BY the P. and O. Company's mail steamer Geelong, arrived in Sydney yesterday morning, we have our files of English papers to December 30th, and make the following extracts:— ...
Article : 262 wordsA libel case came before the Court of Common Pleas lately. Colonel Pownall, a retired Indian officer in 1867 married a Miss Jeffs. He subsequently became very ill, and in August, 1869, he died of an aneurism ...
Article : 1,534 wordsA letter of Mr. Reverdy Johnson on the subject of the Alabama claims, is published. It ocoupies two columns of the Times. Mr. Johnson has not "the shadow of a doubt" that if the convention he concluded ...
Article : 396 wordsThe papers contain long accounts of the lamentable death of Mr. Fred. Younge, so well and favourably known as a comedian in this city.— The first news of the disaster reached London on the ...
Article : 1,069 wordsFrom the 13th to the 20th instant, no military operations of any importance were undertaken by either of the belligerent armies. The order of General Trochu to close all the gates of Paris until further notice, is ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Pall Mall Gazette quotes a statement from the Lettre Journal that the provisions which were to be supplied to the Parisians last week were as follows:— "Sunday, cod; Monday, salt pork; Tuesday, cod; ...
Article : 400 wordsDuring the whole of December 1 the Prussians made no attempt to dislodge the French from the positions they had captured on the previous day on the left bank of the Marne. At dawn on Decembers 2, ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Gazette publishes the speech of Senor Zorilla to King Victor Emmanuel and the Duke of Aosta, as well as their replies accepting the Crown of Spain. The Duke of Aosta said:—I had before me a course ...
Article : 279 wordsThe Daily News of yesterday is "informed that the International, a ship having on board a submarine cable for the French Government, has been seized on the complaint of Count Bernstorff, the Prussian ...
Article : 289 wordsTouching the sorties from Paris, the following milltary reports have been published:— "The military operations to-day have been, interrupted by night setting in. On our right, the Generals ...
Article : 1,895 wordsWere the intervals at which we write for our Australian readers less prolonged, we should hero leave the story; but with a month before us, we may be expected to add a conjecture as to the probable course of events. ...
Article : 416 wordsSINCE the marvellous balloon adventure narrated by Edgar Allen Poo, there has been no such voyage through the air as that taken by two Parisians a fortnight ago. They did not, indeed, enjoy the celestial ...
Article : 1,147 wordsOn Monday, December 5, the Empress Eugenie, accompanied by the Prince Imperial and suite, left Chaslehurst on a visit to her Majesty Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. The Imperial cortege arrived within ...
Article : 106 wordsWe hear that shortly after the assmbling of Parliament on the 7th of February important estimates will be submitted for the approval of the House of Commons, with the object of increasing the efficiency of the ...
Article : 48 wordsGreat consternation was caused at Jersey yesterday among French residents and refugees by the publication of a proclamation by M. Alavoiue, Vice-Consul of France, celling upon all persons between the ages of ...
Article : 79 wordsA fearful explosion occurred at Birmingham between 12 and 1 o'olock in the afternoon of December 9, at the cartridge works of Messrs. Ludlow, at Witton. The accident occurred in a large field adjoining the ...
Article : 560 words"The deputies of the North German Parliament dined with the King on Sunday evening—the evening of the day of the address—and were taken up next morning to the front to show them Paris. After their ...
Article : 992 wordsAccounts from Berlin state that explanations and assurances have been given by the Luxembourg Government which remove all danger of a conflict. As an answer to the complaints of Prussia respecting ...
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