The Lyttelton Times.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 291, 15 August 1855, Page 5

The Lyttelton Times.

Wednesday 15

The English intelligence received by the schooner Mary from Wellington will be found at length in another column. From all accounts the Russians do not appear to have as large an available force in the Crimea as was thought;—they are now hard put to it to defend themselves from the different attacks of the Anglo-French and Turkish "armies. By the next mail we may expect at last some decisive news. We have received files of Wellington papers to the Bth lost., and of the Taranaki Herald to the 2-Sth ult.. Messrs. Clifford, Sewell, and Hart, were the only members of the General Assembly who proceeded in the Zingari from Wellington. It is probable that they will not go further than Nelson if they find that the Nelson members are unwilling to go up to Auckland to hold a sham session. There is no news of any importance from Wellington. Two quarterly abstracts of the Provincial Revenue and expenditure have been lately published in the Government Gazette, bringing down the audited accounts of the Province, to the end of March last. This seems rather slow work. The Canterbury accounts to the end of June were published last month, and we see no reason why Provincial Governments accounts should not always be ready for publication within a month or sis weeks after j the close of a quarter. From Taranaki the reports of the Maori disturbances are still very unsatisfactory. Indeed, the " Herald" states " the native disturbances, and their now imminent consequences, are the general topic, and the climax understood to be approaching the almost sole thought." Nothing has yet been done by the General Government towards the protection of the settlers. The materials for barracks, which had arrived some time ago, are lying still unemployed, and orders have reached the Taranaki authorities to stoj-e them. There is no decisive news respecting the latest movements of the Maories.