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  2. FURTHER ENGLISH NEWS.

    SINCE writing to you by the mail, I have decided to risk a letter by the new steamship Queen of the Thames, a vessel of 2607 tons register, and 400 horsepower. She carries coal for the voyage, the ...

    Article : 1,254 words
  3. THE GARIBALDIANS

    ON the 17th November Ricciotti Garibaldi, who was at Saulien with about 600 men, ordered a forced march to Montbard, forty-two kilometres distant. He reached there during the night, and the ...

    Article : 604 words
  4. THE WAR—POSITION OF AFFAIRS.

    When we last wrote, it was to advert to the fall of Metz, and the carrying away a vast French army into captivity. We said that Orleans and other places had been taken, and that there was an ...

    Article : 1,854 words
  5. THE GREAT BATTLE BEFORE PARIS.

    GENERAL TROCHU has at length made his grand sortie, that which has been predicted for the last three weeks, and which will probably prove the crisis of the siege. The sorties of Tuesday, reported ...

    Article : 587 words
  6. FEARFUL ENCOUNTER IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.

    A most extraordinary outrage was committed in a first-class railway carriage between Carlisle and Penrith a few days since. The name of the person charged with the assault is Mr. Thomas Bell, calico ...

    Article : 537 words
  7. RUMOURED RESTORATION OF NAPOLEON.

    It is confidently rumoured that the King of Prussia has entered into a treaty with his illustrious captive, the Emperor, whose sovereingty he has always recognized. It is stated that the Emperor is ...

    Article : 266 words
  8. ELECTION OF THE DUKE D'AOSTA AS KING OF SPAIN.

    THE following is the official report of the voting on the election of the Duke D'Aosta to the Spanish throne:—"Three hundred and eleven members took part in the voting, the number of members ...

    Article : 168 words
  9. M. GUIZOT ON THE STATE OF FRANCE.

    THE Journal d'Amiens publishes the following reply of M. Guizet to a person who consulted him upon the situation:— "Val Richor, October 23, 1870. ...

    Article : 402 words
  10. ARRIVAL OF PRUSSIAN PRISONERS AT TOURS.

    THE following is contained in a Tours letter:—"It happens that I have now seen the extremes—the French soldiers as they started secure of victory from Paris, and as they entered Mannheim after their first ...

    Article : 240 words
  11. AN ATTACK BY LEOPARDS.

    Wombwell's menagerie has been exhibiting in the town of Hertford, and the other evening a keeper was in the leopards' den, which contains five fine animals, and was in the act of putting them through ...

    Article : 201 words
  12. FIGHTING AT SEA.

    INTELLIGENCE received this morning from Stornoway (in the Hebrides) states that the Prussian barque Hermann Helbmann, which left Scapay (Islo of Orkney) a few days since, was blown up by a French ...

    Article : 175 words
  13. A GIRL SHOT BY HER SWEETHEART.

    A SHOCKING occurrence took place at Penyfrith, in [?]aies, a few days since. A girl named Mary Rowla[?]ds, a domestic servant, who was at home on a week's holiday, was on her father's house with her ...

    Article : 133 words
  14. HEROISM OF THE FRENCH 20TH CHASSEURS.

    A CORRESPONDENT writes:—"A sure sign of how the Boulonnais have suffered from the war is the immense number of people that are in mourning. One regiment alone has three times marched from Boulonge, only to ...

    Article : 446 words
  15. IRELAND.—FRIGHTFUL AGRARLAN MURDERS.

    THE Clonmel Chronicle gives the following account of the murder of Colonel Charteris's servant in Tipperary:—"Lonergan was caretaker for many years upon the property of Colonel the Hon. R. F. and ...

    Article : 425 words
  16. MR. GRANT DUFF ON THE WAR.

    AGREEABLE to custom Mr. Grant Duff addressed his constituents at Elgin on Tuesday, 15th November. There was a very large audience. Mr. GRANT DUFF spoke at considerable length, ...

    Article : 926 words
  17. ROMANTIC DOUBLE SUICIDE.

    ONE day last week the dead bodies of a young man and woman were found lying side by side, quite dead, in a bedroom at the Warwick Tavern, Redhill, Surrey. The man appears about thirty years of age, ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. A FAMILY CHLOROFORMED AND BURNED TO DEATH IN THEIR DWELLING.

    HARRISBURG (Pa.), December 14.—The coroner's jury has found a verdict that the four members of the Royer family, burned to death in Juniata township, on the 3rd instant, were stupified by ...

    Article : 349 words
  19. NEWS BY THE MAIL. ENGLISH DOMESTIC MATTERS.

    BUT for the Russian excietement, everything has been going on as quietly at home as is possible in the presence of the tremendous continental struggle. At the great City feast on the 9th November six ...

    Article : 287 words
  20. FRENCH CRUISERS.

    We recently had occasion to notice the presence in Leith Roads of a French man-of-war named the Desaix. It appears that this vessel, which now ranks as a corvette and carries eight guns, was ...

    Article : 287 words
  21. FLOGGING A SEAMAN.

    Particulars have just come to light of a case of flogging in board one of her Majesty's ships, lying in British waters. It appears that on Sunday afternoon, October 30, the master-at-arms of her Majesty's ...

    Article : 312 words
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