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XXI.—PASSING EYENTS. —«*—
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Xxi.—Passing Eyents. —«*—
XXI . —PASSING EYENTS . _—«*—
Month With The Of Forei Exception Gn Aff...
month With the of forei exception gn affairs of . one The trag questio ical event n of central we have Ital not y is nmch still unsettled to record ; this the
unable conferences to come at Zurich to any drag permanent on from decision week to , while week . Tuscany Austria , Par and ma France , and seem Modena , having offered their allegiance to Yictor Emmanuel , await his
accepteas ance t , where their destinies English susp merchants ended on and a thread English . shi But ps from have China established , from a the living far vi aster gorous , . Several root of Eng Eng lish land vessels ' s commerce , under , we command have received of Admiral news Hope of a fearful , attempt dis - -
ing side . to Enormou pass up the sly river undervaluing Peiho _, were the fired possible on from strength some and forts garrison by the of river these ' s men forts , were eleven landed gunbo to ats form were a sent storming to the attack party . , and But three the hundred river banks and seventy were a
mass tinder of a heavy deep wet fire mud , and , across three ditche which s our lay poor between countrymen them and had the to forts strugg . The le lip account to within reads thirty like - a five piece yards of insane , than daring the order , for to no retreat sooner was had g they iven , strugg and our led
men retired officer to killed their or boats wounded with the and same one hundred difficulty and as seventy they had men advanced hors de , every , seven combat hours . One in survivor the mud , who and water wrote . to Eng the land " Times will , " now stated have that a Chinese he had war been on
her desolated hands , b with y a skirmish probably , Trance of which as an the all onl y y ; g and lory Eng was lish that families her sons have obeyed been the At professional home two events order which of intense consi national gned them interest to die will the ever death mark of dogs the . month
of September , 1859 . The first trip of the Great Eastern , and the final into the passing assurance Great the Hasting air of Eastern and Sir s , fell John when , having across a Franklin funnel the steamed deck ' near s fate successfull destroy the . It centre ing was y of saloon down on the Friday shi cabins the p Thames the suddenl and 9 th every y , , that shot was
thing contained in the compartment of , the vessel in which , it was , inserted . No chinery passengers below lost the their funnel lives were , but dragged many out of the to die men . emp The loyed fact of on the the Great
ma-Eastern "being built in compartments saved it from destruction ; and many argue that the fatal accident has but tested the remarkable safeguards
guaranteed in a vessel of her size and construction , since if a similar accibeen dent blown had happened to atoms to or the idl machinery consumed of b an the ordinary flames . shi Be p , she that would as it have y may
the country has rung with _rap the y catastrophe . The Great Eastern is at Wey- , mouth , where the inquest has just been held , and a verdict of accidental
marine death are the returned subj mon ects ster , upon of and unsettled the how bodies far conjecture it of will those , be onl killed affected y less . interesting b The y what future has than course happened the of still the , more unsettled question as to whom the blame really attacheswho was in
charge of the machinery , and responsible for its safe conduct on , the trial trip . when At length and where the great Sir John mystery Franklin of modern died ; times the polar is solved seas ; have we know given exactl up the y
relics of their dead , and a voice has reached us from those wlio left this at McClintock earth On the Wednesday at expense least at ten once oi the Lad years went 20 y th Franklin ago on instant . bv train ., , arrived the to Fox London , off a vessel the taking Isle sent of with to the Wi him g Arctic ht . two Captain reg cases ions
containing relics of the long missing expedition , , and on the 23 rd appeared in the morning papers that long record which stirred all hearts with its piteous
details . Thus it began : — " At Point Victory , upon the N . _'W . coast of King *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/71/
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