EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 248, 17 March 1855, Page 3

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

•■ ' V ■•■■'■■".■■■.■ ENGLAND..;' ;; '. / -'■ ; . ' Among the deaths we mention Lord Lorfon, Lord Dudley Stuart, Charles Kemble, General Hunter, and Mr. Knight Hunt. .'Parliament'.was.■■summoned-.to- meet on the 12th of December, to consider a vote of money for the war. - The consecration of the Rev. Dr. Barker, Bishop 'designate of Sydney and Metropolitan, and of the Rev. Dr. Ryan, Bishop designate of the Mauritius, took place on the 30th November, at the ClmTch of St. Mary, Lambeth. The .Daily News of December 9 contains a telegraphic despatch of the 6th, from Bucharest, announcing that 40,000 Turks and |100 guns would embark at Biillschik and at Varna next "week, for the Crimea, and that one regiment would fremain at 'Bucharest, Danish Bey replacing; Mussa Pacha as commandant of the town. Mussa Pacha superintends the embarkation. Omer Pacha would leave in a few days. From the 6th to the 29th November the allies were employed in strengthening their lines by the erection aud fortification of their works, so as to command both the rapids up which the Russians advanced to the Blit sh camp on the day of the battle of Inkermane. These erections have been materially retarded by the severity of the weather, but the position is now deemed impregnable. Some accounts state that the shipwrecks of the 13th have not crippled the allies, or exposed the troops to intolerable privations ; that Lord Raglan has in store upwards of three and a half millions of cartridges, while large supplies of clothing have been landed before the disasters above described took place. A despatch received via Vienna states, that ■ou the 25th November the Russians made a sortie and were The English pursued the enemy to their intrenchments, and captured a battery of nine guns, which they still hold. ; . ... ..: r : :::; \ ;-.; ' -t..."-; . Another account of the'same affair is, that the English took possession, of two batteries of seven guns each. On the next day; the 26th, a part of ihe garrison of Sevastopol attacked the lines of the French, but were repulsed with a loss of 230 men. The Fiench lost 72 men and 3 officers. Reinforceraenta were daily arrivingl in the Crimea, but it is believed that.an assault would not be undertaken until an addition of at least 20,000 had been made to the forces of the Allies.; ■„■ .■'■'■-.■' '■ ■. ■ ■:•■.■■■. :. • ■ Steam v. Gunpowder.—Mr. Perkins—son of steam-gun Perkins—writes to the Times, saying:—" lam prepared to underuke to supply the .'Government- with a steam gun capable of throwing a ball of a ton weight a distance of tlyn miles. If such a gun-were placed in Brunei's large ship of 10,000 tons, I venture to say that Sebastopul would be destroyed without losing a man." But then how teirible to think of the mischief inflicted upon the enemy. Our very humane Government, that spared Odessa, shudders at the awful proposition of Mr., A. M. Perkins. A five-mile ball of a ton weight! Lord Aberdeen is horror-stricken ! One thousand wooden houses, capable of accommodating 25,000 men, had been shipped to the Crimea, as barracks for the troops. Every exertion was being made by the British Government to forward reinforcements to Lord Raglan, as■■''speedily-, as possible. The French Government was making the most strenuous endeavours to forward troops and materiel.