SIR—I am instructed by the committee to request the use of your columns, for the purpose of replying to the communication of W. Forster, Esq., M. P., contained in your issue of to-day. The extraordinary contents of that ...
Article : 829 wordsThe following is the report of the Select Committee appointed on the 21st January, 1857, to inquire into the subject of Railways in Victoria:— Your committee, though fully aware of the anxiety ...
Article : 1,304 wordsThe long strife between the Graduates and the Senate of the London University seems at last drawing to a crisis. The graduates meeting, which will be held at the Freemasons'-hall, next Tuesday evening, and which we ...
Article : 1,327 wordsTHE Melbourne papers acknowledge the receipt of New York journals to the 13th May, seven days later than our previous dates. We are indebted for the subjoined extracts to the Age and the Argus of the 12th instant. ...
Article : 1,488 wordsThe New York Express publishes the following particulars of an insurrection at the Sing-Sing prison, furnished by its correspondent, under date May 11:— Yesterday (Sunday) morning, as the convicts were ...
Article : 445 wordsWe select the following from the New York Herald of May 13:— The halls of justice are again in mourning. We are once more called upon to record the passing away of a ...
Article : 534 wordsThe following letter has been received from C[?]llao, written by a gentleman belonging to this city, under date, April 26, 1857:— "We are very unsafe in this place just now; you are ...
Article : 523 wordsSIR—As there is not much chance of our grievances bring redressed unless we make them known, I hope you will do me the favour to publish the following in your widely-spread journal. In Sydney, you never have ...
Article : 327 wordsSIR—Now that the Exchange is almost completed and will soon be formally opened, may I ask if it be the intention of the importers and merchants to meet there daily for the transaction of business as is done in ...
Article : 162 wordsThere is much excitement here relative to the death of Catherine Ann Clark by poison, supposed to have been administered by her husband, William Clark. The body has been exhumed, and an analysis going on ...
Article : 104 wordsOne of those shocking murders which, from their very brutality occasionally startle the community, and strike terror into the stoutest hearts, has just been discovered near Newburg, Orange county, N. Y., and has ...
Article : 1,279 wordsTHE following items of intelligence are derived from the New York papers just received:— "The report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Canada, just published, gives the total cost of the ...
Article : 220 wordsSIR—Allow me to stato, through the columns of your valuable journal, that my name is attached to an advertisement, referring to the New South Wales Alliance, in this day's EMPIRE, without my consent; and as I in toto ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. Mole never sees them. They grow in all the corners of his fences, in his yards, in the roads and lanes, and wherever they please. They encroach on his meadows; they invado his ...
Article : 408 wordsSIR—In Mr. Dunlop's letter, published in your issue of the 14th instant, I observe a statement to the effect that "the Inspector of National Schools can certify that he (Mr. Dunlop) opposes the National system on ...
Article : 88 wordsThe attention of the Academy of Sciences was a few days ago called to this important subject by an interesting paper presented by M. Dausse. Proceeding from the known fact that ...
Article : 286 wordsThe event which ultimately conduced to the greatest improvement in Rome, was the destruction, by fire, or nearly two-thirds of the city in the reign of Nero; and to the ...
Article : 233 wordsSIR—With reference to my communication of the 3rd instant, I have now to report having found the stern of one of the red painted boats alluded to therein, with the name" Anne Maria of Sydney," which no doubt will at ...
Article : 66 wordsSIR—You will oblige by permitting me to correct a slight mistake I made in copying my letter for the press. £27 11s. 2d. ought to be £27 19s. and nearly 2d., as I must be very particular, &c. ...
Article : 48 wordsIt was reportad early yesterday morning, May 7th, that a most lawless outrage had been perpetrated at Seguine's Point, Staten Island, about the hour of midnight on Wednesday. The mansion, farm-house, barn, ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Mon 17 Aug 1857, Page 3
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