From the Imperial Chancery in Vienna, the Wiener Zeitung of this date records a series of decrees touching upon the regulation of the Danubian packet service. The steam-packet 'Ferdinand' is listed to…
A wan, spectral light filters through a partly sunny sky, the sun's rays diluted by a veil of cloud that permits but fifty-three parts in a hundred of its brilliance to reach the frozen earth. The new…
VIENNA, 12th October 1841. — The morning fog over the Danube did not lift until the ninth hour, and by then the exchange arcades of the Upper Ward were already thick with brokers clutching their leath…
A biting chill coils through the observatory's louvered vents, carrying the resinous breath of rain-soaked pines and the mineral damp of the gorge below. The mercury barometer stands at 29.80 inches a…
A biting chill, sharp as a stiletto, slips through the observatory's stone louvres, carrying the heavy, resinous breath of pine and the sodden rot of autumn leaves. The mercury barometer stands motion…
From our Overseas Correspondent, late of the Levantine packet. Word has reached this office by way of the Constantinople mail that the Emir Bashir Shihab II, for near half a century the undisputed ma…