EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 301, 19 September 1855, Page 3

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

THE QUEEN AND THE CRIMEAN HEROES,

On Tuesday her Majesty, attended by Prince Albert, tbe Duchess of Kent, and "the Duke of Saxe Coburg, inspected 108 invalids ofthe three regiments of Guards, who have recently arrived home from the Crimea. The heroes were drawn up in the grand ball of Buckingham Palace, and consisted of 49 of the-Grenadiers, 29 ofthe Coldstreams, and 30 of the Scots Fusilier Guards, Colonel Wood in command of the Grenadiers, and Dr. Brown, surgeon major ofthe regiment; Colonel Upton, in command ofthe Coldstreams, and Dr. Munro, surgeon major of the regimeut; and Colonel Ridley, in command of the Scots Fusiliers, and Dr. Richardson, surgeon major of the regiment, who were present and attended her Majesty during the inspection. Her Majesty inspected each soldier present, tbe respective commanding officers and doctors announcing the actions in which the invalids were wounded, and tbe state of the health of the men. After tbe inspection the invalids were conducted to dinner in the servants hall, which her Majesty and the Prince visited while the repast was being served. In the House of Commons, May 15, Mr. Layard announced his intention of bringing forward tbe resolution of which he had given notice as an amendment on the motion for committee of supply upon Thursday week (May 24). Ou the evening of May 18, tbe Lord Mayor entertained in the Egyptian Hall nearly the whole of her Majesty's Ministers, and an un - usually large list of the nobility and persons of distinction. The principal speeches were made by Lord Hardinge, Lord Palmerston, and Lord John Russell. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., in a letter to Mr. Alderman Carr, of Sheffield, acknowledging the receipt of a petition to the House of Commons, says—" The inquiry upon which I have for some weeks been engaged, has proved to me that all departments of the administration are equally faulty, and thai great courage, steadfastness, and skill will be required to work out the changes needed." The European Times, May 21, thus reports the state of the money market:—" The money market continues easy. The arrivals of-gold from Australia, the United States, the Brazils, and Africa, have been large. The discount houses are well stocked, and the rate allowed on call is 3 per cent., but they are now full and decline to receive any further remittances. In the Stock Exchange money on Government Securities is only worth \% to 2 per cent. The recent imports are likely to find their way into tbe Bank of England—the rate of Continental Exchange being favourable to the country."