I SUPPOSE there is a better chance of this packet reaching its destination than awaits communications dispatched to or from Paris; but it is a [?]arvel it the mails continues to pass freely ...
Article : 2,980 wordsIt is apparent that an important crisis in the affairs of Europe is at this moment "on the cards"—for good or for evil. Human reason and logic are in truth set at naught in deciphering the result of the present peace movements. ...
Article : 3,516 wordsThe German ship-owners have addressed two more petitions to Count Bismarck. The Bremen owners requite that France should be held responsible, not only for ships taken, but also be made to reimburse any losses occasioned ...
Article : 109 wordsDr. Marion Sims, who was in command of the Anglo-American Ambulance, has sent to Colonel Loyd-Lindsay a report of one month's work in Sedan and the neighbour-hood. The Anglo-American Ambulance owes its origin ...
Article : 361 wordsThe stage of Bitsche was taken in hand in the middle of August. On the 24th, four 60-pounder mortars and five batteries of four 12-pounder breech-loaders each, commenced bombarding the fortress. On the 4th of September ...
Article : 207 wordsA correspondent of the Daily News, who has just been admitted to the famous citadel of Sedan, writes:—The barracks have been turned into an ambulance, which ia under the superintendence of Dr. H'Cormack and Miss Pearson. ...
Article : 578 wordsA correspondent gives the following account of the progress of the bombardment of Toul on September 15 :— "An immense amount of trouble and difficulty was experienced in bringing the heavy guns here over the ...
Article : 308 wordsThe report that the Paris Government has prohibited the formation of a Polish legion is, according to the Cologne Gazette, incorrect. Such a legion really exists; only instead of being called a "Polish legion," it is known as the ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Standard remarks that "while Ministerial wisdom seizes the occasion to deliberate whether or not it is expedient to Prussianise England, she may be Prussianised after a fashion even more irksome and objectionable. ...
Article : 235 wordsGeneral Ollech, hitherto Governor of Coblentz, has been appointed Governor of Strasbourg. General Warder, who conducted the operations of the siege of Strasbourg, reports that the besieging force lost from the 21st of September to ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Daily News does not think "that the Parisians really believe in the size and importance of the armies which are supposed to be marching to their aid; and, as a last alternative, it may be considered whether they do not ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Standard says:—"Too much has been already printed about this wonderful note, and we must say frankly that La Situation, which published it, comes better out of the affair than the Liberal journals which jumped at ...
Article : 262 wordsA letter in the North German Gazette from the camp before Paris, dated the 29th of September, save:—"Our soldiers are shovelling and digging with a zeal like that with which the old Romans are credited. Doable and frequently ...
Article : 418 wordsThe correspondent of the Times, writing from the headquarters of the 10th Corps d'Armee, Marango, near Metz, says on September 21 he visited the Observatory, which is posted on a hill near the town, and from it could see ...
Article : 735 wordsThe following circular note has been sent to tho No. German Embassies and Legations:—"Ferrlerce, Ootob 1.—As we learn from the newspaper, the section of [?] French Government residing at Tours issued ...
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1860 - 1871), Sat 3 Dec 1870, Page 6
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