BY the arrival yesterday morning of the royal mail steamship Avoca, we are placed in possession of our English files, from which we make the following extracts:— ...
Article : 195 wordsTHE month's news will, I fear, prove rather dull to Australian readers. We have been so long accustomed to the sensational, that we can hardly accommodate ourselves to the rather narrowed field for ...
Article : 1,954 wordsAll the regular troops have gone to Versailles. The National Guard is now the only force in Paris. Barricading continues in all quarters. ...
Article : 217 wordsA correspondent, writing on the 21st February, describes a visit paid to the warehouse of Messrs. Copestake, Moore, and Co., in Paris, at which place the provisions forwarded from London are being ...
Article : 1,129 wordsThe following quotation from a speech, of the Duke of Cambridge, spoken at the Fishmongers' Hall, on April 8, 1870, may be read with interest just now:—" We live in times of great change. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe question of the day—nay of the hour—with every one in this great city, and in every town, village, and hamlet, is, "Will Prussia crush France by the weight of her demands in reference to the war ...
Article : 568 wordsIN THE INSOLVENT ESTATE OF BENJAMIN WATERS. Several debts were proved. The bankrupt was examined by Mr. Evans, on behalf of a creditor, Mr. Hurley, as follows: —On looking at ...
Article : 974 wordsAn opinion prevails that the limited service system carried to the extent now proposed will be a failure, as the sop of increased pay has already proved, whether as a means of obtaining a better man to ...
Article : 248 wordsConsols 92?. New South Wales debentures 5 per cents. 100; South Australian 6 per cents. 107½; Victoria 6 per cents. 112½; Victoria 5 per cents. 102. ...
Article : 46 wordsARRIVALS,—Loch Leven, Mikado, City of Vienna, Marpessa, Ben Nevis, La Hogue, Martha Birnie, Juliet, and Glen Osmond. ...
Article : 18 wordsDr. Smith's racing [?] is for sale on Monday next. The Navigation Board are engaged inquiring into the loss of the stemer Barwon. ...
Article : 192 wordsA shocking affair took place on Fubruary 18, at Stallingborough in Lincolnshire. A woman named Leedham was engaged in placing the dinner on the table for her husband, a step-son named, George, ...
Article : 159 wordsA correspondent writing under date Paris, February 16, says: — "Paris is very peaceful; as I think, too much exhausted in her reaction from the tension of the siege to have any turbulence left in ...
Article : 990 wordsBryan Dillon, ona of the political prisoners, who obtained an unconditional pardon in consideration of the state of his health, arrived in Cork on Monday evening. His Fenian friends had made arrangements ...
Article : 233 wordsTHE SPEAKER, finding no quorum present at half-past 3, declared the House adjourned until 3 o'clock on Tuesday next. The members present, when the House was thus adjourned, were—on the ...
Article : 91 wordsTHE Government Gazette of the 14th instant, contains— APPOINTMENT.—Mr. W. M. Scott to be station-master at the CAsino telegraph office. ...
Article : 627 wordsThe action brought by Mr. Leonard Ball Poynter, late captain of the 16th Regiment of Infantry, for recovery of £10,000 damages, for an assault and battery committed on him by Mr. John Vessey ...
Article : 1,276 wordsJoseph Richardson was found guilty of deserting from the Loch Urr, and was ordered to gaol for one month. "William Purvis, alias Richard Newman, was ...
Article : 398 wordsA Paris correspondent writes that the result of the elections in the capital indicates something more than a more party vote. It betrays the existence and power of a party organization, which may be ...
Article : 222 wordsAll the land forces of the country are to be united into one defensive army, to be under general officers of districts, subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief, and all under the supreme control of the ...
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