On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    72 PASSING EVENTS.

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Great The Heavy Revolt In Gloom India Wh...

    As however the facts relating to this subject are now embodied in a rather Ni bulk ghtingal y Blue e - , Book we propose containing to return a large to it amount for some of further evidence informati from on Miss next Florence month .

    or to The heard mark 31 it of st as in of the the January day world on also , which took must the the first not Leviathan be step allowed towards , the very to showing pass biggest with that shi out p she ever a red was known letter not

    incontinentl likewise One last the y sacrifice bi scuttled ggest blunder of for a being humble ever in made her coal b way -barge y naval , was , which architect offered was up . ignominiou to her as sl she y was and

    Not lowered onl from have her thre cradles e months , and and then we the are heroine afraid of to Millwall how was positivel thousands y afloat of . pounds , y been devoted to her , launch , but we are say sorry to many be obliged to add

    gear several , and lives on — another on one occasion by the by downfall the breaking of a scaffolding of certain portions on which of crowds launching of imprudent worshippers of Mr . Brunei's huge performance had climbed , in

    order over to to see see the over launch into the earl yard in November and watch her were progress the . n " u Many nder foreigners reat uneas came iness lest they should be too late y . It is to be , hoped they did not find g the time long .

    the In 23 the rd of latter December part of last February English intelli and gence French was shi received ps of war from began China to assemble that on in attempted the Canton negotiations river opposite with the the city Chinese , with Viceroy the purpose Yeh should of bombarding fail . The it if river the

    porti was so on densel of the y Chinese covered b population y the large pass house nearl -like y their boats whole in which lives a , that considerable at first onl from y a the very impending narrow channel danger of and water ' retired was visible unmolested ; but they into moved various slowl creek y s aw and ay

    di continued canal spose , s , thoug of oranges up h to many the and last of other the moment smaller , acceptable to boats paddle arti , m cles about ore intent of provision among on profi the for t hostile th the an refreshment patriotism ships , and ,

    of 900 At the of length enemies the Fren , on about ch the tro morning to ops attack and of 4600 their the of 28 city th the . , a Eng heavy lish fire lande was d , opened and almost upon it imme , and

    town diatel , y the captured houses two of which forts . were All seen nig - ht blazing long rockets in all were directi , fired ons into ; and the when devoted the mail left on the following day , it brought a brief note from the commanding

    officer We statin must g not that the wi city thout had a been word captured an incident , * that hereafter be found pass may David to be of Livingstone even higher to import the wilds than of it Afri may ca now under seem far — m n ore amel favourable y the return ausp of ice Dr s .

    than on his former journey , and carrying , with him , with much material help , the fervent good wishes of all who desire the abolition of slavery , and the effects diffusion that of genui be ne hoped Christianity for from . a It work would so h be di il fficul begun t to overrate but in this the as good in

    other instances may we are reminded of one of the app chief y difficulties ; of recording , events so near , the period of their occurrence . The picture may indeed glow with a somewhat warmer colour than when the historian sits down to describe

    not the living time of which he is himself a part , but men and things long , since true passed focal distance away ; but from it whence is not alway to mak s easy e a to correct the contemporary estimate of to their find real the

    importance . Many a great flaring impostor of an event that has attracted all eyes , and stunned all ears , has been speedily blown away into silence and

    moment eternal , forgetfulness will be found , while to have some whispered still small of what voice , regarded , scarcel in y its audible great results at the , might be considered the event of the time .

    by Lord a maj Palmerston ority of nineteen ' s Ministry , and has has resigned been defe ; ated Lord on Derb the y Forei being gn intrusted Refugees with Bill the formation of a new cabinet .

    attempting * Later to despatches escape in state the dress that of Commission a coolie . er Yeh was taken on the 5 th of January ,

    72 Passing Events.

    72 PASSING EVENTS .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 72, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/72/