On the 26th of September, the Gulf of Riga squadron, under the orders of Captain Heathcote, of the Archer, weighed from Runo, and proceeded towards Riga to reconnoitre and attack a battery which had fired on the ...
Article : 492 wordsThe correspondent of the Daily News writes under date "Camp before Sebastopol, October, 2," as follows:— The process in which both ourselves and the French have been engaged of stripping our respective parts of ...
Article : 2,252 wordsSEBASTOPOL, SEPTEMBER 30.—I mentioned to you in my last letter, that trains had been laid to blow up the arsenal and a considerable portion of Sebastopol. Everything was ready, and nothing was wanting but the signal ...
Article : 953 wordsA letter from St. Petersburgh says that the Emperor Alexander, in his recent visit to Moscow, not only went with all the imperial family to the holy places, temples, catacombs, and chapels, kissing the reli[?]s of the saints, ...
Article : 471 wordsTURIN, 13th October.—Reinforcements for the east are about to leave Genoa. General Montevecchio has died of his wounds. Rifaat Pasha, president of the council of war in the Crimea, was sont by the Sultan with ...
Article : 271 wordsSir Charles Hotham sleeps peacefully in his grave; and the public mind will be prepared to review with can[?] dour, and some charitableness, the varions leading features of his brief but troubl[?]d career since he landed ...
Article : 2,555 wordsThe following communication is under date "Revel Roads, October 9th." You must not look for any further nows of importance; the season is already past for active operations; ...
Article : 497 wordsPius IX. has conferred on Count Buol, the Austrian Premier, the great cross in diamonds of the order of Pius; on Baron de Bach the great cross of the order of St. George; and on Count do Thun that of the order of ...
Article : 115 wordsMESSINA, October 5.—The Turin Opinione gives the following despatch:—"There are several armed bands in the island; the number of armed insurgents in Ademo, near Catania, is said to be 1000. Sanguinary conflicts ...
Article : 114 wordsLanding of Omar Pacha's Army in the Russian Provinces. The Times correspondent, writing from Souchum Kal[?]b, Abasia, September 24th, gives the following ...
Article : 1,571 wordsATHENS, October 10.—There have been some tumultuous manifestations here on the part of the Russian faction. The crowd have been shouting "vivate" for the King, the Queen, and the Czar. A riotous ...
Article : 112 wordsTHE LADY NURSES IN THE EAST.—The sympatl[?]es of England for her army in the Crimea have been certainly proved throughout the campaign by munificent gifts more than by mere rejoicing for victories: and above all ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Fri 11 Jan 1856, Page 2
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