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THE FOREIGN LEGION

... HAMBURG, MAY 28. We have learnt from Caxhaven that an English war-steamer has taken over to Heligolaud from that port 166 recruits for theLegion, obtained in Hanover. As you know, that Government has not followed the example of the other German Governments, who have rigorously forbidden any recruiting for the service of a foreign nation. I informed you that the Altona police had closed a ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 666 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

KAMIESCH

... The last despatches from the Crimea announce that the fortifications intended to protect Kamiesch advance rapidly towards completion. This curious particularity of a fortified place, created in the immediate vicinity of a besieged town, and during the siege itself, is not without precedent, and one of the most remarkable is without doubt the con- struction of Santa F6 by Ferdinand and Isabella ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1952 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE NEW RUSSIAN LEVY

... ! ,THE NEW IWSSIAN LEVY. The four levies of the last eighteen months must have pressed upon the poor serfs and upon the landowners (of which they constitute almost the only valuable property) to a frightful degree. I suppose that each conscription has . extended over one of the two portious into which European Russia is divided for the purpose of recruiting, as this E was the arrangement ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1736 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

LAW OF PARTNERSHIP

... A Bill to Amend the Law of Partnership, prepared a and brought in by Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Bouverie, and Vie- ii count Palmerston. I Wbereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to a partnership: be it therefore enacted by the Qiaeen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this t present parliament assembled, and by the ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 629 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NAVAL AND MILITARY

... A.DkIRALT, MAY 31.-APPOLmTMENTS.-Li~nts. C. P. Mbkberley to t}e Saitspati, L. Brine to the Retribut tion, II. T. Maraden and A. Henderson to the Royal Albert, for disposal. Paymaster H. Draxton to the Meteor. Second Master I. B. Hunt to the HoatioQ. Aojtiug Assistant.Sarg~ofl T. H. K~eon to the Colossus. Assistant Paymaster I. J. Waterfield to the Meteor. ENGINEER CORPS FOR T}E TuRItKsH ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

OCCUPATION OF THE SEA OF AZOFF

... oCCUPATION OF THE It OF AZOFF. S 1JNDRE;D AND SIX RUSSIAN VFUSSEX DESTROYED. A-0 byve been favoured by the ADMIRALTY with folvowiog Telegraphic Despatohes, which have eagched our Government:- A telegraphic despatch has just been received t Admiralty with the intelligence that on 2d of May, on the appearance of the Allied dro before Berdiausk, the Russians burnt r War Steamers and considerable ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... HARVEST PROSPEOTS. The Dublin market yesterday was subdued, while the leading provincial ones were heavy and extremely dull, and prices ranged from Is. to IS. 6d. a barrel lower for wheat than on Friday. Oats were something cheaper, but the depression was not equal to that in wheat. Apart from foreign influences on the Irish corn markets, there is quite enough at home to bring down the ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

RAILWAYS

... RAIL WA YS. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. ope, A special general meetnog of the proprietors of this railway woe was beld yesterday afternoon at the company's offices in the 2 Waterloo-bridge Station, for the consideration of a bill now ele( pending in Parliament for authorising the erection of works G. by the company, for regulating their capital, and for other purposes; and also for the election ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2512 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... (FROX OVU OWiN COitBSirO2DENT.) I PARIS, WzrDNtSDAY EVENING. 1 I perceive that a London ministerial journal, while ii speaking with merited severity of the article in the 1o Independaooce Bele mentioned in the Daily News of r Tuesday under the heading, A new view of the Campaign, holds up to admiration, as in striking contrast with it, M. Granier de Cassagnac's article, upon which I ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1731 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS

... -NAVAL AND MILITARy I, APPOINTMENTyS. Lieutenants-C. R, Maberley, to the Sanepar Brine, to the Retribution; H. T. Maraden and Ale, Henderson, to the Royal Albert, for disposal a1012 Paymaster-H. Brunton, to the Meteor. Assistantw-Pymaster-R. J. Waterfield to the Met Sicond-Master-Haben R. Hunt, to the orm Airtisng Assistant-Surgeon-P, H. Neoto C SHElERNESS. The brigs Mecklenberg and Paul ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1233 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

... EXPRESS FROMI PARIS. LFROm OUR OWN OORRESPONDENT.] PARIS, WEDNESDAY EvENING. The public mind is here almost intoxicated with joy at the successes achieved by the allied forces in the Crimea, and the most eager attention is de- voted to every item of intelligence which may reach us from the seat. of war. The Moniteur publishes the following interesting telegraphic despatch, re- ceived vid ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3096 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

RUSSIA AND THE BALTIC

... I RUSSIA AND THE BALTIQ. HAMBURG, MAY 28. According to letters from Revel direct, no at- I tempt had been made on that place by the English fleet up to the 21st. The steamers were cruising in deserted waters, where they found neither Rus- sian men-of-war nor merchantmen. The Basilisk was at Memel on the 24th, and confirmed all that had been before stated of the temporary inaction of l Admiral ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1812 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News