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A TRUE BRITISH SOLDIER

... A TRUB BRITISH SOLDIBR. A correspondent sends us the following particulars C of the military experience of Sergeant James Hill, of the ( 23rd Regiment, a gallant Scot hloo has just left Fort Pitt General Hospital. This brave, determiped man escaped unhurt amidst the 1 terrific shower of round, Mi;iD, 24 and 32 pound shot, until EB within siX yards of a battery, when one entered the lower I ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 783 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

AUSTRIAN REPLY TO THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S SPEECH

... AUSTRIAN REPLY TO THE FRENCH ENIPEROR'S SPEECH. The official IFiener Zeitneeg has an article, taking notice ot the reterences made to Austria in the speech delivered by the French Emperor before the Senate ana legislative body. The following is an extract: Since, however, Austria has been more than once alluded to in the last French speech from the throne, it may be nei- ther inopportune nor ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1328 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

DIVISION OF METROPOLITAN PARISHES INTO WARDS

... DlVISlON~ OF MgTROPOLITAN PARISHES The provisions of flall's Act for the Bette L~ocal Management of the Mletropaolis necessitating the division of the whole metropolis into distriots or wards, the representative vestry of t. Panorne, et a recent sitting, appointed a commnittee to aeitat the commissioner, to b named by the government to set out such wards. The Same body also called a public ...

Published: Tuesday 28 August 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1759 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, August 31

... PBOM?1w LONDON GAZRTTB, FrW?y, AUpaS 21.? LI I 1 WAROFP1CE, AUrerT 31. 1st Regiment of Dragons Gnars~cs-Asai slat Surgeon Wil- tliau Alexiander Davidson, ?? from 42ntd Fioot, to be i Ssistwant rsurgec. ..4th Light Dragocna-Lieutsnant F. W. Mlartinl to be cap- e~ tain, by purebhae, viee Molyneur, who retires; Cornet 0 H1. II. de Bourbel to be lieutenazol, by purchase, riee D12th Light Dragoons ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4298 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PORTUGAL

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LISPON, SEzT. 14. To supply a more complete communioation with Oporto, a company, partly composed of British mer- chants, has been organised, and a steamer of about 500 tons, and a spted ofistime 14 knots an hour, has been ordered to be built in Glasgow. Th's vessel) it is expected, will sail from Lisb an every altt raate day, carrying only passengers, mails, and ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 948 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... (PROM OVR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) al PARIS, THURSDAY MoarNo.NG A letter in the Patrie, dated Odessa, Sept. 9, 4ay T that Count Strogonoff, the Governor-General ot New ti Russia, had been officiallY informed a few days pre- v.onaly, by the Minister at War, that the Czar would P arrive in Odessa between the 5th and 10th October. , The announcement of this unexpected journey had given rise to a host ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3892 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

CAPTAIN DUFF, 23RD ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS

... An officer of the Light Division writes from the Crimea, under date of September 26: - Captain James Doff, of the 23rd Regiment, who was taken prisoner on the 5th of November, 1854, the day of the Battle of Inkermann, arrived here a few days ago, having been exchanged at Odessa. His own version ot his adventures and treatment in Russia differ from the accounts which appeared in some of the ...

Published: Monday 15 October 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1213 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ON THE HEIGHTS ABOVE SEBASTOPOL

... it that mrn perc alto' rhe Leg 5en T rromt Nat to a whs %b3( rH: stat tion har the woe abo shee plut lice calk sior Cza gov tros try ocet dov of i stri He A wit wer rad her neo son teea ph3 Burl was idei mu nol jlot w~e' via Th into inI toe an dei of tht ail Ou Camp, May 7, 1855. The expedition to Kertch has returnod, to the i astonishment of every one. Surely there is a fatality attend- ing ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1004 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE OVERLAND MAIL

... O A TEE OVERLAND MAI-L. The following appeared in our late edition on Saturday: We have received our despatches in anticipation of I the Overland Mail, a summary of which appeared in t our edition of Thursday. The dates are: Calcutta, Feb. r 24; Madras, 28; Grille, March 3; Bombay, March 3; Shanghai, Feb. 6.; Hong Kong, 15; Singapore, 23; Sydney, Jan. 27; Melbourne, 31; Adelaide, Feb. 3; ...

Published: Monday 02 April 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6004 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PRUSSIAN TACTICS DESCRIBED BY M. DROUYN DE LHUYS

... PRUSSIAN TACrICS DESZRIBED BYF MS. DROUYN DE LHUYS. We had recently the satisfiaction of giving thet earliest itttelligence of the claim lately pat; forwfar l, by Prussia to share in the settlement of the great ' European quarrel, from the dangers of which she g has kept carefully aloofi. To these pretensions M. d Dronytn do Lhuys has just replied in a despatch to the Marquis de Moustier, ...

Published: Tuesday 23 January 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6136 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: News 

THE SAPPERS' CHURCH IN THE CRIMEA

... I One among the many interesting objects in the British Camp before Sebastopol is, the Sappers' Church, Right Attack, where the Rev. Mr. Taylor officiates, Ito structure affords an excellent example of the adaptation of local ?? to a particular object. It is built wholly of siege apparatus; but these are neither injured nor rendered unfit for their ultimate purpose; on the con- trary, the ...

Published: Tuesday 19 June 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 940 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE MASSACRE OF ENGLISH SAILORS AT HANGO

... Tg Y'kSS.LRE OF ENGLISH SAILORSI _A _IAGO. OF F CRONSTADT, Ju,9. I The Lightning has just anrived trom the Revel roads, the bearer ot most melancholy news relative to the brutal massacre of three officers and eleven men of the Cossack, who landed under a flag of truce at Hango Head. The circumsstances of the case are as follows. Captain Faushawe havin'g received orders from Admiral Dondas to ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3921 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News