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Great The Heavy Revolt In Gloom India Wh...
great The heavy revolt in gloom India which and the overshadowed disastrous state the of close commercial of the year affairs 1857 had from begu the n
to The pass welcome away in news some of measure the relief before of Lucknow the termination and of the of the rescue Christmas of the numerou holidays s . party all who of were ladies left and of children the gallant so long and shut devoted up , within band the of their Residen defenders cy , as well insp as ired of
tended more cheerful on the wh antici ole pations to confirm for the . M corning bri year ht names , which were subsequent indeed added intelli , to gence the list of losses by which these victories any were so g dearly won , and the joy for every
triump Towards h was the dashed end of by January cruel regrets public — attention as military was triump in a great hs commonl measure y diverted are . * from the solemn heroic tragedy acting in India by the dazzling festivities of a the
royal eldest bridal child — of that Queen of Victoria the Princess , with Royal the Prince , a young Frederick creature William of seventeen of Prussia , , the heir-presumptive to the throne of that country .
character Simultaneousl demanding y with notice this event ; and , however in conformity , we find with occurrences the sound of rule a different which recommends swallowing what is unpleasant first , and the dainty afterwards to
to take the the wedding taste out , to , we ask turn what away . mean for those the moment ominous from sounds the loyal that throng reach hastening our ears from the other side of the Channel—it may be sounds of distant thunderor only
of some theatrical imitation of itwhich does not sound very awful when , you , kno To w how understand it is got what up . they meanit must be stated that on the evening of
the 14 th of January an atrocious , attempt had been made to assassinate the Emperor In the and afternoon Empress of of that France day . certain gentlemendining at a Cafe
any Ang affectation lais , on the of Boulevard mystery , that des a Italiens man had , were young just informed been arrested by the , , carry waiter ing , a without bombconical
shella x _^ oniardand a revolver loaded with a peculiar kind of -shaped balls , with a barbed , nail at the end—called , we believe , Devisme balls . They were , further informed that the guards had been doubled on the Emperor's way ive the
remainder to the Opera of , the as story if " something in the words were of in our the informant wind . " , ! But who we , as will will g be seen ,
tickets was " Up present and we , jumped then or , as cam our , settled e nei out ghbours again our bill say to , , wait and assisted for went their on to the Majesties the occasion Opera . . to Just secure as th our ey
turned , into the street there was a tremendous roar , and we saw a shell bursting behind the carriage , and a Cent" Gardes fall dead—people shrieking horses away side like
riage mad and . galloped , wounding The E up mperor the to the Chief ' s verandah coachman of the Secret , when immediatel Police a second , y who jumped shell was burst op the ening right the under door on one , the killing car- , of
one of the horses and seven lancers , besides wounding one our own party . No sooner was that one burst than a third came and destroyed the carriage . " The Emperor whom he came carried out to , looking her box rather . I managed white , and to get supporting into the the house fainti and ng
when Empress some , little time afterwards they came forward , a deafening cheer arose , from severely all wounded parts of and it . the A gentlem carriage an itself who blown was with to pieces them . in Peop the le s carriage ay' 'Tis was of
, , no use trying to kill him ; he seems to bear a charmed life . ' * The immense accumulation of details connected with Indian war make it impossible trincivents in the brief to
fill for us to do month more with than a contribution e a few of to the p history pal e of our time . space we propose f every The writer is induced to give this extract from a private letter , having seen no other bwitnesscorrespondentthis occasionrelative
y an eye-. " Our special , " on , was a near .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 69, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/69/
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