EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 282, 14 July 1855, Page 6

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

By'the " William Hyde," which arrived here yes'.erday afternoon, we have^English intelligence to the 31st of March. We extract the following summary from the " Hobarton Daily Advertiser" ofthe 29th June.. The Black Ball Line ship Montmorency, 800 tons, Capt. Keating, which arrived on Sunday last, brings papers from Liverpool of 31st March, being ten days later than any hitherto received. News from the Crimea extends to the 17th March. Although the health of the troops was much improved, and fine weather selling in, very little advance had really been made in the siegelof Sebastopol. It is true the allies were advancing their works, hut so were the besieged, and reinforcementSjboth of troops and ammunition, appeared to be constantly thrown into the fortret-s. Indeed, from the letters of disheartened correspondents, a feeling appears to be gaining ground that the place is impregnable. One writer associates the siege of Sebastopol with that of Troy. Below will be found the most interesting intelligence which the papers contain. r The Liverpool Chronicle of March 31st says : " The chances of peace in fthe present state of affairs are fast vanishing into thin air, and it is now generally'lbelieved that the death of Nicholas has rather retarded than advanced the termination of hostilities." The advanced squadron left the Downs for the B«.':;c on^the 28tb of March. The Vienna Conference has been brought to a stand still, the plenipotentiaries of the allied powers on the one side and of Russia on the other, being unable to reconcile their instructions on the third point, involving the complete attachment of the Ottoman Empire to the European balance of po.ver, and putting an end to the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea. Despatches were received from Lord Raglan announcing that the enemy had made great progress upon the mamelon in front of the Tower of Malakoff on the night of Friday, but the British commenced a parallel from the advanced point of their right attack, with a view to form a junction with the corresponding parallel to be made on their side by the French, which work he (Lord Raglan) hoped would be completed that night* Casualties—4 rank and file killed 4 rank and file wounded. Iv another despatch Lord Raglan states that the Allies had succeeded in establishing a communication between them, and that the French bad, with distinguished gallantry, driven the enemy from the Rifle pits iv which they had established themselves in their immediate front. Captain Craigie, of the Royal Engineers, was killed on the 13th by a splinter from a shell. Lieutenant Genera! Simpson, Sir John McNeil, and Colonel Tulloch bad arrived at head-quar-ters. Casualties—Captain Craigie and 5 rank and file killed, Captain J. B. Foster and 25 rank and file wounded. A despatch was received from Sir E. Lyons announcing the destruction of a Martello Tower by H.M.S Viper off Kerch, on the Bth March! An attack had been made upon Soujak, ELM. ships Leopard, Swallow, Highflyer, Viper, and H.f.M, steamship Fulton, and that after dismounting several guns, and doing considerable damage to the arsenal and public works and after having driven the garrison out of the place, they withdrew. In a despatch dated before Sebastopol, 10th March, Lord Raglan says:—'■[received on the 6th instant, a telegraphic despatch from Lord John Russell, dated Berlin, 2nd mst., announcing the death ofthe Emperor of Russia. According to the information of deserters, the event had not been promulgated atSebastopul,although it bad been received there. Each day the Russian camp on the north of Sebastopol increases and spreads out. Each night new watch fires strike the eye. It is said

that a formidable army is assembling round Eu patoria to attack Omar Pacha. The actual works of the siege make no n ro gress to justify one in prophecying. There is no comparative advantage gained by the allies which can be made public. The failure of the French to hold the position from which^bev dislodged the Russian riflemen had the offeror" emboldening the enemy considerably, but' \ e heavy fire of the large mortars which the French a re now plying- Has had grave results for the enemy. \ The impression gains ground that conside-^ ring the position of-the north forts, the fleet and the army outside, Sebastopol cannot be taken by assault. It is generally thought that the army outside ought to be attacked and dispersed, or that the investment of the place should be completed, before we can hope to redhce the city and the citadel. It is said that Professor Graham will succeed Sir John Herschel as Master of the Mint. Mr. Roebuck's committee was busily engaged in taking evidence respecting the uiisinana«>'ement of the war. On the 30th March, in a speech oh the war, the Earl of EHenborou<>-h expressed, a hope that the government would not diminish the prospects of peace by insisting upon conditions which Russia as a great power could not accept. Advices fiom Constantinople of March 20 mention the death of Prince Meiischikoff; letters from Odessa, of the 18th, contradict the report. It was reported that an insurrection had broken out in Mesopotamia, and that the rebels amounted to 30,000. The French Minister of Foreign affair?, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, arrived in England on 29th March; it was assumed that his object was to confer with our government on the important questions now before Europe. A communication dated Paris, March 25 intimates that the government had just received a telegraphic despatch from Genera! Canrobert in which he states, that in 48 hours from the' tune of writing, the bombardment of Sebastopol would commence. Prince Gortschakoff arrived at Sebastopol on 20th Vlarch. " Vi£NNA, March 12.—A report is current that an engagement has taken place inthe Crimea, in which General Osten-Sacken is said tohavebeen wounded ; both sides claim the victory."