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THE SICK OF THE HIMALAYA

... ;. THE SICE: OB T>THB I1 PORT.RMnTT'VtT . -H L fromL15X1VU , c TsHUR ?? tthe usual fortnightly meeting of the guardians of the poor of the Porteta Island Union,. held last evening, Mr. J. F. Pratt, J.P., chairman, attention was called to the death of John Williams, a seaman, weh had.been landed from the Himalaya. This sea., mn had died seven hours after his admission into the workhouse, and ...

Published: Sunday 14 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1541 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE MARTYRS OF SCUTARI

... , a The pomp and circumstane of war are So glorious that men have never been wanting to exclaim, in tfle langage 'of the ancient Roman, It is sweet to die fior onie's country. This her6oi and patriotic spirit still lives amongst us, and the British people are as 'fearless as tbeir forefathers in courting the dangers of the battle-field, It' rises with the dire character of the emergency.: In ...

Published: Sunday 04 March 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3251 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE FOLEY-PLACE TRAGEDY

... THE FOLEY-PLACE TRAGEDy. On lW esday fineaso at 4P jddo&, Mr Wakl thi soroneq 0thhe wep~ divisiah e Ntddlgex, and the j Vtlg*te the deatie of Mr. Joseph uLrera'- i~oanerwee4 t; who was op-rdered by an Italian named buigi i~ B a~ residence, I$q. fi, Foley-place, narylebo d pon S u4~y the 7~li wstant, was j,4med pursuant to adjourn, jnent, 4,e Middisee Hospital.?K - t 'Iwsy an'u ted, from the ...

Published: Sunday 21 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ARRIVAL OF SICK AND WOUNDED

... ARRIVAL OF SIC} AND WOUNDED. An express down train from London arrived at the Strood station of the North Kent Railway shortly after three p.m. on Monday, containing twenty-five detacbmentss of 'regiments serving in the Crimea. The whole of the detachments are invalids, and owing to the number of disabled soldiers-about sixty of them having lost their, legs in the late engagements with the ...

Published: Sunday 21 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE LAW OF BANKRUPTCY, ITS Administration, Abuses, and Amendment

... ITHE- LAW- oF *BANNKJRUP-TCY, ITS| Administration, Abuses, Aid Amendment. - - That canting term { Precedeiit,' which is constantly in the mouths of our dilatory and- sapient administrators of the law, should be regarded by all friends of pprogress and improvement 's twin 'brother to Sste which has gone'far to annihilate one of th& 'finest armies 'that ever quitted the shores of England. J ...

Published: Sunday 25 March 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

AUSTRALIA

... I . ;f: AUSTR: AIA. Ii ' Arrival or the Great Britain. The steamsbipj GreatBritain -arrived at Liverpool on Wedesday morning 71ith the mails, &c., tiom Australia. The gold brought by the Great Britain is of the value of 505,000. The outbreak at Ballarat goldifields was in opposition to'the licese fee system, and-had created mnuch excite- ment. . . . . Melbourne had beea in a ;state of ...

Published: Sunday 28 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1798 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Important Meeting at Birmingham

... Im ' rtnt ,eetng at-3o 9igham. .The tiaTwn~scaio' Zst ee Yconyi` e eit ineeig 'at-t e'' ?aern CSt ?? ' Mf JdsIt Q Stintdii,' Chi: nn d ti ?? m~ost' of~tlie injfft~eiai ; flr. trsoi~is~itixijboyrth 9ert~ry, read the followingT ' notsicie con'vexing ?? ?? repor't 'o'five y erep a e;rlceig'atile liinut mee'ting o'f 'th'e ltohdob ILceoseA ?? helaiit~vweek'' ^that it w'as resolved kyfthemnqt to ...

Published: Sunday 28 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1651 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... I HOUSE OF LORDS-Monday. Earl GREY moved a resolution, to the effect that the adminis- tration of the army ought to be concentrated, and brought under the control of a single and well-organised department. The chief feature of the plan consisted in the establishment of a board, somewhat analogous to the Board of Admiralty, to administer the whole business connected with the military service in ...

Published: Sunday 04 February 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6403 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: News 

GERMAN NEUTRALITY AND SWEDISH Sympathy

... GERMAN NEUTRALITY AND SWEDISE Sympathy. The King of PnussiAr opened the Parliamentary session on Thursday in a speech which'will not add much to the credit of Prusia as a great European Power. He acknow- ledges that Prussia is well prepared for war, and that no country is more ready for sacrifices whenever its honour or interests are really in danger. He thus persists in separating himself' ...

Published: Sunday 02 December 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

ALBERT SMITH'S ASCENT OF MONT Blanc

... ALBERMT SMITH'S ASCENT OF MONT The grim solitude which has so long pervaded the Egyptian Hall i once more dispelled, and the Sphinxes who east in melancholy grandeur presided over the discoveries of Bullock and Belonm, welcome a gay and gladsome throng to the charming interior of the building over which they keep such solemn watch and ward. In other words, Mr. Albert Smith has re-opened his ...

Published: Sunday 09 December 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1644 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

THE BATTLE OF PARTIES

... : TOWN EDITION. SUNDAY, JULY 22. 1855.. THE 3ATTLE OF PARTIES. For every sortie of the Russians, for every attack directed by the Allies against the strong works of Sebas- topol, we have at home a corresponding series of opera- tions. If the vigour, animus, and fury which are exhibited at home were brought to bear on the Malakoff and Rddan, we should by this time have penetrated within the ...

Published: Sunday 22 July 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

... 0 - FLORENCE rNGtHINGAML. E V France has had her Joa of Are, and Spain' her Maid of Safragios, and at' last England has a: heroine odfwhom shi may:'well be proud. :When history shall perminently record the dreadful story of .our winter campaign 'in the Crimea, with a loss of 15,000 heroic soldiers, and 'shall shower blame like rain of -sulphur on thevirious' depart- ments of mismanaotement ...

Published: Sunday 01 April 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News