THE E. and A. M. S. Bowen, with the English mails, via Torres Straits, arrived here this morning, Her dates are from Hongkong to the 9th; Singapore, 15th; and Somerset, 26th. ...
Article : 437 wordsTHE s.s. Northumberland brings four days later news. The following is a summary of the latest intelligence:— SERVIA AND RUSSIA. ...
Article : 85 wordsThere was much of bitterness aud recrimination in the French elections, and they were of ought out with great vigour. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe projected marriage of the King of Spain with the daughter of the Due de Montpensier is very unpopular. ...
Article : 32 wordsA very warlike speech has been delivered by Signor Crispie, one of the Italian deputies, and it has caused much excitement. ...
Article : 26 wordsPrince Bismark has returned to his country seat, Vazzin, ...
Article : 13 wordsAt midnight, on September 25, Mehemet Ali withdrew his army from the advanced positions at Bansha, on the Lom, to a more favourable line, which he now occupies. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe work of carnage in Plevna is regarded as frightful. Respecting the slaughter which took place on the 12th September, the Daily Telegraph correspondent writes:—"The plan of the Russians ...
Article : 1,068 wordsA serious earthquake has occurred at Geneva and throughout northern Italy. ...
Article : 16 wordsOwing to continued rains the roads are knee deep in mud at Saruasu[?]lar, Yenskeni, and the villages on the way to Eski Djuma. Thousands of refugees are bivouacked in the fields and ...
Article : 72 wordsCleopatra's Needle has arrived safely in the Thames, and steps will be immediately taken to put it in position. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe French Government assured the Vatican that it can rely on a majority of 15. Gambetta is equally confident. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe circumstance of considerable reinforcements going to Plevna has caused great consternation at Bucharest. All sorts of rumours are current, one being that the recent sorties from Widdin and ...
Article : 51 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has arrived at Balmoral. The Duke of Connaught has visited Monaghan, Ireland, at the opening of a magnificent public fountain there. ...
Article : 29 wordsA church congress is sitting at Croydon, the president being the Archbishop of Canterbury. The tone of the congress is moderate. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Porto has resolved to insist on the rescinding of existing treaties and to demand the repeal of the minor Rouinanian restoration to the former state of two separate principalities. The Porte has ...
Article : 103 wordsVery high tides have lately prevailed, and very rough weather has been experienced in the English Channel. ...
Article : 23 wordsThere have been extensive strikes at Wolverhampton; and, to supply the places of the men, German workmen have been brought over. ...
Article : 28 wordsGeneral Grant is now at Torquay. New docks have been opened at Fleetwood. The Bank rate advanced to 5 percent. The Marquis of Salisbury, at Bradford, in a ...
Article : 674 wordsA telegram from Studini, dated September 29, states that the weather is wet every where, and that snow continues at the Shipka Pass. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe retreat of Sulieman Pasha upon the Kara Lom as a precautionary step against the massing of the Russian troops, under the Czarewitch, at Biela, was rather ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Russian losses in the Shipka Pass, from the 21st to the 27th inclusive, were 15 killed and wounded. On the 27th, the Russinn mortars opened on the Turkish position, and immediately ...
Article : 49 wordsOn the 24th September, the Turks attached the Russian vanguard at Mahren, near Elena, but were repulsed with heavy losses, leaving several of their flags on the field. The Russian losses were very ...
Article : 64 wordsThere is much sickness among the troops of loth armies, and it is increasing. There is great scarcity of food in some of the Russian camps. ...
Article : 32 wordsTurkish accounts report a severe engagement in Asia Minor, in which the Russians were routed with considerable loss. ...
Article : 19 wordsSubsequent to their deleat at Tcherkovna, the Turks completely abandoned their posts held opposite the Russian position, and hastily retreated to Popkoi, leaving behind them field telegraphs, ...
Article : 31 wordsFifteen hundred Hungarian Filibusters crossed the Roumanian frontier for the purpose of plunder, but mainly with the object of increasing the fears of Roumania, and the discontent at the burdens ...
Article : 40 wordsChefket Pasha's second column of troops for Plevna were, at last accounts, nearly ready to start from Orohanie. Large reinforcements were arriving, and the utmost activity prevails. Two heavy ...
Article : 44 wordsActive operations throughout Bulgaria have been altogether checked by a serious break in the weather. The roads are quite impassable. General Todleben has resolved to make a vigorous attempt ...
Article : 99 wordsTelegrama from Cracow, dated 29th September, state that the Socialist Propaganda, fomented by Russian Nihilist agents, is assuming alarming proportions in Eastern Galicia, where the agents are ...
Article : 72 wordsIt is certain, notwithstanding contrary reports, that the Asiatic Carapaign has, so far, gone greatly in favour of Russia. Neither the Russians nor the Roumanians have winter clothing. The cold ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Russians will remain entrenched in position extending along a line from Sistova to Biela and the Jantra, north of Tirnova to Selvi, Lovatz, Poradin, and ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following despatch has been received from Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha, dated 27th September:— "On the 21st September Ismail Pasha inflicted a defeat on the Russians at Halkali. The enemy ...
Article : 41 wordsCompetent judges from the Jantra lines of defence state that the positions occupied by the Czarevitch's army are extremely strong — impregnable in fact to attacks ...
Article : 63 wordsA Cabinet Council has been held in London specially to consider the question of the Indian Famine Fund. The Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke hopefully of the prospects of trade. The ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Russians, within the last ten days, have forwarded 12,000 of their sick and wounded to Russia. Many petitions in favour of peace are in course of preparation in the interior of Russia, ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Board of Trade having inquired into the Portland disaster, reprimanded Captain Forest, but laid the chief blame on the other ship. ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 1 Dec 1877, Page 41
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