenian, Captain Lowry, from the West Coast of Africa, reached the Mersey on the 9th instant. The news is exciting,and we were, at the last accounts,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following despatches have been presented to both Houses of Parliament by his Excellency's command:— Northam, 13th March, 1862. (DUPLICATE CIRCULAR, VICTORIA.)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY morning a heavy skirmish occurred at Dranesville, which resulted disastrously to us. A foraging party was sent out by General St[?]art, consisting of about two hundred waggons,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS will be a solemn Christmas-eve in England. Thousands of artizan families will meet it with the bitter prospect of want and starvation blanching their cheeks; and very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE day following the departure of the mail of the 26th instant the startling intelligence was received of a most gross outrage and insult to the British flag. The fact I duly communicated to you through the proper channel, and now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The clashing of ideas often leads to the clashing of swords, and federalism and anti-federalism have at last gir[?] on battle harness, and, like two grim ha[?]quins, enemy and counter-enemy, stand face to face upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE American Government, in all their contests with English diplomatists, have relied upon two advantages—their monopoly of the cotton supply, and their power of destroying our seaborne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE take tbe following from some December numbers of the New York Tribune:— REBEL NEWS OF A BATTLE. The Richmond Examiner of Tuesday gives the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE African Steamship Company's screw steamer Athenian, Captain Lowry, from the West Coast of Africa, reached the Mersey on the 9th instant. The news is exciting, and we were. at the last accounts,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The hero of Cahermoyle has forwarded a copy of a letter to the editor of the Morning News, which he has addressed to Mr. Seward. The following are extracts from this communication…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tamely as Dr. Russell has been constrained to write of the people and the institutions of the Federal States of America since he escaped lynching for his inimitable description of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS is one of the most original and entertaining books on the subject of New Zealand which we have over come across, and its publication at the present crisis is exceedingly well timed. It is a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If a superabundance of domestic employment, a surplusage of home cares, he sufficient reason why a Government shall fix its attention onits own people, nor seek to meddle in foreign politics…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN calculating the probabilities of peace or war with the United States, it must not be forgotten that there prevails among the Americans a belief in the superiority of their naval skill which may…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The forces of the Northern States, under M'Clellan, are advancing. On the 19th of January a battle, took, place at, Somerset, Kentucky, when the Confederate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE attention of the public has of late years been gradually drawn to the efforts made to add colour to lithographic drawings. It would seem as though art, invaded, as it were, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fawn, 17 guns, Captain Cayter, at Sydney. Harrier, 17 guns, Captain Sir Malcolm M'Grceor, at New Zealand. Miranda, 14 guns, Captain Jenkins, at Sydney. Pelorus, steamer, 21 guns, Commodore seymour, at Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The effect of the Federal victory at Somerset, in Kentucky, appears to have been to stimulate the forces in other parts of the West; and a movement has been made from Cairo which has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JANUARY passed away leaving but a scanty record for the present or future compiler of the events of the war for the Union. At the opening of the new year, the American mind, for some time previously intensely excited at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chicago Tribune makes the following [?] vouching for their [?]:â "The number of slaves freed by the [?] of Kansas soldiers up to this day cannot be loss than 3000…
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